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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 195

• HOMESIDE PICTORIAL.

MANY people sing in then bathroom. But very lew, like actress Annc Toud, use it as a studio.

Miss Todd, who says she can't draw even though Hogarth was her great- great-granduncle, loves using colours. The paint- ing she is working on here

be shown Al exnibition to raise funds tor a factory where out work actors und actresses can earn money while sting.' (Express}

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SEAN O'CASEY, Ire- land's greatest drama-

tist, whose new play. "The Bishop's Bonfire," has just had its first production at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. O'Casey is 75. (Ex- press)

SUSAN HAMPSHIRE, 17-year-old daughter of an Imperial Chemical Industries executive, was one of the young debs presented at Court this month. She is a pupil at a Knightsbridge ballet and finishing school run by her mother. She plans to become a nurse. (Express)

LEFT: The velvet voice of Beniamino Gigli will not be heard in London again. Italy's greatest tenor will retire in June, and the other day he sang his farewell to an audience of 6,000 in the Royal Albert Hall Picture shows him holding a high note at the recital. See also Page 13. (Express)

LEFT: London had one of its gayest postwar pre- mieres with the showing ot "A Star រង Born." Many famous stars went along to see Judy Garland and James Mason in the mm which previously pro- vided top roles for Janet Gaynor and Frederic March. Sir Laurence Olivier and Dlana Dors sharing & joke in the foyer of the Warner Theatre. (Express)

MARSHAL of the Royal Air Force Lord Douglas of Kirtleside and West End model Hazel Walker, who were married recently at Poole Register Office, Dorset, He led Fighter and Coastal Commands during the The bride has modelled before Royalty.

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war.

THE first cinema to be built as such in Britain, London's old Biograph, celebrated its 50th birthday this month. A special programme was put on including many of the early films. Mr Charlie Spink, 83, one of the Blo's first nighters 50 years ago, `poses with some of the old stills. · (Express)

BELOW: When the Gloucesters sailed from Liverpool for Kenya, Col. James Carne, VC, of Imjim fame, was on board to see the boys off. He was de. lighted to see two of his men who were with him In Korea Sgt S. J. Brisland of Bristol, who was also taken prisoner, and Drum Major P. Buss of Dover.

THIS freak accident occurred at Denham airfield.'. A two-senter Tiger Moth air. craft, coming in to land, went straight through the roof of a single-seater Auster which was being taxled around the field. David Denton, 15, who was in the Auster, was taken to hospital with suspected concussion." (Express) NANCY

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· EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy astronómer Richard Wilkin. son is called at his school in Londonthe, boy with his head in the clouds.” -- He has turned his home Into a miniature observatory. Pride of place goes to the real astronomer's telescope his father has built him. It cost $150. In picture, Richard is about to "sight" it on the moon. (Express)

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