THE STORY: Abby, Dot and Pat share an apartment while they try to make it on Broadway. The rent is due, and Minnie, their landlady, tells them to pay up or else. Then Pat comes home with a box she has found in a garbage can (she got curious when she saw a man drop the box). They open it and find $50,000. Abby recalls the news that a ransom of $50,000 would be paid that day to Baby Face Ben for kidnapping Irene Manning. They are scared to notify the police, and, to add to their predicament, Baby Face Ben has followed Pat home. When Oscar, an astrologer, happens by, they take him for one of Ben’s men. Having armed themselves, they surround Oscar and hilariously make him prove he’s an astrologer. As they draft him to help put the money back, a brick is thrown through the window, bearing the note: “You have the money but that isn’t all you’re going to get!” What they get is Irene Manning, gagged and bound, on their doorstep, and of all times for Minnie to pop in, this would be it! She recognizes Irene and runs for the police. With the ransom money and the kidnapped girl in their possession, the mere thought of the police petrifies them. Needless to say, all ends well.
Effective high school piece.
