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Full Length, Melodrama
7 men, 2 women
Total Cast: 9, Interior
ISBN-13: 990328


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $105 per performance. MS.
THE STORY: The Nazi Consul in New York is so odious that he tries to force his secretary to commit suicide so that he will not reveal the Consul’s theft of funds. Certain facts of importance to the German government have been leaking out of the Consul’s office, and he is being recalled to Berlin. Knowing of his wife’s affection for an American newspaper man, the Consul suspects her of being the informer, and he threatens to deport her to Germany unless her lover brings out new headings in his favor. In addition to the stolen funds, The Consul has accepted bribes from a Dr. Jennings, whose daughter and son-in-law are in a concentration camp, supposedly to set them free. When the Doctor finds the Consul has failed to keep his promises, (his daughter has died and his son-in-law has gone insane) he shoots the Consul as he sits listening to a blaring radio speech of Hitler’s. All of the other’s in the room had their backs to the Consul so no one saw the crime committed. As he attempts to solve the crime a vastly entertaining Jewish policeman slips in some of the shrewdest and most humorous ribbing you will find anywhere. To add to his bewilderment, it is revealed that the Consul has also been stabbed and poisoned!