A comedy in 3 acts. By Nat N. Dorfman. Produced originally at the 48th
Street Theatre in New York. 7 males, 6 females. 1 interior scene. Modern
costumes.
Few of us have escaped getting our fingers burnt in the crash of the
stock market, and even those of us who have, have heard enough about it
to take a sympathetic and amused interest in the doings of Henry Merrill
when he tries to buck the game and grow rich. The play starts just two
months before the crash. Henry, of the local soap works, is so heavy an
investor in an oil stock that he is made a thirty-sixth Vice President
of the Corporation. Not being the kind of fellow who would forget his
friends in this time of good fortune, he lets them all in on the good
thing. Being humanly greedy, the friends jump at the chance to
profit.... In the second act, after Henry's daughter has eloped, the
friends are presenting Henry with a diamond-studded wrist watch, as a
token of their esteem, when news comes of the Wall Street upheaval and
all are wiped out. Things, however, are not as bad as they look, for
Henry, who has an invention to revolutionize the soap industry, sells
the idea for a large price and everything is all right again.
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