Universal Newsreel Volume 28, Release 664

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1A/B/C/D/E. EASTER–A Joyous Season For Christendom - Glorious weather helps make the holiday well-nigh perfect, as Easter is observed around the world. / SUNRISE SERVICES at the vast Hollywood Bowl, traditionally of impressive beauty and solemnity, are attended by an enormous throng, filling the huge arena. / THE PAPEL BLESSING is bestowed upon hundreds of thousands crowded into St. Peter's Square. His Holiness, warns of the dire need to turn atomic energy to purposes of peace. / WORLD'S BIGGEST EASTER EGG made of chocolate, and specially flown to New York from Holland, delights tots. Easter bunnies and baby chicks for little playmates add to the fun. / EGG-ROLLING AT THE WHITE HOUSE with President Eisenhower playing the jovial host, in a jolly observance of a grand American Easter tradition. Thousands of youngsters join in the sport. / NEW YORK'S EASTER PARADE is the biggest ever, with 2 million men, women and children promenading down 5th Avenue past St. Patrick's, resplendent in spring finery. 2A/B. NEWS IN BRIEF — FLYING MAN-HOLE COVER: PALO ALTO, CA - The Navy's newest experimental aircraft, as weird a gadget as any mad inventor ever conceived. No wings, no propeller. Just a thick disc of metal, with fan blades inside. No controls–but it works! / TREE TOPPERS: SEASIDE, CA - A daredevil tree-topper shows some circus tricks that are his everyday routine. Nimbly scaling a towering forest giant, he lops off its leafy top, and comes to earth down a rope anchored by his wife's hands, a sensational slide for life, to save a few seconds! 3A/B/C. SPORTS — IKE OPENS BASEBALL SEASON: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Spring training is over, and the national sport gets under way. Throwing out the first ball in accordance with hallowed tradition, the President shows a good arm, despite a touch of bursitis. Play ball, America! / CONGRESSIONAL BASEBALL: DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Congressmen turn to the diamond, in a display that may set baseball back a hundred years or so. Seems that politicking is no substitute for spring training. Plenty of fun, lots of hits, lots of runs, lots and lots of errors and the Democrats tie the GOP, 8-8. Game called for exhaustion after the 5th. / AAU DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS: DAYTONA BEACH, FL - Grace and poetry in motion at the AAU Women's Diving Championships. Top girl high-board artists in a delightful display of championship diving form, an appealing fusion of skill and beauty, in action.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library