THE BAT
Rhinehart Hopwood
Mystery, 3 acts
Samuel French, Inc.
3 women, 7 men |
A banker is dead. A large sum of money is missing. 4 people want to find
it, including the bar, a notorious thief who has long eluded the police. Many false leads
until the mystery is solved, at the play's end. |
BEAT IT, BEATNIK
Anne C. Martens
Comedy, 1 act
Bakers Plays
6 women, 5 men |
A well meaning sister finds out her sister's new boyfriend is a beatnik.
She sets out to show her sister, the error of her choice, but her sister turns the table. |
THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER
Barbara Robinson
Comedy - 1 act
Samuel French, Inc.
6 female 4 male 9 girls 8 boys |
The hilarious story concerns the efforts of a woman and her husband to put
on the annual church Christmas pageant despite casting meanies. |
THE BEST LAID PLANS
Fred Carmichael
Comedy, 2 acts
Samuel French, Inc.
4 women, 6 men
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All about spies. Ian Fleming type author is a government liaison with
enemy powers. A spy dies whose secret plans are wanted by several. The body is moved all
over. Then the twin brother shows up. |
BLIND ALLEY
James Warwick
Mystery, 3 acts
Samuel French, Inc.
4 women, 7 men |
Psychology professor and wife are visited by notorious killers. 2 murders
follow. The professor's only weapon: psychoanalysis, is used, the killer has a life
review, deciding his conclusion is suicide. |
BLITHE SPIRIT
Noel Coward
Farce, 3 acts
Samuel French, Inc.
5 women, 2 men |
Charles needs material for his novel, so he stages a seance by an eccentric
medium. Complications begin when the ghost of his first wife appears and plagues his
marriage. |
THE BLUE GHOST
Bernard J. McOwen, J.P.Riewers
Mystery/Melodrama, 3 acts
Samuel French, Inc.
1 woman, 6 men |
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BORN YESTERDAY
Garison Kanin
Comedy, 3 acts
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
4 women, 9-11 men |
Junk magnate goes to Washington to lobby to enable his to buy (steal) junk
iron on WW II battlefields, all goes well until he develops a conscience and ends his
schemes. |
BRAVE NEW WORLD
David Rogers
Drama(based on Aidous Hundey's book)
Dramatic Publishing Co.
13 women, 19 men, 3 children, extras |
Set in the future where mindless happiness is universal, babies aren't born
but decanted, human frustrations eliminated with happiness drugs. Human throwback, John
questions modern values. |