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The Illustrated London News 1935
Election Poster November 1935
Full page advert for
Whitbread Pale Ale
Miss Gertrude Lawrence dining with Mr Douglas Fairbanks Jnr. at Grosvenor House
This NEW De luxe Ford
Saloon £135 or double entrance, as illustrated £145
The new housing Bill: One room homes before and after
War on overcrowding: (above) slum conditions - six persons sleeping in one room (father and mother, eldest son and wife, and two younger children)
(below) as it will be - Father, mother, and child
The "Champagne Bottle" neck
Bass Collared Padaung Women (in upper Burma)
Landing grounds on the ocean
Shell Advert - Orient Line Cruises advert
Television arrives: Plans for a London Service
Crystal Palace tranmitters and a Home receiving set
The oldest living organism on earth - The Cypress tree "El Tule"
Oaxaca, Mexico
from 5,000 to 10,000 years old
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Events of this year in the Illustrated London News
March 29th - Stalin and Anthony Eden (Lord Privy Seal) met in Moscow to discuss German rearmament
April 11th - The agricutural heart of the USA is paralysed by dust storms
May - TE Lawrence 'Lawrence of Arabia' died in a motorbike accident in Dorset, he was 46
May 6th - The Silver Jubilee of George V (69) and Queen Mary is celebrated throughout Britain
A Peace Ballot in the UK showed 11 million in favour of the League of Nations and a reduction in armaments
June - General Election in UK Stanley Baldwin (conservative) took over from Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee became leader of the Labour Party
Winston Churchill spoke out in favour of rearmament in the face of a Nazi threat
September 3rd - Sir Malcolm Campbell set world land speed record of 301 mph in Bluebird - 12 cylinder Rolls Royce engine, 5 tons of weight, on the beach at Bonneville Salt flats, Utah
October 2nd - Abyssinia invaded by Italy with ground and air forces
October 20th - End of Communist army's 'Long March'under Mao Tse-tung
November - The Post Office introduces the first Greetings Telegram
Nazis repudiate the Versailles Treaty, compusory military service was begun, Nuremberg laws against the Jews instituted
Robert Watson-Watt develops radar
January 5th
The Exhibition of British Art in Industry at Burlington House, including a “mirror-image” library designed by famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Photo with caption announcing engagement of Don Jaime, Infante of Spain, son of King Alfonso (Alphonso) XIII, to Mlle. Emanuella de Dampierre
British troops in the Saar
HRH The Duke of Gloucester in Australia
January 26th
Frontispiece - Mr. David Lloyd George out walking near his Surrey home.
e Emperor of Ethiopia opens the new Parliament at Addis Ababa;
Mascagni’s new opera, “Nerone”;
H.R.H. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in New Zealand;
Duke and Duchess of York, Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret at the Circus;
the Rugby teams for the drawn match between England and Wales;
a self portrait by Frans Hals;
“A Jockey” by Edgar Degas
Back cover - colour advert for Black and White Scotch Whiskey,
The Grenadier Guards , from a painting by Christopher Clark, R.I.
An amazing achievment by a self-taught Yorkshire carpenter,
who, in 1765, won the government's £20,000 reward for the first practical method of finding longitude:
A problem which Newton thought insoluble
April 27th
Inside cover: The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII, still later the Duke of Windsor) as the founder of King George’s Jubilee Trust
The Grand Opera Season of 1935 – Stars Who Will Be Seen at Covent Garden
The New Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Arthur Hinsley
Philip Wilson Steer Painting Exhibit
New Airplanes for the British Royal Air Force (R.A.F.)
The Emperor of Manchukuo Visits Japan
Hitler on His Birthday – he received 41 airplanes
The League of Nations discusses the resolution condemning Hitler’s Germany for returning to conscription
Sale of the Solomon Barnato Joel Collection: paintings by Hoppner, Gainsborough, Romney, and George Morland
May 25th
the second cover page showing The Italo-Abyssinian dispute:Military activity in Addis Ababa - uniformed but barefooted soldiers, seated on boxes of ammunition..
Some of the many highlights in pictures and words are:
1. A record consignment of munitions to Abyssinia; and its transport to the base by porterage.
2. Cave art of some 30,000 years ago: A wonderful discovery in Spain. Human beings and fishes in 30,000 year old drawings: A unique find.
