PEOPLE OF CONEY ISLAND
May McAvoy is especially captivating as Maizie Banks, daughter of the proprietor of a Coney Island concession. She draws the crowd by being dressed as a diminutive jockey. Across the broad walk is the side-show where Jim, Maizie’s rough-neck “beau,” is barker. Maizie’s father has set his heart on making a “lady’* of her, and so she is sent off to a fashionable boarding school where she spends pa's hard-earned sheckles, and ends by becoming ashamed of him and of his occupation . A fortune-hunting lounge lizai a trap for her and it is with hi the jazzy rich girls from schoc she visits Coney Island. She ha from them the fact of her h orgin, and only when they r her own people does the snobbi leave, and the rtal Maizie flame “The Little Sr.ob” is shortly d release in New Zealand.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 542, 20 December 1928, Page 21
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146PEOPLE OF CONEY ISLAND Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 542, 20 December 1928, Page 21
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