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... Sean 0' Casey's 44 Red Roses for Me Red Roses for Me comes to the Lyric, Hammersmith, on April 9th for four weeks. It opened at the Embassy, Swiss Cottage, and was an instantaneous success. With the exception of Tristan Rawson, who plays the Protestant Rector, the cast of Red Roses for Me is an all-Irish one, and two-thirds of them have been at the Gate, Abbey and Gaiety theatres in Dublin. ...

... V V-- NONE of those privileged to know Princess Elizabeth were in the least surprised at the resounding success of her three days' visit to Northern Ireland, during which our beloved, beautiful and charming young Princess, as her uncle, Admiral Earl Granville, the Governor of Ulster, described her at the luncheon party following her launch of the great aircraft- carrier H.M.S. Eagle, won all ...

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... YY/hile the rest of the world watched and wondered at the activities of the Russians in Europe and Asia, and there was every sign of a mounting crisis, the first good news for weeks came from Bornholm, in the Baltic, when it became known that the Russians had started tKeir evacuation of this Danish island which they took over from the Germans in May 1945. It was felt that the departure from ...

... With the approach of her sixteenth birthday Princess Margaret is making increasing appear ances in public, and last week she fulfilled her first solo public engagement when she visited two junior clubs under the control of the Save the Children Fund at St. Pancras and Bethnal Green. At the St. Pancras Club, known as the Hopscotch Inn, the Princess was given an enthusiastic welcome by the ...