PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 28, 1 August 1940, Page 6

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Splendid Double Bill.

What happens when a newspaperman with a flair for gags sets out to give his former sweetheart the world's most sensational wedding present on the eve of her nuptials to another man forms the basis of the Paramount comedy-romance, "Wedding Present," which opens tomorrow at. the* Paramount Theatre, with "Joan Bennett and Gary Grant in stellar roles. Miss Bennett and Grant are reporters onmetropolitan daily, : the pride and despair of their city editor, George Bancroft, who is slowly turning grey because of their pranks.; • When Grant succeeds Bancroft on the city desk, Miss Bennett quits and leaves town, distressed because her former friend seems to be developing, into a' "big two-telephone man." She -gets a job in New York and is planning to marry a writer of inspirational novels, Conrad Nagel, when Grant, who has quit, as city editor, arrives and presents the record-breaking wedding present. It brings a reconciliation. "Black Friday, Universal's new .film with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, will be the associate film. Said to establish an entirely different trend in ..this kind of [picture, both Karloff and Lugosi appear as "themselves," and without the elaborate make-up effects that have marked • their, previous screen appearances. The. novel story of "Black Friday" moves against the unusual background of a peaceful college campus and the,lights of Manhattan, beginning with a, daring operation in which a famous surgeon transplants part of the brain of a criminal into the brain of a mild little professor. As the professor whose tampered brain leads him into channels of death and murder, Stanley Ridges, celebrated character actor, essays a most difficult role. In the cast are Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, and James Craig. An interesting "short" will be "Atlantic Patrol," dealing with Britain's convoy system. '.. ',