Illustrated London News 1931 - August 8th

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August 8th - Cover Heading = On the Summit of Kamet - Exclusive Photographs of Mr John Thorburn

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• Front Cover adverts = Luvisca Shirts, Soft Collars and Pyjamas - Hennessy Liqueur XO Brandy - Palais D' Orsay, Paris - Deafness defeated by a New practically invisible method, ARDENTE - Yorkshire Relish 9d, The most delicious sauce in the world - Jig-Saw Puzzles, 250 piece puzzle 8/6 Post Free from AVN Jones & Co - GENASPRIN the safe brand of Aspirin

  

• adverts Inside front cover = Vi- Spring Mattress - Tutankhamen Treasures, Twelve real photographic post cards 3/- from the ILN - Cerebos Salt...........................................Frontispiece = FPP After the "Graf Zeppelin" had descended on arctic waters alongside a Russian ice breaker: General Nobile (standing in the "Malygins" boat) greeting a friend aboard the ship

  

• 5 photos = Artic Explorarion by airship: The "Graf Zeppelin's" Northern flight.................................. 4 photos = Unknown Arctic land discovered from the air: remarkable glaciers

  

• Our Notebook by G.K. Chesterton and a photo of Mr John Thorburn who dissapeared in China................................. 14 photos = Personalities of the week: people in the public eye e.g. Mr George Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor in Russia - The winner of the Chiswick Racing motor boat meeting - The English and New Zealand cricketers at the Oval etc etc

  

• 5 photos = Navy Week: Seeing "The Kings ships and the men who make them" Portsmouth and Plymouth............................. 3 photos = A tragic first day at Cowes: The "Britannia's loss (the seconf mate, Ernest Friend, of his Majesties boat was drowned)

  

• Notes for the Novel reader: Fiction of the Month - The novels reviewed = Deep Evening by Eugene Lohrke, Dark Bridwell by Vardis Fisher, Saint Johnson by WR Burnett, Red Ike by JM Denwood and S Fowler Wright, Country Tune by Ruth Holland, Plagued by the Nightingale by Kay Boyle, etc etc - + picture of a panel embroidered by Mary Hulton during the reign of James I from The V&A collection........................................3 Photos = Kamet conquered: On the highest summit attained by man 25,447 ft Mr RM Holdsworth

  

• 2 x FPP double page = The conquest of Mount Kamet: On the knife-edge summit ridge, and "Frozen outposts of the infinite"

  

• The World of Science by WP Pycraft FZS "A History of Fishes" 3 photos and 2 drawings..................................... 6 photos = Royal and Republican Eagles - These very interesting photographs illustrate an interview arranged a while ago between a female American eagle, which Capt. CWR Knight MC, the well known naturalist-photographer brought back from the United States, and his famous golden eagle from the Scottish Highlands known as "Mr Ramshaw" already trained by him.

  

• double page= "The Islands of happiness" (is what the natives call them) : Nature worshippers at home by Rodeur - The Mentawei group, west of Sumatra (4 large islands and 120 small ones) 2 photos....................................... In the "Islands of happiness" : Nature worshippers at home 5 photos - A medicine man, an old man, a Mentaweian dance, a Mentaweian youth, an animal pantomime

  

• "The soul's joy lies in doing" - being an appreciation of "Marshall Lyautey: By André Maurois." (published by John Lane and Bodley head) includes 1 photo from the French colonial exhibition at Vincennes the Angkor Vat................................... FP painting in colour (after the photo by Charles E Brown ; The battle - ship "Warspite" at speed (Qneen Elizabeth class completed in March 1915)

  

• double page 1 colour photo - In sanctuary in South Africa (Zebras and blue Wildebeeste at a drinking pool in the Kruger National Park, Eastern Transvaal - one of the largest game reserves in the world)

  

