The Fatty Arbuckle case (1962)

scared. I don't think I'm funny any more. And I don't feel well." Asked what he meant, he said, '1 have trouble breathing." "It's from running around too much," explained Minta. He agreed. He never saw a doctor. He was too busy, too determined to use every moment for a comeback. After finishing the first short he was exhausted. Addie suggested they use the week between shorts for a vacation in New York. This had an added incentive for Arbuckle, because Primo Camera and Jack Sharkey were fighting for the championship of the world in New York. He was an avid boxing fan. The couple went to New York and saw Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in Hold Your Man, James Cagney in Picture Snatcher and Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses. The Yankees and Giants were leading in their respective leagues, and Arbuckle got to two ball games too. It was while coming home from one game that Addie gasped and remembered that the following day was their first anniversary. Addie thought the occasion called for a party. The two were stopping at the Park Central HoteL but they decided to hold the party at Billy La HifFs Tavern on W. 48th. Addie invited a lot of the sporting crowd they knew, including two fighters, Johnny Dundee and Johnny Walker. That night Arbuckle won $300 when Camera knocked out Sharkey in the sixth round. It was a good omen for Arbuckle. "By golly," he said, "if I can win on a fight those shorts will turn out just great. You watch!" He seldom won when he gambled. On the night of April 29th, 1933, Arbuckle played genial host at the Tavern. Fifty guests helped him celebrate. It was a heavy-drinking, noisy crowd but the comic was happy. That's when he enjoyed himself— when the men were sportsmen, the girls "regular," and the cigar smoke thick. Once during the party, director Ray McCarey went outside for a breath of air and found Arbuckle standing there 155