Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Ted Healy, 1925 publicity shot
SUMMER 1993 - Editor: Gary Lassin
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 2
Results of issue # 65's club membership questionnaire poll
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 3
- Miscellaneous Stooge sitings and reports from club members
- Local TV station Stooge news
- Cable's TNT is showing rare Vitaphone comedies with Shemp
- Don Morlan presented "Slapstick Comedy Contributions to Pre-WWII Film Propaganda: The Three Stooges and Abbott & Costello" at the Pop Culture Assoc. in New Orleans
- The Stooges featured on the cover of the March 29 New York Magazine
- The Three Stooges will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the MTV Movie Awards
- Moe's grandson Jeffrey has sold rights to a new Three Stooges film project to Columbia, The Three Stooges: The Next Generation
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 3
Trivia questions
by Gary Lassin and Frank Reighter
Page(s): 4 - 5
David Bruskin, author of The White Brothers: Jules, Jack and Sam will attend the 1993 Convention, joining costar guest Lucille Lund and Diana Darrin, plus various Stooge family members; Convention details and itinerary
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 4
Factual tidbits about the Stooges
by Bill Cappello
Page(s): 6 - 7
Personal and career overview of costar Symona Boniface
by Ed Shifres
Page(s): 8 - 9, cont. on 14
Mary Ainslee, Lester Allen, Dorothy Appleby, Phil Arnold, "A" minor players
by F. Keith Wahle
Page(s): 10, cont. on 12
Review of HOLLYWOOD PARTY (1934), which guest starred Ted Healy & His Stooges
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 11
- "Shemp holds a stringer of fish with some friends at a family pond, mid 1920s"
- "Shemp poses with his nephew Norman Howard and family, early 1950s"
- "During a Canadian tour of 1926, Shemp and his wife Babe relax in front of the luxury ship 'Empress of Canada'; the dog Pete was used by Ted Healy in the group's vaudeville act"
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 13
- Franklin Mint offers a collector plate featuring a scene from YOU NAZTY SPY
- The White Brothers by David Bruskin will be reissued in softcover format
- IA company Angel Gifts is convicted of counterfeiting and selling unlicensed posters featuring the Stooges
- Newly licensed merchandise includes gift bag, stand-up, suspenders, ties and boxer shorts
Page(s): 14 - 15
Fan classified advertisements
by Neal Sabin
Page(s): 16
Source: The Chicago Tribune
WPWR Chicago's Program Director talks of his love for The Three Stooges
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