Word: stan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George's wife prepares to run away. In the summer young Ollie Shaw flirts with Doris and Brother George Shaw's children get the croup. In the autumn Ollie is sent away to town. In the winter Doris flirts with Stan while...
Moments in this red-lettered farmers' calendar escape the curious uncertainty which characterizes most of Hollywood's conscientious efforts to investigate the soil: gluttonous George Shaw asking his tired wife for another piece of pie; Jen Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route...
...Alanson J. Donald 2G.B., Manning Emery, III '37, Andrew J. Haire Jr. 1G.B., Joseph L. Hoguet '35, Donald Meiklejohn 1G., Spencer D. Oettinger '35, James A. Potter '34, Hanns C. Schwyzer '34, Allan W. Sherman '34, Maurice M. Stern '35, James H. Taylor 1G., Robert H. Watt 1L., Stan Whitney '34, and May D. Whitney...
Sons of the Desert (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy behaving foolishly as members of an idiotic secret order. Fat supercilious Hardy sneaks off to the Chicago convention of the Sons of the Desert by telling his wife (Mae Busch) he is going to Honolulu for his nerves. Laurel, scratching his whisk-broom forelock, accompanies him. On their return, there is confusion because the steamer from Honolulu, on which their wives expected them, has been wrecked. Laurel & Hardy cope with the situation ignominiously, Hardy with a feeble lie, Laurel with a blubbering confession...
Another injury reported yesterday will keep Stan Whitney off the field for 10 days. Charley Nevin, who has been on the injured list for the past week, is improving and will be back in action in a short time...