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| Present Arms | |
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| Music | Richard Rodgers |
| Lyrics | Lorenz Hart |
| Book | Herbert Fields |
| Productions | 1928Broadway |
Present Arms is aBroadwaymusical comedy that opened April 26, 1928, with music byRichard Rodgers, lyrics byLorenz Hart, and book byHerbert Fields. It was produced byLew Fields with musical numbers stage byBusby Berkeley. It ran for 155 performances at theLew Fields' Mansfield Theatre, which today is known as the Lena Horne Theatre.Present Arms was filmed in 1930 withIrene Dunne, with its title changed toLeathernecking. The film is presumed lost.
The show starredCharles King,Flora Le Breton,Joyce Barbour andBusby Berkeley. A man from Brooklyn is serving as a buck private in Pearl Harbor. He flirts with an English Peer's daughter; however, she is being pursued by a German, who raises pineapples in Hawaii. The Brooklynite pretends to be a Captain in order to make an impression, but he is found out, booted out, and loses out on the girl, until he proves himself in a shipwreck.
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