Cadets Hold First Parade (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1938)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. CADETS HOLD FIRST PARADE: WEST POINT, NY - The Army’s future generals stage their first outdoor dress parade of the season at the Military Academy. Perfect formations prove they still can keep in step after their long winter lay-off. 2. PERSHING AT SON’S WEDDING: NEW YORK, NY - General Pershing, convalescent from serious illness, is a guest at the wedding of his son Warren, to Muriel Bache Richards. Army officials, diplomats and society folk make the marriage one of the season’s most colorful. 3A/B/C/D/E. ANGLO-ITALIAN PACT SIGNED: ROME, ITALY - The Earl of Perth, British Ambassador to Rome, and Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, meet in the Palazzo Chigi, and sign an agreement that may be the turning point in Europe’s mad rush toward war. / LA GUARDIA BECOMES COWBOY: GUTHRIE, OK - (Exclusive) New York’s mayor dons a ten-gallon hat to lead a ten-mile parade of cowboys, Indians and prairie schooners celebrating the Oklahoma land rush of 1889. 100,000 watch the colorful pageant. / 45 KILLED IN MINE BLAST: HANGER, VA - Grief-stricken families await the charred and broken bodies of miners killed by coal dust explosions in the Keen Mountain coal mine. Rescue squads work for hours to locate and bring out the victims. / “JUNGLE” SHIP BREAKS IN TWO: BOSTON, MA - The S.S. City of Salisbury, arriving from Calcutta, strikes a hidden reef and is broken in half by heavy seas. The crew and a million dollar cargo of 300 chattering monkeys and other wild animals are saved. / POPE GIVES EASTER BLESSING: ROME ITALY - 100,000 persons, rejoicing over the Anglo-Italian agreement, throng the piazza of St. Peter’s to receive the Pontiff’s blessing. Pope Pius, although weak from illness, bestows his benediction from the church balcony. 4. WINS $1,000 FOR A NICKEL: CHICAGO, IL - Felix Schlag, sculptor, designs new Jefferson nickel that wins Treasury contest. Mrs. Ross, Director of the Mint, selects winning design from 390 models submitted, and the Philadelphia Mint prepares to turn them out by the millions. 5. GARNER KISSED AND LIKES IT: CHARLESTON, SC - Vice-President Garner crowns Margaret Lyon as “Miss Charleston of 1938” at the annual azalea festival, and receives a big kiss. He dances a jig, waves at the girls and seems to have a pleasant afternoon. 6A/B/C/D. DI MAGGIO SIGNS FOR $25,000: NEW YORK, NY - Yankee slugger and “hold-out” finally shakes hands on Col. Jacob Ruppert’s offer of twenty-five “grand” for a year’s fence-busting. When the formalities are over he joins the team at the ball park. / “SOUND” BASEBALL FOR BLIND: OAKLAND, CA - They don’t have to see to play “sound” baseball. With a ball that jingles, bases that buzz and ten players on a team, blind men now play a world series by ear. It’s great training for umpires. / GIRLS FENCE ON HORSEBACK: DEL MONTE, CA - Girl students go Don Quixote one better and strive to break balloons on one another’s masks in mass fencing set-to. Douglas School lasses then prove their ability by spearing rings at full gallop, Cossack-style. / RICH STAKES TO BOURBON KING: HAVRE DE GRACE, MD - (Exclusive) Hal Price Headley’s Bourbon King, a 9-to-1 shot, wins the $15,000 added Chesapeake Stakes by a length and a quarter. 20,000 see the son of Whichone beat Mythical King and Bling Eagle in a thrilling finish.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library