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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1930.

Our Saturday Picture Service.

FIRST COURT OF THE SEASON.-At the First Court of the Season at Buckingham Pulses, London, on May 14, 800 presentations were made. The sene was part of magnificent splendour midst the scarlet and gold setting of the fammas baliram. Clowds of men, women and vikiren assembled in the Mull to watch the arrival of debutantes on their way to their First Court. A general view showing the crowd that gathered in the Mall to walch the arrival of the dobutantes.-(Sport and Genera).

DR. A. ALEKHINE, winner of the recent international Chess Tourna- ment at San Remo, Italy, with his wife and the championship trophy which was presented to him after his sensational victory over the world's greatest chess players who participated in the tourney.

PLUCKY GIRL FLYER. Miss Amy Johnson's feat is already the greatest of the kind ever achieved by any woman of her age. It is a splendid triumph.of modera youth and a blow to the old fashioned idea of women as the weaker sex. Misa Amy Johnson, by her aeroplane at the Hall (Yorkshire) Aero Club's “Air Pageant, in April this year.--(Sport) and Ceneral). T

MRS. ROSE WILSON, standing with her husband before the humbls cottage at Bolfaat, where she received the nows that she had inherited $5,000,000 from her uncle, the late John Andrews, American copper. king. About a dozen other claimants in various parts of the world. will receive similar amounts. Andrews loft County Down, Ireland, with. his wife in 1848, Intent upon aceking his fortune in the. New World.

THIS PICTURE OF COMMUNISM, fresh from the land of its origin, reveals, a hide of the now cult that seems to have been omitted from the platform of the brethren overseas. The shawl-covered women of the Soviets are passing bricks from hand to hand as the Clovernment removes the last vestige of the Semenov Monastery, blown up to make way for a new palace of labour" The work of destruction. Is a part of the Soviet programme for reinoring religion from the lives of the people. The elderly workman in the centre oreground was formerly a monk who made his home in the monastery for more than 20 years. He has now turned Atheist, and le nasisting in the, mad march against religion.":

THE FIRST COURT-Scene of splendour at Buckingham Palace. Fer the first time since his illness, H.. the King presided with_the_Queen over the First Court of the. Season at Buckingham Palace, London, un May 14, when 800 presentations were made. The Han. Angela Greenwood, daughter of Lord and Lady Greenwood, waiting in the Mall. Note the charming Victorian posy of simple flowers, ʼn special fonture, of the Court dresses this season.--(Sport und Genèral),

NEW SUBMARINE.-The submarine Rainbow, the first of the 1028 pro gramme, was launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, on May 14, the naming ceremony being performed by Mrs. Addison, wife of Vice-Admiral A. P. Addison, Director of Dockyards. Mrs. Addison also officiated at the laying of keel in July, 1929. This clasa af vessels is all of 1,475 tons.-

(Sport and General).

PREPARING FOR THE BEASON. Many debiutantes are receiving -tuition in the art of curtsoying from well-known teachers of dancing and "deportment, Miss Bolle Harding, the noted dancing and deportment in

structress, conducting a class of debutantes (Sport and General).