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Valerie Mastersrs
Valerie Masters had many UK hit songs and starred in various UK television programmes including the Paul Squires variety shows and in the smash hit seventies war time drama, Secret Army. Valerie sang backing songs for television, film and commercials, her most famous being: Come Alive you’re In The Pepsi Generation, for Pepsi Cola.
Valerie also
sang live on
stage in
theatres
across the
world,
including
the
Savoy
theatre,
London
and at The
Talk Of The
Town in
London's
West End.
Photo 1: Pianist Dick Katz was sitting in the audience of a London theatre when he heard Valerie Masters sing. He met her, dated her and became Valerie`s manager. Dick Katz bought Valerie a £600 engagement ring, then Valerie Masters took over as boss and they were married. Photo 2: This is Valerie Masters, who will be seen on television next Tuesday. (East End Advertiser - Friday, May 29, 1959).
  Photos 1 & 2: Stills taken from the UK World War 2 drama series: Secret Army
Valerie Masters - Savoy Theatre London 1985
Video: Excerpts from Secret Army, series 3, episode Bridgehead (1979) - Starring Valerie Masters
Video: Valerie Masters backing singer for this 1960s Pepsi commercial
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Richard (Dick) Katz Late husband of Valerie Masters
Escaped his native Germany just prior to the German Nazi occupation during the 1930s. Was a highly successful London theatrical agent and piano player. Was part of the Ray Ellington band quartet. Played piano on many UK TV shows including the 1950s/1960s English comedy series, the Goon shows. Dick Katz had a reputation for being a kind and generous man, a wonderful husband, father, uncle and friend. He could suddenly turn up within a moment’s notice and take everyone out to a top rated west end of London restaurant as his treat. This was the larger than life, magical personality of Richard (Dick) Katz.
Dick
Katz
was
a
hugely
underrated
pianist
with
a
penchant
for
Duke
Ellington
voicings
and
introductions
Video: This clip was taken from the 1966 Goon show reunion. Dick Katz on piano and from left front: Peter Sellers, Ray Ellington, Sir Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan.
The Ray Ellington band quartet specialised in attractive vocals and occasional novelty songs, but it was all underpinned by an infectious beat and fine solos all round
The Ray Ellington quartet Photo 1: From top - Coleridge Goode, Dick Katz, Lauderic Caton & Ray Ellington. Photo 2: Signatures of the band members.
In Memory Of Dick Katz
Branch one, husband Samuel Barnett
Great grandson of
Samuel
Barnett is
an English
actor. He
has
performed on
stage, film,
television,
radio and
achieved
recognition
for his work
on the stage
and film
versions of
The History
Boys by Alan
Bennett.
Photos and information from: www.samuel-barnett.net and various other web sites
Samuel Barnett and Rosemary Rosemary, great granddaughter of Solomon Wolf Sasiene and Rebecca Zwart
Rosemary has been hard of hearing since her early childhood. Having a strong passion for the theatre Rosemary found that attending her favourite stage shows was becoming a challenging experience.
Rosemary says: I have been hard of hearing since I was a child and have used subtitles on TV for a long time. I hadn’t been to the theatre for about 20 years until I discovered STAGETEXT captioning quite by chance when we went to the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, with my husband’s school party to see Much Ado About Nothing in 2008.
I decided to find out more and now regularly use the STAGETEXT calendar to the full. I particularly like going to National Theatre productions as they give out synopses if you want them and make sure you are happy where you are sitting. The NT has a number of productions that are at other theatres too so we have been to a few of them.
Doris Marie Sassienie
Daughter of
Jacob (Jack)
Sassienie &
Rachel Shine
UK cabaret singer and has appeared in TV documentary and many epic films which included an appearance with Richard Burton in the classic 1964 movie, Beckett. Stage name: Dorian Lane.
