European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 stuck on stooges Pennsylvania museum dedicated to slapstick comedy Trio ask Gary Lassin if he believes the three stooges can still make people and he will answer with a definite Soite Lyl every once in a you see a poll that says 60 percent of kids know the names of the three stooges and 10 percent of kids know the names of the supreme court said i think that Why do Only 60 percent of kids know the names of the stooges  99 percent of kids know the names of the stooges Lassin is doing his part to increase Stooge name the 51yearold resident of Gwynedd Val is president of the three stooges fan which boasts some members in the United states As Well As several other he also is the owner of the a museum devoted to stooges history and Memora Bilia near the museum houses Lassins private collection of stooges some items Are on with thousands More in they include movie Magazine paint lunch comic Cereal lamps and Jigsaw among the More unusual items Are a Check Moe wrote to several cans and bottles of three stooges Beer a Premium lager and a genuine three stooges talking bottle open the museums front and youll hear the familiar stooges hello visitors also will find original copies of scripts on a Sample Page from one script reads Larry and a 6hemp Rush Larry grabs the Harp Shemp a pair of Shemp hold still they proceed to remove the tacks from Moes seat while Moe screams that the Type of scene that could be found in most of the nearly 200 shorts the stooges filmed from the mid1930s through the late it still makes Lassin slapstick goes Back to shakes Peares he it has Good staying the stuff the Pat said was too violent looks pretty tame if you compare it with whats on to the stooges were just doing clean to its grated Allentown morning Gary Lassin sits on the staircase with three dimensional cutouts of the three stooges in his a Pennsylvania museum dedicated to the the stooges started in vaudeville in the 1920s and soon made the Transi Tion to the original three comics were Moe his brother Shemp and violin player Larry when Shemp left to pursue a Solo he was replaced by a third Howard Broth who shaved his head and became in curly suffered a stroke he died in 1952 and was replaced by when Shemp died in he was replaced by comedian Joe in Besser dropped out of the cast when his wife became his role was taken by Joe who appeared As during the the stooges made a handful of feature films with such titles As Snow White and the three stood the three stooges meet Hercules and the three stooges in in the stooges were filming a Pilot for a to series when Larry suffered a Larry and Moe both died in Besser died in and Derita in the vice president of finance for a mail order Catalon has been a fan of the stooges since child in the he started dating his future who told him she was related to somebody when he Learned that Robin was the granddaughter of Larry fines Morris he i decided i had to find some Way to get her to be my Lassin soon met his future wife who had been collecting stooges Memorabilia and running the fan Lassin started collecting stooges Memorabilia when fein Berg died in Lassin took Over the fan by he had amassed a huge collection of Memorabilia and started looking for a building to House it he found the vacant building near which had formerly served As Headquarters for an architectural Lassin bought the building and financed the renovations turning it into a museum that features an 85seat the the Sto Geum opened in As to what it All Lassin said its basically on third tax on third real estate investment and on third a Complete waste of he charges no admission and Fea Tures no museum the too gems hours Are by appointment even As a Par time the Sto Geum receives about visitors a most people come in such As boy scout troops or film society each the Sto Geum is open during the annual three Day meeting of the fan which is held in nearby fort this More than 400 members took time to tour the watch films and compare notes on the in q it d r cd n e o of every once in a you see a poll that says 60 percent of kids know the names of the three stooges and 10 percent of kids know the names of the supreme court i think that Why do Only 60 percent of kids know the names of the stooges  99 percent of kids know the names of the stooges president of the three stooges fan club