He was cast in this role by adaptors Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who had seen him in the West End.

Frank Muir had been writing material for Jimmy Edwards's appearances at Windmill Theatre, and later wrote material for Edwards's radio character, a seedy public school headmaster ; Denis Norden had been staff comedy sketch writer with the Kavanagh agency, and had written material for the Australian comedian Dick Bentley.

Over the next several years, Norden, who had long had a fascination with Hollywood, wrote the scripts for several films, including Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell and The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom.

In 1930, the Trocadero, a monumental neo-gothic picture house, seating over 3000 and fitted with the biggest Wurlitzer organ in Europe, was built at the northern corner of the New Kent Road ( there is now a plaque commemorating the building and unveiled in 2008 by Denis Norden who had worked there in his youth.

The Speculum Britanniae ( 1596 ) of the Tudor era English cartographer and topographer John Norden ( 1548 – 1625 ) had an alphabetical list of places throughout England with headings showing their administrative hundreds and referenced to attached maps.

In Leland's time the market was held at Marhasdeythyow ( Forum Jovis ), and both Norden ( 1582 ) and Carew ( 1602 ) tell us that Marcajewe signifies the Thursday's market, which, whether etymologically sound or not, shows that the prior's market had prevailed over its rival.

Even small errors in levelling could produce dramatic errors in bombing, so the Navy had Norden design a gyro platform for their existing Mark III bombsight ( a copy of the RAF's Course Setting Bomb Sight ) to eliminate this source of error.

Norden worked tirelessly on the design, and by 1928 the accuracy had improved to 2 % of altitude, enough that the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance placed a $ 348, 000 contract for the devices.

The match proved to be an excellent one, as Barth had the qualities Norden lacked ; charm, diplomacy, and a head for business.

Carl Frische had developed a new system to automatically level the platform, eliminating the time-consuming process needed on the Norden.

By mid-1938 information about the Norden had worked its way up the Royal Air Force chain of command and was well known within that organization.

However, Pirie expressed concern as he noted the Norden had become as much political as technical, and its relative merits were being publicly debated in Congress weekly while the Navy continued to say the Norden was " the United States ' most closely guarded secret ".

Ironically, by the time the Mission was being planned, the Norden had been removed from the list of items to be discussed, and Roosevelt personally noted this was due largely to political reasons.

By the end of the war, Norden and its subcontractors had produced 72, 000 M-9 bombsights for the Army Air Force alone, costing $ 8, 800 each.

In spite of the security precautions, the entire Norden system had been passed to the Germans before the war started.

Herman W. Lang, a German spy, had been employed by the Carl L. Norden Company.

As all of the controls were located on the right, and had to be operated while sighting through the telescope, another problem with the Norden is that the bombardier could only adjust either the vertical or horizontal aim at a given time, his other arm was normally busy holding himself up above the telescope.

However, it was not an original Carry On joke at all: scriptwriter Talbot Rothwell requested the use of the gag from its creators, Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who had written it for BBC radio comedy show Take It From Here.

The opening of Corfe Castle was delayed until Norden was ready as Dorset County Council had concerns about the effects of traffic on Corfe's narrow main street ( the A351 road between Wareham and Swanage ).

He was married and had at least two sons, John Norden junior, and Josias.

However, sketches of the Sphinx by the Dane Frederic Louis Norden, made in 1737 and published in 1755, illustrate the Sphinx already without a nose.

To time the drop, Norden used an idea already in use on other bombsights, the " equal distance " concept.

XI was reaching its final design, Norden was already considering an improved version.

This became a popular segment of the quiz, and Muir and Norden later compiled several volumes of books containing some of the My Word!

Indeed, towards the end Denis Norden decided what song he would sing, supplying some rather bizarre ones.

Many of the jokes and comic exchanges from Take It From Here were recycled in the series of Carry On films when scriptwriter Talbot Rothwell ran out of time, and Muir and Norden gave him some old TIFH scripts — for instance the line spoken by Julius Caesar on facing some would-be assassins: " Infamy!

This became a popular segment of the quiz, and Muir and Norden later compiled several volumes of books containing some of the My Word!

Carey Mahoney ( Steve Guttenberg ), Larvell Jones ( Michael Winslow ), Eugene Tackleberry ( David Graf ), Moses Hightower ( Bubba Smith ), Laverne Hooks ( Marion Ramsey ), and Douglas Fackler ( Bruce Mahler ) join the 16th precinct, and some are assigned a veteran officer partner since they are rookies: Fackler has Dooley ( Ed Herlihy ), Mahoney has Vinnie Schtulman ( Peter van Norden ), and Tackleberry has Sgt.

It includes the towns of Heywood and Middleton, some of the western fringes of Rochdale itself ( such as Castleton, and parts of Norden and Bamford ) and some of the rural area to the north.

Norden published some test-drawings from his voyage in 1741, under the long name " Drawings of Some Ruins and Colossal Statues at Thebes in Egypt, with an account of the same in a Letter to the Royal Society ".

This denial has caused historians some difficulty, but Frank Kitchen has established beyond doubt that there was only one John Norden.

Muir and Norden continued to write for Edwards when he began to work for BBC television with the school comedy series Whack-O, and in the anthology series Faces of Jim.

In 1911, Norden joined Sperry Gyroscope to work on ship gyrostabilizers, and then moved to work directly for the US Navy as a consultant.

At the Navy, Norden worked on a catapult system for a proposed flying bomb that was never fully developed, but this work introduced various Navy personnel to Norden's expertise with gyro stabilization.

Instead, the Army suggested that Norden adapt their sight to work with Sperry's A-5, which Barth refused.

Further work from the 1930s onwards was carried out by J. Kanitani, Shiing-Shen Chern, A. P. Norden, G. Bol, S. P. Finikov and G. F. Laptev.

In 1920, he started work on the Norden bombsight for the United States Navy.

Norden frequently experienced difficulty in finding patronage for his cartographical and chorographical work.

He always kept the two areas of his professional life quite separate, and when in the late 1590s a series of dedications in his devotional works to the Earl of Essex placed him in political difficulties with Sir Robert Cecil he attempted to deny authorship, claiming that the devotional books were the work of a " another of my name ... Norden pretender ".

For TIFH, Muir and Norden wrote the phase, " Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me ", later used by Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo.

Not long after his arrival in America, Ager and got his start in the newspaper business by becoming involved with Chicago's largest-circulation Norwegian-language newspaper, called Norden.