DRIVERS LICENSE SKETCH - Rare clip of the boys on stage in Milwaukee 1940




Laurel and Hardy Podcast show

Summary: 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. Many thanks to Irv Hyatt for the info and to Robert Wilson of Milwaukee for the footage.