THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, ` 1956.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
WEST END producer Robert Nesbitt has just returned to London from Las Vegas, Nevada, with blonde dancer Lee Sharon on contract to appear in cabaret in London. One newspaper columnist pinned on her the glassy-eyed description "alarmingly lovely." Miss Sharon calls her dance "sophisticated sex." (Express)
CONTINUING violence and tension in Cyprus has caused the British Government to dispatch 1,200 paratroopers to the island. They are men of the 1st and 3rd Parachute Battalions. Three "red berets" checking their rifles preparatory to taking off on the airlift. (Express)
WHEN is a baron not a lord?
When he's 37-year- old Baron Nugent, who is to play the part of a "typical He says: British peer" on television in America.
"I am not a peer and have never been entitled to a seat in the House of Lords. I should not be called
That is not right. 1 ant Lord Nugent.
Nugent of Clonlost." (Express)
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AN English priest has bought an acre of land on the moon so that, when the first space expedition succeeds, the first lunar church can be erected. He is the Rev. Alfred Baldwin, of Buxton, Derbyshire, who acquired title from the Interplanetary Development Corporation of New York. Father Baldwin has promised two of his pupils that they can travel with him to the moon if he goes. They are Patrick Cunningham and Peter Madden, both 12, here looking excitedly at the deed. (Express)
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TWO German princesses on their first night out in London. Princess Christina of Hesse, 22, and her cousin, Princess Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 20, currently in London to study art, watching a sideshow at a Dorchester Hotel
charity dance. (Express)
ELIZABETH SEAL, 21-year-old unknown who was an overnight sensation in the London production of the musical comedy, "The Pajama Game," ta to marry Mr Peter Townsend, 25, who combines writing for advertising by day with writing and performing cabaret acle by night. They plan to marry in February. (Express)
GLAMOROUS Diana Dors seen on a set at Pinewood Studios with comedian Bob Hope. She refused a part in his Christmas show for troops in Iceland, but has consented to appear with him at the Wood Green Empire for the making of a film for American TV. Bob is in England for the making of the picture, "Not For Money." (Central)
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A modified version of the Salk pollo vaccine used in the USA is now being made in Britain and will be issued free to children between the ages of two and nine years. The Ministry of Health hopes to inoculate 500,000 children before summer. Photo shows single strains of vaccine being transferred to stainless steel tanks bill for mixing. - Three distinos airdins of killed palle viens are used. --- (AP)
TEATRARNAS VECKOPROGRAM
YESTERDAY was the 200th anniversary of the birth of the composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Picture is of No. 180 Lower Ebury Street, Bouthwest London, where he wrote his first symphony, when only eight years old. The young musical genius spent 17 months In London with his family, and played before the Royal Family with immense success, (Banews)
NANCY
SLUGGO --- WILL YOU LEND ME A. QUARTER ?
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A party of British flim actresses, now on a tour of Scandinavia for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, are shown looking at a poster depicting Stock holm's screen fare. The movie Belinda Lee is pointing out is "Man Of The Moment," which stars Norman Wisdom. Other pretties in picture are (left to right) Susan Beaumont, Julia Arnall and Brenda De Banzie. (Express)
By Erole Bushmiller
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