1955-03-12 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1955.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

THE Duke of Eainburgh flew by helicopter from, Buckingham Palace to Caterham to take the saluté at the march past and present leeks to officers and senior NCO's at the traditional St David's Day parade of the Welsh Guards. The Duke is Colonel of the Regiment, RSM D. J. Griffiths replaces the Duke's cap after fixing a leok to it. (Army News)

AT a party given at Claridges Hotel, Lon- don, in honour of the Argentine Minister of Agriculture, Senor Carlos Hogan, The Argentine Ambassador, Dr Domingo Derisi, welcoming Mrs Gwilym Lloyd George, wife of the Home Secretary. (Express)

LEFT: A star who went to see the stars Sally Anne Howes. It was at the first night of the new American comedy, "Wonderful Town," which is due for a long London run, judging by first au- dience reactions. Pat Kirkwood and Shani Wallace are in the lead. ing roles. (Express)

Lot 1: maybe there s some compensation for Deink in a zoo, uiter Lil, says Tony, Man- chester s 35 cwi hippo- potamus. Tony, 28, nas spent all bu three years of his life behind bars. And his silver

jubilee present was ints

z ft. square sponge

cake topped with leing and pink cream. For the record, it took Tony

four bites to get rid of

it all. (Express)

BELOW: Eight-year- old plants! Michael Koll, son of a Viennese doctor who fled from the Nazis, is to be soloist at a concert by the 50-piece Eljos Or- chestra at the Civic Theatre, Leeds, on March 27. Although. young, ho is already hailed by top musicians Is 題 real discovery. Michael won second place in a music fes- tival class for under 21's He was only one mark behind the 19-year-old winner. (Express)

LONDON sherry importer Alejandro Cassinello gave a party in sophisticated South-

Molton Street in honour of Spanish dancer Antonio and his company, who are in

London for a season. Here is the guest of honour performing with his partner,

Rosita Segovia. (Express)

LEFT: Rusty, the ele- phant at the Regent's Park Zoo, bends her mighty back to the snow as she works with a will helping ber keeper, Buck Jones, to clear it away.

SERGEANT Arthur Bertram "Bill" Sykes, BEM, of the Glorious Gloucesters, fought the Chinese Reds In Korea with a machine-gun. When taken prisoner, He was he fought them with Cockney ridicule. brainwashed, beaten and tortured, but refused to be broken. The story of Sykes and hundreds of others is told in the official booklet, "Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Kores," just published. (Express)

AN aerial view of abandoned lorries and cars trapped in deep drifts at Woodhead, high up in the Pennines, on the main Manchester-Sheffield road.

THE beauteous Queen Soraya of Persia meets some of the organisers of the fashion show specially held for her by the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers. Wearing a silver mink fur coat, the Queen herself looked us if she had just stepped out of the pages of a fashion magazine. (Express)

NANCY

DON'T STÄND SO

CLOSE TO THE EDGE; HERMAN

AND DON'T

STAND

UNDER

THAT

BIG ROCK

PLEASE GO HOME AND, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

MOIRA SHEARER, the ex-ballerina, created a sensation in her first non-dancing part in Oxford in "I Am A Camera.” She played the part of Sally, a nice English girl who goes to the bad in squalid, 1982 Berlin. Here is Moira the merry-eyed, (Express).

By Ernie Bushmiller

HE OWES ME A DOLLAR

DAIRY BOX

MIEK

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