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What A Life 
Your Every Wish 

Clifford Goldsmith     What A Life
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Synopsis:

The principal characters are Henry Aldrich, who just can't memorize the dates in history, who tries to sell anything he owns in order to raise two dollars to take his girl to the dance, and who in desperation "borrows" answers to his examination, only to be found out; Barbara Pearson who is gloriously happy and desperately unhappy over the prospect of her first formal dance; George Bigelow, Henry's enemy, who almost gets him into real trouble; several teachers, including Miss Pike, Miss Johnson and Miss Wheeler; Mr. Nelson, assistant principal, who straightens out Henry's problem; not to mention Henry's mother who insists that the boy go to Princeton, though his talent is for drawing. Henry just can't get through his head the book learning he is supposed to absorb, and this is what involves him in scrapes both serious and amusing and once makes it look as though he had stolen the school band instruments. However, Henry's problem is solved through the sympathetic help of the assistant principal and everything turns out for the best after all.
First Produced
Published Dramatist Play Service, NY
Genre Comedy, full length
Parts Male
8
Female 10
Other including boys & girls
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Clifford Goldsmith     Your Every Wish
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Synopsis:

The play revolves around the discovery by Burnham Wicks, a widower, that not only his own teenage son and daughter, but most of the teenage children of his friends, are comparing their parents with other parents, and not always too favorable. In a fit of exasperation, Mr. Wicks calls a meeting of fathers and mothers, among whom is an attractive widow, the mother of a teenage son. He proposes that, as a lesson to their children, they allow them to exchange parents for a period of thirty day. At first, some of the mothers view the suggestion with horror, but all are finally persuaded that some good might come of the idea. The parents draw the children's names from a hatand what happens to Mr. Wicks (who "won" the widow's son), and to the widow herself, to say nothing of most of the other parents and their proxy youngsters, is hilarious entertainment. And, as the parents decide that perhaps the experiment should never have been started, the teenagers turn the table on them, telling their parents that they like their new homes, and that they are determined to make them permanent. The parents are really thrown into panic. But eventually the parents win back their own offspringand Mr. Wicks wins the lovely widow.
First Produced
Published Dramatist Play Service, NY
Genre Comedy, full length
Parts Male
8
Female 4
Other
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