1956-05-12 — Page 4

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956,

SINGER Dorothy Dandridge ("Carmen Jones") travelled from her cabaret spol ut London's Savoy Holel to attend Oxford's traditional May Morning celebra tion. She sat in a punt at dawn to listen to singing from the top of Magdalen College tower, and then danced with the university's jazz club Dorothy here sings, with trumpet obligato.

(Express)

members.

PIETRO ANNIGONI, 45-year-old Itallan artist from Florence, snapped on his arrival in London for the current Royal Academy show. Last year he created a sensation with his portrait of the Queen. This year he hus on view a fine portrait of Dame Margot Fonteyn. (Express)

THE Duke of Gloucester, who is Colonel of the Scots Guards, recently inspected their Training Company at Pirbright. He is seen listening to pipers of the Ist Battalion practising on chant pipes in the Pipe School (Army News)

BUM

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

THE world's best-looking ship's crew has just set sail from England for Aus- tralia in the ketch Quest III. The four girls are Beany Thompson, Pat Grieve, Leonie Cockland and Sally Kerr-Field. And the skipper is a mere male-

That's him hoisting the rum barrel. 28-year-old New Zealander Martin Brent.

(Express)

LEFT: Ronald Lewis, a little-known actor from Glamorgan, Wales, has jumped to fame sharing Vivien the load with Leigh In a new Noel Coward comedy, "South Sea Bubble," in London. He is 27, and critics pre- dict a future for him. (Express)

BELOW:

Sir Winston Churchill delivering his speech of thanks after being installed as Grand Seigneur of the Com- pany of Adventurers of England Trading Into Hudson's Bay. His an- cestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Was Governor of the Hud- son's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691. (Express)

ONE of the funniest events at the Woolwich Horse Show the donkey race for the Woolwich Cup. Picture shows the confusion at the first fence, which the donkeys refused to jump until after much persuasion by their young jockeys, (Army. News)

ADMIRAL of the Fleet Sir George Creasy has a new command. He enjoyed sailing his model yacht in the pond during a garden party given by General Gruenther, Supreme Allied Command er in Europe, at his residence ni Marnes-a-Coquette, near Paris.

AFTER the presentation of the Freedom of the City of Welle, Somerset, to the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). The Mayor, Mri F. Melrose, In»-- specting the parade after the General Bälute in the Maricel Pinon, (Army News)

NANCY

LOOK--- SPIKE

FASTER, SLUGGO

IS AFTER

SLUGGO

SPIKE IS SORE

BECAUSE *SLUGGO. WINKED AT -HİS' GIRL

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Anthony Kemp, a schoolboy

at Harrow, rode at Birmingham with some of the best amateur jockeys of England in the Rugby Amateur Riders' Plate over 11⁄4 miles. Harrow masters said it was the first time any boy from the school has wanted to become a jockey. (Express)

By Ernie Bushmiller ·

COME ON, SPIKE

ROWNTREES

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