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It was now three months since Baby Mine opened and the theatre was full much of the time. There had not been an unfavorable note about Arbuckle in that time. His advisors were beginning to convince Hfm that by now the whole ugly mess was surely forgotten.
"I'm sick of playing the same story over and over," Arbuckle told Sargent and Anger, who had come to New York. "Look at the way the public is paying to see me. Maybe now I could play a personal appearance tour— just the big cities— that way pave the way for my motion picture comeback."
"It's too soon," advised Sargent Anger agreed.
But after six months, when the closing notice went up on the play, Arbuckle wanted to go ahead with his personal appearance plans.
He had long conferences with a New York agent, who booked him in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities. The agent had no trouble booking him. Theatre managers believed Arbuckle would draw. Now it only remained for Arbuckle to have an act written for him. It was decided to make no reference to the Rappe case or even to his enforced time away from pictures.
Instead, he was given a funny monologue in the hope that his star value and curiosity value would carry him through. His jokes were carefully censored so that no double meanings could creep into them, though Arbuckle began to give his material a httle more zip as he travelled.
He used stories of this ilk: A fellow who was very shy and didn't know what to say around women one day announced suddenly he was going to marry a certain girl. Everyone was amazed and asked how this came about "I danced with her three times and didn't know what to say so I asked her to marry me," he explained. (Yes, that is the end of the joke. ) And, "Sleeping pills are becoming so popular you can now get them monogrammed."
Strangely enough the act was a success. Reviews were good and crowds frequented the theatre. Arbuckle was reading scripts again to find a good one for his film comeback.
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