AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 28, 4 May 1938, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

“WINCS OF THE MORNING” Brought to the screen in all the lifelike beauty of natural Technicolour,‘ ‘Wings of the -Morning,’’ will he screened at the De Luxe Theatre on Thursday and Friday. Annabella, a new and alluring sensation of the screen, is starred with Henry Fonda and Leslie Banks in the film, which presents the world-famous tenor, John McCormack.

A thrilling mixture of drama, spectacle' and surprise, the Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox release achieves remarkable effects through its natural, perfected Technicolour. so lifelike and beautiful that you’ll think you've, never seen colour on the screen before.

The spectacular changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, lioipe of English Kings : the most sensational Derby ever run, with jockey Steve Donoghue riding his most thrilling race: John McCormack,, beloved Irish tenor, singing the songs of Ireland that have made him famous — these are a few of the moments that make ‘AVings of the -Morning” a film at once beautiful and breathtaking. As different and alluring as her unusual name, the lovely Annabella appears first in a prologue showing her as Marie a gypsy princess. She marries Leslie Banks, the Earl of Olontarf, who dies on the hunting field five months later, and learns, when she returns 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. Mario 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 fiance slu> left in Spain.

Henry Fonda, as Kerry Giliallen. a young Irish trainer, falls in love with Marie and agrees to train her horse, though he has a Derby candidate of his own. Ho gives a party, for Marie, at which John. McCormack sings, and when the girl’s jockey breaks bis leg, it is Kerry who volunteers the services of his own jockey, famed Steve Donoghue. This .Kerry Joes although he realises that a. Derby victory, and a dowry, will probably take Marie.awa\ from him forever.

Although seeming victory comes to Marie in the most sensational Derby ever run. the curse of the gypsies has yet another stroke of misfortune for her, and it is -Marie’s great-grand-mother whose last earthly gesture comes to> the rescue in a startling conclusion that removes the curse, forever and makes possible the union of Kerry and -Marie.

Stewart Rome. Harry Tate and Irene 1 Vanbrugh, are also featured in the east. Harold Schuster directed the riim. which is based on stories by the late Donn Byrne.