Two Helens in Court Tilt (Universal Newsreel, Jul 1935)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. EASTERN FLOOD TOLL RISES: NEW YORK - The state’s southern tier digs out of the tangled mass of wreckage and mud left by the greatest flood disaster in its history. Estimates of damages mount steadily as state and local officials move to aid the destitute and prevent epidemics. 2. MT. VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION: NAPLES, ITALY - The famous fiery mountain breaks a quiet spell lasting several years as it once more belches smoke and lava, striking terror into the hearts of peasants living at its foot. 3. TWO HELENS IN COURT TILT: WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND - Mrs. Moody fights her way back to the supremacy of the women’s tennis world in a bitter match with the brilliant Helen Jacobs while Fred Perry of England defeats von Cramm of Germany in the finals of the men’s singles. 4. HARLEM BACKING ABYSSINIA: NEW YORK, NY - Scores of colored volunteers enlist to aid Haile Selassie in the event of trouble between Ethiopia and Italy. Even the young women of the big Negro district sign up to serve in Africa as nurses. 5. AVIATRIX SETS NEW RECORD: BURBANK, CA - Eighteen hours, twenty minutes after she lifts her heavily overloaded Lockheed from the runway at Floyd Bennett Airport, NY, little Laura Ingalls lands on the West Coast with a new mark for the East-West flight. 6. GIRL CONVICTED IN KIDNAP: TACOMA, WA - Ten men and two women jurors find nineteen-year-old Mrs. Margaret Waley guilty of complicity in the kidnapping of young George Weyerhaeuser, returning their fateful verdict after less than five hours of deliberation. 7. SOLID GASOLINE TRIED OUT: NEW YORK, NY - Tracer bullets fired through a new gasoline compound fail to explode the mixture. Chunks of the jelly-like substance fed into ordinary engines operate the machine with the same effectiveness as the highly-inflammable liquid fuel. 8. KING SEES BIG AIR PARADE: MILDENHALL, ENGLAND - Three hundred and sixty war ’planes of the latest types are inspected by King George before they engage in spectacular mass flights exhibiting Britain’s sky power in honor of the sovereign. 9. HIPPO’S BABY BORN IN POOL: BROOKFIELD, IL - Two-ton Bebe presents the Chicago Zoological Park with a brand-new specimen of hippopotamus, bearing her hefty infant at midnight in the cool waters of a pool. 10. PAGEANT MARKS HORSE RACE: SIENA, ITALY - A Fourteenth Century contest is revived among the vivid trappings of medieval days as riders compete for the tradition-hallowed “Palio di Siena,” a bright pennant awarded the winner of a highly colorful event. 11. BAYONETS DISPERSE PICKETS: TACOMA, WA - Cold steel and gas bombs break up a hand-to-hand battle between determined lumber mill strikers and National Guardsmen when the pickets attempt to halt operations at a big plant by occupying a strategic bridge head. (LOCAL – CHICAGO) CHICAGOANS SEEK HEAT RELIEF AS MERCURY MOUNTS.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library