#Jubilee 1935

[george-the-good]

WESTMINSTER HALL, LONDON, MAY 9, 1935

King George V, with Queen Mary at his side, addresses both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of his Silver Jubilee.

Seated either side are their sons [L-R]: the Duke of Gloucester, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and the Duke of Kent.

[chadscapture]

1935 Chevy Pickup

[behindthecrowns]

Photo King George V and Queen Mary in St Paul's Cathedral, during the Silver Jubilee Thanksgiving Service, 1935.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Montgomery Clift, right, aged 15, as Prince Peter in Jubilee, 1935. The other boy is Jackie Kelk, playing Prince Rudolph.

The show, a musical, had a book by Moss Hart and a score by Cole Porter, and introduced the classics "Just One of Those Things" and "Begin the Beguine." It included some characters based on real people: the swimmer who becomes an actor is a spoof of Johnny Weissmuller; Noël Coward is portrayed as Eric Dare; and the party hostess Elsa Maxwell is given the name Eva Standing.

The show received rapturous reviews, with one critic calling it "one of the great theatrical events of the 1930s." But after the orchestrations were lost in transit in 1948, the show was not performed for 40 years. There have been a number of concert performances since then, but no full-scale production.

Photo: Vandamm via MCNY

[bollywoodirect]

Tribute to Saraswati Devi, the first woman music director in Hindi films, on her 44th death anniversary (09/08/1980).

Born in a Parsi family in 1912, Saraswati Devi was a trained classical singer and rose to become India’s first woman music director of Bollywood.

A musical rage in the 30s and early 40s, Saraswati Devi's musical career was mostly confined to films produced by Bombay Talkies. Starting with 'Jawani Ki Hawa' in 1935, she went on to compose highly popular music for hit films like Achhut Kanya, Kangan, Bandhan and jhoola.

She was born as Khursheed Manchersher Minocher – Homji.

She changed her name to escape the wrath of the conservative elements of her community as they could never stand that a lady from their clan would enter the film world.

Once when at a gathering the Bombay Talkies owner Himanshu Rai heard her, he instantly invited her to join his concern as a music director. She was reluctant at first, not knowing how she would adjust herself to the needs of the film industry. But finally she accepted the offer.

She was the first woman music director no doubt. But the biggest challenge she faced was to groom non-singers into singers. That was a very, very big challenge in view of the competition from New Theatres as she didn’t have a Saigal or a Kanan to sing her compositions. That is why one should say that she had a formidable task to perform unlike her counterparts like R.C.Boral, Tamir Baran and others in Calcutta.

The biggest contribution by Saraswati Devi, therefore, was to produce hit songs through the lips of non-singers like Ashok Kumar, Devika Rani and Leela Chitnis.. Right from Achchut Kanya till Jhoola, Saraswati Devi went on rampage, so to speak, producing one hit after another. Leela Chitnis could sing hit songs like, ‘Meera ke jeevan ki sooni parri re sitar’ (Kangan), ‘Man bhavan lo sawan aya re’(Bandhan) and ‘Jhoole ke sang jhoolo jhoolo mere man’.(Jhoola) Imagine Saraswati Devi producing a golden jubilee hit in the voices of Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani in film ‘Achhut Kanya’ (a film that Nehru saw and appreciated)-‘Main ban ki chirriya ban ke ban ban bolun re’. The biggest hit by her was the marching song of Bandhan, ‘Chal chal re nau jawan’ sung in solo by Ashok Kumar, sung in chorus by Ashok Kumar and sung as a duet by him with Leela Chitnis. She used a non-singer like Sneh Prabha to sing the Puner Milan song, ‘Nacho nacho pyare man ke mor’. The male singer she had was Arun Kumar, who sung for Kishore Sahu in Punermilan, for Mumtaz Ali in ‘Jhoola’ (Main to Dilli se dulhan laya re he babuji) and others. Incidentally, it was she who gave break to Kavi Pradeep as a singer though he was writing lyrics for the concern since 1939 from film ‘Kangan’. She first used him in that immortal song of ‘Bandhan’ which is played in the back ground: ‘Piyu piyu bol praan papeehe piyu piyu bol’ Pradeep did sing subsequently some big hits after leaving Bombay Talkies. But in ‘Jhoola’ he has left behind a memorable song too tuned by Saraswati Devi: ‘Mere bichade hue saathi teri yaad sataye, baar baar teri chavi aye birha agan jaraae’

After she left Bombay Talkies, she shot into limelight again in the early fifties when she tuned two non-film ghazals for Habib Wali Mohammad. These were: ‘Lagta nahin hai dil mera ujjarre dayar mein’ and ‘Yeh na thi hamari kismet ke visaal-e-yaar hota’. When you listen to her compositions, specially the indigenously-flavored background music, you are transported into the environment of the India of the early 20th century.

