Tag: 1935

Five Miles A Minute!

On: By: Romeyn

Auto Engine Drives Motorcycle at High Speed

Assembled especially for establishing a world’s record of over 300 miles per hour, and oversize motorcycle powered with an automobile engine has been making speed tests on the Pacific coast. the Motorcycle, weighing 1,500 pounds, is powered with a six-cylinder Plymouth automobile engine with fan and generator removed. With special timing and carburetor jets, the engine makes 4,100 revolutions per minute. The wheel-base is eighty-five inches and the overall length is 115 inches a standard motorcycle frame being lengthened and reinforced with steel tubing. Two large sprockets connected by a three-quarter inch chain facilitate steering, the handlebars having been moved back several inches from their original position. Two steel plates, one on each side in front of the rear wheel, serve as brakes by actual contact with the ground or track. They can be raised of lowered by a lever.

What? No Jane?

On: By: Romeyn


Maureen O’Sullivan, sparkling MGM star, truly is Ireland’s gift to Hollywood. Her winsome Irish beauty, laughing eyes, dark brown hair and impulsive giggle have made her a favorite with patrons of motion pictures everywhere. Although she has appeared in many productions, she is best remembered, perhaps, for her work in two Tarzan pictures. Here, this 24-year-old daughter of Old Ireland is shown with some of the gowns she wears in “Westpoint of The Air,” new MGM production. (Apr 21, 1935)<!-more–>

Maureen O’Sullivan promo shot for Tarzan and His Mate, 1934

Expedition To Lost Continent, 1935

On: By: Romeyn

The stupendous and grotesque figures on Easter Island, isolated in the South Pacific 2300 miles west of Chile, are to become objects of investigation by a Rosicrucian expedition. Rosicrucians contend, declares J. H. Woodcock, of Hendersonville. local Rosicrucian commissioner, that Easter Island is a vestige of the once 10 eat continent of Lemuria, thought for centuries to be a mythical land. The huge sculptures and monoliths inscribed with picturegraphs, it is related, bear a remarkable resemblance in design and symbology to the ones found in the ruins of Yucatan. Continue reading “Expedition To Lost Continent, 1935” →