Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

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106 Photoplay Magazine thrillers, Chaplin 1 e r i n tured Rowhrcli she youth and being) , Conklin in, Thrills," comedies with C h a r 1 e y and Marie Dress "Tillie's Punc m an ce , " ( in disguised her beauty for the time w i t h Chester "Love, Speed and — sood Kevstone all. Well," it is she who confronts the serious problem, for she is the somebody who loves a fat man, and who is trying to figure out whether it were better to remain permanently eclipsed by the bulk of his hilarious personality, or to be separated from his company (both personal and business) and pursue her art in paths that may take her many miles from the Haunts of said obese person, to wit : Roscoe Arbuckle. her only ownest husband. It was the sad sea waves of the Pacific that furnished the background — or should one say the backwater — of the Arbuckle romance. It was at Long Beach — not the large and, elaborately festive Long Beach of Long Island, but the little hamlet just on the back doorstep of Los Angeles — that it transpired. That was where Minta Durfee and Roscoe Arbuckle, long before the days of Keystone comedv — and that doesn't She likes adventuress The other girl is Irene Wallace and the scene is from " The Other Man. " have to be so many million years ago either — discovered each other. They were musical comedians — meaning that Minta was musical and Roscoe was a comedian. But why intrude into these personal matters ? They married. After this the Arbuckles passed sev< years in that circle commonly known as Coast Defenders. At the Burbank Tht they appeared in stock company performances with the Oliver Morosco company. Then they joined the Ferris Hartman musical comedy organization, and played up and down the coast, from Seattle to San Diego. | It is interesting to note, right here, the transition. Hartman. formerly employer of the Arbuckles. is now Arbuckle's assistant director.) Under this management they made a trip across the Pacific, and entertained even in the wilds of Hong Kong. It was upon their return that Roscoe heard the call of the movies, and became a Keystoner. Meanwhile Minta had lost her voice, but she did not even then, for a time, recognize that this was a providential dispensation to force her into the flicker drama. In a few months, however, she became interested, and there you are — or there she is. 'Tis a simple tale of domesticity behind the asbestos curtain, containing no thrilling epis