During the later years of her life, the bad and selfish film world turned apathetic towards the doyenne. Not even a single person visited her when she fractured her hip bone after falling from a private bus. The legendary singer and India’s first female music director left for a better world in 1980 with no one to mourn her death. Even the media did not find her worthy of an obituary. Image: Saraswati Devi, Lata Mangeshkar, Madan Mohan, Jaikishan, Anil Biswas and Naushad

[topdisease]

More Henry propaganda:

(TL;DR at end)

the reason why Henry is here in the first place is because of his small firebox, which gives heat to boil the water to make him move, and when given bad coal(coal that burns less well or is just not good) he starts having trouble,

from 1919 to 1935 he's had this design fault due to being stolen and rejected plans from the real life engineer, sir Nigel gresley, the guy who was building him found out about these faults to late and Henry was complete, and the NWR (the railway he works on now) was going through a engine crisis since it was still begining, and Henry was unknowingly part of a ploy to get him off his builders hands, and sir topham hatt canonically cursed "that ____ _____,____ sent me this"(we don't get to see what he said really)

Even with all the replacement parts, Henry still was sick, and Sometime, topham climbed on with his crew, and wanted to see what happened with him, his crew said that they needed special coal (Welsh coal in the books) to operate with a fair chance, it was expensive, but topham got it for Henry, and of he went as a rocket, energetic as ever

But then in 1935, he was sent to take a fish train named the flying kipper, he did it all, and set off at 5 o clock, but unfortunately ice and snow forced signals to show green, but it was actually red, and the switches were frozen and Henry was sent into a goods train at full speed(in the show it was James's train, but the illustrations in the book don't show), crashing, and after that he was sent to Crewe, a real life workshop which made him into a LMS stanier black 5, a real life Locomotive, now without the need of Welsh coal, but in the show it's not so good, as he was flanderized down to only that in the HiT era, even though he was fixed, and in season 2 of the show he gained back his wheel arches, indirectly making him a Stanier jubilee, a very similar class made by the same guy, just for passenger work

TLDR Henry has small firebox and can't do with bad coal, so better coal is gotten for him, crash in 1935, rebuilt into another engine without the fault, the LMS black 5, or the LMS jubilee post season 2

jesus 💀

[strawberryjayne]

Gallery on the Green, Settle

The Upper Settle phone box was purchased by the Settle Town Council in early 2009 under the BT "Adopt a Kiosk" scheme. As part of the scheme, the phone was removed, and the Council was free to use the kiosk as they chose. It was agreed that Cultivating Settle would manage the facility and set up a community art gallery. Grant funding was obtained from Craven District Council and the Settle Town Council. The iconic phone box is of the K6 type and was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935 to commemorate George V's Silver Jubilee and has been refurbished inside and out.

We believe the Gallery on the Green is the smallest public art gallery in the world. Certainly, it is the only one to be open 24/7 and filled to capacity at least twice a day.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Eva Jessye

Singer, composer, and choral director Eva Jessye was born in 1895 in Coffeyville, Kansas. In 1926, Jessye founded the Dixie Jubilee Choir, which would later be renamed the Eva Jessye Choir. The choir recorded for major record labels and performed at the 1963 March on Washington. In 1935, George Gershwin selected Jessye as choral director for Porgy and Bess, and she would be involved with nearly every production of the show for the next thirty years. During her career, she also published a collection of traditional songs and composed three oratorios.

Eva Jessye died in 1992 at the age of 97.

Image source: New York Public Library

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Luna is looking at an unusually tall telephone box in Maida Vale.

In London, England.

A bit more information about this telephone box can be found at

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/maida-vales-double-height-telephone-box-48191/

A quote of part of that:

by the French designer, Philippe Starck, more famous for his lemon juice squeezer than phone boxes, and was installed here as part of the permission for the Post Office Telephone Exchange building to be converted into residential flats by Yoo. The developer had originally planned a different work of art, but that was rejected so they turned to Philippe Starck, who had already worked on the interior design for the building to come up with something new.

And he chose a double-decker telephone box.

