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During a voyage on the barge they pick up a shipwrecked sailor, who promptly falls in love with the girl and, after some soul-searching and recriminations, marries her. It's as simple as that, but by means of some effective symbolism and characterization as well as his gloomy view of the fate which brings the pair together, O'Neill injected a good deal of power into the staggering plot. In a musical, however, you just don't explore the possibility of portraying the wickedness offered in the girl's career; you don't use fate except as a rhyme...
Cameron Prud'homme, in the part of the captain, also has his book-inspired troubles. He is inflicted with a Swedish accent which, it must be admitted, was O'Neill's idea. Prud'homme struggles valiantly, and on the whole with success. As for the sailor, George Wallace, he looks as muscular and manly as a musical comedy leading man has to; and he also has a good singing voice, a fact which he demonstrates in Merrill's best song, Look...
...ANGEL AND THE SAILOR (217 pp.)-Calvin Kentfield-McGraw-Hill...
...everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy couple, even brought along the pretty hotel cashier to liven up the party. Wearing silly sailor hats, the laughing foursome cruised over to visit a nightclub on nearby La Roqueta Island...
...Manhattan offices, hopped over to Bayonne, N.J. to have his picture taken with an old friend, the aircraft carrier Enterprise, thereby giving many a veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...