THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1954.
SIGHTSEERS crowd out-
side London's Dorchester Hotel to catch a glimpse of two culebrities at once — Britain's Noel Coward
(extreme right), and America's glamorous grandmother, Marlene Dietrich. Both are doing неанов Al # London night club. (Reuterphoto).
GENERAL view showing the scene as the Royal party returned to the Royal box after inspecting the runners on the first day of the Ascot race meeting. Shown ure Her Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty the Queen Mother, the Duke and Duchess
of Gloucester and, behind, Princess Alexandra.
HOME PICTORIAL
MARIGOLD RUSSELL reinxes in the grounds at Shepperton Studios between outdoor shots for the flim, "The Belles of St Trinians,” inspired by cartoon- ist Ronald Searle's “awful schoolgirls.” Marigold plays one of the sixth formers.
LEFT: Hongkong-born Jennifer Lowe, aged 21, dancing the intricate pas de deux in "The Swan Lake," partnered by Robert Blake, al the Royal Hall, Harrowgate, Yorkshire. Jennifer has n ten-week summer season Пу a ballerina with the newly-formed Ballet de l'Europe. (Express).
DAVID NIVEN and his wife snapped on their arrival at the Globe Theatre, London,
to see the new Noel Coward musical, "After The Ball," (Express).
MISS Grace Thornton, who has been appointed Bri tish Consul in Copenhagen, She is 41, and weaves tapestry for a hobby. (Express).
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W-H-0-0-8-H... that's the Big Dipper, that was. Valerie Simpson, 11-year- old from Canada, shows her approval of every second of it at the Batter- sea Fun Fair. - Valerie, from Ontario, worked for a year baby-sitting and delivering newspapers to carn her £135 fare to Bri- tain. (Express).
LEFT: At a Royal En- gineers demonstration at "Sidbury Hill, near Ando- ver, Sapper John Bonny inflates one of the new ilevanti » mine
experimental anti
shoes. The shoes are in- tended to redkce the pres- sure exerted by a man's foot to below that re- quired to operate anti personnel mines.” ('Arm)
SIR GORDON RICHARDS plctured at Sandown Park on his first appearance on a race course since his accident at Salisbury, "I am quite fit now," he said, "and tickled to death to be back again.” (Express).
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STANLEY MATTHEWS, one of Britain's star soccer players, hits out trying his hand at baseball during
a training session of England's World Cup playera at Roehampton before their departure for Swlizer-
* land. (Express).
By Ernie Bustimffler
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