New York City in the 1920's

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:  Actress Aline MacMahon, Critic Robert Coleman, Heywood Broun, Charlie Chaplin (playing piano), Illustrator Ralph Martin,  Writer Philip Wylie, H.L. Mencken & George Nathan, Anita Loos, Clarence Darrow, Toscanini's daughter Wally, Author Carl Van Vechten, Ethel Barrymore, H.L. Mencken with Joseph Hergesheimer, Krusaviski (sp?), Aileen Pringle, Concert pianist Myra Hess, Charlie Chaplin, Cartoonists John Held Jr and Peter Arno, Alexander Wolcott