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ATTRACTIONS OF DISTINCTION 

Peat

GREAT ADVENTURE LECTURES

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CAPTAIN JOHN D. CRAIG
Hollywood's Adventure Producer
Author of best-seller, "Danger is My Business," Capt. Craig has roamed the world and under the seas making adventure thrill shots for great Hollywood productions. Sensational lectures illustrated by Prize-Winning (Academy Award) films.
"DANGER IS MY BUSINESS," (with or without movies). "DIVING AMONG SEA-KILLERS," "JUNGLE TRAILS."

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DEANE DICKASON
"Ports O' Call" Travel Talks
Deane Dickson, expert photographer, maker of the famous "Port o' Call" Travel Films, is now on his 15th trip around the world. He offers travel talks of exotic beauty, illustrated by Oriental colored slides and his grand movies.
"THE GLORIOUS VALE OF KASHMIR," "THE VIRGINS OF BALI," "'NEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS," "WONDROUS ANGKOR," etc.

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CAPTAIN PATRICK SMITH
Soldier - Explorer - Gypsy
"His hold over an audience is uncanny," said the Sydney Bulletin of him. His annual trips to Asia have kept him in close personal touch with momentous happenings there. (He revisits Japan, China, Manchoukuo, summer, 1938.) Excellent movies. 
"JAPAN'S NEW EMPIRES," "MANCHOUOKO, STORM CENTER OF ASIA," "ROMANCE OF THE ROMANY CAMP."
Lectures with or without movies.

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MRS. CARL AKELEY
(Mary L. Jobe Akeley)
Companion of the great Carl Akeley on his last expedition, Mrs. Akeley, author of "Restless Jungles," etc., recently made an expedition of her own to lion and gorilla land. Her lectures are illustrated by her own movies and Carl Akeley's rare Gorilla film.
"IN CARL AKELEY'S AFRICA."
"GORILLA PARADISE."

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H.P. SMOLKA
Author of "40,000 Against the Arctic"
With Soviet Russia flying over the North Pole, establishing a floating colony there, the interest is tremendous in Russia's Arctic Empire. Mr. Smolka, special correspondent, London Times, tells the vivid story.
"RUSSIA'S POLAR EMPIRE"
(with or without pictures).

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MAJOR JAMES C. SAWDERS
Authority on Latin-America
Major Sawders has thrilled audiences from coast-to-coast with his magnificent pictures, in color and in motion, of our Latin-American neighbors, of our own South and Southwest.
"ANCIENT CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAS," "THE GAY AND MAGNIFICENT ARGENTINE," "TROPICAL BRAZIL," "MEXICO," "SENSIBLE SCANDINAVIA," etc.

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SYDNEY R. MONTAGUE
"Of the Royal Mounted Police"
Sydney R. Montague is one of the platform's latest sensations. For six years with the Canadian Mounted Police, he spent three years patrolling the remote north. He tells the story of the Mounties, especially his life with the Eskimo.
"UNDER NORTHERN LIGHTS," "ROYAL MOUNTED IN CRIME PREVENTION," "CONSERVATION OF A CONTINENT."

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HARRISON FORMAN
Explorer - Author - Photographer
Harrison Forman, three times in Tibet, scored scoop movies of the Chinese Red Armies. He was photographer of the Sino-Japanese war for "The March of Time," Technical Director of "Lost Horizon," The far East aflame in close-up movies.
"THE FAR EAST AFLAME."
"THROUGH FORBIDDEN TIBET."
"RED CHINA." others.

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WENDELL CHAPMAN
Naturalist - Photographer
The latest find in nature move lectures, Mr. Chapman's intimate animal movies and colored slides are in a class by themselves. An excellent speaker with a rare spark of animal adventure stories he has  won a unique record of re-engagements.
"WILD ANIMALS OF THE ROCKIES"
"WILDERNESS WANTERERS"

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JOHN HARVEY FURBAY
"The Debunker"
Author of the widely syndicated column "The Debunker," he has s pent two years in the "queerest place on earth" getting the first comprehensive movies of the Black Republic, debunking tales of voodoo rituals.
"LIBERIA - AFRICA'S LAST NEGRO STATE."

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ALOHA BAKER
World's Most Travelled Girl
Aloha Baker, with her Motor Caravan, has penetrated every corner of the globe. She has been in Chinese wars, chased opium smugglers, hunted big game in Africa and Asia, traversed  South America from end to end. The movies she has made are peerless.

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JOHN CLAIRE MONTEITH
Explorer - Singer - Lecturer
Out of the West something new has come. Mr. Monteith presents a unique, a sublime program blending the beauty of western scenery, the color of its wild flowers, the appeal of its haunting music. Colored slides.
"SUNSHINE AND SHADO IN DEATH VALLEY,"
"WESTERN WILD FLOWERS," " CHILDREN OF THE SUN," etc.

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ROBT. EDISON FULTON, Jr.
Youthful Explorer - Circumnavigator
"Bob" Fulton, author of "one Man Caravan" won fame by circling the globe on a motorcycle. That lecture proving his platform ability he has prepared an even
more attractive talk on America's latest air adventure, flying the Pacific and other oceans with Air Clippers. Both lectures have movies."
"ONE MAN CARAVAN," "CLIPPER ALOFT."

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JAMES JEMAIL
"The Inquiring  Photographer"
15 years ago he started the above column for the Daily News, New York, Now his feature is copied the country over. In these years of asking the man in the street his opinion of things, he has picked up many odd stories. No pictures unless he photographs you.
"ADVENTURES WITH THE MAN IN THE STREET."

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