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Sixty Dollars, Please
This article was written in 1916. It is about Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's concern over his cat during the filming of the movie Sixty, Dollars Please. The title of this movie was later changed. It is just another example of the public's fascination with 'Fatty.'
ROSCOE ARBUCKLE had difficulties of his own while he was filming this picture. Minta Durfree, his diminutive wife, had returned to California to arrange their home there in preparation for the return of the Arbuckle company to the West coast. With her went the famous Arbuckle cat, which has succeeded in firmly
entrenching itself in the affections of the adipose comedian. He plans to train it into a studio cat. Mrs. Arbuckle, in a bit of letter small talk, chanced to mention that the cat was a trifle shaky after the trip, and Roscoe became alarmed.
He hastened to the telephone and used up something like sixty dollars trying to understand what his wife was saying at the other end of the wire in California.
Mrs. Arbuckle was delighted when she was informed that her husband was trying to get her on the wire from New York.
"Aha!" she cried. "A little of this Lou-Tellegen and Farrar stuff, eh? He won't need any telephone girl to tell me that he says he loves me, either, as Tellegen did. I can understand him, all right." And she went to the telephone with happy anticipations of hearing her husband tell her how he missed her.
"Give the cat some catnip!" roared Roscoe over the wire.
"Huh--wh-ehat?" stammered his astonished wife. "You mean to tell me you called me up all the way from New York to tell me to feed that pesky cat catnip? Don't you suppose I had sense enough to do that?"
"Steady, dearie!" cooed Arbuckle over the wire. "I'm all right, and you're all right; but the cat might die if you didn't feed it catnip. I'm writing to-night, darling; but don't forget to give the cat some catnip!"