Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 108

I ZtijA TR'YTiONS 2 1 4 PA a thousand worth at matter vrith you? Are you sick? ha ha ha ha! SCENE 111 tu see that? 4 3 3 4 Monday luorplng and Ma aqd Pa are bright and early at the office of Russell Bussell Bussell Rankin is there too this is the big day fa is waiting for CRC to go down to 2 he has raised a thousand dollars by wiring back home to a friend who' will lend you money on your car while you ride the interest is iAYOR: (rising): Well boys see you Monday CHORUS: Monday she is CRC 8 A (moroselu) I should have bought it when it was down to 2 1 2 Darn it MA: ine going up 1 hope it keeps on RANKIN 2 Maybe we should have bought it: when It was 2 12Maybe it go down any more BOARD: A CRC 2 3 4 i Here she comes PA: Hurray! coming down 'ft MA: Are you crazy? One minute glad coming down the next minute glad going up BOARD: '1 PROLOGUE Pa Ma and Rankin are clustered in the cffice of their brokers Russell Mussell Bussell reading tbs confidential message which Rankin has just brought in Cosmic Radio Corporation stock has been going down steadily until it at 4 3 4 a drop ot 5 1 4 points from the opening of the market all money Is in ft and he and Ma are almost as gay as Armenian refugees J'j what is going to happen to the Potters? it lookalike another good' 100 per cent American family gone wrong SCENE 5 RANKIN (reading message to wide eyed Potters and calm resourceful broker): Lay oft CRC till bears hammer down to 2 then buy heavy 1 LAYOR (otially) Looks pretty good doesn't it fellows 7 Weare'sure shaking the little possums out of the trees' HAWKINS: 1 I think we ought to let up on it a little bit We don't want to run it down too fast LAYOR: 4:: Oh I took care of that been babying it up and down RIMMEM: A Yes and wait till Monday and baby her some more HAWKINS: Are we gonna spring the trap LAYOR: 7 Monday we pull on the black cap and tie the noose' I hope the condemned men will eat the customary hearty breakfast RIMMEM: They sure feel like HAWKINS: I That was a neat one you put over on this smart MA Rankin baby? LAYOR: (modestly): Not so bad' CHORUS: Ha 7 PA (baffled): What does it mean? RANKIN: Just what told you The bears are hammering CRC down untjl they have all the little stockholders scared out then going to slip around and buy it all in at their own price RUSSELL Sure if they can buy the same stuff at 2 that you paid 10 for' they will have eight dollars a share of your money You understand you? Sure I understand It (Cannily) Well just fool hang on we Ma? blX(dazed): Hang on? Wasn't you just trying to sell a little while ago? PA (with a superior smile): 0 yes but that was different I know the in side ot it then 3 MA (practically): Are you sure you know It bow? PA (irritated): I wish leave business to me1 What do you know business and stock market and things? 'MS (decisively): '7I 'I Nothing and twice as much as you know You sell that stock and let's go Jtome Take what you can get for it RANKIN: Look at the board! Watch it go down! (Marker suddenly goes crazy with chalk and eraser No sooner gets one quotation down but rubs It out and puts down a lower one) BOARD: CRC 4 1 RANKIN: Hurray! Watch her tumble? PA (feebly) Hurray! MA: Are you crazy? Here's our stock going down and you're hurraying about it PA (tolerantly): You just understand Ma (Men should always be chivalrous at such times women mean so well but know so little dear creatures) BOARD: CRC 3 1 1 3 RANKIN (iovially): Attaboy! Go on down to 2 PA (a bit plaintively): Are you sure about this Rankin? It's going down awfully fast Suppose it don't go up again? BOARD: CRC 2 3 4 MA (almost tearfully): Pa being wiped out Can't ruining us sell your stock PA (suddenly) If it drops below 2 I'll sell How's MA (pleading): Please sell now Pa please please! BOARD: CRC 2 1 2 BELL (closing) I NNG (Another day but Pa has until Monday to raise some money to buy a block ot CRC when she hits 2 and then up go and Pa will make a killing perhaps) The offices of Layfor Rimmem the lair of the who have been hammering down CRC what a gay gang ot bears how happy they are how care SCENE 11 CRC 2 1 2 A (to Pussell): Quick buy me (aghast): Pa the RANKIN: I want a thousand worth (Gaily) Here's where we make a kill (ng I told you go down to two' Now watch her go up (gleefully) Yea Bo! where we make a killing Ma MA (increduoitsly): I 2 How much will you make Pa? i PA (getting out stub of pencil and Well go back up to" 10 sure that means I'll make 38 apiece on the five hundred shares I just bought at 82 a share that's 84000 MA (amazed) are you going to make all that Pa? lA (gleefully) Yes and that isn't all i Plf get'my original thousand dollars back that stock I bought with 8200 1 borrowed from' Rankin about 8150 profit on that' MA (excited):) that wonderful! Just think' more than "84000 just a few days PA (trying not to be boastful now that he has vindicatedhimself): Well I always told you to just leave everything tv me maybe believe me after this you know I can be right once in a while MA (humbly): Guess you're right Pa RANKIN (to Russell): Seem to be klnda slow marking up the new price on CRC 1 RUSSELL: There he's rubbing it out now' (breathlessly) Watch her watch 'her go up where wo begin i i 7 A 13 li i'WISW' if AW! A til I ft hitched up direct to the speedometer well should worry one killing on the market and he can use his present car for a tool box (calmly): Weil off There goes the first sale BOARD: CRC 2 1 2 2 3 4 PX (puzzled): the matter with the crazy' thing? It's going up! MA th opeftilly): Good! PA: Not so good I want to buy some more (Ma laughs a wifely laugh little does she know that Pa has raised a thousand dollars on the family chariot well she'll find it out she finds out everything Intuition they call it) BOARD: BOARD: CRC 1 3 4 RANKIN (petrified): What? A PA (trembling) Whu whu whu MA (speechless for once in her life) 4 BOARD: CRC 1 1 2 PA (sinking into chair and covering hiu: eyes): My God ruined RANKIN (weakly): I understand It was a confidential tip Some gone wrong somewhere MA (piteously): Pa 0'Pa what have you done? (Cop right 1323 br Chkaro Tribune! (And that until next Sunday).