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- Little Old New York
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- (AUGUST 13, 1923)
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- Little Old New York. The story is all in tight trousers and
- tall hats--the curiously attractive garb of a century ago.
- Patricia O'Day comes to Manhattan from Ireland. En voyage she
- is forced to discard female finery and gear herself out in the
- clothing of a boy. The rest of her adventures transpire amid the
- rarefied air of high society and the heavier atmosphere of the
- lowest stratum during the days when the city structures had not
- begun to scrape the sky.
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- Out of the shadows of the past a scenery city has been reared
- which is a marvel of accurate detail. The city, the customs,
- the clothes, the personages are on parade. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
- Henry Brevoort, John Jacob Astor look from the screen at their
- descendants in the audience. The climax comes when a
- reconstructed Robert Fulton steams away upon its memorable trial
- trip, which is to sweep the seas of sailing ships.
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