Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1913-11-08
FINE FEATHERS
Next Theatrical AttactiOn at
Temple Theatre.

In Golfers Weekly of Dec IL, 1912,
there appears an editorial comment
concerning "Fine Feathers" the
newest drama by Eugene Walter which
II. II. Frazee will present here for the
first time at the Temple Theatre, Satur-
day, Nov. 18th in which Eugene Wal
ter's latest play is mentioned as a
worthy successor to his previous works,
'Mr. Eugene Walters "Fine
Feathers" says the Collier article"
has been playing in Chicago with great
success since early August 1912. The
fine feathers IN this case are the
pretty things which an Hnconsciously
selfish wife demands, and for which
her devoted young husband sells his
soul and eventually wrecks his happi-
ness and hers. This characteristic
American theme, with people taken, as
he took them before, from the seat OPP
posite in the 81" train or the flat over
head, Mr.. Walter carries out to its con-
clusion with the same force and acrid
thoroughness which he showed in
Paid In FULL and The Easiest Way
"The young couple live in suburb.
an bungalow for which they are paying
in monthly instruments. The wife,
pretty upstate girl, does her own
housework, the husband is chief chem
ist in the government cement labratory
and gets twenty-five dollars week
Wives do drive husbands to live be-
yond their means and we can accept
Bob and Mrs. Reynolds as symbols.
They are scrimping and struggling
along, with the young wife buying the
new hat, instead of paying the butchers
bill and not daring to tell her husband
she has been to the matinee, when
along comes an old friend of her hus-
band, a successful business man now,
with solution of all their troubles. He
is interested in the building of a big
dam, the architect for which has speci-
fled certain quality of cement. Ordi-
nary cement, says he, is quite good
enough and will last hundred years,
and if Bob, as expert, will but let the
ordinary quality 90 through it will save
5000, 900, 1000 of which will be his.
"The young fellow refuses naturally
that's stealing, The capitalist, keen,
magnetic with a hearty frankness
which disarms less forceful men, laughs
this aside as absurd. 'It's mostly
picking up the loose ends of a business
deal-and its picking up loose ends
that's made the American millionaire"
And he goes on to crush the young
man with the argument that it isn't
work that makes money for the worker
the only thing that makes money is
money and unless you have some to
turn over and make more you will be
working for someone else all your life,
And his wife, by the half open door,
overhears all"
Mrs, Reynolds gives her husband the
alternative to accept the proposition
which will enable her to have the lux
uries of her more fortunate neighbors
or she will leave him, her home and all
The desperate husband, driven, sur
renders at last. '1'll get my money
first and reform afterward, like the
rest of 'em" he cries, and lets the ce-
ment contract go through.
He is not one of those, as his friend
the reporter says, who can do wrong
and get away with it, The wrong gets
away vito him.
And with this promise Mr.. Walter
has written his great message to the
American people. A message full Of
that yirility and soaring invective
which he alone, of all American drama
lists, has the "punch" to deliver,
The play comes here widely en-
dorsed by the press and public of ev-
cry important city in this country and
after registering wonderful monetary
successes for fifty-two weeks during
its first season in the Aston Theatre,
New York, the Cort Theatre, Chicago,
and special trans-continental tour to
the Pacific Coast