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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1958.

PEOPLE

in the news

Friends Part Company When Their Luck Was

By STANLEY BONNETT

Too Good

LOCKED in London solicitor's office is a

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17th-century painting, believed to be Italian and a major art discovery worth £20,000. It was bought for £17 at an auction in August.

WING COMMANDER

BYRNE

Big Boys

A life-size picture of Abrahamn sacrificing Is, 11 will stuy where in until a row between the man who claims he found

at and the man who pald atatineer is settled.

the

The dispute is between Rus- sian-born portrait painter Kon- stantine Yurzynski, the Buder, Vincent and Wing Commander "Puddy" Byrne, the Chelsca pro- perty owner and philanthropist, the buyer.

Wing Commander Byrne, Splifre plot whan was a prisoner and three times tried to escape, told me yesterday at his home

In Think-square "The matter is in the hands of my sulkitoRS, There will

be court probably action."

The wing commander's solfci- tor said: "There is a picture, and there in a row.

"I can only say now that the picture is with the Russia's solicitors, who have given undertaking that it will not be disposed of."

Club meeting

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The philanthrople wing com- mande: and the thick-sel artist, who has acquired Polish nation- ality, first mei Ira ☐ Chelseu club).

Chesterfeld Nov. 11.

Mr Yurzynski, 37, vlso a mur- Because some senior boys alvivor of German prison cums

Hoad Secondary they kept me alive only the Williams

be School, Chesterfoki, are nearly

cause they used me to tatlog the six Fee tul und weigh up to guard chests") was sketching, 16 static, special furniture Ins been ordered.

ppeext day frist have

The two talked of pictures. at muncy. The outcome, says Mr Wolter The hendimuster,

Mr Yarzynski, was un agreement Stevere,

at the school's that he should use said

hly know orders to supply edge to find at tellons potent!- eluded the wordsally valuable paintings, the wing Ivery strong and adult size.""

comander to put up the money The hoys In upper formes to buy them and we were

17 and a half to range from

shave the proceeds ffly-dlity." 19 People Spread.

Two months ago he went to a

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25 Horse food was nothing to 23 He carves (8).

the wartline army girls (4), 24 Lot loose (5).

20 A very short time for four 28 Jobs of work (B),

(3, 4).

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TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Array; 1 Cosmle, & Perch, B Cairn, 9 Asleep, 10 Immbus, 11 Slove, 12 Näll, 13 Ampen, 16 Patchy, In anticy, 20 Hanto, 23 Fiate, 23 Torry, 28′ Oboes, 20′ lodine, 21 Dever, 28 Writs, 20 Resum. Hown: ) Clannísti, 2 Baltings, A feca, 4 Capital, 5 Privacy, 0 Enmuesli, 7 C-rude, 14 Pyramids, 15 Nietect, 10 Please, 47 Terrier, 19 Attest, 21 Amber, 24 Xore.

MYSTERY PICTURE Piorro Joannerat writes: Tho great painting obviously shows affinity with the Venetian School of Titian and Tintoretto,

While the identity of the artist remains unknown, the name that occurs to me after study of this very fino work is Giovanni Francesco Barbiori, who died in 1666, nicknamed the Squinf-eyed. His work is in the National Gallery.

preview in London's Old Bromp grey rubbery colour, but when ton-road gallerles and picked restoration work began the real three "possibles."

beauty appeared, like the Bun from behind drab bursting

Among them was the painting now in he solicitor's office. All clouds. that could be seen υ the The garments of an angel original canvas at the time was a boy's leg in one coITIES,

Blackened

holding back Abraham's hund turned Irajo the colour of mud to pure Venelian goid."

Said Mr Blake Lust night; "I know at once it was work of a great Master.

the

Lady

A Weekly China Mail Feature

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Tealeaf (Britain's No.1) On PRINCESS MARGARET

Female Crook

The Prowl Through England

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By RODNEY

Inlwarth.

ADY TEALEAF answered her 100th advertisement

for a job.

It was for a clerk's post in a Chelsea sub-post office. She got it.

But before anyone could any "Four 3d, stamps, pleuse," Lady Tealeaf was off. With 2441 from the safe.

Lady Tealeaf-it's her nicke- 1. ແຕ in the Cockney orime

Isle Of Dogs world-was up to her old tricks

Hula Hoops

London.

A 12-year-old girl col· lapend arter hula-hooping continbously Por savan hours at a London fair. ground.

Jookle Earwakar was taking

part in A hooping contest at the into

Buta-

ut Dogs fairground in Lon- von's dookland.

After being revived with Brandy, Jackle want on to happ for tour haur the following day, then WAB carried off with cramp in

hor lega.

Winner was 10-year-old Patti Stuart who tike Jackic was absent from school the next day,

Mr Robert Keeble, the Tairground proprietor, said: **W.D Just had no idea they would go on for so long.

"Rakod the parents if they wanted to take their children off, but they didn't want to."

