YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW U.S. NAVY SINKS CAPTURED GERMAN SHIPS

[Applause] [Music] [Music] Television highlights of the news of yester year. Here's George Bernard Shaw in 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 occasions. [Music] You really ought all of you to have come to the place from which I am now addressing you and that is Malvin. Quite the best bit of England because I have got something for you here. What you really want is new minds and souls or you want your old minds and souls repaired, renewed. Well, I am down here at Molvin with a very great friend of mine who is known perhaps to some of you. I mean, Sir Barry Jackson. And Sir Barry Jackson and I are in the same business. We provide people with new minds and with new souls or we repair their old minds and their old stones and we do it by means of the theater. Uh we are having uh we have made a theater in Malvin practically a new theater all for your accommodation and uh we are going to do a number of plays uh which are all written by me I may say and therefore they're not the old sort of play that makes you uh persuades you to laugh when you are not really amused and which persuades you to feel very emotional when there's really nothing to matter. My plays are all in the business of providing the new minds and the new souls. That is our business. You will have to come to the theater quite early at about 6:00 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 process. But it will be on the whole you will go away feeling that you have had your money's worth to a most tremendous extent. It's 1921 and United States Army and Navy bombers laid touchy eggs on vessels captured from Germany. [Music] 36 bombers blast the G102 and when it's all over the G102 is reduced to zero. The Navy Dreadnaugh Delaware sends salvos into this pair of the X Kaiser Seagors. This is more than 20 years before there was such naval might as a Missouri. But the Navy of the US packed a potent pistol even then. It's 1929 and here's the then ambassador Charles Daw speaking at his ancestral home in England. United States Minister to Britain. Daws and his inverted pipe were popular tusome on both shores of Atlantic with Daw best remembered as vice president under Kulage. Here with wife and child of Sweden's Kadot. It's October 1930 and death in a Palestine tragedy is long way off for father of little Gustav. Here's his countest, the former Estelle Manville, 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 Hayes is already head of the Arch Dasis of New York. It is not until 1924 that he is made the immortal Patrick Cardinal Hayes. [Music] [Applause] Springfield Avenue, Newark, 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 blazes during day take their toll of firemen. One more drops. And here's wrecked and charred ruins of what was one big block of office buildings and locks. Cost of blaze and injury to firefighters and damage to equipment was high and price tag of destruction done by hot blaze was put at cool million. [Music] its mass merger in Montreal Ball in the early 1930s as 105 romantic couples prepared to take their vows in production line wedding ceremonies. It's legal in binding as a church marriage though as priests officiate in one of largest mass weddings in Canada and the service is good too what with one priest to every couple. If you're interested in statistics, friends of the brides and grooms jam the stands by the thousands. Average age of bride 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 marrying couples made the ceremony a 105 ring circus. [Music] It's 1920 and dredge licks up the bottom of the Susuana 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 close have recently ended World War I, this operation is saving money. 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 paddleheer. At Harrisburg, coal saved from a long journey to the sea is 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. Here's end of record-breaking flight from Los Angeles to New York. It's 10th of December 1930 as plane taxis to a slow stop at Roosevelt Field. And who steps out of plane but one of America's leading woman flyers, Ruth Nichols of Cincinnati. Mom's 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 Lindy. Why heaven helped 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, it seems, suddenly preferred a place of business instead of a place in the home. Those aren't ' 90s their street clothes. In the early days of finery for chorus girls, every stage show bursted of chorus ala floridora and the wide hats were not only the fashion, they fill the stage with something. Anyway, here are the famous Tumble Sisters, popular circuit performers and quick change artists. Last 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? Who knows? Well, anyway, here's what the change was for. And those things they're wearing aren't headpieces. They're headaches 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 Bob Fby's rivals falter and it looks as if young Jones is cinched to add American to already acquired British crown. And Bobby does it, winning two open championships in one year. Four years later, though, Bobby won all four top golfing crowns. It's 28th of January, 1926, and here are final events of 3-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 in skating such as these. Gorman, New World's champ, and Tunberg, Little Finland's best. Second highcorer in meet is Chicago's O'Neal Frell. Young number 108 is only seven. And no World Champion skating meet is without its races for women. Winner is Nila Brooks of Toronto, Canada. Here's the fastmoving and hard grinding quartermile event. leader here has already taken one second and three first places. Quarter is another first for Gorman, world skating champ.