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JAN 5

• Front Cover Header = The loss of the Dirigible "Dixmude" Front Cover adverts = State Express 555 cigs and 444, The "Arethusa" Training ship and the Shaftesbury Homes, Horrockes fast colour shirtings, Hotel du Louvre - Paris, Spinet - the Super cigarette 20 for 1/6, Avon British cord tyres, Bonzo's star Turns - The fourth studdy dogs portfolio 2/-, Riviera Palace Hotel - Nice, The London & Lancashire Insurance Company - 46 Dale street Liverpool

• Inside Front Cover=FP Dewars scotch whisky - The Spirit of the Empire

• frontispiece = "considered as lost" : The French air-ship "Dixmude" (a surrendered zeppelin) in flight after leaving her hangar at Toulon

• Our Notebook by G. K. Chesterton (discussing Ramsay Macdonald)...........................................................Blown over desert and sea: "Dixmude" presumed lost with 52 on board 3 pics

• Personalities of the week : People in the public eye :- The Prince Regent of Japan, designer of the Eiffel tower the late M Gustave Eiffel, the new American Ambassador in London Mr Frank B Kellog and wife, etc etc....................................................John Bull sees the new year in: revelry despite taxation FP pic Chelsea Arts Ball

• double page = The scene of Grace Darling's exploit as a bird sanctuary: an appeal to buy the Farne Islands 15 pics

• Books of the Day by JD Symon - 1 pic = of latest eruption of Vesuvius.............................Various Events Abroad: including :Mexico; "Leviathan" the worlds largest liner 60,000 tons; Eskimo criminals etc 6 pics

• double page = "Behind the scenes" in film land: Apparitions; Wheels running uphil; and Lilliputian families (Fairies) - secrets of trick films revealed: devices of the camera and the studio that produce wonderful effects on the screen - turn tables, mirrors, black backgrounds, and reversal of gear - approx 30 drawings by WB Robinson

• The World of Science - The Gouldian finch and other examples of Dimorphism (by WP Pycraft) 3 pics...............................................FP photo of The US Navy and the Gun Range question: a fine air view - "packed like sardines" : US war ships lying idle at Philadelphia, including 9 battleships (with lattice masts, centre background), 4 transports, 2 "Eagle" boats and over 120 destroyers - seen from an aeroplane

• double page = The Pharaohs and Phoenicia: Egyptian discoveries at Byblos, once allied with Egypt and later held by Rome: A Syrian city 8 pics of ruins, scarabs and statuettes

• The World of the Theatre by JT Grein - Letters on "Acting and feeling" gestures on stage....................................Discovered in Westminster Abbey: a famous sculptor's models - 3 models by Louis Francois Roubiliac in the Triforium of Westminster Abbey

• FP = Christian Reunion? The head of the Roman church - photo of Pope Pius XI................................Christian Reunion? The head of the Anglican church - photo of The most rev Randall Thomas Davidson DD Archbishop of Canterbury

• double page (centre) When Big Ben tolled the death of the Old Year: new Year's Eve festivities in London - Russian Dancers on stage at the Metropole Hotel bearing the numerals 1924 a drawing by CE Turner

• double page = An airman's view of the Land of Tutankhamen - 9 pics Luxor, Aswan, Templeof Medinet- Haboo, Temple of Edfu, etc etc

• double page = The "Paris" of South America: Life in Buenos Aires: An Englishman's impression of the Argentine capital: Social life in Buenos Aires - Motoring, Racing and Dancing......................................The "Rue de La Paix" and the "Grands Boulevards" of Buenos Aires: The Calle Florida and the Avenida de Mayo; and Argentine Cadets doing the "Goose Step" 11 drawings by Bryan de Grineau

• The Barber - Surgeon: When man was salt, Sulphur and Mercury - "Master Johann Dietz" Translated by Bernard Miall (Master Johann Dietz, Surgeon in the army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court) on the same page a photo of Animal sculpture from Tutankhamen's tomb: a gold covered lion head from one of the royal couches .......................................A Pharaoh's golden chariot: How Tutankhamen dazzled Thebes 4 x photos

• The World of Women (the womans page) coats from Burberrys' 2 x drawings..........................................FP ad = Green Stripe Whisky - featuring Accomplished Equestrians - The precipice riders of the Italian army

• Fashions and Fancies - powder, perfume etc etc, on the same page ad = Carrington & Co Court Jewellers, ad = "Swan" Fountpens (not fountain pens!) self filling type 15/- ........................................................FP ad = Trocadero London's premier restaurant featuring a drawing by JC Harrison "Flushed"

• Chess various aspects and problem 3922 by Dr A Rovere (Trieste) adverts on same page = Carrs Table Water biscuits, For Winter Sports get all you need at Gamages of Holborn (ski boots 65/-, wool sweaters 18/6)....................................................... FP ad = Kensitas the preferred cigarette 20 for 1/5 (7p) or 100 for 6/10 (34p)

• The Playhouses - pantomime at the Lyceum (Jack and the Beanstalk) and Palladium (Dick Whittington), "Almond eye" at the Scala, "Madame Pompadour" at Daly's - adverts on this page = "Why + Not" golf balls 2/6 each, Withdrawal of Shell roadside signs Shell-Mex Ltd, Cuticura cream, soap etc, Tamar Indien Grillon laxative fruit lozenges 3/- per box .................................................................. adverts = Robinson & Cleaver January sale of Irish Linens (sheets 2yd by 3 yd 45/9 etc etc), Austin Reed Ltd (Summit Collars 1/- each), A bright winter Spa/ Hot sulphur springs Vernet - Les - Bains The Paradise of the Pyrenees

