1930

Articles from 1930

Laurel and Hardy (Photoplay Magazine, 1930)

An interview with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy:

They are the comedy sensations of the season. And all because they have learned, by a lucky stroke, that the public likes to see itself caricatured on the screen; that the public can laugh at the maunderings of a fat man who shakes a warning pudgy forefinger at a sensitive simpleton who is prone to weep

The Death of Quentin Roosevelt (Pathfinder, 1930)

The attached column pertains to a W.W. I image that was erroneously believed by some to show the earthly remains of American fighter pilot Quentin Roosevelt following his crash landing. Numerous veterans chime-in explaining why the gent pictured could not have been the late Lt. Roosevelt, among them was Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.


The picture is provided.

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