THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1955.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
NUMBER 14 from the Throne is Henry Ulick Lascelles, shown here affecting an accompaniment to his version of "Baa, Ban, Black Sheep" at his parents' home in a Bayswater close. His father, Gerald Lascelles, is the younger son of the Princess Royal. (Express)
A GROUP of young airmen at camp in Bawtry, near Doncaster, have decided to modify their Teddy Boy walking-out clothes because they fear the outilts may give the camp a bad name. Left: Andrew Lochrie in the orthodox Teddy Boy suit. Right: Daniel
Tolan in the toned-down style.
(Express)
RADIO and television
star Gilbert Harding
provides distinctive
note in men's fashions
at a BBC artists' party.
The cummerbund ex-
cited much comment.
(Express)
SWEDISH stage and screen star Mai Zetterling sitting for her portrait by Chelsea artist: John Wynne-Morgan. Now 49, Wynne-Morgan studied painting while convalescing in Algiers during the war, and sold a prosperous business ten years ago to devote himself exclusively to art. (Express)
TO take up the £1,500-a-year position of Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is Lt-Col Martin Gilliat, for the past two years Military
Australia's Secretary to
Governor-General, Sir Willam Slim. A bachelor, his home is in Welwyn, Hertfordshire. (Express)
LINDA CHRISTIAN, who recently obtained a million- dollar divorce from Hollywood star Tyrone Power, and 27-year-old British actor Edmund Purdom have figured lately in romance reports. They are seen at a London cafe with two admirers. (Express)
LEFT:
Churchill,
French-born · Odette famous wartime secret agent, is being sued for divorce by her husband, Cap- Lain Peter Churchill. He was her commanding officer in their work with the French under- ground movement. Picture shows them following their marriage in 1947. (Express)
BEWITCHING Joan Greenwood seems to have no difficulty in casting a spell on
actor Rex Harrison in this scene from the London comedy, 'Bell, Book and Can-
dle." by John Druten. The play marks Joan's return to the West End stage
after a lengthy stint in films and on Broadway. (Express).
LEFT BELOW: Special mechanical diggers made their ' first appearance in an Army guise during the Wessex Infan- try Division's recent nuclear warfare exercise on Salisbury. Plain. Called the "Dinkum,"
it digs a slit trench in a tenth :
of the time it would take two soldiers to do it by hand. (Army News).
NANCY
WHEN commercial television made its appearance on British, viewers' screens recently, it shattered the BBC monopoly on the medium. The Independent Television Authority gave a banquet at the Guildhall to give it a good send-off. The ITA chairman, Sir Kenneth Clark, is shown outlining the alma of the company at the banquet, which was, of course, televised. (Express)
By Ernie Bushmiller
THIS IS THE THIRD
TIME I'VE BEEN 'UP FOR A DRINK.
TONIGHT:
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