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Show STAGESCREENsMDlO By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) it TTOLL Y WOOD was -Tl never like this!" Jean Arthur was talking. Dressed in faded jeans, a leaky sqmbrero and a blouse that most women would use for a dusting rag, she stood in front of the adobe hut which is her dressing room at Old Tucson. Old Tucson is just what it means, a reproduction reproduc-tion of the original walled city of the sixties, where Wesley Ruggles is currently filming Clarence Clar-ence Budington Kelland's "Arizona." Situated 16 miles north of present-day present-day Tucson, it is a monument to movie ingenuity, a village of 125 buildings, re-created by Columbia studios' technicians from the original origi-nal plans of early Tucson. "Running water is a luxury out here," Miss Arthur said, wiping the perspiration from her face. "To speak of hot water is heresy. There just isn't any. Not that a tub of water wa-ter wouldn't reach the boiling point if placed in the sun, but there are so many horses, cows, dogs and pigs y -. ' . v "- was? v ( J v i V; i j JEAN ARTHUR around here that a tub of water wouldn't have a chance to get warm." She has turned her back on glamour glam-our these days. She is bent only on making "Phoebe Titus," who sold pies for a dollar apiece, believable and real. She is starred in "Arizona," "Ari-zona," with William Holden and Warren William backing her up, and she's going to give us a picture worth seeing and remembering, though the thermometer does register regis-ter 126 degrees. "Waterloo Bridge" is another picture pic-ture that you'll remember. Vivian Leigh proves that, in "Gone With the Wind," she was no flash in the pan; in fact, she's as good or better in "Waterloo Bridge" as she was in that Civil war epic. And the picture gives you a new Robert Taylor. His little moustache is tremendously becoming (even though his wife, Barbara Stanwyck, said "Thumbs down!" when he raised a real one). He puts real life into his role, that of a young British Brit-ish army officer in the last war. The movies are doing very well indeed by Arizona these days. Two hundred and fifty members of the cast and crew of Edward Small's "Kit Carson" troupe landed in Flagstaff Flag-staff the other day; among the actors ac-tors were Lynn Bari, Jon Hall, Dana Andrews, Raymond Hatton, Director George B. Seitz, and many others whose names are familiar to movie-goers. From Flagstaff the entire troupe will go to the Indian trading post of Kayente, on the Navajo Indian reservation, res-ervation, where a special town has been built to accommodate the Hollywood Hol-lywood folk for their month-long stay. The mail response to Johnny Green's new Sunday evening "Rhyme-O" program seems to upset up-set the common belief that writing poetry is the special province of a selected few. On this musical audience-participation program, Johnny uses four-line verses, and asks listeners lis-teners to send them, $5 going to the writer of each verse used. In one week Green received 10,-000 10,-000 individual letters containing rhymes and there was an average of three rhymes in each letter. The Andrews Sisters, famous "swing" trio formerly heard on Columbia Co-lumbia Broadcasting company's networks net-works with Glenn Miller and his orchestra, or-chestra, have journeyed to Hollywood; Holly-wood; they're broadcasting nightly from a night club there, and preparing pre-paring to be starred with the Ritz brothers in a Universal picture called, of all things, "Argentine Nights"! ODDS A.D EDS C. hen the sequence of Columbia's "Society Girl" called for composition of a sons, musical director Ted Steele dashed off a few bars, and ever since, people have been writing in to ask the name of the composition and where they can buy it: it's probably the only successful jour-bar song in history. C Lloyd Psolnn scored such a personal triumph in "Johnny Apollo" that he's been given the leading role in 20lh Century-Fox's "1 Married a A'nri," replacing re-placing the be-dimpled Hichard Greene, whose illness caused him to leave the cast. |