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  Chesney and Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ronald Chesney (born 1922) and Ronald Wolfe are British TV comedy scriptwriters, best known for their popular 1960s / 1970s sitcoms The Rag Trade and On The Buses.
Chesney left school at the age of 16 and became a professional harmonica player.
In 1963 Chesney and Wolfe repeated their success with the BBC sitcom Meet The Wife starring Dame Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton.
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Ronald had great faith in the harmonica, but because it is regarded in rather an unorthodox light by the musical public, he had difficulty making people understand that a piece, written by Bach or Debussy, for the violin, can sound equally enchanting on the harmonica.
Ronald was a man of simple tastes, he spent most of his time in a workshop at home, improving the mechanical aspect of the harmonica to keep pace with his musical progress.
Chesney at the age of seventy-five, and his wife are in good health and enjoy the visits by their children and grand-children.
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Ronald Chesney was and still is a world famous Harmonica player and past President of the National Harmonica Leauge (NHL).
Chesney, with his 'talking harmonica' novelty act, had been performing on the show since its inception when, in 1955, comedian Wolfe joined the series as a scriptwriter.
Wolfe and Chesney were to remain with the BBC throughout the 1960s, creating a further four comedy series for the corporation, including Meet The Wife (1963-66), a very popular domestic sitcom starring Freddie Frinton and Thora Hird.
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 Jeremy Chesman — Thomas Chesney : ZoomInfo Business People Information
Chesney is a seasoned professional that was born and raised in the suburbs of New York...
Marion Chesney was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Paula Chesney of Cotter and the late Kenneth Chesney.
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 South Africa
In 1951 Eric Cronholm won the Transvaal Harmonica Competition, one of the adjucator was Ronald Chesney who was touring South Africa at the time.
Ronald was a master virtuoso, and always played some traditional compositions wherever he went.
Due to Chesney, "Boeremusiek" became very popular on the harmonica and many compositions were especially written for the harmonica by Vincent van Rooyen.
www.geocities.com /artdaane/southafrica.htm   (563 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Chesney blames split on workload   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Legalese: Renee Zellweger cited fraud in the petition to annul union with Chesney.
Chesney, 37, tells Country Weekly magazine that he's "all right" and "good" since the split.
Chesney's tour started days after their May 9 beach wedding and ended just weeks before Zellweger filed her petition.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-09-20-chesney_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (276 words)

  
 TIME.com: Not Proven -- Mar. 1, 1954 -- Page 1
Black-bearded, with a gold earring in his pierced right ear and gold bangles jangling at his wrists, the man who called himself Ronald Chesney looked every inch the pirate he claimed to be.
For the next decade the Donald Merretts, or the Ronald Chesneys as they liked to call themselves, lived high, wide and handsome, spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières.
When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies and gentlemen.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,819490,00.html   (711 words)

  
 Barley Charlie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Chesney and Wolfe were the creators and writers of the highly successful British series The Rag Trade, and it was hoped they would be able to duplicate their U.K. success when they created Barley Charlie.
In fact, Chesney and Wolfe drafted six episodes and, having fulfilled the terms of their contract, returned to England.
Australian playwright Alan Hopgood adapted the Chesney and Wolfe scripts and wrote the remaining episodes.
www.classicaustraliantv.com /BarleyCharlie.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Ronald T. Rolley
Ronald T. Rolley by unidentified photographer; fl and white photograph, 1972.
Ronald T. Rolley was born in Detroit, Michigan.
He specialized in vascular surgery and did research in tumor and transplantation immunology at the Surgical Research Laboratory of the Thomas O'Neill Memorial Laboratories that were operated jointly by Good Samaritan Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu /sgml/rolley.html   (351 words)

