At a rehearsal of “Yellow Jack,” James Stewart, who plays the role of a young Irish soldier quartered in Cuba in 1900, appeared with an album of snapshots. They were photographs taken by his father in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Many of the costumes in “Yellow Jack” are based on these snapshots. Young Stewart himself wears a costume that makes him look like his father’s double.
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