Sailor, Beware!

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Sailor, Beware! (1933), a comedy by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. [Lyceum Theatre, 500 perf.] When the crew of the USS Dakota arrives in the Canal Zone, the men decide to see if their leading man with the ladies, Chester “Dynamite” Jones ( Bruce MacFarlane), can win the cold heart of Billie “Stonewall” Jackson ( Audrey Christie), the celebrated nightclub hostess at the Idle Hour Cafe. Bets are placed both by the sailors and the girls at the club, and “Dynamite” and “Stonewall” are brought together. For a while an immovable object confronts an irresistible force, until Billie learns that the sailors have called off their bets. Despite a large cast and an elaborate, expensive‐to‐run production, this rowdy but funny comedy presented by Courtney Burr became one of the most profitable successes of the Depression. Charles [Knox] ROBINSON (1909–80), a New Yorker, also wrote Mahogany Hall (1934), Swing Your Lady (1936), and The Flying Gerardos (1940), but his other successful work was the Walter Huston vehicle Apple of His Eye (1946).

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