The play's the thing by Ferenc Molnár and P. G. Wodehouse

"The play's the thing" by Ferenc Molnár and P. G. Wodehouse is a comedic play adapted in 1926. When young composer Albert overhears his fiancée Ilona in a compromising late-night conversation with another actor, their engagement hangs in the balance. Enter his uncle Sandor Turai, a veteran playwright with a theatrical solution: he frantically writes an entire play overnight, transforming the overheard dialogue into scripted lines. Can this elaborate deception convince Albert that nothing happened, or will the charade unravel? (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Molnár, Ferenc, 1878-1952
Author Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975
LoC No. 27003750
Title The play's the thing
Original Publication New York: Brentano's, 1927.
Note Wodehouse's adaptation of Molnar's play: Játék a kastélyban, #73813.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Play%27s_the_Thing_(play)
Credits Carla Foust, Aaron Adrignola and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 88.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures
Subject Comedy plays
Subject Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama
Subject Dramatists -- Drama
Subject Actors -- Drama
Category Text
eBook-No. 75451
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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