There are a number of different types of telephone box to choose from, but the K6 model was chosen as the Telephone Exchange was built in 1937, during the reign of King George VI, and the K6 telephone box was commissioned to celebrate King George VI’s Silver Jubilee in 1935.

It was made from two original K6 telephone kiosks which were welded together to form one unit, then restored to “Grade-II listed museum standard”. They also restored the interior to how it would have looked like in 1935, with a bakelite telephone and an original coin box.

[logi1974]

Cornwall 2024 - Tag 20

Ladies und Gentlemen!

Eine Seefahrt die ist lustig, Eine Seefahrt, die ist schön, Denn da kann man fremde Länder Und noch manches andre sehn. Hol-la-hi, hol-la-ho, Hol-la-hi-a hi-a hi-a, Hol-la-hia, hol-la-ho, Hol-la-hi, hol-la-ho, Hol-la-hi-a hi-a hi-a, Hol-la-ho ...

Heute geht es ... Richtig! ... auf´s Wasser. Bootstouren gehören zu einem Besuch in Cornwall irgendwie dazu und so hatten wir uns im Vorfeld bereits für eine spezielle Tour entschieden.

Natürlich hat es etwas mit Tieren zu tun, denn wir wollten Delfine, Vögel und andere Meerestiere sehen. Unter den vielen Anbietern, die sich hier in Penzance tummeln, fiel unsere Wahl auf den Mermaid Wildlife Trip.

Dieser Anbieter nutzt ein kleines Fischerboot für seine Touren. Fast alle anderen fahren mit diesen High Speed Booten, das ist nix für uns.

Maximal 12 bis 15 Personen sind hier nur mit an Bord - sehr angenehm. Noch viel angenehmer ist es, dass dieses Boot auch über eine Toilette verfügen.

Man kann sich aussuchen, ob man auf einer der Bänke in der Mitte des Bootes oder lieber ganz hinten sitzen will.

Die Tour startet in dem schönen Hafenstädtchen Penzance und endet dort natürlich auch wieder.

Wichtig! An Bord gibt es keine Getränke oder Essen, aber wir haben alles dabei plus Tabletten gegen Seekrankheit und natürlich auch Sonnencreme & Brille.

Unsere dreistündige Tour führt von Penzance, an der Südküste in Richtung Westen entlang und natürlich um den St. Michael´s Mount, die Hauptsehenswürdigkeit dieser Gegend.

Wir genießen den Blick auf die Klippen, sehen den Hafen von Mousehole und erkennen deutlich das Freilufttheater Minack.

Unser Fischerboot tuckert gemütlich durchs Wasser, die Küste liegt hinter uns und alle halten Ausschau nach den Delfinen - und auf einmal sind sie da!

Es ist eine ganze Gruppe. Die Tiere bleiben erstaunlich nah am Boot, fast so, als ob sie uns Geleit geben wollten. Sie haben überhaupt keine Angst und scheinen das Ganze als ein Spiel zu sehen.

Trotzdem spielt der Respekt für die Tiere eine große Rolle, man bedrängt sie nicht und man versucht den Impact dieser Touren so gering wie möglich zu halten.

Die Tourguides nutzen die Fahrten gleichzeitig auch zum Sammeln wissenschaftlicher Daten.

Es gibt vor den Küsten Cornwalls mehrere Arten von Delfinen. Die Wissenschaftler können jedes einzelne Tieridentifizieren, erklärt uns der Kapitän, entweder anhand der Form der Rückenflosse oder oft haben Delfine auch markante Zeichnungen auf der Haut.

Auf dem Rückweg fahren wir an der kleinen Insel St. Clement vorbei, die nur 350 Meter vor dem Hafeneingang von Mousehole liegt.

Hier sonnen sich tatsächlich ein paar Kegelrobben auf den Steinen.

Die Kegelrobbe gehört wie der Seehund zur Familie der Hundsrobben (Phocidae). 

Die Tiere werden bis zu 2,50 Meter lang und erreichen ein Gewicht bis zu 300 Kilogramm. 

Ehe wir uns versehen, sind wir wieder im Hafen von Penzance angekommen. Schön war´s!

Anschließend schlendern wir noch durch Penzance bis hinunter an den Jubilee Pool. Ein Meerwasser-Strandbad im Art-Déco-Stil mit Blick auf das Meer. 

Das Lido wurde am 31. Mai 1935 im Rahmen der Feierlichkeiten zum Silberjubiläum von König Georg V. eröffnet. Es ist denkmalgeschützt und gilt, mit Ausnahme des Saltdean Lido bei Brighton, als das schönste erhaltene Beispiel seiner Art.

