ZUM4834794: Apr. 04, 1953 - He plays modern music on the Harp, American Star in London: Photo shows Robert Maxell seen at his London Hotel last evening complete with his harp in readiness for his London Pallaeium appearance next week Robert specializes in Modern Music on the harp. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4834006: Apr. 04, 1953 - Publisher receives English order of Merit. The German charge d'Affaires in London, Dr. Schliange - Schoningen, today invested the Grand Cross German order of Merit, on Mr. Victor Gollanz, the publisher, on the latter's 60th. birthday, at the German consulate general's office, Rutlend gate / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4834126: Apr. 04, 1953 - Errol Flynn wants to learn Yodeling.: Errol Flynn who was spending some days in Garmisch in order to negotiate with a group of Swiss film- people about his European film- planes wants to play the leading part in h planned Wilhelm Tell- film. For this purpose he is looking for a Bavarian Yodelteacher. Our picture Shows Errol Flynn at a drink in the Garmishch Madl-Bar. (Madl is the original Bavarian expression for girls) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4834237: Apr. 04, 1953 - East Berlin is” capitalized.” For the first time since the war there are” shoe blackers” in East Berlin, once thought to be a” capitalistic” establishment. Our picture shows a shoe polisher in front of HO department store on Alexander Platz Woman Wearing / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4834473: Apr. 04, 1953 - Valdes Beats Richardson in Eighth Round: Dick Richardson of Wales goes down in the second round of his heavyweight fight with Nino Valdes of Cuba at Harringay Arena, London, today December 4. Richardson retired after the eighth round with one eye badly cut and the other closed. / Bridgeman Images
IMB4834516: Roman Art: “” the Mouth of the Verite”” (Bocca della Verita) Marble Mask uses as a sewer mouth of the Cloaca Maxima (Cloaca Massima or Cloaque Maxime) representing the mythological god Ocean.. 1st century AD. Church of St. Mary in Cosmedin (Santa Maria in Cosmedin), Rome / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4844190: May 05, 1953 - They recently held a vacuum cleaning contest between men and housewives an well-known Jungfernstieg in the center of Hamburg. This contest proved that men were much more perfect and faster than housewives. We are showing some snapshots of the side of the losers. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4844290: May 05, 1953 - Into Battle - with Polar Bear... Scene from the Canadian Arctic. A fight begins on the snowy waste battleground in the Canadian Arctic, 60 miles from the magnetic North Pole... A team of husky dogs has surprised a Polar Bear... The picture was taken by Kayak an Eskimo Special Constable with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - and brought to London by reporter T.F. Thompson who went in a Hastings plane with the Royal Air Force on a polar flight, designed to provide Arctic Experience for ten “super navigators”. The fight ended when the companion of Kayak shot the Polar bear. / Bridgeman Images