- Narrator: Delegates marched, sang, cheered and shouted in this most boisterous of conventions, so long ago in the first year of the roaring twenties.
- Narrator: The sudden death of Warren Harding brought Calvin Coolidge to the Presidency. A man of frugal habits and integrity and dry wit, Coolidge believed that the best government is the least government. Though he looked equally ill at ease in high hat or overalls, he became, up to his time, the most photographed of Presidents. And he became one of the most popular, despite a famed humorous remark that he'd probably been weaned on a pickle.
- Narrator: The young, yellow-haired Prince Charming visited Hawaii; where, as every place else, he set feminine hearts a flutter.
- Interviewer: About King Edward, sir - now, do you feel - do you think he'll take a wife, now that he's ascended the throne?
- George Bernard Shaw: Now, how on the face of the earth do I know?
- Interviewer: What do you think about the American cameramen?
- George Bernard Shaw: I love them. If they only knew how foolish they looked.
- George Bernard Shaw: Its no good to - in this country - putting questions of national importance to me! I've been here before, I told you what to do and you haven't done it! And you're up to your neck in trouble - in consequence.
- Al Smith: The name is a kind of a secret. Maybe after I start, some of the folks around my own age will know what the song is; but, you'll all know the chorus. Now, are you ready, professor?
- [singing]
- Al Smith: Oh! the night that I struck New York, I went out for a quiet walk. People that saw me they all would say, It's better by by you go down Broadway. But there was the Bow'ry a blaze with lights; I was out for to see the sights, I had one of the devil's own nights, and I'd never go there any more! The Bow'ry, the Bow'ry! They say such things, And they do such things, And the Bow'ry! The Bow'ry! I'll never go there any more!