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New York Gossip and Broadway Turbulence
A New Yorker at Large surveys Wall Street private detectives policing bankers nightlife and misdeeds of brokers. A feud joke unfolds between Joan Crawford and Jeanette MacDonald over a cameraman, followed by Broadway revival buzz for Our American Cousin. The naval fleet review introduces Lt Bayard Wright Jr., descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, who shifts dreams from mounted police to coast guard duty.
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New York
Wall Street
Hollywood
Jeanette Donald
Joan Crawford
Miss Crawford
Miss MacDonald
MacDonald
Booth
Lincoln
Ford's Theater
New York Harbor
Bayard Wright Jr
The
Mojave
Stephen 8. Yeandle
Peter Stuyvesant
Fiest
Coast Guard