The middleman for the comedy trio known as The Three Stooges, Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg) began his career as a violinist and singer at silent movie shows. In 1922, he joined the Gus Edwards Newsboy Sextette playing the violin, dancing, singing and performing comedy in Jewish dialect, which was popular in the era. He soon married another vaudevillian, Mabel Haney, and together with her sister Loretta formed the trio 'The Haney Sisters and Fine'. A 1925 performance in Chicago was attended by Ted Healy, Moe and Shemp Howard, who had become an act known as Ted Healy and His Stooges. Shemp
