George Gershwin's first original screen musical starred the popular romantic duo of Gaynor and Farrell in an immigrant saga about a Scottish lass who falls in love with a wealthy New York polo enthusiast. Though Gaynor performs only one song (“Somebody from Somewhere”), she serves as the focal point for the film's marvelously stylized set pieces: the elaborate, optimistic “Dream Sequence” that presages her welcome to the melting pot, and “New York Rhapsody,” an impressionistic urban tour that emphasizes the fear and alienation of the big city as Gaynor wanders despairingly around Manhattan. Motion Picture Herald called the latter arrangement “one of the finest, if not the finest, musical composition(s) originally conceived for a motion picture”; in expanded form it would enter the American repertory as Gershwin's “Second Rhapsody.”