1953-10-03 — Page 4

THE CHINA MÀIL," SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1953..

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

LORD and Lady Dowding watching the Battle of Britain fly-past from the roof of the Air Ministry. Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding in 1940 prepared Fighter Command for its vital struggle and' led it when the battle came. He is now 71. (Express)

GARY COOPER, 6 fl. 3 in. film star, seen at the preps conference which he gave at his London hotel before the premiere of his new film, "Return to Paradise." (Express)

SCULPTOR Jacob Epstein, at the Lyric Theatre, London, for the first night of F. S. Eliot's "The Confidential Clerk," sees his bust of the author in the foyer. With Mr Epstein is his daughter Esther. (Express)

ONE of the most colourful weddings of the season in London, was that of Misa Maunagh. Hennessy, 20-year-old granddaughter of Lord Windlesham, and Mr. Timothy Koch de Gooreynd, at Brompton Oratory. Nine bridesmaids and three pages. attended the bride. Mr. Koch de Gooreynd la a director of a music publishing house, and is 23. (Express)

ACTRESS Claire Bloom, adds a touch to her make- up in her Old Vic dressing room to play Helena in Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well.” Sho has also been playing Ophelia in "Hamlet" at the Old Vic this season. (Express)

LEADING Afrcraftsman Tony Bigden, who was kidnapped by Egyptians in the Canal Zone and later given a false passport and put on a ship for Frante, being greeted by his mother after he was released from West Drayton RAF station, where an inquiry' was held into what had become an international incident, No

charge is to be made against Rigden. (Express)

CHATTING together, are (left to right): Richard Murdoch, Sir Llonel Heald, Ben Travers and the England cricketer, Peter May. Picture was', takèn at the Princess Theatre, London, where old Carthu- slang gave à concert before an audience of +500 old Charterhones, boys and their

MRS Williams, `67-year- old mother of 16 children from Ross-on-Wye, gėls a very special hug from her son, Pie Kenneth Williams, of the Leices tershire Regiment, on his arrival home from a

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LAST man in line at London Airport is one of Britain's best protected hush-hush personalities Mr Elmhurst That was the name atom scientist Sir William Penney used on his flight to Australia to attend the Woonieru blg bangs. (Express)

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DAVID and Robin Farrow, welcoming their: ex- prisoner of war father at Southampton, boxer Randolph Turpin on the quayside, and péri suaded him to autograph a picture for

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