The Pennsylvania Game
Prison inventor, statehouse dissent & a dangerous feat
Season 9 Episode 10 | 28m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Which inventor found inspiration in debtors prison? Play the Pennsylvania Game.
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The Pennsylvania Game
Prison inventor, statehouse dissent & a dangerous feat
Season 9 Episode 10 | 28m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Which inventor found inspiration in debtors prison? Play the Pennsylvania Game. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMeet some people in the audience.
Right back here, sir, you in the striped shirt.
What is your name?
WADE: Wade.
Wade?
WADE: Yes.
[chuckles] So you were born in water up to your knees?
WADE: No.
No, that's good.
[chuckles] Wade, where are you from, sir?
WADE: Altoona.
Altoona?
Altoona, Pennsylvania.
You know what?
I've always wondered what do they call people from Altoona.
Are you Altooners?
WADE: Altoonites.
I think it should be altoids myself.
[chuckles] WADE: Starting now.
Starting right now, as of now.
Now, is there any truth to the rumor I've heard that Altoona was actually named after Charlie the tuna's brother?
[chuckles] None whatsoever as far as Wade knows.
OK. [theme music] ANNOUNCER: The Pennsylvania Game is made possible in part by [music playing] ANNOUNCER2: Uni-Mart convenience stores, making your life easier every day of the year.
ANNOUNCER: Now, let's get the game started.
Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, Scott Bruce.
[applause] Hi, guys.
Hi.
Hi.
Oh, thank you so much.
Stop, you're killing me.
Welcome to The Pennsylvania Game, our studio audience, you viewers at home, we have no laser light shows, no car chases, and yet, we still have more fun than humans should.
[chuckles] Let's meet our panelists for today's game.
Today, we've got-- oh, I'm so excited.
Manny Gordon needs no introduction.
Manny is-- I'm going to have to introduce him anyway.
He's a frequent guest on the show.
Manny is a retired forester and well known personality from Wilkes-Barre, and we are going to enjoy, enjoy having Manny Gordon here today.
There goes my job.
[chuckles] [applause] Oh, we'll still ask.
Also joining us today is Jana King.
Jana and her husband are owners of King Printing in State College and publishers of Pennsylvania Business Central, a business newspaper serving 14 counties.
While Jana can confidently discuss history, politics and cultures of obscure Eastern European countries, like her native Slovenia, she claims not to know a thing about Pennsylvania.
[chuckles] the kind of passenger we want.
[chuckles] [applause] And finally, another man who doesn't need an introduction, Elliott Abrams hails from State College Pennsylvania.
You're a comedian, aren't you?
SCOTT BRUCE: I am a comedian or at least darn near trying to be.
Because the story of the cannibal who would not eat the comedian.
SCOTT BRUCE: Yeah, no.
Thought he tasted funny.
[chuckles] I'll do the comedy, Elliott.
No, you go wild.
Enjoy yourself.
Elliott, of course, is the president of AccuWeather, cast as a weatherman and his second grade class play was destined to become a meteorologist.
Elliott Abrams is here.
[applause] OK. Now that we know who we're playing with, and I think we're going to have a heck of a lot of fun, let's find our first question.
[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Which insightful hardware retailer and inventor started the development of his most famous invention while he was in Debtors prison in Philadelphia?
Was it A, Alexander Graham Bell, B, John Deere, C, George Westinghouse JR, or D, Charles Goodyear?
SCOTT BRUCE: There they are, contestants.
Bell, Deere, Westinghouse or Goodyear.
Ring in now, please, if you would.
[chime] OK, and Manny, what do you think the answer is on this one?
Well, I think it's Charles Goodyear.
SCOTT BRUCE: Charles Goodyear.
Yeah.
I know the tires are pretty good, but-- [chuckles] SCOTT BRUCE: Just on the basis of good tires alone.
And this from a man who rolls all through the country.
OK. MANNY GORDON: Dave Letterman, eat your heart out.
[chuckles] Let's find out about Jana.
Jana, what do you believe?
I say Charles Goodyear too.
I saw he pressed D, so I did.
[chuckles] One of the systems that we like using here on The Pennsylvania Game, it's follow the leader.
[chuckles] I like your thinking, Jana.
How about you, Elliot?
Well, it wouldn't have been John Deere because nothing runs like one.
He would-- [chuckles] And it wouldn't have been-- well, the other first person rings a bell.
