A Lovely Canary Islands Star

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 16

A Lovely Canary Islands Star

(JARMEN MORALES, shapely and vivacious Latin beauty, whose stage, screen and radio work have carried her to prominence on four continents, plays a bumboat girl in the colourful cast John Ford assembled for his picturlzation of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Long Voyage Home,” a United Artists release. Though born in the Canary Islands, Miss Morales is Mexican. Her father was a Mexican Consul in the island and her mother also Mexican. Shortly after leaving school the girl with the flashing dark-brown eyes and captivating smile became a professional entertainer. Her first appearance was as a dancer in Mexico City. Later she sang, danced and appeared on the radio in Rio de Janeiro. Her first motion picture work was in an Argentine film in Buenos Aires, her second was in a London studio, her third and fourth pictures were filmed in Paris. Coming to Hollywood about a year

ago. Miss Morales was a radio singer before playing a small part in one independent film and then she was awarded the role of a vixenish “bum-boat girl” in the tropical sequence of “The Long Voyage Home.” Miss Morales speaks five languages fluently and as an entertainer first introduced several native dances in Rio, which others have since brought to the American stage.