Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for February, 1930 • RIO RITA— Radio Pictures.— The finest of screen musicals to date. Comedy, singing, dancing and romance de luxe. Bebe Daniels wows 'em and John Boles sets hearts to fluttering anew. All Talkie. {Nov.) RIVER OF ROMANCE— Paramount. — Humorous romance of crinoline days in the South, with excellent work by Buddy Rogers, Mary Brian and Wallace Been*. All Talkie. (Oct.) • ROMANCE OF RIO GRANDE— Fox — Rich and roaring melodrama. Romantic Warner Baxter in his Mexican suit again. Tony Moreno, Mary Duncan, and a new cause for heartburn named Mona Maris. Two swell songs. What more do you want? All Talkie. (Jan.) SAILOR'S HOLIDAY— Pathe— Riotously funny account of a sailor on shore leave. All Talkie. (Oct.) SALUTE — Fox. — A glorified newsreel about a West Point cadet with a kid brother at Annapolis, All Talkie. (Oct.) SAP, THE — Warners. — Good comedy with lots of laughs. All Talkie. (Aug.) SATURDAY NIGHT KID, THE— Paramount — The old Bow punch has given way to poundage. Jean Arthur steals this picture. All Talkie. (Dec.) Producer Announcements ofj\ew Pictures and Stars While all good advertising is news, we consider producer advertising of particular interest to our read' ers. With this directory you easily can locate each announcement: First National . . . ♦ Page 139 FoxFUm Page9&131 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Page 135 Paramount Page 4 Technicolor Page 2 Warner Bros Page 143 SCARLET DAREDEVIL, THE— World Wide.— A melodrama of the French Revolution from England, unusually well acted. Silent. (Sept.) SEA FURY — Supreme. — No sense taking this seriously. Regarded as a burlesque in the best Hoboken tradition it's a riot. All Talkie. (Dec.) SENOR AMERICANO— Universal.— See this, you fans who are crying for your Westerns. Ken Maynard rides, loves, fights — and sings. All Talkie. (Dec.) SEVEN FACES— Fox.— Paul Muni gives seven "best performances" in one picture! Good entertainment with a novel twist. All Talkie. (Jaw.) SHANGHAI LADY— Universal— A Me de joie and a crook fall in love and each pretends to be a "swell" for the other's benefit. But it's China and there's a menace. Man.-' Nolan is so beautiful it hurts. All Talkie. (Jan.) SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE— Universal.— There's not a comedy team on or off Broadway that can hold a dimmer to the Gleasons — James and Lucille. Acting and dialogue are gorgeous in this phonoplay. All Talkie. (Jan.) SIDE STREET— Radio Pictures.— No telling what this might have been if not botched by bad recording. As it is, just another underworld yarn. All three of the Moores are in it. All Talkie. (Dec.) SILVER KING, THE— British.— A good silent thriller starring our old friend Percy Marmont. Percy still suffers superbly. Silent. (Nov.) • SINGLE STANDARD, THE — M-G-M.— Garbo was never finer than in this story of a very modern woman. Nils Asther and Johnny Mack Brown, too. Silent. (Sept.) 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