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Show Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur In "The' Plainsman" The tender love which existed between two of the hardest characters char-acters of the old West, "Wild Bill" Hickock, hardhooting exponent of law-and-order as the newly opened territory knew it, and "Calamity Jane," a beauty who packed a pair of six-euns and drove a six-horse stagecoach is the basis of Cecil B. DeMille's revived screen mastter-piece, mastter-piece, "The Plainsman," which begins on Friday at the Rivoli Theater. History relates how Hickock, played by Gary Cooper, was retained re-tained by the government to investigate in-vestigate gun-running in the West because he was the most-feared character of a region known for its hard men. It also relates that Hickock never nev-er wounded an adversary. It was always a sure hit, and with this reputation as his letter of introduction, intro-duction, the handsome soldier-of-fortune went into the Far West to find out who was selling rifles to the Indians in violation of a government gov-ernment order. On the way he meets the beautiful beau-tiful "Calamity Jane," so named by a troop of soldiers who found her as a child in the wilderness beside the bodies of her dead parents par-ents killed toy Indians. They never nev-er knew her real name and she was, indeed, a child of calamity. |