Spotlight on Lee Falk - Other writings - Passionate Congressman
Lee Falk copyrighted the "Passionate Congressman" (Journalese in three acts) February 11, 1944 [1].
Plot
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Productions
Civic Theatre
Early 1944 Kermit Bloomgarden and Victor Samrock (business managers, respectively for Herman Shumlin and the Playwrights Company) said they have decidet to do some producing on their own. They did arrangement for a spring presentation of Lee Falk's play, "The Passionate Congressman" [2] <re>Zolotow Sam, "Tod Gets Score", The New York Times (New York), 09 Feb 1944, p ?</ref>, and the play was scheduled for production on Broadway [3].
Lee Falk said that Eddie Dowling, got a theatre in Chicago for the production of "The Passionate Congressman", but that he (Lee Falk) wasn't able to get a furlough to attend reharsals. Dowling decides to postpone the production for a week or two until Falk could arrange to be there. In the meantime Dowling decides he would fill in the time with some little noncommercial thing he had found, called "The Glass Menagerie" [4].
According to Ralph Thomas Kettering, manager of the Civic Theatre, he met Alex Yokel while walking in Chicago. During the conversation Kettering told that he was looking for a play and that Yokel told he had one, "The Passionate Congressman" financed to open in January 1945. Kettering said he needed a play to Christmas night. They decided to visit Eddie Dowling to have a look at the new script "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams [5].
Cambridge Summer Theatre
"The Passionate Congressman" opened at the Cambridge Summer Theatre June 25, 1945 [6].
Cast & Crew
Presented by
- John Huntington
Writing credits
- Lee Harrison Falk
Staged by
- Meil McFee Skinner
Setting
- Paul McGuire
Cast
- Kurt Richards as Douglas Grenville Jr
- Gertrude Flynn as Tessie Stroh
- Nick Harris as Amos Tuttle
- Neil Hamilton as The Honorable Daniel Emmet Nelson (Easy)
- Edmon Ryan as Wylie Stark
- George MacQuarrie as The Honorable Walter Thorner
- Bruce Adams as Rudy Ghouly
- Ruth Homond as Baby
- John McKee as Associate Justice Scott Carveth
- Louise Valery as Elain Bowersmith
- Frank McNellis as Mike Harrigan
- William Becker as Pedley
- Philip Wheaton as Milton
- Roderich Winchell as Bleeker
- Eliot Duvey as Ott
- William Otis as The Honorable Georg Hoben Edward Finnegan Peters
- Donald Josephs as Sam
- Carter Jefferson as Louie
"The Passionate Congressman" and "Alice in Wonderland" both were tried out at Cambridge Summer Theatre and skeded for Broadway presentation in the fall [7]. James Dunn did read the script and did not dismiss that he might return on stage this season [8].
References
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries (Washington D.C.) Part 1, Group 3, New series, Volume 16, p 18
- ↑ "Addenda", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 10 Feb 1944, p 24
- ↑ "In this Corner with Cedric Adams", The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 08 Feb 1944, p 24
- ↑ Bentley Byron, "Mandrake's Alter Ego", Theatre Arts, September 1955, p 91
- ↑ Kettering Ralph Thomas, "a Star comes back!" Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 18 Mar 1951, p 75
- ↑ Pearson Barbara, "The Passionate Congressman", The Billboard, 7 Jul 1945, p 38-39
- ↑ "Sock Cambridge Biz So Straw Hat Folds", The Billboard,11 Aug 1945, p 30
- ↑ "Addenda", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 09 Oct 1945, p 19