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That's Elissa, Fox's find and runner-up for Garbo Dietrich honors
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She's tall, blonde, intense, with amazing green eyes. Her first Hollywood film was "Body and Soul." You'll see her next in "The Yellow Ticket."
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ELISSA followed Bre'r Fox down line and found herself in a strai wonders. The Planet Hollywood !
"It's incredible!" declared Elissa, rubbing the cigarette smoke out of her eyes. "Amazing! A different country. An entirely different planet. Like Mars. The Planet Hollywood !"
"Why not write a book about it," exclaimed the Mad Fan, furiously drinking the very nice English tea. It wasn't such a mad suggestion at that. The name of Elissa Landi adorns the covers of at least two best sellers in England — not to mention the book that she is now writing in Hollywood, which will soon see the light of print on this side of the Atlantic.
"Impossible," scoffed Elissa. "It would take at least four volumes. One volume to explain it to the rest of the world. They couldn't possibly begin to understand it in less. The openings like 'City Lights' or 'Morocco.' Premiers! Lesser premiers and just openings. The fact that Charlie Chaplin can walk along Hollywood Boulevard unnoticed and be mobbed on a first night.
"Everything is backwards here. A truly important person, someone who really matters in the world, someone like H. G. Wells, could go to a first night or. some important Hollywood gathering and be pushed aside
Elinor Glyn calls Elissa Landi "the typical English girl." But Elissa was born in Venice and claims Austrian heritage!
while people Hocked around Mr. Whoosis, president of the Thingumy Film Company. Even the secretary to Mr. Whoosis is a far more important personage in Hollywood. I could imagine one being rude to the secretary of someone like Premier McDonald and getting away with it. But the secretary to Mr. Whoosis in Hollywood is someone to cater to. Importance here is out of relation to anything anywhere else!"
You can imagine the kind of books this new Fox star writes. Send to England for "Neilsen" or "The Helmers" if you want to know more. You see in Elissa Landi a girl in whom the muses unite. She writes books. Poetry. Acts like nobody's business — except several million European fans who can't be wrong. Plays a mean piano — and is beautiful.
"Why not write a play for yourself to star in?" suggested the Mad Fan, munching cake.
"Oh, that would be too obvious," said the English Landi.
"Not at all. After all, how much better to have an authoress interpret her own role — her own creation?"
"I think you would be too close to it," objected the authoress. "Someone else could probably round out the character and make it much better. When Ernest Hemingway's 'Farewell to Arms' was produced on the stage in New York — (that was where Fox discovered Elissa) — I think there was far more in it than he had written. I believe that Laurence Stallings when he adapted it, Reuben Mamoulian when he directed, and I like to flatter myself that I too — added something to the personality that was Catherine Barkley.
"When Catherine enters and says 'Hello, darling' — she put the (Continued on page 102)