MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 243, 14 October 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS” Hailed as “1939’s greatest screen adventure” by preview critics, Columbia’s new Howard Hawks production “Only Angels Have Wings,” commenced yesterday at the Majestic Theatre. Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, appearing together for the first time, are starred in the new film of tropical romance and thrilling adventure in South America. Neither time nor expense was spared in the filming and some of the most elaborate sets ever conceived and built in Hollywood were used for all except the Hying sequences. “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 ot devil-may-care adventurers willing to fly any old crate with wings into any sort of weather. Jean Arthur, a show girl whose troupe has broken up further south, arrives on the weekly banana freighter en route to Panama. She falls in love with Grant and decides to stay. But Cary, a confirmed philanderer, turns his attentions to Rita Hayworth, the wife of Richard Barthelmess, one of his newly-arrived flyers. Thomas Mitchell as a “punch-drunk” aviator, victim of many a crackup, and Sig Ruman as the Dutchman, amiable old Hollander, who runs the combination hotel and bar-room of the town as well as the airport, have outstanding roles in this thriller.