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All stores and places of business in the city are closed during a strike of workers of a distilling plant in Pekin, Illinois.
All stores and places of business in the city are closed as labor takes holiday from a distilling plant and general walkout ensues in Pekin, Illinois. A group of workers poses during the strike. The distilling plant in the background. A man in his office. A sign outside all stores reads as 'Closed at 3'O clock'. Dinner Bell restaurant, a barber shop and several other stores are closed. People come out of the stores. Men carry luggage. Men standing beside buses. View of a street.
A large group of garment workers gathers to vote for a strike at a meeting in New York.
A strike of garment workers in New York. Thousands of garment workers shout 'we want strike' at a meeting to vote for the strike. A man speaks into a microphone. A large group of workers gathers to vote for the strike.
Rocket plane designed to carry Mail is prepared for launch, but fails, in Greenwood Lake, New York.
A rocket airplane fails in the 1st mail test in Greenwood Lake, New York. A rocket designed to carry mail at a tremendous speed, is prepared for a launching. 'Gloria' written on the rocket. Men work with fueling tanks. The rocket on a ramp for launch. German-American rocket scientist, Willy Ley, wearing protecting gear, ignites the rocket. The rocket starts and flops on snow covered ground.
Vaudeville stars, Welton and Morgan, known as “The Dapper Dan Duo”, dance and sing onstage
Vaudeville poster of Welton and Morgan, known as “The Dapper Dan Duo”. Vaudeville stars Welton and Morgan tap dance and sing onstage, one of them tap dancing while sitting on a chair. Women clap from a theater box. Welton and Morgan bow after their end their performance.
USA Work Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Work Theater musicals in Broadway Avenue, New York City
Orchestra plays in a theater during Great Depression in the United States. “U.S.A.!” superimposed on the orchestra. A view of Broadway Avenue and Times Square, New York City during the evening. Night views of neon signs on Broadway from Coca-Cola, Howard 19th clothes and Ballantine’s Scotch Whisky. People entering a Broadway theater, alongside sign that reads, "New Orleans Federal Theatre Presents." A theater marquee saying, “The Fool Now Playing”. Two women look at a displayed playbill and actors’ photos. Theater marquee of Playhouse on Broadway saying “The Devil Passes” Federal Theater Attraction”. Folding signboard advertising “ Herrman the Great”. Men and women lining up to buy theater tickets. Actors and actresses perform “Oh Say Can You Sing” in a Broadway theater.
United States Works Progress Administration Federal Theater Project during Great Depression
Newsreel quote saying, “As 30,000 destitute show people clamor for work, a new firm, biggest and richest in the world, enters the theatrical business”. Office lady talking on the phone in her desk. American theatrical producer and director, Hallie Flanagan, discussing about the Federal Theater Project, a theater program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal economic program by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A US Works Progress Administration Portable Theater truck drives in New York. Actors in blackface perform a Minstrel dance onstage. Posters for Federal Theater Project Minstrel shows. An audience watch a performance inside a theater. An actor stands up from a chair onstage. A man reads a Program. Federal Theater Project staff work inside their office. Federal Theater Project Backstage staff arrange stage design. Touring actors enter backstage. Wooden sign says “”The CCC Murder Mystery” by Miss Grace Hayward Presented by Federal Theater Project W.P.A. C.CC. co #5434 Wilderness VA. Wed. Night 7.30 All Welcome”. Actors perform “The CCC Murder Mystery” onstage. The audience, all young men, laugh at the scene where an actress offered a cigarette to the judge.
