1955-07-02 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 2,* 1955.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

WHEN he heard that his 21-year-old girl friend, school teacher Valerie

Gray, had been injured in a motor-cycle crash, Joc Brown.. one of the two. men who conquered 23,146-ft Kanchenjungu. third highest mountain in the world, few 6,000 miles to be by her side. The 24-year-old plumber, who arrived in London by plane from Calcutta, went immediately to Blackburn, in Yorkshire, where Valerie Was recovering from jaw, arm and leg injuries. They are seen together above. (Express)

BUDAY

LEFT: Hoagy Car. michael, famous American singer and song writer, at London Airport. He is in England for three weeks to make recordings. He also hopes to play some golf. (Express)

BURMA'S Prime Minister. U Nu, went backstage when he was in London recently to meet members of the cast of the musical production, "Kismet," at.. the Stoll Theatre. He is seen with one of the elaborately 'dressed principals. (Express)

AT the exhibition

works by the 61-year-old abstract painter, Ben Nicholson, at

.

London's

Tate Gallery. Dramatist Benn Levy is seen with his wife, actress Con- stance Cummings, and Miss Pauline Vogelpoel, secretary of the Contem- porary Art Society, which arranged the exhibition. (Express)

LEFT: Thirty years ago, when Dame Edith Sitwell, recited poetry on a con- cert platform, she was hissed off, and one critic wrote: Surely it is time that this sort of thing was stopped." But now Dame Edith is a top attraction. at London's Festival Hall, In a stiff brocaded gown, Her hands covered' with enormous rings, she is drawing packed houses. (Express)

BELOW:

Orson Welles, whose prodaction of “Moby Dick" was well received by the critics' when it opened at the Duke of York's Theatre. London. Welles himself plays the fanatical, one- legged Captain Ahab, de- dicated to pursuing and killing the Great White Whale. (Express)

FERDY the fox, from Newmarket, with its mistress, Mrs Yvonne Horth, during a holiday in London. Ferdy was the only vixen in an 'abandoned litter of five found in a wood, and the Horths adopted it Ferdy likes a sip of beer, and is here about to attack a pint of bitter. (Express).

MR Norman Manley, Jamaica's Chief Minister, who is in Britain for citrus talks, look time off one week-end to look round London's "Little Harlem" the streets off Brixton Road. Happy Jamaican residents gave him a big reception, and he found them reasonably satisfied. He did not find the dreadful housing conditions that were reported to exist. (Express)

BRITAIN'S new Mobile Defence Corps is doing some very realistic training these daya. Picture taken during the first coarse for Territorial Army volunteers at the training centre at Epson, Surrey, shows a casualty being brought down from a platform representing a shattered building (Army News)

NANCY

WHAT WAS THAT NOISE, NANCY ?

CRASH

BUSHMILLE

YOU SHOULON

DO SUCH BA GOOD CLEANING

JOB

GERALD HAMILTON, who was interned by Sir Winston Churchill for pro-German" 'sympathi es during the last war, posed for the Oscar Nemon statue of Churchill recently unveiled by the Lord: Mayor of London at the Guildhall. The Yugoslav refugee sculptor asked him to do it" because: Sir Winston could not pose on account of pressure of government business. Chuckled Hamilton: “I must say the situation tickled my sense of humour." (Express)

By Ernie Bushmiller

I THOUGHT. THE WINDOW.

WAS OPEN WHEN I

THREW THAT

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