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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1952.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
HERE is the scene in the Guildhall when Sir Rupert de la Bere made a speech over the microphones after being elected Lord Mayor of London for Coronation year. He succeeds Sir Leslie Boyce. Lady de la Bero is seated third from left in the front row, centre background. (Express).
MISS Lita Loo, specialist in hand-weaving rich silk velvet, will weave the Royal purple, velvet for, the Queen's Coronation robe. The velvet will be 21 inches wide and over 20 yards in length. It will take three months to weave, (Reuterphoto);
THE well-known London woman artist, Miss Margar Lindsay Williams, photographed at her St. John's Wood studio with the portrait painted by her of
Majesty the Queen.
LORD Ogilvy, friend of Princess Margaret, and his fiancee, Miss Virginia Ryan, an American, pictured together at the Perth Hunt Races held on the Scone Palace race course. Their wedding will take place at St Margaret's, Westminster, on October 23. (Central Press).
MR H. C. D. Miles, a Swindon, Wiltshire, railway clerk, surrounded by his three sons as he demonstrates his invention—a dovice rather like a slide rule, which will enable musicians, teachers and students to see at a glance all forms of musl- cal computations, including sharps and flats, for all major and minor scales, and tonic sol-fa symbols, and which will even transpose from one key to another. (Reuterphoto).
PICTURED here is the new Lady Astor. She is 82. Before her mar-- riage she was Miss Sarah Norton,;. only daughter of Lord Grantley. She married in June 1945 and has one son. (Express).
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BELOW: Charlie Chaplin' 'and' his wife, the former Oona O'Neill, saying goodnight to 'Mr Douglas Fairbanks (right), their host, after a party at the latter's London home. (Express).
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THE playwright, Noel Coward, is handing back his godchild to her mother, Mrs McClelland. The father, Dr McClelland, is Richard-Leron, the actor, who is appearing. In Coward's show, "Relativo „Virtues,"
(Express),
ONE of the few pictures ever made inside a midget submarine. Lieut. Hugh T. Verry, of East Sheen, is operating the periscope of his command, the XES, in the Pool of London. Tho midget sub, one of tho smallest offensive naval units in the world, was just back from Exercise Blain- brace, and was paying, an Informal visit to London. Operational complement of the midge! is four. (Reuter
photo).
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