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Third Best Sport

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 7m

"An observant and enjoyable picture of what may not be the third best sport but comes close to being the Biggest Tax Deductible Party—the company meeting in some sunny resort attended by all the salesmen and their wives." —NY Times.

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    4w, 7m

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As described by Chapman. "…has to do with a new bride on a honeymoon in a swell Florida hotel suite. Little did she know that her husband was combining business with wedlock by taking her to a company convention. Instead of swimming in the surf, lazing in the sun and wooing in the chamber, she finds herself caught up in a mess of big deals and little jealousies. Well, if you know Miss Holm…you can figure it's a cinch for her to upset the routine of the convention. She says the wrong things to the right people, turns the big meeting into a disaster and strikes a great glow for the freedom of the corporation female." She invites a free-thinking philosopher, who is known as a corporation killer, to speak to the convention, under the mistaken impression that he is an economist who writes for the The Wall Street Journal; she insults the stuffy wife of the company's most important customer, and generally manages to create havoc and hilarity wherever she goes. By the end of the play the bride has, of course, managed to get the contract for her husband, and to establish her own independence. All of this is done with great warmth and humor.
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    • Mild Adult Themes

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"An observant and enjoyable picture of what may not be the third best sport but comes close to being the Biggest Tax Deductible Party—the company meeting in some sunny resort attended by all the salesmen and their wives. —NY Times.

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Eleanor Bayer

Eleanor Bayer, born Eleanor Rosenfeld and more famously known as Eleanor Perry, was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Western Reserve University, where she wrote for the college's literary magazine. Together with her first husband, attorney Leo G. Bayer, she wr ...
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Leo Bayer

Leo Bayer had a successful law practice in Cleveland for more than three decades. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was one of three children of William S. and Gertrude L. (Grossberg) Bayer. He graduated from high school in Cleveland at 15, attended the University of Chicago [Illi ...
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