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(1920s) Little Old New York
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
Cinema
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Little Old New York
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<p>(AUGUST 13, 1923)
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<p> 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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<p> 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.</p>
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