Overview

The one act from which developed the Broadway success The Show Off. When Amy Piper receives a visit from an old girl friend her husband, Aubrey, tries desperately to impress the visitor. This is his usual way. He is flattered by her compliments on his masculine beauty, but not until she has gone does he realize that he has lost his toupee in the course of the conversation. He tells impressive tales of his wealth, his home, his car-- only to have his mother in law burst his balloon in comic fashion.