The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-31
After I2 Years Fatty" ArbuckIe
 Begins Long Promised Come bdck
BY GILBERT SWAN NEA Service Writer

New York.-floscoe Patty" Ar- buckle has returned to tho kitchen, ns though time had stood still and frnRedv had not made him a pub lie exile for 12 years.
 The last memroy of Fatty was that of . chef, juggling dishpans. tossing pies and otherwise turning gastrOnomy into q shambles. And the next view of Fatty will reveal him just about where he left off.
 For over in the Brooklyn Vita phone studios, Fatty ig enjoying the glow of hope that can come only to a comeback"
 Twelve years have shifted him around, without reducing his girth to any great degree. From a comic in the films. he was transplanted to the role of villain in many eyes but his was the role of a clown. He became variously an anonymous hanger-On, a nameless assistant director and then director of comedies. Had his story been in scenario form, Emil Jennings would have made a rather good selection for the lead.
 Fans Arc Curious
 Years went on while studio do- mos hesitatcd. But now he K ciowning again before the camera. The nearby throngs have heard about 1t. They climb on fences They scale to the tops of barns and rooftops.
 Fatty Is 45, fairly advanced age for q comic. But when he acts some 20 years semc to slip from him. Yet he is not without worry. In serious moments he wonders what a newer generation will think of his siap-stick. And fin twelve years there can be quite q turn over in people and tastes.
 Well, at any rate, he has his fa- miliar, undersized derby; his huge shoes, his comic suspendcrs, his Tapping trousers. He has the chefs apron. He has Ali Goulding, one of Hollywood's veteran directors, to guide him. He even has some of the vintage jokes.
 For instance, when a waiter calls for lettuce salad without dressing" the answer from the kitchen comes: ''One September Morn, coming up!" Now who has heard of September Morn in twelve years?
 No c-Thr0wing
 There's an order of pork sand wiches, which results in the kItch- en call of "A couple of grunts go- ing for q walk"
 Not even Harvey House has heard such lines in maAy year.
 Fatty, preparing for his great moment, haunted the Brooklyn "shooting" started. He conferred daily with Sam Sax, production manager, slightly nervous and worried after his long absence. His nervousness became more ob- vious as the day of the first take arrived.
 It was decided in these confer ences to reintroduce him in Il role with which old-timers were familiar --that of chef. No pies will be tossed in this 1892 product, but there will be gguashy, collapsible fruit. reminiscent of the old Mack Scnnctt days.
 Fatty admitted that he was timid about the talkies.
 "I still believe in pantomime." he told me. But 1 think sound | will improve the old situations. And there will be lot of new | ones, too. We used to depeAd on slapstick for q crash; now we can get 1t over with sound. You see. I directed lot of shorts and got q pretty good notion of how sound can be brought into a film. Of course, want my first picture to catch on--and that's really why I'm bit nervous. In comedies ] I believe dialogue should be kept 1 to q minimum for the crowd | wants a chance to laugh in the | various silent interludes. I've seen pictures where laughs arc planted too fast"
 Fatty isn't going back to Holly wood unless q feature picture awaits him. He lives on Coney Island, and likes 1t.