Those who have had the pleasure of meeting Tyrone Power—current in "Thin Ice" at the Grand—talk of his charm and his poise. He has the ease of manner, the culture and graciousness for which producers and directors are forever searching. He receives one with the cordiality and sincere interest that gives impetus to conversation.
Yet three years ago Hollywood turned its back non-chalantly on the hand. brown-eyed youth. In the language of the studios, Hollywood gave Tyrone Power a "kick in the pants" and a "slap in the face" and sent him on his tortuous route to Broadway success on the stage.
In the case of youthful Tyrone Power, it was his distinguished ancestry, more than any one thing, that proved a handicap, insofar as Hollywood was concerned. Even on Broadway it was an obstacle, for a time, to be overcome in estab himself as an individual, as an by right of his own shining tal Tyrone Power, 20th Centur star. is the third of his family to bear the name. The first was his great-grandfather, named after County Tyrone, the homeland of the Power family, and s son, Harold Power, was the father of Tyrone, the second, who, in turn, named his only son, the object of this sketch, Tyrone. Harold Pom" during his life time, was one o England's famous concert pianists. Young Tyrone's father was born in London.
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