3. "Fifty years of Portraits": Academicians and Fauves at the Leicester Galleries.
4. 6 pages of Dragons. Komodo Island.
5. How the Atlantic was crossed single-handed in a small boat. "Winibelle II". 2 water colour pictures and article.
6. coloured picture of "Diana and Actaeon".
7. Royal occasions in London and Edinburgh. Celebrating the Royal Jubilee.
8. The Home Fleet comes to the Thames for the third time in 26 years: A Jubilee Visit.
9. The world of science: snake, eels and sea snakes.
10. The Burmese Scene: A colourful land and its people. 3 water colours by Captain Livesey.
11. The Tower of London Pageant for the betterment of Tower Hill.
12. 19th Century masterpieces: A great exhibition of French art in London.
13. Paris stages an air raid: The dramatic side of gas drill.
Much more.
Full page ads for Douglas Stuart, Cine-Kodac and Ford V-8 Saloon De Luxe
July 20th
ROYAL NAVY & MILITARY REVIEW NUMBER
1. "Keep Then The Sea, Which is the Wall of England".
2. The King's Silver Jubilee Review of the Troops of the Aldershot Command: In Rushmoor Arena.
3. The "Berengaria" formerly "Imperator" homeward bound from New York.
4. The King at Portsmouth for the Navel Review: The Welcome and Boarding the Royal Yacht.
5. Double page of photos showing the ships in which our Sailor King has served.
6. The King's Silver Jubilee Review of the Fleet at Spithead: The Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert" with his Majesty and His sons on boards, seen from the "Hood" as she entered the lines - "Iron Duke," "Resolution," "Revenge," "Ramillies," "Royal Sovereign," "Queen Elizabeth."
7. Queen Bees
8. The King honouring the Navy, Merchant Service, and Fishing Fleets.
9. The Royal Salute at Spithead.
10. Coloured picture of the model of Drake's "Golden Hind".
11. Coloured pictures of "Royal Oak," "Rodney," "Nelson," "1682 "Britannia."
12. The pageant of British sea power: Warships at the Great Review - 10 pages full of pictures.
13. All that goes to produce a great British warship's "Battle-Thunder": Cold science behind the big guns.
14. The Fleet air arm: Cruisers as midified by aircraft equipment.
15. "Ships with a Story" in the naval review: Five makers of History.
16. Fighting ships of the British Navy: The Battleship and the Battle-Cruiser - Details of their Interiors (double page cross-sections).
17. Fighting ships of the British Navy: The Aircraft-Carrier and the Light Cruiser - Details of Interiors (double page cross-sections).
18. Fighting ships of the British Navy: The Destroyer and the Submarine - Details of Their Interiors (double page cross-sections).
19. Coloured pictures of "The Control Platform, Orion".
20. Full page coloured photo of The Mechanized Army.
21. Full page pictures of 16 airplanes of The Royal Air Force.
22. Pageant of Light: Three Phases of the Fleet Illuminations.
23. A pictorial forecast of the 1,250,000 pound plan to make Earl's Court the world's largest centre for exhibitions. (double page layout). Much more.
Full page ads for Black & White, Britannia and Eve, Ford, Whitbread's Pale
Ale, Seager's Gin, Vauxhall Loght Six Coupe (245 pounds!), Esso, Austin. Many
July 27th
November 23rd
4. Tappind a new archaeological source in North Syria.
5. In the Wellsian world of 2054 A.D. "Things to Come": the "Space gun insurrection.
6. double page. The General Election: Facts amd figures of the new house, compared with Parliaments of the past.
7. double page. The election: Members of the new parliament whose records and personalities claim special attention.
8. The anti-British riots in Cairo.
9. The fall of Makale: Ras Gugas, the deserter, hoists Italy's flag.
10. Pages 945-948 missing.
11. The R.S.P.P. Exhibition: Notable examples of comtemporary British portraiture.
12. Of Interest to Women: ski fashions.
13. Where to go for winter sports. .
Much more.
Full page ads for Black & White, Christie Manson & Woods, Harrods and
"Reality Tours. Many smaller ads
December 24th
Number 2696 - Volume 103
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