Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Monday 6 July 1953, page 6


PEOPLE

in the news

The Queen has selected Mr. JAMES GUNN,

A.R..A. to paint her State por-trait. The State por-trait is the a p proved off! c 1 a 1 likeness of the Sove-reign and

serves as a

prototy p e

lrom which copies can be made for distribution to British Government building abroad.-A.A.P.

LADY BIRRIN, for-merly JANET JOHNSON,

an Austra-lian act-ress, has given birth to a son and heir in Dublin. She and her hus-band,, Sir C h a r 1 es Birkln,

whom she married in 1940, have two daughters.

IRVING REIS, direc-tor of "The Fourposter,"

"The Bac helor and the

Bobby -S o x e r," "Time Out for Mur-der," "All My Sons," and other films, died yesterd a y of a can

eel He was 47.-A A.P.