Show V INOV NOVARRO ARRO WOULD BE BEV OPERA ST STAR ARI V Film t. t Fa Fame e FaTi Fails to Satisfy a V Ambitions V ns V of A Actor V 13 b E An Asa C OT GU G m A r V V I V V V Routed by Revolution Mexican an Player f Sought Musical Career Be Ben Hur Hur V His Biggest Picture Pic ure V V V HOLLYWOOD Aug 31 A 31 sur A-sur sUr vey of at f the the foreign population n In Hollywood's Hollywoods film colony might re reveal reveal re re- veal that one of tho the biggest contributors contributors con con- has been our own neighboring neigh neigh- boring republic of ot Mexico V Quite Quito a few Mexicans l are now numbered among the most roost successful successful success ful screen stars and Md not the least successful by b any means is Ramon Hamoa Novarro born In Durango Mexico texico on February 6 1900 as Ranion Ramons Ramon's first attempt at acting was made en he w was only 6 6 ye years n oJ old The occasion was a. a pageant he sisters honor pt of ot their gr grandmothers grandmother's birthday y Two Tono years years lat later hater r his his' father gave him a a little marionette set with set with which h he staged maii many plays In 1913 tho the revolution against Al- Al Huerta closed the In lit Durango arid and the f family moved to Mexico o City It was there that Ramon Bamon started mili military tar tary training training-a a a. a thing which he never liked H Ho He had been an n ar ardent af arV dent student of music e e ever ersin since e he had been old eno enough th lOI togo toga o to 5 school and he wavered b between tween music or the priesthood I career ca ca' ca- ca reer u a I Then l Fate stepped stopped 1 In 1 and saw to I It It that ho he didn't follow either The family fortune wiped out rout by the revolution Ramon and his brother Mariano came to the United States where they hoped t to some day ac- ac ac accumulate accumulate ac- ac cumulate the wealth their theli father rather had pad lost They arrived In Los Los' Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles with 10 between them but before that had completely vanished Ramon got Job a job singing In III a s. res rec- Then he Appeared on the stage In New NewYork N York In In a n. d dancing act At the he close of or this engagement Ramon Bamon returned to Los Angeles still stilt stilts s seeking eking a a. musical career Previous t to this time he ho had done some extra work In the m movies les He met Ferdinand Ferdinand Fer Fer- dinand PI Pinney ney Earle who w was s' s Just getting ready to film his Omar Khayyam Earlo Earle saw possibilities In the young unS' unS Mexican and pave gave him th the title role Ramons Ramon's work In that that- picture attracted the attention of ot Rex Ingram who was then directing directing direct direct- ing at nt the old Metro studio Ingram decided that in the young boy he had a potential star and gave him hIma a a. prominent role rate in The Tho Prisoner of or Zenda II was when he started this picture that Ramon changed his name name from to No No- varro Following The Prisoner of ot Zend Zonda ho was was given shen lea leading ng roles I In V Trifling r men Where the he Pavement Ends Sc and The IThe Arab V However even with the tho success he lie was having In n pictures Novarro still dreamed of at the day t h when n he could become an an opera singer r Not more mors than V a year ago he announced that he ho was Just waiting for br the day when he would be able to give lip up p his film c career and devote his time to music V V V VV V Then the talkie talkies came cam along and he was able t to partially satisfy his lifelong ambition and at th the sam same time timo continue the work which has made him famous throughout the theW W world H He KOV now sings at least one song in each eath of t f his films 1 It was years years ago that Novarro was elevated to stardom his hilS first his hIs' ri new w contract contract con- con tract being Hur Ben which still stands as the most expensive e film ever er produced V Ramon js is so so Interested d In music V that when he built 3 a new a afew afew afew few years yeal ago he had a a. completely equipped little hittle theatre constructed right in It Here Hero h ho often otten stages stages' concerts for a a. small group of oC his I closest St friends s I |