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jy Daily Telegraph and Morning Pont Saturday December 7 1957 Court and Social House of Commons ENDING OPTICIANS £2050 PAID FOR A LOUIS XV COMMODE The Commissioner for the Federation of Nigeria Mr Mbu accompanied by Mrs Mbu left ionaon by air yesterday lor Nigeria He is due to leturn to this country on Jan 17 Coi (Temp Bug i Mary Colvin Director RA has been appointed hon aide-de-camp to the Queen Gen Sir Lashmer Whistler ana Air Vice-Marshal A Stevens have been appointed Deputy Lieutenants i lor Sussex The condition of Mr Geoffrey de Freitas who underwent a minor operation In Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge on Thursday was stated yesterday to be quite comfortable The Belvoir Hunt Ball will be held at Burley-on-the-Hlil Oakham on Saturday Jan 4 BIRTHDAYS TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW Dr Karl Jordan is 96 to-day Sir Ht-nry Gooch is 86 Sir Robert Smith 77 Sir Samuel Harvey 7 Lt -Gen Sir Maurice Grove-white 70 Earl of Birkenhead 60 Lord Hacking 47 and Sir Hugh Bell 34 Sir Amberson Marten will be 87 to-morrow Sir Henry Greenfield will be 72: the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow (Dr Camp-Viscount Arldi-on Nl Hopman 61 Earl of Ancaster 60 Sir Arthur Rynull 60 Lord Horder 47 Sir de Villiers Graaff 44 and Sir Thomas Hamilton-Spencer-Smith 40 VIVIEN I I II l)M 'Gil I MARRIED I lie loniu i Miss Suzanne Holman daughter ol Miss Vivien Leigh outside Holy trinity Hrompton yesterday alter her wedding to Mr Kohm Neville Farrington Km hi: Nic mother arriving at the church lor the ceremony £22m HOSPITAL SPENDING PLAN Television PLAY REM IS IX MOMENTARY Iirk-IT KENNETH Mil N( The closest contemporary equivalent to the Victorian weepy In which the wicked squire ruins the innocent young maiden is I suppose a neardocumentary story such as Pick-up revived on Independent television last night Nor was this any the less a tear-jerker Elsa Shelley in her sad and sordid tale of the moral and physical ruin i a girl ol 15 let no i opportunity slip by 10 enlist our pity the father working away from home he mother inevitably throwing too! much housework on girl the business that begins with a search for fun and ends in hospital No doubt too it has a pressing present-day moral Yet it is of course a story as old as the or at any rate as old as Troll US Cressida and Pandarus Though its retelling last mgnt was often moving Miss Shelley is no Boccaccio Chaucer or Shakespeare and her play remained documentary Janet Munro as a down-town New Y'ork Cressida played with touching sincerity as did her somewhat mystified Trwilus Ne 1 McCaKum But the ancient story had no judge this play had and Andre Morell gave a dignified portrayal of the searching balancing meter-out of justice and help For all our errors we have advanced STYLE TOO DISCREET Rainer von Zastrow who played at Wigmore Hall last night is a serious-minded young pianist of quiet musical tastes but apparently wihoui strong impulses behind his playing A Bach Partita was clean in tone and line discreet in rhythm and inoffensive in phrasing These same characteristics were inadequate for Beethoven's Op 110 and even more noticeably for Bartok Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" where strong contrasts of tone and a vigorous rhythmic punch are essential Chopin's Barcarolle suffered from the same excessive discretion and a colour starved palette MR LESLIE MITCHELL Mr Leslie Mitchell 52 said yester day that he would resign from Associated-Redifiusion when inis year's contract ends in March Mr Mitchell joined the company in 1955 and became head of presentation BLUECOL Save yourself worry risk expensive frost dan age Make your car absolutely safe with Bluecol: safe against 47' of frost and safe against corrosion in the cooling system Bluecol is acknowledged as the safest anti-frost protection of all Put Bluecol in and relax Write now for your free copy of "Winter Motoring" the 32-poge book of hints on care for your car and yourself on the roads in BLUECOL nc wnes new tcneral lit of many inexpensive tk now tva la Me Writ to IM SHI 66 Ht'itvittffioit hureh 8 or phone Biytatrr WROUGHT IKON for MODERN HOMES 13 (lim Ivlaiid Mndriihcid (toted Salt and Sundatt DIRECT FROM THE HEBRIDES Special Offer of I laitn wov llarrfe I weetK