THE STORY: The play revolves around the discovery by Burnham Wicks, a widower, that not only his own teenage son and daughter, but most of the teenage children of his friends, are comparing their parents with other parents, and not always too favorable. In a fit of exasperation, Mr. Wicks calls a meeting of fathers and mothers, among whom is an attractive widow, the mother of a teenage son. He proposes that, as a lesson to their children, they allow them to exchange parents for a period of thirty day. At first, some of the mothers view the suggestion with horror, but all are finally persuaded that some good might come of the idea. The parents draw the children’s names from a hat—and what happens to Mr. Wicks (who “won” the widow’s son), and to the widow herself, to say nothing of most of the other parents and their proxy youngsters, is hilarious entertainment. And, as the parents decide that perhaps the experiment should never have been started, the teenagers turn the table on them, telling their parents that they like their new homes, and that they are determined to make them permanent. The parents are really thrown into panic. But eventually the parents win back their own offspring—and Mr. Wicks wins the lovely widow.
