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...produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid to let her divorce his friend and marry another man, had killed her husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through the astonishing tapestry of this play...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...
...Tribune, in Chicago, where Mrs. Stillman was once the debutante "Fifi" Potter, and whither she seldom returns, put all the animus of constitutional vulgarity into its headline: "FIFl HURLS CUPS AND SALAD AT NEWSPAPER MEN." The Tribune account, a copy of which had to be toned down for the Tribune's New York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride...
...Subscriber Sperling explain his meaning. "Mademoiselle Fifi" is the nickname of a Prussian officer, created in fiction by Guy de Maupassant, who has him propose (in 1870) to five French filles de joie (one of them a Jewess) and his brother officers, the toast: "Ours, every woman of France...
...Christian girls cower, but the Jewess, Rachel, cries : "I! I! I'm not a woman, I'm only a-a - slut! That's good enough for a Prussian!" Forthwith she stabs "Mademoiselle Fifi" in the throat, killing him, then escapes by jumping out the window, finally hides for months in a church tower, fed and cared for by the priest and the sacristan...