THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1952.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
THE ages old custom of reading the Proclamation by the Town Clerk was carried out aboard the smack Native as the first dredge was hauled, aboard by the Mayor during the traditional opening of the Colchester oyster fishery
in the Pyefleet Channel, Brightlingsea.
MR Arthur Hall, wine butler at the Dorchester Hotel, London, inspects a turkey before serving it at the Dickens Fellowship golden jubilee. The menu was sprinkled with quotations from Dickens, and the speeches lasted two and a half hours, (Express),
WORK is proceeding on the memorial which the Im. perial War Graves Commission is erecting at Copper's Hill, overlooking Runnymede, to the memory of over 20,000 Commonwealth airmen who lost their lives while serving from bases in the United Kingdom and
Northwest Europe. (Central Press).
GRACIE FIELDS is greeted by her husband, Boris Alperovic, after her performance for the Lynmouth disaster fund. Gracie went to London from 'Capri for the all-star midnight matince at the Collscum. Every seal, from 10 guineus to 10s. Ed., was sold, (Express).
BELOW: Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh P. Lloyd chal- ting to the crew which achieved the best bombing results at No. 231 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF, at Bassingbourn.. No. 231 is the first of the Canberra jet bomber conversion units in Bomber Command. The winning team was presented with a rapier trophy.
MISS Dorls Hawthorn, 23, was recently elected Beau Ly Queen of Weymouth, Dorset seaside town, She. is a singer in one of Wey- mouth's summer shows. (Express).
RIGHT: Ballet dancers Margot Fonteyn (left) and Nathalle Leslle cut an'an niversary cake to mark the third anniversary of Lon-· don's Festival Ballet at the Royal Festival Hall, Anton. Dolin stands beside them.
(Express),
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DAME Sybil Thorndike (left) and Dame Edith Evans (right) drink'a toast to their hostess, Miss Patricia McCarron, at the Haymarket Theatre on the occasion of her 21st birthday. Miss McCarron is in the cast of: "Waters of the Moon.”
(Express).
KOREA war veteran, Sergeant John Brooman, 27, and his Japanese bride, Hideko (menning "Excellence”) have just arrived in Britain. They were married In Japan in May, but their departure for England was delayed because Japanese. officials said Hideko's exit documents were not in order. The British Embassy intervened. (Express).
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