Video: an exclusive Dorian Lane presentation studio recording with picture show
With thanks &
appreciation to
Farley David for
his kind
contribution of
photos, songs
and details to
In Memory Of Doris Sassienie ( - 2008)
Branch one Paul Sassienie and his wife, Melanie
England - 2016
Paul Sassienie and his co-writer Howard Ricklow have broad experience in radio and television contemporary comedy and had associations with some of the biggest names in British show business, including Morecambe and Wise and Roy Hudd.
In 1997 Paul Sassienie and Howard Ricklow were commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the long running radio favourite, Week Ending, which from 1970 to 1998 was a satirical radio current affairs sketch show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, after which they were commissioned to write for BBC Radio 4 the complete seven series of, The Way It Is, a topical news spoof show that ran for five series between 1998 and 2001. Paul and Howard contributed to, The 11 O’Clock Show, a satirical late-night British television comedy series on Channel 4, which featured topical sketches and commentary on news items of the day. It ran from 30 September 1998 to 8 December 2000. Their credits also include Dead Ringers, a British radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC TWO, in addition to CBeebies children’s favourite Gigglebiz and many more.
The multi-talented Paul Sassienie and Howard Ricklow co-wrote with Mitch Winehouse his book, Amy My Daughter, described by Q Magazine as, “A fitting tribute to her incredible story” Their area of specialism is comedy but their expertise and professionalism of writing Amy, My Daughter, has shown them to be sensitive interviewers, top notch researchers and accomplished writers of creative non-fiction and narrative journalism.
Videos: excerpts from The 11 O’Clock Show, Dead Ringers and CBeebies Gigglebiz.
The number one lavishly illustrated guide to the world of comics, designed for anyone who collect or treasures these unique cultural icons. Provides invaluable information on assessing, grading & valuing comics.
Branch three Neil Ben Great grandson of Julia Sasiene & Lewis Barnett
Neil Ben is a BBC trained, BAFTA nominated producer / director, with over 20 years working in television and video production
Described as ‘a safe pair of hands’ Neil has written, directed and produced for many broadcasters and production companies including, BBC Children’s, Nickelodeon, Sky, Discovery Kids, Teachers TV, Channel 5, CBeebies, BBC Education, the DfES, Ladybird Television, Contender Entertainment, Pearson Broadband, BVS Training and Ragdoll Productions.
From comedy sketches for primary maths pupils, studio discussions for business people, animations for language learning, documentaries for health and safety, graphic-rich programmes for technical subjects and to drama reconstructions for corporate training, Neil is a master of his craft.
Alongside producing and directing, Neil writes and edits many of the programmes he produces.
Holistic Films was created by award-winning Producer / Director Neil Ben. Neil brings over 20 years experience working in the television industry to the company, and combines this with as many years working on his self-development and spiritual growth.
With over 20 years working in the broadcast industry, Neil Ben of Holistic Films started his career at BBC Schools TV. Here is a selection of some of his earlier work:
Video: Neil Ben BBC Education Show reel
Neil Ben from Holistic Films produced and script edited two animation series for BBC Learning and CBBC. One of the series "Just So Darwin" was nominated for a Children's BAFTA:
Video: Neil Ben BBC Animation Reel
Just So Darwin
Photo taken by Anthony Steel. Videos and details taken from various websites to include in the Sassienie Worldwide Family Website, with the kind approval of Neil Ben
Branch four Professor Maurice Sasieni PhD
Professor, Scientist & Mathematician. Retired research scientist. Worked for NASA Space Agency, the United States military & the British Coal mining industry. Formulator of the SASIENI RULE of mathematical calculation
World
War
1
veteran-David
Sasieni,
Stephanie
Eda
Sasieni,
Amelia
Copisarow,
Peter
David
Sasieni, Some
fifty odd years ago I worked for the Coal Board as a research
scientist. Although based in London I regularly visited the coalfields
and must have been underground in at least twenty pits – not really much
fun when you either walk a mile with your head bent or bang it on the
low roof. The pit ponies did better! It is illegal for the roof to be so
low that they could scrape their backs. I recall two other things about
the mines, there was the miner who told us “if you scientists want to
help me, you could fit a mini-motor to my shovel”. There was the fact
that many of the underground workers could not speak a sentence without
using the F word at least once, but I never heard the word in the
