Bulletin September 2008
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Website of the Year Bowler Dessert Online has benn voted the Website of the Year by the Laurel and Hardy Forum. Click here for the story. We are proud of all the people who have made their impact with regular material for our site and also for having so many visitors to our site. Thanks go to the Forum for selecting us from so many worthy sites. They are all winners in our eyes! Bus launch in Ulverston Mark Bushell writes, "I can now confirm that due to technical problems with the vehicle in question (and an illness of one of our invited guests) the bus will now be launched on Thursday 4th September at 12.30pm, outside the new premises of the world famous Laurel and Hardy Museum at Oubas Hill, Ulverston. We would be delighted if any of your friends could make this new date." Charlie Hall collection in auction Dave Tomlinson spotted lot 67 in Dominic Winter Book Auctions, under an item to be auctioned on Wednesday 3rd September, commencing at 11am. Viewing Tuesday 2nd September 9am-7pm and morning of sale from 9am. http://www.dominicwinter.co.uk. Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ. £700-£1000. Box set bargains still available Steve Bartley tells us that Zavvi (formerly Virgin Megastores) are selling the 21 disc Universal L&H box set for £49... "at least they are at our local Manchester's Trafford Centre".
Little Alex's website Many Sons will have seen or heard about nine-year-old Alexander Rowland, alias Alexander the Great, with his great Ollie impersonation and act. If you haven't seen him, you can see just how good he is by visiting his new website at http://www.alexanderrowland.com. Roger Robinson Steve's website Grand Sheik Steve Bartley has a fine website at http://www.myspace.com/STEVEBARTLEYMUSIC, which features some of Steve's songs. Brats A great meeting in August had a number of "Brats" in attendance, especially due to the school holidays. Three of the youngest members, Oliver Johnson, John Burton and Joe Wilson, took part in a Kneesie-Earsie-Nosey competition to see if we could find anyone who could possibly challenge for the esteemed World Title at the Laurel and HarDay in Wigan. All were magnificent and one of them will be representing the Brats Tent in Septober (but which one. . .?). We are also holding a Buffet Night at the Lajawab Restaurant on Monday 20th Octember to celebrate our 20th University (the closest Monday that we could get to our first ever meeting night of 17th Octember, 1988). My how we've altered but we haven't changed a bit! All Sons are welcome to attend. If interested, please contact me on 0114 2548151 as I will need to confirm numbers in advance to the restaurant. John Burton |
Dominic Hawes
RIP Lois [Stan
Laurel's daughter] has asked me to
pass on a message. . . Dean
McKeown
(26.08.08.) Laurel and Charlie A new comedy called Laurel and Charlie delighted audiences and critics when it premiered in March this year. It gives a new take on the early years of Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin, as they toured together as part of Fred Karno's music hall troupe. It will be back at arts centres and village halls in October and November. Bookings are also being taken at Arts Centres for April and May, 2009. The play is written by Kate Bramley and directed by Kate Bramley and Jason Hird, with original music by Jez Lowe. It stars Colin Moncrieff and Phil Yarrow.
Chuck on Nutty Nut News Network Another recording has been newly added to the Nutty Nut News Network website at www.nuttynutnewsnetwork.com. Roving reporter Steve Wichrowski Jr conducts an entertaining interview from 2007 with comic actor and voice artist Chuck McCann, who discusses conversations he had with Stan Laurel and also performs excellent vocal imitations of both Stan and Ollie. Joining him for part of the interview is his "Stan" partner, Jim MacGeorge. McCann recounts highlights of his career including radio, television and commercial performances and concludes with background information concerning the Sons' Founding Tent. |
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Early to Bed Tent's grid The Early to Bed Tent of Chesterfield screened its 500th film at the August meeting. The film chosen for this milestone was Early to Bed, which was first shown at the inaugural meeting in 1995. When I was about to set up the tent Frank and Joyce Sugden gave me some printed grid sheets and advised me to keep them up to date with which films were shown at each meeting. This proved to be good advice as it avoids showing the same film at dates close together and over the years builds up a pattern of films shown. After all the available films were screened, I tried to balance programmes so that silents, talkies, later films etc were all represented but on studying the data it's obvious when a film has been poorly received because there's a long gap before it appears on the grid again! Grahame Morris |
