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What distinguishes Sons of the Desert from other Laurel & Hardy comedies is less its plot than the presence in the cast of Charley Chase, a lanky, glib comedian with a mouse-paw mustache and a moron's chuckle. Appearing at the Chicago convention as a Son of the Desert from Texas, Charley Chase greets Laurel & Hardy when they arrive from California by whacking them with a paddle. He invites them to his table and puts in a long distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does...
...Menocal's onetime subordinate, Captain Juan Bias Hernandez, veteran of the abortive 1931 Menocal Revolution against Tyrant Machado. With his wide sombrero cocked jauntily, swaggering Captain Bias was fighting Government troops and recruiting fighters of his own in Camaguey province. Last week he captured several towns-one named Moron-and beat his way steadily toward Havana. Terrified President Grau alternately threatened Bushwhacker Bias and parleyed with his son who popped in & out of Havana too often for correspondents to keep track of him. Veteran Tom Pettey of the New York Herald Tribune cabled: "Eventually an army of bearded Cubans...
Locust Point itself had great influence in turning its morons into citizens. It is like a small town without rural provincialism. Factories have always provided work for those who wanted to work. Three or four generations of Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose...
...Baltimore last week Harry Allen Overstreet, head of the Philosophy Department at the College of the City of New York, iconoclastically told a Child Study Association meeting that Casabianca, the 13-year-old boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, was a "moron without sense enough to respond to a new situation...
...Wirth's. The gentleman looked at his watch, walked up to a man carrying a ladder and asked him where the theatre was. "I don't know: I don't know anything," he replied. Unfortunately there were no moving picture producers on Stuart Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," or it would at least have...