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JOHN HOWARD P7(Paramount Player)
"How would you like to go to Hollywood?" "Not interested."
This conversation took place in the midst t»f a campus show at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Oscar Serlin, Paramount talent scout, asked the question. John Howard, a very serious student with a flair fur dramatics, gave the answer.
He meant it too. He had just been reciting before a group of students. Hollywood. It didn't fit in with his academic plans to become a professor tyt English. When Howard, oho is now under contract to Paramount, wbpl home that e. ening, he learnod that there wouldn't be -enough money for him to take a graduate course in English that he had planned for the coming year. Without that he could not become a professor of English.
So, with some misgivings, he wrot-e a letter to the tale: t BKmt r>i.i snid. that he would like to reconsider the offer. Serlif. was agreeable, en<5 \ the
commencement exercises in June, 1934-, Howard went to New York for e screei. est. It was successful and he' was given a contract. He reported ct the studio in September, 1934.
Howard. was born in Cleveland on April 14, 1913. His father, a graduate in dramatics of Carnegie Institute of Technology, had beer, unable to achieve his ambition to become an actor, so, as the next best thing, he became the agent for a firm which sells theatrical equipment.
Young Howard was educated in the public schools of East Cleveland. He
was an excellent student and won a scholarship to the university. He oontiiuied
h.'s high grades at the university and was awarded a scholarship to the graduate
school which he waa unable to accept because of lack of funds for his mairifcenaice.
Howard's hobbies aro drawing and painting. He is five feet ten inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. He lias blue eyes ond brown hair. Ho likes the theatre. His first three months at Paramount were spent in study of the movie acting technique. His first part was in "Car 99", Other pictures in which he has ployed are ANNAPOLIS FAREWELL, SOAK THE RICH, BO RDLR. FLIGHT .