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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1957. #V
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
ENGLISH gentlefolk with a good eye for a pretty filly have tipped Henrietta Tlarks, 17-year-old daughter of a London banker, as 1957's prettiest debutante. She is pictured here with her poodle Bambl before leaving for Spain to study art, (Express)
BACKSTAGE at the Stoll Theatre, London, where "The Nutcracker" ballet was being performed. Hungarian refugee ballerina Marget Muller (right) meets British ballet artista John Gilpin, Jeannette Minty and Anton Dolin. She hopes to Join Dolin's Festival Ballet Company soon. (Express)
ONE of the very few hand craftsmen still left in the shoe Industry is 67-year-old Maurice Witcomb, who has worked for the same firm of shoemakers at Street, Somerset, for 54 years. With him here is one of his pupils, 17-year-old Neil Broughton, one of the few newcomers to a dying craft, Neil has made the football he is holding as part of his training in hand sewing. (Reuterphoto)
JUST, like a rest life interludo for screen mother' Elizabeth Sellars, who gets the rapt attention of her "ons,” Gerard Lohan (left) and Jeremy Bodkin as she winds a clockwork engins for them between shots of their new, fim, "The Man In The Sky," at Eliæos, Hertfordshire. The picture is a thriller, (Beuterphoto)
NYLON, in one of its less familiar forms, is worn on the head of 18-year-old Sheila Tolman, a lelephone operator at the Brighton (Essex) exchange. The new headset reduces weight and gives greater comfort as well as better reception. (Reuterphoto)
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CLAIMED as the oldest windmill site in Britain, the "Green" at Lytham, Lancashire, has had one of these picturesque landmarks since 1180. The present windmill, used at different times to grind corn, as a teahouse and as a yacht club headquarters, has now been turned into one of Britain's most unusual electricity sub-stations. (Reuterphoto)
RIGHT: Ben Hur, the. Maran cockerel, oughtn't to look so downhearted, because it isn't every bird that has a real opera singer like Lucille Graham to give him his bath. Taking a well- earned rest from arduous singing engagements, Lucille was spending a quict time at a poultry farm at Linwood, Ring- wood, Hampshire, where she helped to prepare birds for the National Poultry Show. (Reuter- photo)
OUT to beat the record of Antonio Stradivari, who lived to be 93 still producing' Stradivarius violins, is 77-year-old George Alfred Robinson of Eastbourne. He has been making violins as a hobby since he retired from a railway engineer's job in 1944. "I hope to carry on until I reach somewhere near the hundred mark," he said. (Routerphoto)
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BELOW: Thirty-nine people, including 15 children, escaped Injured from this car and coach crash in a quiet London street in the Pimlico district. The coach, swerving to avoid the car, hit the porch of a seven-storey Regency style house, bringing down tons of masonry over the driver's roof. The only casualty was the driver, who had a cut hand. (Express)
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TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Roland Bllersbach, n German, and his 18-year-old Dutch sweetheart, Petra Zuidinga, who eloped from Holland, to Britain, arə now free to marry.⠀ In a magistrate's court In London Roland was told that no application would be made for his extradition. He had been under arrest on a warrant alleging that he abducted 'the girl. Petra's father enlisted the help of Interpol-to trace his daughter. (Express)
By Erale Bushmiller
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