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Picture Show Anmial 141 JACK'S THE BOY FOR PLAY IN 1919 a Wall Street broker's office lost an in- different clerk and the stage won a natural humorist. Jack Oakie, upon leaving school, had been put into the stock and share business whether he wanted to or not, but most of his time he spent amusing his fellow workers. Then in a charity stage show he made a great impression on a well-known vaudeville player ; she suggested that he should become her partner, and Jack accepted and said good- bye to Wall Street with great pleasure. As a team May Leslie and he played in " Innocent Eyes,' Artists and Models," various " Passing Shows,'' the Ziegfeld Follies, and " Peggy Ann," as well as vaude- ville between these engagements. It was not until 1927 that they parted, and Jack Oakie went to Hollywood to try his luck in the films. He had a letter of introduction to the director of Finders Keepers," and was given a very small part in the Laura La Plante film, and because of Jack Oakie's natural fund of humour, the part was en- larged. Then for eight months he was without another role, and he feared he had made his one and only screen appearance, and the director who had put him under a personal contract on the strength of his performance in " Finders Keepers ' began to fear so. too. Then, one happy day. Paramount gave him a part in " The Fleet's In. ' His work in this resulted in Paramount buying his contract, under which he has played in " The Dummy," " The Wild Party," Close Harmony," " The Man I Love," " Sweetie," and " Fast Company." OUISE Fazenda is one of the old brigade of screenland. She made her debut m 1915 in custard pie comedies, and despite her long-suppressed desire to play tense drama, has been play- ing in comedies of various degrees of refinement and slapstick ever since. It was in Mack Sennett comedies, with the funny pigtails, button boots and awkward manners that later became renowned, that she first won fame, when Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling—who first suggested that she should try her luck at Mack Sennett's —Chester Conklin, Charlie Murray, as well as Teddy, the Great Dane, and Pepper the cat (who have both since died) were leading comedy lights. Off stage Louise is very serious and a student of psychology. A sharp business woman, she has made many wise invest- ments, and she is thrifty, yet generous. She has a large collection of wigs and occasionally gives her friends shocks by turning up to parties in one of them. In the picture here she is illustrating how that famous beauty, Helen of Troy, would have looked if she had ever lost her dignity.