made ta crofter eal cotiacc lata ban hjll prue at 13 4f per ad jh lcnuih hav been JreJ over a pea fire to preverve the orif nal Ham 1 eed odour Monev refund and fair wear euarantce Send 2 viamp fur free patiern Sheepskin floor rim appro 40 2H hte cream rose h'oAn and chocolate 75 each poxt free While IliKtilaiMt Klaiikeiv KKV ol 1 0 9 I Icfc 0 79 6f each usually S4- tj ejh 8H' 59 6d usually HO XII posi fret 10 euaramet Haiidkitifted Marti ka pi pa 22 6d po free Harris Ynol Slipovers 44' lHlxI 17 6d two for 34 post free I art) Mohair Searses pu cl shades 6d nivh Hand Slotted Shetland Searses approx 40 i 6d Lih Send for harga pne list and free rli voucher saloe rd Mone eliind ituamicc lass pa menu HEBRIDEAN CROFTER WEAVERS LTD lcpt 1)1 Mur of rd Hcnhccula Outer Hebrides Scotland Wjr I Surplus I his unique mpoil mu I rleseope will prn thousands of miles space I err it posser ot apptox 25 50 loose TILES Tiluma Get a tin from you Ironmonger Hard warcmin or Builder' Merchant SON I ILFORD ESSEX httablished over irnlur IIETTARKIIICE you can set up any deal in a Jiffy play it out or fink it of instantly to try another variation TMI lOiAL GIFT FOR EVOT BRlDGi FlATfR FROM BESiNNiR TO EXPERT All good StuUmet! 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HI f( RF I Fast Adder bury Nr concur! garages From £4S For escry car Attractive I 1 erim Smd tor 'err I I I I IN 24 oiled lloihiouks AGRECON (TourtJ(rirrular BUCKINGHAM PALACE Dec 6 Queen Zem Queen Mother of Jordan visited the Queen this afternoon The Duke of Edinburgh visited the new laboratories of Ilford Limited at War ley Essex this morning His Royal Highness subsequently opened the Farm Livestock Research fetation of the Animal Health Trust at Stock The Duke of Edinburgh was received by Colonel Sir Francis Whitmore Bt (her Lieutenant for the County of Essex i and the Duke of Norfolk (the President) Wing Commander Henry Chinnery was in attendance CLARENCE HOUSE Dec 6 The Princess Margaret visited Dundee to-day Her Royal Highness this morning opened the King George VI Memorial Club a club for old peope The Princess Margaret then visited the Marvfteld Hospital The Lady Elizabeth Cavendish was In attendance The Duke of Buccleuch has accepted the presidency of the Empire Forestry Association in succession to the late Earl of Atnlone Forthcoming Mr Haslam and the Hon Judith Browne The engagement is announced between Ralph Michael HaMam cost son of Mr Ha-am and Mrs Ha -la in of 12 Cumberland House 8 and Judith younger daughter of Lord Oranmore and Brown and the Hon Mrs Hew Dairympie Lt (dr Mann RN and liss Williams The engagement is announced between Michael elder son of the late Lt -Col A Mann OBE A and of Mrs Mann of 't Queensdaie Road Holland Park VS 11 and Floyd only daughter of and Mrs Rhys Williams Old Colwyn North Wales Lieut I) Ilall KN and Miss A Kidehalgh The engagement is announced between Da Jamieson second son of Dr and Mr- Hall of Upton Park London and Ann Elizabeth only daughter oi Mi and Mrs James Ridehalgh Greystonen Colne Lancashire lieut 1 1 Ellin KX and Miss Oxlev The engagement is announced between Duncan John son ol Mr fe Ellin of Whitefield Lancashire and the late Mrs Ellin and Jill daughter ol and Mrs Oxley of Chelwood Gate Sussex Mr Brooks and Miss II I) Thomson The engagement is announced Mastau -MC son oi Mr and Mrs Ralph Brooks Brtnam Horn K- lao and Helen Sheila Diysdaie elde: daughter of Mr and Mrs David Thomson Cessford Kelso and of Lcubcroy Sutherland Mr A Parsons and Miss Pigot I he engagement is announced between Alfred Parsons of the Australian Embassy Rangoon son ol Mr and Mrs Parsons of Hobart Tasmania and Gillian Tryce Pigot only daughter of Col and Mrs Pigot of Spy Hill Moulds-worth near Chester The marriage will tar February in Rangoon Dr Robinson and Miss I I harles The engagement is announced between Tony Reynolds only -on i md Bars Robirw of Seven Kings E-sex and Gwyneth Elizabeth younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles ol Worthing Sussex Mr Hart and Miss Williams The engagement is announced between Stephen Robert elder son of Mr and Mrs Harold Hart of Hammonds Farm Checkendon Oxfordshire and Vanessa Vaala Floyer elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Adrian VViiliams of Hailey Ipden Oxfordshire Dr Young and Miss (libbins The engagement is announced