Stage show on skates featured in New York Ice Follies at the Madison Square Garden. Figure skaters with rings dance in formations. Skaters in disguise as donkey takes rounds of the skating ring. Skaters, man and woman perform a stage play. Skater girls' chorus' dance displays various formations. Bess Ehrhardt and Roy Shipstead take stellar honors.
A Motor Boat Show in New York City at Grand Central Palace. Rich display of marine craft exhibited at the show. A large brass propeller mounted on a wall and surrounded by fish sculptures turns slowly. Views of a large Sterling Viking engine, and close ups of an attached transmission-differential. A woman model climbs to the top of a ships mast. Another woman poses at the bow of a boat with a harpoon in hand. View of a Chris Craft motor boat at the show. Two women sit at the helm of one of the motor boats. View of several Chris Craft motor yachts.
Buildings in densely populated tenement area in Cannon and Delancey Streets in New York City's lower East Side. Trash trucks in the area. Pedestrians crossing the street in New York City. Shops and vehicular traffic on the street. Bedding being aired and and laundry drying on the fire escapes of the tenements.
Marchers parade on the streets of Manhattan, New York City, to promote support for continuation and expansion of the WPA (Works Progress Administration), part of the New Deal Federal programs enacted in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The parade is led by a group of well-dressed men in business suits. It includes a brass band and many marchers carrying banners and signs. (A boy is knickers, on roller skates moves about near the front of the parade.) A woman walking alongside the marchers, carrying a canister, solicits contributions from spectators on sidewalks. The following are among the many banners and signs seen: "Workers Alliance-Greater New York"; "Yorkville Workers Alliance"; "On to Washington, January 15th, for the Continuation and Expansion of W.P.A. (Furriers Joint Council)"; "Stop! Mass Lay-offs on WPA (Fur Floor Boys and Shipping Clerks Union)" A big part of the march takes place on 8th Avenue. (A Department of Sanitation worker with broom and barrel on wheels is seen cleaning the edge of street near curb.) A float with popup figures of WPA worker, housewife, and farmer, is seen with another figure holding an ax over the WPA workers head. Writing on the float reads: "A blow to WPA is a blow to all" Finally, view towards backs of marchers is shown, near end of the parade.
Police department rookies and youngsters from fire department perform at Madison Square Garden in New York. Men process in a circle and form shapes in their procession lines. Clown man crosses high suspended ladder and falls into the catch pad held out by a group of firemen. Man demonstrates rescue of a dog stuck at a high platform.
Demonstrations by thousands of union workers in New York. Workers hold flags and banner which reads 'Communist Party'. Men and women parade on street. Men ride bicycles and hold flags. Men with flags on streets and building.