This screwball comedy follows the Rimplegar family, once comfortably wealthy but suddenly and comically undone after losing their fortune in the stock market crash, forcing this eccentric, scatterbrained household to confront the unfamiliar business of earning a living. The three grown Rimplegar daughters, each restless and romantically entangled in her own way, must reckon with suitors, career ambitions, and their own family's absurd inability to manage money even in reduced circumstances. Much of the comedy springs from the contrast between the family's genteel pretensions and their genuinely dire financial straits, as they cheerfully muddle through crisis after crisis with more optimism than sense. Beneath the farce lies a gentle commentary on resilience and reinvention in the wake of the Depression, as the family discovers unexpected strength and even happiness once forced to shed their old assumptions about status. The play was popular enough in its day to be adapted for film, and its blend of family chaos and economic hard times gave community theater audiences a comedy that felt close to home.

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