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Among Those Present
ASK LOTTIE— SHE KNOWS
SHE FEEDS THE STARS
\ SK Lottie,"' they say on the Pola Negri set at the r\ Paramount studio, where the sleek, polite little foreigner, Dimitri Buchowetzski, is putting the dynamic Pole through her dramatic tricks.
If one wishes the meaning of a German word, if Buchowetzski desires to know aught of American ways or thought, unfailingly it is, "Ask Lottie." So greatly does the latest Continental importation depend upon this Lottie person that the other day when a visitor, not recognizing him, asked him who was directing the picture, the director urbanely replied, "Ask Lottie."
Seven years ago Lottie Cruze and her mother came to America from Hamburg, Germany. Aspiring to act before the camera, though she spoke English very haltingly, Lottie managed for two years to carry out this wish.
"But I got too — er — plump and they wouldn't let me act any more," she explained. "So when Pola came over here I was engaged to translate the script into German for her and to act as interpreter and confidential secretary."
"Nein, nein," in paternal fashion, Buchowetzski soothes Lottie's wails for an acting role. "In Eu-rope maybe you could act, but nod in America, be-cause here on-ly skinny do dey like dere heroines. You stay here, papa Buchowetzski see you get nize sal-a-ry und you got no vorries. You don't even got to reduce !"
So Lottie has resigned herself to answering questions, realizing that the role of the beauteous and dramatic heroine is not for her.
Photo by Woodbury
MEET me at Madame Helene's for luncheon !" is one of Hollywood's favorite expressions, for, among all the tea-rooms and cafes Madame Helene's seems one of the most popular.
From table to table, greeting friends — more a hostess offering a charming hospitality than the manager of a restaurant — is a tall, dark-haired Frenchwoman.
A rather interesting history, Madame Helene's. Her youth was spent on the Continent. She speaks quite casually of a nine-months trip up the Nile, of a sojourn along the Amazon, of meeting many illustrious personages.
Then came the lure of the stage. She came to America and for six years she appeared as Ruth Helene Langford in plays with Conway Tearle, Milton Sills, Margaret Anglin, and William Faversham. Friends of her more glamorous yesterdays say that she was for a time the toast of New York.
But she quit the stage. She became engaged to a wealthy oil man whom she had met in Egypt. Together they had adopted ten war orphans and the future looked rosy. But her fiance was killed in an accident and, shortly after, an unwise business investment made havoc of her fortune. Placing her war orphans in homes through the Red Cross, on one of those inexplicable impulses, she set out for China and adventure.
Reaching Los Angeles, there was some delay over passports and, equally on impulse, she decided to stay and open a tea room. So now her artistic place has become a mecca.