Word: stan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pardon Us (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first full-length comedy made by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hopelessly in effectual in all their doings, they are particularly and painfully inefficient in this picture. First shown planning to manufacture homebrew, they are next seen being sentenced to prison because of their clumsiness. Added to the basic handicap of the Laurel face - blank, ugly, absurd -is the handicap in Pardon Us of a loose tooth which causes him to punctuate all his sentences with a vulgar and sarcastic noise...
Last week he named an All-Big-Three team based on 26 years football experience. He chose Tom Shevlin (Y) and Tack Hardwick (H), ends; Ham (Congressman) Fish (H) and Century Milstead (Y), tackles; Stan Pennock (H) and Fiske Brown (H), guards; Winslow Lovejoy (Y), centre; Lyle Richeson (Y). quarterback; Marvin Stevens (Y) and Eddie Mahan (H), halfbacks; Bill Mallory (Y), fullback...
Time Out has gathered together a few peculiarities of the training table at Dartmouth. Here they are: All the men are required to sip their milk through one straw. "Stan" Yudicky limits himself to a cup of tea and a piece of toast before every game.... "Sandy" Weinner, one of Bill Tilden's tennis proteges and regarded as a coming youngster several years ago is on the Yale backfield squad.... During the halves of all football games played at the Yankee Stadium uniformed men come out and tread down the turf that was dug up during play.... A certain...
...lead and little Genung started after Hampson. He caught him at 440 yd., passed him in the backstretch, finished 70 yd. ahead. Then the crowd found out that De Mers' single javelin-throw had been 198 ft. 4½ in., 8½ ft. short of New Zealander Stan Lay's, but giving the U. S. a winning total of 594 ft. ½ in. With the other events going as had been expected, and eight meet records broken (but no world records), the U.S. had an easy win, 9 points...
Margaret Yorke is the mysterious, young, occasionally beautiful companion of a rich old California lady and governess to the r.o.C.I.'s adopted little boy. Margaret is above her station; there is not much doubt of that. But why is she so hostile to rich, tanned, charming, fairly young Stan Crittenden, her employer's nephew and favorite? For a time Margaret herself cannot discover the reason. But when scheming, divorced, baby-blue-eyed Shirley appears on the scene, re-establishes herself in the community, re-engages herself to Stan, Margaret's cold but not really hard heart has begun to blossom...