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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1953.

· HOMESIDE PICTORIAL.

JOHN MASEFIELD, 74-year-old Poet Laureale, is writing a Coronation ode to the Queen at his home in Burcot, near Abingdon, Berkshire, Near his home there are seven air bases, and listening all day long to the scream of jets he is finding it difficult to finish his ode. (Express)

THE large moustache of Pipe Major Sarar Khan, of the Pakistan Coronation contingent, is measured by Petty Officer Eve Ekert (Brisbane) and LACW Annette Crampton (Hobart, Tas.), of the Australian women's contingent. Picture taken at Pirbright' Camp, Surrey, where the Commonwealth contingents are now training. (Central)

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, recently attended a gala performance of Shakespeare's "King Henry VIII" at the Old Vic Theatre. Paul Rogers, who took the name part, is seen chatting with the Queen during the interval, when the cast was presented to her: (Central)

THE BBC's library of sound effects has a new loud- splash recording, thanks to 25-year-old Sheila Blower. It will provide watery background noises for future radio programmes.. A comedian falls into the water? It will be Sheila you really hear. Above: drying herself after the recording. (Express)

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MLLE Annie (left) and Mile Magali de Vendeuil, two noted young French actresses, pictured at Victorin Station, London, оп their arrival from Paris for a three-week season

at a West End theatre.

(Express)

BELOW: Wing Com- mander Walter Gibb, the pilot, with the Canberra bomber in which he broke the world altitude record by going up 63,668 feet. Wing Commander Gibb is chief test pilot of the Bristol Aero-

plane~~C ́o·mpany. (Reuterphoto)

"GARRY', DAVIS, 31, latterly famous As "World Citizen No. 1," waiting outside Buck- ingham Palace for a reply to his letter sent to the Queen asking her to intervene to permit him a longer stay-in-Britain.--(Ex-~-

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EXPERIMENTS with special suits and gear to enable air crews to overcome the strains of high speed, height and temperature are going on at the RAF Institute of Aviational Medicine, Farnborough. One of the "guinea pigs," after tesling a cold weather "sail," "strips and enters a bath calorimeter-where his total heat content is measured. (Central)

MEN of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, In London for the Coronation, riding through the East End on their way to Hyde Park,

The men and horses had

Just “landed. » As they went by, children lined the roads to cheer them. (Express)

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SEEN together at a partý given after the first night of the Coronation produc- tion of Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart" arc, from left, Sir Laurence Olivier, Margaret Leighton, who portrays the king's mistress in the play, and Noel Coward, who plays King Magnus. (Express)

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