Select New Orleans Girl at Pageant to Be “Miss Universe” (Universal Newsreel, Aug 1930)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SELECT NEW ORLEANS GIRL AT PAGEANT TO BE “MISS UNIVERSE”: GALVESTON, TX - Dorothy Dell Goff, seventeen-year-old high school student, first is crowned as “Miss United States” and then is chosen as the most beautiful girl in the world by the International contest judges. 2. PREPARE FOR POLAR DASH UNDERSEA IN $1-A-YEAR SUBMARINE: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Sir Hubert Wilkins hopes to reach the extreme Northland by plowing his way under the ice floes and bergs — Boat has cruising radius of 7,000 miles. 3. EX-CROWN PRINCE SPONSORS FLIGHT OF HELICOPTER ’PLANE: BERLIN, GERMANY - Kaiser’s son now taking an interest in aviation — Thousands watch new air craft in trial stunts. 4. MRS. HOOVER NAMES FIRST UNIT OF NEW MERCHANT MARINE: CAMDEN, NJ - First Lady christens the Excalibur with a bottle of pure mountain spring water — Ceremony held as an augury of the renaissance of American shipping. NEWS PARAGRAPHS : 5. PLYMOUTH, MA - Children fight forest fire! — Youngsters battle fierce blaze which guts 40-mile area and dooms summer camps. 6. YARMOUTH, ENGLAND - Women workers man fishing factory! — Females preferred in bloater-packing plant. 7. MARLBORO, MA - Shoot the chutes to safety! — Hospital installs novel escape-way for helpless patients. 8. CHICAGO, IL - Blindfold barbers in shave race! — Prize tonsorialist cops by a hair in 1:45 minutes. 9. GRADUATES OF POLICE SCHOOL WIN ACCLAIM IN PRECISION DRILL: LONDON, ENGLAND - Students show how well they have been trained by their instructors — Go through gymnastic stunts in perfect unison. 10. SHE’D RATHER FLIRT WITH DEATH THAN WITH MERE MEN: PARIS, FRANCE - Mlle. Andree Peyre, a petite flapper from gay Paree, powders her nose and wafts kisses to the crowds while sitting on the wing of an airplane as it loops the loop. 11. LAST OF 105,896 WIRES LAID AS HUGE BRIDGE NEARS COMPLETION: FORT LEE, NJ - Boys kiss their jobs good-bye as the spinning wheel, draped in flags, carries its last metal thread for the final cable — Span across the Hudson is built like a sky-scraper. 12. HARRIMAN STAKE WON BY BRONX IN OPENING OF TROTTER MEETING: GOSHEN, NY - Kinsella gelding annexes the free-for-all as the Orange County races start — Spectacular finish and fast time marks event.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library