Handsome Texan Sings Up A Storm On Stage And Screen

“The Love of Sunya,” with silent-screen superstar Gloria Swanson and a handsome Texan as her hand-picked leading man, opened on March 12, 1927, in New York City.

John Boles grew up in Greenville, where he was born in 1895. He spent his summers with his grandparents, who realized early on that the boy was blessed with a wonderful singing voice and encouraged him to develop his gift.

Boles loved to sing and gladly did so throughout high school. But his parents had their son