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...sailor succeeded a surgeon as President of what red-hot island...
From the uttermost reaches of a front box, it was recently our privilege to see Mr. Courtney Burr's comedy, "Sailor, Beware." Our disappointment was great at finding that it was not a musical, an illusion we had carried about New York literally for months. It certainly should have been a musical: it has just the right sort of plot, and even in the second act it is hard not to expect a chorus to come tripping on any moment, faces and limbs aglow with professional cheer. Our sense of hearing, dulled by this disappointment, and by the discovery that...
...Indianapolis, E. Paul ("Teddy") Lewis, 21, onetime sailor and mechanic, distributed handbills bearing his picture, announcing "AMERICA'S BRIDEGROOM GIVEN AWAY FREE." During a cross-country vaudeville tour, E. Paul Lewis will offer free chances on himself to girls and women "between the ages of 16 and 50, of sound mind, good moral character and eligible to marry.'' At the end of a year he will draw his bride's name out of a hat, present her with himself and $5,000 which he hopes to earn on his tour. If he refuses to marry...
Munday, an unfrocked priest living peacefully with his piano in Le Havre, France, meets a young cockney sailor, Ayton, an attractive weakling who has deserted ship. It soon turns out that Ayton is completely untrustworthy and has done worse things in life than deserting. But by that time Munday, though not blind to his faults, is hopelessly involved with him. When there is danger of Ayton's arrest the pair take refuge with a poverty-stricken farmer and his wife. There, visited occasionally by three friendly Lesbians, they lead a simple life, and Munday has hopes of Ayton...
...Wilderness!, Her Master's Voice, She Loves Me Not, Sailor, Beware!, Growing Pains...