PARIS FAT MEN'S CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 17

PARIS FAT MEN'S CLUB

That famous club of- Parisian fat' men which in the glorious gormandis-' ing days of 1925 had a roster of.nearly 150 members, every one of whom could tip the scales at 220.46 pounds at least, is no more. In other words,.Le Cercle>* dcs Cent-kilos has disbanded, and disbanded in disgrace. It O took Henri! Beraud, the novelist, to discover that their vaunted . claims to abnormal embonpoint was a delusion. The wit at their monthly dinners, he- admitted, might still be all right, but... their weight was a thing of the past. This; sad discovery was -made when Mv; Beraud tried to have- filmed his latestv book, "The Martyrdom of Obesity,'*' for which ha required only half a. dozen men of generous, girth enjoying a fine:; dinner. The producer declared there; would.be no difficulty in finding suchmcii in Paris. He advertised for them. They came, but none measured up to re-' quiremonts. ;■ M. Beraud then suggested' that he appeal to the Cent-kilos. He did so. THey came. ': Compared.- .with the applicants who had ; already Jbceii: rejected they ',".''w'erfi ' skeletons.^; Xhis. paradox; with the aid of the.Ptessj Ie&. to an alarming discovsryf',Paris: tfo' longer has: any fat irien;;: ties Gent*' kilos when questioned admitted thfct^ none of them now fulfilled the parJM mount stipulation of their eonsfcitiiliqiij'; and as separately' they . could better; •bear the, disgrace -than Vebllectivelyvthey disbanded. Meanwhile, the Paris. papers are asking their 'readers/ and Parisians stop their friends in . tha; street to intiiiire, the' cause.*'' "y'[ ■:'"■'■■-