COSY THEATRE
“WEDDING PRESENT.” Paul Galileo's story of the romance of a couple of harum-scarum Chicago newspaper reporters is brought to the screen as a hilarious comedy-romance in Paramount’s “Wedding Present,” the Joan Bennett-Carey Grant film which will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. A strong supporting cast, headed by George Bancroft and Conrad Nagel and including Gene Lockhart, Inez Courtney, Edward Brophy and Damon Ford, does its part well. “Wedding Present” introduces the stars as ace newshawks of a Chicago daily, constantly about to be fired for their stunts and just as constantly making city editor Bancroft relent, by turning in a frontpage scoop. They spend a night going the rounds with a visiting Archduke — and send the Archduke back to the office with the big story of the day. They have an escapade in an airplane and turn in another banner story. Then Bancroft quits as city editor and Grant succeeds him. He begins to become as hard-boiled as his former chief, and Miss Bennett doesn't like it. She leaves the paper and flees to New York, where she becomes engaged to a novelist. Grant soon follows her and attempts to win her back. He fails, and his failure is accentuated by the well-mean-ing plans of a gangster he has saved from drowning. The picture ends in a sensational manner.
Top-notch entertainment, provided by some of the screen's best talent in a story neatly combining romance and humour, marks “Spendthrift,” the second attraction at the Cosy Theatre. Chief roles in the screen play of a millionaire youth who had to lose his fortune to find the right girl are carried out by Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson, petite ash-blonde English actress who plays her first part under Paramount contract, and Mary Brian, cast for the first time in her screen career as a vix-
enish “heavy,” in the role of a Southern belle who is revealed as a gold-dig-ger and fortune hunter. George Barbier, veteran character actor who played his last screen role in “Spendthrift.” as the crochety uncle of Fonda, is aided by Halliwell Hobbes, Richard Carle and J. M. Kerrigan in packing the story with skilled cornedy,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 2
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