NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 449, 3 September 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“WINGS” “Wings,” recognised as the most ambitious aviation film eveb made, will be shown at the New Regent Theatre again this evening. It is a story with an international theme and a universal appeal. But “Wings” is more than an air story, and is wider than a war story. It is a story of two boys and a girl who all come from the same little town “back home.” The boys become aviators and the girl an ambulance driver. On one of the great air campaigns at the front the two boys become separated, and one of them, David, is shot down. At daybreak the big drive starts. Jack, sick with sorrow and remorse, determines to avenge David’s death lines. After performign heroic deeds, and plunges alone across the enemy Jack heads his plane for home. Seeing before him a lone enemy machine, Jack shoots at, and fatally wounds, the pilot, not hearing the agonised cry of “Jack, don’t you know me?” for it is David, who has managed to escape in an enemy ’plane. Then comes the Armistice, and. in due course, home. After an agonising interview with David’s forgiving parents, Jack goes home to find Mary waiting for him, and he realises that he has loved her all the time. The roles of the two pals are taken by Richard Arlen and Charles Rogers and that of Mary Preston by Clara Bow. One of the most striking parts of the presentation at the Regent is the sound synchronising. When a plane is seen to crash and fall the sound of the crash, as well as the whining" of the wires and the struts through the air is reproduced. A full programme of supporting pictures is also being shown, including a film taken at the ringside of the great-Heeney-Tunney fight. Every phase is clearly shown, and the gameness of the New Zealander wonderfully portrayed. Another supporting picture i« “Knights of the Air,” an historical survey of the early days of aviation. Excellent musidal suipport is given by the Regent Operatic Orchestra under Mr. Maurice Guttridge.