Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

for November 1929 103 Louise Fazenda — Continued from page 75 her company pass without making it the occasion for an impromptu party. "Oh, gowan," Louise said when reminded of her almost uncanny ability of keeping track of and helping to celebrate birthdays on the average of one a week. "I was that way as a kid, too. I knew the birthdays of everyone in the neighborhood and I always tried to make them the excuse for a party. I was born that way, I guess. Just like some people are born with beautiful noses." It is a well known fact in Hollywood that Louise Fazenda and a basket of her cookies can do more toward establishing friendly bonds between strangers working together on a picture than' any GetAcquainted Society ever organized. "You know how it is when you walk into a room full of people? You sort of sense the atmosphere. That's the way it is with motion picture companies," explained the actress. "I can usually tell the first time I walk onto a new set whether cookies and I can do anything about it or not. "There isn't an actress or actor who doesn't like home cooking. When they gather in a circle and eat together, naturally they start talking. By talking they get acquainted. You see my theory is very simple." Louise admitted her practise has a sharp, sword-like quality to it. Suppose there are several women in the cast who do not make things as pleasant for you as they might. The answer to that is in flipping the pages of the cook book to the most fattening and delicious cookie recipes and urging the results on the ladies in question. They lose their slim outlines and jeopardize their careers and think what a lot of satisfaction there is in that for you! Miss Fazenda says she would like to suggest the cookie-and-tea treatment to every director who has come to dread the zero hour from four to five in the afternoon— that period when the cast slumps and the tempo of enthusiasm sags. She has seen it work like magic in her numerous pictures where she has persuaded the director that a cookie a day will keep the doldrums away. When a film player in Hollywood avoids scales and reveals a surreptitious interest in the 18-day diet, it is a fairly certain sign that he has just finished a role in the same picture with Louise Fazenda. And with the comedienne making pictures at an almost startling rate this year, it will be a surprise to everyone if one slim figure can be found on Hollywood Boulevard by 1930! Chevalier — Lubitsch — Success! Continued from page 29 a joke, for when foreigners learn our language they learn it better than we do. I found this out when I helped Lubitsch and Hans Kraly title "So This Is Paris." They both caught me up many times on my casual and idiomatic English. Furthermore, Lubitsch not only coaches Chevalier; he is constantly correcting the English of the Americans in his cast. He cannot always enunciate properly, but he knows the way the word should sound. The other day the 'mixer' came down out of his glassed conning tower with his brows puckered. "Mr. Lubitsch," he said, "that fellow's voice recorded well, but I couldn't understand a word he said. Was he talking Siamese or Arabic or what?" "Did it sound that way?" smiled Lubitsch. The mixer regretfully admitted that it did. "Good! That's just how I wanted it to sound. He's an Asiatic Ambassador of no particular country, acredited to our mythical kingdom, so I just invented a language for him." Such a solemn fellow naturally lays himself open for a joke and of course Lubitsch pulled one on him. They were to register the whine of a dog and at the last minute Lubitsch substituted a cat. In the playback room the director pretended to blow up. "What's the matter with you sound fellows?" he exclaimed. "I register a dog and it comes out like a cat!" "I told you, Mr. Lubitsch," replied the crestfallen mixer, "that I thought the dog you had selected was too old!" It's too bad the 'raspberry' that followed was not registered. The tremendous cost of sound pictures has caused the producers to speed up on production to such an extent that "The Love Parade," a $650,000 picture, was shot in seven weeks — $16,000 a day! (Now grab a camera and a mike and go out and make a talkie!) "Too fast. Bob, too fast!" exclaimed Lubitsch. "We worked from sixteen to eighteen hours a day and we are worn out. Now I can relax a little while cutting, but those poor sound fellows — they go right on. Something must be done about it. "But we were happy!" he added with a shrug. "I gave the crew — everybody, including juicers and grips, a big dinner over in Glendale after the final shot. 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