• The Bookseller's Window - "Wild Heart of Youth" by Kathlyn Rhodes (7 books reviewed), adverts on this page = Dr. Cassell's Tablets for Neurasthenia 1/3, Belgrave - Fry's new chocolate 1/3 per ½ pound.............................................................ads = Dunville's special liqueur whisky 13/6 per bottle (with a recomend from The Lancet), Debenham & Freebody's January sale (Musquash fur coats 45gns), J & A Carter (The Carbrek bed table), Illustrated London news subscription rates 12 months £2 18s 9d , Hindes Hair tint for Grey hair 2/6 the flask

• The Chronicle of the car - useless traffic signals - four wheel brakes and control - a Dynamo note, ads on this page = Stratton - Instone Ltd (tel Regent 933) for Daimler and BSA, The Sunbeam Motor Car Co. Ltd the 14/40 HP four cylinder with six brakes 2 x photos £685............................................................. adverts = Wright's Coal Tar Soap which protects from infection, Dr J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne for coughs colds and Diarrhoea 1/3 or 3/-, Prince Charming Cigarettes - perfect in every detail made by Moustafa Ltd 165 Piccadilly 20 for 1/-

• Broadcasts from America, experts at Biggin Hill , Kent ,from the British broadcasting Company intercepted radio waves from KDKA East Pittsburg includes 1 x photo, ads on this page = Anzora masters the Hair, Hyeres Riviera - The Hotel Costebelle, Himrod's asthma cure, Foster Clark's Cream Custard for parties and dances, British Berkefield water filters, Lt Col Richardson's Airedales security trained against burglars and for ladies guards - pups 5 gns, Meltis Chocolate 4d, 8d and 1/3, Newton Chambers heating apparatus, Sunshine in the Winter a selection of hotels from Petrograd to the Pyrenees...........................................FP ad = new British soap "Olva" (Palm and Olive oil) 6d per tablet from Price's Soap Co.

• FP ad = in colour The Mighty Atom OXO cube concentrated beef energy

JAN 12

price 1/-
• Front Cover Header = Tutankhamen Colour - Photography in this issue, Front Cover adverts = Barker & Dobson Viking Chocolates 4/- per 1lb, Australia by Orient Line ships Ormuz, Orcades, Orsova and Omar, Royal Exchange Assurance incorporated AD 1720, Genuine Irish Tweeds tailored to measure - The Whitehouse Portrush North Ireland, Hotel Du Louvre - Paris, Beethams La- Rola keep you complexion perfect in winter, Vittel Grande Source diuretic mineral water 20 million bottles sold yearly, NICE - Riviera Palace Hotel has every refinement - beautiful grounds - Orchestra - Tennis and Motor Car service to the Golf Links, Bonzo's Star Turns price 2/-, Avon 'Durolith' British Cord Tyres

• Inside Front Cover= adverts Holophane for Scientific Illumination, John B Stetson Hat Company 70 New Bond St London, Why + Not Golf Ball Price 2/6, Beecham's Pills for The Charm of the smile, Young girls clear away pimples with Cuticura, Lloyds Euxesis in tubes the Original for easy shaving...................................................................A Bright winter Spa Vernet Les Bains, Lighting and cooking for Country Houses Silverlite petrol gas generators -gas at 1/6 per 1000 feet, White teeth - GELLÉ FRÈRES'S, Woolands Ltd -Quality hats at Sale prices (taffeta Cloche in Black , Navy or Nigger 3 guineas

• advert = BDV cigarettes hand rolled 20 for 1/6, Birds Blanc- Mange a kiddies favourite, The New Columbia Grafonola endorsed by Sir Henry J Wood the only records without a scratch - "Pathetic" Symphony on four records 30/- (no composers name mentioned!), Rome a selection of Hotels - Excelsior, Grand, Rapallo, Stresa etc, Venice a selection of Hotels - Grand, Vittoria, Beau Rivage etc.....................................................................frontispiece = FP photo of An avalanche actually in progress descending the Mettenberg "with loud rumblings", and causing "an immense cloud of dust and vapour" taken on Sat afternoon 29th Dec 1923

• Our Note Book by G. K. Chesterton - 1 x photo on same page Princess Alice in an Ostrich feather mantle............................................................Personalities of the week: People in the public eye - A famous actress who retired at 23 The late Miss Kate Terry (elder sister of Ellen), Producer of the Mystery Play in a church in Leeds:Miss Edith Craig with one of the "Imps" in the play, A famous eye specialist the late Sir John Tweedy FRCS etc etc 12 altogether

• double page = Glowing warmth with temperature below Zero - The delights of Winter Sports in Switzerland 6 x photos of St. Moritz

• The cruise of the "K 26" the new british submarine, The enthronment of the Bishop of Winchester, The funeral of Rev S Baring-Gould (he wrote "Onward Christian soldiers" amongst other hymns etc), bringing home the body of the "Dixmudes" commander Lieutenant du Plessis de Grenadan 6 x photos....................................................... New Weapons by Land and Sea: Burning Bombs; Smoke Screens, burning everything it touches a 25lb White Phosphorous air bomb, a test by the US army, A naval smoke- screen laid by aeroplane a mile long by 600 feet high in a minute 2x photos

