ZUM4872607: Aug. 12, 1953 - A Star goes to bed - all temperamental: The temperamental star of a West End stage show has taken to bed. and gets a call form the understudy, Rocky, the poodle took the part as a walker on when Sancho that's him in bed was missing from the Prince of Wales Theatre. Sancho had run away and when found was unfit to go on the stage. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4872750: Tue 03, 1953 - Boy Star Has Hair Bleached For Part: This evening at the” Q” Theatre, Kew Bridge, begins a week's presentation of the Innocents”, which was a recent success at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket. The male star of the cast, playing opposite Ann Crawford, is 15-year old Warren Hearndon, who has already made more than 100 appearances on radio and television, and who was chosen from many hundreds of applicants decided that Warren's light brown hair is not in strong enough contrast to his dark eyes to convey the minister impression which the character demands . so, Warren has had his hair bleached. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4872820: Tue 03, 1953 - The Queen Visits The Academy Photo Shows: The queen stands before the famous painting by Franz Winterhalter of the” Royal Family” group of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort and their children, during her visit to Burlington House for the Royal Academy's exhibition” Kings and Queens A.D. 653 - 1953. The Queen has loaned the largest single number of exhibits to the exhibition which opens the public today. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4872880: Aug. 13, 1953 - 13.8.53 The Greek earthquake disaster. Whole town slide into sea - More tremors rocked the Greek islands in the Ionian Sea today as British warships arrived to help in rescue operations. A “” Dunkirk”” evacuation went into operation to take survivor to the mainland / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4926518: Apr. 08, 1954 - Air hostesses as? spend your holidays in France? Messengers? A group of English air hostesses prior to boarding the plane at Orly Airfield today, each of the hostesses is carrying with her a suitcase containing articles most typical of Paris deluxe production. Each one is modeling a dress specially designed for her, they are to be the? spend your holidays in France? propagandists in various capitals / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4926613: Apr. 10, 1954 -” Bubi” Scholz back in Germany. Pictured here is middle-weight boxing champion Gustav Scholz after his return from the United States. Here, he demonstrates for a stewardess and the press how he defeated American boxer Al Andrews. After his return he had to rest an injury. With his successful fight against Andrews came a slew of offers, but the future of the boxer remained unclear / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4926660: Apr. 11, 1954 - Training for Gliding. At Bonn airport flight captain Hanna Reitsch and world record holder G? nther Haase are training for the world championship gliding competition, which will take place in the middle of England in the summer. They are pictured here (Reitsch in middle and Haase on the right) with flight captain Weber (left) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4927068: Apr. 20, 1954 - The girl who must be handcuffed to her two boyfriends for a week - To enable Jill Johnson, of Eltham to win a prize in the Radio Luxemburg programme “” People are Funny”” she must decide in one week which of her two boyfriends, 20-year-old John Bingley and 20-year-old Eric Ward, both from Muswell Hill, and at present home on leave from the R.A.F. she will settle down with. To help her decide she must go around with both of them each evening handcuffed to her, and from this unpleasant experience she must choose the one she thinks is most likely to make the best husband / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4927121: Apr. 21, 1954 - Mitri Trains For Turpin Fight: Photo Shows Tiberio Mitri, the Italian champion, seen at punxh bag, during his training art Santamarinella, near Rome, in preparation for his fight agganist Randolph Turpin in Rome on May 2. Turpin's European middleweight title will be at stake / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4927375: Apr. 27, 1954 - Lord Mayor Attends Stow Commemoration Service.. Prizewinner With Her Awards. Sir Noel Bowater the Lord Mayor of London this morning placed a new quill into the hand of the effigy of John Stow Commemoration Service at St. Andrew Undershaft, in the City. It is usual for the Lord Mayor to present the John Stow Memorial Prize of books to the prize winner. Keystone Photo Shows: - Roslyn Ings (17) of the Haberdasher Akes Hatcham Girls' School, New Cross - winner of the John Stow Memorial Prize - poses with her prize in front of the memorial this morning / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4927935: May 05, 1954 - Earthquake in Central Greece: 19 people were killed and many injured and 20,000 were made homeless in the earthquake which spread destruction over 1,500 square miles of Thessaly in Central Greece. While 600,000 people in the province were preparing for May Day festivities more than 2,000 houses were destroyed and another 1,000 damaged. Towns were left as rubble / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928515: May 05, 1954 - Prime Minister Attends Mass Meeting of the Conservative Women at Albert Hall... Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was the Guest of Honour this afternoon at the Mass Meeting at the Royal Albert Hall of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Women's National Advisory Committee. Keystone Photo Shows: Two grandchildren of the Chairman - Mrs. T.A. Emmett - present roses to the Prime Minister on his arrival at the Royal Albert Hall this afternoon / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928781: May 05, 1954 - Pictured here is the President of the Japanese Red Cross, Prince Shimadzu. He is a member of the Japanese royal family. Here he is greeted by Princess Margret von Hessen, who presented him with a gift. Gudula Krauthausen - First Female Councilor of Mounta / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928801: May 05, 1954 - H-talks start in London.: Delegates from Britain, the United states, France, Canada and Russia. met in Lancester House, St. James's today, to try reach agreement on control of the atom and hydrogen bombs. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State. made the opening speech. The Conference is a sub-committee of the UNO Disarmament Commission / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928835: May 05, 1954 - First Original pictures of Genevieve de Galard after her Liberation: Genevieve de Galard, the Heroic English girl who stayed at Lien Bien Phu nursing the wounded, is happy to be free again as she arrived at Luang Parbangs, first lap of her recovered freedom. She is seen here with Colonel Allehaut and Professor Huard / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929075: May 05, 1954 - F.a. cup final at wembley. west bromidic albino beat Preston north end -3-2: West Bromidic Albion this afternoon beat Preston North End by three goals to two - in the F.a. Cup final at womble stadium. Bippa photo shows Wayman, the Preston centre-forward, leaps over Sanders, the west Bromwich goalkeeper - during the match today / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929234: May 05, 1954 - NEW ROAD SAFETY GLOVE. A road safety glove with a light in the right band gauntlet has bean do.igaed so that motor cyclists band signals can be seen at night. A email, bulb lights on contact between the tip of the thumb and forefinger. A small battery, lasting about 2-3 mouths Is concealed in the gauntlet and can be replaced fare fee pence. The glove is being patentedtg the makers, L & R. money, Ltd, of-woreestivi,” and the gloves are to be sent, to tbe leading-motoring authorities for their comments. They cost about 03.15.0 a pair. KEYSTORE PHOTO SHOWS:, View of the new-road safe glove - complete with battery... and light / Bridgeman Images