Fine Feathers (play)

Hackett had learned his lesson, when 4 years earlier he landed in jail after trying to pay his hotel bill at the Castleton in Staten Island with forged checks.

On March 27, 1911 the New York Daily Tribune announced that the Shuberts were preparing to make another production of Homeward Bound, this time starring Margaret Illington.

Theatrical agent and producer Harry Frazee met Walter on a train ride from Chicago to New York City, and convinced him that his latest rewrite of the play, now titled Fine Feathers, was the best thing he had ever written.

When Bob still adheres to his resolution, he is anon confronted by the issue either of losing his ambitious wife or subscribing to Brand's terms, and he yields.

Brand taunts him with the threat that Mrs. Reynolds will also be drawn into the vortex of ruin, if he persists in exposing things, but on second thought protects Bob's check.

The desperate condition of things has finally opened to the wife's mind to the consequences of the dishonesty to which she has sacrificed her husband, and now, willing to begin life all over, they are rejoicing in the news that the threatened arrest has been averted, when the information comes that the dam built of the defective cement has been swept away and the lives of a whole community have been destroyed.

The electric lights are extinguished in a flash, the sharp report of a pistol rings out and the wife sinks into the divan with a heart rending moan.

Frazee's press office that negotiations had been concluded between himself and Hans Bartsch & Co. representing Ruggero Leoncavallo, who would write an opera score to Fine Feathers.