[chuckles] And Goodyear wasn't-- I picked C, George Westinghouse, just because the name was pretty long there and I recognized it.
SCOTT BRUCE: Well, let's see now.
The man used a lot of logic, let's see if his logic paid off.
Let's find the answer.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, Charles Goodyear.
[music playing] Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven Connecticut.
An enterprising young man, he moved to Philadelphia and opened a retail hardware store.
Although the store was a great success, Charles Goodyear extended credit to too many customers and found himself in Debtors prison.
Already an inventor of farm tools, Charles Goodyear was intrigued by the new material of the day, rubber.
While in prison, he started experiments on rubber that eventually led to his discovery of a process called vulcanization.
This process gave rubber the ability to withstand extremes of temperature and it revolutionized the rubber industry.
It was patented in 1844, but Goodyear was unable to profit financially from his discovery.
His numerous patents were constantly infringed upon, and in spite of his energy and enterprise, he died a poor man in 1860.
Well, now it turns out that none of Charles Goodyear's family is actually involved with the company.
So if you've been out there in the country as the last name of Goodyear thinking that you were going to someday inherit-- [buzzes] [chuckles] --you lose.
I don't think so.
[buzzer] Well, and pardon me.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS: You're burping.
[chuckles] I knew I shouldn't have stopped by and ate those tacos.
[chuckles] OK, we're going to continue on with our next question right now.
ANNOUNCER: Brookville native Earle Sandt was greatly admired in his hometown and throughout Western Pennsylvania during the early 1900s.
He was the first to attempt a feat which many feared would kill him.
Did Earle Sandt A, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, B, make the first recorded international flight, C, inject himself with tetanus virus to further his medical research, or D, cross the Atlantic in a hot air balloon?
SCOTT BRUCE: Ooh, a toughie guy's.
A toughie.
What do you think about Sandt?
Did he go over Niagara Falls?
Make the first recorded flight?
Inject himself with tetanus or a hot air balloon?
We're going to go to Jana first on this one.
Jana, what do you think?
I say it is C, and I did not look left or right.
SCOTT BRUCE: Yay!
[applause] I just-- that's what I think.
I don't know.
SCOTT BRUCE: Yeah, although we really don't care.
You go ahead and cheat all you want, but no, no, no, that's worse.
So you came up with C, crossed the Atlantic.
I just think it's interesting.
Very good.
Elliott, what do you think?
I thought it was D, crossed the Atlantic in a hot air balloon, but I picked A for Niagara Falls instead.
SCOTT BRUCE: A for-- of course, once again, interminable logic.
I love it.
Certainly.
So we have a C and an A. Manny, how do you think?
MANNY GORDON: I went for C. SCOTT BRUCE: Also C. So we have to tetanus and a Niagara Falls.
Well, it should be a barrel of laughs to find out.
[chuckles] Let's find out what the correct answer is.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, make the first recorded international flight.
[music playing] Lewis Earle Sandt was born in Brookville in 1888.
After moving to Erie in 1908, Sandt became interested in flying.
He took lessons in New York and soon became a first rate pilot.
On February 12, 1912, Sandt made his infamous flight over lake Erie.
The Erie Weather Bureau had commissioned him to fly over the lake to see if it had frozen over.
At 2:51 PM, Sandt embarked on the 36 minute trip to long point Ontario in the freezing cold without a cockpit.
The flight was completed, but not without incident.
The plane was damaged upon landing in long point and to make matters worse, Sandt unwittingly refueled with contaminated gasoline forcing him to crash land on the frozen lake and walk for five miles to the shore of lake Erie.
Despite the mishaps, Sandt was given a hero's welcome and his flight was recorded as the first international flight made by an American pilot.
All right.
Let's get to know our panel just a little bit better.
Now, Manny-- MANNY GORDON: Don't get too close.
[chuckles] No, I got it.
We're getting up nice and tight for the camera here, is what we're doing.
I like you buddy.
Not these prices.
[chuckles] First of all, before we do anything else, come on, give it to us one time, Manny.
Enjoy, enjoy.
[chuckles] Come on, a round of applause for that.
[applause] We just love you.
Right.
Manny, what exciting-- any exciting things happen to you up in the forestry business up in-- Yeah, a lot of things are exciting, but during World War II, I was in charge of the 28 prisoner of War forestry camps and I had two German interpreters with me in the Jeep going inspecting these camps.
