The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 186, 15 July 1940, Page 4

The Theatres

REGENT Again to-day and to-morrow. "The Lion Has Wings"' Ralph Richardson, Merle Oberon, and the Royal Air Force, incl/uding 'Cobber' Kaiin. The most amazingly exciting entertainment the screen has ever known . . . An Alexander Kor-> da production which dramatises, with a stirring personal story, the great organisation and achievements of the Royal! Air Force, and how Great Britain • gradually awoke to the menace of Hitlerism. One of the most interesting episodes of the film shows shots of the daring raid on the Kiel Canal. Step by step the fight is followed from the first Instruction of the fliers to the take-off, the conversation during the flight, the bombs being released, the explosions on German warships. The final shots show the return .flight of the air squadron and the men who actually carried out the raid. Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez and Flora Robson play prominent roles in this most impressive film. GRAND Screening to-day is "Nick Carter, Master Detective'* and. "Call of the Rockies." Commencing to-morrow, "Anthony Adverse" Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Anita Louise, Claude Rains, Edmund Gwenn, Steffi., Duna, Louise Hay ward. A request revival of the outstanding screen production of the biggest and best selling novel of Hervey Allen. All the world its stage! Span : ning three Continents and three glamorous periods of history—the prodigious scope and earth" encircling sweep of this Gargantuan bestseller brought it fame and popularity unequalled in modern times. "Wine, Women and Horsey'' Barton Mac Lane, Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcelli. Patrons who like constant thrills in their pictures—and especially those who get - their big/ kick from flying thoroughbreds— have a treat in store for them, in "Wine, Women and Horses."