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Show By VIRGINIA VALE ! (Beleased by Western Newspaper Union.) 1 T F YOU plan to be driving A in Tucson, Ariz., early in October make sure in advance ad-vance whether you'll be allowed al-lowed to or not. For there'll be three days when it will be the only city in the United States without an automobile, truck, motorcycle or even a gasoline scooter on its streets. And it's all because of the movies. "Arizona" will have what's known in the trade as its world premier in Tucson, and the city is planning quite a celebration a governor's state ball, a three-day 1860 fiesta in the adobe city of Tucson, built for the picture, a rodeo with national nation-al roping and riding stars, and Indian In-dian pow-wows. Jean Arthur, William Wil-liam Holden, Warren William and all other members of the cast will be specially honored. Some of the best stories about a movie are not heard until it is finished fin-ished and the principals have gone on to other pictures. Here's one. Arriving at the set for "He Stayed for Breakfast," Columbia's new comedy starring Loretta Young and Melvyn Douglas, visitors found the set barred to outsiders. They were I ,W' , , " 1 f N I MELVYN DOUGLAS told that the players were working In an extremely small space where it would be impossible to watch. The real reason, disclosed later, was that Douglas was working in a woman's dressing gown. "I'll look silly enough on the screen," he explained, when asking that the set be closed. When you see Hedy Lamarr and Clark Gable in "Comrade X" don't be puzzled if the story seems familiar. It's "Clear All Wires," which Spencer Tracy made seven years ago. The story of an American Ameri-can newspaper man's adventures in Russia, it's been rewritten to include incidents in the recent Soviet military mili-tary ventures. Gable draws it as an assignment instead of "Osborne of Sing Sing," which he didn't like anyway. June McCIoy may win a bet with her husband if you like her well enough in "Glamour for Sale," in which she has the second feminine lead. Nine years ago she left Hollywood Holly-wood to make a name for herself as a night club singer, and succeeded. suc-ceeded. In 1936 she married and retired. Now she wants to return to the screen; she's bet her husband that she can make good within six months; If she can't, she'll go back to being just a wife. So she's working work-ing now in the picture starring Anita Louise and Roger Pryor. She has a chance at her specialty she sings a torch song. But so does Anita Louise. Denis Day became singing star of the Jack Benny show because an inflamed appendix kept him out of law school. An honor graduate of Manhattan college in New York, Eugene Denis McNulty won a scholarship schol-arship that entitled him to try city government work for several months. He chose radio, and was doing production work at the city's broadcasting station, pending his entry en-try to law school, when the appendix appen-dix interfered just as his law classes were about to begin. When he got out of the hospital it was to enter law school that year. He turned again to radio, got onto a sustaining program, and made a recording which Jack Benny's agent heard. He was summoned to Hollywood; Benny was looking for a tenor to replace re-place Kenny Baker, you'll remember, remem-ber, and they were auditioning literally liter-ally by the 'hundreds. At the last minute young McNulty got the job. became Denis Day, and began carving carv-ing out a nice career for himself. |