People, Apr. 18, 1938

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Since he parted company with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935, sleek, downy Ramon Novarro, 39-year-old cinemactor who once threatened to become an opera singer, has appeared in only one minor picture. Last week he let it be known he had forsworn the cinema to study Hindu philosophy, had become converted to Yoga, was now anxious only to attain a state of complete mental & physical tranquillity. Said Yogiman Novarro; "I learned the breathing exercises of Yogi, and I thought deeply of the philosophies involved."

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