Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney. It
was released to theaters by United Artists on July 30, 1932. The short was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full Technicolor process. Flowers
and Trees was a commercial and critical success, winning the first Academy Award
for Animated Short Subjects.

                     (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973)

Joseph Evans Brown was a popular actor and comedian. In 1902 at the
age of nine, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five
Marvelous Ashtons which toured the country on both the circus and
vaudeville circuits. Later he became a professional baseball player. After
three seasons he returned to the circus, then went into Vaudeville and
finally starred on Broadway. He gradually added comedy into his act and
transformed himself into a comedian. He moved to Broadway in the 1920s
first appearing in the musical comedy Jim Jam Jems.

Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics Series and made
under the supervision of Disney himself, the film and its animation  
are often regarded as some of the finest work in Disney Studio history. 

Gracie Allen, was a comedian who became internationally famous as the zany
partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. The Burns and Allen radio
show began in the early 1930s. They made the move to television and the CBS
network, October 12, 1950. The show was an immediate success.

On July 26, 1948, famed New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth attended the premier
of the film The Babe Ruth Story, a biopic about his own life, William Bendix (below)
portrayed Ruth. Shortly thereafter, Ruth returned to the hospital for the final time. He
was barely able to speak. His condition gradually became worse, and in his last days, scores of reporters and photographers hovered around the hospital. On August 16,
Babe Ruth died at the age of 53 due to pneumonia.

William Bendix

An ailing Babe Ruth Addressing the Crowd at Yankee Stadium on
Babe Ruth Day.