1956-02-18 — Page 24

^THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956. ·

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

BALLERINA Margot Fonteyn, who was made Dame of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours, is seen with the insignia after an investiture at Buckingham Palace. Holding the investiture was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, In place of Her Majesty the Queen who was on tour in Nigeria with the Duke of Edinburgh. (Express)

MAJOR Brian Coombe, 34-year-old Army officer who killed ono terrorist, wounded a second and captured two others after they had murdered his driver in Cyprus, was flown back to England after his life had been threatened. He is seen with his family in Maidstone, Kent. (Express)

PRINCE Aloyslus Daniel “Lord" Ganda, 28-year-old ruler of 50,000 Nigerians, has recorded a best-selling calypso in honour of the Royal tour, The Prince in in England on a music-drama scholarship. He composed his opus in two days on the back of an envelope. (Express)

BRITISH singing star Shirley Bassey is currently making a hit in the West End and on television. She is pictured just before going on to perform at a London charity concert. (Express)

BELOW:

Interior of Salford Cathedral, England, at the installation of the new Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, the Rt Rev. George Andrew Beck. Twelve hundred persons attended the ceremony. (Express)

ACTRESS Dorothy Tutin, runner-up for the Evening Standard “best acticas Award, received the prize (left) on behalf of the winner, Siobhan Mckenna, now playing in New York. Miss McKenna was chosen for her per. formance in Shaw's "St Joan." (Express)

RIGHT: Gift 10 Regent's Park Zoo. London, from the New Zealand Depart. ment of Internal Affairs

is this lualara, a reptile

of lizard-like appearance. It replaces a previous one which died. (Express)

Ho

PRINCESS MARGARET

on

her visit Lo the London

television studios of the BBC.

She watched a panel game,

was twice televised while in

the audience and later

attended a champagne party

in one of the studios. Back

to camera is Francis Essex,

producer of a variety show

which the Princess also saw.

(Express)

They

HEL by hopeful owners, these cats were aspirants for stage stardom. were auditioning at Sadler's Wells, London, where a cat was needed for a walking-on part in the revival, of "School For Fathers.”

Winner was a four-year-old cat from Canada named "Konts." His owner is a London woman,

also with a "posilo:namə, "Mrs John Donne;

RIGHT: When anyone calls "Nurse Clancy" in Bexley

Hospital, Kent, there's likely

to be some confusion. For there are six nurses named

Clancy there--and they are all sisters. Top, left to right,

they are Imelda, 16; Ester, 18 and Margaret, 24. Front, from left: Maura, 27, Lilly, 25, and Clare, 20, (Express)

NANCY

THIS IS RIDICULOUS

ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS

IMAGINE SENDING ME OUT IN A BLIZZARD---

YOU'D think that Eros, the god of love, wouldn't have much trouble keeping warm, but his statue in Piccadilly Circus suffered Ülke everyone else in the big frost that hit Britain this month. Picture shows how it looked one morning. (Express)

By Ernie Bushralller

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