Hello Laurel & Hardy friends,
Our next film show will be on Wednesday, Octember 19th, 7.30pm till 10.30pm at the THE BRIDGE INN on Longmoor Lane, Sandiacre NG10 5LW – in the outside function room as per usual.
All are welcome and entry is free.
It’s our Halloween horror film show…..I’ve entitled our show “Ghosts, gulls and things that go splash in the night”…which gives some clues to what you may see.
Concurrently, we will be celebrating the birthdays of two of the most significant supporting actors/actresses in Laurel & Hardy films …… firstly, the diminutive and forceful Daphne “I’ll cook his goose” Pollard (October 19th) and the eternal drunk Arthur “Hiccup” Housman (October 10th). We’ll be showing L&H films where they appear together or appear separately. Our feature film will be “Our Relations (1936)”, where Stan & Ollie (and many others) are spooked by meeting their twin brothers Bert and Alf !! In this film, which is one of my favourites, Daphne plays the forceful Mrs Hardy…and Arthur Housman is, yes, the drunk!
We will also be continuing our series of short cartoons from the 1930s. This month we intend to show “The Merry Mutineers” a 5 min Columbia cartoon from October, 1936 released just a few weeks before “Our Relations”.
We will have the usual raffle and any donations are always gratefully accepted.
Sadly, this month I have to report the passing of two friends from the UK Sons of the Desert. First of all, Chris Coffey from the Wigan tent, who was very well known among Sons who attended UK Conventions and those that attended the Laurel & Harday in Wigan. Secondly and not least, David Wyatt. Many of you would have met Dave at our Boys at the Bull meetings and at Helpmates conventions. Dave was a well respected film historian, always cheerful, and loved to present rarities at our film shows….you might recall that Dave was able to give us a very special screening of the complete “Battle of The Century” a few years ago before it had been transferred to DVD. Both are a sad loss, to me personally, and a loss to the Sons at large and we’ll be toasting them both at our meeting on Wednesday.
Our meetings continue to be on the 3rd Wednesday of the month with our next one on Nowonder 16th at 7.30pm.
Hopefully, we’ll see you all on Wednesday. Please bring friends and family – all are welcome. It’ll be fun.
Fraternally Yours,
Dave T
(Grand Sheikh – Nottingham Beau Hunks tent)
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