PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 15

PLAZA THEATRE.

■ <'Winys of the JyiorniniSi* Brought tc the screen in all the life:: like? beauty of natural ' tec apipo^our, "wing* of'the Morning," the' romanc? of a'lovely'fugitive fleeing fco» state torn Spain, opens tomorrpw. at the pTaza-Stre'. a"-A^abellaVa new and alluring 'sensation of the screen. ?* starredrwita-ife4Fy79R'4* W$ Ml BanKs-in ffi-e M" wßch pr^ente % world-famous tenor, John MpGfirroack, A tlirillihkmixture' of drama, spectac^, and surprise, the Twentieth Centnry* Fox release achieves remarkable effects through its: natural, perfected tecbmcolour. The spectacular changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, the most sensational Derby ever run, with jockey Steve Donoghue riding his most thrilling race; John jWcCormack, beloved Irish tenor, singing the songs oi Ireland that have made him famous— these ar.e a few of the moments that make "Wings of the Morning" a film at once beautiful .and breath-taking. As different'aria "alluring as,her unusual name, the lovely Annabclla appears first in a prologue, showing her as Marie,'a gipsy princess. She matries Leslie Banks, the Earl of Clontarf, who dies on the hunting field five months later, and leanis, when she veturns to the gipsies, that her marriage has brought a curse on- her descendants for three generations. As the greatgranddaughter of that gipsy princess, Marie appears in modern times, fleeing from a Spain1 torn by revolution.- Safe in Ireland, Marie seeks a trainer for her horse, "Wings of the Morning," so that ;»he may win the English Derby and a dowry that will enable her to marry the fiance she left in Spam. Henry i'onda, as Kerry Gilfalien, a young Irish trainer, falls in love with Marie and agrees to train her horse, though he has a Derby candidate of his own. He gives a party for Marie, at which John McCormack sings, and when the girl's jockey breaks his leg, it is Kerry who volunteers the services of his own jockey, the famed Steve Donoghue. This Kerry does although he realises that a Derby victory, and a dowry, will probably take Marie away from him for ever. Although seeming victory comes to Marie in the most sensational Derby ever run, the curse of the gipsies has yet another,, stroke of misfortune for her, and it1 is Marie's great-grandmother whose.last earthly gesture comes to the rescue in a startling conclusion that removes the curse /.or ever and makes possible the union of Kerry and Marie. Stewart Rome, Harry Tate, and Irene Vanbrugh are also featured in the cast. The Christchurch "Press" writes of the film:—"After many successes in the last few years the producers of England have produced a film which will live not for a year but for a century in the history of moving pictures. Those who attended a preview saw the greatest film that has.ever come from England, and in many respects greater than anything produced in America." The "Star-Sun" says:-—"Everything that has been said in England and America about this production is true. With one leap the British film industry takes unquestioned lead in the realm of colour films,"