The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
Arbuckle Publicity Hard On Fatty But Won't Hurt Game HoHywood Colony Say
Shelving of Comedians Pictures Would Mean Loss of Over Three Mons-Scandals So Frequent in
 Film Life Reform Considered Hopeless

1 before in her life, but coyly admitted to two marriages within the last two years--one of them annulled.
 Gloria Swanson announces today 1 that for some unknown reason she has been deserted by her husband and is through with matrimony for life.
 The manager of Virginia Rappe and a member of the Arbuckle party. ap- pears today in the courts here seeking a divorce from a wife because she was too cold With him." And Beverly Baine, she whose affair with Francis x. Bushman was the cause of one of the first sensational divorees that showed light on private lives of ac- tors for the screen, from the safe dis tance of Portland, Ore. hurls bitter anathema against the loose morals and ways of life of members of the Hollywood film colony
 ArbucI<Ie Case Typical While Arbuckle rose to greater prominence and had a greater earn Ing capacity than many other mem bers of the screen colony, his case IS typical rather than exceptional among it's members A few years ago a DOT ter in barroom, and q few days ago by reasons of his fat and a trick of making faces and taking funey films star of the pictures speeding about in s25.000 motor car his pockets stuffed full of money and with a big and luxuriously furnished home. where his word was the only law. his next ambition was to show himseIf 6 good fellow" and not be uplstage on account of his success. Easy money that promised to continue to flow into his pockets lost all real value, apd bootleggers and dope peddlers armed with letters Of recom- mendations swarmed about him as they do about other celebrities Of screen here in Hollywood unless driven off with a club.
 Arbuckle. his cellar we'll stocked, opened the doors of his mansion to a mixed company and his parties" were frequent and wild and rough. His doors swung wide to all members of the film colony, and when 1t is mentioned that 1t would surprise the world to know what prominent mem bers were present at these parties, the retort is that it would also surprise the public to know what prominent persons of the outside world would have been glad to attend if they had been fortunate enough to receive an invitation.
 
 sight to the life of the film colony in Hollywood The world applauds them on the screen and would be glad to take part in their private lives If the opportunity were presented. The only reason that they live on a different moral plane and take a different out look on life is because they can af- ford to do 1t, and all the talk about them Is simply inspired by jealousy of those who would go and do like- wise if they could and if they dared It Is the worst collective case of exag- gerated ego that the world has ever known and appears to be hopeless rom the standpoint of reformer or alienist.
 Just glimpse at the money angle, which has kept all picture producers dfscreetly silent on the Arbuckle case for all may well fear that the same thing may happen to one of their own stars.
 Shelving of all the Arbuckle films. already released or made and ready for release, according to studio calcu- lations, would entail loss of about $3,o0O,o0O In prospective rentals and sales. That money was practi- cally counted as already in hand by those in control of the Arbuckle films, for the sales were sure and F'atty was almost as popular abroad as Chaplin. No wonder they are si- lent about the future of these films But even should they be withdrawn in the United States. there may be some salvage from the foreign mar kets.