And I was giving these guys my candy and my cigarettes, and these two guys were talking about me.
I understood German very well, so when I finally said, hey, you two jerks, you're talking about me.
From then on, everything was all right.
[chuckles] Wonderful, Manny.
OK. [applause] Jana, you're a native of Slovenia.
That's correct.
SCOTT BRUCE: Republic of the former Yugoslavia.
That's just so exciting.
And now, of course, you're on The Pennsylvania Game and you claim to have no knowledge of Pennsylvania whatsoever.
None whatsoever.
I even have difficulties pronouncing the State.
So whenever I answer the phone at our business, like, I say, hello, Pennsylvania Business Central.
And people say, yeah, I know Business Central, but what was the first word you said?
[chuckles] So I-- I love it, Jana.
And also we have Elliott.
Elliott, now I understand your father made you a barometer when you were only what?
Five years old?
They always put pressure on me.
[chuckles] So you've always been a weatherman.
That's right.
Yeah.
Always been interested in weather, and you know, it gives the right atmosphere, I think.
[chuckles] Why do I have a feeling that if we continue this conversation, we'd have plenty more of those.
MANNY GORDON: There goes your job too.
OK. MANNY GORDON: There goes your job.
SCOTT BRUCE: There goes my job to the weatherman.
[chuckles] All right, let's get back to our game and our next question.
[music playing] ANNOUNCER: Every year in Pennsylvania, large numbers of motorists cross paths with white tailed deer, resulting in unfortunate loss of life and property.
According to The Pennsylvania Game Commission, how many deer were killed by vehicles in 1994?
Was it A, 2,400, B, 14,500, C, 42,000, or D, 75,000?
SCOTT BRUCE: Whoa, OK, guys, we got a punch in on this one.
2,400, 14,500, 42,000 or 75,000?
We're going to start with Elliot.
Elliot, what do you think?
I read somewhere that C is the right answer, but I picked A.
[chime] [chuckles] You know, this is going to work for you.
I have a feeling, in the long run.
It's just something goofy about you.
I've got 25% probability.
So you're going with 2,400 a year.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS: I'm going with 2,400 a year.
All right.
Manny, what do you think, being all that time in the forest?
Well, the answer is 42,000, C. [chime] That's right.
SCOTT BRUCE: Oh, he said this with confidence, kids.
What do you think?
I don't know.
Jana, how about you?
I say C. I mean, I heard there's a lot of them.
I don't know.
[chuckles] SCOTT BRUCE: The scientific approach, a lot of them.
I like that.
OK, well, let's find out which one of these guys did get it right.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is C, 42,000.
PennDOT reports that crashes between cars and deer result in several fatal accidents and hundreds of injured motorists.
Thousands of animals are also killed and property damage is reported to be in the tens of thousands.
According to The Pennsylvania Game commission, October, November and December are the peak months of highway deer kills in part, due to hunting season and because mid-November is the height of the breeding season.
Most accidents occur during twilight hours and throughout the night when deer are most active.
Allegheny County reported the largest number of highway deer kills in the State in 1994 with 2,343.
Well, Elliott's giving us funny answers but not the right ones.
So to compensate him, we're going to send him down a couple of Pennsylvania lottery tickets.
Pass those down.
[chime] The Pennsylvania Lottery provided us with a lot of tickets, and keep in mind, kids, you give me funny answers, you're going to get tickets.
That's the way, it's going to work out.
[chuckles] All right, kids, it's time to recap our score real quickly.
And let's check it out.
Manny with two, Jana with two, Elliot, the big goose egg.
[chuckles] SCOTT BRUCE: But they're doing good.
[applause] He'll come back.
Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Clue one.
Kids, get your pencils ready.
Here we go.
Born in Philadelphia in 1902, this actor's given name was Louis Feinberg.
[chime] Born in 1902, Philadelphia, this actor's given name was Louis Feinberg.
Remember that if you write down the correct answer at the very top and keep it all the way through, you'll get three points.
And if you change answers, your point total can change.
OK. No real good guesses from the panel on that one.
Let's go to our next question real quick.
ANNOUNCER: Captain ES Chase of Eagles Mere is well known for his many contributions to the town.
Among other things, he was the first to sound out and map the depths of Eagles Mere lake.
