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Beautiful, tragic Alma Rubens who loved drugs more than she loved her own life
He Learned Through Heartbreak
Tragedy and Fate Have Created a New Ricardo Cortez
By MARQUIS BUSBY
TRAGEDY either embitters or it ennobles. It may ruin a life, or a great person may grow out of the complete wreckage of happiness and hope. It takes a great person to come back — one who inherently has “the stuff.”
Ricardo Cortez has faced heart-breaking tragedy. He lost his fight to save the life of Alma Rubens, his wife. His motion picture career seemed ended. No one would give him a job. He was practically penniless. Many people in Hollywood disliked him. He finally left the coast to try the stage in New York; to make a picture in Europe; to get a new grip on himself.
Out of all of that Ricardo Cortez has climbed back to amazing success. But even more unusual than the “comeback” in the face of such odds, is the fact that Rick is a much finer person than he was during the ear¬ lier days of his career. He has learned charm, and sym¬ pathy, and tolerance. He is a much better actor than ever before. He is a much greater person today.
Tragedy and misfortune have produced one of the most human and interesting men on the Hoilywood screen. A weaker person might well have gone off the “deep end.”
“ T DON’T know that I have changed so much,” he said, “and yet I must have changed a great deal. One thing that I have learned is a sense of humor. Holly¬ wood can never hurt me again. I know that nothing is lasting out here. I don’t think that my head will be turned this time.
“You see, I can remember back a year or two. I re¬ member the unpleasant things people have said of me. I remember the people who bowed coldly to me when they saw me. Some of those same people are very cor¬ dial now that my career is going well again. They ask me to this place and that. Once it might have turned my head. Not now. I don’t want to hurt people, either. I know what it is to be hurt.” (Continued on page 124')
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