Glasgow 1906. Arthur Stanley Jefferson, a young man from Ulverston in EnglandΓÇÖs North West has moved with his ex-actor parents, turned theatre managers to Glasgow. His father wants him to learn the trade of theatre manager ΓÇô you can charge the audience an extra haΓÇÖpenny by showing them the new moving pictures, though as Stan says ΓÇ£who wants to see moving pictures?ΓÇ¥ ΓÇô but Stan has an ambition to make people laugh. It is thus that he makes his first appearance on a music hall stage. 

Never heard of Stan Jefferson? Suppose he later changed his name to Stan Laurel…….