• Royalty and Ex-Royalty: New coins; The fate of "stately homes" 7 x photos, where Queen Elizabeth was entertained by Sir Henry Jerningham: Costessey Hall near Norwich in course of demolition, possibly to be pulled down the historic house at Cassiobury Park near Watford which is associated with the Earl of Essex of Elizabethan days, also new South African coinage, etc ........................................................................... FP photo = A Leap into space: Ski-Jumping at St. Moritz in Switzerland, most spectacular Alpine sport

• Avalanche havoc: Effects of snow and air pressure - 5 x photos of Airolo near the Italian end of the St. Gothard Tunnel after an avalanche............................................................. FP photo = The "Avalanche" of Swiss avalanches: An Alpine record - Twenty avalanches have occurred in one week blocking the St Gothard railway
• double page = 6 x photos of Paris underwater! The worst flood in Paris since 1910: Roads turned into canals; 4500 people driven from their homes

• A Book Review "Sitters behind the curtain" : The changing east. - "Persian women and their ways" by C. Colliver Rice - Also on this page 3 x photos of The Rev Sabine Baring-Gould (novelist, hymn writer, hagiologist, Folk-lorist, and Squire and the Yorkshire mill lass, Grace Taylor, who became his wife and a verse of "Onward christian soldiers" in the author's handwriting............................................................. The swollen Seine threatens Paris Bridges: A flooded station 6 x photos of flooded Paris briges and the Gare des Invalides completely flooded - the river Seine reached a height of 24 feet

• The World of Science - Ravening Jelly - Fish! by WP Pycraft FZS, Author of " The Infancy of Animals" "The courtship of Animals" etc etc 4x drawings of Jelly-Fish and their Prey......................................................................................FP Colour reproduction = Tutankhamen Art in Colour: An exclusive reproduction - "In gold-work, Ivory and crystalline limestones, inlaid with polychrome Faience, glass, and stone" : The head of the household God Bes, from a Royal chariot in Autochrome

• double page = Tutankhamen's Regal Splendour: Panels of his Golden Chariot - Exclusive colour reproductions 2 x colour pics; gold panel 1 = "The king in the form of a sphinx trampling upon his enemies" and gold panel 2 = " he drove throught the streets of Thebes...in blaze of dazzling light"

• double page = Found to contain a magnificent intact sarcophagus: Tutamkhamen's Golden Shrine in it's painted sepulchre 5 x photos including "the seal intact .... as placed there 3270 years ago" and decoration of the sepulchre walls and including "the loviest of all alabaster vases" mounted in gold and silver

• FP Advert in colour = H & S Special Scotch Whisky Glenlivet (dumpy triangle bottle) 15/- a bottle.........................................................................FP = Books of the Day by JD Simon: includes 1 x photo "Fairy tales of Science" to be republished in this paper: Sir William Bragg (with arm outstretched) after one of his lectures "Concerning the nature of things" to children at the Royal Institution - other books - "Rome or Death, the story of Fascism" by Professor Carleton Beals, "The Contrast" by Hilaire Belloc etc etc

• double page = 2x drawings by the late Claude Shepperson ARA on first page "Roulette - Monte Carlo" and " The Ski Runners"..................................... FP drawing = An artist's vision of Carnival revelry "After the ball" a Shepperson dry-point

• The World of the Theatre. by JT Grein - A Decline of Dramatic Criticism - A Play Competition: 5 x photos = Principal dancer at Covent Garden : Miss Eily Gerald, Mr Herbert Langley in the cast of "La Boheme", Mr Robert Radford as "Mephistopheles, Mr Frank Mullings to sing the title role in "Othello", Mr Robert Parker cast for Hans Sachs in " The Mastersingers" .................................................................A Mystery Play in Church: A reversion to Mediaeval Costume 6 x photos form St Edward's Church, Holbeck, Leeds , Hugo von Hoffmanstahl's mystery play "The Great World Theatre"

• The World of Women - articles and 3 x photos women's fashion, hunt balls etc..............................................................FP Advert = John Haig scotch whisky

• Fashions and Fancies - half a page and 4 x drawings of womens fashions etc etc on the same page adverts = Fry's NEW Belgrave Chocolate 1/3 per half pound block, Welsbach - Kern British made Gas Radiators.......................................................................FP Advert = "Black & White" scotch whisky

• Radio Notes - article about broadcasting 1 x photo of The Marylebone Institution for the poor with radio receiving equipment - on the same page adverts = True Music Loud speakers from The Telephone Manufacturing Company, improve your Gramophone The wonderful new Tremusa Sound Box - fits any machine 30/- try it on yours from Repeating Gramophones ........................................................FP Avert = Monte Carlo : where spring reigns eternally; 2 x photos of the harbour and sub Tropical Gardens called "La Petite Afrique"

• The Playhouses - "A Magdalen's husband" in the Playbox series, also on the page 1 x photo of the Pinnacles topped with statues from the roof of Milan Cathedral, Adverts = Dunville's Whiskies 13/6 or 12/6 a bottle, Robinson & Cleaver - January Sale of Irish Linens and a knitted suit for 59/6 ............................................................FP advert = Player's "Country Life" tobacco and cigarettes 5½d for 10 and 1/- per oz

