Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

Where Summer Is Cool £itcKant]tneitt "The Ambassador is one of the most beautiful places I know of I " MADAME GALLI CURCI — declares in one of a large numberofUISSOLICITED COMMENTS by world famous celebrities. "Certainly no hotel located in any large city has such extensive and beautiful grounds.^' For keenest enjoyment of your summer visit to California, make reser>'ations at — the Ambassador Los At&^eles NO HOTEL IN THE WORLD OFFERS MORE VARIED ATTRACTIONS— Superb 27acre park, with miniature golf course, open air plunge and tennis courts. Riding, hunting and all sports, including 18hole Rancho Golf Club. Motion picture theatre and .35 smart shops within the hotel. Famous Cocoanut Grove for dancing nightly. Writfi far (^ht'/^n Cook-book oj ('titifornin Rf*riprn ATTRACTIVE SUMMER RATES HKS h. FR4NK ^i-:^ 29.b B '"■"', ^"f m Bssa u^ssssi:immama^t^mmti^ammM L v^«HH ^K>^^^ Wi ||fl hB ^^RHK^ -* •'-I ' jl^k ^hSH^'T .i <^^K ^^^^^^H HBH^^^I B^^^^^^^H ^^H ^^^^■KS^^^^I H^B '' *'* ^I^^H ^^^^1 ^^^^Hw ,-,»H HH ^m « "^^N^H I IbMBli^I ^H ^HP -^_^^^^I^H 1 RV^ ^^^1 \ ^^B 1 ^^^^B-'j HHI^HHH! WKmaammmF;,, • .irY^.m'%s Notable among the list of first-rlass passengers in "Noah's Ark'' is Iiouise Kazenda, whose performance, it goes withoiil saying, has no regard for llic Iwelve-smile limit Photo by Sarony (Continufd from page 25) Hart's new Iiome. He showed lis arouiul the place, proud as a boy, and kept saying, 'Bee, look at this view,' and "Bee, how do yon like this room?' and snddcnly it came over mc that that had been Bill's pet name for me more than twenty-five years ago, when we thought wc were engaged." Louise Dresser lives in a house, not a Mediterranean villa, or a Spanish hacienda, or an English manor or a MoorisJi castle, like most of the picture stars; but a house, a substantial, unimposing, homey place without any particular architecture, but with — she laughs — the only front porch left in the world, and the only backyard. Not a patio, but a plain American backyard with fruit trees and a garden and chickens and grass that isn't trimmed with a razor. And the house is not in Beverly Hills, not in Hollywood, but in a little country town in the foothills wliere people talk, not of tiic movies but of putting up fruit and making over dresses. y\nd I^ouisc Dresser's neighbors do not think of her, I am sure, as a Broadway actress or a famous movie celebrity but as "a real nice woman." They sec her weeding her beet-rows on her knees and training her rose vines, and sometimes they lean on the fence and pass the time of day. Whenever the struggling country church down tlic road has a simi to raise for a new organ, "Mrs. Gardner" helps raise it by speaking a piece or telling funny children's stories at the benefit. In private life (and she is one actress who has a private life), Louise Dresser has been Mrs. Jack (iardncr for twenty vears. She calls him Daddy, though there arc no children; but she is one of those women born to mother everyone, her husband, her own mother, her friends, extra yirls at the studio and the neighbors. Younger and Wiser 'Thk onI\ way I'd ever know I was any older than 1 used to be." Louise I )resser says, "is that all these new niovie k 1! I)i)ys and girls seem so pathetically yoiin, lovely children who talk another languag A little friend of mine has just gone t the stage in New York. She was out hei visiting not long ago and came to see rr to ask my advice about iier career. Natui ally, having grown up on Broadway nv self, 1 pictured myself settling all hi difficidties with a few wise, kindly word; But when she began to talk, 1 was appallc She wasn't talking about the Broadway knew at all (I can't believe it's changed j much in the six years I've been away She wasn't even talking about the satt zvorld I've known for forty-six yeai I've lived a theatrical life ever since 1 wi sixteen and I've never seen, heard ( imagined the things that child told mc." Looking at the Sarony picture, I ca imagine how that golden-haired yom choir singer from a small Indiana to,v\ could leave her mother and her Howers at her kittens and walk unafraid and ui harmed through all the disillusionmen and dangers of road shows, burlesqt companies, theatrical agencies. It is iK that New York was any holier or tl Great White Way any safer place f( girls in the late nineties than wow. Bi there is an invincible innocence aboi Louise Dresser. Even now the eyes < this middle-a.gcd woman look out on tl world with tlic candor and trust of girl, eager, confident. Even now, at fort; six, those eyes widen incredulously at talc of Hollywood scandal. "People have always been good to me she says simply, "I think perhaps they''* kept some things from me. Not that haven't been through a good deal." When Billy Kcrlin, father of the famil was killed on the railroad, his daught T-oui.se fell heir to the task of brcai winning. She hearrl of a position Boston with a musical show', and arriv with eight dollars in her pocket to find th. the musical show was a cheap burlesq { ( oiitiiiiicri OH paqr W) M^pi Hi,