ZUM4940785: Aug. 24, 1954 - French girl to star in” Can-Can”: The French stage and TV star, Irene Hilda, arrived in London today, to commence rehearsals for the star part in the new musical” Can-Can”, which opens at the London Colliseum on October 14th. Opposite her will be Edmund Hockridge, now playing in Guys and Dolls at the Coliseum / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940888: Sep. 05, 1954 - At this year's Leipzig Exhibition Indian was represented with a peculiar pavillion, which, above all, hadan appeal to the Soviet occupying forces. In the entrance hall one can see a large full-size picture which India's Prime Minister Nehru and his Chinese colleague Tschu-En-Lai jointly showed / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4940961: Sep. 08, 1954 - The 56th London Armoured Division carry out exercise. Pumping up a rubber tanks - Some 12,000 men and 4,000 vehicles of the 56th (London) Armoured Division (T.A.) is carrying out exercise “” London Pride”” on Salisbury Plain. The exercise is designed to practice the division in carrying out an approach march followed by an opposed crossing of the River Avon and break-out from the bridgehead against an enemy known to be equipped with atomic bombs. Keystone Photo Shows: The scene as a motor pump is used to inflate a rubber centurion tank by members of the Joint Concealment Centre during the manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain today / Bridgeman Images
ETE4941688: WWII:Near Suippes (Marne) France June 10, 1945: At Camp Boston where American soldiers waiting to return to the United States or redeploy to the Pacific theatre of operations, these members of the 1343rd Company of Genie of the US Army installed the drinking water distribution / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4941406: Sep. 09, 1954 - Royal Tour of Australia. The Gothic Arrives in Sydney Harbour. Keystone Photo Shows: Surrounded by dozens of small craft and escorting vessels - the liner” Gothic” with H.M. The Queen on board arrives in Sydney Harbour - for the start of the Royal Australian Tour / Bridgeman Images
ETE4941438: Near Suippes (Marne) France 14 August 1945: At the Brooklyn camp of the US Army where American soldiers awaiting redeployment are stationed in the Pacific theatre of operations, a crowd of Gi's watch the show of American star Betty Hutton accompanied by Mickey Katz's orchestra / Bridgeman Images