THE CHINA MÄIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956, -
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AN Italian countess, once mûrried to a British officer, is pictured hére demonstrating how she paints in her £1 a week Pimlico (London) bed-sitting room, using her thumbs instead of brushes. Countess Anna Caroline Monici paints with her thumbs because she maintains she cannot afford brushes. She is hopeful of having two flower studies shown at the Royal Academy this year. (Express)
WITH Prince Charles following immediately behind, Princess Anne leaves the tiny village church at Thorpe Lubenham, Leicestershire, where they at- tended Sunday morning service with their parents, Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The Royal Family walked to the church with their hosts for the week-end, Lt-Col and Mrs Harold Phillips. (Express)
PREMIER ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn in the Dlor-designed kimono costume which she`used in the new, three-minute ballet, “Entree Japonaise,” which has just had it first presentation in London. Musie for the ballet is taken from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado." (Express)
ON the eve of their wedding in London are Prince Vsevolode Romanoff, cousin of the last Czar of Russin, and Hungarian-born Countess Emilie Berchtold. The Prince is 42, his bride 41. He was five when his father, Prince Yohan Constantinovitch," was assas sinuted in the Russian Revolution. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. (Express) -
THERON, the 849-1on ship which carried the advance party of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition to its destination, has returned to England with the expedition's leader, Dr Vivian Fuchs. He will return 10 Antarctica later this year. Theron is shown passing London's Tower Bridge. (Express)
ON the spot where 15 years ago the Bishop of Coventry vowed that a new build- ing would arise from the bombed, smoking rubble of the old, the Queen last week laid the foundation stone of the new £1,000,000 Coventry Cathedral. Present was a députation from Germany led by Lutheran Pastor Adolph Kurtz, who said: "I sce here the fulfillment of friendship between Christians in Britain and Germany. Christians everywhere are never the enemies of each other." (Express)
SIR Miles Thomas, whose - resignation from the £7,500 a year chairmanship of British Overseas Air- ways Corporation was announced recently, pictured at London Airport on his return frðm South Africa, (Express)
MALE dancers Jimmy Lamb and Lyndon Barnshaw are seen against a line-up of some of the Windmill Theatre lovelles featured in the latest edition of non-stop Revude- ville. (Central)
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LADY TEMPLER, wife of the former High Commissioner Malaya, bids farewell to Mr Walter Gordon (right), who is to take up an appointment as surgeon at the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. (Express)
FORMER Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov, now visiting Britain at the head of a delegation of Russian power station engineers, shown in holiday mood at Black- pool. Mrs Lily Dawson gave Malenkov- a stick of rock, and he said: “I will give it to my 10-year-old grandson Peter:" (Express)
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THESE two Canadian girls-Miss Mary Sandilands from. Truro, Nova Scotia, and. Miss Nancy. Byers from Toronto ----- are typing their way around Europe. They are shown sightseeing in London (Express)
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