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.