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Ziegfcld wanted me, but I wanted to keep
A yiovel flower-basket dress.
" The fact is, I was supposed to appear .on that occasion ; but as I was miles away on location, somebody ' doubled ' for me."
She is a very dainty little lady, this flulfy-haired, dimpled Pennsylvanian. One usually associates tliis part of America with Quakers ; but, though she can look demure enough at times, there's far more roguishness than Quakcrishness about Wanda.
Doubtless, all good movie fans know that Wanda Hawley w<as born Selma Pittack. She confessed as much. Selma was all a Selma ought to be. She was very ambitious, terribly learned (graduated
with honours from a Washington college), ai'd Cirand Opera was her goal. Maybe .sister Orini's example inspired her.
" Anyway, she — 1 mean 1 — left my hometown, Seattle, and went to New York for more singing le.ssons. When 1 wasn't practising, I was posing. Oh, yes ; I was once a magazine-cover girl, and through that 1 nearly
became a Folly, on studying.
" An ' understudy ' to one of the principals in ' Chm Chin, 1 didn't disdain, because that meant singing," Wanda cor. tinued. " But fate was against me, and I had some kind o. laryngitis, and lost my voice. Also had an operation which everybody thought would restore it. No use, though. But i don't let it worry me o\'ermuch.
We were all musical at home. My brother was a concert violinist, and 1 was his accompanist on one of his tours. 1 played for Albert Spakling too : he's quite well known this side and ours. And," laughing gaily, " Pedro de CxDrdoba, our villain in The l-'ires of Fate, vows I shall accompany his violin-playing some time. He's got his instrument of torture concealed in his cabin -box ; but, so far, I've been adamant, and he hasn't dared bring it out."
Her first film in America was made at Fox studios, after Norma Talmadge introduced her to William I-"arnum.
"It occurred after Pd had two years at Washington College," she declared. " 1 wivs terribly highbrow then. But after a week or two on the set, 1 acquired quite a reputation as an expert in slang, studio and otherwise. I also acquired Pettit instead of Pittack as my surname, and 1 think both changes were for the better. The film was The Derelict, and Stuart Holmes was the star. I was in several of his films, though only in small parts. My first lead was in The Heart of a i Lion, opposite William Parnum. He's awfully
^^^ nice. Do you know, my last picture before I sailed
^^^1^ was Brass Commandments, opposite him again, ^^|K\ and he said he remembered perfectly well how ^^B3 V scared I used to be of him."
After eight months at Pox's, Wanda (I mean
Selma) joined Artcraft as Doug. Fairbanks'
heroine in Mr. T'lx It. This worthy fixed upon
her name at once, and, in his energetic
fashion, soon j)ersua(led her to become" Wanda."
It was " Wanda Hawley " Cecil De Mille
tlirected in Old Wives for S'ew and We Can't
Have Everything.
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Wanda at work on a pa inlnig. She is an a ceo tn plished artist.
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Beauty — two varieties
Pedro de Cordoba, Wanda Hawley and Nig(! Rarrie, principals in " The Tires of Fate."
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