REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE.

"Yellow Jack."

One of the most glorious yet leastknown pages from American history is immortalised in "Yellow Jack," co-star-ring Robert Montgomery and Virginia Bruce, which opens at the Regent Theatre tomorrow. The story, a dramatic dedication to the memory of five soldiers who faced death to save their fellow-men, tells of a commission of army doctors sent to Cuba after the Spanish-American War to establish the cause and cure of the yellow fever sweeping the island. Montgomery plays his first dramatic role since "Night Must Fall" as Sergeant O'Hara, leader of the men who volunteer to act as human guinea pigs in experiments conducted by medical officers. Miss Bruce is cast as a nurse, one of the two who accompanied the commission from Washington. Falling in love with Montgomery, she watches him twice volunteer to suffer the ravages of fever. Lewis Stone portrays the historical character of Major Walter Reed. Supporting players were chosen for their ability to interpret the difficult and dramatic characters in the story. They include Andy Devine, Henry Hull, Charles Coburn, Buddy Ebsen, Henry O'Neill, Janet Beecher, William Henry, Alan Curtis, Sam Levene, Stanley Ridges, Philip Terry, and Jonathan Hale.