In another of the "Easy Aces" shorts, Goodman Ace and wife Jane sit down in a movie theater and watch a short subject. They comment on it, half in fun, half admiring. Alas, this is not one of the better of these shorts.
It's about the many different nationalities to be found in Lower Manhattan -- south of Houston Street in those days -- with a French community, Little Germany, and the battered yet still surviving bits of Chinatown and Little Italy. There's a claim that the streets in Chinatown are crooked because the Chinese believe that crooked streets keep out evil spirits. No, they're crooked and winding because they grew up well before any of the grid plans of Manhattan were laid out.
It's about the many different nationalities to be found in Lower Manhattan -- south of Houston Street in those days -- with a French community, Little Germany, and the battered yet still surviving bits of Chinatown and Little Italy. There's a claim that the streets in Chinatown are crooked because the Chinese believe that crooked streets keep out evil spirits. No, they're crooked and winding because they grew up well before any of the grid plans of Manhattan were laid out.
