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Seven Keys to Baldpate (Play)

by George M. Cohan

Betting that he can write 10,000 words in 24 hours, a novelist locks himself into a snowbound summer resort on Baldpate Mountain with what he believes is the one and only key to Baldpate Inn. Yet his work is interrupted by a number of colorful characters who have arrived for various shady enterprises, each thinking they had the only key to the inn. Soon it is clear there must be seven keys to Baldpate. The mystery deepens as the novelist finds himself entangled in an improbable series of schemes and plans. George M. Cohan, the famous American vaudevillian and songwriter, was also a successful playwright, and he adapted this work for the stage from the novel by Earl Derr Biggers. - Summary by Mike Manolakes Elijah Quimby, the caretaker of Baldpate Inn: Zach Hoyt Mrs. Quimby, the caretaker's wife: Joanna Michel Hoyt William Hallowell Magee, the novelist: Andrew Gaunce Mary Norton, the newspaper reporter: Devorah Allen Mrs. Rhodes, the charming widow: thestorygirl Peters, the Hermit of Ba