THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1959.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
ABOVE: Alec Guinness, British stage and film actor, has been awarded a knighthood in the Now Year's Honours List. Ho is seen here in his most famous screen role-that
of Colonel Nicholson in
"The Bridge on the River Kwai."
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RIGHT: Shelagh Delaney, 19-year-old former Salford, usherette England, has sold the film rights of her first play "A Taste of Honey' for £20,000. And hor play is to succeed Sandy Wilson's marathon-run- ning "The Boy Friend" at Wyndham's Theatre, London, next February. Shelagh wrote "A Taste of Honey" after seeing a
Torence Rattigan play which made her decide she could writo tomo- thing better than it.
BELOW: Queen Eliza.
beth, Princo Philip, and
Princess Anna arrive for
morning service recently
at the parish church of
Smooth, Kent. The royal
visitors were spending a
weekend ot Mersham
as guests of Lord and
Lady Brabourne.
ABOVE: British actor Sir
Donald Wolfit, who left
recently for Konya and Abyssinia to give a sories of Shakespeare recitals, is scan with the portrait of him painted by London artist Robert Lutyens. The portrait, in which Sir Donald used the pose of
the Reynolds' portrait of Samuel Foote, will hang
in his country cottage.
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ABOVE: Enjoying a soa- sonal party at the home in East Grinstead, Eng. land, of Mr and Mrs Tom 'actor Meyer are film
Cary Grant, Mrs Mayor (in dark glassoz) and film actress Marla Scarafia. Looking on
Com- mander Michael Parker, former privato secretary
of Princo Philip. At din- nor they played a now word game, which con- sists of substituting ''a word for ona of tho
on the manu
names
thus Stuffed Turkey -bo- comas Staffed Shirt.
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RIGHT: British racing driver Mike Hawthorn, who recently announced his retirement, is soon with a painting presented to him by an oil com- pany. The painting, by Roy Neckoldı,
shows
Hawthorn at the wheel on his world champion- ship run in last year's Moroccan Grand Prix.
BELOW: Sergeant Walter Holloway, 28, prays in St Paul's Cathedral for a home in England-where he can take his son to die, Six weeks ago the sergeant and his wife Betty flow to Britain from Rhodesia in a lust at- tempt to save the life of their
nina-month-old baby Christophor, pictur- ed inset. Christopher has α rare disease of the heart muscle, a disease which killed the Hollo- way's other child a year. ago. Sergeant Holloway, who is leaving the Rhode. sian army to stay in Eng- land, must find a house and a job.
NANCY
OUR LOCK HAS BEEN PICKED
OH, BOY-..
THAT'S
WONDERFUL
LEFT: A general view of the Boat Show, which opened recently in Olympla, London. At- tondenco figures аге already well up on those of lost your and exhibi- tors report brisk trade with-orders pouring in,
Artek 19 years apart they were together again recently at London's Liverpool Strace Station. They embraced-thon suddenly there was a hiss as the doors of an inner Circle underground train closed. The train clattered off, parting once more Stefan Plantek and his wife Anna, both pictured hero. For the was in the train and ha was on the platform. Anna made two 13-mile round trips before she realised the train wont round in circles. So she got out at Victoria and station officials took over. After a frantic scorch, Stefan telephoned a Polish rofugao club in London, found to his relief that Anna had been taken there. Stofan and Anna had been parted when the Russians deported them separately in 1939 from. Grodno, Poland. Not until last month did the Polish Government give Anno pormission to join Stefan in Britain, whero ho had lived since 1946 after serving with tha-Froo Polish Army. ·
By Ernie Bushmiller
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