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Show 'ARIZONA' IS FEATURE TO BE SEEN HERE "Arizona." one of the most popu- j lar and successful stage plays ever I written, has been made into a talking talk-ing film by Columbia Pictures and is showing Thursday and Friday at the Rivoli theater. The play is the work of Augustus i Thomas, one of the greatest of j present day playwrights. It is considered con-sidered the outstanding work of this talented author, and it has had a colorful career' on American dramatic dra-matic boards. The long history attached at-tached to this play started in 1S99 at the Hamilton Opera House in Chicago where it had its premiere and played for more than a year with a cast which later became famous such names as Theodore Roberts, Robert Edeson, Arthur .jiyron, Olive May, Eleanor Robson, Edmund Holt and Lionel Barry-more. Barry-more. For over nine years "Arizona ' held its grip on the public and it went down in theatrical history as being the most popular play of modern times. It is considered an American Classic. Following its Chicago run, it had an equally successful suc-cessful showing at the Herald Square in New York and then at j the Adelphi in London, while sev- eral companies presented it simul- i taneously on the road in the United i States. j |