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20 www.DesertMessenger.com October 19, 2022 too much junk? CLEAN OUT THAT GARAGE List your items in Desert Messenger CLASSIFIEDS Email Editor@DesertMessenger.com or CALL RAIN @ 928-916-4235 AA Meetings QUARTZSITE LOCAL SURVIVORS GROUP Mon. 5:30pm Big Book Study Thurs. 5:30pm Topic Sat. 5:30pm 12 Step 12x12 Year-Round at Community Bible Church, 375 E. Sunrise St. Randy 928-216-9963 Marcia 559-553-2643 • ALANO CLUB Texas RV Park 205 W. Main St. "B" Quartzsite Tues 10am Joe & Charlie Meeting 5:30pm Open Meeting Fri. 10am 12 x 12 Meeting 5:30pm Open Meeting Don 928-287-1273 • AL-ANON Texas RV Park 205 W. Main St. "B" Quartzsite Tues & Fri. 5:30pm Bertha 702-465-5137. Did you miss a Quartzsite COUNCIL MEETING? Watch them on line at www.QuartzsiteVideos.com Council videos Americans can once again order free COVID-19 tests from the fed- eral government by visiting CO- VIDtests.gov. In this round, the U.S. Postal Service will deliver eight free rapid antigen tests to any household in the U.S. that wants them, according to the website. COVIDtests.gov. Covid tests FREE EVENT LISTING! Quartzsite Events Online: QuartzsiteCalendar.com Nancy's Kitchen Join us for our one-year anniversary meeting of the Sons of the Desert Night Owls Tent, celebrating the fi lms of Laurel & Hardy! The International Laurel & Hardy Society - known as the Sons of the Des- ert, after the comedy duo's 1933 fi lm - established its local chapter (tent) in Quartzsite with our fi rst meeting on 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 with three short fi lms: "Unaccus- tomed As We Are," the duo's fi rst talking fi lm; "Berth Marks," their second "all-talking' comedy; and "Night Owls," the new tent's namesake. Since then we have screened more than two dozen of the duo's fi lms. Join us on Friday, Oct. 28, as we screen the Spanish-language "La Vida Nocturna" (1930) - a remake of the team's fi lm "Blotto." Ollie, a carefree bachelor, invites his henpecked pal Stan out for a night on the town. Mrs. Laurel (played by Anita Garvin) eavesdrops and learns that Stan is plan- ning to bring the precious bottle of liquor she's saved since Prohibition. She secretly empties the bottle and refi lls it with tea, pepper, mustard and other condiments, which Stan then "sneaks" out of the house. The boys, nonetheless, get riotously drunk on the non-alcoholic brew. One of the best scenes of the fi lm comes when Stan and Ollie go off on a beautifully paced drunken jag, punctuated with the subtle, blood boiling reactions of Mrs. Laurel (Garvin). The fi lm was released three years before the end of Prohibition and only months after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. The 14-piece band and more than 300 extras hired for the night club scene were surely grateful for the work and audiences were able to briefl y forget their troubles and join in the laughter. Rather than dub the original fi lm into Spanish, Laurel and Hardy reshot the entire fi lm, speaking the dialogue phonetically in Span- ish. Stan Laurel explained the process to historian Bill Rabe: "We'd make the picture fi rst entirely in English, naturally, then we'd preview it. Then we'd get it cut and all ready for shipping. That way, we knew exactly what we were going to use of the fi lm. If we hadn't previewed it, we may have shot a lot of stuff that we weren't going to keep, you see. "La Vida Nocturna" will be followed by the 1944 feature "Big Noise," among Laurel & Hardy's post-1940, World War II-era, fi lms after the duo had left Hal Roach Studios and signed with 20th Century Fox. Amateur sleuths Stan and Ollie are hired by an eccentric inventor to guard his new super bomb. At the inventor's home, the boys are confounded by other strange inventions. The inventor gives the boys a decoy bomb to take to Washington, to throw off a gang of crooks attempting to steal the bomb. Eventually the boys discover that they have the real bomb. They elude the gangsters by hiding in an old airplane. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a radio-controlled target plane for gunnery-crew training. Of course L&H escape, while dropping the bomb on an enemy submarine. On Nov. 25, the Night Owls tent will meet with a showing of the 1930 short "Another Fine Mess," followed by the 1941 feature "Great Guns." The Night Owls tent will close out the year on Dec. 30 with the 1931 short "Be Big" and 1943's "Jitterbugs." Sons of the Desert Quartzsite Night Owls meets from 3-4:30 p.m. on the last Friday of each month at First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 30 Church St., Quartzsite, AZ., off of West Cowell Street just east of the Quartzsite Senior Center. Light refreshments will be served and membership information for the club will be available. Quartzsite Night Owls is a registered offi cial tent of the Sons of the Desert International Laurel & Hardy Appreciation Society. Everyone of any age is welcome to come enjoy the fi lms of Laurel & Hardy. Meetings are free, although donations are accepted gladly. For more in- formation on the Sons of the Desert Night Owls tent, contact Carl Baker at (928) 550-3438 or email travelfulltime@yahoo.com. Sons of the Desert Night Owls meet Oct. 28 DINNER IN A PUMPKIN Medium size pumpkin; cut top off and set aside. Clean insides out and rinse…set aside. Brown 3 lbs. ground beef, in large skillet. Add: 2 tsp salt, ½ tsp black pep- per, 2/3 C chopped green pep- per, 1½ C chopped celery, 1½ C chopped onion,½ C soy sauce, 4 TBS brown sugar, 2 cans (4 oz- drained) mushrooms, 2 cans cream chicken soup 4 C cooked rice Fill Cleaned pumpkin shell, with mixture. Set on a cookie sheet. Put the "top" of the pumpkin fl at on the cookie sheet, with the pump- kin. Bake at 350 for 2-3 hours. Af- ter taking out of the oven, decorate it like a jack o lantern; lettuce on top, with "pumpkin top" on top of lettuce (makes hair), carrot for nose, sliced cucumber for eyes, green pepper for ears etc. use your imagination. When dishing up the fi lling, onto a plate scrape out some of the pumpkin linning with the spoonful of rice mixture. Makes a perfect dinner and decoration for a Halloween meal or luncheon.

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