... RAIN-MARRED PAGEANTRY: In accordance with the custom by which English monarchs I have specially honoured the City of London in the year of their Coronation the I King and Queen drove last Wednesday from Buckingham Palace to Guildhall to I take luncheon with the Lord Mayor; and the Royal car is seen here as it passed I the Griffin monument (marking the site of Temple Bar). Owing to the rain ...

... Some Further Aspects of an Historic Occasion So Packed with Incident that sbace did not allow of its Complete Review in last week's issue A SEA OF CORONETS: The Duke of Gloucester, wearing the coronet of a Prince of the Blood Royal which is similar to that of an Heir- apparent but without the arch and orb, seated in the South Transept 'n front of a large assembly of peers who are grouped in ...

... I Majesty at the Annexe Scenes as Members of the Royal Family Came and Left the Abbey V?t S t ?tu 9 URNEY: The King, wearing his Royal robe of crimson velvet and the ermine Cap of Estate, pictured outside the Royal entrance to the ,eak ter leaving the State coach. The King and Queen, said The Times report, bore themselves at this juncture as more conscious of the Presence into which they were ...

... MANY ABBEY GUE f STS STRANDED AFTER CORONATION SERVICE A Camera Record of the Chaos that Resulted from the Extraordinary Break-down in the Car Arrangements WAITING AT THE ANNEXE DOOR: Some of the Queen's train-bearers and the King's pages who. being participants in the ceremony, were among the first to leave the Abbey after the service was over, thus avoiding the trouble that developed later ...

... CHEERS for the KING and QUEEN in NORTH LONDON Their Majesties' Surprise Drive to See the Decorations on the Day after the Coronation THE ROYAL CAR MOBBED BY THE PATRIOTIC THRONGS Animated scenes in the crowded streets of North London as the King and Queen made their unexpected drive on the day following the Coronation, seeing the wonderful array of decorations in Clerken- well, Islington, and ...

... THE HINDENBURG DISASTER Lieutenant May's Theory of How the Lakehurst Tragedy Came About THE loss of the Hmdenburg, the great airship on which Germany's hopes were set in her fight for supremacy in the de- velopment of the Atlantic aerial passenger route, was immediately made the subject of an official inquiry in New York at which it became clear that the rumours of sabotage were without ...

... ISSUED BY WORTHINOTON AND CO. LTD. ISSUED BY WORTHINOTON AND CO. LTD., ZEbts Encilanb Bredon Hilly Worcestershire THIS summertime in England is a gentle glory, slow born of many rains. No sun-fed flare of colours is here, but a simple harmony of greens that has no equal. Nor is it the bells alone that sound so clear as you walk upon the hills. Rooks you will hear in elms a mile away, and cock ...

... Symmetrical Pageantry Symmetry was essentially the keynote of this picture taken on the threshold of Buckingham Palace as the great gilded coach of State drawn by its richly caparisoned team of Windsor greys swung out from the courtyard at the start of the historic journey to the Abbey A NEVER-TO-BE-FORGOTTEN PATTERN: The same element of symmetry was observable in the vast open space round the ...

... LONDON'S GAy SOCIAL ROUND The Coronation Costume Ball On le/t CORONATION NIGHT AT COVENT GARDEN: After the King's speecn to tne empire had been heard by the audience at the Royal Opera House, the curtain rose on the first scene in A'ida to reveal Miss Eva Turner, the British soprano, in the centre of the stage. Miss Turner sang the National Anthem, which was then taken up by more than 300 ...

... Stage and Screen at Coronation Time Lord Berners' Successful Wedding Bouquet A'ida A Glittering Spectacle at Covent Gar den A Good Revue at the Victoria Palace Reviewed by Philip Page Although the full force of Russian ballet will not be with us until next month, when Colonel De Basil and his troupe are due, some of what may be called, without any desire to offend, the minor companies are ...

... Holland Faces a Single-Handed Combat A Repetition o/ the Recent Van Zee/a nd-- Degrelle Encounter The Clash at the Polls Between Premier Cohjn and P ascist Mussert By j FERDINAND TUOHY WE are about to see repeated, in Holland, the recent Van Zeeland- Degrelle encounter which ended in such complete discomfiture for Belgium's apprentice-dictator or young man in a hurry. Differences exist between ...

... A London Newsletter 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4. Wednesday, May 19, 1937. THE AFTERGLOW.-- The Coro nation is over. A memory of jewelled magnificence, a gigantic diamond for the chaplet of English history. So many millions of words have been poured out in describing it from every angle that at this juncture I should achieve bathos by attempting to compete. Better per haps for me to look ...