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Desert Discovery Sirs: This will probably give me the unenviable distinction of being the first Arizonian to refuse Arizona credit for something in favor of California. Nevertheless the sand visible in The Garden of Allah (TIME, Nov. 30, p 39) is not Arizona's but California's. The Selznick camp was in the California sand dunes about 18 mi. west of Yuma, though several of the notables connected with the making of the picture did put up at the San Carlos hotel in Yuma, the nearest town of any size...
...Garden of Allah's weak point is its story, its strong point is its female star. In the first place, to Marlene Dietrich's golden hair and porcelain skin, color is more complimentary than it has been to any other actress who has so far tried it. In the second place, the North African desert is her specialty. In the third place, if there is any actress in Hollywood whom cinemaddicts have always yearned to see in the flesh-to which color film is the closest practical approach-Marlene Dietrich...
...Without Armor occurs a bathtub scene. While it was being made one day (in England), she slipped, sprawled, spread-eagled naked before the camera crew. Everyone was flustered except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back in the tub (see cut). During the production of The Garden of Allah she could tell whether the take would be good or bad by the intensity of the light on her face. She tested personally her dress materials and makeup under lights...
...risen steadily. She got $200,000 for Allah. Figured on a picture rather than a weekly basis, she is Hollywood's highest-paid woman, the highest-salaried woman in the world. There is no doubt of her being a loving mother. Old friends tell how anxiously, when Maria was abroad, Dietrich waited for a letter containing the child's first tooth. When at last the denticle arrived Dietrich put it in her mouth and carried it there for several days. Despite the scintillating quality of her male escorts, the world's No. 1 glamour girl is definitely...
Five minutes later, over the paper's dying embers, he slowly twirled a crystal ball and bade the reporters concentrate, which alien operation was performed only with the most intense effort. But after several moments of entranced gazing into the Garden of Allah (which appeared to be in the South End) Mogul began to whisper, his brows furrowed with concentration...