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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1954.

• HOMESIDE PICTORIAL •

HRH The Duchess of Kent, who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Dorset Regiment, inspecting the parade when she visited their Depot at Dorchester, The Duchess was presented with a regimental cap badge in diamonds and platinum with the

Dorset ribbon in green enamel on gold. (Army News)

ROSARIA PRIMO DE RIVERA, 18-year-old niece of the Spanish Ambassador to London, is visiting Britain and staying with her uncle. She is accom- panied by 24-year-old Maritina Montemenzo, sister of the Marques de Alcantara, Second Secretary at the Embassy. Together these two lovely, dark-eyed girls are exploring London. (Express)

IN a £5-a-week bed and breakfast bed-sitter in Chelsen, home of London's artists, lives Pamela Drew; otherwise Lady Rathdonnell, sporting socialite, for the best part of the year. While in London, she refuses help from her husband and insiste on earning her living as a painter. She is seen at work on her painting of the

RAF Coronation Fly Past. (Express)

A girl who grew too tall for the Salder's Wells Ballet, 21-year-old Jennifer Cornish is coming to Hongkong to open a ballet school. She started dancing at nine, but at 14 she was told she was too tail for the corps de ballet. So she went to Paris and Brussels, where she danced in cabaret and taught, (Express)

COLONEL Mary Railton, CBE, who has been appointed to be Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps with effect from September this year. She was born in 1906, and has risen from the ranks, having joined the FANY in 1938. (Army News)

AS Audrey Kenny, tall, slim, blonde model, she was often called "Britain's moat. photographed girL” | As Audrey Hanson-Lawson, she was recently married to Mr Arthur Abeles at Caxton Hall, Westminster. He is Warner Brothers' chief in Britain. (Express)

YOUNGEST Jockey in Britain, 12-year-old "Joshua" Gifford rode at Lincoln a few days ago In the first race" of the 'fiat season. Here he is seel With his mount, “March 22.”: He had to get spe albs to be absent from school, Joshua wants to take

no riding as a profoon

MR. Eamon de Valera,

former Prime Minister of

Eire, made a five-minute

speech in Irish at the sliver jubilee dinner of the Nát-

iomal University of Ireland

"Club in London. He is Chancellor of the Univer- sity. He repeated most of the speech in English. Mr de Valera is shown sharing.

Joke with Mrs M. J. How-

"Jelt,(Express)

NANCY

| THAT SILLY OL".

WOODPECKER IS WORKING

ON MY

TREES [AGAIN

SIXTY THOUSAND mullet were caught in one netting by local fishermen · in Whitesand Bay, Sennen Cove, near Land's End the biggest catch locally for nearly 20 years. Fishermen are seen working overtime to move the huge glis- tening mound of the fish to higher ground on the beach before the turn of the tide.

FANIE BUSHMI

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By Ernie Bushmiller

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