Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• February 23rd - After a long illness Sir Edward Elgar, our greatest composer, died at his Worcestershire home - 'Land of Hope and Glory'
• April 30th - Chancellor Dollfuss made Dictator of Austria. He is only 4 feet 11 inches but very energetic!
• May - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in Louisiana (Bank robbers come folk heroes "Bonnie and Clyde"
• June - Venice meeting between Hitler and Mussolini
• June - Wimbledon, Fred Perry form Stockport, Cheshire wins mens singles. He goes on to 34, 35 and 36. he also captained 4 successive Davis cup victories
• August 19th - After the death of President Hindenburg, Hitler became President and Chancellor of Germany by referendum , rivals were eliminated in "Night of the long knives"
• August 29th - Prince George became engaged to Princess Marina of Greece
• September 22nd - Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, mining disaster . More than 200 men lost their lives
• September 26th - The Queen Mary launched at Clydebank
• October 7th - Fierce fighting in Spain crushed Catalonian bid for independence
• October 9th - King of Yugoslavia assassinated in Marseilles
• December 1st - The Purges in Russia begin after murder of Stalin's associate, Sergei Kirov
• Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in the film The Gay Divorcee
• Later this year Mrs Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee and friend of the Prince of Wales, was presented at Court

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January 27th

• The Last Emperor of China, who is to be enthroned as the first emperor of Manchukuo,
• Nearly Ruined by earthquake, ancient Nepal,
• the ex-Kaiser at Doorn House,
• Wookey Hole Cave,
• First male Bongo seen in Europe,
• world’s largest liner (King George V) entering the largest Graving Dock,
• drawings by Blampied, Hall of Darius,
• World famous stones, Jonker Diamond.

February 24th

price = 1/-

Headline = The tragic death of King Albert and Civil War in Austria

Adverts on Front cover = Martell cordon Bleu Cognac, Orient Line to Australia, Royal Exchange Assurance, The Whitehouse tailoring, Paripan Enamel, The Doctor's China Tea from 2/8d per lb, Jig Saw puzzles 8/6 AVN Jones and Co., Drambuie Liqueur 17/6 per bottle

Adverts on Inside Front cover = Imperial Airways, Players Number 3 cigs 20 for 1/4d, Orient Line Cruises 20 days from 36 guineas

Frontispiece = 1 pic, The tragic death of King Albert of the Belgians while rock climbing at Marche-les-Dames near Namur, with Queen Elisabeth

Pages

Our Notebook by GK Chesterton (weekly essay)

The new King of the Belgians (formerly Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant) and Queen Astrid (formerly Princess Astrid of Sweden) and their children Prince Badouin and Princess Josephine 5 x pics

The death of King Albert, feats as a rock climber and mountaineer 4x pics

The death of King Albert, The scenes of the climbing tragedy and relics found 5 x pics

The death of King Albert, his varied life and multifarious activities 6 x pics

The death of King Albert, tributes by war veterans and by powers 8 x pics

The death of King Albert, The lying-in-state in Brussels and a people in mourning 2 x pics

The death of King Albert, A last homecoming- by torchlight 2 x pics

The cradle of Civilization an appreciation of "Ur Excavations: The Royal Cemetery" by Leornard Woolley 4 x pics

The oldest Harp in the world, music at Ur 5000 years ago 2 x pics colour

The Metal worker's art at Ur in the 4th Millenium BC 3 x pics colour

14.3 Below Zero! - The severest cold New York has ever known , frozen Hudson river and skyline 2 x pics

The real Catherine the Great, a contemporary note as to her appearance and personality, her court, and the death of Peter III 2 x pics

The film vogue for Royal romances: British and American successes - "Catherine the Great" with Flora Robson , "Queen Christina" with Greta Garbo, "The Scarlet Empress" with Marlene Deitrich, "Colonel Blood with Frank Cellier " 8 x pics

The World's biggest shop window: The British Industries fair held in London and Castle Bromwich, Birmingham 2 pages 6 x pics include fashion and an exhibit of an interior showing a two hundred year old loom from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides

Books of the Day and 2 x pics of a dramatic escape from a man eating shark at Manley, near Sydney, Australia

Man Eaters that provide diversion - when seen behind anti shark netting 1 x full page pic

