Ruth Schelske, actress at TV Paulista

 

Radiolândia, 1957 - tells the story of Ruth Schelske, who was only 17 years old then. 

17 August 1957 - Lourdes Rocha, Gervásio Marques & Ruth Schelske in Nelson Rodrigues' 'Vestido de Noiva'; 

Ruth Schelske in 1951; 2nd August 1958 - Mark Twain's 'Loucuras de um milionário' (The million pound note) adapted by Claudio Petraglia with Rogério Márcico, Ruth Schelske & Moura Barbosa. 

Ruth Schelske weds Alfredo Cini on 16 April 1958. They met at TV Paulista where she was an actress and he a cameraman. Revista do Rádio no. 454; Miss Schelske reads a script in 1957.

Ruth Schelske marries Alfredo Cini in 1958, Radiolândia.

Ruth Schelske, actress & Alfredo Cini, cameraman.

Linda Russo (garôta-propaganda) & Ruth Schelske next to a Channell 5 camera.

Ruth Schelske was a Brazilian actress, poster girl and voice actress who worked in radio, theater, cinema and TV. Ruth Schelske was the daughter of Roberto Schelske and Joana Schelske. Ruth Schelske began her career in radio early, at just eight years old. Her father wanted her to be a lawyer. As a teenager, Ruth took several language courses and attended regular school until high school. From then on, she pursued a career in the arts. Ruth Schelske entered television through the “Organizações Victor Costa” (Victor Costa Organizations) and joined TV Paulista. 

Her first appearance was in “O Casaco de Peles” (The Fur Coat) alongside Odair Marzano. Ruth Schelske made the episodes “Crime”, “The Fur Coat”, “A Resurrection”, “Station 21, 47th Street”, “The Way Back”, “The Miracle of the Bells”, “The Death Cell”, “The Mayerling Tragedy”, “A Letter to Three Husbands”, “Hours of Desperation”, “Madness of a Millionaire” and “Requiem for an Angel” of the series “Teledrama”,

Ruth Schelske foi uma atriz, garota-propaganda e dubladora brasileira com atuação em rádio, teatro, cinema e TV. Ruth Schelske era filha de Roberto Schelske e de Joana Schelske. Ruth Schelske começou cedo a carreira no rádio, com apenasoito anos de idade. Seu pai queria que ela fosse advogada. Na adolescência, Ruth fez vários cursos linguísticos e na escola regular cursou até o ensino médio. Daí em diante, seguiu a carreira artística. Ruth Schelske ingressou na televisão através das “Organizações Victor Costa” entrando para a TV Paulista. 

Sua primeira aparição foi em “O Casaco de Peles” ao lado de Odair Marzano. Ruth Schelske fez os episódios “Delito”, “O Casaco de Pele”, “Uma Ressurreição”, “Estação 21, Rua 47”, “O Caminho da Volta”, “O Milagre dos Sinos”, “A Cela da Morte”, “A Tragédia de Mayerling”, “Uma Carta para Três Maridos”, “Horas de Desespero”, “Loucuras de Um Milionário” e “Réquiem Para um Anjo” da série “Teledrama”, 

os episódios “Dê-me o Seu Amor, “A Tragédia de Mayerling” (1957), “Horas Desesperadas”, “O Cadilac de Ouro” ao lado de Manuel de Nobrega, Daniel Guimarães e Waldir Guedes, entre outros, “Abismo Insondável” e “Fraude” da série “Teledrama Três Leões”, 

os episódios “Emílio Ribas” e “Padre Chico” da série “Construtores de São Paulo”, 

os programas “Atrações Caruso”, “Audições Gaó” (como garota-propaganda), “Vitrine” (como garota-propaganda) e o humorístico “A Praça da Alegria” na TV Paulista, o episódio “A Cadeira Encantada” da série “TV de Brinquedo” e o humorístico “Chico Anysio Show” (onde fazia a namorada do personagem (Santelmo)} na TV Rio 

e os episódios “A Dama das Camélias” e “O Perfume da Morte” da série “Teatro Câmera Um”, 

o programa “Grande Teatro” e no programa “Fantasias Bongotti”, em peças como “Ruas de São Paulo” na TV Tupi. Ruth também apresentava um programa de competição entre meninos e meninas na emissora.

