DRAMA AND ROMANCE

Evening Star, Issue 22681, 22 June 1937, Page 14

DRAMA AND ROMANCE

•WEDDING PRESENT’ FOR GRAND The first of a series of screen plays to be produced by the newly-organised B. P. Schulberg studio for release through Paramount, ‘ Wedding Present,’ will open to-morrow at the Grand, with Joan Bennett and Cary Grant in starring roles. The film is a fast-moving romantic comedy set against a background of newspaper life. Heading the stellar supporting cast are George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart, Inez Courtney, Edward Brophy, and Damon Ford. Richard Wallace was director. Taken from a ‘ Saturday Evening Post ’ story by Paul Gallico, ‘ Wedding Present ’ introduces Grant arid Miss Bennett ns reporters on a metropolitan daily. Their ability and pranks make them the joy and despair of their hardboiled ciy editor, Bancroft. As the story opens, one of these pranks puts a halt to a proposed marriage of the two reporters. Bancroft resigns _as city editor, and Grant succeeds him. Intent on becoming a success, he forgets his playful nature, and becomes as hard-boiled as his predecessor. An argument with Miss Bennett results in her running away to New York, where she convinces herself she is in love with Nagel, a writer of inspirational books. Grant, quitting his job and following her, prepares to give her the most impressive wedding present of all time. The story’s rapid-fire laughs are added to by Brophy and William Demarest. Denmrest is a New York gangster whom Grant has saved from drowning. Lewis Stone and Bruce Cabot appear in the second attraction, ‘ Don’t Turn ’Em Loose,’ which is a thrilling story dealing with the exciting activities of the American Federal agents or “G-men.” Other players in the large cast are James Gleason and Louise Latimer.