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November 21st - Cover Heading Advert= fit Triplex and be safe Armstrong
Siddeley
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- Front Cover adverts = Martell Cordon Bleu Brandy 35 years
in cask- Paripan Enamel " The more you wash it the
better it looks"- Gilbey's Gin- Old Christmas Punches
(collect your recipes in The Father William Gazette William Younger's
Scotch Ale - Drambuie The Liqueur of Old Romance
- Deafness defeated by a New practically invisible method, nothing in or on
the ears!ARDENTE -Leysin Switzerland (altitude
3750-4350ft) for treatment of all kinds of Tuberculosis-Grants Scotch
Whisky
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- adverts inside front cover = Vapex inhalant "no cold
for four years" 2/- and 3/- Collect and invest in stamps
from H&A Wallace - T Allen for rare
British Colonial stamps - Bailey's 'coin
in the ' turnstiles - worldwide success in relieving deafness The
Vibraphone Co. British and Foreign Bible Society
- Nice, Atlantic, Hotel = Hotel du Rhin - you can be assured
of a very good dinner at The Rendevous Restaurant Dean St
London - Winter sunshine tours Bibby Line - when in Canada
smoke British Consuls - list of French , German and Swiss
Hotels - cigarette and other card collections Horst
Rowek, Frankfurt, Germany - £30 to £5,000
lent by Richmond Investments - £50 to £5,000
lent without security WH Durham Ltd - Mothersills
seasick remedy - The Illustrated News terms of subscription
in the UK = 12 months including Xmas edition £3 0s 10d , in Canada =
12 months including Xmas edition £3 0s 8d elsewhere abroad £3
6s 6d ..........................................
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adverts half page = mans Golden lamb gloves from Harrods
45/- - buying sleep The Vi-Spring mattress
- adverts = Snow Sports Wear proofed gabardine suit 98/6 from Army
and Navy Stores - Famous figures 1585 Sir Richard Grenville went
to Virginia Player's Number 3 cigarettes 20 for 1/4 - McNish
Doctors' Special Scotch Whisky ...............................................
- Ski Paradise is Austria en Pension terms from 8/- per day
and first class 15/-, list of various sport and social events - wear a "Woven
Woolie" hunting shirt (silk and wool) 27/6 - Kwan Yin Chinese
figure in white porcelain 33½ ins. high 10 Gns from Liberty
& Co
- adverts = Booths Gin (the only Gin that holds the Blue
Seal of the Institute of Hygiene) - Forhans cleans teeth
and saves gums 1/3 - Italy list of Hotels in San Remo .....................................................
- frontispiece = 1 x photo - The King's Visit to the Home
Fleet off Portland: His Majesty Boarding the New Submarine Mine-Layer "Narwhal"
(in the background), The Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert"
- Our Note Book by Arthur Bryant (about the British Council
abroad) 2 x photos on same page - Participants in the Sailors Smoking Concert
which the King attended in H.M. Aircraft-Carrier "Courageous"
+ Stoker Aldridge (now aged fifty three) at the same concert, danced the Horn
pipe that he gave in the Royal Yacht at Cowes sixteen years
ago .......................................................
- The King among His sailors: A Royal Visit to the Home Fleet 4
x photos of Portland Dockyard etc
- Royalty in the News: Occasions Military, Imperial, Social and Commemorative
- 6 x photos including Queen Mary visits the People's Palace
in the Mile End Road, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
leaving the troopship in which the 10th Hussars returned
to England, The King's Armistice night visit to the Field of Rememberance
outside Westminster Abbey looking at the thousands of crosses there etc etc
........................................................