But it was a practice that he established in 1904 for his grandchildren that is enjoyed to this very day.
Did Captain Chase A, build an ice toboggan slide, B, hold the first public fireworks display, C, invent the paddle boat, or D, introduce the practice of stocking fish?
Is this were-- SCOTT BRUCE: No this is a plugin.
This is when you punch in.
Is it A, B, or C or D. OK. SCOTT BRUCE: Choices are, ice toboggan slide, fireworks, paddle boat or stocking fish.
Manny, you get to start off.
What do you think?
A. SCOTT BRUCE: A, Toboggan slide.
Still being used up there.
SCOTT BRUCE: Oh, again, the guy seems to know what he's talking about.
Maybe they changed it but-- [chuckles] Oh, could, but it sounds to me.
Jana, what do you think?
I wish I'd seen that.
[chuckles] But I thought, you know, it's either A, B, C or D, so-- [chuckles] --I went with B.
That was beautiful.
B.
B.
[chuckles] B Is an excellent choice.
Fireworks.
I felt that it was probably building a toboggan slide, but during the summer, there was melting, and so it would have to turn into a paddle boat at that time, at which point you could then stock fish.
So I picked D. [chuckles] SCOTT BRUCE: You didn't want to have fireworks?
MANNY GORDON: No.
[chuckles] ELLIOTT ABRAMS: Well, fireworks would be next, but-- [chuckles] I love-- I see another Pa Lottery card coming your way.
Let's find out what the correct answer is.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, build an ice toboggan slide.
[applause] Eagles Mere, in the heart of Sullivan County, is the home to the annual toboggan ride.
A tradition that was first established by Captain ES Chase back in 1904.
On a good weekend, as many as 1,700 people will ride down the slide that starts in the center of town.
Although the design of the slide hasn't changed, construction is much more mechanized today.
When the ice on Eagles Mere lake freezes to a foot in depth, workers cut out 1,200 blocks of ice, each weighing at least 265 pounds.
Using an elevator operated by a tractor, the ice is transported from the lake to a waiting pickup truck.
It takes an entire day to lay the blocks of ice down the hill to form the 1,200 foot long slide.
A crew hoses the ice track down with water to seal it, and then cuts out a groove to accommodate the toboggans which can travel 40 to 45mph.
I understand that the first guy down the slide was actually riding on a shovel and his posterior was hanging over and actually burnt out the seat of his pants.
[chuckles] On an ice slide.
I don't know about this.
Let's go to another question.
[chuckles] ANNOUNCER: They voted to reinstate the death penalty, increase the 55 mile an hour speed limit, and crack down on teenage criminals.
But perhaps the biggest challenge causing the most dissension in the Harrisburg House of Representatives during the 1995 legislative session was over a resolution to A, proclaim Peanut Butter Lover's Day, B, mandate driver's test for those over age 70, C, ban the wearing of colognes and perfumes while the house is in session, or D, change the house cafeteria recipe for pierogies.
[chuckles] SCOTT BRUCE: I just know my panel is going to have fun with this.
Peanut butter, drivers test, fragrances or pierogies.
[chime] Let's go to Jana first on this one.
Well, I'm sure it's-- well, let's put it this way, I think it should be this Peanut Butter Lover's Day, whatever, but I went with pierogies.
It's close to where I come from, so why not.
[chuckles] D. Pierogies in Slovenia.
OK, I like your logic.
I like your-- your loyalty is very nice there.
JANA KING: I have no idea.
Elliot, what do you think?
Well, it could be A because they would dispute whether peanut butter is to be loved since you can be allergic to it and it is a cologne that some of the house members probably use, made of peanuts.
And pierogies, if an airport's closed, it's never closed during a storm, you can always get a hot dog, kielbasa, or a pierogi, so that could have been it.
But I picked B. SCOTT BRUCE: I think you're going to get a point just for the longest answer we've had.
That was very good.
[chuckles] Manny, what do you think?
Well, I love peanut butter, but I'm going for B. Peanut butter, but B.
You're still going with B.
Nobody chose peanut butter but you all mentioned it.
[chuckles] I don't know, I think somebody made a mistake.
Let's find out the right answer right now.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is A, Peanut Butter Lover's Day.
The resolution was sponsored to honor the Edwards Freeman nut company of Conshohocken.
The Edwards Freeman Nut Company is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of natural peanut butter.
