1935 Letters
PACIFIC TELEGRAM - TYPEWRITTEN
August 16, 1935
AVALON CALIF
MRS WILL ROGERS=
=OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY WORDS ARE SO INADEQUATE WHEN ONE TRIES TO SPEAK FROM THE HEART WILL HAS LEFT THE WHOLE WORLD ENRICHED WE SHALL ALWAYS MISS HIM BUT HIS SPLENDID LIFE SHALL ALWAYS BE AN INSPIRATION TO US=
=LAUREL AND HARDY.
Will Rogers (1879-1935), was an American humorist and social critic. He began his career as a cowboy and rose to international fame as an author, lecturer, and star of vaudeville, motion pictures, and radio. Rogers, known for his homespun humor, made films for Hal Roach, and is best known for his quotation, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” Rogers died in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska flying with Wiley Post, a pioneer American aviator on August 15, 1935.
L to R: James Parrott, Laurel-Hardy director who hooked the marlin, Charlie Chase, Mrs. Stan Laurel, Stan Laurel, and Jan Garbor.
“But you should see the one that got away”—it’s the old fish story, and its the same with Hollywoodians on vacation as with Izaak Waltoners any other place. Pictured here on Stan Laurel’s new cruiser, the “Ida M” at Santa Catalina Island, these screen funnymen tried in vain to convince Jan Garber, orchestra leader, that they had two marlin swordfish hooked at the same time in island waters—but landed just this one.
—Los Angeles Examiner
August 14, 1935
Oliver N. Hardy, heavyweight funny man of the screen, shown in court as he reported ready for the trial of his suit with Myrtle Lee Hardy, his former wife, to determine the amount of alimony he is to play under agreement made at the time of their divorce. The agreement was construed by Mrs. Hardy and her attorney as providing that Hardy was to pay $250 a week except when his average income for any one year fell below $1,000 per week. Hardy and his attorney contended that Hardy was to pay $250 a week except when his income for one week fell below $1,000, in which case his payment for that week was to be 25 percent of his actual income.
—Los Angeles Examiner
August 14, 1935
