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Putting the Fizz
Louise Slid Into Comedy On Roller-Skates and She Has Been Performing Ever Since
By HARRY CARR
Fazenda
Louise Fazenda,
the queen of
comedy
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T took three nations to produce a comedienne, and the result was an allied triumph, presenting Louise Fazenda, who became a mother of mirth at twenty, with the cradles all launched for an enormous number of futitre laughs. Occasionally a single nation takes the responsibility of creating a comedienne, but a greater one was needed, so Italy, France and Holland pooled their resources of creative comedy and shared the victory. Even then they had to call upon Africa for a color scheme in the final touch.
She should have entered filmland in a gondola, as befits a daughter of the Doges of Venice, but she didn't — she came on roller-skates. And if persons ride to fame in a chariot, no one ever entered the desired land in a quainter vehicle than Louise Fazenda. Its wheels were two silver dollars and a yellow hound dog was tugging at the traces. That was shortly after Louise Fazenda began "working in pictures." She entered the studio that day as companion to a lonely "extra" woman, and she left as companion of the mighty. There were intrigue and corruption in the court of Thespis that day, and for two dollars Comedy bribed her to desert Romance. And they were probably the best two dollars Comedy ever invested. All this happened twenty years after her first appearance as a private comedienne in the family of the Fazendas. x\nd there must have been snickering among the stars the night she arrived in Lafayette, Indiana. The Fazendas were traveling, but they had a stop-over in p.
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