canteen when there were women serving. We had a wonderful year. There is (or was) a very friendly Jewish community in Oslo and Norwegians are very friendly. The children (by then our two girls were two and three) chattered to other children in Norwegian but we never really got the hang of it. Virtually all adults speak English in Oslo. I recall a visit to Washington when I parked the car on a twenty-minute meter to take the tour through the White House. When we reached the White House there was a long queue so I walked up to the policeman at the gate and asked where there was a better place to park the car. “Do I hear an English accent?” he asked, and off he went on a long account of his experiences in wartime London. “This is all very nice but what about my car?” I asked. “Be my guest,” he said and we marched straight past the queue and through the White House. It takes about ten minutes and we just made it back to the car in time. I thought we would get lynched but no one said a word. In 1965 we came back to London. Because of my consulting experience while at Case, I was offered a job in Unilever’s marketing division. Amelia became a teacher at Yavneh, the primary school recently created by Wembley Synagogue in Middlesex, England. Today, when she runs into a small Wembley grandchild, she says “I remember his (or her) parent when I taught at Yavneh”. Around 1970, when in New York on business, I was looking for a taxi out-side my hotel to go to Lever Bros. Two bearded individuals, one carrying a guitar, asked if I was going past Grand Central Station as they were late for a recording session near there. I agreed to share the ride and asked who they were. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber were most grateful for the ride. I have often the thought that if I had said No, they might have missed the recording and maybe the world would never have heard of them. In 1973, there was a conference in Tel Aviv and my boss agreed it was appropriate for me to go. I told my secretary to book flights and she came back to say that the travel department was not allowed to book to Israel because of the Arab League boycott. I went to the company secretary who agreed that I could go provided the company name did not appear on the list of delegates. When I arrived, the first person I saw was one Oozie Friedman whose lapel badge said “Lever Bros. – New York”. Of course, observing the Arab boycott was illegal in the United States. Amelia and I very much enjoyed our first visit to Israel. Around this time I ran into a young manager at Van den Bergh Foods Ltd, the worldwide margarine makers. He was responsible for what were then two quite small brands. One was Flora and the other was Tomor. I said to him “if you can make Stork taste like butter, why can’t you do something about the taste of Tomor?” He said that the rules on Tomor were quite small and the rabbinical restrictions were such that it was not worth the cost of reformulating it. Times
change! Today, Flora is the country’s leading margarine and that young
manager is a main board director at Lever. I am retired. Tomor has been
sold to Rakusen and Wembley has succeeded where the mighty Unilever
could not. We have a Van den Bergh brand much to our taste: Martin, our
rabbi! In Memory Of Maurice Sasieni (1926 - 2014)
Branch two Scientist & Professor Peter Sasieni BA (Hons) MA (Cantab) MS PhD Professor of Biostatistics & Cancer Epidemiology Deputy
Director Cancer Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Mathematics &
Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Director Cancer Prevention Trials Unit Professor Sasieni is known for his research in medical statistics and cancer epidemiology. He has pioneered the field of monitoring service screening and made discoveries that have modified the practice of cervical screening. In statistics, he is an acknowledged expert in survival analysis with several important publications, and his method for the analysis of genetic association studies is widely used and cited. He was the first to show that the re-launched cervical screening programme in the United Kingdom was having an effect on cervical cancer incidence and mortality. His paper on trends in adenocarcinoma of the cervix was the first to highlight the magnitude of the potential epidemic of this cancer. He has provided the most accurate and detailed quantification of the impact of cervical screening. He discovered that cervical screening using cytology is substantially less effective at preventing cervical cancer in young women than it is in older women. Together
with colleagues from St Mark’s hospital, he was the first to show that
coloscopic surveillance and polypectomy reduced the incidence of
colorectal cancer in those with a moderately elevated risk. He has
researched the value of HPV testing in cervical screening. Peter Sasieni
produced a landmark overview of HPV testing for the HTA and more
recently an individual patient overview of HPV testing in primary
cervical screening. He has played a leading role in clinical trials of
HPV testing both in the UK and in Peru. Professor Sasieni has become involved in chemo prevention of cancer and he set up, and is director of, the only British clinical trials unit specializing in cancer screening and prevention.