Seu nome real também é seu nome artístico: Ruth Schelske. Ela nasceu em São Paulo em 27 de março de 1937. Como atriz, radioatriz, dubladora e garota-propaganda, Ruth tem atuação no cinema, no teatro, no rádio, na TV e na dublagem.

Ela começou cedo a carreira, na Rádio Nacional de São Paulo, com apenas 8 anos de idade. Seu pai queria que ela fosse advogada. Na adolescência, fez vários cursos linguísticos, e na escola regular cursou até o ensino médio. Daí em diante, seguiu a carreira artística. Em 1952 entrou para a Rádio Bandeirantes, onde atuou em novelas, transmitidas na faixa “Novelas Para Você”. Em 1955 foi contratada pela Organizações Victor Costa, para trabalhar na Rádio Nacional de São Paulo, onde tinha estreado.

E logo estava na televisão da OVC, a TV Paulista, canal 5. Na emissora fez parte do elenco do “Teledrama”, entre outras produções teatrais.

Também trabalhou em programas humorísticos na emissora, como “Praça da Alegria” ao lado de Manuel de Nóbrega. Em 1956, Ruth apresentou um programa de competição entre meninos e meninas. Também atuou muito como garota propaganda, em programas como “Audições Gaó” (1956), e “Vitrine” (1956).

Em 1960, mudou-se para o Rio de Janeiro, e foi trabalhar na TV Tupi do Rio. Na emissora, participou de diversas peças no “Grande Teatro Tupi” e no “Câmera Um”. Em 1962 foi para a TV Continental, onde entre outros, participou do programa “TV de Brinquedo”. Em 1963 foi contratada pela TV Rio onde atuou no programa “Chico Anysio Show”, interpretando, entre outras, a personagem “namorada do Santelmo”.

Ruth seguiu um caminho natural para muitos intérpretes do rádio e da televisão e foi trabalhar nos estúdios de dublagem. Atuou em casas famosas: CineCastro, Dublasom Guanabara, TV Cinesom, e Herbert Richers. No seu currículo ela tem as vozes nacionais de Olivia de Habilland, Jane Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Susan Saint-James, Yvette Mimieux, Julie Christie, Virna Lisi, Diane Baker, Stefanie Powers, Debra Paget, Alice Faye, entre outras. Também teve grande atuação no mundo do desenho animado, graças a sua voz leve, doce e mutável. Nessa área se destacam Nancy, companheira fiel de Chuck no desenho “Shazzan”, “Gasparzinho, o Fantasminha Camarada”, a Duquesa no longa “Aristogatas”, Tara em “Os Herculóides”, Carneirinho em “É o Lobo!”, entre outros. Na dublagem Ruth deixou um legado de vozes em quase 20 anos de carreira.

Seus principais trabalhos:

