Date and Time: Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm | US/Arizona
Location: First Baptist Church
Category: Community Event
Description:
The Sons of the Desert is pitching its newest tent, appropriately, in Quartzsite, Arizona! The International Laurel & Hardy Society - known as the Sons of the Desert, after the comedy duo’s 1933 film - has established a local chapter (tent) in Quartzsite.
The Quartzsite Night Owls, will hold their first meeting from 3-4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 30 Church St., Quartzsite, AZ., off of West Cowell St. just east of the Quartzsite Senior Center. Meetings will be held on the last Friday of each month.
Three short films will be shown at the Oct. 29 meeting. “Unaccustomed As We Are,” filmed in 1929, was the duo’s first talking film. “Berth Marks,” also filmed in 1929, was their second “all-talking’ comedy. “Night Owls,” the new tent’s namesake, was filmed in 1930.
Light refreshments will be served and membership information for the club will be available. Quartzsite Night Owls is a registered official tent. Everyone of any age is welcome to come enjoy the films of Laurel & Hardy.
Sons of the Desert is devoted to keeping the lives and works of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before the public, and to have a good time while doing it. The group takes its name from a lodge that the comedians belong to in the 1933 film “Sons of the Desert.” In keeping with the tongue-in-cheek “desert” theme, each local chapter of the society is called a “tent,” and is named after a Laurel & Hardy film. Worldwide, there are well over 100 active tents, whose members meet regularly to enjoy Laurel & Hardy movies in an informal atmosphere.
“It is important, I think, to realize that Sons of the Desert is not a fan club,” explained John McCabe, the team's biographer, who founded the Sons in 1965. “The word ‘fan’ derives from ‘fanatic’ and I hope we are none of us that. I consider us ‘buffs,’ people having a connoisseur-like affection for Laurel & Hardy, and being discriminating in that affection, with fun as our goal and operative guide.”
For more information on the Sons of the Desert Night Owls tent, contact Carl Baker at (928) 550-3438 or email travelfulltime@yahoo.com.
Contact: Carl Baker
Email: travelfulltime@yahoo.com
Phone: 928-550-3438
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