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Show able cad in him to get both Liv-vy and the bottle, and the audience has a wonderful time watching them. Excellent support is given by James Gleason as Millard's commanding com-manding officer. Constance Dowling, whose film bow was made only recently opposite Danny Kaye in "Up in Arms," as a luscious blonde who's out to snare Tufts, and Percy Kilbride as Olivia's very funny father. proaching marriage to Tufts upon his return from a two-year stint in the Aleutians. Olivia has the champagne, Ray has the charm and enough of the lov- Milland Turns To Comedy in Show at Mario Ray Milland, movieland's man of the year, gayly demonstrates his legendary versatility by an amazing switch from the drama of 'The Lost Weekend" to the drollery of Paramount's rollicking rollick-ing comedy romance, "The Well Groomed Bride," which opens today at the Mario theater. The Academy award winner co-stars with Olivia DeHavilland and Sonny Tufts in this fast-moving, hilarious yarn. Hilarity races rampant as Ray vies with Oilvia and Sonny fo possession of a two-quart bottle of champagne which, as the story goes, is the only such flagon remaining in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Milland is ordered to get it by his gruff superior officer who wants it for the launching of a new aircraft carrier; Olivia wants it to "celebrate her ap- |