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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1954.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL ·

PRINCESS MARGARET faces a battery of nurses' cameras after opening an extension to the Kingsbury Maternity Hospital, Middlesex. Earlier, the Princess unveiled a plaque to commemorate the opening of the new extension, (Express).

LONDON fashion model Joan Burgess, who has many times modelled bridal gowns, chose for her own wedding dress white silk organza, with a neatly pin. › tucked bodice, long sleeves, winged collar and a full swirling skirt. She is seen leaving the church with the bridegroom, Richard Hicks, company director and pólo player, (Express).

RIGHT: Shoemaker Papa doesn't seem to mind the blare of a trumpet in his cobbler's shop. In fact, he is happy about it. For the trumpeter 80载 is Eddie Calvert, whose recording of "O Mein Papa" has already sold 1,500,000. Eddie's father's shop is in Preston, Lancashire. (Ex- press).

LEFT: Mrs Pamela Russell, who broke her back in a riding accident, recited poetry on television from her wheel chair recently. She is seen arranging daf- fodils in the Stoke Mande- ville, Bucks, spinal hospital. (Express).

NOEL COWARD went to see "The Boy Friend,” a

1920 style of musical, at the Wyndham Theatre, London, the other day. He is seen backstage after the show chatting with Anne Rogers, one of the cast. (Express).

SINGING star, 53-year-old Evelyn Laye, who has not been in a musical for nine years, scored a great success when the new show, "Wedding in Paris," opened

at the London Hippodrome.

(Express).

recently

THE bearded man on the left is the Abbe Pierre of Paris, who hus raised £400,000 by his passionate work for the homeless of the French capital. He was in London to address a World Government meeting at the Central Hall, West- minster. (Express).

WHO

BELOW: The birthday

cake for Lady Churchill, who was 69 on April 1. It was baked in Soho by Mme Floris, and illustrates Lady Churchill's interest in gardening and croquet. The verse on top of the cake composed by Mme Floris's son. (Express).

was

THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr R. A. Butler, Mrs Butler, their 17-year- old son, James, and 10-year-old daughter, Sarah, arriving at the tiny Church of St James the Apostle, Greenstead Green, Essex, on the Sunday before Budget Day. Mr Butler read the lessons at the request of the vicar. (Express)

NANCY

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Reggle Bates, of Sione,' near Dartford, Kent, was blinded for life when he toppled from a slide in a Council playground. A High Court jury has awarded him £17,500 damages against the Parish Council of Stone. (Express),

By Erale Bushmiller

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