The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-05

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 PARIS, March 5-Paris is all for the fat man. Everyone is talking about chubby, rosyfaced creatures, and the bearded gentleman, made so popular by the famous Landru trial, has had to give way to one of more weight. It seems that Fatty Arbuckle has had nothing to do with the matter, although his little trouble has in no manner les sened his popularity in Paris. The Boulevard cinemas are turning his films to crowded houses as before ''the scandal" and Frenchmen con- tinue to laugh heartily at the cur ious mishaps of the fat movie hero, started the ball rolling with his book called "The Martyrdom of the Fat Man." which has just won the Goncourt Prize. The author is one of the ablest journalists and a witty novelist, a charming "bon gros," who belongs to the "Fat Mans Club" only open to men who tip the scales at the 250 mark and with an appe- tite worthy of their weight. The book is a special pleading in favor of the fat man, of his tender heart and stoicism, while enduring the worst kind of torture from little featherweight woman made up of few pounds of rosy flesh, bright smile and fair blonde locks. She, out of jealously, is running from her poor fat hubby, but he follows her humbly through the world, con- tent with protecting her and offer ing his humble devotions. It is re- lated with the lightest humor, yet at bottom it is one of the saddest tales ever told
 | And now everyone in Paris is dis cussing the pros and the cons of the fat man. Every review magazine and newspaper is celebrating the man with the ample form, good tenn per and cheerful character The de- signers are changing women's fash ions. It's good-by to the skeleton. Women used to look like umbrellas, but now they look like bells. Old fashioned hoopskirts are here to help matters along. Dressmakers are getting busy with the hustle. Petit coats are coming back, as well as corsets, in order to 'round out madame's figure.
 The fat man need not be sad. He can be handsome, though fat. His |forty-five inch waist need not fright en him. A smart Paris tailor on the |Gande Boulevard has added to his Immaculate window dummies one that is frankly and unmistakably "tubby," but the dummys clothes are beautifuly-almost inspiring, in fact, and he wears a pleasant smile lthat seems to capture all the pas sers-by, especially his fat friends.
 Can woman love fat man?
 rl,;, ;o tho ,,octiop r ,ayanir has been putting to its feminine readers during the last few weeks.
 "Foolish question:" answers Yvette lGuilbert "In my youth women paid no attention to the size of the men they loved. A woman loved a man for his good heart or for his cleverness, without bothering sou about his weight
 Madelaine Carter, of the Theatre Mogador is not so sure about this. ''To dine well and to sleep well,' she says, lis all very nice, but for my part I prefer thin men,
 And Ellen Andree, another Parisian actress, thinks that stoutness is physical defect. "A fat man." she declares, simply can not be attrac- tive"
 But Sarah Rafale, of the Theatre des Arts, gives better cheer. "Mon Dieu!" she writes, "do you think that corpulency has anything to do with love? Make yourselves loved, messieurs, that is the capital point; all the rest has only relative i'm portance. Then there is intellectual love, ideal love, which embellishes all forms-even if they are a bit tchnhhv ,U