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Charming Mabel Normand as Kalora in the Slim Princess
WANTED A FAT WOMAN
To Play Mabel Normand 's Role
IF Aunt Samantha, the fattest woman in three counties had lived in Morovenia, she'd have been made the Queen in three bats of an eye-lash. Morovenia, you see, is one of those comic opera countries, just over the Edge of the World. It has been filmed and will soon be introduced to the ardent lovers of Mabel Normand by Goldwyn, and Mabel, slim, slender Mabel is to be seen as the girl who couldn't find a lover because she wasn't fat enough.
That in a few words is the theme of the "Slim Princess", a play which Broadwayites will recall as one of the most pleasant of comic operas of the last few years. As the illustrations show, it's to be a "pretty little thing," one of those fancy dress costume affairs, with Mabel in the cutest of Oriental outfits, with Tully Marshall sporting a great big beard, with Russ Powell looking like one of the fat Viziers who just stepped out of an illustrated edition of the "Arabian Nights".
The tale tells of Kalora, the slim princess and her sister Jeneka, the fat princess and how Jeneka was wooed by a wealthy prince, while no one would take Kalora because she wasn't fat enough.
To saVe her face and her figure, Kalora appeared one night at a fancy dress ball — there you have it ! — dressed in a rubber suit, blown up to give her the appearance of extreme obesity, plumpness, stoutness, fatness, if you will.
Unfortunately for Kalora, someone punctured the suit and the poor girl was shamed before the many distinguished guests.
Happily an x\merican was present, and he decided to be the hero. He rescued Kalora from those who hated her because of her slimness and took her to America where he fed her on a breakfast food which is guaranteed to fatten the eater. And in the end, they were happily married and all that.
Never was Mabel Normand funnier than in the "Slim Princess". Never did Tully Marshall have a more congenial role. And with Victor L. Schertzinger as the director — well, fans, you can just sit back, and laugh and laugh.
Just as a little aside from the humorous aspect of the story is the picture presented by slim Mabel Normand in the scene where she is supposed to have grown fat enough to suit the suitors of Morovenia. Slim Mabel, as you see her on this page, had to jump into a rubber suit, which was inflated with air until she looked fat enough to suit. She fairly waddles through scene after scene until the fatal moment when the suit is pricked by a pin, and Mabel becomes her slim little self again. The moral, if any, is directed to slim girls : Don't try to fake stoutness with a rubber casing, if you happen to sit on a pincushion.