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girls were in evidence around the house, including several of Minta Dunfee.
Arbuckle liked women. He said he liked blondes, but he was known to date just as many redheads and brunettes. Once he told Mack Sennett, one of his first bosses: "If there weren't beautiful women in the world, I wouldn't want to live."
From all reports, he was at first shy with a new woman friend, then overly possessive. Women liked him, even though he was too fat to be handsome and was inclined to be fickle even during a brief evening.
Once, during the early days of their marriage, Minta was surprised to hear another actress accuse Arbuckle of being too co2y with Minta, obviously not knowing they were married. It was a story he told later with much glee.
He was a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club (which later dropped him with much bad publicity when he got into trouble). At the Club he made a weak stab at keeping in condition; mostly he spent time in the steam rooms. He'd tell the attendant "When I turn pink get me out of here." He liked cream rubs. As much as he liked alcohol on the inside, he detested it outside. He was a heavy tipper. He explained his extravagance: There's a lot of me to care for. It's worthy of special reward."
At the Club, Arbuckle liked to tell and hear off-color jokes. Like most fat people he laughed with his whole body. The peak of his enjoyment at the Club was smuggling a tall showgirl into the men's sun room one afternoon and watching the reaction of two dozen naked men of all shapes and sizes when his guest stripped. For that caper the Board fined him $100, which he paid with much satisfaction. Months after that he told this factual story to some of the boys at the Vernon ball club, of which he was a stockholder. They didn't believe it. He left the dugout angrily, saying, "I never told a he in my life. I'm too successful for that" It was months before he went back to the dugout.
Arbuckle was part owner of the Comique Film Company, which made Buster Keaton shorts. They were very
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