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Let's Do Things (1931)
Let's watch this!
This is a quite enjoyable 26 minutes, the first of the Thelma and ZaSu series.Jerry Mandy as the doctor is very funny and almost a clone of Jimmy Durante.Also present for Laurel&Hardy fans are Harry Bernard and Charlie Hall as waiters and Dorothy Granger as the leading Night Club dancer.The cigarette girl in the nightclub is Mary Kornman who is often mistaken for a different unidentified actress who appears briefly in the Thelma/ZaSu shorts Maids a la Mode,Alum and Eve and also as a bridesmaid in L&Hs Me and my pal.The nightclub manager is Maurice Black who appears in Bonnie Scotland.Even without the L&H connection this is well worth seeing.
Laughing Gravy (1930)
fun in the snow
This is the L&H short I come back to more than most others.It has a compact cast,great sound effects of the snow swirling around on the roof, bricks hitting Olly on the head and Charlie Hall at his best.The alternate ending that is available on later DVD versions is a nice bonus but it's already a classic with the original ending.The things that happen to poor Charlie include his bed collapsing,bursting in to the room and ending up wrapped up in some kitchen shelving,being knocked out by a brick whilst opening the window and being covered in the dog's bath water.Unlike 'Tit for tat' where he got revenge for each L&H act, in this film he is mostly the victim and it's too much for him in the end.