Regent Theatre, Pahiatua

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 237, 7 October 1940, Page 2

Regent Theatre, Pahiatua

“ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS’* Columbia’s new Howard Hawks production, “Only Angels Have Wings,“ screens at the Regent Theatre tomorrow and Wednesday at 7.45 p.m. 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. “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 1 weather. Jean Arthur, a showgirl' whoso troupe has broken up farther ' south, arrives ou tho weekly banana freighter en route to Panama. She falls in love with Grant and decides to stay. But Cary, a confirmed philanderer, turns his attantions to Rita Hay-1 worth, the wife of Richard Barthelmess, one of his newly-arrived fliers. Thomas j Mitchell as a daring aviator, victim of many a crack-up, and Sig Ruman as the Dutchman, amiable old Hollander who runs the combination hotel and barroom 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 Dent and Pat West.