REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 4

REGENT THEATRE.

'The Wedding Night."

Gary Cooper and Anna Sten are together for the first time as a romantic team in "The Wedding Night," which comes to the Regent Theatre tomorrow. Ralph Bellamy, Helen Vinson, and Siegfried Rumann are in the cast. "The, Wedding Night" is a dramatic romance in which Anna Sten portrays a modern American girl rebelling against the restraints of tradition, and Gary Cooper appears as a successful, sophisticated New York author with whom she falls in loye. Miss Sten's part is in sharp contrast to her previous performances in "Nana" and "We Live Again." Cooper proves mat he can be just as convincing a lover as he is a soldier and fighter. Siegfried Rumann plays as a harsh stem father who dings blindly to the .traditions of his native land and his [ancestors; Ralph Bellamy is a sturdy young tiller of the soil selected to marry the girl, and Helen Vinson plays | the role of a fashionable, luxury-lov-ing wife. Cooper, the author, and his wife, return to 'his country home in Connecticut because his finances are low and he vainly is seeking an idea and background for a new book. He tods, unexpectedly,.the colour and tneme for his manuscript in the lives and customs of the neighbouring tobacco farmers. Against a background of the ageless conflict of the old and the new, the constant struggle of' the younger generation to live iS conformity with the more liberal social order of America, is told the dramatic love story.. The girl's father makes a marriage bargain" for her and* commands that she wed a man not of her choice. She realises by then that she SrtWh that he loves her But both know there is a wide social S^f" 1 etween. thffln- that he married and she betrothed, and his wife will not willingly relinquish him