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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958.

• HOMESIDE PICTORIAL •

THE Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, leaving the Speech Hall at Harrow for the Headmaster's House .. and raises both hands as one of the boys of his old school flashes a camera bulb. Sir Winston was paying his annual visit to the school, and joined with other Old Harrovians in singing the traditional school

songs. (Express)

MR William Kean Seymour, 66-year-old English poet, once a Chelsea bank manager, has rewritten part of the famous Robert Burns poem, "Auld Lang Syne," and intends to modernise more of the work of the great Scots poet. He has never lived in Scotland, and depends on dictionaries of the Lowland Scottish dialect for his translation work. (Express)

MAKING her debut as an orchestral conductor, film actress Anna Neagle led 27

of England's best musicians in Haydn's "Toy Symphony" at the St Cecilia's Festival dinner at the Savoy Hotel, London. Haydn wrote the symphony for amateurs using children's toy instruments in place of their grown-up orchestral counterparts. Miss Neagle is asking for a note from pianist-turned-trumpeter

Elleen Joyce. (Express)

IN a grey London street a deposed African ruler ignores the newsreel men jockeying for a long-awaited shot. Mulesa II, ex-Kabaka of Bugandu, had just left the Colonial Office where he had spoken for more than an hour with the Colonial Secretary, Mr Oliver Lyttelton. In picture he is listening to what a Colonial Service official has to say as he heads for the nearby African Bureau. Near the, kerb is his private secretary. (Express)

FRENCH Alm actress Cecile Aubry pictured in her -London-hotel-with an injured ankle. Her sports car hit a tree a few days before she was due to appear as mistress of ceremonies in the Cafe Continental Television programme. (Express)

CROWDS gathered outside No. 2 Brick Street, London, to watch the guests:~ arrive in bizarre costumes for the 47th birthday of those twins, the Royal photographer Baron and Jack Nahum, QC. Invitations had been sent to 280 people. There were at least two dozen dressed as Farouk; several made up as harem girls. It was the brightest party In Mayfair for some time, Above: The BBC's "bad boy," Gilbert Harding, hiding as a bespectacled sheikh, siis out with co-host Baron. Below: A former debutante and one of Britain's top models; ́red-headed, green-eyed Fiona Campbell Walter, tastes Baron's “nectar:” (Express).

NESTLE'S

Milk CHOCOLATE

MILK

NESTLE'S CHOCOLATE

I prefer NESTLE'S

MILLIONS of emokers at home have supported the campaign against the 2s. 9d. tax grab on every 38. 7d. packet of 20, cigarettes. Here is Mr Alexander B. Featherstone, General Secretary of the National Union of. Retail Tobacconists, sorting the pikes of "cut the tobricco tax" petitions which arrived at his London office. The lists have now 'gone to the Prime Minister. (Express).

NANCY

Sluggo's Tied-up

I HAVE TO:

KEEP MY EYE ON HIM THESE DAYS

OR HE'LL

DUCK AWAY, TO SEE

THAT NEW

GIRL

By Erule Bushmiller

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