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Chaplin Knew
BEST
By MARIAN JENSEN
M
Above, Fifi Dorsay as she first came to Hollywood
and, below, Miss Dorsay as she appears in "Hot
for Paris," her newest William Fox picture with
Victor McLaglen.
EESTER Charlie Chaplin ees a very wise man ! I have followed his advice and now, in my second picture, I have the leading part with Meester McLaglen." Thus spoke Fifi Dorsay, the French mademoiselle who vamped Will Rogers in "They Had to See Paris" and who is now playing with Victor McLaglen in "Hot for Paris," as she wriggled back onto the multitude of cushions on her Frenchified divan in an Hollywood apartment.
"I haf always wanted to be in the movies and when I was here with the Greenwich Follies four years ago I would ask for a job maybe eef eet had not been for Monsieur Chaplin.
"I haf lunch at the Montmartre cafe and Monsieur Charlie Chaplin ees introduce to me. We dance. He asked me if I liked to be in peectures. I throw up my head. I theenk eet ees wise to be always a leetle independent. So I say 'Non' like it mean either the yes or the no. " 'Goot ! You are not movie struck. You are wise. You stay on the stage. Wait until they come to you. You do not come to California to stay. When they send for you you will be beeg. Eef you come yourself you will be just one more girl in the movies. Do not come without a contract. Make them offer it to you.'
"T HAVE never forgot what he say. Even ■1 when I do no work for nine months and I haf the need of money and theenk maybe I will try for the peectures, I remember and say 'Non! What Meester Chaplin say I will do!'
"I have done it and look where I get just like he tell me?"
It wouldn't seem so far — two pictures. Yet — she is the first girl at the Fox Studio to have a full fledged lead in her second picture. She is the first girl to have demands for stories and pictures from all over the world after her very first picture. The studio publicity department is actually swamped with requests for material upon her.
She has her contract. She is sending for her brother and sister to join her. She is better known today than many who have been in pictures for five years. And she gives the lion's share of the credit to Monsieur Charlie Chaplin.
"Eet has been hard to remember. I have almost forget, just before thees all happen, I am engage to be married. I am ready to be married.
"Thees ees really a great secret. I should not tell it. But what is the good of a secret eef you cannot tell everybody?"
She pounced on the pillows, her legs kicked in the air; her eyes sparkled. "I will tell you about it!
"I am in Pittsburgh. The next week is one off. I am to slip to Detroit to marry my sweet