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The Rarest of Sensations
Editor's Note. — Editorially speaking, we are proud to print the following analysis of Ramon Novarro.
It is a critical estimate and intimate character study, such as only a friend could write. It presents
Mr. Novarro as he appears to one who was privileged to observe him thru months of close intimacy.
Therefore it is worth all the casual interviews which may ever be written of him
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A NOTED critic after viewing "Scaramouche" wired him : "You are the rarest " of sensations — an artist." Ferdinand Pinney Earle. introducing him to Rex Ingram in a letter written on Columbus Day, said simply : "My clear Rex, Columbus made a great discovery on this day. I believe you will, too. Here is an artist !"
And the volatile Ingram after rehearsing him briefly turned to his casting director and cried, "My God, why didn't you tell me there was a Samaniegos in this world !" Thus Ramon Gil Samaniegos, of
Ramon Novarro is not easy to know. Solitary by instinct, he brings to mind the words of Michelangelo: "I have no friend of any kind and do not want any." In the top panel he is seen with Alice Terry in "The Arab." To the right, his portrait in this title role
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Photograph by Havrah
Durango, Mexico, sprang to fame at the age of twenty-three and was knighted Ramon Novarro under the magic direction of Rex Ingram.
So much for an external estimate of Novarro as an artist, and as such he must be considered if he is to be understood.
But our particular way of dealing with a man's art depends so much on its relation to his private life and on the chance of real insight into that. With Novarro such an insight explains and justifies, better perhaps than his work can as yet, the faith and enthusiasm which he inspires in those who know him intimately.
At the age of six he was studying piano and voice under the tutelage of his mother, a talented musician. At the age of eight he had a little marionette theater in his home in Durango. At fourteen