between Michael John omy son of and Mrs John Young of Ealing and Patricia Mary younger daughter of Mr apd Mrs Gibbins of Durham Mr A Elliot and Mi-s Walker The engagement is announced between Lieut Donald Elliot A youngest son of Mr and Mrs Elliot 7 Paulton- Square Chelsea 3 and Christine Walker daughter of the late Mr Walker and Mrs Walker Mr A Grierson and Miss Monro The engagement is announced na the marnagi shortly take place between Alan Ewart elder son of Mr and Ms 1 Grierson of Thames New Zealand and Fiona daught of the late In-tr Capt and Mrs A Monro of Tavistock Devon Mr Thorne and Miss kes The engagement Is announced between Stephen John son of the late Rev A Thorne and of Mrs Thorne of 28 Norwood Avenue Southport and Barbara France daughter of Mr Sykes and the late Mis Syxes of 243 Headfield Road Dewsbury Mr A A Potev and Miss Wardrop The engagement is announced between Anthony son of Mr and PDTfj LlandaB and Pmlippa daught': ol the late David Wardrop RCS and Mrs Longtieid-Jones Plaxtol Kent Mr A utcher and Miss A Turner The engagement is announced between Alan Stanley elder son of and Mrs Cutcher of Bans' ho Surrey ana Valerie Ann younger Daughter of the late Mr Turnet and Mrs Turner Chislehurst Kent Mr Daislev and Mrs Hewitt The engagement is announced between Geoffrey Cardwell son of te lati Rex Daisley Enfleld and Mrs Daisley of Tunbridge Wells and Mary O-ia daugh-f ind Mra Holmden of Auckland New Zealand Latest Wills BAKER WILBRAHAM Sir Net Philip Scholar Green Cheshire former Vicar-General Province of Canterbury (duty paid £2 514 £32498 BIGGS Mrs I Torquay (duty paid 629 20224 KELLY Miss Hampstead sister of Sir Gerald Kelly duty paid £318 7 948 ROLLS Bournemouth (duty paid £2689 19725 SCARLETT Major-Gen the Hon Met so am Kent dncle of Lord Abinger (duty paid £16313) 52126 THYNNE Col Pindon Suss-x Corps of Gentiemen-at-Arms (duty paid £80747) 155526 YOCKNEY' Mrs A Oxford (duty paid £26 261i 73826 TELFORD Mrs Belfast estate In Gt Britain and Ireland (duty paid £3 286 27335 EVENTS Bruts Museum jt in HiMtM IihciII A Mjn (UN CM Hcnhx or (Ktan A nuTuu uiyi K-vl FrcM Kill LkhJ Folk Musk Rununig 30 iBIiv ul Art falkrv I xhihitHtn ad Australian Art VxxOt: tlWHI 104 Mj (s a tonal Portrait iallcrv Nk Stern Transport Resolution in Bmain 1 7 )- 1825' 3 15 Be cpw Miacuid ken Atomic PtlvMCl 11 15 kmg Ocorge III Collect ton 315 film Nbo 1 30 Xbcjirti nnfimc eihiHtion Page 6 I BILL GIVEN SECOND READING BY Ot OWN REPRESENT TIVF WESTMINSTER Friday The first of the session's Friday debates on private Bills secured Second i Readings for four measures in the House of Commons to-day The subjects covered were the Jurisdiction of courts over trusts affecting children divorce anoma lies registration of opticians and reflectors on pedal cycles That concerning opticians was the most controversial Moving the Second Reading of the I Opticians Bill Mr RONALD RUSSELL Wembley Si said iLs ob- jecls were to provide a recognised i status ior opticians by providing them with registration to promote a high standard of education and protes-i sionai conduct and to the public against the activities ol unqualified and untrained persons At present anyone could call him-1 self an optician and practise as an optician Even though completely unqualified he could examine eyes or supply glasses and he would not be breaking the law A number of quacks were doing this often supplying glasses at exorbitant prices Chain Store Spectacles Mr WILLIAM GRIFFITHS (Soc Exchange Manchester' a consulting ophthalmic optician supporting the Bill said was primarily in the public interest It would make it illegal for chain stores to sell sighted spectacles but would permit the legi-: timate sale of sun glasses and hand readers Sir Robert BOOTHBY (C Aberdeen i also supported the Bill He said he had received a message Irom Lord Crook chairman of the interdepartmental committee oi inquiry on optical services saying he was satished that if the Bill was given a second reading any laults it at present contained could be removed at the committee stage Referring to the British Medical Associations attitude to the Bill Sir tobert said the Government had m-licated earlier in the year that it was irepared to have further consulta-ions with this body But suddenly he A were presented with the Bill introduced at eight days' notice