Opened at the Selwyn Theater on October 8, 1923. Closed April 20, 1924 after 313 performances — 6 months. Battling Buttler is a musical in three acts with music by Philip Braham and a book and lyrics by Stanley Brightman, Austin Melford and Douglas Furber, which opened in London in 1922. It was then greatly revised by Walter L. Rosemont (music) and Ballard MacDonald and produced on Broadway in 1923 after tryouts in Detroit and Chicago. Wiki link