Parade Is Highlight of Legion Convention (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1953)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PARADE IS HIGHLIGHT OF LEGION CONVENTION: ST. LOUIS - 100,000 march for ten hours, all forty-eight states and five foreign countries represented in the annual American Legion parade—an inimitable spectacle as usual, despite broiling heat. 2. NEW MOROCCO SULTAN HAILED IN HOLY CITY: MOROCCO - Fierce desert warrior tribes of Berbers come to the Holy City of Fez to hail Morocco's new spiritual and temporal leader, Sultan Sidi ben Arafa. 3A/B/C/D/E. FUGITIVE REDS NABBED: CALIFORNIA - 2 long-sought Communist fugitives from the law are seized by FBI agents at a High Sierra hideout, with Red underground workers who aided their flight. Four Reds are arraigned in San Francisco. / SLOAN SIMPSON HOME: NEW YORK CITY - Arriving on the S.S. America, Sloan Simpson is quizzed by reporters about her civil divorce from New York's ex-Mayor O'Dwyer. / URGE LETTERS TO VETS: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Army Stevens reports that U.S. soldiers overseas are well-fed and equipped—but want mail from home. / DEDICATION AT ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: SARANAC LAKE - Officials and delegates of the motion picture and stage employee’s union dedicate a new room at Will Rogers' Memorial Hospital. / ABBOTT AND COSTELLO JUDGE BEAUTY CONTEST: ENGLAND - High-jinks at the seashore as Bud Abbott and Lou Costello judge a contest called "beauty and the beach." 4A/B. NOTRE DAME GRIDDERS TRAIN: INDIANA - Notre Dame begins practice sessions at South Bend, with the Fighting Irish pointing for a banner year in their 65th grid year. / ICE CAPADES REVIEW: ATLANTIC CITY - The Ice-Capades review presents it's 1954 edition—glittering blades and eye-catching performances on the rink. (Except Denver) (LOCAL – LOS ANGELES) NEW HOSPITAL IS DEDICATED. (LOCAL – CANADA) CANADIAN FOOTBALL OPENER.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library