1948 novelas Rádio Nacional  SP

1952 Novelas para Você Radio Bandeirantes

1955 Teledrama  – A Cela da Morte TV Paulista

1955 Teledrama – A Ilha das Cobras TV Paulista

1955 Teledrama – Delito TV Paulista

1955 Teledrama – O Casaco de Pele TV Paulista

1955 Teledrama – Uma Ressurreição TV Paulista

1956 Praça da Alegria – programa TV Paulista

1956 Atrações Caruso – programa TV Paulista

1956 Audições Gaó – programa garota propaganda TV Paulista

1956 Teledrama – Estação 21, Rua 47 TV Paulista

1956 Teledrama – Farrapo Humano TV Paulista

1956 Teledrama – O Milagre dos Sinos TV Paulista

1956 Teledrama – Os Corumbas TV Paulista

1956 Todos Cantam a Sua Terra – programa Rádio Nacional  SP

1956 Vitrine   – programa garota propaganda TV Paulista

1957 Senzala – radionovela Rádio Nacional  SP

1957 Teledrama – Dê-me o Seu Amor TV Paulista

1957 Teledrama – Uma Carta para Três Maridos TV Paulista

1960 Câmera Um – O Perfume da Morte TV Tupi Rio

1960 Grande Teatro Tupi – várias peças TV Tupi Rio

1960 Teledrama – Fraude TV Paulista

1960 Teledrama – Réquiem para um Anjo TV Paulista

1962 TV de Brinquedo – A Cadeira Encantada TV Continental

1963 Chico Anysio Show  – programa Namorada do Santelmo TV Rio

Câmera Um – A Dama das Camélias TV Tupi Rio

Construtores de São Paulo – Emilio Ribas TV Paulista

Construtores de São Paulo – Padre Chico TV Paulista

Fantasias Bongotti – programa TV Tupi SP

Teledrama – A Tragédia de Mayerling TV Paulista

Teledrama – Abismo Insondável TV Paulista

Teledrama – Horas de Desespero TV Paulista

Teledrama – Loucuras de Um Milionário TV Paulista

Teledrama – O Caminho da Volta TV Paulista

Ruth casou-se com o colega, o câmera-man Alfredo Cini (1957-1958). Desde 1960, vivia no Rio de Janeiro/RJ, onde veio a falecer precocemente em 1977.

Marta & I at Antonio Aguillar's 1960s photo exhibition in January 2004

Antonio Aguillar, photographer, radio DJ & TV MC with Marta Mendes at his exhibition in January 2004.

Antonio Aguillar's 1960s photo exhibition held at the corridors of Hospital of State Public Workers (Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual) from December 2003 through March 2004.

Antonio Aguillar himself explaining details of photos he took in the 1960s to blogger Lulu Pavone who looks really interested in the subject.

Antonio Aguillar seems to be in high spirits to have met (by sheer chance) a visitor (Myself) who was really interested in the story of his life. Aguillar proved to be really pleasant and later on Marta and I had a chance to sit down at the Hospital cafeteria and talk about those awesome days for almost 2 hours. 

Antonio Aguillar & Lulu Pavone in the corridors of HSPE in Vila Clementino.

Marta Mendes, Antonio Aguillar & Lulu Pavone in January 2004. 

A Gazeta & A Gazeta Esportiva

 

This is 'A Gazeta' & 'A Gazeta Esportiva' building called 'Palácio da Imprensa' (Press Palace) which was opened on 3rd November 1939, on Rua da Conceição, 6. Less than 4 years later, on 27 August 1943, its owner Cásper Líbero, died in an airplane crash and Rua da Conceição had its name changed its name to Avenida Cásper Líbero, 88.

Rua da Conceição circa 1939. One can see Luz Railway Station tower at the end of the street. 

'A Gazeta Esportiva' 21st November 1958.

the photo on the cover of 'A Gazeta Esportiva' must have been taken on 31st December 1957.

Radio Nacional Paulista

 

Radio speaker Hélio de Alencar who commanded ubiquotous 'Parada de Sucesso' every single day at Radio Nacional Paulista with radio new-face Silvio Santos in 1956. Silvio would eventually go to much bigger things. Both take part at Manoel de Nóbrega Program.

Hélio de Alencar had a popular radio show on Radio Nacional Paulista, at 11:00 every day in which 'Saint Louis Blues' (W.C.Handy) was its opening and background theme...

Manoel de Nóbrega & Silvio Santos, who learned how to be a radio-man with the old man. They were both from Rio de Janeiro originally. 

Hélio de Alencar at Radiolândia, 1960.

Programa Manoel de Nóbrega, 1960.

Manoel de Nóbrega 'punishes' Ronald Golias for some practical joke, being watched by the crowd that would pack the auditorium of Radio Cultura or Radio Nacional Paulista, wherever Nobrega's show was broadcast from. 'A Gazeta Esportiva', 14 October 1957.

Neilor de Oliveira, a radio man originally from the Bahia, MC of 'Bairros em Desfile',(Suburbs on Parade) a popular live radio-show on Radio Nacional Paulista which competete with Radio Record's 'Alegria dos Bairros'.(Suburbs' Joy). It started on 28 June 1960, four years before. From left to right: Neilor's wife, Lourdes de Oliveira, Zelão, José Russo, Neilor himself and Zacarias Mourão. 

