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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1956.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

COMEDIAN Norman Wisdom recently met the year's prettiest new British subject -- Swedish-born Hollywood actress Anita Ekberg, now the wife of Brilion actor Anthony Steel. To Judge by the picture, They gut on like a house on fire. (Express)

RIGHT: Spitfire, the London Zoo's polar bear cub, last week mel Rupert, the comic strip bear familiar to readers of the China Mall. For Rupert, it was a rather rugged meeting. Picture shows Spitfire

giving

Rupert a kiss. (Express)

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GENERAL Sir Robert Mansergh, Commander-in- Chief, United Kingdom Land Forces, stops to talk with an officer during his review of Royal Artillery units at Woolwich. General Mansergh was Com. mander, British Forces, Hongkong, from 1949 to 1951, and later commanded Alled Forces in North- west Europe. (Army News)

HER MAJESTY the, Queen's Birthday Parade, Trooping the Colour by the Grenadier Guards at Horse Guards Parade. The Queen is shown riding down the lines of scarlet-clad Guards during the inspection. (Army News)

PROFESSIONAL boxer Jimmy Walsh, 28, who picked up a newspaper the other day to read that a man found drowned in a Warwickshire canal had been identified as himself. Jimmy went to the nearest police station to put things right. Detectives found that Jimmy and the dead man were almost identical. (Express)

CHARLIE CHAPLIN, beloved of film-goers through- out the world, has been made an honorary life member of the Association, of Cinematograph, and Allied Technicians as a token of his.services to the film Industry during the past 40 years. The scroll he holds calls him "the world's greatest actor and technician." (Express)

France's, Leslle Caron, who switched from ballet to become a star la Hollywood films, is now acting on the stage in London In the Anita Loos adaptation of Collette's "Gigl." After the premiere, critics did ecstatic pirouettes over Miss Caron's performance, were decidedly less enthusiastic over the play. (Express) ·

BELOW: The O'Hara family of Bangor, Northern Ireland, has set some sort of a world record. There are eight sons in the family all priests, the eighth, Joseph (extreme right), being ordained recently at Minsterncres Abbey, near Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The parents are seen on the left. (Express)

A scene from a new ballet seen in London for the first time last week, Sadler's Wells dance arranger Kenneth Mac. Millan has set it to the music of U.S. band lender Stan Kenton. Entitled “Somnam- bulism," it tells of three sleepwalkers and the creatures of their night. mares. (Express)

NANCY

HE used to be a shopkeeper in Cyprus. But because be defied the terrorists and sold food to the British, he was shot at three times. So he was helped to But England and what he belleved was safety, 62-year-old Greek Cypriot Christos Haralambou Vins found himself being shot at again as he slept in a Berkshire, hotel. He is examining a hole made by a high-velocity air rifle pellot. (Express)

LEAVING St Margaret's, Westminster, after their wedding are Mr. Mikael Essayan, grandson of the vil multi-millionaire, the late Calouste (Mr Five Percent) Gulbenkian, and Mina Geraldine Guinness, daughter of the late Kenelm Lee Guinness, of the KLG spark plug firm. (Express)

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