YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - BABE RUTH 1933 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR

television highlights are the news of yesteryear youth named Ruth the boy from Baltimore makes big time baseball via Boston it's 1914 and a rookie named George Herman Ruth is already drawing crowds and cheers by 1916 he's Boston's leading pitcher and World Series wins his hurling record of nearly 30 consecutive scoreless innings in fall classics competition still stands though no offense busting specialist yet at Fenway Park Bay bats for war bond Drive and gets this kiss from the first mrs. Ruth is the crowd approved babe and Baby Ruth 16 months old daughter poses for first pictures with a proud papa little miss Ruth romps at her Sudbury Massachusetts home a rabbit hops into the pleasant picture his Sudbury flock may get chicken feed but babes heading for big money now sidelines on the farm is breeding bull terriers and keeping babe in shape during winter months the Sultan of Swat is a one with an axe his power at the plate his promises a hitter of home run his bring it into his pitching days and as an outfielder in 1920 he becomes a New York Yankee at st. Petersburg Florida for spring training babe's his own batboy and at the plate warms up from famed yank manager Miller Huggins and teammates of the 20s babe's clowning gets attention but this is the house that Ruth Built with a bat stadium homerun twins Lou Gehrig and Babe the paired work a triple for babe [Applause] as he strides for third garrotting steps to the plate and sure enough it happens Homer for Lou with a ball in the bleachers babe jogs home with Gehrig trotting in behind him playing for par in 1926 with Walter Hagen Ruth goes for golf in his usual big way he's better with a bat than putter though as you can see babe goes to Hollywood in 1927 and actress Anna Nielsen helps him into makeup with cameras grinding it's a tape as Ruth invites co-star Nielsen into his arms in make-believe romance it's the real thing though in 1929 with babe in the second mrs. Ruth the diamond star he's not bad on the ivories either babe never forgets his friends for 19:30 charity he joins Mickey Walker at billiards the stick in roots hand is cue to start the game dave has as much fun making money for others as for himself even has a good time in the Hat business in his own haberdashery he models merchandise and proves that success hasn't given him a big head the hats too small though the babe has fun he's serious too here with mrs. Ruth he visits crippled children at Knickerbocker Hospital this he wanted to do as much as circle the diamond he smiles but his heart is heavy for kids more than for the fame it brought he pulled his fabulous homeruns this one's for charity in 1930 but all 729 in 20 seasons in ten World Series were not for the crowds that applauded him but for the kids when he promised he'd hit one out of the park for an ailing boy he did he was the idol of American youth they worshiped him and he in turn loved children they cheered when he banged that apple out of sight but they also cheered because beyond the realm of baseball Babe Ruth was big-league in life [Music] flying to the fair the USS Makin in 1933 gets a good view of shore of Lake Michigan and Chicago's World Fair the makings on trial flight but the fair's a big success not high as the flying visitor is the famous Amos and Andy sky ride with no space suitable for beer Chicago extends its waterfront into the waters of Lake Michigan with filled inland and Belle's a hundred million dollar Wonderland which thirty-nine million people come to see a replica of all fort dearborn once lonely outpost in days when the Great Lakes Country was wilderness the travel and transport building where shows are given twice daily this is something new in 1933 the roof hangs free of the walls like a suspension bridge down the colorful Avenue a flag stream millions to enjoy chicago's century of progress here's dancer Isadora Duncan and Russian husband Sergey esenin in 1922 they're detained by immigration authorities not for long and happily wedded but not for long it's 1921 and Henry Cantwell Wallace is sworn in as President Harding Secretary of Agriculture nobody knows it now but 12 years later Henry a guard Wallace follows father's footsteps and sits behind this same desk for near east reliefs annual golden rule dinner hollywood 1926 movie stars ho part Bosworth and Louise clown make me love orphans menu to get idea what orphans in orient have to eat here's marguerite dellamonte and Dorothy McHale as Hollywood's top stars get to bottom of pressing plum [Music] flare up for freedom down there a new eastern state penitentiary radical pennsylvania inmates run amuck since 10:30 a.m. this 25th of August 1934 when convicts took possession of a truck rioting prisoners have been in command of prison grounds the kitchen and laundry where mutiny began plus three temporary cell blocks are impermanent ruin hasty mobilisation of Pennsylvania State Troopers rules out fear that some prisoners might have escaped rioters were unarmed but outnumbered guards till now [Music] here chief offenders are penned in prison yard first frenzied moments of rioting leave wreckage everywhere now riot weld and prisoners quiet on way back to their selves [Music] refueling in flight to nowhere July a 1929 over st. Louis Missouri record for endurance flight is broken flyers wives the mrs. Dale Jackson and Forrest O'Brien pack fuel for their husbands and write the messages of congratulations and continued good luck better halves are coming up for a visit to they're all smiles after hearing from husbands they'll fly on as long as plane will stay all off fuel and food is lowered to them 47 times till after 420 hours flight sponsors order Flyers down with the record in their pockets it's a happy landing though and the newly crowned kings of endurance flying are paraded in triumph through st. Louis streets in distance they circled the globe but in Direction O'Brien and Jackson went round around and got nowhere [Music] choosing miss Philadelphia for the 1925 Atlantic City beauty pageant was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack and speaking of haystacks there are more waves on the contestants heads than there are in the ocean those were the days of the Marcel mop the suspense is terrific as the judges pick Annette Jackson his Philadelphia's fairest from now on the net puts up a brave front [Music] how can she lose in this black knit green suit why it's in the bag okay Annette better save those kisses for the finals [Music] Olympics in a winter wonderland skier rude of Norway scoots down steep Bavarian slope to become speed king of 1936 games crowd seek contestants from 22 countries in women's slalom and other events a girl entrance finds zigzagging as easy as we quacking and goes the route men's slalom race is faster here's a record-breaking finish and here's another damn heel drive on snowbound slopes by contestant bound for victory here are world's finest ski jumpers in Olympics most thrilling event are bjorn hagen of norway wings his way to victory england nets a tennis crown Forest Hills Long Island 1933 Fred Perry and far court is becoming us champ Perry serves to Paulie backhand of Australia's track Crawford the Aussies returned to the net as another point for Perry here's Crawford serving and Perry starts volley with smashing forehand - Crawford's backhand side the Australian shows flashes of brilliance but blowing winds and Perry's placements are too much for him final game match point a fall for Perry then it's good Crawford's return is out and parries in this champ the new king jumps for joy and handshake for his beatin poll for first time in 30 years US tennis crown goes to England and Fred Perry [Music]