New Picture

White Feather (Panoramic; 20th Century-Fox). "Never," scream the ads for this western, "has the screen dared so boldly to cross the boundary lines of color and intolerance!" Indeed, in this picture, only six months after the production code was broadened to admit the subject -- and only 3,000 years or so after Solomon entertained the Queen of Sheba -- a Hollywood studio has dared to take up the question of miscegenation. The subject has been filmed before, of course, notably in Pinky, the story of an affair between a white man and a Negro girl; but in White Feather the hero (Robert Wagner) is a white man who actually marries a red-blooded Indian girl. The moviemakers have of course been careful to soften the shock of this dee-double-daring event. The marriage takes place way back in the 1870s and is not shown on the screen. The Indian girl is played by a pretty young actress (Debra Paget) who is obviously of sturdy Nordic stock, and the rest of the picture is so dull that moviegoers may not care what happens to the characters anyway.

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