• 1 FP colour advert Abdulla Superb cigarettes - Romance and Abdulla - a poem reincarnation by FR Holmes (all part of the advert very art deco)............................................. The World of the Theatre - The Dead season : Plays that pay. 2 photos - The revival of old musical plays at daly's theatre: a scene from "Floradora." and Mr John Van Druten's play, "After all," which has passed its 200th performance: Miss Celia Johnson as Phyl, the part created by Miss Madeleine Carroll

  

• double page article =The Archæological Awakening of China(fruitful excavations near Anyang and at Ch'eng Tzu Ai and Wa Chia Hsieh) By HJ Timperley. 13 photos of spearheads and pots etc

  

• double page = 4 drawings by HJ Moser - Thrills of outboard motor-boat racing encouraged by the Prince of Wales: Studies of Speed

  

• double page = 7 photos of - Land-luxuries on the high seas, amenities of new ocean liners (Empress of Britain) ....................................... Floating mansion, flat, hotel, garage, and shopping centre

  

• Books of the Day by C.E.B. + 2 photos of 12th century cotes for Hawks at Orbiston House, Lanarkshire once a stronghold of the Douglasses ...................... Fire at sea = 7 drawings by GH Davies of Fire at sea "Gassing" the mariners greatest enemy - from information supplied by Messrs. Foamite Firefoam Ltd - about fires which, if fought with water, might burn for weeks, rapidly "smothered" by carbonic acid gas

  

• The voice of the Tax- payer by A .A. B. XL - The redistribution of wealth with 2 photos of Professor Einstein and Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald at the Anglo-German Society in Berlin................................................ A model of a "Bucentaur" (corruption of the Latin Ducentorum - "of two hundred" ( oars) ) in which Venice wedded the sea - Museum of the Arsenal of Venice 2 x photos

  

• A page for collectors - A pewter exhibition by Frank Davies includes 5 pages of pewter ware..................................... Adverts = Players No. 3 cigarettes price 20 for 1/4d - Have you seen any of these sights, Kenya and Uganda railways and Harbours - Months of good cruising ahead , Thornycroft Motor Boat (phone Victoria 8000)

  

• The Playhouse - "Take a chance" at the Whitehall , "The hour glass" at the Victoria Palace, "Florodora at Daly's - - Chess (the game of) conducted by Ernest Irving - - adverts = Sanatogen, strengthen your nerves - - KLG spark plugs, King's Air Race...............................adverts = Same old headache every afternoon, use Kutnow Powder - - London Electrotype Agency - - "Dennys" car mascot (the little dragon cartoon character from "The Sketch") price 1 guinea from The Sporting Gallery - - "Lactogen" better milk for babies 2/9 per tin (A Nestlé product available in all countries) - - A Cecil Aldin sporting terrier Woggles appearing each week in "The Sketch" every Wednesday one shilling

  

• The Chronicle of the Car by H. Thornton Rutter - - The Archaeological awakening of China (cont.. from page 222) - - adverts = Eley "Rocket" cartridges - - Oakey's Knife Polish canisters from 1d - - VICHY-CELÉSTIN - - fine selection of rare stamps from GG Waitt "The Outspan" Whitstable, Kent - - L. HEURTEBISE manufacturing jeweller, Paris - - Bailey's Turnstiles - - NICE Atlantic Hotel ............................................. adverts = Let the "Great Eight" help you When you go to Paris & Berlin ( The Illustrated London News, The Graphic, The Sphere, The Sketch, The Tatler, The Bystander, Britannia and Eve, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News) - - British Consols Cigarettes - - Subscrition rates for The Illustrated London News 12 months £3 4s 0d Canada £3 18s 8d Elsewhere abroad £3 11s 4d - - Carr's Chocolate Gondola Assorted Biscuits - - Cuticura talcum powder - - The London Electrotype Agency Ltd - - C, Brandauer & Co.'s Ltd Circular Pointed Pens

  

• Outside Back cover = FP advert (red spot colour) BRITANNIA and EVE magazine 1/-