Harry Partch
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Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-centur
c. 1952
Partch's parents, Virgil and Jennie (1888).
Partch in 1919
Partch (center) directing four college students in rehearsal
Ramon Novarro
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Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office
Harry Partch
…acoustic basis for his music. Around this time, while working as an usher for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he had a romantic relationship with the actor Ramon Novarro, then known by his birth name Ramón Samaniego; Samaniego broke off the affair when he started to become successful in his acting career. By 1925, Partch…
Novarro, c. 1925
Novarro with Joan Crawford in Across to Singapore (1928)
Novarro with Lupe Vélez in Laughing Boy (1934)
Hollywood Walk of Fame star