NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 17

NEW REGENT

‘ MONTANA MOON” Joan Crawford, usually associated with society drawing-rooms and flap- : per boarding schools, will be seen in J a new environment in “Montana Moon,” her latest Metro-Goldwyn- j Mayer offering, which will be shown today at the New Regent Theatre. For this production was made on a cattle ranch in the San Jacinto Mountains, 200 miles north of Los Angeles, where Miss Crawford, together with her director. Malcolm St. Clair, and a supporting cast which included John Mack Brown. Dorothy Sebastian. Ricardo Cortez. Benny Rubin, Cliff Lowards. Karl Dane and Lloyd Ingraham, established location headquarters. The picture is said to be unique in the respect that the majority of its extra players were recruited from the staff of cowboys on the rancu. whose activities, including the riding of bucking broncos, lassoing of steers, handling of stampedes and other purely Western pursuits, were included in the story as part of the general atmospheric details. The story centres about the daughter of a retired Montana cattleman who comes from New York to visit her father's ranch for a vacation. Here she falls in love with a cowbov, but the wide difference in their social positions seems an impregnable barrier to their happiness. The ingenious method by which the rancher finallv convinces the Eastern girl she could be contented as his wife Is said to give the presentation unusual interest. An exceptionally fine programme of shorter talkie items will be presented at the Regent this evening.