Word: overbright
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Take My Tip (by Nat N. Dorfman; Mack Hilliard, producer) is, of course, about the 1929 stockmarket crash. A not overbright Connecticut householder has bet his shirt on something called Triplex Oil and, sure enough, Triplex Oil takes a devastating tumble. Playwright Dorfman is not so sanguine as to have Triplex Oil ride the Connecticut punter and the play back to prosperity and happiness. That end of the comedy is taken care of by a machine, well "planted" in Act I, for engraving monograms on soap...