1956-03-03 — Page 4

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Bernie Burke, of Salford, last week willed himself to walk seven short, determined steps from a fireside to a window. There with his nose pressed hard against the pancs-he watched for the man who helped him find the will to live. Bernic. with stiffened legs, has joined the 98th Salford Scout Troop, and once a week now ho takes those few steps to look out for Group Scoutmaster Ben Hart, who drives him to the Cub meeting. (Express)

ACTRESS Maureen Swanson is getting a big build- up from the Rank Organisation, which has just an- nounced a £3,000,000 plan to make 20 major features by the end of the year. This is the most ambitious programme ever attempted by n British studio, and you will be seeing quite a lot of Maureen. (Express)

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1956.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

ROMANCE rumours circulating about Swedish-born film actress Anita Ekberg and British actor Anthony Steel got a boost when she took him home to meet her mother and seven brothers and sisters. Mama Ekberg serves Anita's friend at tea. (Express)

THIS new British in- fantryman's outfit has. been designed for combat duty in icy conditions. It consists of a parka Jacket with hood, which fit over The regulation battledress, (Express)

ACTOR

Alec

Guinness

outside Buckingham Palace after receiving the insignia of Commander of the Order of the British Empire. With him are his wife and son, Matthew. (Express)

HER Majesty the Queen and the Queen Mother leaving the theatre after seeing the French revue, “La Flume de mà Tante.” Shortly before a sketch depicting an embarrassing Paris street scene, pressmen were asked to leave in order not to watch the Royal Family's reaction. The incident provoked one columnist to 'describe it as "the most extra- ordinary censorship” he had ever known. (Express)

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA mixing a vat of mascara base during her visit to a cosmetics factory in Brentford, Middlesex. She saw all types of cosmetics being made, from raw material to finished article. (Express)

BELOW: Two of the slx bridesmaids at the wedding of actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco will be, appropriately enough, a Hollywood actress and a princess. The two are Rainiers' sister, Princess Antoinette, and Rita Gam. Grace and Rita, shown here, shared an apartment in New York. (Express)

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Britain's newest millionaire-13-year-old Norman Best, here seen with his wife Gladys. A former radio repair man, he invented the X-shaped television acrial. He has just sold his firm for £1,300,000. (Express)

BELOW: Seated in his home made, five-seater car, in which he plans to our Europe this summer, is 36-year-old paint sales- man Robert Townsend, of Slough. The car took one year to build, cosi £180, and has reached 85 mph during trials. (Express)

FIRST murder to be reported in Britain after the House of Commons voted to abolish hanging was committed in London's Limehouse district, dock area beloved of crime novelists.' Victim was 50-year-old Mrs Betty Senefft, stabbed in the sailors' outfitters" shop (above) which she ran with her ex-policeman husband. There were Indications that there was a struggle in the shop. (Express)

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