Mr THOMPSON Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Health said he Government welcomed the principle of the Bill For some time there had been widespread public demand and need for such a measure It would put on a properly controlled and supervised basis the activities ol about 8 000 ophthalmic opticians and 900 dispensing opticians The Bill would not take away from doctors the power of testing sight There is no intention to interfere in any way with the right of an ophthalmic medical practitioner to est sight and prescribe glasses on i he premises of a dispensing optician or elsewhere" The Government would wholeheartedly support an amendment to clear away any such doubt The Second Reading was carried without opposition TAX AVOIDANCE Variation of Trusts The Second Reading of the Variation of Trusts Bill was moved by Mr CROWDER (C Ruislip-Northwood He described it as a ttdving-up measure It would change the situation under which trusts where beneficiaries were infants or unborn children must remain rigid even where a court might consider a variation desirable Before a 1954 decision of the House of Lords in the case of Chapman and Chapman a court could be asked to vary trusts in the interests of all beneficiaries The result of that decision is thai the court which is generally looked on as the friend and guardian of children in these matters becomes in a sense their enemy II all beneficiaries were adult they could go to court and vary the trust to suit present conditions But if children were concerned no matter how satisfied the court might be that the variation was necessary it had no power to intervene Sir Lynn UNGOED-THOMAS 'Soc Leicester said Irom the Opposition Front Bench This is a tax avoidance Bill" He agreed with a criticism by Lord Morton of the danger of this developing into a game oi chess Sir Harry HYLTON-FOSTER Solicitor-General agreed that peopli would succeed in using the Bill for legitimate tax-avoidance It may involve some revenue lass but the more you look at this matter the more obvious it is on balance that the case for tne Bill is overwhelming" The Bill was given a second reading DIVORCE LAW Insanity Provisions Mr DEEDES (C Ashford moving the Second Reading of the Divorce (Insanity and Desertion' Bill explained that it gave effect suggestions by tne Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce Thes were to i tried ma -noma- ui the law which caused hardship Under tile Matrimonial Causes Act 1950 divorce could be obtained ll the other party to the marriage was of incurably unsound mind and had continuous care and treatment lor live years immediately before the letition was presented The person was deemed to be under care and treatment only if four conditions which all laid emphasis on certification were satisfied This Bill brought the law up-to-date and met the modern approach on menial sickness There was a tendency to regard certification as a last stage in treatment The Royal Commission le-eommended that treatment as a voluntary patient in a hospital cr other institution should be recog-! nised as constituting care and treatment That was provided in the BUI The present law allowed divorce on the ground of desertion for three years but stipulated that during all that time the intention to desert must be retained The Bill provided that if the deserting partv became insane during that time he or she might be treated as having retained the intention Sir Harry said the Government would support the BUI It was given an unopposed Second Reading Pedal Reflectors The Road Transport lighting (Amendment) Bill was rend a sect nd time without di cussion The Bill sponsored by Mr GRESHAM COOKE 'C Twickenham' would allow the use of amber reflectors on the pedals of bicycles The House rose at 4 16 pm REVISING RATING OF MACHINERY B( Political Correspondent Mr Brooke Minister of Housing and Local Government yesterday announced in a written anawei in the Commons the appointment of a committee to prepare a new list of plant and machinery for rating puriH'se- There has been no revi-Mon in this field for 30 years Hie members are Sir I dm and Hfmhimt Ki I vox i(hair man) forme ilcpttiy chairman of the Hoard of Inland Revenue Mr Macro Lf ll QC 1 I i AKI a pm prrideni of the aini Survey on' Vvwxn'on Mr A Hi a iretialni in neihamcal engineernf Mr PiMtwoRTH