- Recalling "Emancipation Day": The Crocks London - Brighton
run - Ninety of the oldest cars in the country set off in a procession
form Hyde Park on November 15th to enact the "Emancipation Day"
run of 1896 when the "Red Flag Act" was abolished
-7 x photos including 1901 de Dion, 1896 Léon
Bollée, 1902 Peugeot, 1902 Gillet-Forest,
1894 6HP Canstatt-Daimler with leather belt transmission,
1888 Benz etc
- double page = The Only Duck-Billed Platypus in Captivity:
A Specimen that has broken the record by living for a year (the animal is
kept in captivity at Healesville, about 40 miles from Melbourne
4 x photos
- A Modern Innocent Abroad being an appreciation of
"A Journey to Jerusalem": by St. John Ervine
(published by Hamish Hamilton - includes 1 x etching by Fred Richards of The
view of the Damascus Gate and 1 x photo of Mr HV Morton and Mr St. John Ervine
on the Isle of Thasos ...............................................................
- 8¼ Miles Long: The New Link between San Fransico and Oakland,
includes 2 x half page photos; Opened by a Govenor; Illuminated by
the President: The Longest Bridge system in the World. above: The West Bay
section, with San Fransisco (background); below A View with Oakland in the
background, and Yerba Buena Island left
- Great New Discoveries of Ancient Indian Culture on a Virgin Prehistoric
Site in Sind - further results of pioneer research at Chanu-Daro,
in the Indus Valley: relics of craftsmanship, domestic life, and personal
adornment in the third millennium B.C. by Ernest Mackay
D. Litt, FSA, in 5 x photos of seals and seal amulets with animal designs
...............................................................
- A "Sheffield of Ancient India: Chanhu-Daro's Metal Working
Industry 10 x photos of copper knives, spears , razors, axes and
dishes
- cont... from previous page Harappa Pottery, 5000 years old, Unique
in Ancient India, Contrasted with Later Ware: Chanhu-Daro Dicoveries
includes 16 x pictures .............................................
Lipstick
5000 Years Old- and Other "Modern" Relics of Ancient India
includes 10 x photos
- full page article - The World of the Theatre by Ivor
Brown - includes 3 x photos "French without Tears"
at the Criterion with Trevor Howard, Jessica Tandy, Percy Walsh,
Robert Flemyng and Guy Middleton - "Muted Strings"
(about Beethoven) at Daly's with Mr Kenneth Kent - "As you like
it" at the Old Vic with Edith Evans as Rosalind ............................................................
- full page photo Madrid As Seen By Franco's Men: A View from the
Casa Del Campo - The Spanish Capital from the park on the west of
the Manzanares River, centre of fierce fighting: Madrid showing
the long black roof of the North station (centre) and the telephone exchange
dominating the horizon ....advanced troops of General Franco's forces appeared
in the neighbourhood of Madrid on November 5th and soon shells
began to fall on the city...
- Books of the Day - including "More Poems" by
AE Houseman (Cape 5s), "Annals of Maychester" by SL
Bensusan (Routledge 12/6) Mr Bensusan has done for Essex what Barnes
and Hardy did for Dorsetshire, "The Seas were Mine" by Captain
Howard Hartman (Harrap 8/6) a great traveller and friend of RL Stevenson,
etc etc....................................................................
- full page illustration = A Capital City in the Fighting Line: Madrid
- Franco's Goal - Subjected to the horror and devastation of
modern warfare: Madrid a pictorial map of the scene of the supremestruggle
in the civil war, showing the Manzanares Bridges and other vital points.
double page = Franco's Attack on Madrid: The Most Important Onslaught
of the Civil War that has Brought Devastation to Spain - 7 x photos
including Moroccans in Franco's forces attacking Madrid,
An artillery bombardment as General Valera's men work their
way towards the city, Foreign Journalists watching the smoke rising from
the city as it is bombarded
- Headed by the King: Prominent People in the R.P. Exhibition - The
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 45th Annual Show, 9 x portraits
including The Hon. Mrs Roger Chetwode. by Simon Elwes R.P., The Duke
of Rutland by Owald Birley M.C., R.P.The Right Hon. H. B. Armstrong
by R.G. Eves ARA, R.P. etc etc .....................................................
