As was common in BBC radio at that time, Hatch served both as the show's announcer and as a cast member ( similar to Douglas Smith's role in Round the Horne ; Hatch however did give his roles some characterisation, in contrast to Smith's totally deadpan style ).

He was one of four Muscatine residents to be appointed as a diplomatic envoy between 1855 and 1900, a remarkable feat for a town of such small size: George Van Horne was consul at Marseilles, France during the 1860s ; Samuel McNutt served at Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1890 ; and Frank W. Mahin represented his country in Reichenberg, Austria in 1900.

Van Horne began working on railroads in 1857, serving in various capacities on the Michigan Central Railway until 1864, then for the Chicago and Alton Railway for whom he served as the general superintendent from 1878-1879.

Van Horne served as a governor of McGill University from 1895 – 1915 and was one of the first in Canada to acquire artworks by members of the French impressionist movement.

Many prominent singers have served in the jury, including Carlo Bergonzi, Geraint Evans, Marilyn Horne, Gundula Janowitz, Sherrill Milnes, Christoph Prégardien, Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Anne Evans, René Kollo, Galina Vishnevskaya and Dame Gwyneth Jones.

Among the more than fifty Broadway musicals where he served as orchestrator and / or arranger and / or musical director and / or composer for are Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, Flower Drum Song, Funny Girl, No, No Nanette, Purlie Victorious, Ain't Misbehavin ' and Jelly's Last Jam.

She served as main vocal arranger for many of producer Arthur Freed's MGM musicals and as vocal coach to such stars as Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, and June Allyson.

In between carrying out his RAF duties, Horne formed a concert party from his friends and colleagues.

With the coming of peace, the supposed RAF station became a civil airport, and the show continued much as before, written by and starring Horne and Murdoch, with Sam Costa and Maurice Denham.

By now, Horne had been demobilised from the RAF and returned to civilian life as Sales Director of Triplex.

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comedy BBC radio and Radio Luxembourg show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience.

Within a year, Horne was promoted to Squadron Leader, and in 1943 he was posted to the Air Ministry in London with the rank of Wing Commander.

She performed as herself in several features, notably I Dood It ( MGM 1943 ), Broadway Rhythm ( MGM 1944 ), with Lena Horne and in the otherwise all-white cast The Heat's On ( Columbia 1943 ), Something to Shout About ( Columbia 1943 ), and Rhapsody in Blue ( Warner Bros 1945 ).

Horne was primarily a nightclub performer during this period and it was during a 1943 club engagement in Hollywood at Slapsy Maxie's in which talent scouts approached Horne to work in pictures.

Her performance of " Stormy Weather " in the movie short Bundle of Blues ( 1933 ) was only eclipsed by the later and far better-known version sung by Lena Horne in Horne's movie that was also entitled Stormy Weather ( 1943 ).

His role in Casablanca was by far his most famous, but his other films included My Favorite Blonde ( 1942, with Bob Hope ), Stormy Weather ( 1943, with Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers ), and the 1951 western Passage West.

He later appeared in the 1943 film Stormy Weather, an all-black musical, as the third part of a love-triangle involving Lena Horne and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson.

*" Honeysuckle Rose "-Lena Horne from Thousands Cheer " ( 1943 )

* Ain't it the Truth ( Outtake )-Lena Horne from ( Cabin in the Sky ) 1943

He produced one picture, Stormy Weather, for Twentieth Century Fox in 1943, which starred jazz greats Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Zutty Singleton, and Fats Waller and the legendary dancers the Nicholas Brothers and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson.

* 1934 – Marilyn Horne, American opera singer

* 1952 – Barry Horne, Animal rights activist ( d. 2001 )

* 1925 – Sir Alistair Horne, British historian

* 2001 – Barry Horne, British animal activist ( b. 1952 )

* June 30 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress ( d. 2010 )

* February 14 – Frederick J. Horne, American four star Admiral ( d. 1959 )

* January 16 – Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano

* June 25 – John Horne Tooke, English politician and philologist ( d. 1812 )

Tiring of his reduced status, he joined Kenneth Horne in Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), and its sequel, Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ).

* September 9 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.

* December 18 – John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lièges, Belgium, is executed.

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

With Barry Took as script editor ( and later producer ), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: Graham Stark, for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Betty Marsden.

Horne has since been made the subject of two biographies, Norman Hackforth's Solo for Horne in 1976 and, 30 years later, Barry Johnston's more detailed Round Mr Horne.

The series was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing, and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Beyond Our Ken featured characters similar to those later featured in Round the Horne, for instance Betty Marsden's Fanny Haddock ( which parodied Fanny Cradock ).

As executive director of the Northwest Economic Development Commission Inc. and later the Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments, Matthews helped establish nearby Pilot Mountain State Park, Horne Creek Living Historical Museum and preserve a 26-mile section of The New River.

Although U. S. Army Major Jefferson Van Horne is believed to have passed near the area in 1849 on his way to take command of what would later become Fort Bliss, the town is instead named for Lt. James Judson Van Horn who commanded an army garrison at the Van Horn Wells beginning in 1859.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

He effectively assumes the " Objective Local Theory " later used by Clauser and Horne ( Clauser, 1974 ).

In that house, or the church itself, he was visited by Founding Fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; other American politicians such as John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail ; British politicians such as Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl Stanhope ( known as " Citizen Stanhope "), and even the Prime Minister William Pitt ; philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith ; agitators such as prison reformer John Howard, gadfly John Horne Tooke, and husband and wife John and Ann Jebb, who between them campaigned on expansion of the franchise, opposition to the war with America, support for the French Revolution, abolitionism, and an end to legal discrimination against Roman Catholics ; writers such as poet and banker Samuel Rogers ; and clergyman-mathematician Thomas Bayes, of Bayes ' theorem.

Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy — amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and many television programmes.

From 1927 to 1929 she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, who was dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute in Fort Valley, Georgia, and who would later become an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

A few years later Horne joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she recorded her first record release, a 78rpm single issued by Decca Records.

Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops ( later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus ); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons.

Besides two television specials for the BBC ( later syndicated in the U. S .), Horne starred in her own U. S. television special in 1969, Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne.

Noranda ( a contraction of " North Canada ") was created later around the Horne mine and foundry.

As mentioned above, he is not an expert on Oz, but this statement made by Guph once again foreshadows a much later cinematic rendition of Glinda, in the film version of the Broadway musical The Wiz in which Glinda ( played by Lena Horne ) is responsible for the twister that brings Dorothy's house to Oz and sets all subsequent events into motion.

Heeding Brigham Young's 1869 call to reform, Snow, Mary Isabella Horne, and others established the Ladies ' Cooperative Retrenchment Association from which the Young Ladies ' Department of the Ladies ' Cooperative Retrenchment was formed ( later called the Young Ladies ' Mutual Improvement Association and now the Young Women ).

Other members of the first editorial staff included editors and writers: Ross Drake, Ralph Novak, Bina Bernard, James Jerome, Sally Moore, Lee Wohlfert, Joy Wansley, Curt Davis, and Jed Horne, later an editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

The town was, and continues to be a home to noted summer citizens, including steel magnate Sir James Dunn, Fathers of Confederation Samuel Leonard Tilley and Charles Tupper, and William Cornelius Van Horne, General Manager and later, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

In 1887 the Canadian parliament, under the urging of the Canadian Pacific Railway vice-president, William Van Horne, and the federal land agent, William Pearce, created Rocky Mountain Park, later to become known as Banff National Park.