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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE TRAFFIC COP SPENDS THE DAY WATCHING THEM PASS THE RED LIGHT- AND CALLING THEIR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER.

Spending The Holiday

DS

A scream in the night

-from Annie

ANNIE ROSS-now a recora contract

THIS MILK MAY BE

TOO

By

HEALTHY

CHAPMAN PINCHER

DENICILLIN is getting into Britain's milk, it

PE

WILM

revealed this week. Reason: So much of the drug is being used to treat cows.

Out of 3,000 milk samples tested at the National Institute for Dairying Research at Rending. 120 had inrge amounts of penicillin.

Doctors fear that people who continually take the drug in milk may become su used to it that its germ- killing value during an illness might be much reduced. But it is the cheese manufacturers who are most con- cerned.

Milk can be sticcessfully made into cheese on a commercial Penicillin kills scale only when certain germs are acklexi to it. there germIS.

If the treatment of cows with antibioties #rugs) inermises," the scientists war, "the dairy industry may cocounter serious difficulties,"

T

| Quarenteen

was midnight. There was Annie

Ross, the girl who changed overnight from dance-band singer to stage, star in the revue Cranke, trying to toll Ine what she wanted to do next.

There was also Georgia Brown (who played one of the less respectable parts In The Threepenny Opera). trying to tell me about life in a 10-guinea-a-week, two- roomed flat with Annie.

"What I must do now." said Annie," learn to act."

"Act!" sald Georgia "You should have seen her...."

Annie interrupted: **1 know I'm on the stage," she said. "1 suppost I'm a star. But being

an actresS

Georgia.

JA more than

that."

with the mous"," ytultk

"I ought really to have taken singing jessons.** said Annie "But 1 came from the gort 01 family that said: 'It she's going to sing, she can sing naturally,'"

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"It was four in the morning,“ said Georgia, "She woke me up screaming that there was mouse on her bed, Then jumped on to a callboy-oh, str,

yards away

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And the

leap. fall-

boy is six feet high."

The alt- boy." said Ali (nie, is 5ft, Bin.

high

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she

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"la me crap)." sald Georgia. "And she stood there mallinE the Wyn of her pyjamas up round her knees and screaming.

“The poor girl upstairs must have thongght she'd found a man under her bed-ar hadn't found a man under her bed. Anyway the mouse for away.**

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Annie.

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to

saying."

suid

"I must learn to act. I don't want

back Dairy scientists suggest the only answer may be to adi sorne

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to singing

dance band BL thing to the inllk to destroy the pentelllin,

(penicillin-type | Tunbridge Wells" which Wus where John Cranko, who wrote and devised Cranks, found her,

Who is this Annie Rosa? I will tell you. She is the British girl most likely to become 1 really great star.

(COPYRIGHT,

BY HARRY WEINERT

IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR NATURE, LOVERS TO HELP THEMSELVES

TO SHRUBS, FLOWERS

AND YOUNG TREES ANYTHING THAT ISN'T

NAILED DOWN.

At 25 she has a small devoted following. One of them Princess Margaret. who seen Cranks three times.

born

HAUNTING

G

has

She has a slight American Deco (l's genuine - she wa

in Surrey into the Scols show business family Logan, but Ilved in the US. from the age of two to 17); she has a Lert Bank look (acquired during a four-year stint in Paris jazz- clubs); she has red hair that looks as if it was cut by a saw.

She cannot dance, she cannot act. Except for a few sweet notes her voice is wavering. sometimes harsh, sometimes out of tune. "I know," she says, "I often sing flat."

"She she has something extra.

What is It? Just this. A haunting quality. a cat-like charm, a sleek, animal wild-

ness.

Hear it in the long-player of John Addison's music made by the Cranks (.M.V. CLP 1082).

Annie has just signed A recording contract. After life on what she calia "peanuts-but I'd better not comment,” record- ing is a venture that could keep her in a mamer to which she is not accustomed.

IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO VISIT HISTORIC SPOTS-LIKE THE PLACE WHERE SOMEONE ONCE FOUND A PEARL IN AN OYSTER.

FOR THOSE WHO HATE CROWDS,

THERE'S THE VAST AND ROLLING OCEAN IF YOU CAN FIND IT.

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COPR. 19 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP, 1M.WORLD'RIGHTS RESERVED.

THE GIRL AND A COUPLE OF STEAKS -

ONLY DON'T GIVE ALL YOUR ATTENTION TÔ

THE STEAK.

THERE IS ONLY ONE THING YOU CAN DO WHEN SHE ISN'T INTERESTED

IN FISHING—AND THATS GO FISHING —AFTER ALL, IT IS INDEPENDENCE DAY.

AN EXPERIENCED

POOCH KNOWS THAT THE BEST PLACE TO SPEND

THE HOLIDAY

IS AT HOME ---- UNDER A BED.

THE DAY IS PRACTICALLY, SHOT BY THE TIME THE BARE NECESSITIES ARE LOADED

INTO THE FAMILY CABOOSE,

A SECRET GROTTO

A

Rome.

SENSATIONAL discovery

has been made in Capri: O new secret blue grotto where Emperor Tiberius used, to balho.

•

The new grotto can be" reached only by swimming under water, but the Roman Emperor WEB able to reach it by steps and through a tunnel in the rock.

A part of the stops" gave entry to the tunnel, which leads to the palace, and have. been found in the new grotto,

The discovery wis made by Commander Halmondo Boucher, Italy's underwater swimming champion and holder of a work diving record. Boucher roached a depth of 114 foot without breathing apparatus, using only goggles and frogmen's 200 London Express Bervice.