Light Up the Sky

The comedy revolves around a group of New York theatre-folk who attend the opening of their new play in Boston

The lead actress, the backer, and several others, are in seventh heaven at the prospect of a tremendous success which they hope for in the work of a young unknown writer

Gathered in a hotel room, these people go through their paces with tremendous gusto and many exhibitions of temperament

The opening of the play, which is a very earnest and experimental work, is such as to lead the cast, director and backer to believe it a flop

Instantly they turn against themselves, the production, the author and savagely proceed in what looks like an attempt to destroy themselves and all their former hopes

It turns out, however, that in spite of the curious reception by the first night audience, the play has made a deep impression, and when news spreads that the reviews are on the whole favorable, the tables are turned

But the playwright who has suffered both from the enthusiasm and pessimism of his associates has decided that he is through with the theater, and he is captured by the backer only at the moment he is about to take a plane back home

He is persuaded to play ball with his associates, but he is so disgusted with the temperamental shenanigans of those who were presumably his friends that he turns on them and lays down the law to them