a ipecialtt in eleu-trical enf neer infl BIRDS DESIGN By MllIAlY A Louis XV marquetry commode signed Schmitz JME was sold for £2050 (Frank Partridge at Sotheby's yester- day It is 3ft 4in wide and is decorated with birds and butterflies on flowering branches The sale which was of furniture works of art tapestries and car-pe totalled £27092 Viscount Furness and the Duchess of Nor- folk ere among those selling The commode was the property of Mr Errington Among the most interesting lots were wood carvings of a kind common on the German art market but rare in London They were the property of the late Mr Ivan Traugott ot Stockholm 160 FOR WOODEN FIGURE The mast expensive of them was a polychrome wooden figure of St Elizabeth which sold for £460 iMarv Bellisi It dates from circa 1500 and was probably produced in South-West Germany A Spanish polychrome wood madonna of the 13th century realised £310 Arnau Among the Continental furniture was a Louis XV secretaire a abattant 3ft wide which rradt £1150 Camerons Antiques' The same firm paid £700 for a Louis XV marquetry commode 3ft 2iq wide and £600 lor a Louis XV marquetry commode 4ft 8in wide signed JME The name of the ebemste who signed himsell these initials is un- i know A set of four Louis XV (auteuils fetched £600 'Frank Partridge The best of the English pieces was an early George II burr walnut bureau 3ft 7in wide sold for £540 (Prankel 16th-Century Tapestry The sale which was conspicuous for the wide range it covered included a few good tapestries A Brussels panel 9ft 5in by 8ft 8n was sold for £680 iMela' It shows Alexander receiving the daughter of Darius Messrs Perez paid £960 for a Dair of Brussels tapestries woven with the Finding of Moes and the Rout of the Amale-chues Thev date from circa 1700 and are just over lift high The works of art included an unusual French ivorv diptych dating from the third quarter of the 14th centurv It is of especial interest as the treatment of the Crucifixion varies trom the normal and it bears armorial shields It was the property of Mr Woollen £5491 Picture Sale A study bv Sir Russell Flint entitled Decima Jeannette and Helen" was sold for (Fine Art Society! in a picture sale at Christie's It totalled £5491 REDOX PAINTING FETCHES £3220 2-DAY PARIS SALK Daily Telegraph Reporter A painting of a marine god by Odilon Redon (1840-1916' was sold for £3220 in a sale at the Gaene Charpentier Pans conducted Etienne Ader It was in the Odilon Redon exhibition held at the Orangerie in 1956-57 This excellent example of his work dates from 1909-10 It was the second day of a two-dav sale of furniture works of art and pictures sale realised £51695 bringing tne total for the two days to the impressive sum of £138395 A view of Villefranche with French warships by Boudin signed and dated 1892 realised £3136 An Utrillo of the Place Jean-Baptiste-Clement was sold for £2 373 It measures 23in by 37in A view of Honfleur bv Vlaminck previously in the collection of Aly Khan made £1568 A view near Fontainebleau by Corot was sold for £1525 It is No 214 in Robaut's catalogue of the artist's work and of special interest as being an example of his early style A watercolour of Hyde Park by Dufy realised the same price All prices at the sale were less auctioneer's commission and various taxes amounting in all to at least 16 7 per cent on tract Itriile: lly MSLY ONCE in a while a player's mistakes will redound if not to his credit at iea-t 'o his profit Once nns-hearing the auction and ascribing to my partner the bid made on my right I raised the suit got doubled and made the contract game and rubber But of all the characters who falling in the gutter come up I clutching a pearl necklace commend me to the author of Change to a new revised and excellent edition of which classic has just jeon issued in Britain by Alien Unwin 1 5s Translat ions of it are lo be published in several languages This scribe Ben Cohen bv name recently did literally fall (though not in the gutter he broke his arm and solaced his convalescence now hap-pily and successfully by playing bridge at his local and delightful club the Sunn Hove with the aid of a slotted board and the use of one nand Anyone who has used such a 1 gadget will know how all too easy it is to mis-sort mis-read and zenerally mistake the cards one holds So it was when at