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RA HOULD (Paramount Player)
Mastey Ra Kould was born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on January 21, 1924, and recoived his education in the schools of that city.
From the age of four, .vhen he portrayed on elf's role in "The .".leaping Beauty", an operetta at the Princess Theatre in Dunedin, he has shown increasing ability in acting.
When Dams Sybil Thorndyke, celebrated English actress, visited Dunedin lfc 1933, Rn enacted the role of one of her children in n play and she expressed herself as much impressed by the boy's natural ability.
In 1934, when a New Zealand syndicate decided to produce the English colony's first talking picture, Ra played the leading child's part and his performance was favorably received wherever the film was shown.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kould, then decided to take their son to England in the hope of getting him into pictures, but Dame Thorndyke advised that he be taken to Hollywood instead, pointing out that children of outstanding ability are accordod a better chance for success there.
When Ra and his parents arrived in Hollywood in February of 1936, Paramount became interested in him and signed him to n long term contract.
Re's father, a retired snipping man, is a New Zealander; his mother we3 born in England. The boy speaks with a musical English accent, r*lear and distinct.
His hobby is making miniature airplanes. He's fond of music, having studied picn^ for five years. Likes to read all the magazines for boys particularly detective stories. He is 4 feet, 10 inches tall, weights 85 pounds, has bronn hair and blue-grey eyes.