El Paso, TX

July 17 - July 27, 2025 • El Paso, TX

Plaza Days I

Plaza Family
Free
Friday, July 18
11:00am
Plaza Theatre Kendle Kidd Performance Hall

Join us for our first of two Plaza Days programs as organist extraordinaire Walt Strony accompanies not one but two classic silent shorts. In Laurel & Hardy’s Big Business (1929, 19 minutes), our bumbling heroes try to sell Christmas trees door-to-door in sunny California — and destroy a house in the process. The film was chosen for inclusion on the National Film Registry in 1992. In Charley Chase’s Crazy Like a Fox (1926, 25 minutes), the rubbery comedian is smitten with a young beauty who already has been promised to another by her father. Only there’s a twist. Leo McCarey supervised Big Business and directed Crazy Like a Fox. Note: Crazy Like a Fox features a character in black face. Plaza Days is a free program, but if you like the way Walt works his magic on the Plaza Theatre’s original Wyler Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, come back at 3:30 pm Sunday, July 20 as he accompanies Harold Lloyd’s most popular comedy, The Freshman, which turns 100 years old this year. — Doug Pullen


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Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase
Rated: NR