Third Best Sport

Instead of swimming in the surf, lazing in the sun and wooing in the chamber, she finds herself caught up in a mess of big deals and little jealousies. Well, if you know Miss Holm you can figure it's a cinch for her to upset the routine of the convention

She says the wrong things to the right people, turns the big meeting into a disaster and strikes a great glow for the freedom of the corpor- ation female"[chapman]

She invites a free-thinking philosopher, who is known as a corporation killer, to speak to the convention, under the mistaken impression that he is an economist who writes for the The Wall Street Journal

She also goes on to insult the stuffy wife of the company's most important customer

By the end of the play the bride has, of course, managed to get the contract for her husband, and to establish her own independence. All of this is done with great warmth and humor

" an observant and enjoyable picture of what may not be the third best sport but comes close to being the Biggest Tax Deductible Party - the company meeting in some sunny resort attended by all the salesmen and their wives" - NY Times