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'And what do you do, little girl?" asked a visitor on the set of "The Enchanted Cottage." Harriet Parsons told him she was only the producer. Here's her fascinating story
budget. Nothing to it at all! Something anyone could pick up in a couple of hours, standing outside the studio gate.
Budgets hold only minor terrors for Harriet. She must have been a bookkeeper in another life because she loves figures and can juggle them with ease. She can tell you her bowling average for a couple of years back, who won and lost and how much in last Saturday night's poker game, how much mileage her car gets now compared with this time last year.
Harriet was exposed to motion pictures when quite young. Her mother, Louella Parsons, of whom you may have heard, was story editor for the Essanay Studios in Chicago before turning newspaper woman. Often motherly pride impelled her to take her child to work with her, over the protests of Harriet's devoted and conventional grandmother. These excursions and subsequent visits to the newspaper offices where her mother worked account for Parsons, Jr., saying she was "practically raised in a wastebasket."
Harriet's house has a small bar in red and bamboo. Far right, the gal producer in her bedroom. Note the wall paper design carried out on the pillow cases. Right above, her collection of silver spoons dating back to Revolutionary times.
Someone at Essanay saw Harriet in among the wastepaper and discarded scenarios, so she became "Baby" Parsons and appeared in two motion pictures. In one of them, an epic entitled "The Magic Wand," authored, coincidentally, by one Louella O. Parsons, she portrayed a ragged urchin who stole a prop wishing wand from a theater, believing it would work its magic on her ailing mother (Helen Dunbar). Instead of tapping Miss Dunbar lightly on the forehead as indicated in the script the young star got carried away with enthusiasm and rendered a knockout blow. What with (Please turn to page 73)