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Post by ARENA on Apr 22, 2017 7:58:46 GMT
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999) was an American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985. He is often considered to be one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 23, 2017 7:08:47 GMT
Gerald Theron Campion (23 April 1921, Bloomsbury, London, England – 9 July 2002, Agen, France), was an English actor best known for his role as Billy Bunter in a 1950s television adaptation of books by Frank Richards. The son of a screen writer, Cyril Campion, Gerald Campion appeared in numerous films and television programmes — mostly comedies.  |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 23, 2017 7:11:55 GMT
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE 23 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Smyth was born in Sidcup, Kent, which is now in the London Borough of Bexley, as the fourth of a family of eight children. Her father, John Hall Smyth, who was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery, was very much opposed to her making a career in music. Undeterred, Smyth was determined to become a composer, studied with a private tutor, and then attended the Leipzig Conservatory, where she met many composers of the day. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral and concertante works, choral works, and operas.  |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 23, 2017 7:12:31 GMT
Good luck for today, Arena.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 24, 2017 7:09:55 GMT
John Norman "Jack" Hulbert (24 April 1892 - 25 March 1978) was a British actor, specialising primarily in comedy productions. Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, he was the elder and more successful brother of Claude. He was educated at Cambridge and appeared in many shows and revues, mainly with the Cambridge Footlights. He was one of the earliest famous alumni of the comedy club.Married to Cicely Courtneidge. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4191975-1370209689-4713.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 25, 2017 7:10:06 GMT
Paul Whitsun-Jones (25 April 1923 – 14 January 1974) was a Welsh actor. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Middlesex. Whitsun-Jones played the role of Mr Bumble in the original West End production of the musical Oliver!He died of appendicitis in London in 1974 aged 50.  |
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Post by rondetto on Apr 25, 2017 18:02:34 GMT
It would have been Terry Scott's 90th birthday today.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 26, 2017 7:50:13 GMT
Charlie Chester (April 26, 1914 – June 26, 1997) was a British comedian and TV and radio presenter, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of Max Miller. Chester was born Cecil Victor Manser in Eastbourne, East Sussex. His first job after leaving education was as a grocer's errand boy, but he won talent competitions for his musical instrument playing.He suffered a stroke and died in Twickenham on 26 June 1997 aged 83.  This day has special meaning for me. It was my mother's birthday but also the day she died of cancer. |
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Post by rondetto on Apr 26, 2017 13:31:22 GMT
They don't make them like that any more. I wouldn't pay a penny to listen to so called comedians just ramble on about
nothing. Why don't they tell jokes any more?
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Post by aubrey on Apr 26, 2017 15:41:40 GMT
They don't make them like that any more. I wouldn't pay a penny to listen to so called comedians just ramble on about nothing. Why don't they tell jokes any more? Richard Herring says he writes about three jokes a year. His shows are funny, but he doesn't do jokes. You can listen to or see a lot of his shows for free - AIOTM - a sketch show written one day, rehearsed the next (one run through), and preformed on the day after. There are going to be some on YT, but they're mostly audio. Or his interviews with other comedians, or with people like Danny Baker and Virginia Ironside and Victoria Coren. Just people talking, but they're very funny. |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 27, 2017 7:03:26 GMT
Mary Wollstonecraft ( /ˈwʊlstən.krɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)  Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomplished writer herself, as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 28, 2017 8:04:55 GMT
Frederick "Fred" Dibnah MBE (28 April 1938 – 6 November 2004), born in Bolton, was an English steeplejack and eccentric with a keen interest in mechanical engineering who became a cult television personality. Dibnah was born in a country which then relied heavily upon coal to fuel its industry.He died from cancer in November 2004, aged 66. He is survived by his five children from three marriages.  |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 29, 2017 7:23:13 GMT
Alice Frederica Keppel, née Edmonstone (29 April 1868 – 11 September 1947) was a British society hostess and a long-time mistress of King Edward VII. Her charm and discretion impressed London society and soon brought her to the attention of the future king Edward VII, whose mistress she remained till his death, lightening the dark moods of his later years.  Judith Keppel (Eggheads)is the granddaughter of Walter, 9th Earl of Albemarle. Her great-grandfather, the 8th Earl, was brother-in-law of Alice Keppel, the mistress of King Edward VII, and was the great-granduncle of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall |
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Post by ARENA on Apr 30, 2017 7:13:46 GMT
Leslie Michael Grantham (born 30 April 1947) is an English actor best known for his role as "Dirty" Den Watts in the soap opera EastEnders. He is also a convicted murderer, having served 10 years for the killing of a German taxi driver, and he generated significant press coverage as the result of an online sex scandal in 2004. Grantham was born in Camberwell, London.  |
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Post by ARENA on May 1, 2017 7:36:02 GMT
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, GM, OBE, Croix de guerre ( 1 May 1908 - 15 June 1952) was a Polish Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. She became celebrated especially for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France. She became a British agent months before the SOE was founded in July 1940.  |
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