Arizona republican., 1913-01-19


 seems to have fallen away short of and requirements, in spite of the excellence of the work of it's splendid cast, including Laura Hope Crews, Ethel Winthrop, Sidney Valentine and Harry B. Wamer-late Alias Jimmy Valentine As indicated by it's name it is a crook play-they are very fashionable in New York this winter It's first act promised much but the bottom fell out after that and even the storehouse yaWns for it.
 Fine feathers make fine birds sometimes Right now the critics are finely divided as to how fine a play Fine Feathers" makes. They are pretty well split up on the subject. It-or part of it-is by Eugene Wal 1 ters, author Of Paid in Full" and | The Easiest Way" Tue to Waltera custom it is not a pleasant affair some critics say it is strong and | gripping, others that it is ridiculous 1 and boring: all agree that it is not | Walter at his best. It is strong and | compels interest in spite of many | evident faults" Tt holds one to the | end" "Fine Feathers" is made throughout of such very cheap stuff | that even without it's ghastly finish | it could scarcely hope to find a place | among BroadWay's real successes" Tt l is cheap, puny: both it's hero and he | roine become before the finish Whoi- 1
 r contemptible types" etc, etc. It's ! cast includes such fine material as Wilton Lackaye, Rose Coghlan. Max | Figman, Lolita Robertson and Robert ! Edeson. surely a list of names to conjure with By way of a cheerful 1 finish Mr Edeson blows his brains l out in sight of the audience. Fine l Feathers" which was original with | Walter Hackett, has had many ali ases, Arnold Daily. Charlotte Walker l and Margaret Ellington have each l tried it as a starring vehicle under different names; but in each case it | was spelled F-A-I-L-U-R-E Only time and the box office can tell what Fine Feathers spells.
 In The. Good Little Devil" at the Republic David Bela5co has scored not only his fourth consecutive sue cess in B.oadWay's season of failures
 but the critics without exception hail
 1t as the most wonderful thing that
 he has ever produced Among all
 the critics there is not one dissenting
 voice: rather does each one strive to
 outdo the other in praise. The
 Good Little Devil" ia an old fashion
 cd fairy tale by young Maurice Ros- tand and his mother. done into Eng fish by Austin Strong It deals with the little orphan Cha-les in his rat ridden attic and blind Juliet in her exquisite garden. Alone in his attic l Charles is visited by the Fairies, all of them We know so we'll. Queen 1 Nah. Titania and hosts of others and then last and least only in size came little Thought from-Afar bring ing the or, han lad the three kisses | which the mother who had died to 1 give him birth had sent him from l the edg" Of heaven itself.
 | Charles and Juliet meet in h.. | wonderful garden the climax of the | producers art" and love was in their ! simple ellHash way urti! one d2y 1 Charles is taken {, fIr-of London 1 to be a sWeIf-a rich lord or some | thing-and Juliet is left alone. Bye 1 and bye Charles comes back to the l little house-he has deve,opcd into o snob-and it all seems so pitiiully | small and distastcful to him es | pecially as he has one of his own | kinda lady snob whom he is to l marry-With him. In some way q | good fairy gets his conscience to | work and presently through a dil1 | grimed window comes tumbling hi 1 sweet boyhood's self-the boy he | used to he when he was really q boy 1 and the spirit of that long for gotten lad drove the snob out of him
 even as a devil So of course he
 loves little Juliet once more, Then
 the fairies flood that beautiful gar
 den with sunshine and light and to
 Juliet they give back her sight that
 she may see for herself her own
 dear lover Then from fairy ovens
 comes the most delightfully."- indigest-
 ible' wedding feast that never was
 and everybody lived happily ever after The Evening Sun says: Back of it all there is a note of pathos and regret and tenderness struck in this ecric little play which can only reach and fully touch the hearts of men and women who have left their youth some way behind