Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

for June 19 30 Best Pictures Screenland's Critic Selects The Six Most Important Films of the Month Montana Moon WESTERNS are coming back! You'll believe it when you see Joan Crawford in "Montana Moon." Joan can revive the Western vogue if anyone can. This glamourous girl is Once again cast as the most flaming of all our dancing modern maidens; but this time, against a background of fresh air and fresh cowboys. It's a pretty familiar formula: dashing rich girl playing the game of hearts until a Real Man comes along, and then — redemption, and love and kisses. In "Montana Moon" Joan is, as always, the life of her party; but she wanders away from 'the gang' into the wide open spaces where the great outdoors and all growing things, especially John Mack Brown, get in their work. The girl ups and marries the cowboy and leads him home. Complications, of course, when the little bride gets homesick for whoopee. Very 'movie,' but ingratiating. Joan's voice is improving all the time; she couldn't very well be easier on the eyes. Mr. John Brown is nice. Cliff Edwards is very funny. The Girl Said No THIS picture will probably bring on a case of Haines fever among William's devoted admirers. Because in it the star plays another one of his cut-up roles that make the critics gnash their teeth and the audience chortle. "The Girl Said No" is a Haines frolic in which big Bill runs through his entire bag of tricks practically without stopping. First, he's a smart-aleck boy fresh from college; next, he's a smart-aleck lover pursuing a girl engaged to another; then he's a forlorn and repentant lad resolved to mend his wild ways and make the girl respect him; finally, he is smartaleck again, having put over the big business deal and kidnapped the girl and, as usual, got his own way. There are some genuinely funny moments, notably those scenes in which Bill barges in on Marie Dressier to sell her some bonds and succeeds in a big way. Bill's love scenes with Leila Hyams will make you understand why Peggy Hopkins Joyce once chose him as the great screen lover. Go ahead and laugh; Peggy and I stick to our story. Show Girl in Hollywood WELL, boys and girls, here's that trip to Hollywood I've been promising you. Watch out, now — don't bump your heads when you step into the de luxe sight-seeing bus. All aboard! You're going with Auntie Alice White, who's the "Show Girl" of Hollywood, with ballyhoo by J. P. McEvoy. What a liberal education this picture is for the film fans, to be sure. An 'expose' of filmdom; a glimpse into the screen studios; a ride down Hollywood Boulevard; lunch at Montmartre — see the stars as you sandwich; and orchestra seats at a Hollywood premiere with stars all around you — they get under your feet and in your hair. The movies poke pleasant fun at themselves in this picture. In the merry-go-round of hilarity Alice White is at her best as Dixie Dugan, the Broadway show girl who crashes filmtown and makes good after humorous and dramatic complications. Alice sings, she dances, she pouts. Jack Mulhall, Ford Sterling, John Miljan, Blanche Sweet and scores of comics and cuties pitch in and make this a fun fest for you to enjoy. John Mack Brown and Joan Crawford in the musical 'western,' "Montana Moon." 'The Girl Said No" is Bill Haines' latest talker with Leila Hyams as the girl. John Miljan, Alice White, the star, and Jack Mulhall in "Show Girl in Hollywood."