Branch two Professor Justin Stebbing BM BCh MA(Oxon) FRCP FRCPath PhD Great grandson of Julia Sasiene and Lewis Barnett
Consultant Medical Oncologist Professor Justin Stebbing trained in medicine at Trinity College Oxford, England, where he gained a triple first class degree. After completion of junior doctor posts in Oxford, he undertook a residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States, returning to London, England to continue his training in oncology at The Royal Marsden and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. Professor Stebbing's PhD research investigated the interplay between the immune system and cancer. Justin has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as the Lancet, New England Journal, Blood, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Internal Medicine, as well as writing for national newspapers and presenting new data on optimal cancer therapies at major international conferences. His focus at Imperial is on new therapies in cancer and the systemic management of patients with solid malignancies such as breast, gastro-intestinal (colon, pancreas) and lung cancers. His laboratory work is concentrated on new druggable target discovery. Professor Justin Stebbing is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Royal College of Pathologists and sits on the advisory Boards of five biotechnology companies. He chairs the World Vaccine Congress following his research into cancer vaccines and he is on the editorial board of a number of world leading general medical and cancer journals such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology. In 2011 Justin's team discovered a new cancer gene, work that has been published in Nature Medicine.
Click image to view video of Professor Justin Stebbing
Photo, video and details taken from various websites to include in the Sassienie Worldwide Family Website, with the kind approval of Professor Justin Stebbing
Branch four
Rita
Sasiene
Famous
American
Poet
Rita Sasiene had been writing poetry since she began kindergarten. When in second grade her teacher took her notebook and later asked, who wrote those poems? Rita replied; what’s a poem?
Her
poetry
and
other
writings
have
been
published
in
Proteus,
Best
Poems
of
1960,
The
G.W.
Forum,
A
Search
for
The
Soul,
All
time
Favourite
Poetry,
Great
Contemporary
Poems,
Amidst
The
Splendor,
Best
Poems
of
1997,
among
other
books
and
publications.
One of the last published poems of Rita Sasiene:
Sometimes
I
feel
so
empty
and
alone
Rita
Sasiene
Publication Date: 1998-05-01 Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1561674141 ISBN-13: 9781561674145 Product ID: EPID535989
Branch four Joel Sasieni
Sasieni
By
Dunhill In 1918 Joel Sasieni started his own London pipe making firm. Joel died in 1945 and his son Alfred Sasieni became the successor to his father`s business. Alfred sold the firm in 1979 to another company, which concluded the Sasieni Family tobacco Dynasty, although Alfred continued as a director for some years.
Sasieni was one of the great collectible and smokable pipes of England's recent past. Today, however, they are no longer produced by the original company. Joel Sasieni began his career working as an apprentice tobacco pipe maker for Charatan and left to manage a "new" pipe making operation for Alfred Dunhill in 1910. He left Dunhill in 1918 to start his own London tobacco pipe making firm. His son Alfred took over the company reigns after World War II. The majority of the pipes were exported to the United States, where they were renowned for their famous Eight Dot and Four Dot series of "firsts". Ironically, these same pipes were sold in Britain and other European countries with a One Dot configuration on the stem and for years U.S. tourists passed them up as "rejects," rather than as the high grade "firsts" they really were. The company was sold in 1979 and today the pipes are produced by a completely different firm, primarily for sale in the United States. Although today`s Four Dot Sasieni pipes are excellent value, it is the pre-1979 One, Four and Eight Dot Sasieni's made by the original family that hold the most interest and value for collectors.
