Yep, RC, I was very sad when Stuart dies.
There is at least one person still around from those days, Carla Laemmle. She's the niece of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle and played a ballerina in the original THE PHANTHOM OF THE OPERA and she's the young woman in glasses riding in the coach with Dwight Frye at the beginning of DRACULA. She likes to brag about the fact she had the first line of dialogue in the first talking Universal horror movie!
She's 101 and is still doing interviews. I just saw her in the new TCM documentary
Moguls and Movie Stars talking about growing up on the Universal lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Laemmle