1959-03-28 — Page 4

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH-28, 1959,

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

ABOVE: The £1,000 week rock'n'roll singer Marty Wilde had a now look when he reported rocontly to a Groenwich hospital specialist for a check on his fallen arch in the right foot ovor which his first Army medical board reserved judgment a few weeks ago. His once long locks had been cut short a few days ago at his own instigation--but the re- sult hod boen such o

shock he's been wooring a raft felt hot ever since.

RIGHT: One night ro cently brought Mayfair its most colourful ball of the year

as the 16/5 Queen's Royal Lancers and their ladies celo- brated the Bicentonary of the regiment's foundation. Guest of honour was the Queen hurself, Colonel-in-Chiof of the regiment. Soon stepping it out in the first danco-the Queen and Brigadier Philip Bowden-Smith.

BELOW: For the first time since he arrived, in Britain recently as head of M "parliamentary" delegation invited by the Labour Party's loft wing, Mikhail Suslov, secretary of the Contral Com mittee of the Soviet Communist Party, met somo of Britain's top politicians. Ho lunched with Gaitskell, Boyan and MP Jonnio Loo (Mrs Boreal at the Soviet Embassy. Hore Gaitskell shakes hands with Suslov after the Embassy lunch. Jennic "Lee watches sceptically-Nyc Bevan (Labour's shadow Foreign Minister! watches the camera.

ST. ALFEC HOSPITA

ABOVE: On the banks of the Avon at Shakespearo's Strafford a trio of theatrical figures meet to talk of their next play: "Othello," to be produced at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatro next month. Othello will be played by Paul Robeson (centro), Desdemona by Mary Ure (right), Director Sam Wanamaker is on the left. Robeson at one timo was a doubtful startor, lying ill for two months in a Kromtin elekbed.

BELOW: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret (below) went to the horse races recently at Sandown Park, Princess Margaret sow her friend Lord Patrick Beresford, 'fall heavily at the lost fence when he was riding In the Grand Military Gold Cup.

ABOVE: Not since the nightly air-raids of 1940' has anything so catas- trophic happened to Ilford, a suburb of East London. Recently, tho terror of that timo came back again as firamén, fought an all-night firo' that by the time it was finally brought under control had destroyed eight shops with a com- bined 450ft frontage and caused an estimated £15 million of damage. 40 families were moved out of their homes bordering the High Street, shops; trains, buses, and trolleybuses stopped; gas, water and electricity waro all'cut off, and ä railway bridge Was ondangered.

LEFT: Latest meeting between Prince Shiv, and Eva Bartok, har former husband Curt Jurgens and her successor Simone. Bicheron Was cidental опе

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scots away from each other at the promiare of Ludmila Tcherino's ballet season. Seen are

· Princo· Shir ́and1 o'sgri- clad Eve at, the premiere. *

BELOW: "Room At The Top" came top in the recent prize-giving of the British Film Academy. At the Savoy dinner ät which the prizes were distributed, it took the awards for both bost film

from any source, and best British film; and its star, Simone Signoret, was named best foreign actress of the your. Sean are best British actor and actress, Irene Worth and Trevor Howard, at the dinner.

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