Jean Harlow & Harold Rosson return to Los Angeles after marrying in Yuma, Arizona, September 1933.	The Blue Bird (1940), dir. Walter Lang
January 1935: a month to disconsolate the most ebullient spirit.	Primary school children of Leith Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1935. They were Shirley Temple's contemporaries.
In the Saarland (where France meets Germany) Saarlanders vote fervidly to reunite with Hitler's Germany. Imans in Palestine excommunicate from Islam any landowner in Palestine selling land to a Jew. Bruno Hauptman faces the death sentence for the murder and kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Unemployment 20.1%	They share her air of invincible imperturbability. They appear in costumes for "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play," their contribution to a municipal pageant marking the silver jubilee (the 25th year) of the reign of King George V. The dresses were blue with white spots, one still remembers. The voices are not theirs. The voices belong to a children's choir of 1995.
Freezing afflicts Calcutta and Bombay. Farmers slaughter cows in the American Dustbowl. Sheep farmers reel from drought in Queensland Australia.	In the picture, they stay eternally young, but those pictured still living would now be entering their eighties. In the future were the Second World War, marriages, divorces, loss, jobs, children, grandchildren, perhaps great grandchildren—us. We are to them as pebbles are to starlight.
France and Italy agree to accede to each other's colonial claims. British constables gun down strikers in St. Kitts. The FBI guns downs gangster Ma Barker. Like a chick pecking from an egg, Shirley Temple emerges from the pages of a calendar.