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Little Old New York
(AUGUST 13, 1923)
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.
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.