THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1956.

HOMESIDE

PICTORIAL

PRINCESS MARGARET arriving with a party at the Cafe de Paris, London, to watch a cabaret per- formance by American entertainer Eartha Kitt. R way the third time the Princess had been to see Eartha during the singer's current engagement, Nole The Princess's new parted-in-the-middle hairstyle. (Express)

QUEEN ELIZABETH the Queen Mother, who is Chancellor of London University, Picture shows presiding at a Presentation Day ceremony at the University. graduates being introduced to her after receiving their degrees. (Express)

THIS year's Royal Caledonian Ball was held at London's Grosvenor House. Dancers are shown taking part in the Atholl Highlanders set reel..

LT-GEN. Sir Francis Festing's farewell parade nt Hounslow Barracks before leaving for Singapore to take up his new appointment as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, in succession to Gen. Sir Charles Loewen. (Army News)

LEFT: Twins run in the family of Chin Yu, 27-year-old actress from Hongkong, who has until recently been playing in the London production "Teahouse of the August Moon. So when she and her Australian husband, David Williams, learned she was expecting baby, they insured for £300 against twins. Now an X-ray shows that their foresight is to pay off, because she has got twins. They took out the policy "to pay for the extra things if two children came along." (Express)

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THESE two girls have a chance at £20,000. They led as "Miss England" in a national beauty contest in London. Now 18-year-old llena Nelson (right), a model from Liverpool, will go to Stockholm for the "Mines Europe" competition. Raven-haired Iris Waller, from Newcastle, will go to California for the "Miss Universe" finals. If still on top after the "Miss World" final in October, they will be £20,000 better off in prizes, film contracts and gifts. (Express)

THE Duke of Gloucester talking to officers on his visit to the Royal

Armoured Corps at

Bovington and Lulworth,

Dorset, In the picture is

one of the new Con- queror lanks which he inspected. (Army News)

BELOW: The Ink Spots famed American singing quartet, pictured at London Airport on their arrival from the United States. They have been booked for a season al the London Palladium, (Express)

VOTE

CHURCHILL

THE first ordinary Russian tourists to visit Britain since the war made their appearance in London this month. The party comprised workers and officials of the Moscow transport system. Miss Pelegeya Fedina, a Soviet woman bus driver, moets a London driver. (Express)

NANCY

SLUGGO

HAS A JOB AT THE

STATIONERY

STORE

I'LL DROP IN AND SEE HOW

HE'S DOING

WHAT HAPPENED

TO YOUR FOOT ?

MEET a British politician with a fanious name. It is Mr Winston Churchill, a 35-year-old caterer, seen canvassing votes for Nottingham City municipal. elections. With a name like that, there's only one party he could belong to the Conservatives. But he was defeated by a Labour candidate. (Express),

By Ernie Bushmiller

I DROPPED A

CARTON .OF GET-WELL CARDS

ON. IT

1000

ROWNTREES

EFF THE FULL

THAP

MAKES

CHOOKATE SO

BOMBLY GOOD!

Downtrees

MILK CHOCOLATE

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