  
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After that he began working for the BBC, where in the early 1950's he was to meet Ronald Chesney, writing The Rag Trade together they then wrote Meet The Wife starring THORA HIRD.
He has wrote for summer shows, pantomimes etc for such performers as Beryl Reid and Ken Dodd and Tommy Steele in Cinderella.
Ronald Wolfe is married with two daughters and lives in London
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 On the Buses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Commissioned by then Head of Comedy for LWT, Frank Muir, and written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe who had previously devised The Rag Trade, On The Buses was typical 1970's fare of vulgar innuendo and corny situations played to perfection by its colourful cast.
Former music hall variety man Reg Varney (who had starred in the two Ronald's earlier series), played downtrodden but ever hopeful Stan Butler, a bus driver for the Luxton Bus Company working the Number 11 route to the cemetery gates.
Together with his bus conductor partner Jack (Bob Grant), the plots usually revolved around the twosomes attempts to woo the mini skirted, big busted female employees who worked as 'Clippies' (Bus Conductresses) for the same company.
www.decweb.net /OnBuses.htm   (205 words)

  
 WFU - School of Law - Robert M. Chesney
Professor Chesney is the chair-elect of the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools, as well as the current chair of the Section on New Law Professors.
In the fall of 2005, Professor Chesney was invited by the Department of Defense to participate in a tour of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
Prior to joining the Wake Forest faculty in the fall of 2002, Professor Chesney practiced in the litigation department of Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York City, where his clients included J.P. Morgan and the New York County Lawyers' Association.
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 On The Buses - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Within six months of its inception, London Weekend Television was the grateful recipient of a new sitcom from seasoned writers, Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney.
The cheerfully lowbrow workplace sitcom which aired on Saturday nights was originally rejected by the BBC and was set in the (fictitious) Home Counties-based Luxton and District Bus Company, ruled over by the petty minded Hitler-esque Inspector Blake.
When the show finally came to an end in 1973, Blakey's character was spun-off into a new Wolfe and Chesney sitcom, Don't Drink The Water, while plain Olive's character, once again played by (the actually far from plain) Anna Karen, resurfaced in the writers' 1977 - 78 LWT revival of The Rag Trade.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/onthebuses.htm   (640 words)

  
 Agent Orange
That position was overwhelmingly supported by President Ronald Reagan in a speech at the AMA convention, calling the resolution "a positive step toward a more reasonable public debate" on the issue.
But to Vietnam veterans, studying aircrews who had handled drums of Agent Orange, and not the soldiers exposed to it, was like testing the crew of the Enola Gay for the effects of radiation, not the survivors of Hiroshima.
MACV memorandums written during the war did not support Chesney's claims that Agent Orange saved lives, but no one questioned him on his conclusions because those documents were still classified.
www.usvetdsp.com /agentorange.htm   (10385 words)

  
 It's A Deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Benson, the Office General Manager, was played by Wallas Eaton, Susan Corkingdale, the plummy voiced secretary, was played by June Whitfield, and Robin Ray was Steve the office Boy.
The entire series was written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald wolfe and produced by Tom Ronald.
This is notable as it was the last regular radio appearance for Sid, although the character was only a more fixed version of the 'Sid' from Hancock.
www.britishcomedy.org.uk /comedy/iadeal.htm   (136 words)

