PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 256, 28 October 1937, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“WINGS OF THE MORNING.” The outstanding English film, “Wings of the Morning,” starring the beautiful French actress, Annabella, will conclude to-night at the Plaza Theatre. A delightful light comedy. “Wings of the Morning” is produced entirely in technicolour. The outdoor scenes are most realistic, while the climax of the film, the running of the English Derby, is a most thrilling one. Henry Fonda has the leading male role, while others in the cast are John McCormack, famous Irish tenor, and Steve Donoghue, veteran English , jockey. “Slave Ship.” A honeymoon couple sailing the closely-patrolled seas of the North ; Atlantic in the last of the slavers, the crew in revolt, the master of the ship fighting single-handed to rescue himself and his young wife from the hands of his one-time partners; this is the theme of “Slave Ship,” which, with Warner Baxter Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, and Mickey Rooney . at the head of the cast, is to be seen to-morrow at the Plaza Theatre J Romance, brutality, the fair shapes of white-canvassed vessels on the blue ' sea bearing a freight of human mis- ; ery and death, form the background ; of the picture. And against this back- J ground there is a larger struggle, the light of one man with his environ-J 1 ment, his determination to mould his p own destiny, and the remarkable ad-1 venture which finally opens to him i i the way of life of which he has,' dreamed. The captain has always | J been a slaver, from boyhood days ; 1 when he embarked on this career he ( ’ has known nothing else. His crew is' - more than a crew, it is a band of 1

i ■ partners in his business, ana a risky ’ business it is with the fleets of Britain | and the United States linking hands ' to sweep the last of the slavers from ’ the seas. Wallace Beery, Warner 1 Baxter and Elizabeth Allen are the 1 stars.