REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1939, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

I “MY BILL.” The final screening of the delightfully appealing story, “My Bill," featuring Kay Francis, takes place this evening. Never has this beautiful star given a greater performance. "ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS.” ; Hailed as “1939’s greatest screen adventure,” Columbia’s new Howard Hawks production, “Only Angels Have Wings,” comes to the Regent Theatre on Saturday. 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. This Hawks creation is the greatest the famous producer-director of popular pictures has ever filmed. Neither time nor expense was spared in the film ing and some of the most elaborate sets ever conceived and built in Hollywood were used for all except the flying sequences. “Only Angels Have Wings” concerns a commercial aviation 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 farther south, arrives on the weekly banana feighter on route to Panama. She falls in love with Grant and decides to stay.But Cary, a confirmed philanderer, turns his attentions to Rita Rayworth, the wife of Richard Barthclmess, one of his newly arrived fliers. 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 oar-room of the town as well as the airport, have outstanding roles in this thrilling show. Important parts, too, are played by Noah Beery, Junr., Allyn Joslyn, Donald Barry, Melissa Sierra. Victor Kilian, Vernon Den/ and Pat West. A superb array of supporting featurettes includes the later Air Mail gazette of European events and an outstanding item in a beautiful all-colour study, "This Place Australia!" The plans are at Nimmo’s and at theatre.