THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1951.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

PRINCESS Margaret sitting out with Prince Mare de Bauvercron, 29-year-vid Irench aristocrat, during the ball at the Inter Allied Club in Paris held in ad of the Hertford Hospital in Britain. The Princess makes a charming picture in the Dior evening gown which she first wore for her 21st birthday. (Central Press).

CHILDREN & a nursery school attached to a laundry in North London take part in a radio programme On the right is Otto Kaltenborn, programme assistant in Beter the Norwegian section of the BBC.

moing to Britain. Kaltenborn was a scholmast.!! in orvay.

ABOVE are two of the

detectives who helped ip catch Harold "Rubber Bones" Webb, the man who tunnelled his way out of Dartmoor Prison. On the right is Detective- Constable Ray Tagg, who first spotted the convict, On the left, "Rubber Bones" is seen slumped

in a police car after his recapture. (Express Ser- vice).

THE Duke of Windsor, in London for a few days. walts for his car outside Claridges Hotel, on his way to dine with Lord and Lady Dudley. He carries two presents. (Express Service).

AT the exclusive "500" ball at Claridges Hotel. Picture shows the most un- usual guest, a London Zoo spider monkey, being fed with ice cream. Mrs Olga Noble-Mathews is seen holding it, and Miss Tessa Coleman feeding it. (Express Service).

THE Commanding Officer, Captain Guy Willoughby (left), and Commander P. J. Hill-Norton photograph- ed on the bridge of Bri- tain's latest and greatest aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle, now undergoing her trials in the Firth of Clyde. Eagle, of 37,000 tons, is the first carrier in any navy to be built to operate modern jet air- craft. (Central Press).

LEFT: Sir Laurence and Lady Ollyfer (Vivien Leigh) leave their Chelsen home for Southampton en route to a 12-week season at the Ziegfeld Thicatro 'in New York. They will ap pear in Shakespearo's "Anthony and Cleopatra" and Bernard Shaw's "Cac enr. and Cleopatra.” KAM" Kaaterphoto),

BELOW: Thrilled to re- ceive a visit from two of the mea who “always get their man" is 10-year-old Peter Smith, of Kentish Town, who has a kidney ailment and is allowed up only half an hour a day. Corporal J. T. J. Quimet (left) and Constable T. A. Mathews, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied Princess Eli zabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh back to Eng- land. (Reuterphoto).

BELOW: The new Avro 707A Della high-speed research aircraft, taken during a successful test flight forming part of the development programme. Clearly shown are the air intakes at the wing roots. This delta-wing plane was one of the sea- sations of the recent Farnborough air display. (Central Press).

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