1955-09-17 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1955.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

CAXTON HALE

BLONDE Joan Diener, glamorous, 24-year-old lend of the West End musical, "Kismet," is having con- tract trouble with her producer, Jack Hylton. Miss Diener went to the Riviera to rest for health reasons and was away from the show for a week. Hylton conslsered she had broken her contract, and gave her part to her understudy. Joan was denied per mission to enter the Stoll Theatre. (Express)

FORTY-TWO men and women from 11 countries, who learned to speak English through the BBC's "English By Radio" lessons, have been holding a conference in London. Four of them are here-from left: Greek teacher Apostolus Schinas, Mlle Arlette Mounet from France, coalminer Rudi Weber from Germany and Swedish bus driver Lennart Dahl. (Express)

FOUR world travellers who between them have logged more flying hours than they can remember met at a party at London's Dorchester Hotel the other day. They are Swedish air hostesses Kersti and Britt Stahle, who are twins, Captain John Hackett (second from right) and navigator Peter Moneypenny, who last month set up a record by flying from London to New York and back in 14 hours

21 minutes in a Canberra jet plane. (Express)

GOLDEN HAIRED Ann Tigwell, 23-year- old BOAC hostess who won this year's "Miss Speedbird" title, and bridegroom John Mar-

shall Anderson, ari American airline exec- utive of Bahrein. Both went back to work after their honeymoon — and it may be Christmas before they meet again. (Express)

REMEMBER Richard Russell Mains,” the eight-year-old who' feels no pain? He is shown playing on South of England beach after his father had accepted an offer from a family to look after him. He has to- be watched all the time, because he doesn't know when he may be hurt. (Express)

A year's training at the famous La Scala Opera in Milan is the prize won by Miss Linda Thomas of Lanarkshire, Scotland, who competed with other prominent young singers for the Romberg Singing Scholarship at the Scala Theatre, London. She is seen resting at her hotel after winning the prize. (Express)

WALTER COWAN, retiring at 69, thought seriously about his weight (16 stone 7 pounds). He said: "If I'm Idle, I'll get fat." So he took up cycling. And since May he has pedalled 4,000 miles. He has lost three stone. He cycled from his home in Stirling, Scotland, to Land's End and back recently. (Express)

BELOW: Gravesend (Kent), boys really had a fleld day when 46 Heavy 'Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA, held its "At Home" to the public at Milton Bar- racks. The guns, with their complexity of knobs inviting to be turned, were a particu- lar attraction for An- drew Berzins, Michael Lilley and David Paris and several hundred other youths. (Army News)

'HERE is the one-in-a-million celebrity girl. She is 21-year-old Barbara Wood, of Redcars, Yorkshire, who will be the millionth immigrant to arrive in Australia, with her husband to be, Dennis Porritt, an electrician. When she arrives in Australla in ' November, she will be welcomed by a Cabinet Minister. Barbara has worked as a shorthand typist. (Express)

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THE Premier and the Private. Standing in a weapon pit, with overhead protec- tion against atomic blast, Sir Anthony Eden talks to a moldier across the barrel of a Bren gun on his fact-finding tour of the three Services at Colchester, EGUNT He saw all units of Britain's strategic reserve, the "Iron" "ård. Infantry Divisioku, (Army News)

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JUMBO knows how to keep cool in London's heat wave. This Regent's Park Zoo elephant, after a strenuous day giving rides to children, snatches a hosepipe from a gardener watering the lawns and makes sure of a long, cool drink. (Army News)

By Erble Bushmiller

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