" 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.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

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.

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* 1890 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian ( d. 1965 )

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.

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

Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

* Stan Laurel ( 1890 – 1965 ), half of the comic duo Laurel and Hardy

* Oliver Hardy ( 1892-1957 ), American comic actor best known for his partnership with Stan Laurel

* Stan Laurel as Stan Laurel

Ray Bradbury's short story The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair from the collection The Toynbee Convector features the stairs prominently as the catalyst for the beginning of a love affair between a couple who affectionately refer to each other as ' Stan ' and ' Ollie '.

While at Roach, McCarey cast Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together and guided development of their onscreen characters, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Statue

Famous Ulverstonians include Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials ; Maude Green, the mother of Rock and Roll music legend, Bill Haley ; Norman Gifford, an England test cricketer ; Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier awarded with the Victoria Cross ; and comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame.

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* Stan Laurel often used malapropisms in the Laurel and Hardy films:

Despite running against Miller in 2000, and Miller's endorsed candidate Stan Kumorek in 2003, Miller and Saundercook have been seen as striking up a good working relationship.

Dammers then drastically revised the line-up of the band, adding vocalists Stan Campbell and Rhoda Dakar, and began working again under the group name The Special AKA.

Stan Ridgway and Drywall regrouped in 2006 to release the album Barbeque Babylon, the third " apocalyptic document " with the single " The AARP Is After Me ".

Suggested starting points for the Bronze Age of comics include Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan No. 1 ( October 1970 ), Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams ' Green Lantern / Green Arrow No. 76 ( April 1970 ), or Stan Lee and Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man No. 96 ( May 1971 ; the non-Comics Code issue ).

Several suspects exist, including competition director and former pageant winner Kathy Morningside ( Candice Bergen ); her unpleasant assistant Frank Tobin ( Steve Monroe ); veteran emcee Stan Fields ( William Shatner ) who, like Morningside, is being replaced with a younger person ; and Rhode Island's Cheryl Frasier ( Heather Burns ), possibly a radical animal rights activist.

Authors of this genre include Stan Lee ( co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk ); Marv Wolfman, the creator of Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics ; Dean Wesley Smith ( Smallville, Spider-Man, and X-Men novels ) and Superman writers Roger Stern and Elliot S!

At the time of his retirement, Williams ranked third all-time in home runs ( behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx ), seventh in RBIs ( after Ruth, Cap Anson, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott ; Stan Musial passed Williams in 1962 ), and seventh in batting average ( behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O ' Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker ).

Other contemporary video artists of note include Gary Hill ( USA ), Arambilet ( Dominican Republic – Spain ), Fred Forest ( France ), Tony Oursler, Mary Lucier, Paul Pfeiffer, Sadie Benning, Paul Chan, Eve Sussman and Miranda July ; Eija-Liisa Ahtila ( Finland ), Kirill Preobrazhenskiy ( Russia ), Pipilotti Rist ( Switzerland ); Surekha ( India ); Stefano Pasquini ( Italy ); Shaun Wilson ( Australia ); Stan Douglas ( Canada ); Douglas Gordon ( Scotland ); Olga Kisseleva ( Russia ); Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven ( Belgium ); Martin Arnold ( Austria ); Matthias Müller ( Germany ), Heiko Daxl ( Germany ); Gillian Wearing ( UK ); Stefano Cagol ( Italy ); Helene Black ( Cyprus ); Shirin Neshat ( Iran / USA ); Aernout Mik ( Netherlands ), Jordi Colomer ( Spain / France ), Sergei Shutov ( Russia ), and Walid Raad ( Lebanon / USA ).

In 1976, a People magazine article on Lynde featured him and Stan Finesmith ; the latter was dubbed Lynde's " suite mate " and “ chauffeur-bodyguard .” In the 1970s, this was as close as the press would come to hinting at his sexuality.

Heels such as Ivan Koloff and Stan Stasiak were used to transition the title from one babyface to another ; " Superstar " Billy Graham enjoyed a nine and a half month reign as a heel champion, as McMahon felt he would need this much time to build up Bob Backlund as championship material.

The Magic were also the only NBA team to wear black sneakers and socks in all their games, a tradition that began upon the hiring of Stan Van Gundy in 2007 ; however they wore white sneakers and socks at home in all of the 2008 – 09 season and early in the 2009 – 10 season before switching back to black sneakers and socks.

During the 7 season period the Cavaliers had 9 head coaches ; Stan Albeck, Bill Musselman, Don Delaney, Bob Kloppenburg, Chuck Daly, Bill Musselman ( again ), Tom Nissalke, George Karl, and Gene Littles.

* “ Excelsior !”, the catchphrase of Stan Lee, who used it at the end of every " Bullpen Bulletins " column in Marvel Comics ; also used in pop culture as a sly reference to him

In 2010, Stan joined forces with Jerry Naylor to record a duet tribute to Carl, “ To Carl ; Let it Vibrate .” Stan Perkins has been inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

However, in 1999, in response to intensifying charges of " back room politics " in the selection process, the Chamber disclosed the members ' names: Johnny Grant, the longtime chair and representative of the television category ; Earl Lestz, president of Paramount Studio Group ( motion pictures ); Stan Spero, retired manager with broadcast stations KMPC and KABC ( radio ); Kate Nelson, owner of the Palace Theatre ( live performance ); and Mary Lou Dudas, vice president of A & M Records ( recording industry ).

