This movie was very good despite the fact that the film company did not hire a well known actors. The way they had such problems with microphone placement in the 1952 movie "Singing in the rain "didn't seem to be evidenced in "The Lights if New York".
Also it was not only Foy who extended this short into a full length feature film, Tom Dugan, besides playing one of the henchmen, he was also a screen writer who wrote more dialogue every day after filming, helping to make it to 57 minutes. He was in Vaudeville for 25 years before breaking into the film industry. He was in 263 other films until his death in 1955. I may sound like I'm partial to him , since he is my wife's great uncle.
Fred Lamberti