"MANHATTAN MELODRAMA”
New York in the early years of the century when “Diamond Jim” Brady was a familiar figure and Lillian Russell was the toast of the town, lives briefly on the screen in “Manhattan Melodrama,” which co-stars Clark I Gable. William Powell and Myrna Loy. As a sort of prologue to the principal action, which is laid in 1934, the picture re-creates one of the most horrible disasters in the big city’s history the fire and beaching of the excur- ; si on steamer General Slocum, a tragedy tnat cost more than 1000 lives. Re-created also is the famous Winter Garden roof, long since tern down where, in 1906, Harry' Thaw killed Stamford White, A brief sequence of the picture takes place there. The Dempsey-Firpo fight in 1923 is still another of the big moments of metropolitan history that somes to life :r “Manhattan Melodrama,” forming a background for one of the dramatic scenes.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 17 May 1941, Page 9
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