Comedy
Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries, adapted from the novel by Mr. de Vries
Characters: 2 male, 4 female
Interior Set
Tom Ewell played the Broadway part of a suburban husband in a 5 year childless marriage. He and his wife decide to adopt a baby, but a loud mouth neighbor upsets the apple cart when the adoption investigator comes to call. However, not to be outdone, Ewell finds himself in the clutches of the investigator, who has suddenly turned color. Later she announces that she is pregnant and is going off to have the baby. She will see that the man and his wife receive the child in due time through the agency. Shortly after the baby arrives, however, the wife learns of the matter and starts packing to go home to Mother. But it turns out that the adopted baby was not fathered by the husband, and also that the wife is now herself pregnant; and matters are mended.
"It offers laugh after laugh." N.Y. World Telegram & Sun.
- ISBN10 1322244278
- ISBN13 9781322244273
- Publish Date 1 January 2014 (first published 1 December 1954)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 257
- Language English