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Lafayette for a conference with the stork. He brought along Marie Louise Fazenda, and after she joined the family, all hurried on to Los Angeles, so Miss Fazenda is conspicuous as one of the few Los Angeles girls to attain stardom in the films.
But prominence is a family trait. While Miss Fazenda is silent, history gossips about her ancestors. She is of a noble family of Venice, of the most famous of Venetian aristocrats. Her direct ancestors were Doges of Venice, spectacular figures in the political and religious forces of Italy. Then came one of those eruptions" in Italian political affairs, and the family were political exiles. As some earnest Italians, have a jovial faculty of writing finis to a family history with a steel' stiletto, Miss Fazenda's ancestors sidestepped the ceremony by flight and camouflage. To Cuba, Brazil, Central America and then New Orleans they sped, and because they were coffee planters in the new lands they assumed the name Fazenda, which means "planter."
Louise forgot her family history and remembered her lessons. To her the greatest common divisor was a laugh, but she remembered what the man of mathematics wrote about it, because she had a wistful eye upon the checks schoolma'ams receive at the end of each month. Her farewell to high school was a hello to college, but there she stopped. She couldn't read the college curriculum as an invitation, and to her the five feet of the world's best literature were four feet and a half of greenbacks and a half-foot of millinery ads.
Then came the lonely lady, one doing '"bits" at the Universal studios. She was a friend of the Fazendas and liked Louise, and she did get lonely on the "lot," waiting for her appearance before the camera. So one day she asked Louise to go along, and as there was a lot of cement sidewalk around the grounds, the invitation was accepted, because Louise did like to roller-skate.
They needed additional help for atmosphere that day, and Louise Fazenda was enlisted. ■-■:■
Then entered the two dollars, the African color and the hound dog.
Be it known no actress, however humble she is, likes to do black-face. It is a way "us girls" have, always wishing to look the best.
Miss Fazenda was appearing in straight romance. A messenger came from the comedy stage and said : "One of you girls come along and do a black-face."
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When Louise was young her mother braided .her hair very tightly, in small knots. Louise utilizes this coiffure to get a laugh todayAll the girls turned their backs.
"Draw lots, or do something— but hurry up, one of you."
The backs were shrugged. "There's two dollars extra in it for the girl who does it." In the center of that bunch one girl slowly turned. Two dollars ! She turned one wistful look at the camera that was to have registered her as a church singer. The pipe-organ was splendid, but nothing to the tune the U. S. mint could play. Louise Fazenda resigned from romance, and with dollars as weights, sank, as she thought, to comedy.
As a little black girl, she thought she should have a yellow dog. There was one on the lot. It was her own idea, and it drew laughs on the screen. The director (Continued on page 109)
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Louise Fazenda emulating a billiard-ball
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