• The Chronicle of the Car: including articles ; Restoring the Countryside and the Use of Spotlights 2 x photos of a 12 hp Darracq and a six cylinder Napier, adverts = Daimler and BSA cars supplied by Stratton - Instone Ltd, Lanchester Motor Company Ltd showing the 21 hp six cylinder .....................................................................Adverts = BP The British Petrol showing picture of The Knight Three Wheeler car 1895 which could travel at 8mph "all out", The "Kensington" Saloon £450 from The Standard Motor Co, Hotchkiss cars 15.9 hp £495 from The London and Parisian Motor Company Ltd

• The Chronicle of the Car (cont..): including articles; Wanted garage accommodation, Winter Trials and Cars and Moods, Adverts = Come south where sunny hours await you Bexhill and Cooden Beach, Bognor, brighton etc, Winter sunshine Littlehampton, Let the "Big Six" help you when you go to Paris you can read all the back copies of Illustrated London News - The Sketch - The Sphere - The Tatler - The Eve and The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, Grant's Morella Cherry Brandy, Terms of subscription to The Illustrated London News for 12 months including Christmas £2 18s 9d, Laugh as you read "One at a time" by RS Hooper is the funniest book of the year John Lane The Bodley Head 6s, Exide the long life battery for your car, IDOF the insect bites remedy, Oakey's "Wellington" knife polish .....................................................................................adverts = Vauxhall Motors Ltd - 23.6 hp Vauxhall "Warwick" £1195, Vaseline no home should be without it, a car light dimmer from Rotax 15/- , Veno's lightning cough cure 1/3 or family size 3/-

• Adverts only = annual sales of Waterproofs at Elvery's cashmere fabric waterproof coat 39/6, portable buildings from Browne & Lilly Ltd, Winter at Dinard in Brittany, Comos hair balsam will grow hair in 8 days - £1 per parcel from The Comos-Magazine Copenhagen, Denmark, The London Electrotype Agency, Burberry's 1924 Sale, C Brandauer & Co.'s Ltd circular pointed pens, Sunshine in the winter = various hotels in Nice and Cannes .....................................................................adverts = Abolition of field signs by the Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd -In view of the efforts of the SCAPA Society (Society for Control of Abuses in Public Advertising) to preserve the beauties of the country side, the proprietors of Pratts Motor Spirit have decided to remove as soon as practicable al Pratts Field Signs, and so help to maintain the natural beauty of the landscape of the British Isles, delicious French coffee RED WHITE & BLUE, Goddard's Plate Powder for cleaning silver, Lt-Col Richardson's Airedales trained against burglars for ladies guards from 10 gns pups 5 gns, Wormley Hill, Broxbourne, Herts, Hyères Riviera The Hotels Costebelle, Himrod's Asthma cure 4d and 6d a tin, MORNY fragrance - Essence "Mystèrieuse" 18/6 35/- & 65/-

• FP advert = "Harlene" hair drill offer to 1 million readers - makes you look years younger

JAN 19

price 1/-
• Front Cover Header = none, Front Cover adverts = Dinneford's Magnesia 1/3 bottle, Spinet cigarette's 20 for 1/6, Dri-Ped leather the super leather for soles, Grand Hotel Terminus -Saint Lazare 500 rooms with bath OR running water, Kunzle Chocolates (patent creams no. 19215) made in Birmingham, Hedges and Butler Wine Merchant, Borwick's baking powder, Seccotine - renovates silks laces etc & mends broken articles 6d tube, Iron Jelloids 1/3 and 3/- a box

• Inside Front Cover= adverts Prince Charming cigarettes 20 for a 1/- - handmade 25 for 2/-, Vickery's for all travel and motoring requisites and suit cases for wedding gifts - a good serviceable dressing case for a lady in solid leather with best African Ivory brushes - sterling silver mounted 18 inch case = £30, "Red Tape" scotch whisky 13/- bottle or £7 16s for 12 bottles delivered - Baird Taylor Bros. Glasgow ................................................................................ Frontispiece = Historic regal pageantry at the opening of Parliament that will make new history: The Majesties the King and Queen in their State coach on their way to Westminster

   

• Our Note Book by G. K. Chesterton - 1 x photo on same page MPs who have been in prison (suffragists and conscientuos objectors) entertained to dinner at the House of Commons: fifteen of the nineteen thus qualified (names and constituencies given); and another guest, Viscountess Rhondda ............................................................. 3 x photos The Maude Memorial (The Liberator of Iraq commemorated in Baghdad -Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude) ; The Prince in France; Parliament opened

   

• 6 x Photos - Fascisti and Mussolini - in a film at Rome: "The Eternal City" - The great "First National" film play based on a modernised version of Sir Hall Caine's novel "The Eternal City" where King Victor and Signor Mussolini consented to make appearances, starring miss Barbara La Marr .....................................................................Found near the Dinosaur eggs: more Mongolian discoveries: 6 x photos including Mr Otto Falkenback with a Baluchitherium skull- the animal stood eighteen feet high and lived 3 million years ago also a skull of Triceratops

   

• double page = 12 x photos of Modern masters for middle class home: An exhibition of 30-Guinea pictures by famous artists. including "Distant view of Ripon" by David Muirhead, "Bull Baiting" by W Russell Flint RSW, RWS, "Still life" by George Clausen RA, "Moonlight on the Seine" by Harold Speed etc etc

