PLAZA THEATRE.
"Only Angels Have Wings."
Hailed as "1939's greatest screen adventure" by preview Critics, Colurribia's new Howard Hawks production "Only Angels Have Wings" opens on Friday at the Plaza Theatre. Cary Grant anu Jean Arthur, appearing together for the first time, are starred in the new film of tropical romance and thrilling adventure in South America. Neither time nor expense was spared in the filming 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 show girl whose troupe has broken up further south, arrives on the weekly banana freighter en route to Panama. She falls in love with Grsfnt and decides to- stay. But Cary. a confirmed philanderer, turns his attentions to Rita Hayworth, the wife of Richard Barthelmess, one of his newly-arrived flyers. Thomas Mitchell as a "punchdrunk" aviator, victim of many a crackupt and Sig Ruman as the Dutch* man, amiable old Hollander, who runs the combination hotel and bar-room of the town as well as the airport,- have outstanding roles in this thriller.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1939, Page 6
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224PLAZA THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1939, Page 6
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