PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 249, 20 October 1937, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

FARR-LOVIS FIGHT. A win on points in a championship boxing contest is almost invariably a matter of dispute, but in the case of ring battles of international importance it is often possible for thousands who did not see the actual fight to judge for themselves by seeing the exchanges reproduced in full on the silver screen. This is the position in regard to the recent heavyweight bout for the world title between the champion, Joe Louis, the Detroit negro, who was introduced to the crowd at Madison Square Garden, New York, as the "Brown Bomber,” and Tommy Farr, the British Empire champion from Tonypandy, Wales. Round by round this highly-disputed fight is being shown on the current programme at the Plaza Theatre. The main dramatic feature is "There Goes Mj' Girl.” This is a brisk-moving comedy of the ways of American newspaper men and women. Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern make a good team in the roles of reporters and wouldbe husband and wife efforts to get married are continually foiled by the lady’s editor (Richard Lane), who feels that her journalistic services are too valuable for him to allow her to drift into mere domesticity. He stages a mock-murder in the church with considerable success when the pair are at the altar, but finally overreaches himself and watches a belated marriage service while his own reporter holds him down and gags him. “Wings of the Morning.” “Wings of the Morning” will commence with three sessions on Friday at the Plaza Theatre. Filmed in technicolour that never seems garish or obtrusive, the story introduces to the public Annabella, a new and charming French star. She fills three separate roles, the first that of a gipsy princess in a nineteenth-century prologue, the second that of a Spanish duchess fleeing from the civil war in the guise of a handsome boy, and the third that of the duchess with the disguise thrown off, when she appears as a modern girl of exceptional beauty. Annabella’s performance in "Wings of the Morning” alone makes the picture worth while, but the audience is given additional good measure by the able support of Henry Fonda anci Leslie Banks, and the introduction of John McCormack, world-fam-ous tenor, and Steve Donoghue leading English jockey.