IRVIN S. COBB

Evening Star, Issue 17689, 16 June 1921, Page 10

IRVIN S. COBB

What could bo moro appropriate than that Roscoe Avbuckle’s first feature starring vehicle should be a story by Irvin S. Cobb. Both are jolly, fat men, and botharo internationally known. Mr Cobb is a regular writer cf short stories and humorous articles for tho ‘ Saturday Evening Post,’ and is probably one of the most popular humorists of the day. Mr Cobb’s story ‘The Life of the Party’ has been made into a Paramount comedydrama in five reels, and commenced at the Empire yesterday. The fun chiefly centres round the efforts of a rotund young lawyer to become mayor of a small country town. He is compelled to espouse tho cause of the Better Babies League, and in this connection has to become a pure

milk champion, though his natural inclinations -are towards something much stronger. The efforts of his political | enemies to entrap him by employing a ( word,in to compromise him lead to most, amusing predicaments, ,and another most I laughable situation is that where some of ; his feminine supporters insist on his at- : tending with them a fancy dress ball in ’ which '"all tho adults dress as children. Arbuckle, dressed as a child of five, can j better be imagined than detcribed. The : dramatic side of the present programme . to-day is a Wm. Hart production, ‘ The ) Testing Block.’ To-morrow this drama will be replaced by Marie Corelli’s ‘The Treasure of Heaven.’