1956-04-21 — Page 4

'THE CHIÑA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1956.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

EIGHT English girls of the Festival Ballet Company at London Airport prior to leaving for Monte Carlo to dance at the wedding celebrations of Prince Rainfer and "Grace Kelly. They are, from left, Lillemore Knudsen, Janet Gray, Norma Arnold, Shirley Scott, Pamela Devis, Diana Daubeney, Gillian Vaughan and Valeria Pitkin. They performed a new bullet the evening before the wedding. (Express)

LEFT: The Daily Ex- press has adopted the new four-month-old Polar bear at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it has been named "Spit- fire" following a chouse- the-name competition among readers. Says Zoo Superintendent E. H. Tong: "Spitire sums up its temperament .... it can snap and snarl and bile

pretty sharply."

(Express)

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN stepping from her car when she arrived at St Margaret's, Westminster, to attend the wedding of her cousin, Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, and Mary McCorquodale. Police had to control the big crowds outside the church and the Hyde Park Hotel, where the reception took place. (Express)

LEADERSHIP course of Combined Cadet Force units of publie schools and grammar schools at Stanford Training Area

In Norfolk. Cadet other ranks going over the rope walk with thunderflashes bursting to give realistic wartime effect, (Army News)

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RIGHT: The Sunday morning quiet of Lisle Street, Soho, was sudden- ly shattered when a film unit appeared to shoot a scene for David Niven's new film, "The Silken Affair." Niven, who plays a City worker who cooks the books, ts seen here going through his part. (Express)

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MARGATE, South of England seaside resort, has 175 pub landlords. Len Hyett, 60-year-old landlord of the "First and Last," is the envy of them all. He can decant a bottle of beer, measure out a tot of Scotch or pull a pint of draught ale without spilling a drop. And he is totally blind. (Express)

WHEN the Duke of Edin- burgh made a trial flight the other day in a Black- burn Beverley military transport, a fire extin- guisher burst and choking fumes filled the cockpit, but he managed to keep control for another ten minutes and then made a perfect landing. Picture taken in the cockpit just before the accident. (Ex-

press)

INDIAN magician Sorcar, who performed in Hong. kong some months ago, startled London TV fans when he "sawed" a girl in half with a circular saw, The trick led to hundreds of telephone calls to the BBC by shocked viewers. (Express)

THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD ex-RAF type Gordon Nicholl, a collector of vintage cars, la photographed here with his prize model -- a 1988 Horch which was once owned by Nazi Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler. He bought it for £165, and it

"does 18 miles to the gallon. (Expre

LONDON sculptress Anne Gunter working on a model of Prince Hal, show jumper of horsewoman Pat Smythe, seen holding Prince Hal's head still. (Express)

NANCY

BRITISH Alm actor Anthony Steel has been dubbed "Iceberg Boy" after his engagement to Swedish actress, Anita Ekberg. He is shown on his return to London from Hollywood. (Express),

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