Town Fetes Fiftieth Year (Universal Newsreel, May 1935)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SUPREME COURT KILLS NRA, ENDANGERING ALL NEW DEAL: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A unanimous decision outlaws the Blue Eagle. Administration aides gather to save the Recovery program while labor leaders and General Johnson make strong pleas to preserve the gains recorded by workers and industrialists under the regime. 2. TOWN FETES FIFTIETH YEAR: YAKIMA, WA - Pioneer days are colorfully revived to celebrate the community’s half-century of existence. Sixty thousand spectators watch a brilliant parade representing all phases of frontier life. 3. STRATO HOPPERS NEAR TRY: RAPID CITY, SD - Officers who will risk their lives in the forthcoming National Geographic-Army ascension into the upper reaches of the stratosphere, install their huge gondola and equipment in Moonlight Valley from which they will take off. 4. “VILLAGE” HANGS ART OUTDOORS: NEW YORK, NY - Painters and silhouette artists exhibit their work on board fences around historic Washington Square, luring prospective purchasers with the latest output of Greenwich Village’s talented colony. 5. MILLIONAIRE FORCED TO WED: LOCKPORT, NY - George F. Jennings has $12,000,000 but he’s sixty-seven and he must marry and acquire a family before July 25, if he doesn’t want to lose six million. Exclusive pictures show the sexagenarian wading through basketsful of mail. 6. CHILDREN ADOPT TAME BIRD: SEATTLE, WA - Young pupils make friends with a tiny sparrow which perches on their books or on their beads during study periods. The bird makes no effort to escape from its strange surroundings. 7. GIRLS TRAIPSE OVER LINKS: HEALDSBURG, CA - An enterprising golf club hires a bevy of handsome young women in shorts and bare knees as caddies to the enjoyment of male players but causing serious detriment to the game they play. 8. ’QUAKE AGAIN ROCKS FORMOSA: TAIWAN, JAPAN - A second tremendous shock follows on the heels of the disaster that took 3,000 lives. Wreckage is piled on wreckage before an army of workers can complete its herculean task of rebuilding the unfortunate island. 9. ’CHASE MARKS UNITED HUNTS: ROSLYN, NY - A large and swanky crowd turns out to see Silverskin run away from a noted field in the Bowman Steeplechase Handicap. Several riders come to grief at the jumps during a thrilling event.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library