Purses Open Wide as International Fair Hails World Buyers (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. PURSES OPEN WIDE AS INTERNATIONAL FAIR HAILS WORLD BUYERS: VIENNA, AUSTRIA - New appliances to ease the burdens of housewives, such as electric washing machines, refrigerators and similar devices, create a sensation at the big exhibition held in the former Imperial Horse Stables. The new wing of the Royal Castle and the immense rotunda built in the Prater in 1873 also house exhibits, including winter sports wear and materials, as well as the latest thing in furs. A record-breaking product show, that attracts ready purchasers from all over Europe and might be construed as a note of optimism on the Continent. 2. COLLEGIANS BATTLE IN ROUGH-HOUSE WAR FOR PUSHBALL CROWN: CHICAGO, IL - Freshmen and Sophomores of Loyola University vent their traditional animosity for each other in a hectic shoving contest in which everything goes. Cheered on by wild-eyed class-mates on the side-lines, matched teams struggle furiously to move the big ball over the goal stripe. The winning class president is taken for a wheel-barrow ride by the losing “proxy” as the Frosh glory in a 3-0 victory. A “family” squabble that resembles a Donnybrook Fair. 3. EARLY SNOWS FORCE VAST FLOCKS TO FLEE MOUNTAIN GRASSLAND: YAKIMA, WA - Forced to abandon their Rattlesnake Hills feeding ground because of the sudden onslaught of a premature winter, 60,000 sheep are herded from the foot-hills to lowland pasturage in the winter food-hegira of the West Coast ranch denizens. Ten to fifteen miles a day, in 3000-head lots, the animals are driven over hill and dale for a week or more, during their picturesque trek. Herders and shepherd dogs guide the wooly avalanche, which resembles an animated painting with an old-world flavor seldom seen in this country. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. FIREMEN ATTACK CAPITOL GRIME/WASHINGTON, D.C. - The dirt and smoke which has settled on the noted building housing the nation’s law-makers — some of it from the burning last summer of the Bonus Army camp near-by — is washed down with streams of water from fire hoses, in preparation for the new Congress, which will convene in December. A “wet” augury for the coming session? 5. COWGIRL, 82, HOLDS WORLD RIFLE TITLE/TIFFIN, OH - Mrs. Mary C. Hettinger, a great-grandmother, who vied, in her early days in Texas with Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley, as a two-gun woman, displays her prowess by sniping electric light bulbs from the hands of her great-grandchildren at fifty feet, shooting from the hip. She performs other feats of marksmanship to clinch her claim as the globe’s outstanding octogenarian pistol shot. 6. MILADY’S HATS TO BE SMALLER FOR WINTER, IS NEW MODE DECREE: PARIS, FRANCE - In an exclusive visit to the famous salon of Mlle. Marthe, the newest in feminine head-gear proves to be nothing much to speak of in size, but in price – that’s something else again. The forthcoming designs are chic but they promise very little protection for bobbed heads against Boreas and his Blizzards. A complete array of Dame Fashion’s most recent creations, worn by the French capital’s smartest models and designed by the world’s queen of millinery art. 7. BRIDGE ENTHUSIASTS HAIL NEW AUTOMATIC PLAYING-CARD DEALER: CHICAGO, IL - An electrical device built into a folding table, which shuffles and distributes complete “hands,” brings the millennium one step nearer for auction and contract “fans.” The deck is placed in a little drawer, and presto! – the pasteboards are whirled around under the table-top and dropped off one by one in slots in front of each player. No “mis-deal” is possible. A remarkable invention just perfected by Laurens Hammond, noted clock manufacturer. The machine “makes” and passes out one pack while the other is being played, thus reducing to zero the between-hands time for family arguments. 8. JOBLESS HORDES END WEARY “DOLE” MARCH AT PARLIAMENT GATE: LONDON, ENGLAND - Tension is high in the British capital as thousands of unemployed men and women from Scotland, Wales, the Midlands and the South, converge on the metropolis in a “hunger hike,” with 100,000 non-workers resident in the city expected to swell their ranks and follow their lead in demonstrations for relief. 5,000 “bobbies” guard government buildings and personalities, ready for a flare-up. Communist agitators are blamed for the well-organized mass movement, which was brought about the worst situation in the history of English labor troubles. – And in BELFAST, IRELAND, the end of a night of terror finds the famous city resembling a section of war-torn France. Torn streets and barricades – destruction and fear, follow the wild rioting between 2,500 police and an army of strikers, unemployed and reds, resulting in 54 injured and 1 dead. (LOCAL – PHILADELPHIA) RELIEF AND HUMAN SERVICE THRU OUR COMMUNITY CHEST.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library