1956-03-17 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1956.

A fascinating feature of London's current Ideal Home Exhibition is "The House of the Fature." Experts believe that, with its plastic-Impregnated plaster wails, floors and ceilings, the house will be typical of the homes people will live in during the 1980s. Here, the husband and wife of the future (models Esme Celllers and

(Express) Robin Jenkinson) lake time out for a cup of (atomic?) ten.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL ·

THE weekly judo class of the Community Centre in Slough, England, has trebled in size this year. Cred!t for this, say Centro officials, should go to the new instructor, 19-year-old Duich girl Nicky van Hamburg. A nurse, Miss van Hamburg is in England for six months to learn English. She is throwing a pupil in class. (Express)

MISS Phyllis Dyson, who was working Moscow as governess for A British Embassy off- cial, had to be flown home two years ago because of a pollo attack, and had to be carried from the plane. Last week, she was married at St Paul's Church. Canterbury, to F/Sgt Harry Hurst. (Express)

LT - GEN. Sir John Glubb, sacked from the leadership of Jordan's Arab Legion, has been househunting in Eng- land, where he will settle down to write his memoirs. Sir John is Heen in

London with Lady Glubb and two of their adopted children, Teddy and Mary. (Ex- press)

HUNGARIAN-BORN Veronica Banszky studies a piece of sculpture at an exhibition sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society, held in London's Tate Gallery. Eight hundred guests attended a parly following the private viewing. (Express)

ONE of last year's British debutantes dived into the River Thames last week to rescue a five-year-old girl who had fallen in from a barge. This is the rescuer, Manuela Coats, who was visiting friends in a house- boat moored in the Chelsea aren when she saw the little girl tumble in. (Express)

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Eira Roberts, from Barry, Wales, is one of the competitors in the forthcoming "Miss Great Britain" beauty contest. She has already been "Miss Wales" (1954) and "Miss Black- pool" (1955), has been playing in "Cinderella" in Cardiff and is a contract model for a biscuit company. Gifted gal! (Express)

BELOW: Messroom steward Ludmilia Martinenko and some of the merchant navy cadets of the Soviet training ship Equator (3,200 tons), which docked at Southampton last week. (Express)

PRINCIPALS in the new. London revue, "Cranks.” From top: Gilbert Vernon, Anthony Newley, Annie Ross, the Scots vocalist, and Hugh Bryant, a Negro singer from New York. Princess Margaret saw tho dress rehearsal. (Express)

NANCY

STANDING with her portrait of former Dally Ex- press editor R. D. Blumenfeld, who died in 1948 aged 84, is artist Mrs Faith Sage. The portrait has been commissioned by members of the Stationers' Company, and replaces one badly, damaged by a war- time bomb. The new painting is based on photo graphs. (Express)

JUDITH LAMB, three-year-old London 'girl, leaps into a swimming pool watched by her mother, Mrs Alexander Lamb." Judith has just been awarded a Fulham Borough Council certificate, signed by the Mayor, for swimming the length of the baths unaided. Her mother says Judith's style is her own Invention—a combination of flutter-kick and breast, stroke. (Express)

By Ernie Bushmiller

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