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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
· 1954.
TO mark the second anniversary of the Queen's Accession, a Royal salute of 62 guns was fired from the Tower of London by "A" Battery of the 1st Regiment, the Honourable Artillery Company. The 25 pounders used are seen in “action.”)
MISS Barbara Goalen, the well known fashion model, and her flance, Mr Nlgėl Campbell. In the last five years, Miss Goalen's name has become as famous as a film stars. Mr Campbell is a Lloyd's underwriter. (Express)
LAST summer's harvest in Yorkshire was damaged by wood pigeons and cost farmers thousands of pounds. This year the National Farmers' Union organised a mass attack on the pigeons, and thousands of guns have been out since the beginning of the month. (Express)
THE Royal Air Force record-breaking Canberra, Arles IV, with its crew of three (right) before leaving for a series of test flights around the North Magnetic Pole. The other three are the crew of a Hastings aircraft who will act as
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
WHEN Vivien Leigh slipped and broke her wrist, her understudy, Greta Watson, 23-year-old Edin- burgh girl, took her part for one night in "The Sleeping Prince" at London's Phoenix Theatre. Greta is seen with her mother who flew specially to see her big break. ('xpress)
BELOW:
Blond Anya Linden, 21, and David Blair, also 21, practise for their debut in the Bluebird Pas de Deux in Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty" for the new Sadler's Wells ballet season at the Royal Opera House,
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Covent Garden.
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FIELD MARSHAL The Earl Alexander of Tunis, Minister of Defence, was the inspecting officer at the Sovereign's-Parade at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, when the latest group of officer cadets passed ont. He is seen presenting ›› the sword of honour to Senior Under: Officer Lord P.. T. de la Beresford. (Army News)
FILM actor Stewart Granger arrives at the New Theatre, London, with his former wife, actress Elspeth March, and their daughter Lindsay. They went for the first night of the new "Charley's Aunt,"
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MISS Gwendoline Peake, 20, of Wood Green, London, is the first (unofficial) woman Home Guard in Britain. She is receiving signalling instruction from her father, 8gt Jim Penke, in whose unit, the 28th Middlesex Battalion, Wood Green Company, she will shortly be surofied,
**NANCY
Buch Consideration
I'M KINDA FULL-I THINK I'LL GIVE THIS CONE TO ONE OF THE
ANIMALS.
"LET'S SBC --- WHICH ONE SHALL I GIVE
IT TO
WHEN the Ice which had covered the Round Pond, at' Kensington 'was broken
after the recent cold spell, the swans and birds which frequent is Immediately settled on the water. { Home visitors are faiding them from the side. (Express
AHMer THAT'S THE ONE
Ernie Bushmiller
BLACK IMAGIC
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CHOCOLATES