Während des Großteils des 20. Jahrhunderts spielten Strandbäder in vielen Küstenstädten eine große Rolle. Tatsächlich gab es einst bis zu 169 Strandbäder in ganz Großbritannien.

Der Jubilee Pool in Penzance ist der größte von nur noch fünf verbliebenen Meerwasser-Strandbädern im Vereinigten Königreich.

Heute beherbergt das Bad das erste geothermische Becken Großbritanniens, ein riesiges Schwimmbad und ein Anfängerbecken, die alle täglich mit frischem Meerwasser aufgefüllt werden.

Auf dem Rückweg zum Auto beobachten wir den Badespaß im Hafenbecken.

Der Sommer scheint offiziell für eröffnet erklärt.

Die Außenplätze der Restaurants sind ebenfalls gut gefüllt.

Good Night!

Angie, Micha und Mister Bunnybear

[105nt]

Strike Walk #4

All around Barrow-in-Furness

Career of Evil chapters 24-27

This is Part 4. There's links to other parts at the end.

Stanley Road terminates in a small play park.

Strike knocks at the Brockbank house but gets no reply, and Robin takes a picture of some nearby workmen, thinking one of them might be Noel. This brings the police to them and they are warned to take no more photos. No-one arrived to arrest me, even though I was loitering for a good twenty minutes snapping pictures like David Bailey. Either security is too lax or they've stopped making submarines and the whole place has been secretly converted to manufacturing Weetabix.

A helpful neighbour tips them off that Holly Brockbank, not Noel, lives at the address they have. Holly works at a bakery in Vickerstown "just up the road from Vengence Street" and drinks in The Crow's Nest pub a few yards away.

Strike and Robin travel to Holly's workplace, so must go over Jubilee Bridge, formerly plain old Walney Bridge but renamed in 1935 for the silver jubilee of George V. It spans "the estuary, where sailing boats bobbed on dirty-looking water or sat marooned on mudflats."

Also there's what looks like a mystery cylindrical buidling, and since TRG all mystery cylindrical buildings have to be investigated. (I don't make the rules, OK?) Can confirm it's part of the Methodist Church and it's square. So that's OK then.

Strike, initially surprised that there's a "Vengeance Street" guesses (as they drive along Amphitrite Street) that the road names refer to the names of ships. According to Wikipedia, there have been seven HMS Amphitrites (including a cruiser launched in 1898 in Barrow) and eight HMS Vengeances (including a nuclear submarine built in Barrow and launched in 1998). I also saw a Euryalus Street and there's a Barrow-built ship of that name, so I think the road names are locally built ships.

"Vengence Street ran up a hill" (and indeed it runs down the other side) and a good hundred yards or so away from the end of it Strike and Robin find "a little, white painted bakery". It was in this building, now pebble-dashed and a beauty salon called "Beautique".

End of Part 4

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[behindthecrowns]

Looking happy in public doesn't necessarily mean you are happy. So I don't understand why George V and Mary are called a "rigid, boring and affectionless" couple. There is no universal way to express affection towards another person, everyone has their own way of expressing it. George often wrote letters to Mary in which he praised her, he apologized for his "attacks of anger", he showed interest in her by writing things like "my little sweet May" "my darling tootsums" "my darling" and furthermore he admitted (in his letters) the fact that he wasn't able to express his feelings towards his wife outload. Let's say that his love language was probably writing letters. For example, George also wrote kind and sweet letters to his mother Alexandra, who had become deaf over time. It was his way of showing affection. For her part, Mary has always supported her husband by helping him in speeches thanks to her knowledge of history and art, she supported him in decisions by giving him advices, and when in 1920 George was seriously ill and she looked after him with such great care, so much so that when George recovered journalists asked the Royal doctors what was the secret cure that has saved his majesty they replied that it was the Queen (Mary), she refused to let him die. Also in his 1935 Jubilee speech George admitted that "he owed everything to her", referring to his wife. When George died in 1936, Mary wrote only two words in her diary: "am heartbroken". She could have written pages and pages abt him, but she didn't, she limited herself to two words, so simple and yet so precise. Two key words to express all her pain and sorrow. Maybe Mary was in love with her husband or maybe not, but their relationship was undoubtedly based on mutual respect and support. In my opinion, the fact that they both had the same introverted and reserved way of being helped them a lot to understand and support each other.

