SUCCESSFUL PICTURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 3

SUCCESSFUL PICTURE

“WINGS or THE MORNING’’ The romance of a lovely fugitive fleeing from strife-torn Spain, “Wings of the Morning," coming next week to the Plaza Theatre, introduces a new and exciting screen personality in Annabella, starred with Henry Fonda and Leslie Banks in the film which presents a world-famous tenor, Johni 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. Annabella, first appears in the prologue, as | Marie, a gipsy princess. She marries Leslie Banks, the Earl of Clontarf, who dies on the hunting field five months later. Marie goes back to her Gipsies to be told that her descendants will be cursed for her marriage for three generations. Modern time brings us Annabella as Marie, the great - granddaughter, fleeing from Spain in the midst of revolution to a quieter Ireland, where sne can nave her horse, Wings of the Morning, trained for the English Derby. Victory in that would provide her with a dowry to marry her Spanish fiance. Kerry Gilfallen, a young Irish trainer * played by Henry Fonda, also has a Derby candidate, but .he falls in love with Marie, agrees to train "Wings” for the big race, and gives a party lor Marie at which John McCormack sings. When her jockey breaks his leg Kerry even arranges for his own jockey, Steve Donoghue, '.o ride Marie’s horse, although he knows that victory for Marie may mean defeat not only for his own horse but also for his love for Marie.

Oscar Alexander, a well-known German actor and producer, plays the part of a German film director in Ivor Noveilo's "Crest of the Wave.” at Drury Lane Theatre, London.

Edna Best (Mrs. Herbert Marshall) i is the leading lady, opposite Gordon ; Marker in "The Phantom Light,” at j the Haymarket Theatre, London. ■ Missing Pearler. The recent newspaper report from j Darwin concerning the mysterious dis-» appearance of a Japanese pearl diver ■ on the bottom of the ocean was read I with considerable interest by members j of Cinesound’s "Lovers and Luggers” I Company. The new Australian picture deals with pearling at Thursday j Island, and the story includes many j exciting and tragic happenings. The j people engaged in the production have! learnt a good deal about pearl diving, I particularly from Jack Childs, a white I diver of Thursday Island, who when ' in Sydney recently supplied much; valuable information to the producers. | Gossip on the set has canvassed the; likely fate of the latest victim of Ihe pearling industry and from (he stories told by Childs it is thought that the Japanese diver might have been taken by a giant groper. Or it may have been a diamond fish that caused the tragedy. These flat-shaped creatures which may measure from 60 to 60 feet long and 40 feet wide are like mammoth rays and have flanges or “hands” that can grip. These "hands” can seize a diver’s lines and as the big fish floats away the diver is dragged under its body and disappears and probably is slowly eaten.