Roscoe in New York

[Gregg Rickman]

Interesting piece about the studio where Arbuckle was filming in 1917. Nice pictures.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/20 ... lm-studio/

However, the author claims that when Lou Anger urged Keaton to come by and see Roscoe film "The Butcher Boy," "Keaton first declined, because Arbuckle had stolen one of his vaudeville routines in the past." While we all know Arbuckle and St John did the broom routine in one of the Sennetts, I had never heard that Keaton was upset about it -- certainly not upset enough about it to not want to drop by Roscoe's studio. Anyone?

[Richard M Roberts]

Interesting piece about the studio where Arbuckle was filming in 1917. Nice pictures.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/20 ... lm-studio/

However, the author claims that when Lou Anger urged Keaton to come by and see Roscoe film "The Butcher Boy," "Keaton first declined, because Arbuckle had stolen one of his vaudeville routines in the past." While we all know Arbuckle and St John did the broom routine in one of the Sennetts, I had never heard that Keaton was upset about it -- certainly not upset enough about it to not want to drop by Roscoe's studio. Anyone?

It's BS, certainly not the way Buster remembered it in any of his interviews. Most likely the writer thinks he's being cute taking a bit of modern history in the finding of the routine in THE WAITERS BALL to be the same one The Three Keatons did in Vaudeville and combining it with Buster's original recall of the incident.

RICHARD M ROBERTS