ENTERTAINMENTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4056, 3 June 1938, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE REGENT. COMMENCING TO-NIGHT. “WINGS OF THE MORNING.” The flaming romance of a lovely fugitive fleeing from strife-torn Spain, “ Wings of the Morning,” Twentieth Century-Fox release, opening to-night at the Regent Theatre, introduces a new and exciting screen personality in Annabella, starred with Henry Fonda and Leslie Banks in the film, which presents the world-famous tenor, John McCormack. Brought to the screen in all the life-like beauty of natural technicolour, “ Wings of the Morning ” provides a thrilling mixture of drama, spectacle, and surprise, including the spectacular changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, the home of English kings, and the most sensational Derby ever run, with the jockey Steve Donoghue riding his most thrilling race. Breath-taking in its sweeping drama, the film acquires a new beauty and dimension through its natural perfected technicolour, so life-like and beautiful that you’ll think you’ve never seen colour on the screen before. Annabella, a brilliant new star, as different and alluring as her unusual name, first appears in the prologue as Marie, a gypsy princess. AT THE EMPIRE. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. “ ADVENTURE’S END.” A shrewd and observant picturegoer writes: “ Why don’t they have more sea stories in the movies. I never pass one up. I would have gone to see ‘ Adventure’s End ’ last night even if Garbo, Crawford, Deitrich, and Danielle Darrieux were playing in opposition. Most everybody has read Ben Ames Williams’ story, so you do not have to be told anything about that. It is just surging and overflowing with everything that Ben Ames Williams somehow injects in all his stories. Arthur Lubin has certainly done right by ‘Adventure’s End,’ both pictorially, dramatically, and romantically. John Wayne makes a great Duke Slade, and Diana Gibson is utterly lovely standing there in the moonlight as Janet Drew, the cap- j

tain’s daughter, married to the stowaway half an hour after she has seen him. Good to see Montagu Love once again. There’s a god actor. But all in the cast give good performances. I qm going to see ‘Adventure’s End’ again to-night, and I would advise you to see it just as many times as you can. There aren’t many sea stories, these days, and very few as good as this one, anyway.” SATURDAY AND MONDAY. “OKAY FOR SOUND.” . “ Okay for Sound ” not only contains the brightest comedy lines and situations of the moment, but it presents a set of song hits and musical numbers that are all individual hits guaranteed to set any feet tapping and all patrons humming. These have already found favour with music critics, and have been recorded. The lineup of sure-fire catch-tunes includes: “ There’s a Big Day Coming,” “ The Fleet’s Not in Port Very Long,” “ Free,” and, of course, “Okay for Sound.” TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. “CREDO” AND “LOVE ON TOAST.” Two big attractions at the Empire next Tuesday and Wednesday comprise “Credo,” the filming of the Catholic Centenary celebrations at Auckland that proved such an amazing spectacle, and “Love on Toast,” a lively comedy in which the plight of a modest soda fountain attendant who suddenly becomes the most popular young man in the country, by winning a male beauty contest which he didn’t enter, forms the hilarious background. “Love on Toast” is one of the best of Paramount’s crisp comedies. The male role is played by John Payne, radio singer, Stella Ardler, New York stage beauty who makes her screen debut in this picture, is the girl who gets him into the contest—and tries to keep him in. Grant Richards, Katherine “Sugar” Kane, Benny Baker, Isabel Jewell and Luis Alberni are also in the cast.