In fact, it's old dominion peanut butter is believed to be the oldest peanut butter trademark in America.
The resolution was sponsored by Republican Lita Idzel Cohen, but was not supported by the House due to costs.
Resolutions can run as high as $2,500 each after printing costs and the time employees spend to draft them have been calculated.
Instead, legislators agreed to have a special house citation drawn up congratulating the company for being an excellent corporate citizen of Pennsylvania.
OK, time for a recap on the score.
Manny, jumping out to a commanding lead with three points.
Jana from Slovenia two big points.
Elliot are native, zippo.
[chuckles] [applause] MANNY GORDON: But he tells good jokes, Scott.
[chuckles] SCOTT BRUCE: Time for clue two of the Mystery Pennsylvanian, kids.
Let's get ready.
As therapy for a childhood accident, he learned to play the violin.
A skill which led to vaudeville and his discovery.
[music playing] Vaudeville and his discovery.
Born in Philadelphia in 1902, this actor's given name was Louis Feinberg.
Feel free to write down any old thing.
If you don't have anything, go ahead and write, take a guess, you never know.
Louis Feinberg, born in Philly in 1902.
Louis Feinberg.
OK. We'll continue on.
We'll jump right from there and go to a new question.
ANNOUNCER: The Altoona Speedway near Tipton was often referred to as the Indy of the East.
Some of the hottest names in professional automobile racing competed there for big money.
One of those well known racers was Howard Wilcox, the 1919 Indy 500 winner.
What was he most noted for at the Altoona Speedway?
A, establishing the fastest speed ever recorded at Altoona, B, pushing his car across the finish line to win a race, C, taking the world's fastest pit stop or D, being killed in the first race ever held on the track.
SCOTT BRUCE: All right, team.
Fastest speed, pushing his car, world's fastest pit stop or being killed.
Elliot, I know you're going to love this.
Well, this is quite easy to do.
And what I'll do is simply close my eyes and pick one.
I picked B because it was there.
SCOTT BRUCE: Vote again.
MANNY GORDON: Do What?
SCOTT BRUCE: Vote again.
Oh, you took D?
B. SCOTT BRUCE: B.
Very good, B.
And Manny?
I take B too.
Manny also took B.
Did we get that through?
[chime] Very good.
And Jana?
JANA KING: I did B too.
It just sounds like something we should talk about.
SCOTT BRUCE: A lot of pushing going on.
[chuckles] [chime] There's our magic bell.
They're all going to win lottery tickets.
Let's find out what the real answer is.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, being killed in the first race ever held on the track.
[music playing] During its heyday from 1923 to 1931, the Altoona Speedway was known as the Indy of the East.
In all, three fatalities occurred at Altoona.
The first was Howard Wilcox.
He died in the first race ever held on the track, which was 60 feet wide, one and a quarter miles in length, and made entirely of wood.
Joe Boyer was killed a year later.
And in 1929, Ray Keech, who two weeks earlier had won at Indianapolis, was leading the race at Altoona when he was killed in a six car pile up.
In 1935, the speedway was irreparably damaged by a flood, never to be used again for racing.
There you have it.
Absolutely nobody got it.
Three B's and nobody got it.
Well-- MANNY GORDON: I hope we'll have better luck with the-- We'll have better luck with the lottery cards.
Let's go to another question and give these guys a chance to get back.
[music playing] ANNOUNCER: The Yellow Dog has become a symbol for the community of Oil City in Venanga County.
Is the yellow Dog A, a morning after drink for hangovers, B, the original Old Yeller, C, a flowering shrub, or D, a double-wicked lantern?
SCOTT BRUCE: All right, we got to figure this one out.
Morning after drink, Old Yeller, flowering shovel-- shrub.
Shrub.
SCOTT BRUCE: Shrub, shrub, shrub.
I'd like to buy a vowel or a double-wick lantern.
Manny.
What do you think?
Well, I'm not sure, but a shrub I had to go with.
SCOTT BRUCE: You like to-- well, being a forester, yeah [chuckles] I think that's-- although being a forester, you should know your shrubs, shouldn't you?
Not flower.
[chuckles] How about you, Jana.
It just sounds something like a morning after drink for a hangover.
[chuckles] So it's A. I don't know.
It's what I'm having tomorrow, as a matter of fact.
[chuckles] OK, so, morning after drink.
And Elliott, how about you?
