New Britain herald., 1925-06-16
NGldYed Gloria Lloyd.
 aSe 10 months probably can not see why anyone should laugh at: daddy even # he does wear specs
Little
 Stories

| Figure of Tragedy.
 Wherever there are smiles, tears are somewhere near. This Is not cynical viewpoint, merely the result of tabulating secrets in the lives Of some of the leading film comedians
 Raymond Griffith, the funny little man with the mustache and bulglng Adams apple, nurses a misfortune that would drive most anyone to the brink of drama or tragedy. Years ago, he lost his voice. Today. he can only talk in low untitled uhis per.
 And what does he say of the fu- ture? Is 1t brightly illuminated with hope or Is 1t dotted with the mile-posts of lost desire?
 Things never looked better for me-" he says. I've just signed up a long term contract which guarantees the bread and butter menu for. at least several years.
 And I'm getting lot of fun out of life despite the fieetlng spells of dependency which sweep over me" DEN TURP1N did not choose the D field of comedy because of his own free volition. He was cata quilted into the comic ranks because of the tragic crossing of his eyes Mack Sennett, knowing the laugh weaknesses of the American public. seized upon Turpin with his crossed eyes and by exploiting them to th' world has made fortune both foI himself and the comedian. 7"
 And in Turpins life. besides his own misfortune, Is another sadness. His wife is critically i'll and has been for some time. Her recovery is doubtful. For months Turpin worked in the studio in the routine comic roles, his forced smiles and humor hiding the tragedy that lay back in his home.
 The other day, Turpin threw the sponge into the ring"
 T quit" he said. Life is too short to go on this way. I have enough money saved up. I think more of my wife than I ever could of motion pictures"
 The following day, Turpin and his wife left Hollywood in their family fiivver for the wide open spaces"
 We won't be back until my, wife Is completely well. Then we can be
 happy once more," he told friends before departing.
 Y OUISE FAZENDA, "the queer
 IL looking girl in the queer old
 clothes," makes living by having
 persons laugh at her. And each
 time they do, despite the big check
 she receives each week, Louist
 suffers bit of heartache. T dreamed of being a wonderful
 heroine on the screen" Louise say.
 in discussing her cinema plight
 And look what I am today-garbet in funny clothes and doing sill! things to make people laugh at me Every wish, every dream 1'v ever had for my future has bee terribly shattered. We are al ' dreamers, guess, but hay
 dreamed in vain"
 Il THE case of Zasu Pitts is sinlila @ | to that of Louise Fazenda's. V Zasu longs to be a tragedisr
 with seductively thin eyebrows an g heavy lashes, breaking the hearts ( h kings and wrecking empires-in th [. movies. -. e "One cannot have everything IN o learned" says zasu. My motht n started me in the movies-I had { ie make a living some way. And Ie happen to be lucky to q certain e a. tent. And though I have bes st cheated of my one ambition-to plf ss tragedy-T have & wonderful hu q. band, Tom Gallery, a baby and
 contract-even though it is f
 comedy parts"