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...male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced by alcohol, stimulates playfulness, suppresses fear. Thousands are smoked in Harlem, in New Orleans, in other nightlife centres. In New Orleans many a schoolchild is said to be an addict; prison authorities find muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro...
Pardon Us (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first full-length comedy made by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hopelessly in effectual in all their doings, they are particularly and painfully inefficient in this picture. First shown planning to manufacture homebrew, they are next seen being sentenced to prison because of their clumsiness. Added to the basic handicap of the Laurel face - blank, ugly, absurd -is the handicap in Pardon Us of a loose tooth which causes him to punctuate all his sentences with a vulgar and sarcastic noise...
These noises, perpetrated at inopportune moments, cause Laurel and Hardy to be persecuted by their jailers and fellow prisoners. When they escape from prison and, wearing blackface, take to working in a cottonfield, Laurel's impolite articulations cause their disguises to be penetrated...
...funnier. Their incapacities, hilarious in earlier and briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their formula except vulgarity. Funny shots: Laurel & Hardy making friends with the bloodhounds which have been sent to trail them; sing ing "Good morning, dear teacher," in the prison school; going to bed in the same cot so awkwardly that they break...
...cups and two gold medals; nonetheless, he is fat and soft-looking. Laurel is thin and pale, speaks with a low-grade London accent. Funnyman Laurel seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...