Exteriors of Max Factor's new makeup studio in Los Angeles, California. Make up artist Max Factor is greeted by various Hollywood stars like Anita Louse, May Robson, Binnie Barnes, band leader Ted Lewis, Tom Brown, Paula Stone, Tom Cavanaugh, Paul Ellis, Sophie Tucker, Chris Marie Meeker who was a stand in for Greta Garbo, Virginia Randall who doubled for Mae West, Pluma Noisom who stood in for Claudette Colbert. Stars get their make up done at the salon. A beauty parlor for men also. A woman gives beauty treatment to a man. Hollywood comedian Jimmy Durante looks into a mirror. He gets a facial done by a woman at the parlor. He jokes about the beauty treatment. From a November 14, 1960 newsreel recounting events from 25 years prior.
A dollar chain letter store at Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. People gathered outside the dollar chain letter store. A sign on the window of the store reads ' Prosperity chain '. People at a counter inside the store. Dollar bills wrapped in paper kept in a box at the counter. Women at typewriters. A man puts a receipt in an envelope. A man counts dollars contained in letters he received through the money chain letter scheme, outside the dollar chain letter store.
A Spanish comedy troop performs in Los Angeles , California. Comedians provoke a bull during their performance. The comedians are dressed as bullfight matadors as they provoke the bull. The bull charges towards them. The comedians perform a ball dance as the bull charges towards them. Men dressed as a bull fights with the bull.
A deer and a dog in Los Angeles, California. A woman takes a walk in a park with her two pets, a deer and a dog. She drives them home in an open top car. The animals eat their meal from a plate as a man smiles. The deer lying in a bed as the woman covers it with a sheet and puts a pillow for it.
Pistol movie camera used to trap criminals and record their movements in Los Angeles, California. Demonstration of a revolver fitted with a motion picture camera in it. Man points the pistol at would-be criminal and films the criminal attacker as he approaches the police man holding the combination handgun and camera. Police officer checks the film reel.
Opening slate reads: "Los Angeles, Calif.-Bicycle rider paced by car at 80-mile clip." View of men in movie star Tom Mix’s open Auburn speedster with a streamlined windscreen fastened to the rear, shielding bicycle racer, Frank Bartell, who pedals, hunched down behind it. Closeups of him on his bicycle, pedaling rapidly. Closeups of his pedals and sprocket and chain. Wider view of him and the protective pace car moving on the roadway. A man, standing by a striped pole, lowers a flag indicating the end of the run, as they pass his position at the side of the road. Closeup of Mr. Bartell, looking somewhat disheveled and tired, after setting a bicycle land speed record of more than 80 miles per hour.