Word: yuma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against the sands of the Yuma desert in Arizona, Metro-Goldyn Mayer has strung out an exciting story of the white woman who is charmed by the call of the desert and a wily philandering Arab in the person of Ramon Navarro. The story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
Married. Clarence Linden ("Buster") Crabbe, 24, Olympic swimming champion, cinemactor (King of the Jungle) ; and one Adah Virginia Held, 20; in Yuma, Ariz...
Loretta (real name: Gretchen) Young two years ago helped make a name for herself by eloping to Yuma, Ariz. with Cinemactor Grant Withers, despite protests of her mother who said that, at 17, she was not old enough for matrimony. She refused to try to have her marriage annulled, ended it by divorce after 17 months. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Sally Blane, are cinemactresses. Loretta Young got her first job when a director called up Polly Ann. Under five-year contract to First National, she has had increasingly important roles in The Riding Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet...
Remarried. Tom Mix, 52, cinema cowpuncher; and Mabel Hubble Ward, 28, circus aerialist; in Yuma, Ariz. They doubted the legality of their marriage last month in Mexican', Mexico (TIME...
...stampede when "all you can do is ride blind and hope to Christ." At 19 he joined the cavalry to fight Apaches; marched through the 800-mi. prairie fire of 1889. After rough riding with Roosevelt in Cuba, he became captain of the Arizona Rangers, finally penitentiary warden at Yuma (1907). All in all he calls it "a pretty good old life. Bullwhacking, cowpunching, soldiering, border ranging, she's been a grand old pasear...