STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 27, 26 October 1937, Page 15

STATE THEATRE

~ 1 ' ''""Wl ."WINGS OF THE MORNING." Based on . stories by Donn Byrne, " Wings of * the Morning," Twentieth Century-Fox release screening at the State Theatre to-night, stars Annabolla, the lovely new screen personality, Henry Fonda and Leslie Banks. Set as it is in the unmatchable beauty of Ireland's green wooded downs, over a period of half a century, it captures an atmosphere of rustic simplicity which greatly enhanced the story. The natural colour process in which it is filmed illustrates the great advance made in late years in this direction, for, were "Wings of the Morning" not in colour, it would lose much of its appeal. Opening in a gipsy camp in the exquisite Irish countryside the locale rapidly switches to the present day, when refugees are fleeing from war-torn Spain. As different and alluring as her unusual naine, the lovely Annabella appears first in a prologue, showing her as Marie, a gypsy princess. She marries Leslie Banks, the Earl of Clontarf, who dies on the hunting field five months later, and learns. when she rejj^rns to ' the gypsies, that her marriage has brought a curse on her descendants for three generations. As the great-granddaughter of that gypsy princess, Marie appears in modern times, fleeing from a Spain torn by revolution. Safe in Ireland, Marie seeks a trainer for her horse, "Wings of the Morning," so that she may win the English Derby and a dowry„ that will enable her to marry the fianee she left