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Q ?╟≤o- POWERS: ARDEN: HUNTER: ARDEN: HUNTER: ARDEN: POWERS: ARDEN: POWERS: Now we come to our Glamour Guest for Today.,.. Normally, this young man would be just getting up, because his working day begins at night. Donn Arden Is the director of the colorful show at one of New York's most dazzling night-spots, the Vanity Fair. When you tread your way through the crowded tables, to get backstage, you realize the complexities of a job like his... Seems to me, it's almost as complicated as putting on a regular musical comedy, Donn It is., John... We have special lyric writers and music arrangers, designers, and everything else... And you tie the whole thing together, Mr. Arden? Yes -- I build the show around the stars -- like Gertrude Niessen..J Of course, I'm a dance director fundamentally", . . This is my first big Broadway job, and my ambition is someday to take over the work of Robert Alton... He's my Ideal And a very fine dance director for musical comedies...' He's terrific... Not that I want to imitate anyone... But I would like to have my choreography comejjp---l5-e--his.... Then' you design all the dances in your show, Donn? T>h, yes... And I select the girls and train them. Well -- then -- you should have some very definite ideas on beauty and charm, Donn.