Newsreel quote saying, “Lusty and glamorous was the Theater of Yesterday, when every actor worth his salt was a hardened trouper”. Dramatization of a late 19th century vaudeville group disembark from a train. Train porters unload a huge luggage. A 1894 poster of Bessie Bonehill, an English vaudeville singer who toured widely in the United States, saying, “Bessie Bonehill: And they never came back Playmates”. Actors sitting together near a ticketing booth in a New York train station. Close up view of an elderly vaudeville actor. Vaudeville actors talking with each other. “Haines & Vidocqs Metropolitan stars!!”. Curtains rise inside a theater. Poster of vaudeville stars, Jimmy and Florence Plunket, saying, “The Plunkets Jimmy Florence Broadway to you”. Vaudeville stars Jimmy and Florence Plunket, the former wears a top hat and the latter in a sequined A-line dress, perform a tap dance onstage.
Early in Spanish Civil War. A sign board reads 'Somosierra, Altitude 1444ms'. Spanish soldiers move heavy camouflaged artillery on trucks along a road. Damaged fuselage of an airplane tied on a truck. Burned out vehicles. War damaged buildings with broken windows and walls. An officer looks through binoculars. Officers consult a map.
Running of bulls in festival of San Fermin in Pamplona. View of locals chasing the bulls running through the streets and vice versa. People watching from building windows and climb to the fences as the bulls run by. Bulls chasing people are taken in an arena where spectators watch bullfight with locals. View of bulls fighting with men.
Crowd gathered around viewing early helicopter with multiple tiers of rotating blades. Various VIPs attending the demonstration, including Argentine inventor of the helicopter, Raúl Pateras Pescara. View of people looking at helicopter. Tests in Issy France outside a large hangar shows helicopter rising from ground about six feet and then landing. Action is repeated. View of rotor blades, rotor columns and fuselage section of helicopter.
Views of men running after bulls and vice-versa in streets of Pamplona during festival of San Fermin. View of crowd watching the running of bulls from behind the fences. Bulls enter the arena which is filled with huge crowd. Views of bulls chasing men in center of the arena. Crowd cheering. Shows bull and matador in ring during bullfight. Bull tosses matador with horns and matador escapes as another matador distracts the bull.
Models display the dress creations by Spanish designers in Barcelona. Evening gowns are displayed.