  
 Ronald Wolfe - Sitcom writer, lecturer, public speaker - writer of On The Buses & The Rag Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ronald Wolfe - Sitcom writer, lecturer, public speaker - writer of On The Buses and The Rag Trade
They have stood the test of time, they make people laugh, and appear to be as popular now as when they were first aired.
Also included in this “Golden Age” of sitcoms are the two classic series The Rag Trade and On the Buses, which I devised and wrote together with my writing partner Ronald Chesney.
www.ronaldwolfe.co.uk   (340 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - chesney, CDs, DVDs, Magazines items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." -- Peter DeVries
Corbett and Barker, to be sure, but Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who also created the legendary On the Buses.
Trade was your typically boisterous and rowdy working-class Britcom masks the groundbreaking nature of the show, in that it was one of the earliest sitcoms to present strong female characters (who were frequently rewarded with all the punch lines) in what had been up to that time a male-dominated genre.
The Rag Trade scored with television audiences, Chesney and Wolfe tried to get the BBC interested in a revival series, but when Auntie Beeb said “No, thank you” they pitched the concept to ITV/London Weekend, who green lighted the show and featured it for two series from 1977-78.
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 Ronald Chesney (II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 COMEDY PLAYHOUSE | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
As an example Wild, Wild Women by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney was a variation on the duos own successful sitcom The Rag Trade.
Although the potential was seen for a full series, the comedy, starring Barbara Windsor as the head of a group of factory workers in Victorian London, never made it beyond the first six episodes.
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Marty Feldman, Barry Took, Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney, Johnny Speight, Richard Waring, Michael Pertwee, Carla Lane, Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft, Roy Clarke, Richard Waring, John Sullivan.
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 Jones, Dark Lord of Derkholm (040jond2)
The entire imaginary world continent has been essentially coopted by Tours, all enforced by the Tours' creator, a Mr.
There is probably an in-joke regarding "Ronald Chesney" that I don't get; virtually every other name in the book seems to be an in-joke.
Unknown to Derk, he was selected for one purpose, and one purpose only: the assumption that he would screw up the Tours.
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 GOODALE FAMILY TREE
They had a son, my half brother, Ronald Chesney, who was 17yrs older than I. He married a Nella Barsi and they had a daughter, my niece Lynn.
She changed her last name to Piccardo, which is the name she goes by today.
Ronald Chesney on Feb. 26, 1954 in San Francisco, CA m.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | On the Buses TV star found dead
On the Buses made its debut on LWT in 1971, running for 74 episodes and spawning three feature films.
Originally devised by writers Ronald Chesney and Ronald Woolfe, during the show's final series Mr Grant and co-star Stephen Lewis, who played Blakey, began contributing to scripts.
Mr Grant's fame during this period was such that when he married in 1971 the buses booked to take guests to the reception had to be abandoned because of the chaos caused by so many fans turning up to wish him well.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3283503.stm   (233 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ronald Bayers, and Donna Darling (Bayers), all of East Chezzetcook; June Farrell (Chesney) of Harley, Ont.; 
Chesney, Woodstock, Ont.; five grandchildren; nieces, Joyce Crowell and Donna Darling, East Chezzetcook
He is survived by a cousin, Ronald Miekle.
www.rootsweb.com /~nschezhs/Obituaries_2003.htm   (4227 words)

  
 DVD Times - On the Buses: The Complete First Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Even the women, the clippies on the buses, are not entirely unlike a Stan Butler themselves, being brassy, flirty and unafraid of show some leg when leading the buses out onto the busy road.
None of which did much to attract the attentions of the BBC when Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney brought it to them after The Rag Trade and Meet The Wife but LWT were another matter and were much more fond of On The Buses.
Giving it pride of place in the weekend schedules, they were rewarded with an audience that took not one jot of interest in what the critics said, who, unsurprisingly, didn't like it a great deal, and who stuck with the show for seven years.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=60608   (1834 words)

  
 The Rag Trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom transmitted by the BBC between 1961 and 1963.
The scripts were written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, which was a peried variation of The Rag Trade.
The actions centred around a small clothing workshop, Fenner Fashions in London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rag_Trade   (245 words)

  
 The Village News :: Chan-Chesney announce engagement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Alexx Chan of Fallbrook and Ronald Chesney of Fallbrook have announced their engagement.
The future groom is the son of Mary Homan of Deltaville, VA, and John Robert Chesney of Olathe, KS.
He is a 1978 graduate of Olathe High School and 2001 graduate of the University of Texas.
www.thevillagenews.com /story.asp?story_ID=5937   (174 words)

  
 How about an electric harmonica, or even a midi harmonica?
British player Ronald Chesney featured what he called his "talking harmonica" on the BBC Radio show "Educating Archie".
Strictly speaking, this wasn't an electric harmonica as such, but a normal harmonica that was electrically amplified with the output sent via a tube to someone's mouth.
As Chesney played the harmonica, the other person shaped the tone with his mouth in front of a microphone, making it sound like the harmonica was talking.
www.patmissin.com /ffaq/q27.html   (1051 words)

  
 Television Heaven
Commissioned by then Head of Comedy for LWT, Frank Muir, and written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe who had previously devised The Rag Trade, On The Buses, rejected by the BBC, was typical 1970's fare of vulgar innuendo and corny situations played to perfection by its colourful cast.
His place in the diminishing Butler household was taken by a lodger - Inspector Blake.
By this time the two Ronald's had relinquished much of the writing and Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis were contributing scripts, as were George Layton and Jonathan Lynn.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /buses.htm   (494 words)

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