RESIZED: Editorial on L&H after Hardy’s passing

[Ed Watz]

Thoughtful editorial on Laurel & Hardy after Oliver Hardy’s passing, years before The Boys officially became cult heroes - this when they were simply everyone’s favorites on daily television. With an unsavory dig towards Chaplin during the height of his Cold War-Cold Shoulder treatment. From The Baltimore Sun, August 19, 1957:

[Richard M Roberts]

To answer Mr. Kirkley's question, yeah, they're still watching THE HONEYMOONERS twenty-five and plus years later.

And hey, he didn't call Chaplin an evil commie, frankly I don't have a problem with that assessment of what happened to the comedian, he did begin to take the "genius" card a bit too seriously and he did end up playing a serial killer.

The whole column has a bit of the East Coast "look down your nose" at everything attitude, but they guy's right, Laurel and Hardy's immortality at the time was because they were getting big play on commercial television, and then Robert Youngson showcased some of their best silent work theatrically again soon after that. That's how we all found them and fell in love with them.

RICHARD M ROBERTS