Hello Laurel & Hardy friends,
Our next film show is this Wednesday, 16th May at the usual location, THE WHITE LION….24, Middle Street, BEESTON, NG9 1FX commencing at the usual time of 7.30pm. Hopefully we’ll be upstairs again.
All are welcome and entry is free.
I’ve themed our May film show “Nothing but Mae” show in tribute to the eternally ever-popular Mae Busch. Though her birthday is next month (June 18th) , this mega supporting star, rarely gets the tribute she deserves, as her birthday is only 2 days after a certain Mr Stan Laurel. Though she was a major silent film star of the 1920s….she was actually a year younger than Stan, born June 18th 1891. I intend to show nothing but a series of Laurel & Hardy short films in which the eternally ever popular Mae Busch provides a supporting, and in one film, a top billing role!
We will also continue our history of L&H cartoons with a cartoon from 1933 entitled “Scrappy’s party” , where Scrappy throws a birthday party and invites many famous guests, not only Hollywood celebrities….but also some other familiar personalities of the time including Einstein, Gandhi and a rather surprising appearance of Adolf Hitler (6 years before WW2 and his universal infamy). We will have the usual raffle, any donations are gratefully accepted.
May I remind you that we have two film shows next month. Firstly, we will be celebrating the university of Stan’s birth on Wednesday, June 20th with a rare showing of the 1943 Fox feature film “The Dancing Masters”.
Then, on the following Saturday, June 23rd, we have our annual “Boys at the Bull” film event at the Bull Inn in Bottesford (between Nottingham & Gantham), with the usual 1pm start (until 6pm). This year it will be themed “Laurel & Hardy in Bully-Wood”….with an emphasis on wood….trees….etc. Dave Wyatt has agreed to visit us and re-show the complete version of Laurel & Hardy’s The Battle of the Century, which will be a real treat again to see this projected from 16mm film. This is a very rare film. It’s not available on DVD and sadly it maybe many many years (if not longer!) before it becomes available on any other medium……best of all, it is a very funny film. This pie-fight film was originally made to top all other pie-fight films.
For those that are new to the tent, the Bull Inn was regularly visited by Stan & Ollie during the early 1950s as Stan’s sister Beatrice Olga and her husband Bill Healey ran the pub as landlords. In the lounge there are numerous photos of their visits….including photos of the boys pulling the pints behind the Bull Inn bar on Christmas Day 1953 which was during their 4 week “Laurel & Hardy Christmas Party” variety show at the Nottingham Empire theatre. In the morning, we will be again be venturing out to Barkston (a few miles north of Grantham) to lay flowers on the Stan Laurels father’s grave (AJ) and to visit the Plough Inn (the pub that Beatrice Olga and Bill ran during the 1940s). Meet at the Stag Inn, Barkston 10.30am. All are welcome to Bottesford & Barkston, and it always makes a fun day out……and best of all – IT’S ALL FREE. We have already started to advertise the event amongst the Laurel & Hardy fraternity, so we are hoping for a few “out-of-towners” with us.
Hopefully, we’ll see you on Wednesday. Please bring friends and family – all are welcome.
Fraternally Yours,
Dave T
(Grand Sheikh – Nottingham Beau Hunks tent)
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