" The tour lasted 21 months, and the troupe — which also included Stan Laurel of later Laurel and Hardy fame — returned to England in June 1912.

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

Melling portrays Ní Mháille in her novel The Summer King ( part two of the Chronicles of Faerie ) as a ghost who haunts Achill Island, and later as her live self when heroes Laurel and Ian go back in time to win her as an ally.

The city was at one time served by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ( later Erie Lackawanna Railway ), Delaware and Hudson Railway, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad, and the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad ( known as the Laurel Line ).

A short distance later, at the second intersection with Old South Avenue, the route becomes state-maintained again and continues past businesses, intersecting County Route 655 ( Martine Avenue ) before it heads into residential neighborhoods and meets County Route 601 ( Laurel Place ).

Spent his later years at his home on Laurel Road in Santa Paula.

Laurel was considered a town in 1906, but it was not until August 1908 that it became incorporated, and two months later, on October 10, 1908, city government was established with the election of a city council and mayor.

In 1903, an electric interurban railroad known as the Laurel Line was started, and two years later connected to nearby Wilkes-Barre, to the southwest.

The town, originally named Laurel Hill, was later renamed Jennerville in honor of Dr. Edward Jenner, discoverer of the smallpox vaccine.

The Harland Sanders Café and Museum, the restaurant where Colonel Harland Sanders developed the fried chicken recipe that would later become famous as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is located in the Laurel County portion of North Corbin.

He also had roles in one of Laurel and Hardy's later films The Big Noise ( 1944 ), and the Warner Bros. movies Humoresque ( 1946 ), playing John Garfield's character as a child, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), playing the Mexican boy who sells Humphrey Bogart a winning lottery ticket and getting a glass of water thrown in his face in the process.

Laurel wreaths became associated with what Apollo embodied ; victory, achievement and status and would later become one of the most commonly used symbols to address achievement throughout Greece and Rome.

* Nissan Laurel ( later versions ) ( high speed only )

* Laurel Rose Willson, later known as Lauren Stratford and Laura Grabowski – discredited author of books about satanic ritual abuse and Holocaust survival

In fact, among the young comedians who worked for him were Charlie Chaplin and Arthur Jefferson, who later adopted the name of Stan Laurel.

As part of this effort, in the spring of 1874 Grange No. 7 held a picnic and planting event at the corner of College Avenue and West Laurel Street, and later plowed and seeded 20 acres ( 80, 000 m² ) of wheat on a nearby field.

Laurel received his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1915, where he studied under Dean George A. Malcolm, whom he would later succeed on the Supreme Court.

Two weeks later, she won the Turf Classic at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, New York by 8¾ lengths, then won the Washington, D. C. International Stakes at Laurel, Maryland.

He later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy, in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford.

Matt Groening later revealed that the character was based partially on Angus Crock, a kilt-wearing chef from the sketch comedy show Second City Television, who was portrayed by Dave Thomas and Jimmy Finlayson, the mustachioed Scottish actor who appeared in 33 Laurel and Hardy films.

Originally laid to rest in the Christ Church Burial Ground, and followed by Dorethea with her death four years later, they were both reinterred in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, located in the then-suburbs of the city, in 1888.

Laurel and Hardy adapted well to silent films, both being skilled at slapstick, and their nonverbal interplay with each other and the audience became famous — Laurel's cry and Hardy's downtrodden glances to the camera whenever something went wrong — and were carried over to their later talkies.

Roach Studios ' supervising director Leo McCarey noticed the audience reaction to them and began teaming them, leading to the creation of the Laurel and Hardy series later that year.

Hirschfeld said that modern film stars were more difficult to depict, that silent film comedians such as Laurel and Hardy and Keaton " looked like their caricatures ".

In Greek mythology, Daphnis (, from, daphne, " Bay Laurel ") was a Sicilian shepherd who was said to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.

Those who would see it, including critics, said it was a forgotten gem among the many movies of the 1930s and the best film of the Laurel and Hardy features.

Dix tells Brub that he is finally finished with his screenplay, and the final shot was to be of a page in the typewriter which has the significant lines Dix said aloud to Laurel in the car ( which he admitted to not knowing where to put ) " I was born when she kissed me, I died when she left me, I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

People who knew Laurel said he was devastated by Hardy's death and never fully recovered from it, refusing to perform on stage, or act in another film without his good friend.

" I'm not ," said Laurel, " I'd rather be doing that than this!

In 1989, a statue of Laurel was erected in Dockwray Square, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England where he lived at No. 8 from 1897 to 1902, and where the steps down from the Square to the North Shields Fish Quay were said to have inspired the piano-moving scene in The Music Box.

He had unspecified health issues and had been ill. A spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections said duPont was found unresponsive in his bed at the Laurel Highland State Correctional Facility.

Laurel Fletcher, clinical professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley said, " such trials run the risk of turning into political show trials, where laws are bent to produce predetermined results ".

According to Roach, the cast and crew demolished the house next door instead by accident during filming, but Stan Laurel said this was a fabrication.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

* 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

" I Know My Mind " b / w " Laurel & Hardy " ( Warner Bros. 7219 )-( JB )

Rumors abounded that Sennett would be returning to film production ( a 1938 publicity release indicated that he would be working with Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy ), but apart from Sennett reissuing a couple of his Bing Crosby two-reelers to theaters, nothing happened.

" Among stars the young Bradbury was thrilled to encounter were Norma Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, and Ronald Colman.

Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford created and starred in All Wear Bowlers ( 2004 ), which started as an homage to Laurel and Hardy then evolved to incorporate life-sized silent film sequences of Sobelle and Lyford who jump back and forth between live action and the silver screen.

* Laurel and Hardy films

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

* Some extremely effective ( and expensive ) wipes were used in the otherwise very low-budget Laurel and Hardy short film Thicker than Water.

For each of the scene changes in this film, either Laurel or Hardy or both of them would seize a curtain or some other object at the edge of the frame and move it across the screen.

The bowlers and other broadly comic aspects of their personas have reminded modern audiences of Laurel and Hardy, who occasionally played tramps in their films.

" The hat-passing game in Waiting For Godot and Lucky's inability to think without his hat on are two obvious Beckett derivations from Laurel and Hardy – a substitution of form for essence, covering for reality ," wrote Gerald Mast in The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies ( Univ.

* Laurel and Hardy

However, the success of television revivals for such names as Laurel and Hardy, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry and the Our Gang series in the late 1950s led Columbia to cash in again on the Stooges.

Having grown up in Hollywood, the son of a studio production manager and grandson of a silent film director, Edwards had watched the films of the great silent clowns, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy.

Highlights of the film are a comedy routine starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as inept magicians, and a variety of musical performances.

*" Magic Act " introduced by Jack Benny, featuring Laurel and Hardy as magicians in a comedy skit ( their first appearance in a sound feature film )

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* Popular culture, Laurel & Hardy Sketch

* Liberty ( 1929 film ), a short film starring Laurel and Hardy