game all in the last rubber of the evening Lucky Ben Cohen sitting South Darticipated in this little number dealt by West 10 3 A 8 4 4 2 A 9 6 48 7 6 10 6 3 8 5 7 3 4K 9 9 7 10 9 7 38542 A 5 4 2 Q5 2 A 6 3 10 South mistook only one card in his but that happened fo be A He tucked behind 10 thinking it was an insignificant club and that he held a 4-3-4-2 not a 5-3-4-1 Wrsi passed and North ud Eust passed and South believing he had a balanced 9-count responded 1NT This is an infinitely better bid 'on the assumed holding' than th automatic diamond most players would reply (Parenthetically automation makes for bad bridge Over 1 1NT should -how a balani ed hand of between 8 and 10 points no fewer because one can bid one of any suit more cheaply no more because 1NT is a strictly limited bid Acting on an average 9-count opposite opener should re-assess his hand a shade of optimism should colour his thinking rather than the gloom which the "negative" no-trump response usually engenders North in the current hand should bid 2NT in routine fashion or in tile tieliel that the clubs may be worth five tricks hazard 3NT an overbid not to be too heavily crimed This particular North however merely repeated the clubs and it was at this point that Cohen became aware of his error He is too fine a player to utter yelps of dismay and advertise his slip by visibly jabbing Marriages Mr Watson and Miss Watson The engagement is announced between Patrick John only son ol Mr and Mrs Watson of Middle-ton Storuy Oxon and Joy Marianne daughter of Mr and Mrs Watson of Carley Lodge Sunderland Mr Bolton and Miss A Graltan The engagement is announced between Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton Balliol College Oxford elder son of Mr and Mrs Bolton Perth Australia and Ann Carol only daughter of Mrs I Grattan 1 Lyndhurst Drive Leyton London and the late Mr Henry Grattan Mr Uoldrev and Miss Ireland The engagement is announced between William Gerald youngest son Of Dr and Mi- Coldrey ol Telgnmouth Devon nd Margaret Rose omy daughter of Mr and Mrs Ireland ol Torquay Mr Adams and Miss Lowe The engagement is announced betw en Michael Adams only son of Mrs A Adams of 80 Wake Green Road Moseley Birmingham ami Janet young': daughter of Mi and Mrs Lowe ol 13 Carbe Au nue Southbourne Bournemouth Mr Mann and Miss Long more The engagement Is announced b-1 Stuart only son ot Mr ana Mrs Mann of Highlands Oiney Bucks and Gillian younger daughtei i Mr and Mra Longmore of Twynham Croit Park Road Walsall Mr I Earr and Miss A onoley I he engagement is announced between Charles younger son oi the lat Mi Fari and Mrs I i oi Sheering Essex and Angela elder Mrs 1 Conoley ol Albury End Herts Mr Sroular and Miss Rose The engagement i- announced i between Peter John James only son of Mi and Mrs Gavin Scoular I Surbiton and Kay eldest daughter of Mrs Rose and the late Mr Rose of Maidenhead WEDDING Mr Farrington and iss Holman I he marriage took place yesterday at Holy Trinity Brompton of Mr Robin Neville Farrington only son of Group Capt and Mrs Farrington of Lady Furlong Bool set and Miss Suzanne Mary Holman only daughter ot Mr Leigh Holman of Woodlands Manor Mere Wiltshire and of Lady Olivier ol Notley Abbey Buckinghamshire The Rev Martin Spinney and the Rev OUliat ottieiated The bnde who was given away by father was attended by six bridesmaid- Miss Avril Pyman and Miss Judy Devitt her cousins Miss Gay Ryder Miss Leila Herrick Miss Meribah Baxter and Miss Nina Rekstin Mr Gerard Dent was best man A reception was held at the Hyde Paik Hotel LUNCHEON Foy les Foyles gave a luncheon party yesterday at the Dorchester in honour of Samuel to mar the publication of nis book In Search of Reality" and of his bog-aphy Vis ount Samuel" by Mr John Bowl Sir Norman Birkftt QC presided DINNERS nglo innish Society The Art hbishop or Canterbury and Mrs Fisher were present at the annual dinner of the Ango-Finnsh Society held at Clandge last night on the 40 anniversary of Finland's Independence Day I he Marquess of Exrtei presided and tie Finnish Amba--ador and Mrs Tuoimnen also attended The Constitutional Club The Constitutional Club Political Commtue entertained Mr Harold Watkinson MP Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation and Mrs Watkin-on at their Christmas party and political dinner heid la-t night Mr A five