   

• 11 x photos of Personalities of the week: people in the public eye - including:The secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen: Mr J Bromley leaving the meeting of the council, - Mr JH Thomas secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen (Discussions on the threatened strike), - Miss Margaret Bondfield chairwoman The Meeting of the General Council of Trades Union Congress in connection with the threatened strike etc etc .................................................................The New Epstein exhibition: Sculptures of rugged power 8 x photos including "Peggy Jean", "A Sleeping Goddess", "Eva Dervish", "Elsa Lanchester", "SRB Cunninghame Graham", "A Weeping woman" etc etc

   

• The World of the Theatre by JT Grein: The Plight of the unemployed 3 x photos Miss Binnie Hale in "April's Lady" at the Vaudeville, Mr Stanley Lupino and Miss Binnie Hale in "Sleeping Out" from "Puppets" at the Vaudeville, Miss Violet Vanbrugh Mr Ralph Forbes and Mr Sam Livesey in "The Flame" at Wyndham's Theatre ..........................................................................Greece and Egypt at Covent Garden: "Alkestis" and "Aïda" 3 x photos 2 smaller ones of the first London production of Mr Rutland Boughton's "Alkestis" with Mr Walter Hyde Mme Clara Serena, Mr frederic Collier and Miss K Davis - 1 half page photo of The Great scene at the Gate of Thebes (Act II scene II) in "Aïda" at Covent Garden: awaiting the triumphal return of Radames from war with Mr Robert Radford as the High Priest and Miss Florence Austral as "Aïda"

   

• double page = The Ski-ing country of the British Isles: "A Winter sport Eldorado in Scotland" - The Cairngorms 11 photos including The Devil's Point from Glen Geusachan, The slopes of Beinn Bhrotain and Glen Lui etc

   

• Book Review : The Reddening of Russia: "I Acccuse! I Accuse!" - "From the Two-Headed Eagle to the Red Flag" by General PN Krassnoff in 4 Volumes 30s net - on the same page 1 x photo of Unroofing the Golden Shrine over Tutankhamen's Sarcophagus: The first section of roof, with it's fitted "tongues" being moved along trestles in the ante chamber .............................................................................. Harness of a Pharaoh's Horses: Tutankhamen's chariot trappings 4 x photos

   

• The Gods Let Loose by Signor Guglielmo Ferrero , The distinguished Italian philisophical historian; author of "The Greatness and Decline of Rome" "Ruins of Ancient Civilizations" etc - We continue our monthly series of articles by Signor Guglielmo Ferrero, dealing with world politics as that famous modern historian sees them and interprets them. The views set forth in the series are personal and not neccessarily editorial - 1 x photo on the page of President Kemal's wife, who saved him from a bomb which wounded her: Latifeh Hanoum, wife of Fethi Bay, President of the Turkish assembly ................................................................................At Home and Abroad: Pictorial records of Topical Events 6 x photos including:- 1. French jockey's change horses for boats at Masions Laffitte: the finish of a unique event on the flooded racecourse, 2. Where three men and two women were killed and many injured - The collapse of the Zetland Wool Spinning Mills at Bradford, The largest foreign warship that has ever visited England - The 32,600 ton US Battleship "Colorado" with 16 inch guns, entering Portsmouth Harbour etc etc

   

• The World of Science - The Coloration of the Butterfly's Wing by by WP Pycraft FZS, Author of " The Infancy of Animals" "The courtship of Animals" etc etc including 4 x photos of Butterflies ...................................................................At Wembley: "Road-Rail" Tractors; A "Never-Stop" Railway including 7 x drawings of Road-Tractors for Railed Trains; A "Never-Stop" Railway worked by Elastic screw; and Electric "Run-About" Taxis: New Transport devices for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley

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• double page = 1 x drawing The British Empire in Microcosm (with Key to buildings): The Largest Exhibition
  ever planned, as it will appear - The British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, now approaching completion, is to be a comprehensive survey of the wealth and resources of the British Commonwealth of Nations: It is to reproduce the whole of the Empire in miniature. Never before has an Exhibition on such vast lines been planned: it will be the largest thing of its kind the world has ever seen. The grounds cover an area of some 240 acres and over £10,000,000 will have been spent on preparations before the Exhibition opens next April. The buildings are almost entirely of concrete. Building was begun in the spring of 1922, and the stadium (Wembley Stadium), the largest sports arena in the world, was opened last April (1923)

   

• Horticulture on Imperial Lines; 7 x photos of Wembley Exhibition Gardens ................................................................Motors ousting camels in the Sahara: A new Desert Car - 5 x photos including.. With six pairs of wheels, "independent as the four legs of an animal" and better adapted to loose sand than the "caterpillar" type: A new Renault desert car - showing the self operated winding drum, with wire cable for hauling the car out when stuck

   

• Books of the Day by JD Symon with 1 x photo of A schoolboy's "slate" 2500 years old: the earliest and most perfect specimen of the Greek Alphabet (with letters from right to left) an Etruscan ivory tablet ............................................................................ Before Rome was built: Exquisite Etruscan ivories and Jewellery 5 x photos

   

