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Walter Haigh, son of an old employe of an old established textile firm, was a little too ambitious and enthusiastic for his own good. Foxy Leonard Tasker, an expert not only in manufacturing but in juggling a balance sheet, thought Walter would make a hard-working cat's-paw. With no trouble he lured Walter away from his job, set him up as figurehead of one of his own mills. For a while Walter thought he was being very successful. His quick rise brought him up the necessary social notches that separated him from the girl of his dreams...
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...
...land. For Mr. Truex though good, was not what he might have been. The most satisfactory figure in the film, to this reviewer's mind, was Hercules, a broken nervous wreck of a man, standing six-foot-six in bearskin and beard, holding his monstrous cub in his right paw, and biting the finger nail's of his left in panicky fear of a small chorine trundling a wooden sword in his direction...
...very Congress members they arrested?" Thus challenged last week. Bumbling Stanley showed exactly as much and no more metal than is pleasing to the middle-of-the-road Conservatives who have returned him again and again as Leader. Walking over to Mr. Churchill, he put a big paw on his shoulder, waited until cheers and counter cheers had subsided, and then made with emphasis his big, defensive utterance of the day. "I did not make up my mind about India three years ago!" said Honest Stanley. "I said and I repeat that I took three years considering...
...tormented bear shot out a big brown paw, pulled Tony into the cage. While the other two urchins yelled and threw mud, small Brother John picked up a piece of iron pipe, squeezed through the bars. With all his might he smacked Lillian across her tender snout. Howling, the bear backed off, let an attendant drag the badly-mauled Tony to safety...