Estelle Taylor and Earl Metcalfe starred in the 1920 film While New York Sleeps, directed by Charles Brabin for 20th Century Fox. The picture was promoted as being "true to life" but was an eight reel melodrama. In New York, we don't have to choose between the two. Just a bit of political commentary regarding our state legislature. 08 July 2009
While New York Sleeps
Estelle Taylor and Earl Metcalfe starred in the 1920 film While New York Sleeps, directed by Charles Brabin for 20th Century Fox. The picture was promoted as being "true to life" but was an eight reel melodrama. In New York, we don't have to choose between the two. Just a bit of political commentary regarding our state legislature. 
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Too true
Art, this is one of those images that spoke to me when I saw it at the MOMA website and I knew someday there would be the perfect place for it. If you go back to the third article I posted here (July 2007), the journalist Alice Duer Miller had great fun covering the New York State legislature ninety years ago.
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