Millionaire Is Host to 10,000 Wild Ducks Seeking City Refuge (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1932)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. HERRIOT LOSES FIGHT TO PREVENT COUNTRY DEFAULTING ON DEBT: ARIS, FRANCE - After an epochal conference with Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of Great Britain, the French Premier battles desperately all night long in the Chamber of Deputies to save “the good name” of his native land in the loan payment controversy, but goes down to defeat with his cabinet, in a no-confidence vote that rocks the financial structure of the world. 2. MILLIONAIRE IS HOST TO 10,000 WILD DUCKS SEEKING CITY REFUGE: SEATTLE, WA - Wealthy citizen supplies tons of food for winged hordes that darken the sky over Lake Washington. 3. ENTIRE TOWN STAGES REVIVAL OF ANCIENT BRIDAL CEREMONIAL: KYOTO, JAPAN - Old-time Shoguns ride again, with cropped hair and wicked looking swords, in exotic nuptial pageant. Town beauties, as maids of honor, follow on over-stuffed pillions. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. LOOPING RIDER DARES FATE IN LOCKED CAGE/MIAMI BEACH, FL - Grady Nix, noted thrill expert, rides motorcycle upside down in dizzy whirls as Mrs. Nix sits calmly in “globe of death.” 5. SPIDER STOPS CLOCK, CLOCK STOPS SPIDER/AKRON, OH - University professors and industrial experts watch as determined insect struggles for 20 days to halt the march of time. Dying from exhaustion, its body finally scotches timepiece’s works. 6. WEIRD AIR-POWER CAR SAFE AT 80-MI. SPEED/MARYSVILLE, MI - Amazing demonstration of an auto pulled by an airplane propeller. Fast as the wind, the new style motor does 30 miles per gallon and has no clutch, gear or cooling trouble. 7. GIRL BARBER TESTS NERVE IN LION CAGE/INZERSDORF, AUSTRIA - An astounding feat performed to prove relative courage of men and women. Man gets a close shave, all right. Who’s next? 8. FLIER GAMBLES LIFE AIDING RELIEF DRIVE/MONTGOMERY, AL - Smith Blaine, dare-devil bird-man, nose dives to ground in amazing crash. Grins when pulled from wreck. Death-defying feat performed as a charity benefit thrill. 9. CHRISTMAS VILLAGE SHADOWED BY DEATH OF 14 IN MINE BLAST: MADRID, NM - An appalling underground disaster leaves scores fatherless. Yuletide fete interrupted by tragedy. Joint burial for coal dust explosion victims. 10. METROPOLIS PAGEANT OF MID-WINTER NIGHT LIGHTS GIVES THRILL: NEW YORK, NY - Gotham displays its jewels for Yuletide visitors as dusk turns its gray canyons into strings of opalescent gems and its huge buildings into golden honeycombs. Electricity transforms the city into a veritable fairy-land, hailed as the most magnificent sight on earth.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library