The Fatty Arbuckle case (1962)

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bills, handed them to Maude and said, "Here, go buy yourself a dozen pairs of panties. No girl wears panties with holes in them when I'm around." He laughed uproariously. Meantime Virginia, strangely enough, seemed to be enjoying Maude's act. She had finished her drink and was I sipping at Betty's gin drink, which had been sitting by her side untouched. Another showgirl joined Maude in the middle of the floor and said, "I am the greatest stripper outside of burlesque." "Ah, shut up and sit down," answered Maude. "You're flat chested." "I am not," denied the showgirl. At that Maude ripped at the girl's blouse, tearing it halfway off. Arbuckle, laughing, tried to break up what had become a hah-pulling match. As the two struggled Fred came up in back of the showgirl and tugged at her bra, finally getting it off. "See," said the showgirl proudly. She wasn't flat-chested. In fact, she was much bigger than Maude. Some of the men applauded. Maude stripped off her pa jama bottoms, and sure enough, she did have a hole in her panties. "Bert," she said. "I have the greatest figure in America. I'm built." A tall, mustached newcomer who seemed to know Maude, said, "Go and dress, baby. You want the cops to raid the joint for indecent exposure?" "The hell with you," answered Maude. She reached down to take off her panties. The man slapped her and she started to cry. The other showgirl slapped the man. "Screw all of you," the man shouted as he stamped out the door. The showgirl gave him a razzberry and Maude joined the chorus. Virginia said to Betty, "I have to go to the John but there's always someone in there." Betty got up, went through the bedroom, opened the 38