Fourth Anniversary of 'Bairros em Desfile', being watched by 15,000 people, reported by 'Melodias', August 1964. 

Adelino Moreira, a songwriter of torch songs

There was a time in the 1950s when Adelino Moreira was probably the most popular song writer in the Brazil. Adelino wrote mostly 'torch songs' that told of betrayal, women who ended up on the wrong side of the tracks, drunkeness, masochism, sadism and all sorts of human feelings and conditions. Nelson Gonçalves (born on 21st June 1919) by far the most popular crooner in the 1950s, usually got to sing Adelino's best songs and sold hundreds of thousands of records up to the early 1960s, before Brazilian rock'n'roll caught up with them. 

Adelino Moreira de Castro was born on 28 Mach 1918, in a small village near Pôrto, Portugal. His father Serafim and mother Rosa migrated to Brazil in 1919, when little Adelino was only 1 year old, so he grew up in Rio de Janeiro. 

Nelson Gonçalves was Adelino Moreira's  songs most faithful performer.

Adelino Moreira with Cauby Peixoto and Angela Maria. 

Adelino Moreira's repertoire as of 1971. My favourite songs written by Adelino in this list are: 1. 'Meu vício é você'; 2. 'A volta do boêmio'; 3. 'Deusa do asfalto'; 4. 'Ciclone' (sung by Carlos Nobre); 5. 'Argumento'; 6. 'Chore comigo'; 7. 'Meu dilema'; 8. 'Devolvi' (sung by Nubya Lafayette); 9. 'Doidivana'; 10. 'Flor do meu bairro' (tinha o destino da lua, morava na minha rua); 11. 'Maria Helena' (sung by Roberto Vidal); 12. 'Borrasca' (sung by Angela Maria); 13. 'Dois amores' (Roberto Vidal).  

Mary Wynne & her São Paulo night-club column at Estadão

We don't know with certainty when US citizen Mary Wynne started as a journalist at daily 'O Estado de São Paulo' for she began her role working 'behind the scenes'. We presume she was first given the task of assembling a list of the best restaurants and night-clubs in town and publish it among the cinema & theatre ads section at the last pages of the newspaper. 

A column called 'Bares Boites Restaurantes' was first published on 6 June 1954. From a nameless strip it soon started being signed by Mary. Eventually it became highly personalized changing its name to 'Mary go-round'.

Mary Wynne as a young lady in the 1920s.

15 January 1955 - Mary turns her 'list-column' into some sort of 'gossip column' in which she tells the latest news about show business. She comments about weekly illustrated magazine Manchete's article about the Oasis night-club with photos showing Russo do Pandeiro (Antonio Cardoso Martins *4 Feb 1913 +16 May 1985) doing what he did best: play his tambourine. Russo performed with Carmen Miranda in the US. 

Mary's short notes at the bottom of her column on the Sunday 'Estadão' on 27 February 1955. Soon, she would write much more than 3 selected notices. 

Peters Sisters with their highly-polished act in a Dutch club visited São Paulo in 1955.

6 March 1955 (Sunday) - Ms Wynne writes about US trio Peters Sisters who had been  touring Brazil having performed on TV Paulista, Channel 5 and done stints at both Lord and Oasis night-clubs. 

6 June 1954 - This was Mary Wynne's very first Sunday column at 'OESP'. It contained the names of 8 night-clubs and 7 restaurants) around town. 

15 January 1955 - By January 1955, Mary Wynne had increased her restaurant & night-club list from 15 in mid-1954 to 21, besides adding 7 places from Rio de Janeiro. Business was booming! 

3rd April 1955 - Mary mentions US pianist Freddy Feld for the 1st time. Mary & Feld would become fast friends until his tragic death in Rio. Fred Feld  was born Friederick Wilhelm Feldman on 8 April 1914, in Iowa, USA and passed away on 9 November 1970, in Rio de Janeiro, aged 56. He is most remembered as a nightclub pianist celebrity in São Paulo and Rio during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Unfortunate murder victim of a violent homophobic crime. His zodiac sign was Aries.

