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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1953.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL •
SCENE at Olympin at the dress rehearsal of Bertram Mills Circus just before Christmas, when 6,000 kiddies from all over London and the Home Counties en- joyed all the thrills and laughs of the Big Top. Left: The performers and one of the animals stand silent in the sawdust ring to receive a blessing from the Vicar of St Cuthbert's Church. The Fervice was conducted in four languages English, French, German and Russian, Right: Her Majesty the Queen is handed a bouquet - by Percy Hunter, a famous clown, on her arrival to at- tend a special performance, (Express)
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BELOW: WRNS Chief and Petty Officers at the RN Bar- racks, Chatham, mave Christmas party to 50 school- children from Gillinghom Council School and Luton
Arches School. Assisted by one or two sailors, they are seen waiting on the kiddies If with non-stop service,
THE Christmas cake that is too good to cut. The chef of a Brighton hotel made it in his spare time, and it took him 250 hours -the equivalent of a month of eight-hour work- ing days. The cake is a detailed model of Bucking- ham Palace, with the Coronation procession mov- ing down the Mall. It has heen presented to a hos
pital. (Express)
RIGHT: Benjamin Fran- kel, the composer, who has left the Communist Party after 12 years as a mem- ber.
His feelings have been outraged by the re- cent Prague trials. His! main work for the Com- munists had been to or- ganise musical activities,
(Express)
BELOW: At the gala per- formance in aid of the Sadlers Wells Ballet Bene- volent Fund at Covent Garden are (left to right) Mary Martin, her 11-year- old daughter Heller Halli- day, and Margot Fonteyn, the ballerina. (Express)
A contingent of the Life Guards making their way back to Knightsbridge Bar- racks take to the pathway by the of Constitutional Hill to avoid the icy,
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THE 77-year-old Earl of Sandwich leaves Hungtingdon Register Office with his bride, Mrs Amuya Corbin, 50, She is a British-born American citizen, and Kas been: secretary of the Hollywood (USA) Vedanta Temple, a Hindu religious: order, for the past 20 years.
(Express),
By Ernie Bushmiller
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