Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

Advertising Section Born to Corned? — The Story of Fazenda Continued from page 19 The tour ended in New York. With her was a girl, who has since gained fame as a writer of animal stories. Together they landed in Greenwich Village, where they established themselves with all the "arty" affectations of first attempts of this nature. Louise did a sleight-of-hand change while in the Village, and became Czecho-Slovakian in her ancestry, her accent, her mental attitude , and her dress. Nothing but peasant embroideries filled her wardrobe. The idea for this change of identity was born on the train Eastward, when she met a Polish woman who had often seen her pictures, and expressed the opinion that Louise, too, looked Polish and could easily pass for a native of that country. She did, from that moment on. It was an impish, springtime extravaganza, and when recounting it she shrieks with merriment and berates herself as a "crazy nut." On her return West she entered the ranks of free-lance players and made four comedies for Educational at a salary of $600 a week. Her next step was a five-year contract with Warner Brothers, which only recently expired. She is once again a free lance and in demand. In roles such as she played in "The Beautiful and Damned," with Marie Prevost, an engagement that was filled with joyous memories of their time together at Sennett's, and in "The Gold Diggers" and "Cradle Snatchers," she had the opportunity to dress up and disclose a charming attractiveness that is usually submerged in "freak" costumes of one exaggeration or another. The natural talent, and the qualities of inventiveness and facility which have won for Louise her place in the films, have never been allowed to lose flexibility through lack of exercise. It is obvious, judging by the successful careers on the screen to-day, that the players who withstand the constant shifts which are bound to come in an industry so large, are those who swing along with the tide. Such players accommodate themselves to the changes. They do not defy them. And while in many ways the field of character comedian is more desirable than that of leading woman, Louise, too, would soon be forced out of the game if she did not constantly apply herself to its variations of mood and style. For some time she prepared herself to meet the changes which talking pictures are bringing on, instead of smugly sitting back and arguing whether they have a chance to last or not. The home life of Louise has been described many times. I can only add that it is devoid of pretense, and abundant in wholesomeness and true hospitality. She cares for few people. Her devotion to her mother and father and numerous relatives has ever been one of her virtues. And those persons to whom she is attached, experience friendship in its most kindly and generous expression. She was married a little over a year ago to Hal Wallis, a very-well-liked chap, in charge of exploitation at Warner Brothers. It is her second marriage, the first dating back to her early years at Sennett's. That union was kept more or less a dark secret until last year. Louise has made many wise investments in real estate, and were she to give up pictures to-morrow she would not have to worry about her future. I imagine if she ever engaged in any work which she enjoyed next to movies, it would be running a quaint, little tea room, or restaurant, somewhere in the colorful section of Chinatown, or near the fast-crumbling mission church off the Mexican plaza, erected one hundred and fifty years ago by the faithful padres, when Los Angeles was known as La Reina de Los Angeles. In closing, it might be just as well to record that Louise was the original discoverer, many years ago, of the tiny, barnlike theater on a narrow, curved street in the Chinese quarter of town, where native opera, dramas and cinemas are proffered with elaborate ceremony. Hollywood has recently developed an Oriental yen, but Louise has nurtured one for ever so long. I can't think of any excursion quite so delightful as one of Louise's, which includes only a few congenial souls, and begins with a twelve-course Japanese dinner served on the lanternlighted balcony of a slender, brick building in the still heart of Chinatown, and ends with a series of plays interpreted by superlative actors from the Imperial Theater of Tokyo. 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