The Laughing Cavalier (novel) The Laughing Cavalier (novel) The Laughing Cavalier is a 1913 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, which revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of Orczy's famous character, the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story takes place in Holland in 1623/1624 and is partly inspired by Frans Hals' painting "The Laughing Cavalier": in the novel, Blake is Frans Hals' adopted son and the man who poses for the painting of the Laughing Cavalier. The sequel to this book, continuing the story of Percy Blake, is "The First Sir Percy". In March 1623, the Dutch nobleman Willem van Oldenbarnevelt, Lord of Stoutenburg,
The Laughing Dogs "Get Outta My Way" is in the soundtrack of the 2013 film CBGB. An interesting coincidence is that the first The Laughing Dogs album from 1979 re-used the cover for the unreleased debut album from the band Wicked Lester, that later morphed into Kiss. Ten years later, The Laughing Dogs member Carter Cathcart co-wrote a song ("Remember Me") with Kiss member Ace Frehley on his solo album Trouble Walkin'. The Laughing Dogs The Laughing Dogs were an American rock band, active in the 1970s and associated with the rock/punk scene of New York's CBGB. They released two albums on Columbia.