Solid Gold Cadillac: A Comedy

Excerpt from Solid Gold Cadillac: A Comedy

It is a theatrical custom to send opening-night telegrams to the cast and the authors - sometimes even the ushers and the producers - Of plays opening on Broadway. The value of these good-luck messages to the recipients has never been scientifically determined. There are cynics who claim that if on the way into the theatre on the night of a premiere you strike oil in the lobby - that's luck. Nothing else.

But Western Union does not hold with this viewpoint. Opening nights are always lucky for Western Union. On the opening night of The Solid Gold Cadillac more than sixteen hundred orchid-bordered telegrams were delivered at the stage door. Consequently, I consider The Solid Gold Cadillac a noteworthy drama, a touching and revealing saga of American home life and ideals. Grandma's Diary, where we also delivered sixteen hundred telegrams, was equally good.

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