BRITANNIA
“THE LONE EAGLE” he Lone Eagle,” featuring Raymond Keane and Barbara Kent, will be screened at the Britannia Theatre tonight with a great cast supporting the leads. “The l#>ne Eagle” is a screen adaptation of the story, “The Winged Victor,” written by Lieutenant Ralph Blanchard. Billy Holmes, a United States aviation lieutenant attached to the British forces, feels like a weak sister when he is thrown among the veteran airmen who face death as a routine job. He has an overpowering dread of combat in the air, but when he meets Mimi, a pretty French girl, in a nearby village, he boasts of his imaginary victories in the clouds, and she worships him as a hero. Billy’s nearest pal. Red Gibbons, who is a real ace. brinsrdown the young brother of Lebrun, leader of the German flyers, but is himself killed in a later skirmish. On the same programme will be shown “The Circus Wagon.” starring Ken Maynard in a novel circus story with a Western background.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 342, 1 May 1928, Page 15
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