theatres during the "wee sma'" hours of the morning." The scene was to feature 1,500 extras representing a typical New York theatre crowd on a Saturday night during a thunder shower. Principal photography ended at the beginning of October with exterior shots for Brand's home filmed at Billie Burke's "summer place", Burkeley Crest, now demolished and that was part of the Ziegfeld estate at Hastings-on-Hudson. The Visalia Times, a year after the Moving Picture World's article and 3 months after the release of the movie, reports on September 20, 1921, in a fairly detailed article that the Metro had built the facade of the Belasco in Yonkers for the theater scene. This is implausible for two reasons. One this was a movie made on a tight budget and building the facade of an entire building would have been prohibitively expensive but more importantly, there is at least one contemporaneous account of the overnight shoot in front of the Comedy Theatre. A writer for Picture-Play Magazine going by the pen name of The Bystander writes "And that evening, on the way home, at about half-past two, what do you suppose we ran into? A company taking scenes in front of one of the Broadway theaters for "Fine Feathers," the Metro picture. And one of the men in our party knew Fred Sittenham, who was directing. and asked him if we couldn't be in the crowd, and he said we could, and we stayed there till dawn came up on Broadway". Claire Whitney who plays Jane Reynolds, the leading female role, will say to the press that she has discovered a new set of film production critics who constitute the most reliable barometer for the success of any particular scene in the production. While working on location in Staten Island, she was always watched by scores of children of various ages who lived in the vicinity and after talking with a number of them, she decided that if they did not like any particular scene, it had better be retaken. For the bursting of the dam, art director M.P. Staulcup built a miniature dam in the Metro New York studio, showing the wide spillway, the rock shores and the narrow valley with its entrance blocked by the great dam and the country spread out below it. To conform to the every little block of masonry in the dam, it was plastered together