Below: some famous Sasieni pipe smokers
Video: Balkan Sasieni tobacco
In Memory Of Joel Sasieni
Branch four Alan Freedman, Keith Freedman & Esther Sassiene
Alan
Freedman
&
Keith
Freedman
sons
of:
Esther
(Stella)
Sassiene
and
Harry
Freedman
Founders of the hugely successful Brutus Jean Company
From Success to Success
Alan Freedman left school at the age of 16 to work as a salesman in fashionable Kings Road Chelsea, London, England during the mid-60's. Less than a year later he became the assistant manager there.
In 1966 at the age of 17, Alan and his brother, Keith, started they're own business, Brutus Mens Wear, importing garments from Hong Kong. The company began with a single style of sweater and later added several different designs to the range. These designer sweaters became very popular especially with younger people. Profits began to increase and the brothers decided to expand the company and produce other fashion products under the trade name of Brutus, which included fashion wear both for men and women.
The brothers Alan Freedman and Keith Freedman introduced shirts into the Brutus collection and eventually the award-winning Brutus Jeans. These Jeans were of a unique fashion design which the likes of have never been seen before. They became hugely popular and developed into a status symbol with young people, including skinheads, football fans and fashion conscious people of the time.
By the early 1970's Alan and Keith Freedman held a 20% share of the UK men's shirt market, plus had and controlled 15% of the UK denim jean market.
Brutus Jeans became a household name, a par with other popular branded fashion goods such as Levi, Wrangler and Ben Shearman. Sales were boosted by a massive advertising campaign that included television and radio. The brothers won awards for their advertising and had a catch tune for their TV commercials titled: Put Your Brutus Jeans On. The theme was catchy and in 1976 the title was changed to: Put Your Jeans On, that became and remained a number 1 hit in the UK music charts for three weeks.
In 1980 the brothers expanded the company further and bought a group of jean stores located throughout the United Kingdom. 14 years later Alan visited Canyon Ranch, Tucson in the United States. On that visit Alan Freedman decided that he was going to settle there and live in America permanently, subsequently leaving the UK business and retiring from the fashion clothing industry.
In Tucson, Alan met and fell in love with the beautiful Caroline. There they married in 1997. By 1998 Alan’s genius for business was brimming to the top and he joined with his wife Caroline to begin a successful real estate career, that still flourishes today.
Caroline was born and raised in Indiana, USA. She left Indiana after high school to attend college in Gunnison, Colorado. There she received her B.A. degree in Business Administration and Psychology. She lived in Colorado for several years after college and then returned to school and obtained a Masters Degree. She received this degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. From there she went on to work for Eli Lilly, a major pharmaceutical company.
In 1993, Caroline decided to move back to the West. After visiting Tucson, she fell in love with the mountains and desert. Caroline has a fondness of fine homes and decided to settle in Tucson and enter into the real estate business. Caroline brought her enthusiasm, energy, keenness and skills to matching people with the perfect home. She has an amazing ability to carry the whole inventory of available houses in her head. Her latest project (2006) is the study of Feng Shui. It is an art of finding and creating homes that reflect clients desire for a sacred space.
Alan Freedman brings his enthusiasm, energy, and entrepreneurial skills - not to mention his English charm - to the Tucson real estate market, giving the husband and wife team a solid business background.
They are both outdoor enthusiasts and love to hike, bike, run, or walk through Sabino Canyon.
Article - Taken from the Alan & Caroline Freedman Realty Executives website.
Addition information by Alan Freedman and Anthony Steel
Alan
Freedman,
Esther
Sassiene
&
Keith
Freedman.
Grand
Canyon
-
USA
2004
Keith
Freedman
with
wife,
Michelle.
Grand
Canyon
-
USA
2004
Video: UK Brutus jeans ad from the 1970s
Video: David Dundas number 1 hit song taken from the Brutus Jeans commercial
With
thanks
&
gratitude
to
Alan
Freedman
for
his
kind
contribution
of
these
photos
and
details
to
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