 | The Cavalier daily Thursday, March 14, 1968 |  |
Festival Hosts Laurel, Hardy
By Henry Williams
Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and
Hardy will be featured in a marathon
of slapstick in Sunday's University
Union film series beginning
at 7 p.m.
Laurel and Hardy, of whom it
has been said that "nobody liked
them but the public," will head the
list with a group of five silent short
films. "Bacon Grabbers" is a
comedy with Jean Harlow in
which the dynamic duo retrieve
a radio from a most uncooperative
Edgar Kennedy.
Stan and Ollie are featured in
a hilarious parody on Erich von
Stroheim in "Double Whoopee,"
and "Leave 'em Laughing" develops
into a free-for-all provoked
by a cop and laughing gas in a
dentist's office.
Next will be featured the first
official Laurel and Hardy film in
which Ollie attempts to get his
Scottish immigrant cousin out of
kilts, in "Putting Pants on Philip."
"The Second Hundred Years" will
wind up the quintet in which the
duo tries to cope with life in a
prison cell.
The second half of the program
Sunday night will feature
the immortal Charlie Chaplin in
five sound flicks of 1916-1917
vintage.
The first film, "Behind the
Screen," is reminiscent of the
earlier Keystone comedies as Chaplin
begins as a property man on a
movie set and ends as an actor
in a pie-throwing sequence. "Easy
Street," probably the best known
of the Mutual series, is a satire
featuring Chaplin as a derelict
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
of a social mission.
Chaplin plays an escaped convict
invited as a house guest by
two women who believe he is a
gallant sportsman, in the classic
action-packed comedy, "The Adventurer."
Sentiment and social
satire follow in "The Immigrant,"
an old-time love story, after which
"The Champion" will complete
the series.
As part of the University's Fine
Arts Festival, the entire comedy
series is open to students, faculty,
and staff for 50 cents each.
| The Cavalier daily Thursday, March 14, 1968 | |