Newly Discovered Rare Footage Of Laurel and Hardy Performing On Stage In 1940 (in colour)

Rare colour footage of the boys performing the ‘drivers licence’ sketch. 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. 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 …

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