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Ted Healy death... Three Stooges creator...
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December 22, 1937
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, December 22, 1937
* Ted Healy death (1st report)
* Three Stooges fame
This 26 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page:
"Quiz in Ted Healy's Death Reveals Night Club Beating"
with photo of Healy. (see)
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day throughout. Light browning with minor margin wear, otherwise in nice condition.
wikipedia notes: Ted Healy (October 1, 1896 – December 21, 1937) was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original employer of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own.
Healy's was the first caricature drawn by Alex Gard to grace the walls of Sardi's, a legendary restaurant located in the New York City theater district.
Howard's brother Shemp joined the act soon after as a heckler in 1923, with Larry Fine joining in 1925. Healy's vaudeville revues (with names like, "A Night in Venice", "A Night in Spain", and "New Yorker Nights") included the trio under various names, such as "Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen", but never as "Ted Healy and the Three Stooges".
Moe Howard took a break from show business in 1927–28. The group reconvened in 1928 and appeared in several Broadway productions, leading to an appearance in the 1930 film Soup to Nuts. In 1931 the Stooges broke from Healy after a dispute over a movie contract. They began performing on their own (using such monikers as "The Three Lost Souls" and "Howard, Fine and Howard"), often using some of the material from the Healy shows. Healy subsequently sued the Stooges for using his material. However, the copyright was actually held by the Shubert Theatre Corporation (for which the routines had been produced)—and since the Stooges had the Shuberts' permission to use it, Healy lost the suit.
Healy then hired a new set of stooges, consisting of Eddie Moran (soon replaced by Richard "Dick" Hakins), Jack Wolf, and Paul "Mousie" Garner. The Howard-Fine-Howard Stooges rejoined Healy's act in 1932, obtaining higher salaries and a promise from Healy to quit drinking. Shemp quit the act shortly thereafter, soon to be replaced by his younger brother Curly Howard.
Healy did not quit drinking, however, and when he cut the Stooges' salary in early 1934, they quit again, this time permanently.
Category: The 20th Century
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