• The World of Women including 3 x photos of Paris Fashions, articles on Weddings, Hunt Balls, Church, Children's parties etc ......................................................................Women at Westminster: Quarters for the Feminine Contingent (Special quarters have been assigned at the House of Commons for the exclusive use of the eight women Members of Parliament) including 3 x photos - The "Father" of the House and his parliamentary "Daughters" : Mr T.P. O'Connor with seven of the eight women Members of Parliament, at a dinner given (at Frascati's) in their honour by the Women's Election Committee the women are Miss Dorothea Jewson (Labour), Mrs Hilton Philipson (Conservative) , Lady Terington (Liberal), The Duchess of Atholl (Conservative) , Mrs Wintringham (Liberal), Lady Astor (Conservative), Miss Bondfield (Labour) the absentee was Miss Susan Lawrence (Labour)

   

• The Sunk Submarine: "L24"; Her Commander; Salvage Vessels including 6 x photos - Lieut-Comdr. Paul L Eddis RN (Commander), Lieut. Donald H Barton (2nd) - The Admiralty announced on Jan 12 "All hope of saving life in the submarine 'L24' has been abandoned ..The disaster took place on January 10 during a practice attack by submarine on ships when the 'L24' collided with the battleship "Resolution" ..................................................................... FP advert = " Green Stripe" whisky the theme is The Prince of Wales with the Pytchley pack

   

• The Gods Let Loose (cont.. from Before Rome was built: Exquisite Etruscan ivories and Jewellery) p109 including 1 x photo of Winter Sport in Kent: a sleigh used in the Antarctic by Captain Scott, drawn by a team of Samoyedes - advert on this page = Smith's Glasgow Mixture (themed on the stagecoach) 1/- per oz .................................................................. FPAdvert = Dewars - The Spirit of the Empire (Britannia) (they have 29,000,000 gallons of whiskies in Bond)

   

• Fashions and Fancies - half a page and 3x drawings of womens toiletries etc etc on the same page adverts = Kia-Ora Lemon Squash 2/3 a Large Bottle, Savory & Moores Peptonised Cocoa & Milk - Tins 2/6 & 3/6, Vernet-Les-Bains - The Paradise of the Pyrenees a bright Winter Spa and Hot Sulphur Springs ....................................................... FP Advert = Ovaltine - themed the Golden days of Childhood with a Photo of 3 children + Ovaltine Chocolate and Ovaltine Rusks 1/6, 2/6 and 4/6 a tin

   

• The Booksellers Window - book review including Passions and Pinpricks by Carola Prospert, Trefoil by Fred Reynolds, Nell Gwynn: The Story of her Life by Lewis Melville, Memories of Many Years 1839 - 1922 by Archbishop Seton etc etc advert on same page = Burndept Wireless Apparatus - 'Hear it a Home on the Etherphone' ........................................................ Adverts = Two Lovely dresses (6gns and 12 gns) from Paris Aine- Montaille, 1 Place Vendome, Paris, Woollands Quality sale of Ladies and children's clothing Girl's "Kumfy" knickers, All wool flannel Pyjamas 36ins 29/9 etc etc

• The Chronicle of the Car including articles; The British Empire Exhibition and 2 x photos of 45 Hp Daimler Shooting Brake with a Hooper Body and one of 2000 recentley removed BP Motor Spirit signs from a field, Adverts = Daimler and BSA enclosed Landaulettes from Stratton-Instone Ltd, Crossley 14 HP 4 door Saloon £560 .....................................................................Adverts = Dunville's Whiskies with bonafides from "The Lancet" - Liqueur is 13/6 a bottle , VR is 12/6 a bottle from Royal Irish Distilleries Belfast, Packard (straight eight) from WC Gaunt Company, Rover 14 HP saloon (Weymann Type) £550, WHY+NOT golf balls2/6 each from Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co. Ltd, Anzora masters the hair Cream and Viola 1/6 and 2/6

• Chess - Problem 3923 by Arthur Morley, Brisbane + reports from Chess matches - Adverts on this page = Carrs (of Carlisle) Table Water Biscuits, for sensible feeding to infants Mellin's Food showing photos of baby Howard of Birkenhead and baby Ogden of Douglas I of M .....................................................................Adverts = Dr J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne for coughs colds and Diarrhoea 1/3 or 3/-, Begin the New Year Well by kindly helping to safeguard ill-treated little children NSPCC, Newton Chambers heating apparatus, Steinway Pianos, Robinson & Cleaver January sale of Irish Linens (sheets 2yd by 3 yd 45/9 etc etc), Travel luxuriously to New York and South America by The Royal Mail and Pacific Lines

• The Playhouses - Miss Violet Vanbrugh in "The Flame" at Wyndham's, Mr Donald Calthrop's variant on Shakespeare at the Kingsway - adverts on this page = Skin healing Germolene the aseptic skin dressing 1/3 and 3/-, VAT 69 quality tells, Meltis "Gaiety" Assorted Chocolates, Suttons Cloudy Ammonia for cleaning windows etc, Lt Col Richardson's Airedales security trained against burglars and for ladies guards - pups 5 gns, Sunshine in the Winter a selection of hotels in South of France (Nice and Cannes mainly) like The Gallia Palace - Cannes .................................................................. Adverts = Shell Spirit and Oils, Tamar Indien Grillon laxative fruit lozenges 3/- per box, Foster Clark's cream Custard for Parties and Dances family tins 11½d , Himrod's Asthma Cure, British Berkefield water filters, Carters Adjustable Reclining "Comfort" Chairs, NOVO the finest toilet paper ever produced because Novo Rolls weigh 12oxz each! and the "Lancet" reccomends them (1907), for Golden Slumbers the All Gas Nursery of today -The British Commercial Gas Association, Cuticura Soap and Talcum Powder, Illustrated London News - terms of Subscription Canada £3 0s 11d including Christmas edition
• back FP Advert = "Greys" silk cut Virginia cigarettes 2 sizes Big Greys 20 for 1/5 Small Greys 20 for 1/3

