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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1928, Page 16

j Destruction on a gigantic scale is one of the features of "Wings,” Paramount’s great spectae'c portraying tlie life and fancies of the air forces during the war. William Wellman, who directed the production, wanted realism—and he got it. Here i,s what the business manager placed upon the books as total loss for tlie purposes of the picture: Seven fully-equipped airplanes, wrecked and burned. Three regulation dirigibles and one observation. balloon. Two fully eg i lipped automobiles. One assembled German train of 11 cars. One fully built house. One French village (set). Clara. Bow ,Charles Rogers, Richard Alien, Richard Tucker, Guniwiit Smijth, Rl Bren del. Gary Cooper and Arlctto Martini 1 are featenred players in ‘Wings,” which commences a tlireenight season at the Opera, House on Wednesday next.