New York City in the 1920s

Mostly silent footage; some sound. Street scenes in NYC; New York port; Gertrude Lawrence; H. G. Wells; Rebecca West; Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen; Tenors John McCormack Enrico Caruso; Stanislavski; Serge Koussevitzky; Ignacy Jan Paderewski; Greenwich Village; Poet Elinor Wylie; Theodore Dreiser; Sherwood Anderson; Author Willa Cather; Edna St. Vincent Millay: Eugene O Neill, wife Agnes, and daughter Oona (who later married Charlie Chaplin); Katharine Cornell in The Green Hat; Noel Coward and Hope Williams; Willa Cather; Sinclair Lewis; George Nathan H. L. Mencken of The American Mercury; Speakeasies during Prohibition; Broadway marquis; Mayor Jimmy Walker. Helen Morgan sings. Fanny Brice sings while husband Billy Rose looks on; George Gershwin rehearsal for Strike Up the Band. Comedy team of Bobby Clark Paul McCullough. More shots of people partying. Texas Guinan s speakeasy; she speaks. Private parties with various celebrities including: A