The Theater: Old Folks at Home & Abroad

A couple of very old characters developed some new wrinkles:

Harvey, who this week will make his 1,110th nonappearance in Manhattan's 48th Street Theater, may or may not have heard last week that he is getting a new drinking companion.* While Frank Fay takes a seven-week summer vacation starting July 12, Hollywood's 6 ft. 3 in. Jimmy Stewart will take charge of his lines and his invisible 6 ft. 1 in. rabbit. Producer Brock Pemberton said he offered Stewart his first Broadway role in seven years "between the acts one night a couple of weeks...

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