presided SERVICE DINNERS Osborne and Dartmouth Capt Lorn Spalding was the guest of honour at a re-union of the St Vincent IV ill 1911-14 Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth held at tin United Service Club last night -Adin So Aubrey Manstcgh pi and 30 members were present 4th 7th Royal Dragoon Guards The annual dinner oi the 4th 7th ya Dragoon Guards took place the Cavalry Club night Major-Gen A Aizlewood Colonel ol the R'gment presided 6th Bn The Royal Berkshire Regiment The six'h annual re-unt dinner of the offli ers no served duiing the 1939-45 war the 6th Bn The Roya Berkshire Regiment was held in London last night Bug Smitn Sikh Brigade The annual dnner of the Sikh Brigade was hed ia-t night at the United Service Club Lt -Gen Sir Reginald Savory was in the chair Gunnery Officers Adml Sir William James was the guest of honour at a Gunnery Offn ers dinner held at Whale Island Excellent! last nigh' Capt Casement presided and 165 officers attended IN MEMORIAM lr Pocock Tiie Lord Chan ellor was present i Sydney El-don Po-o'k late Treasurer of Gray Inn held yesterday the Temple Church by permission ol the Treasurer and Masters ol the Bench of the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple The Rev Kennedy-Bell officiated and Canon Ottley gave all Address Sir Leona -d St ne Treasurer of Grays inn attended together with tin Vi e-Treasure: and many othe: B- r- Also among the eongre-gation we-e the Master Treasurer of the Temple Sir James Mliard Tucker QC and the Treasurer of Inn Mr Justice Roxburgh Mrs Ivor Williams daughter of Mr Pocock and Mi Pocock and Mrs Pearson-Rogers cousins were also present UNIVERSITY NEViS 1 lie following awards liave been made at Oxfoid University VhoUrxhir in hcmixir Hiham (Linvokn Pnnifflr Jwoxcnim Prtt Balliol C- Iorltv 'fluvniiQi ('hgrlCA Otdlum Vhoigrvhir Paimcr Ncwi ollege Pronmc attcMii Kdle C5t Anne Theodore Nkillwrm sholghip in PaiiKks Speller (Pembroke) Profitable Er ror PLEA EOR 1959 JOHN PR I NC Daily Telegraph Health er iecs 'orrespomlenl Hospital boards were asked last night by Mr Walker-Smith Minister of Health to complete their plans for several new projects He made the request in a written Parliamentary reply to Sir Keith Joseph Conservative for Leeds North-East He stated 1 hope that all boards will endeavour to complete the planning early in 1959-60" In this year it was proposed sub- ject to Parliament voting the money that £22 million would be spent on capital development This would compare with £18 million this year and £20 million noxt year NEW BUILDINGS Among projects selected were the first phases of new hospitals to be built at Liverpool and Boston Also included were the second phases ol several large schemes already in the programme of new hospitals They included new ffbspnals at Huddersfield Swansea and Swindon and the mental deficiency hospital at Lianfrechla Grange neat Newport Mon Also concerned were the development ot the Downs Hospital Sutton a medical nuclear-phvsi centre and the provision of a new X-ray department and theatres at Lewisham Hospital where the first stage of development was nearing completion Under the Government's centrally i financed hospital programme nearly 1 50 major buildings are progress or approved They include eight new hospra TEN LITTLE AM BOYS' DUKE IN CONCERT Daily Telegraph Reporter The Duke of Cornwall took part in his first end-of-term school concert at Cheam School last night In the school main hall with nine of his schoolmates he sang "Ten Little Cheam Boys" parodying the nursery rhyme He was the fifth Cheam boy to disappear For the song the boys wore school uniforms and caps Last night's audience of about 70 consisted of the school staff their wives and friends and local tradespeople I It was in effect a dress rehearsal for the big night to-night when parents attend the concert The 1 Queen and Frince Philip are expected The Duke lined up with nis schoolmates for the finale which consisted of carol-singing Afterwards he and other boys carried chairs on their heads from the hail 1 back to studies and classrooms ELI EXT SINGING IN FERRELL A JOYFUL A NTH KM The choral singing was of good quality in the concert of Purcell by the Elizabethan Sngers under Louis Halsey at All Saints' Church Margaret Street last night Two outstanding works given with great feeling