The Loud Red Patrick
by John Boruff

In 1912 Irish American widower is faced with bringing up four daughters ages seven through seventeen.

A believer in democracy and higher education, he runs his family on the parliamentary principle.

A family council decides all issues.

When Maggie wants to quit college to get married, he refuses permission so Maggie puts it before the family council where he loses.

He repudiates the council and kicks Maggie's suitor out of the house.

The four daughters declare war on father who finally surrenders to the marriage.

A parallel plot finds the widower's old friend Finnegan, a woman hater who is fleeing alimony payments, sponging off the family.

He complicates the situation in an already crowded household and adds a comic secondary love story when pursued by the housekeeper