Images Dated 16th July 2015

MME Wellington Koo sitting for her portrait to Mr Edmund Dulac at his studio, 117

MME Wellington Koo sitting for her portrait to Mr Edmund Dulac at his studio, 117 Ladbroke Road
19 August 1921
Hui-lan Oei was the daughter of Chinese businessman Oei Tiong Ham. Her marriage to Chinese diplomat and politician Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo, was announced in November 1920 whilst Wellington Koo was Chinese Minister to the United States. In early 1921, Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo was appointed the Chinese Minister to Great Britain and they lived in London until June 1946, though they divorced shortly after the Second World War

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While the father of Mary Maguire, the film actress, is serving as bat man with BEF in France

While the father of Mary Maguire, the film actress, is serving as bat man with BEF in France, her mother, Mrs Michael Maguire, and for other daughters are living in a maisonnette in Devonshire Place, and following a variety of careers. Pat, aged 22, is a singer, Joanne aged 19, is an actress, Carmel, aged 17 is an artist and designs the family's dresses, and Lupe, aged 16 is a dancer. Mary Maguire, who lives with her husband captain Robert Gordon-Canning, in Mayfair, has just gone into a nursing home for a minor operation. Each does something different. Lupe (left) dances watched by Pat, the singer (standing centre) while Joanne goes over a script and Carmel sketches. Joan acts under the professional name of Joan Shannon.
25 April 1940

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Doctors at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, have produced a film on the life

Doctors at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, have produced a film on the life of one of their nurses as an aid to recruitment. Doctor L. Golicz (left), who was the cameraman, pictured in the cutting room with Doctor Geoffrey Daw, who wrote the script.
23 November 1955

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