Volume II: Filmography

FRANKFURTERS AND QUAIL

November 17, 1912 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Drama

Cast: William Garwood

Location: Some scenes were filmed at Coney Island, including the Coney Island Carnival.

ARTICLE, The Moving Picture World, November 16, 1912:

"A young couple who have inherited a vast fortune leave the ancestral home they have taken possession of - for Coney Island, where they will indulge in frankfurters and toboggan slides, which are undignified, but better fun than life in a mansion!"

SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, November 16, 1912:

"The young couple were happy, and the fact that they had very little money was absolutely no difference to them. Wealth, however, came to the man and wife through the unexpected death of a rich relative. They now had a beautiful estate, a large circle of friends and plenty of money, but they were far from being happy. The butler scared the husband, and he loathed the evening clothes his valet brought him at six o'clock each night. The wife had her troubles, too, for her maid annoyed her. One morning the husband noted in the paper that the Coney Island Carnival was on. The poor man didn't ask his wife, so he left a note explaining that he would lunch at a very tiresome club. He eluded the vigilant valet and the grave butler and 'hiked' to Coney Island. The wife also noted that there was to be doings at the seashore. So she, too, left a note telling of a social function and then made a beeline for the amusement resort. Man and wife met while viewing the parade. There were mutual explanations and mutual laughter. They then telephoned their servants that they were 'dining out,' and proved it by eating hot dogs."

REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, November 24, 1912:

"A pretty little romance is here pictured. It tells of the sudden inheritance of wealth by a young married couple and their moving from their tenement home to a palatial residence. It begins with a day's outing to Coney Island, where they have a 'perfectly corking time,' and later shows the boredom of their altered lives. Finally each slips away to Coney, not telling the other their destination, and here they meet by accident at the Mardi Gras procession. They begin all over again and act like two youngsters, enjoying their frankfurters as they did in their days of modest living."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture News, November 23, 1912:

"Frankfurters and Quail has some especially unique and interesting points. It contains good comedy, and the scenes from the carnival at Coney Island worked into the story are a specially pleasing feature."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, November 30, 1912:

"There is some mild amusement in this story of the newly rich young couple who found more pleasure in a trip to Coney Island and in a luncheon on frankfurters than they have been able to extract from the lobster palaces and on a quail diet."

REVIEW, The New York Dramatic Mirror, November 20, 1912:

"The fact that this couple, the hero and heroine of the tale, had no money made no difference to them. They enjoyed living in a little two by four flat and spending their pennies at Coney. Wealth came to them unexpectedly through the death of a relative, and they found themselves planted down in a big house with a large circle of friends, but far from being happy. They were out of their natural environment, and they felt it. Hearing that it is Carnival Week at Coney Island, the husband pines to relieve his jaded spirits with a turn at his old mode of pleasure. He leaves a note for his wife, saying that he has gone out for the afternoon and will be home for dinner. Now, the wife has felt the same call, but she, too, fears to expose her feelings, so sneaks off under the pretext that she is going shopping. The pair meet at Coney Island and laugh gleefully at the joke after the surprise had subsided. The quail for the evening dinner at home was spoiling - but they cared not. They had lunch at a shabby stand on frankfurters, and are happy in so doing."

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