- The Prevalent Spirit of Belligerence Abroad: Significant
occasions in Foreign Lands - 6 x photos including Russian sympathy
with Republican Spain: A caricature of General franco, with ironic
allusions to Italy and Germany, in Moscow procession - Turkish women
to be made subject to military discipline and service: schoolgirls
carrying rifles at drill with schoolboys at Istanbul - Italian military
rule in Abyssinia: Marshall Graziani, The Commander in Chief, addressing
a recent gathering of native chiefs at Addis Ababa - Training useful
to French "Air Infantry": A pupil making his first descent
at a new parachuting school in France etc etc
- Leaves from the World's Scrap- Book: News items of
topical interest - 6 x photos including British musicians play before
Herr Hitler: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted
by Sir Thomas Beecham in Berlin - A new long-distance
speed record-- London to Glasgow (401½ miles) in 5 hours 53
minutes: LMS test train near King's Langley - A Distinguished survivor
of the Zeebrugge raid up for sale: The ex Mersey ferry-boat "Royal
Daffodil" - A truant "King of Birds" trapped in St
Jame's Park: The recapture of Portuguese Jack, an African Sea-Eagle
escaped from the zoo etc etc .............................................................
- New records of a Sporting Pharaoh 2 x photos of A newly
discovered record of Amenhotep II and his prowess rowing
, driving and shooting (with bow and arrow) : A large limestone Stela found
near the Sphinx at Giza - A New Luxury in Flying-Boat
Travel 2 x photos of The fstaest flyng-boat in the world: The new
Imperial Airways "Centaurus" with a maximum speed
of 200mph, in flight over Kent during her final trials and taking off (in
30 seconds) on the Medway in Rochester
- People in the News: Events and Personalities of the Week
- 10 x photos including Favourite dolls from a Royal Nursery
at an exhibition in aid of blind babies: The pair lent by Princess Elizabeth
and Margaret Rose, Miss Blanche Clough Appointed President
of Roedean School Brighton, Mr Eugene O'Neill
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1936 Plays include "The Emperor
Jones" 1921 and "Anna Christie" 1922 etc, Sir Edward
German: Composer of light Operas and a Master of Music died Nov 11
aged 74 "Merrie England" and "Tom Jones" his most famous
works etc. etc. ..................................................................................
- The World of Science - Mysterious Variations on the
Common Tiger-Moth by WP Pycraft FZS - 3 x photos showing some variations
- A Page for Collectors - An Unknown Portrait of a great
Architect by Frank Davis - Horace Walpole in a letter of 1772 gives the
following item of news: " The newspapers tell me that Mr Chambers,
the Architect, who has Sir-Williamised himself....... is going to publish
a treatise on Ornamental Gardening... 2 x photos a design for the Temple
of Pan in the gardens of Kew Palace, and the man
Sir William Chambers ............................................................................
- Old English Royal Insignia Preserved Abroad and Hitherto Unrecorded
in this Country: relics of 13th and 15th-century Coronations
or Royal Weddings on the Continent - 7 x photos including The top of
Richard's Sceptre used at his Coronation as King
of the Romans, The back of Margaret of York's nuptial
crown and Preserved at Munich - the Bridal Crown of Princess Blanche
daughter of Henry IV - article by EF Twining
MBE
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- full page drawing Winter Sport as a Diversion for Parisian Diners-Out:
Ski-Running on Borax "Snow" in a French Hall by J Simont
............................................................................
- .FP Advert = including photo Escape to.... Visit South Africa
- The Chronicle of the Car 2 x photos and article Col
CV Jones Director of Peek Freans off to study trade
conditions in other parts of the World, and , A car for the town dweller who
knows the value of a really smart turn-out : A 30 HP, 8 Cylinder Sunbeam
Sedança de Ville - advert on this page for Morris Big Sixes,
Eighteen HP from £250 (tax £13.10s) Twenty-Five HP from £265
(tax £18.1s) .....................................................................................
