Word: stan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large and motley horde of movie-goers who follow with enthusiasm the irrepressible clowning of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy can get a plethora of it by trekking to the State Theatre. The two comedians are currently featured in "Pack Up Your Troubles," a five reel slapstick comedy. This picture, the second full length film which they have appeared in, takes them for the usual round of bad breaks, during the course of which Laurel's features continue to grow amazingly dumber and dumber...
...Their misadventures in training camp are only intensified when they arrive in France, until they succeed in capturing a sizable part of the German army with a single tank. The rest of the picture deals with their attempts, back in America, to locate a man known only as Smith. Stan Laurel tries to identify the unknown with the cough drop brothers, and with "Al," unsuccessfully. In the end that old devil coincidence does the trick...
...undergraduates were supposed to loll about with smooth hair and natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began taking itself seriously as an intellectual centre, a place to train the mind. Its curriculum and entrance requirements were stiffened. Learning was made more...
...around the Baker Library booming out college songs which were chanted by the torch bearers following in a colorful array some two blocks long. After a session of enthusiasiastic cheering about the towering bonfire, the crowd gathered around the speakers' platform where E.S. Judd '32, football manager, introduced Capt. Stan Yudicky, veteran end, who was greeted by tremendous applause. He gave a short talk in behalf of the players...
...graduated from the University of Georgia Law School but preferred to sing for his living. He went into cinema from vaudeville, joined the Hal Roach (Our Gang) company in 1926. In 1927, he stopped using the nickname "Babe," changed to Oliver for numerological reasons. In 1927, also, he met Stan Laurel. They formed an immediate partnership, now have a song about it: "Ham & Eggs, Salt & Pepper, Bread & Butter, Laurel & Hardy, United we stand-divided we flop...