I was tempted with B because oil and the auto industry and the Old Yeller, of course, was the person who would go around to all the car dealers and yell out, and of course, he was a carburetor.
[chuckles] [chime] So I picked D. SCOTT BRUCE: D?
A double-wicked lantern.
OK, they've all got their choices in.
Let's find out what the real answer is.
I don't know.
[chuckles] ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, a double-wick lantern.
The Yellow Dog lantern was used in the early days of mining to light up the oil fields at night.
The two spouts of the yellow dog were stuffed with candle wicking and the body or reservoir was filled with crude oil, kerosene, or later on fuel oil.
When lit, three or four yellow dogs produce enough light for the driller to work by.
It was some job to keep the yellow dog lanterns burning.
Periodically through the night, the accumulated soot would have to be brushed off the lantern, the wicks trimmed and the oil refilled.
A pail of water was always kept close by as quite often the yellow dog lanterns would boil over and catch fire.
They were last used in the Venanga oil fields in 1935.
[chime] SCOTT BRUCE: Elliott's off his goose egg, we can go to the mystery Pennsylvanian.
Here it is, clue three.
Often remembered as a comedic middleman, he is most easily recognized by his frizzy hairdo.
Often remembered as a comedic middleman, he is most easily recognized by his frizzy hairdo.
Born in Philly in 1902, this actor's given name is Louis Feinberg.
As therapy for a childhood accident, he learned to play the violin, a skill which led to vaudeville and his discovery.
Who could this mystery Pennsylvania be?
[chuckles] Well, we're going to find out very soon.
I see some looks on the audience like, hey, I think I know this one.
Let's find out if our contestants know it.
Manny, we'll come back to you to find out.
I don't know.
The only one I can think of-- SCOTT BRUCE: Hold your board up, please.
Oh, the only one I can think of is the guy in the three-- you know, that-- SCOTT BRUCE: There you go.
Right over here.
Who's that guy in the three-- SCOTT BRUCE: The guy in The Three Stooges?
The Three Stooges.
SCOTT BRUCE: The middle guy in The Three Stooges?
Yeah.
SCOTT BRUCE: Well, that's-- I don't know-- I don't know what we'll find on that.
But we have WC Fields and Three Stooges as a guess.
How about you, Jana?
Listen, I have no idea.
But I felt like I have to write something down.
SCOTT BRUCE: Yeah.
So you said frizzy hair do, so I wrote Richard Simmons.
Not.
SCOTT BRUCE: Richard Simmons, not.
[chuckles] [applause] I love it.
I love it.
Elliott, what do you have?
Well, this was quite clearly a decision that just had to be made, and so I made one that I really had no idea what it was, but I thought it might be one of The Three Stooges.
And if it wasn't one of The Three Stooges, it was someone else who was from Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1902.
[chuckles] Famous person.
MANNY GORDON: Ben Franklin.
Once again, using immaculate logic, following along with Manny.
Let's find out if anybody got anywhere near it.
I think Richard Simmons is a good chance.
ANNOUNCER: Larry Fine was best known as the middle man of The Three Stooges.
He was born Louis Feinberg in 1902 and grew up in Philadelphia.
A childhood accident left him with a severely burned left arm.
After surgery, doctors recommended that he be given violin lessons as a form of therapy.
Playing came naturally to him, and by age 10, he was performing professionally.
He played child parts in vaudeville comedy sketches and eventually formed his own musical act.
He later teamed up with the singing Haney sisters, and eventually married Mabel Haney.
In 1925, Moe and Shemp Howard, two of the original stooges and Ted Healy, the leader of the act, caught one of Larry's performances and asked him to join them in their unique comedy team.
Larry accepted and remained a member of the stooges until they broke up in the late 60s.
With his naturally frizzy hair, he made famous the comedic middleman, whose sole purpose was to get in the way of his fellow performers.
Larry Fine, a famous Pennsylvanian.
As we wrap up the show, we see that Manny, with three points, is our grand champion today.
[chuckles] [applause] And he'll be able to wrap himself up with this Woolrich's blanket.
100% made in Pennsylvania wool blanket from the Woolrich store.
And I will enjoy and joy.
[chuckles] OK. And remember, if you send in a question to The Pennsylvania Game and we get a chance to use that question, we will send you a year's subscription to Pennsylvania Magazine.
Please do so.
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Send it on in.
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