Penny Wise; a comedy in three acts

New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1937). Unstated edition. Softcover. [nice clean copy with minor external wear and one slightly scrunched lower page corner]. (B&W photo frontispiece, stage diagram) A comedy, set on a Connecticut farm, that had a brief (65 performances) run on Broadway in the spring of 1937, and then seems to have become (at least temporarily) a staple of various summer-stock companies. (The topliners of the N.Y. production were Linda Watkins, Kenneth MacKenna, and Irene Purcell.) According to a contemporary newspaper review, the play "tells the story of the mousey-like wife of a celebrated playwright who, though seemingly helpless against the philandering impulses of her husband, none the less has a strength, wit and capability greater than others suspect her of, and ably keeps her husband in line." The playwright's only other notable credit seems to have been an adaptation of the Christopher Morley novel "Thunder on the Left," which had an even shorter Broadway run in late 1933. .