Penny Meals Served in Ex-Speakeasy by Rich Philanthropist (Universal Newsreel, Jul 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. PENNY MEALS SERVED IN EX-SPEAKEASY BY RICH PHILANTHROPIST NEW YORK, NY - A novel One Cent Restaurant is opened to provide food at copper-bottom prices for the unemployed and others of small funds. Nine thousand persons crowd its doors daily. The average check for a meal is five cents, with soup, coffee or vegetable stew at one cent each, and a wide variety of other dishes at equally low prices. Chorus girls, truck-drivers, aged thespians, shop girls and others, all testify a lunch hour to the practical philanthropy of the new eating place, where a man can subsist reasonably on thirty-five cents a week. 2. BRITISH AIR MINISTRY HAILS FORMAL DEBUT OF NEW SKY MONSTER: ROCHESTER, ENGLAND - Britain’s new aerial battleship, twice the size of any other flying craft produced in that country, takes the air in a spectacular trial spin. Ninety feet long, with a wing-spread of 120 feet, weighing more than 33 tons and fitted with six Rolls-Royce engines totaling 5580 horsepower, the great air-craft will be used for scouting, long-range bombing and torpedo carrying. It has a crew of ten, but, as a passenger ship, could carry 115 persons. A stirring picture of a real fortress of the clouds. 3. 4-TON BLAST HITS NEW RECORD IN HISTORY OF BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION: BARKER’S LANDING, DE - A half-pound stick of dynamite can make lots of noise and do plenty of damage, but to see 16,000 of them go off at once is awe-inspiring. Huge stones, mud and dirt, rising hundreds of feet in the air, form a veritable curtain across the sky. Houses are shaken as if by an earthquake for many miles around the debris is scattered over twenty-five acres, in the greatest explosives achievement in construction history. 4. WORLD’S BIGGEST KITE LAUNCHED AS PRAYER FOR MALE OFFSPRING: HOSHUBANA, JAPAN - It’s a great day for youngsters in this town when the grown-ups make a monster kite fifty feet high and thirty-six feet wide to fly as a good-luck omen for the boys of the village. It takes scores to make this kite and at least a hundred to run with it. There’s a great thrill when the huge toy rises majestically into the clouds. It means prosperity for the sons of every family and a plenitude of male children to bless the declining years of aging parents. One of the world’s most picturesque customs. 5. MIRACULOUS ESCAPES FEATURE TRAIN CRASH AT 70 MILES AN HOUR: HAMLET, IN - Chicago-bound, at seventy miles an hour, an early morning Pennsy express train, rushing mail, milk and express, as well as passengers to the Windy City, left the rails here and piled up in one of the most disastrous appearing wrecks ever seen — yet only one man was injured! How anyone could live through this mass of twisted steel and splintered railway rolling stock is one of the marvels of railroad history. 6. HUGE DEMONSTRATION CONCLUDES 1932 WORLD CONGRESS OF “SOKOLS”: PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA - More than 120,000 Czechoslovakian men and women, many in picturesque peasant costumes and all members of various Sokol callisthenic organizations, march in thrilling array as the climax of the great 9th Sokol Congress. Three-quarters of a million spectators line the streets to watch and cheer. The display is the biggest event of the year in Czechoslovakia and is reviewed by President Masaryk, his cabinet and all legation heads. Nearly a million people, massed to do honor to their ideals of clean, healthy living. 7. LOVERS HIE TO COURT FOR FREE WEDDINGS AND COOKBOOK BONUS: CHICAGO, IL - With marriages performed free of charge and a cookbook thrown in as a bonus, Judge Edward B. (Cupid) Casey of the Municipal Court here inaugurates a new era in Chicago’s vital statistics. And what a rush on the part of not-too-bashful young couples to take advantage of this offer! The Judge is out to correct last month’s record of more divorces than marriages in this city and that he’s succeeding is evidenced by the way the hopeful swains step up for a free pass to the home plate. (LOCAL – OHIO) MRS. LARRY NELSEN WINS GOLF CROWN IN STATE TITLE MEET.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library