New Footage Of Laurel and Hardy On Stage in Milwaukee 1940 Surfaces

[Ross Owen]

Rare colour footage of the boys performing the 'drivers licence'
sketch has been discovered.

View it here -

This color footage is from the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, taken
between October 11 through October 16th in 1940. This was the third
city in their "Hellaballou" tour. The dance number costumes are the
same costume that Lois Laurel (Stan's daughter) was photographed in
that had appeared in a recent Intra Tent Journal article on the tours.
The girls are doing a number called "The Three Musketeers", and you
get to see the fencing in one segment of this clip.

The male-female dance couple are the Fredricos, and the end singer is
Maxine Conrad. second mark.

Robert Wilson who owns the footage tells us...

My father shot this film at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee WI two
years
after color film came out. I wish I had the whole show but this is all
I have.
When color film first came out it was VERY expensive to process. Thank
you
for your interest. Robert Wilson Milwaukee WI.

Many thanks to Irv Hyatt for the background info and to Robert Wilson
of Milwaukee for the footage.

Ross Owen

http://laurelandhardyforum.com

[Hal Erickson]

My God! I live in Milwaukee! I've BEEN to the Riverside! (though not in
1940, a decade or so before I was born).

If I'd had that camera, I would have spent less time on the chorus girls and
more time on L&H, but
what do I know?

--Hal E

Post by Ross Owen
Rare colour footage of the boys performing the 'drivers licence'
sketch has been discovered.
View it here - http://youtu.be/ti5EK_c5-Iw
This color footage is from the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, taken
between October 11 through October 16th in 1940. This was the third
city in their "Hellaballou" tour. The dance number costumes are the
same costume that Lois Laurel (Stan's daughter) was photographed in
that had appeared in a recent Intra Tent Journal article on the tours.
The girls are doing a number called "The Three Musketeers", and you
get to see the fencing in one segment of this clip.
The male-female dance couple are the Fredricos, and the end singer is
Maxine Conrad. second mark.
Robert Wilson who owns the footage tells us...
My father shot this film at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee WI two
years
after color film came out. I wish I had the whole show but this is all
I have.
When color film first came out it was VERY expensive to process. Thank
you
for your interest. Robert Wilson Milwaukee WI.
Many thanks to Irv Hyatt for the background info and to Robert Wilson
of Milwaukee for the footage.
Ross Owen
http://laurelandhardyforum.com

[Ross Owen]

Post by Ross Owen
Rare colour footage of the boys performing the 'drivers licence'
sketch has been discovered.
View it here http://youtu.be/ti5EK_c5-Iw
This color footage is from the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, taken
between October 11 through October 16th in 1940. This was the third
city in their "Hellaballou" tour. The dance number costumes are the
same costume that Lois Laurel (Stan's daughter) was photographed in
that had appeared in a recent Intra Tent Journal article on the tours.
The girls are doing a number called "The Three Musketeers", and you
get to see the fencing in one segment of this clip.
The male-female dance couple are the Fredricos, and the end singer is
Maxine Conrad. second mark.
Robert Wilson who owns the footage tells us...

The Danny Dare Girls appeared on stage only during this tour, and the
dance number is The Three Musketeers number that Stan's daughter Lois
appeared in a few weeks later. The Fredricos only appeared in this
particular week's appearance. They were a classical dance team, added
to the Riverside show to "pad" out the show, picked up locally, and
not with the tour beyond Milwaukee. The next city, (Chicago), had
another classical dance team, Gonzalez and Christina, for the last
time. The show went back to the original cast after Chicago. The boys
did play Milwaukee again in 1942, but during that tour, the boys had a
changing cast, most playing with them for only a few cities. The cast
seen here was not part of that tour.

Maxine Conrad sang popular numbers from the "big bands" of the day.
While these numbers changed somwhat during the tour, based on time
needed for the show.

The Riverside in Milwaukee was 4 shows per day, majority sell-out. The
theater management had bragged that the boys had broken all house
records.

The DL Examiner is James C Morton. He was in all the shows that week

[Larc]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:58:35 -0800 (PST), Ross Owen <***@gmail.com>
wrote:

| Rare colour footage of the boys performing the 'drivers licence'
| sketch has been discovered.
|
| View it here - http://youtu.be/ti5EK_c5-Iw
|
| This color footage is from the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, taken
| between October 11 through October 16th in 1940. This was the third
| city in their "Hellaballou" tour. The dance number costumes are the
| same costume that Lois Laurel (Stan's daughter) was photographed in
| that had appeared in a recent Intra Tent Journal article on the tours.
| The girls are doing a number called "The Three Musketeers", and you
| get to see the fencing in one segment of this clip.

Thanks very much for sharing the link.

Larc