Radio who's who (1947)

254 RADIO WHO'S WHO NORFOLK, EDGAR. Actor. 6. Bradford, Yorks., 1893. Known for dramatic and feature work in radio. Address: Carlyle Studios, 296, King's Road, Chelsea, S.W.3. Phone: Flaxman 6169. First broadcast in 1928 on his return from an Australian tour. Played many leading parts in the West End and in New York. Played for four and half years during the war with B.B.C. Drama Company, and now combines theatre and radio work. Featured in " These Passing Shows," 1946. NORGATE, MATTHEW (Walter Matthew Le Grys). Radio journalist. 6. 10th May, 1901. Film talks; broadcasts regularly as film critic in " Picture Parade." Address : 61, Warren Court, Euston Road, London, N.W.I. Phone: Euston 3663. Educated University College School. Junior clerk in publisher's office before becoming an actor in the hope of helping himself to realise his ambition of becoming a dramatic critic. Last appearance on the stage was in " The Great Adventure," at the Haymarket, 1924. Secretary of various Sunday play production societies, 1923-29, including the Phoenix and the Incorporated Stage Society, of whose Council of Management he is still a member. Dramatic critic of the " Nation and Athenaeum," 1927-30, and of other papers. Contributed weekly entertainment feature to " Evening Standard," 1925-39; film critic of that paper, 193839. First broadcast as film critic, 1939, and has since broadcast on films more than 200 times. Joined B.B.C. staff, 1940, as a sub-editor in Latin-American news service; transferred to European Service, 1941. Then to the Overseas service as scriptwriter on the famous programme "Radio News Reel," and still retains that post after over four years. At the same time acted as film critic to the Home Service or Light Programme, to the " Sunday Chronicle," and occasionally to " Time and Tide." Began a countrywide lecture tour in the autumn of 1946. Is now Vice-President of the Critics' Circle. Club; Savage, NORMAN, ROBERT EDWARD. Publicity Officer, B.B.C. 6. London, 8th February, 1897. Began first in radio in 1926 as feature writer. Address : Highland Road, Northwood, Middx. Phone: Northwood 2338. Junior reporter on the old "Pall Mall"; reporter, "Evening Standard," " Daily Express " ; feature writer " Sunday Express," and later in the features department of the last three newspapers. War correspondent, " News Chronicle," attached to the Home Fleet. Joined B.B.C. as Publicity Officer, first in the Overseas Department, and now covers the Home Counties. NORRIS, KATHLEEN MARY. Talks for women. 6. Ealing, London, 1st April, 1907. Began in radio through a Ministry of Food broadcast competition. Address: c/o B.B.C. Educated Haberdashers' Aske's School, Acton, and Bedford College, Regent's Park, taking Honours degree in 1929. Went straight into journalism with the National Magazine Company, and stayed there until 1937 on the staff of " Good Housekeeping." Won a " Kitchen Front " recipe competition and has broadcast since then. Uses the name of Mary Norris to avoid confusion with the American Kathleen Norris. Radio programmes include, " Kitchen Front," " Make Do and Mend," " Wise Housekeeping," Women's Page," " Happy Children," etc. Married to Francis Norris, artist and designer, and has three sons. NORTH, STEPHEN. Writer of radio short stories, etc. 6. Leicester, 14th January, 1912. Address: Oadby, Leicestershire. Son of a former Police Inspector, educated at Leicester. First published poetry at the age of sixteen, and wrote many poems, articles and stories as a youth, and also a play for an amateur theatrical group. Former recreations were, Rugby, amateur boxing, and boating, restricted as the result of an accident. Married Margaret B. Pick, 1942. Ambitions: To write more and better broadcast short stories, and to write a humorous column,