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Farce-Comedy

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Synopsis: After rounding up the mothers of our beauty contestants, who have been backstage giving their daughters last-minute encouragement, a young Master of Ceremonies sends them to their seats. He explains to the audience the kind of contest he is staging for the Super Association for Supermarkets. In this contest both beauty and brains will be judged to select the Supermarket Queen. The five contestants, the Misses "Canned Corn," "Pretzels," "Prunes," "Skim Milk" and "Upside-down Cake," parade before the judges. Then to prove the girls have more than beauty, the M.C. quizzes them about such diverse matters as marriage, their ideal man, the political state of Furope and Finstein's Theory of Relativity. As Ftheleene Hudkins, "Miss Prunes", is crowned, the angry mothers of the losing contestants swarm the stage and send the M.C. and the judges fleeing every which way.

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farce

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Synopsis: At 2 a.m. a burglar climbs into Caroline's and Alfred's bedroom, and hides in the closet. Caroline excitedly calls to Alfred. He must search the house at once. She rings for the maid but Selma, terrified, will do nothing. Grudgingly, Alfred looks under the beds and in the closet, but finds no one. Caroline insists that he search the entire house. He starts. The burglar steps from the closet, and begins to ransack the room. But he reckons with Caroline, who has always had her way. With tears and entreaties she works on the "better nature" of the intruder, who bursts into tears, and not only returns everything he has stolen, but gives her all the swag he acquired from a previous "job." Alfred is heard outside, pounding on the door. The burglar disappears, Caroline admits her husband, who wants to call the police, but she says: "He didn't rob us, Alfie. He gave me all this?"

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Youth Audience

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Synopsis: The Lovejoys have named their sons "Jesse," "Francis" and "Vivian," because Mildred's Aunt Jessie doesn't like boys. Aunt Jessie lives in England, so it has been easy to deceive her. She must never know that the "girls" who are to inherit her money are boysvery real boys. They "scrap" with Chester Wattles, are accused by Mrs. Wattles of breaking her windows, and act as other boys do. Each will receive $5,000 on his sixteenth birthday, and more when he comes of age. Vivian is nearly sixteen, and Father plans to borrow part of the $5,000 to expand his business. Then the blow falls! Aunt Jessie has decided to pay a visit and bestow on her eldest "niece" in person the $5,000. What can be done? The boys must be girlsduring Aunt Jessie's visit. The boys are won over, dressed as girls and carefully rehearsed. Aunt Jessie arrives and finds Mildred's "daughters" strange creatures indeed. All is well, however, until Vivian decides to put on his own clothes to see Phyllis, his girl, whom he has had to neglect. Aunt Jessie sees him slipping outVivian, her niece, in shirt, pants, and cap, and cropped hair! The truth is out and it looks as though all is lost. But after the old lady gives the family a scare, she relents.

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comedy

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Synopsis: Professor Delwyn C. Coots, the great authority on the young women, begins his famous lecture, "What's Wrong with the Girls." Being a truthful man as well as a scientist, the professor finds plenty wrong: the way girls walk, talk, dress, fall in love, marry, etc. To make his lecture more telling the professor has two actors demonstrate all these faults. However, this scientific demonstration is interrupted by a young woman, Miss Hazel Duckworth, who indignantly gets up from her seat in the audience and challenges the professor's facts. Then with the assistance of two other actors, she shows up the human male as considerably worse than his female counterpart.

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farce

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Synopsis: A popular lecturer appears before the curtain and explains in a few words why he is a bachelor. His talk is illustrated in a number of scenes by various persons who act out, in detail, those amusing and perplexing scenes in married life that are supposed to prove that the latter is not all it is cracked up to be.

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Synopsis: Antonia, a young village woman, is worried about her uncle, whose mind has been turned by reading too much about chivalry, and who now imagines that he is actually a knight himself by the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tearfully, Antonia confides to her housekeeper that her uncle has just a announced he is going out into the world for the sake of his imaginary lady, Dulcinea del Toboso, to right wrongs and particularly to have it out with his arch enemy-purely imaginary-the Knight of the White Moon. The housekeeper calls in Dr. Carrsco, the village scholar, and Master Nicolas, the barber, for advice. Dr. Carrasco comes up with a plan but insists that for awhile Antonia should not try to restrain her uncle from wandering. And so with his good horse, Rocinante (played by two men), and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, Don Quixote leaves the village to seek adventure. It is not long in coming. He mistakes an innocent shepherd for an evil wizard, and a barber's basin for a resplendent helmet. He encounters a country girl whom he imagines to be his lady love, Dulcinea del Toboso. He routs a flock of sheep (offstage) thinking they are an army of enemies. He knocks himself out attacking a windmill which he mistakes for a giant, and loses his horse in the attempt. After other wonderful adventures, he meets his great enemy, the Knight of the White Moonwho is really Dr. Carrasco in disguise. There is a furious combat between the two. Dr. Carrasco wins, and poor Don Quixote is forced to submit to the victor's terms: to go back home and lead a peaceful life. This he does, now cured of his delusions and happy to settle down at last