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All of the Sussex filming locations used in the Carry On movies - Images - The Argus Who doesn't love a good Carry On film?  Spanning film, stage and screen the Carry On franchise was one of the most iconic of the last century releasing more than 30 movies.  Epitomising British comedy at the time, the films' humour was based around the tradition of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards - making the Sussex coastline an ideal filming location.  They were produced by Peter Rogers and directed by the great Gerald Thomas who drew on a regular pool of actors including Sid James, Kenneth W...

As a custodial worker at New Mexico State University, Alfredo Cadena has met university presidents, athletes, accomplished faculty and a U.S. president. But looking back on his 45-year career at NMSU, Cadena said his favorite aspect of his job was getting to know the campus buildings and leaving them as spotless as possible. Alfredo Cadena, lead custodial worker for New Mexico State University’s Facilities and Services, retired Feb. 1 after 45 years of service to the university. (NMSU photo by Josh Bachman) As a custodial worker at New Mexico State...

How U.S. Marines Stymied Japanese Forces at the Battle of the Bloody Ridge In the early battles for Guadalcanal, U.S. Marines handed the Imperial Japanese Army its first taste of defeat at the Battle of Bloody Ridge. Here's What You Need to Know: The myth of the Japanese soldier as a “superman” was shattered at Guadalcanal. Scanning over the maps unfolded before him in the division operations room, Colonel Gerald C. Thomas, 1st Marine Division G-3 officer, turned and muttered: “They’re coming.” Colonel Merritt A. “Red Mike” Edson, commanding officer of the 1st Marine Raider Bat...

Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Williams were Carry On regulars But are they so really irredeemably terrible, and if so why are so many people still fond of them? I think they are significant for a number of reasons. First, they form an extant connection with the music hall era. Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Hattie Jacques all cut their teeth on theatrical revues and radio shows, and were honed comic actors by the time the Carry Ons came along, good enough to make the films funnier than they had any right to be. Also, the Carry Ons arrived at a pivotal moment in po...

When Connor Olson started the spring semester in January, he was one of about five students working in New Mexico State University’s Sam Steel Café, housed in Gerald Thomas Hall. Connor Olson, a School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management student at New Mexico State University, poses with a line of pecan sandies at the ACES Foods production facility on campus. (NMSU photo by Whitney Blickem) Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACES Foods production facility on the New Mexico State University campus continues to make gelato as well as products for Le...