Mary Wynne dancing with a Gaucho probably before she moved to Brazil in 1929. Judging by the whip Mary has around her arm it could've been part of an act.

Mary Winne's Portrait of a Clown, she painted circa 1961. 

Mary Wynne, an American journalist with a daily column about São Paulo's night-life

Once upon a time there was an American young lady from Texas named Mary Wynne who arrived in São Paulo, Brazil circa 1929, to work as a governess for an American family who had a young daughter to be educated. Miss Wynne was only 18 years of age and we can't say much more about her then. 

We only know that Mary eventually met a young Dutch national whose last name was Tadema like the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema. They got married and had a baby boy called Klaas who eventually went to school in the USA, while Mary stayed in Brazil. 

We can only surmise Mary and her husband had a pretty busy social life going out to restaurants and night clubs around São Paulo very often.   

14 April 1976 - 'O Estado de S.Paulo' obituary page.

Mary Wynne Burns Tadema's grave stonehead at Tenaha City Cemetery in Tenaha, Shelby County, Texas, USA. Her remains though are still interred at Cemitério do Morumbi, in São Paulo, Brazil. 

5 April 2023.

Hello. My oldest aunt wrote the nightlife column as "Mary Wynne," and I would love to find out more about her years in Brazil. Any information appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Margie Burns (margie.burns@gmail.com)

Fri, 7th April 2023.

Hello, Margie,

I only found out about your aunt Mary Wynne a few years ago when I started a research about São Paulo's night life in the very newspaper Ms Wynne worked for.

 

I fell in love with her style by degrees. She was a very friendly and sophisticated lady and it was pure delight to read her texts.

 

By reading her column I surmised she arrived in Brazil in the late 1930s, for she mentioned having seen Carmen Miranda in person along with Aurora, Carmen's sister in a night-club. As Carmen left Brazil for California in 1939, I guessed Ms Wynne must have arrived in Brazil in 1938 or 1939; 10 years before I was born (1949). 

Margie answers: 

Hello! Thank you for writing; I am pleased to hear from you and look forward to finding out more, also. My Aunt Mary Wynne died in Sao Paulo, 11 April 1976. I heard that she originally went to Brazil at age 18, to be a governess to a small child, a relative, whose parents were working for a U.S. company in Brazil. Since she was born in 1911, according to records, that must have been about 1929.

I do not know when she started working for O Estado de Sao Paulo, or how she got the job there, or how she began in journalism. 

Her full name was Mary Wynne Burns Tadema, and she must have learned Portuguese while living in Brazil. She and her spouse separated long ago; I never knew him, but I believe that his ancestry was Dutch (like the painter Alma-Tadema), and presumably they met in Brazil. As to her personal life, she had only one child; he grew up in the U.S.

I have been impressed with the columns that I've seen. It looks as though Mary Wynne was very active and energetic. I never heard her talk much and seldom saw her in person; the last time, I was in my teens, and there wasn't much chance for talking at a family funeral. 

I am trying to find out more about her small place in the big world at the time.

8 April 2023. 

Hi, Margie, 

I found a simple note about your Aunt's death on the obituary page on 14 April 1976. I was glad to have found something about Mary Wynne's death but at the same time really disappointed for she deserved much more than a few words. 

It says more or less: D. Mary Wynne... I was wondering what D. stands for... I guess it stands for 'Dona' (Dueña in Spanish) which is a title like 'Lady' or 'Madam' in English. 

It also says Mary was the daughter of (sr.) Robert E. Burns and (d.) Ruby Lee W. Burns. 

It also mentions her son Klaas Tadema married to Dorothy Tadema, both living in the USA. It fails to mention Mary's husband's name.

 

In the end it says the funeral was being held at Morumbi Cemitery (the poshest cemetery in town) with the burial schedule for 4:00 pm of that day, 14 April 1976. 

Tenaha, Shelby County in Texas...where Mary Wynne hailed from... see the red arrow. 

Tenaha, Shelby County, Texas.