Life Magazine – April 10, 1931 (# 2527) – Travel Number

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Cover : Disapproving woman and Approving man looking a hula dancer, art by G. Price.

– TRAVEL NUMBER (much pertaining to vacations, trips, travel).
– Full page ads for Powers Reproduction Corporation (color, with art by Eric Pape, the Cobra), Canadian National railway (with photo and ad for Minaki resort in Lake-of-the-Woods area), CORD Front Drive (autos), Ethyl Gasoline (Color, with very nice art of leaping trout, not signed, Eager Energy), Hawaii Tourist Bureau (color, with cute art).
– Full page art or cartoon art by C. W. Anderson (Sightseers on double-decker bus, “Now there’s a typical New Yorker”), Jack Markow (Businessman dictating to his secretary as he rides in a gondola in Venice), Albert Frueh (Man buying things to get ready for travel until all he can afford is to “travel” to News film showing world wide events), Howard K. Elcock (Siren Land), Harry Haenigsen (poor fisherman has framed the other things he caught besides fish), Edwina (Sinbad : not in the rules!), Albert Frueh (European impressions),
– Two page art by Clifford McBride (The traveler who overslept, on a train), Gluyas Williams (The Station Platform, reprinted from Life, April 7, 1927, train travel).
– Some current events include : Has the influence of the Ten Commandments diminished since the War?, We are all used to having a little graft, Baptists propose a vast effort to get young men not to drink rum, Theodore Roosevelt is the Governor of Porto Rico (Puerto Rico).
– Suggested trip for Mr. Richard Halliburton (one way rocket trips).
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1931 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!