Tumbling Villa-Lobos

When in 1936 he was invited to take part in the Congress for Musical Education in Prague, he flew the ocean in the Zeppelin, and at the Congress could hardly speak of anything except the wonders of transoceanic travel by air.

Nicholas Slonimsky, “A Visit with Villa-Lobos,” Musical America, October 16, 1941, p. 10

Here’s a poster for regularly scheduled passenger service between Europe and Brazil from Hamburg-Amerika Line, from an excellent online exhibit from Denmark “The Airship is Coming!”