Commonwealth Leaders Confront Pressures at London Conference
Britain hosts a ten day Commonwealth conference with leaders and aides from ten free lands to address political racial economic and military strains facing the alliance. Key figures include Harold Macmillan Nehru Diefenbaker Menzies Suhrawardy Nkrumah Louw MacDonald De Silva and other delegations as they seek unity and solutions.
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London
British Commonwealth of Nations
Britain
Harold MacMillan
Downing St
John George Diefenbaker
Canada
Australia
Robert G. Menzies
Nehru
Commonwealth
Pakistan
HR. S. Suhrawardy
India
U.N
Kashmir
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Kanawha Players to Stage Two Orphans in August
Kanawha Players announce the classic melodrama The Two Orphans to be staged over the first two weekends in August at St. Matthew’s Parish House. Tryouts are July 1 2 at 8 p m in the workshop 5315 MacCorkle Ave 8 E. The production features more than 20 roles with casting chaired by Mrs Frank Annand. Copies of the script available from Kanawha County Public Library or the committee including Charles King Jane Armitage.
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Kanawha Players
St. Matthew's Parish House
Richard S. Glasser
Players
MacCorkle Ave
Frank Annand
Kanawha County Public Library
Charles King
Jane Armitage
The Two Orphans and Film Adaptation History
The 1850 Paris street tale centers on two girls fate in the streets of Paris. The story later became a film featuring Lillian and Dorothy Gish in a cherished adaptation.
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Harlotte Havilland Abbott
Paris
Lillian
Dorothy Gish
Diamond Jim Brady’s Candies Fashioned Like Lillian Russell
Diamond Jim Brady known Broadway figure of the 1900s wooed star Lillian Russell and had confections made in a likeness of her to decorate his banquet tables.
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Diamond Jim Brady
Lillian Russell
Miss Russell
Two Britons Sentenced in Egypt Spy Case
Cairo court handed James Zarb ten years hard labor and James Swinburn five years for spying. Acquittals were recorded for Charles Pittuck and John Stanley, with a Yugoslav and one Egyptian also freed. Other Egyptians received three years to life. all relate to the Suez crisis era. Meanwhile at Subic Bay, Rear Adm. Keith succeeded Donaho as naval base commander. In a separate note, Karanaike faces a political crisis at home and Sir Roy Welensky attends federation affairs.
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Cairo
INS
Egypt
James Zarb
James Swinburn
Charles Pittuck
John Stanley
Manila
Robert T. S. Keith
U. S
Subic Bay
Glynn R. Donaho
Keith
Missouri
Donaho
Long Beach
Calif
A Karanaike
Sir Roy Welenaky
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T. L. MacDonald
Sidney Holand
Ceylon
M. W. de Silva
Solomon Ban
Norins
Sea Medmont
Kanawha County Society For
Kanawha Library
The
National
Robert F. Simmons
Orpha Voorhees
Society
Peter S. Perry
Kanawha
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