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A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 7m
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood
Cornelia Van Gorder, a maiden lady of sixty, rents the summer home of a banker reported killed in Colorado. She is warned that mysterious things are happening but she refuses to move. A large sum is missing from the dead man’s bank, and many people are waiting for a chance to sneak into the home to access it.
Cornelia Van Gorder, a maiden lady of sixty, who rents the summer home of a banker reported killed in Colorado. She is warned that mysterious things are happening but she refuses to move. Then it is discovered that a large sum is missing from the dead man’s bank and that, far from being dead, he stole the money, hid it in a secret chamber in his house and is only waiting for a chance to sneak back to get it.
Four others are after the money: the bank cashier who is wrongfully accused of taking it, a detective engaged by Miss Van Gorder to clear up the mystery, a doctor friend and supposed confederate of the missing banker and The Bat, a notorious thief who has long eluded the police.
The Bat premiered on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on 23 August 1920.
MISS CORNELIA VAN GORDER - Elderly spinsterMISS DALE OGDEN - Beautiful young girl of 25LIZZIE ALLEN - Elderly maid, very eccentricBILLYANDERSONRICHARD FLEMINGBROOKSREGINALD BERESFORDUNKNOWN MANMAN
Miss Van Gorder’s Long Island house.
Sandy Rustin
Joe DiPietro