Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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<CIf, as the high brows say, all good pic tures have rhythm perhaps that's why Joan Crawford with her dancer's body has found the screen as easy as an encore. (( The per\y chorus of "The Circus Princess". Which girl if ill be the next movie sensation? ring on the Dancing Girls! Now where have you heard that before? It might have been back in Babylon, when the King was bored, and, clapping his hands thrice — twice is no good at all — called, for the love of Bal, for a little honest, decent amusement. He was sick and tired of running up and down to his towers, or inspecting those, there, now, Christian slaves; he wanted a little original excitement; a little good, clean fun. Well, hardly had he finished speak' ing when a bevy of perfectly beautiful girls rushed in and began to dance. The King 18