JAN 26

• Front Cover Header = Tutankhamen Treasures in colours - fourth series, front Cover adverts = United Kingdom Tea Company, Australia by Orient Line -SS Orsova - SS Omar - SS Ormonde - SS Orvieto, Avon British cord tyres, Cadbury Bournville Cocoa, BONZO'S Star Turns the Studdy dog portfolio 16 plates in colour, Vittel diuretic mineral water - recommended by Physicians, Hotel Du Louvre - Rue de Rivoli - Telegraphic address: Louvrotel-Paris, Iron Jelloids 1/3 and 3/- a box

   

• Inside Front Cover= adverts Grants "Best Procurable" whisky, The new Columbia Grafonola - Dame Clara Butt says "This invention places the Grafonola several years in advance of any other known gramophone.", Rexine leather cloth, Vernet-Les-Bains the paradise of the Pyrenees - hot sulphur springs at 2,150 feet, Vaseline Jelly, "Why + Not" golf balls 2/6 each from Henly's Tyre and rubber company.........................................adverts = Rome Hotels and Venice Hotels, The Clubland shoe 25/- a single shoe sent on approval from W. Abbott & Sons Ltd (phit eesi), Vauxhall "Warwick" 23-60 hp - three quarter landaulette £1195

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• adverts = Summit Collars six for 5/6 Austin Reed Ltd, Foot's adjustable rest-chair, TriumphAuto the Player piano, Sanitas Fluid to sweeten the breath........................... Frontispiece = Great Britain's first Labour Prime Minister leaving Buckingham Palace after his acceptance of office on Tuesday, January 22nd: Mr J. Ramsay Macdonald congratulated

   

• Our Notebook by G.K. Chesterton (weekly essay) + photo of Early leaders of the Labour Party 1906 Messrs Arthur Henderson, G. N. Barnes, J. Ramsay Macdonald, Philip Snowden, the late Will Crooks, the late Keir Hardie, Mr John Hodge, Capt. J. O'Grady, and Sir David Shackleton (representatives of the labour party first appeared in the House of Commons in 1892 when there were 15 Labour members. In 1895 there were 12; in 1900, 11; in 1906, 52; in January, 1910, 40; in December, 1910, 42; in 1918, 62; in 1922, 139. At the end of the recent General Election there were 191 Labour members)......................................... The railway strike that coincided with Labour's success in Parliament 2 x pics stranded commuters at Paddington and Liverpool St Stations

   

• double page = A Historic moment in the commons: The division on the Labour amendment - an artists impression 1 x pic

   

• double page = Our rulers 1924: Leaders of the Labour Party, which, with Liberal aid, defeated the Government by 72 ..... 22 x pics (only one woman that is Miss Margaret Bondfield Chairwoman of the General Council TUC new M.P.)

   

• At Home and abroad: Topical events and personalities; 10 x pics US airship "Shenandoah" , The Mexican rebel leader Senor Adolfo de la Huerta, The England and Welsh "Rugger" teams England won 17 to 9 at Swansea etc etc............................... "A red morn betokens wreck" a remarable coast sunrise drawn by Scriven Bolton 1 x pic

   

• "Mentioned" as Labour's Lord privy seal: Mr Clynes at home with family 5 x pics of Mr John Robert Clynes house in St John's road Putney................................ from pupil to party leader: Labour's premier designate; 4 x pics of Mr Ramsay Macdonald and family at home in "Hillocks" at Lossiemouth, Elginshire (north of Scotland)

   

• The World of Science -A little mouse under the chair 4 x pics..................................... "Dry" or "Wet"? A New York analyst's embarrassment of riches 1 x pic of Prohibition's huge crop of "Non-Alcoholic" substitutes: testing for alcohol, in the analytical laboratory at New York

   

• "The Family": Girdle-wearers amongst the hundred names. - "Two gentlemen of China". by Lady Hosie an intimate description of the private life of two Patrician families, their homes, loves, religion, mirth, sorrow, and many other aspects of their family life (Seeley, Service and Co; 21s net) 2 x pics ......................................... Where the family is everything: home in changing China 6 x pics from the book described opposite

   

• A Sahara film: Bushmen as "Birds"; curious head-dresses - 4 x pics from Captain Angus Buchanan's remarkable travel film "Crossing the great Sahara" ans was produced by Mr Reginald Ford at the Palace Theatre on Sunday, January 20th................... The "Tutankhamen" influence in modern jewellery. - full page in colour of Egyptian trinkets from 1500 to 3000 years old adapted as modern jewellery: Brooches, pendants, earrings, and hat-pins set with real antique, and a Tutankhamen replica

   

