“WINGS”
PARAMOUNT’S GREAT STAR “Wings,” the Paramount picture drama of the war in the air, soared to the top of the New York film list on the night of its premiere showing. The newspaper critics gave it tremendous approval, and the public is still standing in line for a chance to see it. The advance tickets sale before the first showing reached a record which shatters that held by any other special picture ever shown on Broadway. A. Griffith Gray, head of the Paramount road-show department, who lms been connected with film road-shows since “The Birth of a Nation,’' made the announcement of the bookings. The theatre was sold out solid for two weeks In advance. The review by the “New York World” movie critic indicated the reception of the picture by the newspapers. He said “Wings” flew into the* Criterion—riding on the breeze of intense anticipation, and justified virtually all the praise its makers have given it. Never has a screen in this country shown such a spectacle of aviation. The audience broke into spontaneous applause at the thrill of sheer spectacle. “Wings” doubtless will have a long run on Broadway.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 15
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