Hula-hooping, A craze which came to Britain via the United States, is the rotation of a hoop round

the body by means of hip movement.

The object is to keep the hoop moving as long as possible-People Special.

The Convicts Have Better Conditions

applying work as a cochter and stealing the enab

In the past two years she has stolen so much money in this way25,000 that Scotland Yard how regards her as Brl- tain's worst woman criminal,

Her Boast

Lady Tealeaf is no lady. She looks much more than the 28 Yea she claims, and walks with a limp.

She speaks with A loud of Cockney accent and boasts having crooned with some of the big dance bands. But that story can be taken with a pinch of sult.

She started her crine run in Bristol. After a day's work in shop she was asked to go to the bank with £200. She never came back.

Since then she has been all; over the country.

In Norbury, Landon, she took two watches; four days later in Newcastle-on- she arrived Tyne and stole £203.

After a series of grabs from big stores, theatres, and post ctices she turned up at Poole. Dorset, and look £88.

Her Escape Then to Birmingham

for

A

quick £1,000, back to Brixton to collect £123, Leeds £103, Portsmouth £372, Hounslow

£137, Nottingham £232.

-Detectives nearly caught up before with her in Kent just

but she escaped after abandoning the car the had stolezi.

Than Warders Christmas,

London.

she'p

been

to Since then The Convicts in Britain's prisons Liford (£156), Lavender

Kill Manchester (£780).

The rest of the painting was blackened with Time und quality was immensely hopress- heavily overpainted. "But the ive.

"It was clearly an original. more looked at it the more I ksurw it wus what we were We could see where the Master searching for," he said.

had first drown heads and honds them In

"The leg

Two days later, says

Wos magnificently and then re-drawn drawn.

I was convinced I had different positions." found enmething great."

Mr Yarzynski and the Wing Mr Commander began talking Yarzynski, Wing Commander sums of £10,000, £20,000, and Byrne bought all three pictures more. "We were friends," Mr for just over £40, and the Yarzynski sakd yesterday. "special" one for £17,

It became difficult. to take legal advice."

enjoy better conditions (£100),

thon

their wardars, оп official Government, com- zinitteo reported.

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and so on.

Most

D

Umes she LAVOUrs The committee, first for 35 smart dark blue suit and black

report

pay and court shoes, years to work in the prison service, | described the living and work-

of wandeTE ing conditions "Bul "Dickensint."

Their

Gold: "Sub- decided

stantial kimprovemenİS haye for the prison Art experts are still undecided been made

with the population call about the identity of the artist,

omphasis now on training and rehabilita- tion, but in our view, parallel improvements have ΠΟΣ been made for the stuff,"

Mr Henry Blake, the National Gallery restorer,

wis

od in. Mr Yazynski recalls: Titan and Tintoretto are being "The sky in the picture was a mentioned.

report

AL Dartmoor Britain's toughout gadi -- warders' Iving quarters had no Jarder and bathrooms projected into the i sitting room. There were facilities for drying clothes.

Sleeping quarters for warders

Vatican 'Purge'

May Follow

Doctor Scandal

Bune caserove thithin BIG dismissals of Vatican everythilo be officials and a thorough

destred." In various establish-

ments the officers had to share reform of the Roman Curia, lavatories with the prioners," the central administrative machinery, of the Roman

the report said.

It also revealed that at some Catholic Church will be the prisons there were to warders' Pope's first task according mories at all. The mosa nt

Wandsworth Prison, London, to highly placed church was "the subject of universal officials in Rome, driticism by the committee."

The committco called for pay They were commenting on a Increases for prison officers scandal which exploded after and executives-People Special. the death of Pope Pius XII.

The Princess And The Patient

Princess Alexandra, who is taking on an in- creasing number of public duties, span as she met a patient in the Western Hospital, Chelsen, after she had opened A training school for hursos.——— Central Press Photo.

Thà central. figure is Doctor Riccardo Golc-. azzi-Lini, the. late Pope's 08- year-olú Bonal physiclup. Who Is 110w under Investi- gation by tho Vatican, the Itailon Govern- ment, and the Rome Medical Amociation charges of un- ethical conduct.

on

Dr Galeazzi-

Lis is accused

of having vio- THE DOCTOR Isted his dullen 'Fold story

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omelat and doctor by revealing detalls of the Pope's personal life, and his Instilnoo9 And death, to the Frem for huge Burn of money.

The Galeazzi-dal affair has shaken the positions of other tombers of the Jato Pope's en- tourage.

AT NEWBURY RACES

Princess Margaret, in a bat of armine tips, walks to the paddock to see her mother's entry, Double Star- the eventual winner-before the Evonlode Handicap stoeplechase at the Newbury, Berkshiro, meeting. The Queen Mother was also present to see her horse win.

Reuterphoto.

Princess Anne

comes back to London from Balmoral

Warmly clad in a tweed coat, with thick stock- ings and a Dutch bon- net, the young Princess arrived back in England with two young girl friends. They were met by the Station Master at King's Cross Station. -Central Press.

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