• full page in black/bluey & white "Spellbound": the third great thrill at Tutankhamen's tomb - first glimpse of the sarcophagus: " An awe-inspiring impression accentuated by the mystic mauve lights of the electric reflector" Mr Howard Carter, Mr Mace and Mr Callender....................................... full page in black/bluey & white What they saw: " The actual sarcophagus" of Tutankhamen - "An enormous sarcophagus... wherin the King lies buried": seen through the doors of the fourth shrine showing the arm of one of the protective goddesses- the first photograph

   

• double page in beautiful colour - Resplendent in Blue and Gold: Tutankhamen's chariot and harness 5 x pics

   

• Like the Ark of the Covenant: The pall on Tutankhamen's shrine 2 x pics................................ "Almost blinding": The gold doors of Tutankhamen's shrines 1 x pic Carved with figures of the King, Gods of the Underworld, and (the inner one) with "Protective goddesses with outstretched wings": The successive shrine doors of gold with bolts of ebony

   

• full page colour advert = Three Nuns tobacco (man in the stocks on the village green)............................................... Books of the Day by J.D. Symon with 1 x pic of "August Strindberg" by Richard Berghe

   

• double page (dark sepia) A good word for the Gorilla: really an "amiable creature"- the Ape and Tiger" partnership dissolved 10 x photos by Mr Carl E Akeley

   

• The World of the Theatre by J. T. Grein - The Raven and Carrier Pigeon - "The Stepmother" by Ghita Sowerby 2 x pics ................................................. The Shavian "Maid": Bernard Shaw's chronicle play, "St Joan" 2 x pics

   

• The World of Women (fashion page) 4 x drawings................................. full page advert= John Haig Whisky

   

• Talking Machine Notes ( gramophone records) 1 x pic of A great singer from the States (famous here through the Gramophone) to visit England: Mme. Galli-Curci with her husband (Homer Samuel) + advert for Rolls Royce Cars...................................... full page advert = Black & White whisky (Hunting scene)

   

• Fashion and Fancies - Spring hats and their varied design including drawings of a picnic case and a travelling case + adverts = Dunville's Whiskies 13/6 per bottle, Holophane for for Scientific Illumination ................................................. full page advert = Horlicks Malted Milk gives mental and physical fitness B&W drawings

   

• Radio Notes - technical notes about using a radio + 1 x photo of "Poosie Nancie's Inn" whence a "Burns Night" programme was broadcast - It was arranged to celebrate the "Burns Night" on January 25th by a concert at "Poosie Nancie's Inn"the scene of "The Jolly Beggars" at Mauchline, Ayrshire. Recitations and songs in Ayrshire dialect were relayed from the Inn and transmitted simultaneously from Glasgow, London and other broadcasting stations. + adverts = "The Magic of Islam" - North African Motor Tours - 15 distinct Itineraries for tours from London to Algeria * Tunisia* Morocco , Welsbach Kern British made gas radiators - which burns 10 feet of gas per hour and will heat a moderat sized room for 1 penny per two hours ...................................................... full lage advert hand drawn of Bulloch, Lade scotch whisky 15/- per bottle at Pre war quality and strength = 25u.p.

   

• The Chronicle of the Car - Road racing in England 2 x pics a 40hp Lanchester and Ex president Wilson with his Rolls Royce + adverts = Stratton-Instone Ltd for Daimler and BSA, Gamages Motor Clothing .................................... Full page advert - Dodge Brothers Saloon £495

   

• A Novel gymastic apparatus for home use - with 1 x pic showing how to keep fit at home with an invention by Mr Arthur Abplanalp + adverts Rotax Gradual regulation dimmer for cars, Stephenson's Floor Polish - Bradford, The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News .......................................... adverts = Grossmith's Tsang-Ihang sweet perfume of Thibet, Eve The Ladies Pictorial magazine, Vichy Celestins French natural mineral water, BDV cigarettes hand rolled 20 for 1/6, Rowland's Macassar Oil for the hair

   

• The World of Science (cont.. from page 138), La Festa Tennis Club, Monte Carlo + adverts Exide Batteries, Browne and Lilly Portable Buildings, The Hotels Costebelle, Lt Col Richardson's Airedales specially trained against burglars for ladies guards from 10gns, Evian Cachat dietetic water, Grant's Morella Cherry Brandy, Nice and Cannes Hotels, Nice Astoria, Nice Metropole, Nice Hotel Chatham, Nice The Palace Hotel, Lloyds Euxesis shaving cream, Venus Pencils 17 gradations 4d each, Dinard Brittany Resort, Goddards Plate powder ...................................... terms of Subscription for Illustrated London News -12 months = £2 18s 9d inc Christmas number and Canada was £3 0s 11d - elewhere abroad was £3 5s 3d, Cuticura Shaving Stick, Perry Pens "The Silver Wonder", Himrods Asthma Cure 4/6 a tin, Burberrys 1924 Sale, At the Paris office of "The Illustrated London News," "The Sketch," The Sphere," The Tatler," "Eve," " The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News," which is at 13 and 15 Rue Taitbout Boulevard des Italiens there is a comfortable reading room where back copies are kept and where help and advice can be given on Travel, Hotels Shops and amusments, Reudel Bath Saltrates for curing Rheumatism, Beethams La - Rola beauty cream

   

• The back cover Full Page colourful advert = Sanatogen which is endorsed by Mr Coulson Kernahan (the author of "God and the Ant" "The child, the wise man and the Devil"

   

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