NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1032, 24 July 1930, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“MONTANA MOON” TOMORROW “Condemned,” the powerful dramatic talkie starring Ronald Colman, will have its final screening at the Regent Theatre today. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will present Joan Crawford tomorrow in “Montana Moon,” a musical romance of tho West. The story is an original one, and Miss Crawford’s supporting cast includes John Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez, Benny Rubin, Cliff Edwards and Karl Dane. This is one of the first pictures to be filmed without the use of artificial scenery, all the exterior scenes being taken on a cattle ranch in the San Jacinto Mountains, 200 miles north of Los Angeles. A large part of the extra cast was recruited from the cowboys employed on a locaL ranch. The story concerns a New York debutante who visits her father’s extensive holdings in Montana and falls in love with a cowboy. The conflict between their love and the disparity in their social positions forms the dramatic situation. Advance reports have it that “Montana Moon” is by far the most lavish production in which Miss Crawford has yet appeared, particular stress having been laid on the wealth of scenic beauty on hand and the contrast between the Western locale and that of the sophisticated Park Avenue environment, with which the star has heretofore been almost exclusively associated.