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Seven Keys to Baldpate (play)
''Seven Keys to Baldpate'' is a 1913 play by George M. Cohan based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It baffled some audiences and critics but became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival. Cohan further adapted it as a film in 1917, and it was adapted for film six more times, as well as for TV and radio. The play "mixes all the formulaic melodrama of the era with a satirical () send-up of just those melodramatic stereotypes."〔Warburton, Eileen. ("Keeper of the Keys to Old Broadway: Geroge M. Cohan's ''Seven Keys to Baldpate'' (1913)" ), 2nd Story Theatre, January 32, 2014, accessed October 14, 2014. See also ("Play Reviews for ''Seven Keys to Baldpate''" ), 2nd Story Theatre, accessed October 14, 2014〕
==Synopsis==
Novelist Billy McGee makes a bet with a wealthy friend that he can write a 10,000 word story within 24 hours. He retires to a summer mountain resort in the dead of winter and locks himself in, believing he has the sole key. However he is visited during the night by a rapid succession of other people (melodrama stock types), including a corrupt politician, a crooked cop, a hermit, a feisty girl reporter and a gang of criminals, etc., none of whom have any trouble getting into the remote inn: there appear to be seven keys to Baldpate.
McGee gets no work done, instead being drawn into the hijinks and eventually foiling a plot by the crooks to get a huge amount of money from the hotel safe that is earmarked for a city street railroad deal and falling in love with the reporter. He observes derisively that all of these complicated incidents and characters are ones that he has written over and over again. Just before midnight, he finds out that everyone is an actor hired to perpetuate a hoax, orchestrated by McGee's friend to keep him from completing the story.
In the epilogue, the inn is empty, and a typewriter is clattering upstairs: McGee has finished his story before midnight and won the bet. He reveals that nothing had happened during the 24 hours; all the preceding melodrama, including the actors and hoax, constitute the contents of the story.
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