Civil War in Austria, Government troops and artillery in action against socialist strongholds in Vienna 2 pages with 6 x pics

Civil War in Austria, The battle scars of Vienna - effects of gunfire on beseiged tenement buildings 2 pages with 8 x pics

Civil War in Austria, incidents in Vienna and the Provinces 7 x pics

Civil War in Austria, Types of Socialist prisoners and their captors 5 x pics

Pure Adam: perfect examples of the Masters work as designer allied with Gobelins tapestry - lots from the coming sale of Lord Zetland's collection 11 x pics

Venice in most unusual guise: Gondolas stranded in the canals - romantic waterways of Venice transformed by abnormally low tides 4 x pics

advert = Dewars Whisky, full page in colour

Gardens of Provence At Grasse- of the perfumes 3 x pics in colour

The World of Science - Humming Birds in captivity 3 x pics

The world of the Kinema - "Conversation Piece" the new Noel Coward play

The camera as recorder: news by photography - The visit of Prince George to South Africa - The avalanches in the Italian Marches - The first Nazi storm troopers to land in England. They arrived in Croydon, with swastika armbands, flying in from Berlin. They were the first storm troopers to land in England in full uniform.- Winner of the Waterloo Cup, Bryn Truthful with his owner Major Hugh Peel

A page for collectors - Porcelain through the ages - Dresden and Sevres by Frank Davis

advert = Monte Carlo full page a good hotel for ten shillings per day

The Chronicle of the car by H Thornton Rutter - Rolls Royce "continental" - Crossley Sports car

advert = VAT 69 whisky full page 12/6 per bottle

Notes from a traveller's log book - Merano and the Dolomites

advert = Italy half page holidays

adverts = Rolls Royce 40/50/HP Enclosed Limousine (seven seats) half page, Palermo for holidays, Waifs and Strays Society, British Consols cigarettes, C. Brandauer's circular pointed pens

The Playhouses- "Conversation Piece" at Her Majesty's - "Paul Twyning" at the Little, "Success Story" at the Cambridge

advert = Rover Cars 10HP Coupe £283 etc, half page

inside back page adverts = Nice for holidays, Vibraphone for Deafness, Your Cistern in the Roof Sir WH Bailey & Co., Grants Morella Cherry Brandy, Cuticura Ointment, Capri for holidays, Selection of Continental Hotels, Be Taller (system never fails), Novio Toilet Paper, Terms of Subscription to The Illustrated London News £3 4s including Xmas, Bengers Food, Allenbury's Pastilles, Horace Annesley Vachell appeals on behalf of the Cancer Hospital (Free), Vapex will stop that cold

outside back page advert = A "Little Bovril" keeps the doctor away - full page colour

March 24th

• The great double record boat race,
• London’s first “labour government,”
• the L.C.C.,
• pelicans in Albania,
• Ghost towns of Nevada,
• Bonar Law College,
• British Naval exercises,
• world’s greatest stamp collection,
• Chinese painting,
• Karamojong of Uganda

September 8th

• Prince George’s engagement to Marina,
• British centre for Motor less flight at Sutton Bank,
• pedestrians in danger from motor vehicles,
• Princess Marina,
• Elba,
• Longwood, and Napoleon,
• The Beaver People,
• 2-page colour of the concourse - Johannesburg’s new rail station,
• animals.

September 15th

• the second cover which is the burning of the "Morro Castle" at the end of a pleasure cruise.
• 1. 2 pages showing the interior of the "Morro Castle".
• 2. The Fascist demonstration and the anit-fascist counter demonstration in Hyde Park.
• 3. The Nazi party rally at Nuremberg: The massing of the S.A.

4. 3 pages. Saturnian Nightscapes. Saturn's rings as seen from its satellites.

5. The new Tell El Amarna discoveries.

6. double page drawing of Akhetaten showing the temple, palace, records office and university.

7. Royal Braemar: The Highland gathering in Princess Royal Park.

8. double page decorative chart to show the scene of the "America's Cup" races.

9. Pages 395-398 missing.

10. "Learning to Fly" by Rudolf Balogh.

11. "Junks" by Kyozo Hayashi

Much more.

Full page ads for Rolls-Royce, Johnnie Walker, Union of South Africa, Whitbread's Pale Ale, On His Majesty's Service and Schwe

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