The booklet advertising the 1935 world cruise featured faux luggage stickers, likely drawn by CP staff artists. The largest sticker on the back cover is for Angkor Wat, the Cambodian ruin that was an optional exclusion in both the 1934 and 1935 cruises. Members took a train to the ruin which was limited to just 70 passengers. This option cost $232.75, which is about $5,000 in today’s money.
Click image to view and download a 62.4-MB PDF of this booklet from the University of British Columbia Chung collection.
The Chung collection has two different booklets advertising the cruise. The above booklet is for North American passengers while the one below is for European passengers who would begin their trips in Monaco and end them in New York. As shown below, they could then continue to Southampton on the Empress of Britain.
Click image to view and download a 53.0-MB PDF of this booklet from the University of British Columbia Chung collection.
Although the 1934 cruise attracted a near-optimal 452 passengers, CP continued to tinker with fares, for the 1935 trip. Comparing the fares in the booklet below with those from 1934, a high-end room that cost $4,600 per person in 1934 cost only $4,250 in 1935. Many of the least-expensive rooms went up in price by $50, as did the most expensive suites, which went from $9,750 to $9,800. These changes didn’t necessarily help, as the 1935 cruise attracted only 400 passengers.
Click image to view and download a 15.3-MB PDF of this booklet from the University of British Columbia Chung collection.
The cover of the passenger list changed in 1935 to another beautiful painting by Flora DeMuth that she signed “Flora DeMuth” instead of just the “F. DeMuth” used on prior paintings.
Click image to view and download a 8.5-MB PDF of this booklet from the University of British Columbia Chung collection.
Notable passengers include Karoline Kornelia Stockhammer, who was married to Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia and so is listed under his name even though they were estranged so he didn’t go on the cruise.
Of more interest to me was Sir Harold Bowden, CEO of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, which had been founded by his father. For some reason, his second (of four) wife didn’t accompany him. But his good friend, Sir Julien Cahn, who owned a chain of furniture stores in Britain, was on the cruise along with his wife, Phyllis.
Click image to view and download a 3.3-MB PDF of a book of the DeMuths’ memograms from the University of British Columbia Chung collection.
Flora and Martin DeMuth were on the cruise as “cruise artists” and (in the case of Martin) cruise lecturer. Someone bound about 120 of their memograms into a hard-back book.
Click image to view and download a 3.3-MB PDF of this brochure from the University of British Columbia Chung collection.
The cruise returned to New York on May 20, and on May 21 it made a “final lap” to Southampton, allowing European passengers to return across the Atlantic. To fill the spaces emptied by North American passengers, this brochure advertises this voyage as a “final lap” of the cruise. The rates quoted in the brochure range from $229 to $311 (and $724 for a suite). These are only for first-class rooms; no rates are quoted for second- or third-class rooms, possibly because the company needed to reconfigure those rooms before use in regular ocean-liner service.