Laurel, Hardy Make Comedy Team Again

1935

HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (UP).— Stan Laurel, who broke up the famed screen comedy team of Laurel and Hardy recently when he walked out after a row with Producer Hal Roach, has been lured back with a new contract. Laurel didn't like a picture, "McLaurel and McHardy," which he and his rotund teammate were making, so he quit. Roach cancelled his contract. The public heard about it and deluged the studio with telegrams and letters of protest.

So Roach got busy on a new contract, Laurel signed it and everybody appeared to be happy — except, perhaps, Patsy Kelly and "Spanky" McFarland, who were to have appeared in a series of shorts with Hardy. Evidently they were left out in the cold.