President Eisenhower Breaks Ground for New York's Performing Arts… (Universal Newsreel, May 1959)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW YORK'S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER - The President breaks ground to formally commence construction of New York's Lincoln Square Art Center. In an area now largely lofts and slum tenements will rise a modern center for all the performing arts–dance, theatre and music. 2A/B. VENERATION OF TWO SAINTS - 200,000 crowd St. Peter's Square, Rome, as His Holiness Pope John XXIII prays before the caskets of St. Pius X and St. John Bosco, friends in life whose remains are united in a ceremony without precedent in memory. / MERCURY HUNT IN AFRICA - A handful of men defy the dangers of poisonous snakes, crocodiles, and fear-crazed animals in a last-ditch effort to rescue wild-life from the fast-rising waters behind the giant new Zambezi River dam. 3. NEWS NOSTALGIC / TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY - CHICAGO'S WORST FIRE since the Great Fire of 1871 lays waste to the Union Stockyards. Every fire-fighter in the City is called out! COLONEL ROSCOE TURNER blazes a new speed record from Detroit to New York. JIMMY MCLARNIN and BARNEY ROSS square away for the welterweight championship. WELLESLEY COLLEGE girls go out for the big leagues of crew racing, boating an 8-oar shell!. In Nassau, Bahamas, a waiters' TRAY-CARRYING RACE caps the seasonal zaniness of 1934. AND–25 YEARS LATER–1959's own brand of "Progress"–collegiate "beatniks" in Paris, carrying to the utmost the latest crazes in telephone booth packing, tiny car "cramming" and offbeat dancing.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library