Word: froward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fatty") Arbuckle started on his way to fame. Like other actors, he preferred what was then the greater glory and emolument of the legitimate stage to the comparatively bastard screen. Baby Mine was his first vehicle (in stock company). In 1910, they say, it was a smart and even froward thing. In 1927, it looks like a bustle in a Shubert show. Mr. Arbuckle enacts a pulpy mass who alternately stews in sweaty fear and freezes in gelatinous embarrassment, because a lady of his acquaintance tries to win back her husband with a show of triplets, the same being potentially...