Show WINGS lINGS FIRST BIG FILM FILI FIL I OF SEASON TELLS STORY OF WAR IN THE AIR AIRS AIRA S t S. S I A it battle scene from the new war picture of ot the air sir service S Wings In serf Ch CharIes Charles Rogers ROger Clara r Bow Dow and d J I Richard Rehard Anon Arlen Arl n who ha hue have e the t e leading Iad in roles in Wings Vines I Ey By D GENT GENE GE T. T con r NEA Service Writer NEW YORK Aug 17 Y If is with Wings that the Broadway Bold ay Him film sea sea- season season season son hops off of f. f Perhaps the most important pro pro- production ducton from the Paramount studios this picture arrives Just as CS the th world has hils Its eye glued to the air and fly fly- flying flying ly- ly lyIng ing has hros paradoxically enough come comedown comedown comedown down to earth No picture has ever come corne In with witha i II better break From Frem those tho e advance rushes I have ha seen it is likely lIley to bs be bea a II war picture even en more spectacular sp than then The Big DIg Parade Par d or What Price Glory since it has not only tbs tho th now 1101 customary big war scenes but uses also planes and m reveals able oble thrilling flashes of or war In the air Planes crash to the are shot ahot out of the clouds and fight tight it out In the th clouds cloude Furthermore it Introduces the young young- t er-t e t and most c ilar lar of the new directors Walter directors Walter whose reputation as ns they say on Broadway Eo dw y Is 13 now en cn Ice C C a aThis This film was nearly maly two years In Inthe Inthe inthe the making cakin and end it nearly died die a- a The Th objections to making It the cost the difficulty of o placing cameras to shoot s cot Air Ir scenes the problem of securing the planes plane the thee pilots and the balloons all these things made directors hesitate h th they admitted that the story of or the war ar from the th air ir had never been made Finally the operation co-operation o co-o of the th war department was secured end and nd as ns the army ermy had a J. J number of or planes San Sn Antonio Antono it was decided to make mate the film In Texas Tens Even at that planes and end pilots had to come from Self ridge Field Mich Langley Field Va Crissey Field Calif Call and md Scott Field Ill m. and when they wre ell all concentrated d and the filming lIming of the St. St S drive was begun the government had some IGO worth of or prop props on the ground and In the air A year and a half hat after the genesis geness of ot the big idea the production books for Wings were closed The oi oil and end high test gas used were paid for forby forby forby by the film rum company TIle The planes were ere reconditioned and every bit o of government property lost damaged or destroyed In filming th the story was replaced or paid for The result is a slender strip of neg mg- negative the feet In length It can be seen in two hours and a half Clara Clora Bow Bo as a Red Cross nurse is the feminine star s r and the two leading male roles are carried by Charles Rogers and Richard Mien Arlen |