YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - FEMALE PILOT RUTH NICHOLS GOLFER BOBBY JONES

[Music] television highlight of the news doc yesteryear [Music] here's George Bernard Shaw and his somewhat comparative youth and here with his non-writing hand in a sling the extraordinary Irishman escorts his lady like an ordinary gentleman in 1933 at the age of 77 Shaw makes his historic visit to America and by refusing to talk to reporters he really makes news but Shaw could talk and did on rare occasion you really ought all of you to have come to the place from which I am now addressing and that is Marvel like the best bit of ink because I have got something for you here what you really want is new 9 and so or you want your old minds and souls repair renew well I am down here at Melvin with a very great friend of mine who's known Fred some of you I mean strawberry Jackson and strawberry Jackson and I are in the same business we provide people with new life and with new soul or we repair their own minds and their old stone and we do it by means of the fear we are having we have made the theatre involved practically a new theatre all for your accommodation and we are going to do a number of plays which are all written by me I may say and therefore they're not the old soft clay that makes you persuade you to laugh and you are not really abused and which persuades you feel very emotional when there's really nothing the matter when my plays are all in the business of providing the new names and the news for that is our business you will have to come to the theater right are they at about 6 o'clock and you'll have to stay there very late it'll be a tremendously long business and you'll suffer a great deal in the property but it will be on the whole you will go away feeling that you have had your money's worth to elusive entity since 1921 and United States Army and Navy Bombers made touchy eggs on vessels captured from Germany 36 bombers blast the G 102 at what it's all over the g1 all tool is reduced to zero the Navy dreadnought Delaware send salvos into this pair of the ex Kaiser c5 this is more than 20 years before there were such naval might as a Missouri but the Navy of the u.s. packed a potent pistol even then [Music] you it's 1929 and here's the then ambassador Charles Dawes speaking at his ancestral home in England United States Minister to Britain Dawes and his inverted pipe were popular twosome on both shores of Atlantic with Dawes best remembered as vice president under Coolidge it was wife and child as Sweden's Cogburn adat its October 1930 and deaths in a Palestine tragedy is long way off the father of little Gustave here's his countess the former Estelle man bill happy in her marriage which is one day to be destroyed by assassin's bullets setting sail for Rome and an official visit with the Pope here's Archbishop Patrick Hayes it's only 1921 and Haynes is already head of the Archdiocese of New York it is not until 1924 that he has made the immortal Patrick Cardinal Hayes [Music] Springfield Avenue New York New Jersey is fountain of flames as entire downtown block is destroyed by fire that blazes through the night next morning all that remains is smoking and smoldering ruins the time late 1920s and it was years since New York suffered by baptism of fire such as this and it was years before it suffered another flash blaze this during day take their toll of firemen one more drop and here's wrecked and charred ruins of what was one big block of office buildings and lots Kosta flees an injury to firefighters and damage to equipment was high and price tag of destruction done by hot blaze was put at cool million [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it's mass murder in montreal ball in the early 1930s as 105 romantic couples prepared to take their vows in production-line wedding ceremonies it's legal inviting as a church marriage though as priests officiate in one of largest mass weddings in Canada and the service is good too what would one priest - every couple if you're interested in statistics Friends of the brides and grooms jam the stands by the thousands average age of ride is 23 average age of the 105 males giving up their freedom for matrimonial bliss is all of 26 idea of mass wedding was begun by parish priest and his 105 Marian couples made the ceremony of 105 ring circus [Music] you [Music] it's 1920 and dredge licks up the bottom of the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg Pennsylvania dredge is not deepening channel for river traffic but salvaging coal washed down from mines along the waterways with coal at premium since closed have recently ended World War one this operation is saving money [Music] with barge loaded to gunnels and heaped over the dredge quits for the day and wet fuel heads for dry land yes you guessed it the barge is powered by an old-fashioned paddle wheeler Harrisburg coal saved from a long journey to the seas put ashore for far more important journeys to homes and factories in need of heat during the winter it ain't hay but it's worth lots of money [Music] here's an the record-breaking flight from Los Angeles to New York its 10th of December 1930 as plane taxis to a slow stop at Roosevelt Field and two steps out of flame but one of America's leading woman fires Ruth Nichols Cincinnati Moms plenty proud of her daughter too for Ruth's flight established coast-to-coast record of 13 hours 22 minutes which was one full hour better than mark set by lending [Music] why heaven help the working girl it's around the turn of the century and here are a few of the girls who helped turn the wheels of Industry women esteem suddenly preferred a place of business instead of a place in the home those are at night easy Brito in the early days of finery for chorus girls every stage show boasted of Chorus a la flora Dora and the wide hats were not only the fashion they filled the stage for something anyway here are the famous camel assistance popular circuit performers and quick change artist that's one out of her long underwear is a first one out is a contortionist are they really changing costumes or are they just putting on carbon copies of what they've taken off No well anyway here's what the change was for and those things they're wearing are in head pieces they're headache even aspirin couldn't cure [Music] Bobby Jones right makes headlines in 1926 as he mercilessly licks all competitors in United States open crowd thrills as all of Bobby's rivals falter and it looks as if young Jones is cinched to add American to already acquired British crown [Music] and Bobby does it winning to open championships in one year four years later though Bobby won all four top golfing crowns it's 28 to January 1926 and here are final events of three-day world Skating Championships at st. John's new brunswick and winter sports history is in the making here it's big meet with big names and skating such as these gorman new world champ and tunberg little Finland's best second high scorer in meet is Chicago's O'Neill Farrell young number 108 is only 7 and no world champion skating meet is without it's races for women winner is Neela Brooks of Toronto Canada here's the fast moving and hard-driving quarter-mile event leader here has already taken one second and three first places quarter is another first for Gorman world skating champ [Music]