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Show ARBUCKLE'S OFFENSE J Casting aside any consideration of 1 the drunken orgies in the rooms of Rosco Arbuckle and ignoring for the present the tragic death of pretty Virginia Rappe, there is ono. indictment indict-ment against the rotund film star which alone tears him from the pedestal pe-destal of popular favoriteism on which he has capered for' so long: His stepmother is still compelled to earn her bread by taking in washing. wash-ing. Hundreds of thousands of dollars perhaps millions have piled up in Arbuckle's strong box because of his funny antics in the silent drama. He has lived like a prince in luxury lux-ury and extravagance. Dollars meant nothing to him if there was something some-thing in s'ght to cater to his comfort com-fort and pleasure. He lived in a palatial pal-atial hotel with a luxurious suite of rooms; he sported a magnificent j builtLto-order automobile; he was I the favorite and the lion of many convivial occasions and hundreds of pretty women and brilliant men. But: His step mother bent her back over a washtub. 1 That in itself bar all else is j sufficient, for all future time, to re- legate him to the discard. No smile j however broad, no laugh however hearty, no antics however side-splitting in their humor, can wipe out I the disgust of the people now that : they know that with all his prosperity: prosper-ity: His stepmother was compelled to eke out her frugal fare with tub and soapsuds. |