- FP advert = A Glimpse of Harrods Cutlery centre - 6 pairs
of tea knives and forks with Mother O'Pearl handles £4.4s
- Le Solus a razor blade sharpener for slotted or 3 hole blades. Driven
by clockwork and adjustable to give 20 or 40 turns at one winding
in white, green or wallnut bakelite case 21/- etc etc
- articles on The World of Music by WJ Turner -
The Playhouses , "Housemaster" at the Apollo and
"Muted Strings" at Daly's - Books of the Day (cont......
from page 914) "Ships and Women" an Autobiography by Bill Adams
and "The Oxford book of Modern Verse" 1892 - 1935 chosen by WB Yeats
- advert on this page = Spink & Son Ltd with photo of
a Translucent white jade bowl and cover Imperial Kien Lung 1736-1795 ......................................................................
- FP advert = Whitbread Pale Ale -Memo. of a Fox-Hunting
man
- Finance and Investment by Hartley Withers - Security
and high yields including 2 x photos , The Duke of Kent opens the new science
buildings at Tonbridge School, and Fisher girls in
Yarmouth in stained glass part of a window (designed by Mr Reginald
Bell) unveiled in Blofield Church in memory of Mrs Gordon
Harker - advert on this page= Concrete (theme is This
or Chaos) showing an artists impression of the streets of
the future of broad concrete and glass walkways carrying pedestrians
at first floor level in the town and city streets ...............................................................
- fp advert = VAT 69 scotch whisky
- Finance and Investment (cont....) 1 x photo ropeways on
the ship "Queen Mary" because of the atlantic gales
- advert on this page= Crawfords Liqueur scotch whisky .......................................................
- fp advert = This England ...a photo of a "Moorland
scene in Yorshire" by Worthington & Co. Ltd
- Where to go for Winter Sports - The sunny snowfields of
Switzerland by Edward E Long CBE, FRGS article includes
3 x photos The sking slopes of Arosa, Ski-ing above Scheidegg
and The famous ice stadium in St. Moritz ..............................................................
- fp advert = Bernese Oberland the Skiers Paradise where
£1 buys a Swiss Guinea (21 Francs)
-
- Winter Sports in France and Italy (cont...) includes 3
x photos The snowfields of Sestriere, The snowfields of Superbagnères
and the snowfields of Les Contamines ..................................................................................
adverts
= Alpine Sports in co-operation with Sir Henry Lunn inclusive
holidays at proved winter resorts 10 days from £8 4s 0d -
Arosa 6000ft Switzerland from 10 Frs per day
- Switzerland (because of devaluation) your £
now worth 40% more
- Winter Sports in Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland (cont..)
2 x photos include a view of St Anton, in the Arlberg
and a view of Kitzbühel in the Tyrol
adverts on this page Sun and Fun at Villars 40% more for
your pound - Sestrières 6600ft above sea level and
100 lire to the pound .................................................................
adverts
= Nassau Bahamas, Home Movies Cine Films projectors
from 25/- Liverpool - Let Illustrated Newspapers help you
when you go to Paris or Berlin there are reading rooms and free advice
centre - Mothersills Seasick remedy - A winter sports holiday
in Germany a 60% reduction in rail fares and Special
exchange facilities! - St Moritz Terms en Pension
from £1 per day including the St Moritz ski school where Rudolf
Rominger teaches
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- Winter Sports in Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland (cont..)
2 x photos include a view of the Feldburger Hof Hotel in
the Black Forest and Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- adverts on this page=Come away to Winter Sports with Cooks
holdays from £10 6s for 17 days - Mecca for Sportsmen (big game hunters)
Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika Railways ............................................................................
- adverts = Estoril , The Hotels Palacio and Park 20% reduction
during December - Southern Rhodesia the Real Africa - Egypt
Travel Information Bureau
- outside back cover FP colour advert= Black &
White Whisky "A short history and illustration of the Seaforth
Highlanders"
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