It predated Chaplin'sCity Lights (1931)by several years with its plot of a meek man in love with a blind woman.Before the party, Dr.Sloper politely congratulates his daughter on her new "sumptuous, opulent" cherry-red gown she acquired for the party: "You look as if you had $80,000 a year.Three elevator loads of workers march toward the camera - a reverse angle shows them entering the main square of the Workers' City - a transit area where a giant gong is positioned.]In the newsroom offices of theNew York Morning Globewith a spinning metal globe-shaped sculpture atop the tall skyscraper, a camera zoomed into one of its windows, into the busy publishing offices.