THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1950,
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONT
JUNIORS OF THE BALLET-Selected candidates for the Royal Danish Corps de Hallet start their training at the age of seven in a class at the Ballet School in Copenhagen.
DOWN 898 STEPS BY HAND-His sister Dolores cheers Glenn Sunby as he nears the end of his 898-step descent on his hands from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington.
Ati... Miss
AUSTRALIA --
Margaret Hughes
(above), [!! sear old
honey blonde from New
South Wales. WIN
气~
cently chosen “Miss Aus.
tralia" in a confest 1
Melbourne.
TURKEY FISH—This three-inch-long mare turkey fish, so called because of colouring resembling turkey feathers, was sent to the Steinhart Aquarium, San
Francisco, from Hawall.
CLERICAL PAINTER-The Rev. Omer J. Chevrette works on "Peter's Denial," one of 13 frescoes he has completed for the Church of the Immaculate Concep-
tion in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
NEW AIR CHIEF-Lord Tedder (right), who retired at the end of 1949 as Chief of the Air Staff, chats with his successor, Air Chief Marshal Sir John C. Slessor,
at a Berlin Airlift testimonial dinner in London.
TO HEAD COUNCIL- James S. Lay, Jr., (above) has been nominated by President Truman to be executive secretary of the National Security Council, top de- fence agency.
WEAVING THROUGH COLLEGE-Richard C. Barret, World War II veteran and a senior at Middlebury College in Vermont, works at his home-made loom to help pay his way through college.
A DRIVER RIDES- Albert R. Smith, a bus driver in Washington. D. C. who builds unortho- dox vehicles as a hobby, tries out his bitest, a single wooden wheel with
pedals.
SHAH AND SINGER-Lily Pons greets the Shah of Iran in her dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, after a performance of “Lucia di Lamier- moor." She was a guest at Iran's royal palace during the war when she entertained troops,
PARIS
PRESENTS
This dance dress of white tulle by Pierre Bal- main is trimmed with
white Val lace. A black
velvet bow and sash set off the flaring ruffled bodice.
Six-year-old
Nishida
CANDY-BAR PAINTER Hiroshi, who paints only when bribed with candy' bars, works at his home in Tokyo, where he will hold an exhibition in the Spring.
FOUNDER'S ESCORT-Italian boys, learning trades and farming in the "Boys' Republic" near Rome, escort Judge Juvenal Marchisio of New York, a founder,
along a street named in his honour.
HALF-CENTURY APART-Janet Rudolph ́(left) and Vern Tordy, students at Florida Southern College, wear bathing costumes of 1900 and today in a fashion
show at Lakeland, Florida..
TVA COAL PILE-This coal pile at the Tennessee Valley. Authority's Watts Bar Dam, Spring City, Tennessee, is estimated at 425,000 tons.
615.000 tons is, 1.54 percent of coal in the US.
ove the ground.