Life — September 8, 1927 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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lacks W'!! AT “Wings” in’ sub- stantial imatic construction ind it lacks plenty—it makes up in speed. Indeed, I don't remember that [ have seen the carliest traveled “Wings feet, carries him to the dizziest since that a breathless pace. iny picture French at suel comedies sweeps the spectator off his altitudes of melodrama, and_ finally It pro- vides a the theatre, and a superbly exciting one. It is a ely youthful officers in the American air We see them the training mill in shoots him down in flames. harrowing evening in story of two extre service during the war ing through 1 German “cir raki roads with mach Texas, ducling with cus” above the clouds, y com- munication cunt tire and finally facing each other in life-and-death stru We even see them cavorting 1 terrific the air, on leave—this being the first time, to knowledge, that given us a really intimate view of the Battle my any movie has xreat of Paris. played, and well, by Richard Arlen commendably TTPHE two heroes are played remarkably Charles R gers and nicer, more representative pair of boys would be hard to find. There is nothing movie- which like them, act rbout either of means that they honest human being They prove that aviators, while in action, were ish and men of few words; in fact, from my secant knowledge of lip-reading, I gather that their sbulary was limited to two words, both of which are unprintable ina family magazine, Clara Bow, who saccharine he tppears as the vine, is, 1 regret say, not so good. WILLIAM WELLMAN, director, and John Monk Saunders, who wrote the (if such it can be called), undoubtedly saw the war from a bird's-eye view, ind they therefore marked “Wings” with the stamp of authen- ticity I don't) pretend to know whether or not the air fights are con- vincing, but I can state positively that the drinking scenes are delight- fully realistic. the story have “Service for Ladies” A’ time, when sereen is achiev- ing new low-water marks of bad taste, it is all the more pleasant to encounter a comedy that may legit- imately be classified as this particular humor on the The Eternal Convention Such a one is “Service for Ladies, which is gay and graceful, intelligent and smart, and infinitely refreshing Perhaps. its unusual traceable to the fact that both its star, Adolphe Menjou, and its director, Harry D'Arrast, are grad- uates of the Charles Chaplin school excellence is of comedy. R. E. Sherwood, Recent Developments (The readers.) The Patent Leather Kid, with ard Barthelmess, directed by Alire tell; Twelve Miles Out, with J and Joan Crawford; Paid to Love, with George O 1 ¥ Rolled Stockings, The Blood Ship, with ; Resurrection, w jo and Rod La Rocque, direct Carewe; The King of Kings, directed by Cecil B, De Mille; The Way of All Flesh, with Ex Jannings, directed by Vi Fleming; Seventh Heaven, with Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, directe by c Stark Love, directed by K. ; Chang, directed by Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Coope Old _Ironsides, directed by James ¢ What Price Glory, with Vict I lores Del Rio, diree : Beau Geste, with Ronald Colman and Noah Beery, directed by Herbert Brenon The Big Parade, with John Gilbert Renée Adorée, directed by King Vidor. i and comicbooks.com