''Present Arms'' is a

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musical comedy that opened April 26, 1928, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by

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. It was produced by

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with musical numbers stage by

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. It ran for 155 performances at the Lew Fields' Mansfield Theatre, which today is known as the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. ''Present Arms'' was filmed in 1930 with

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, with its title changed to ''

Leathernecking ''Leathernecking'' is a 1930 American musical comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline, from a screenplay by Alfred Jackson and Jane Murfin, adapted from the Broadway musical comedy '' Present Arms'', by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert ...

''. The film is presumed lost.

Plot

The show starred Charles King, Flora Le Breton, Joyce Barbour and

. 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.

Songs

Act One * "Tell It to the Marines" * "

You Took Advantage of Me "You Took Advantage of Me" is a 1928 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart, for the musical '' Present Arms'' (1928), where it was introduced by Joyce Barbour and Busby Berkeley as the characters Edna Stevens and Dou ...

" * "Do I Hear You (Saying I Love You)?" * "A Kiss for Cinderella" * "Is It the Uniform?" * "Crazy Elbows" Act Two * "Down By the Sea" *"I'm a Fool for You (I'm a Fool, Little One)" * "Blue Ocean Blues" * "Hawaii" * "Kohala, Welcome"

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{{Herbert Fields 1928 musicals Broadway musicals Military humor Musicals by Rodgers and Hart Musicals set in the Roaring Twenties Hawaii in fiction Works about the United States Marine Corps Musicals by Herbert Fields