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Conrad Sutton Smith

CONRAD SUTTON SMITH  

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below is a list of Conrad Sutton Smith's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Chain Of Circumstances         Dash Of Bitters, A         Perfectionist, The

Chain Of Circumstances

Synopsis:
Keith Fox, a struggling young American playwright in Paris, has just completed his new play but is very secretive about it, even with his two closest friends-Bonnie Lenox, a charming and resourceful girl who loves Keith deeply despite his all-consuming ambition-and Basil Worthing, a young Englishman, an ex-actor now semi-beatnik. Into this picture comes a successful Broadway playwright, Robin Meredith, who needs someone to type his new play and accepts Bonnie's suggestion of Keith. But when he starts to type Robin's play, Keith is horrified to realize that it deals with the same historical subject as his own. It drives him to a desperate decision-to do away with Robin-and further, to appropriate Robin's play as his own. So he evolves an elaborate "perfect crime" (with Basil's unwitting assistance). But Robin's dying words throw him into a turmoil: The handwritten script which Robin had given him for typing is not the only copy, and now Keith will never know when or where the other carbon copy may appear to condemn him. The chain of circumstances tightens even more around him when the crafty Basil begins to piece together many curious little discrepancies, with a view to a fat blackmail income. From this point on, the action takes swift and startling turns. The dramatic irony of the last five minutes can't be revealed here, but it's designed to hold an audience breathless until literally the last line.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Thriller

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Dash Of Bitters, A

Synopsis:
Muriel Whitlock, a middle-aged English spinster, is a perfectionist. Small wonder that Virginia Whitlock, an attractive young girl, hopes to get away. Virginia is a sculptress and she has just finished a statute which she is convinced will win her a scholarship to an art school in Rome. Muriel is not pleased, when she realizes that Virginia's mind is made up, she agrees, and even offers to help finance the trip. All seems well, but when they leave for church one day Muriel slips back and smashes Virginia's statue. But Muriel's act was witnessed by Ricky Vidal, a young Latin-American, who has slipped into the house, unknown to Muriel. Ricky presents himself to Muriel as her long-lost nephew, and she suspects of ulterior motives; but she is also intrigued by his charm. He flatters her, gets money from her, encourages her in her artistic endeavors, which consists of drawing the same still life over and over. Ricky diverts her to other models, among them some goldfish which he gives her as a gift; but the fish keep moving around, and Muriel can't get them to stay still until she puts them in the refrigerator, freezing them into position. Now Ricky realizes he is dealing with an unbalanced mind, and from this point on it's a tug-of-war between his lack of principles and Muriel's single mindedness.

Notes:
Adapted from "The Perfectionist" by Margaret St. Clair. / written by Denham, Reginald And Smith, Conrad

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melodrama Adaptation

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Perfectionist, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Written by Conrad Sutton Smith And Reginald Denham

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