THE GRAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 11

THE GRAND.

| "HER WEDDING NIGHT.” Sizzling! Whizzling! Action! Fun! Clara Bow's in town in Paramount's "Her Wedding Night,” a deliciously romantic farce-comedy, written by Avery Hopwood, king of farce. "Her Wedding Night” shows finally at the Grand Theatre to-day. It is full of laughs at the start, the middle and love at the end. It’s a Bow knockout. Imagine Clara Bow a* a red-headed film star in France, whore, because sho doesn’t understand the language, she unwittingly becomes the. bride in a wedding ceremony in which the groom is masquerading under an assumed name. Thus she becomes tho wife, by proxy, of a man she has never seen. And when they meet, and when Charlie Ruggles gets in his complicating comedy, and when Skeets Gallagher, the bridegroom’s proxy, gets through explaining, there’s a diverting love story with Clara falling hard for her strangely acquired husband. Ralph Forbes. "Her Wedding Night” zips in Paris, whizzes through France, and winds up in a merry matrimonial tangle in Venice. The cast is superb.

Follow Thru”

Black-haired, black-eyed, handsome Charles Rogers and red-haired, blue eyed Nancy Carroll, the lovers ol "Abie’s Irish Rose,” of "Close liar niony,” make a "peach of a pair” in Paramount's all-Tochnicolour moving picture production of the famous Schwab and Mandel stage hi’. "Fol low Thru.” "Follow Thru.” which will open tomorrow nt the Grand Theatre, is a love story with a golf club setting and n world of ’comedy. Laurence Schwab, himself, went to Hollywood to direct it in conjunction with Lloyd Corrigan, taking with him everything he nce-lc-* from the original two-year Broadway hit. including Zelma O'Neal and Jack Haley, its lively, youthful, convulsing comic leads. Also he took with him the catchy song hits, including "But ton un your Overcoat.” and Paramounf songwriters supplied him with a few