Roscoe Arbuckle "Middle Man". Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s, and soon became one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for US$1 million (equivalent to approximately $ in dollars). Between November
Mabel Conkling Conkling was presented to musician Walter Damrosch in 1933, both presentations by the New York Federation of Women's Clubs. Conkling was president of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1926 to 1928. She was still on the board when the organization changed its name to the National Association of Women Artists in 1941. Conkling was also president of the Maine Women's Club of New York. In 1901 Mabel Viola Harris married a fellow artist, David Paul Burleigh Conkling. They had two daughters, Pauline and Natalie. She was widowed in 1926, sold her four-story Greenwich Village residence and