Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

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These charming Hal Wallis' inhabit a stunning house in the Wilshire district. The house, incidentally, was designed by Louise. Building houses is one of her hobbies. And after she's had the fun of planning and building a house, she sells it. t GUISE is crazy about her mother. They y are great friends — real friends. Kid the life out of each other. "You know," Louise giggled, "mother, having given birth to a comic artist, tries to furnish what she thinks is the correct parental background for such a person. I called for her the other day at one of those Ladies' Aid Society meetings and several of the members corralled me, saying gushingly. Oh, Miss Fazenda, your mother 1 She certainly is a card!' "I have a sneaking suspicion that Mother does the buck and wing when I'm not around," Miss Fazenda added. "And, remember, she's seventy and still wears black satin and puts on her earrings before she takes off her night gown. So you can imagine — " And Louise is on the same basis of de-' lightful friendship with her father. She built a house for her parents adjoining her own. A buzzer system connects the two houses. BESIDES her hobby of building houses, Louise spends her spare time (such as it is) collecting books, chinaware, rare objects of art and exquisite tapestries. And wigs. She is the lucky owner of several illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages. The wigs are for her Work. In nearly every one of her characterizations she wears a wig. And she has one of the finest collection of hirsute a;dornments in Hollywood. My attic is my film wardrobe," she explained with a laugh. "Every bit of available space is filled with wig boxes, cupboards of strange dresses and boxes of shoes. I often buy the entire stock of a little country dry goods shop in order to get hold of odd costumes." 10LHSE landed in California when she was ^ a baby — her family moved there from Indiana at that time. Her father ran a small store. Many a childhood hour Louise spent waiting on the customers. And observing them and imitating them. Some of her funniest characterizations were built up from the memories of those quaint old types she saw as a child. "The big market in Los Angeles at the corner of Third and Broadway is one of the best places I know of to study people," Louise says. These shoppers reveal their sure-enough natures. I have stood on the sidelines for half-an-hour at a tijne, watching them. Eventually I'll use them in my work." Railroad stations are other hang-outs of Louise's when she is searching for good story material. There, of all places, when greeting and saying good-bye to friends, lovers and loved ones, people drop their mask of everyday life and show their natural eccentricities for all the world to see. It is these things that Louise spots and capitalizes on. And she always manages to keep any trace of malice out of her characterizations. When you think of Louise Fazenda you immediately see a clever actress who can slick back her hair and wrinkle her brow into a fun-provoking, middle-aged woman. Or the ringletted and giggling funny woman in a musical comedy. UT there is a side to this remarkable woman that film fans never even suspect. She has a remarkably sane philosophy and a brain that is keen and shrewd. And, in spite of her opulent success, she still has an excellent idea of values. " Most girls I've known who are worried about getting married, ' Louise says, "seem to think they would never consider a man unless he is wealthy. I know they're making a big mistake. When I first knew Hal he was driving a funny little Ford. It didn't make a bit of difference to me. We liked each other. The Ford might have been a gorgeous limousine. As'far as we were concerned, it was." Beauty is not necessary in order to attract and hold a man, this girl believes. If women would make a point of treating men with the same consideration they themselves expect from men, romance would flourish more than it does. 1 GUISE has a little joke to tell about The J Galloping Fish, a silent comedy she made at the Thomas Ince Studios years ago. "The name role was played by a trained seal whose ability to make noises amounted to something very neat talk. Syd Chaplin, Ford Sterling and Chester Conklin, who were in the picture, used to have a lot of fun with me because I tried to imitate the guttural sounds of the seal. ' Lately the picture was made again as a talkie. When it came time for the seal to talk he became temperamental. Someone had to double for him. I told them I could. They tested me and I did! " Miss Fazenda regards her hair and her voice as the two powerful mediums in portraying her roles. , In no two of the many talking pictures she has made have either her hair or her voice been the same. In speaking of the new demands that the talkies have made upon the screen player, she says: "You have to be a much finer actor these days. Talking pictures mean study — study^ — study. But they're worth it. There is a satisfaction to making a talking picture that I have never known in silent ones."' 94