Photoplay (Apr - Sep 1918)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 117 Fazenda — Comic Venus (Continued jrom page 68) should have a little strain of the serious in it. The funniest things one sees are positively tragic if you look at them that way. You know, in the pictures, the problem is not merely to keep young, but you're never supposed to reach twenty. And if you're going to look in your 'teens, you can't be either too fat or too thin. And so, nearly all of the biggest and brightest shining lights of the moving picture world go to a really famous place on Broadway where they drill it off you or put it on, as the case may be. I believe .that that is the funniest sight in the world. And yet when you bend over and touch the floor near your right heel with your left little finger without bending your knees, or have someone roll you over a board with a iot of big round bumps in it, it doesn't strike you as being particularly funny — really, it doesn't. You've looked forward to doing it and you've imagined yourself doing it, and it doesn't run counter to your sense of the fitness of things. "But when you see those same things being done by a woman who is very rich and celebrated for her dignity, or by a famous dramatic actress who has always been associated with emotional parts — funny? The first day I went there, I lay on the floor and laughed until every breath hurt me. An attendant came up to me and said, 'Please don't, Miss Fazenda, you're disturbing everybody dreadfully,' so I tried to stop. I'd almost succeeded when I caught sight of the woman next to me — you'd know her name if I mentioned it — and she was trying to raise herself to a sitting position without letting her elbows touch the floor; the object being to touch her toes with her fingers. She was moaning and going on — 1 won't forget that sight if I live forever!" Miss Fazenda told a story on her director, Eddie Cline, that really belongs here by right of contrast. She says that instead of having himself steamed, and pounded, and otherwise tortured for the sake of beauty, he doesn't care how he looks, or who sees him looking that way, just so he's comfortable. "But the time he really looks the funniest," she went on, "and not being a bit vain, he'll tell you this himself, is when he's dressed up. This morning, he told all of us that last night he was slanding in front of the Tavern — a cafe near Los Angeles) — in his dress suit, when some man came up and said to him, 'Here, boy, call me a taxi!' He says that the next time he goes out he's going to take his flute and lead the negro orchestra!" As a little girl, Louise Fazenda didn't have the slightest desire to be an actress. Her burning ambition was to be either a school teacher or a writer or both. 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