Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 17

UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM The S. M. Musical Club PresenU Ballet Reservations will be held until Feb. 14th only TEMPLE OF MUSIC BOX OFFICE JOHN BROMFIELD Riding the tide The Sheriff Gets A Promotion By MICHELME KEATING Citizen Entertainment Editor John Bromfield telephoned me from Hollywood this week with the news that his "U.S. TV series is headed this way.

He thought the show would be view tonight, but a check with KOUXTV came up with the fact that "U.S. Marshal" wfll be beamed locally on Channel 13 at 9:30 pjn. a i Monday, Feb. 16. "U.S.

Marshal" isn't so much 'a new series, John explained, as it is a sequel to his twb-year favorite, "Sheriff of Cochise." still play Frank Morgan," he said, "only I've been promoted from Sheriff of Cochise to U.S. Marshal. We had pretty much exhausted Cochise county as a locale. As U.S. Marshal, the new stories can be located all over Arizona.

With the expanded locale, we can do bigger and better shows. "When you analyze the thing, after two years as the same character, doing the same things, there would be a good chance of the show going stale for both me and the audience. I mink the switch in format was real forward thinking. And, getting tine promotion has given me a lift. After aH, it isn't every actor who gets promoted from sheriff to U.S.

Marshal." For Tucsonians, this series should have a good bit of interest, as fte stories have been taken from the files of our own U.S. Marshal here, Jake Meyer. Also, a good many of the segments were filmed in and around Tucson last summer and the terrain will have a familiar look. I asked John if he missed making movies and he said he had no time to think about it. "We shoot one of these segments in three days," he said.

"I get up at 4 a.m. and usually return home around 7 p.m. And, frankly, I like the steady work. They are malting so big feature movies- -Hollywood these days that mere are an. awful lot of actors available for what roles there, are.

Almost every feature is being shot in, some other country. Making a filmed TV series is -much like'. doing a full-length movie except that you work harder and have employment week in and week out. "Then, the western adventure type stories are what the public wants now and you have to go along the tide. Look at their ratings right down the line.

I'll stick with this series to the end. Naturally, there will come a day when the viewers will get tired of them. Then I'd like to do a few movies again for a change of pace." John also enjoys playing Frank Morgan because most of the segments are shot on location. With half the series now complete, he estimates he has had to spend only 10 per cent of. the time in a studio.

The unit has traveled extensively through Arizona and the Sonoran desert country and visited scores of ranches in New Mexico and Cati- fornia. "I used to have to spend my weekends trim," John remarked. Incidentally he is something of an athlete, having been an intercollegiate light-heavyweight box-, ing champ while a student at St Mary's in Oakland, as well as racking tip letters for football, baseball, track and swimming. "Shooting inside a studio five days a week, I'd lose my tan," he said, "and I'd spend my weekends at the gym getting it back. Now I get all the sun I need while I'm working.

My weekends are my own again." John and his wife, Larri, live in a modest apartment overlooking the Hollywood Strip. And at home, John likes to'do the cook, ing. His other avocation is fishing. In fact, after his discharge from, the Navy following World War II, John tried the business of tuEa fishing. "The tuna were willing, but the market was reluctant," he said, "so I became an.

actor." His first picture, incidentally, was "Harpoon," filmed in the Bering Straits off Alaska. The business of making a film didn't keep John from harpooning two whales himself. As a result, he was made a member of the New Bedford Port Society, a rapidly dwindling organization membership consists entirely of men who have actually harpooned whales. Other pictures you may remember having seen him hi include: "Rope of Sand," "Sorry, Wrong Number," "The Furies," "Captain Thunder," "The Big Bluff," and "Black a a "By the way," 'TH be seeing you next month. We are going to be in Tucson on location around the end of March." By men, Frank Morgan, U.S.

Marshal, should be a familiar figure on Tucson's TV screens and a welcome return for viewers who followed the fortunes of the Sheriff of Cochise, 46,208 Sq. Ft. of Merchandise Under Roof-22 Times Larger Than When Opened In 1950 Bamboo Leaf Rake Unfin. Clothes Hamper Chop-o-matic 52-Pc. Stainless Tabteware Dish Drainers' 16-Fc.

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