TIVOLI THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 4

TIVOLI THEATRE.

Tomorrow's Programme.

Hailed as "1939's greatest screen adventure," Columbia's "Only Angels Have Wings" opens tomorrow at the Tivoli Theatre. Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, appearing together for the first time, are starred in the new film, compounded of tropical romance and thrilling adventure in South America. "Only Angels. Have Wings" concerns a commercial aviation t field operated in a little South American banana port by Cary Grant. His pilots are a desperate crew of devil-may-care adventurers willing to fly any old crate with wings into any sort of weather. Jean Arthur, a showgirl whose troupe has broken up further south, arrives on the weekly banana freighter en route to Panama. She falls in love with Grant and decides to stay. But Cary, a confirmed philanderer, turns his attentions to Rita Hayworth. the wife of Richard Barthelmess, one of his newly-arrived flyers. Thomas Mitchell as a daring aviator, victim of many a crackup, and Sig Ruman as the Dutchman, amiable old Hollander who runs the combination hotel and bar-room of the town as well as the airport, have outstanding roles in this thrilling show. The triangular romance between a young American gambler, a lovely dancing girl, and a Mexican bandit, forms the theme of R.K.O.Radio's "The Girl and the Gambler," the associate film, Leo Carrillo. Tim Holt, and. Steffi Duna are seen as the Mo. The bandit's conceit which leads him to attempt a virtual kidnapping of the girl when she refuses his attentions, and the girl's sacrifice to save the gambler's life when . she realises he is in danger, are woven into the dramatic pattern of this colourful tale of border life. Packed with action and thrills along with its love stoi-y and picturesque settings of Old Mexico, the film provides a wealth of entertainment,