Annabella Acclaimed in United States

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 16

Annabella Acclaimed in United States

HpHE success of Annabella, in the X G.B.D. attraction, “Wings of the Morning,” in America has been instantaneous and pronounced. City, suburban and country theatre managers, without mincing w6rds, air their own impressions and the audience’s reaction, on the “What the picture did to me” page of the “Motion Picture Herald.” A. E. Hancock, of Columbia City, writes; “‘Wings of the , Morning’: Annabella, Henry Fonda, Stewart Home, Irene Vanbrugh—the first English picture made that was ever worth running. Give them credit; they made a picture of surpassing beauty and a star that will give the girls in Hollywood something, to shoot at, and I mean Annabella. She was a trifle hard to understand, but what she did not speak, she acted; she has the ability to put over her role by her expression, to a marked degree. It all comes down to a finished actress that does not have to depend solely on dialogue to tell the story, and that, you will admit, is rare these days of too much dialogue in pictures. Not forgetting two others in the cast, Irene Vanbrugh as Marie and Stewart Rome as Sir Valentine and Fonda too.’’