In July 2004 the district CEO, Stan Mims, toured Wilson and then determined that the school needed to be closed ; the school closed in fall 2004 and students were transferred to three other elementary schools in the area, including Hawthorne, Nelson Mandela, and Manners.

" He assembled a talented frontline in Matthews, Stan Mortensen, Jimmy McIntosh, and Alex Munro ; with an emphasis on entertaining football.

Harry Johnston led out a team consisting of: Bert Trautmann ; Tim Ward ; George Hardwick ; Jimmy Hill ; Neil Franklin ; Don Revie ; Stan Mortensen ; Nat Lofthouse ; Jimmy Hagan ; Tom Finney ; and Frank Bowyer ( reserve ).

Stan Lee, then Marvel's editor-in-chief, recalled in 2005 that he had suggested the character's name:

Also, Bill suggested that Stan take Sparky to a Barbra Streisand concert.

As a possible replacement, " Sweet Stan " Lane, who had worked against Eaton and knew him well, was suggested.

Sturgeon made one correction (" Calvary and Cavalry are two different things ") and suggested that Gould submit it to Stan Schmidt, who had become editor at Analog in late 1978.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

* 1996 recall of Carrollton Texas mayor Gary Blanscet and council members Stan Sewell, Linda Caldwell, Bernis Francis, Stan Hampton, Bob Novinsky and Bert Colter.

The original members included vocalist-violinist Carl Grayson, banjoist Perry Botkin, trombonist King Jackson and pianist Stan Wrightsman.

Other members of the Trotter family were rarely sighted, the exceptions being the woman they believe to be Auntie Rose ( Beryl Cooke ) in " The Second Time Around ", and cousins Stan and Jean ( Mike Kemp and Maureen Sweeney ), who attended Grandad's funeral.

The film begins at a meeting of the Sons of the Desert, a fraternal lodge ( styled to resemble the Shriners ) of which both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are members.

During this period, the college supported work by John Cage, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Fielding Dawson, Cy Twombly, Jonathan Williams, Ed Dorn, Stan Brakhage and many other members of the 1950s American avant garde.

For example, in issue # 11, members of the original Marvel Bullpen: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Flo Steinberg and Sol Brodsky were given the powers of the Fantastic Four.

Current members of the Board are: John A MacNaughton ( Chairman ), Jean-René Halde ( President and Chief Executive Officer ), Eric Boyko, Stan E. Bracken-Horrocks, Sue Fawcett, Brian Hayward, Jean Martel, Prashant Pathak, Rick Perkins, Sarah Raiss, Thomas R. Spencer and Rosemary Zigrossi.

Stan Ridgway claims that the situation around the band was increasingly chaotic at the time, with a great deal of drug use and out-of-control behavior on the part of the band members, as well as shady behavior by the band's management and record label.

With Glen Gamble's help, Vollmer added three new members to bring some stability back to the lineup: Jeff " Stan " Fountain replacing Daryl Gray on bass, Dan Fawcett on guitar, and Shaun Sanders on guitar.

Cincinnati invited Williamson to spring training in 1999, where the combination of an impressive performance and injuries to key members of the pitching staff, including Denny Neagle and Stan Belinda, led to Williamson making the major league club despite having made just five appearances at the Triple-A level and never being on the 40-man roster.

Other notable past and recurring members have included Bob Mothersbaugh of Devo, Stan Lee of The Dickies and Mike Watt of Minutemen, Iggy and the Stooges.

Stan Lee has a cameo appearance as one of the jury members overlooking Banner's trial.

Morning team members Stan Bunger, Steve Bitker and Susan Leigh Taylor talk with Madden about a wide variety of topics, generally focusing on sports.

Singer-songwriters Stan Endersby ( born 17 July 1947, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada ) and Marty Fisher ( born 24 December 1945, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ), while the ' Oak ' represented British members Quaife and drummer Mick Cook.

The original eight cast members ( Jeff Blanchard, Christopher Bohan, Robert Ellis, Stan Morse, Brian Reed, Russel Stich & Patrick White ) were all Cleveland based actors and comedians.

Starting in December 2004, Rhodes made regular appearances for Carolina Championship Wrestling, where his first match for the promotion saw him team up with The Rock ' n ' Roll Express to take on Dennis Condrey, Bobby Eaton, and Stan Lane, all three of the best-known members of the Midnight Express.

Mike recently hosted the opening for the Hard Rock Cafe Sydney with members of Limp Bizkit, ACDC, The Pussycat Dolls, Guns and Roses, Velvet Revolver, Angels, Choirboys, Rose Tattoo, Shannon Noll and Stan Walker performing.

A small offshoot gospel label from MCA Records known as Songbird released Broken Heart's first album Brand New Start ( 1982 ), with members: Dean Harrington, Kenny Bentley ( bass / vocals ), Stan Coates ( keyboards / vocals ), Ben Hewitt ( drums / percussion ), and Mike Adams.

Over the years guitarists Scott Allen, David Payton, Trent Argante, and Skip Benicky and keyboardists Stan Coates, Paul Joseph, and Marshall Pratt were also members.

Cheryl Crane, Turner and Stephen's daughter, wrote that Leeds first tried marijuana with members of Stan Kenton's orchestra and that she was introduced to heroin while in jail.