[garyartista]

Margaret Walker, African American poet

Margaret Walker (1915-1998) was a highly accomplished woman. She was at college student at the young age of 15 when she begin writing poetry. In 1936 she joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, befriending Richard Wright. BA from Northwestern 1935, MA and Ph D U of Iowa 1945. Her dissertation was published as a novel, Jubilee 1966. Dr. Margaret Walker, Conte pencil, 32 x 50 cm/ 12.5 x…

[rmsqueenmaryonthisday]

A Short Odyssey

On July 16, 1935, the newly merged Cunard White Star line was represented by Homeric at the Spithead merchant fleet review for King George V’s silver jubilee. The ship had been launched in 1913 for Norddeutscher Lloyd under the name Columbus, but was given up unfinished six years later as part of war reparations to Great Britain. She was then sold to White Star, and, under the watchful eyes of…

[bollywoodirect]

Devika Rani and Najam Ul Hasan in Jawani Ki Hawa (1935). Original Sumitra Kumari and Jamshed Khan. #Jubilee

[jaspers47]

I watched 154 movies in 2022

Five Stars

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) Bergman Island (2021) Blonde Crazy (1931) Blow-Up (1966) Cryptozoo (2021) Decision to Leave (2022) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Glass Onion (2022) The Hunger (1983) It Came from Hollywood (1982) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) Minari (2020) Mona Lisa (1986) Never Let Me Go (2010) Night on Earth (1991) Nope (2022) Pearl (2022) Tár (2022) Turning Red (2022) Wolfwalkers (2020) The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Four Stars

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Black Swan (2010) Blackmail (1929) Bullet Train (2022) Captain Blood (1935) Christmas in Connecticut (1945) CODA (2021) Confess, Fletch (2022) Doctor Sleep (2019) Dune (2021) Encanto (2021) The Fabelmans (2022) The Firemen's Ball (1967) First Blood (1982) Five Came Back (1939) Flee (2021) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Gilda (1946) The Gospel of Eureka (2018) Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Harvey (1950) House/Hausu (1977) The Hustler (1961) Hustlers (2019) Kajillionaire (2020) The Killing (1956) Kimi (2022) Kiss of Death (1947) The Menu (2022) Moonwalker (1988) The Mouse That Roared (1959) My Dinner with Andre (1981) The Northman (2022) Parallel Mothers (2021) The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Predator (1987) Prey (2022) The Punk Singer (2013) Quatermass II/Enemy From Space (1957) Relaxer (2018) Saint Maud (2019) The Seven-Ups (1973) Thelma (2017) Watcher (2022) We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022) Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) X (2022)

Three and a Half Stars

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) The Booksellers (2019) Blade II (2002) Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul (2022) Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) My Name is Julia Ross (1945) Onibaba (1964) The Party (1968) Pygmalion (1938) The Quatermass Xperiment/The Creeping Unknown (1955) The Song Remains the Same (1976) Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Wendell & Wild (2022) Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Three Stars

Amistad (1997) The Bank Dick (1940) The Batman (2022) Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Cries and Whispers (1972) Crimes of the Future (2022) Drive My Car (2021) The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) Emily the Criminal (2022) The Funhouse (1981) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Inland Empire (2006) Jennifer's Body (2009) Jubilee (1978) Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) Life of Pi (2012) Linda Linda Linda (2005) Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) Lucy and Desi (2022) Nobody (2021) Opening Night (1977) Pretending I'm a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story (2020) Repeat Performance (1947) See How They Run (2022) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Strawberry Mansion (2022) Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) A Woman is a Woman (1961) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) White Zombie (1932) WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Two and a Half Stars

Babylon (2022) Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017) Thunderball (1965)

Two Stars

Doctor Mordrid (1992) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Enchanted (2007) Hardcore Henry (2015) The House (2022) My Fair Lady (1964) My Name is Emily (2015) The Princess (2022) Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Rosaline (2022) Strange World (2022) Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Treasure of the Amazon (1985) Werewolves Within (2021) Willy's Wonderland (2021) Winnie the Pooh (2011)

One Star

Beyond Atlantis (1973) Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 (1999) The Crawling Hand (1963) Daddy-O (1958) Demon Squad (1999) Hello Again (1987) Indestructible Man (1956) Munchie (1992) Operation Kid Brother (1967) The Rebel Set (1959) Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1969) Robot Jox 2: Robot Wars (1993) Shadow in the Cloud (2020) The She-Creature (1956)