STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 12

STATE THEATRE

"WINGS or THE MORNING." Based on stories by Doun Byrnet "Wicgs of the Morniug, 5 ' Twentiefch Century-Fox release screening at the State Theatre to-night, stars Annabella, the lovely new Bcreen personality, Henry Fonda and Leslie Banke. Set as it is in the unmatchable beauty of Ireland5s green wooded. downs# over a period of half a century, it captures an atmosphere of rustic simplicity which greatly enhanced the etory. 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 Morning55 not in Colour, it would lose much of its appeal. Opening in a gipsy camp in the exquisite Irish countryside the localo rapidly switches to the present day, when refugees are fleeing from wardorn Spain. As diiferent and alluring as hef unusual name, the lovely Annabella appears Hrst in a prologue, showing her as Marie, a gypsy prineess. She marries Leslie Banks, the Earl of Clontarf, who dies on tho bunting field five months later, and learns. when she returna to the gypsies, that her marriage has brought a curse on her descendants for three generations. As the great-granddaughter of that gypsy prineess, 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 ehe may win the English Derby and a dowry that will enable her to marry the fianee she left in Spain.