Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, Mr. Wilton's revelations do not explain very much about the rather mysterious manner in which the mind of Boston's newest censor works, for he has announced that heading his list of tabooed plays are "The Vinegar Tree," "Sailor beware," "Strange Interlude," and "The Shanghai Gesture." Mr. Parker of the Transcript has his own explanation for the inclusion of the last two plays in the list; he is of the opinion that the censor is haunted, that theatrical spooks are making a hell of his life and that loudly banning plays which almost everyone has forgotten about...
...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...
...humor of it, like the plot, is sunny and to-the-point. The quality which makes "Sailor, Beware" a charming evening is its complete simplicity; it doesn't seem possible than anyone could write such guiltless stuff with wheat selling at $1.06 and O'Neill's "Days Without End" on the boards. The hostesses in The Idle Hour Cafe talk with point and guste; they know that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from...
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...