were the anthem Biassed are They that Fear the Lord and the duel for two sopranos Dive Custos The first is a joyful and fluent contrapuntal work with five soloists and string and organ accompaniment The second an elegy on the death of Queen Mary was sung wuh and style by Helen Harley and Joyce Mtllward Of the male soloists ihroughout the evening John Shirley-Quirk perhaps the most distinguished Members of the Elizabethan Chamber Ensemble played sonatas and fantasias John Birch the skilful organist seems to be much in demand whether as organist or harpsichordist to accompany sacred music Obituary ir Robert Workman Smith At Pitcaple Aberdeenshire aged 77 First Baronet created 1946 Conservative Central Division Aberdeen and Kincardine 1924-46 Hen is his son Lt -Cdr William Gordon Smith NV'R Gnl Vila Eliciai I holiiMtll At Budleigh Salterton Wdow ol Sir III) Perronet Thompson whom she married 1901 and who died 1935 She was the daughter of the late Robert Yelverton Tyrrell ot Dublin Vir iinlre Erie lielano llarnes Aged 57 Joined RFC 1918 served 1939-45 Boinbei Command and South-West Pacific commandant Empire Flying School 1947-49 lr (initio Hchmiilt In Vienna aged 56 Austrian Foreign Minister 1936 until Germany occupied Austria 1938 afterwards appointed director Hermann Goering Werke acquitted by Austrian Peoples Court 1947 on chaiges of high treason and war crimes For past 10 years had been holding positions in Austrian industry Herbert lmd Barnard Aged 67 Australian Minister ior Repatriation 1946-49 member House of Ass tnbiy ior Bass Tasmania since lO-k) member House ol Representatives 1934-49 Konald staples In London aged 9 Editoi in Chief of magaim Truth since 1951 formerly editor ol Taxation which he founded I 10 years ago managing director and I I publisher the Accountant his misplaced card into its proper place Instead he smoothly bid 3NT to show spades at this juncture would merely bewilder any North Now East for his sins was a ranking expert he regarded the bidding with the gravest suspicion Obviously North held a long club suit six or seven of them Equally obviously Cohen was gambling on making six tricks in clubs in dummy and three from heaven Similarly North had obxiously" on the sign-off very little outside the clubs a king or queen at most and Cohen was certainly limited" to 10 points by his original response Thus East fell into the experts' gravest peril assuming everyone plays as rigidly and correctly as they do themselves Crediting Norlh with about 11 points in view of the sign-off ascribing to Cohen his maximum of 10 and regarding his own miserable 7 East marked his partner with about 11-12 which would make 3NT imimssible especially since East could see that the rebid clubs would not play 'knave-eight to five looking like a double-stop over a re-bid and therefore 6-card suit East therefore found a brilliant inferential double worthy of a better fate Lucky Ben redoubled and West led won in hand with The lone club to dummy's allowed declarer to make by finesse five spade tricks On these West threw a couple of hearts East one heart one club and one diamond and the table a low club and a both hears being retained sagely as a menace W'hen South led to dummy A East was compelled tr keep guarded against dummy's 9 and therefore yielded another diamond coning down to If Wank two top dubs West subsequently began to suffer from the bends he had bold again'! clummv 8 and similarly shed a diamond coming down to the doubleton knave South comfortably threw one card from each red suit Now taking the marked diamond finesae (Baal nuM hold on 'he double South made the gland slam four redoubled overt ricks! A very pretty (not to say profitable stroke of play technically know by the high-sounding title of non-simultan-eous progressive double squeeze Mark the injustice North gained a fine result to which bad bidding appreciably contributed A blameless West suffered heavy loss through no fault whatsoever East perhaps too clever by halt suffered for his brilliance in analysis And South almost Ben! tliou persuadest me to break my arm! Note however 'hat even without A 3NI is probable make (M South on normal proof that 1NT is tiie correct response over 1 on the assumed holding of two clubs and no ace of spades' and that North should bid 2NT or even 3NT I ra her than 2 over 1 NT.