Death Of Canine Stage Veteran

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 41, 12 November 1937, Page 18

Death Of Canine Stage Veteran

T>Y his death last June, Flush, most " renowned of the canine actors in America, who did not miss one of the 709 performances of “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” that Katharine Cornell gave in the United States and Canada, was spared the tragedy of having to surrender his role. Flush could not have accompanied Miss Cornell on the world tour she has planned for next year, because of the regulations in many countries against the importation of dogs, even if they were such artists as was Flush. Thus another cocker spaniel would have had to be engaged in each country, a fact that would have made Flush very unhappy. When under-studies were introduced back-stage in the Empire Theatre during the year’s run of the Barrett romance in New York City, Flush invariably drove them from the theatre. Even his own son, Junior, was not permitted in Flush’s territory. So poor Flush may rest in peace, never knowing that he may be supplanted, in fact if not in admiration, in his famous role in “The Barretts of Wimpole Street.”