The Soft Touch
by Neil Cuthbert

The scene is the boarding house room of a boy who wants to get away from Mom.

But nobody leaves him alone, including Mom.

A vagrant wanders in and charges 25 cents to leave.

And he keeps coming back.

Calling the police does no good; they want this vagrant even less than he does.

There is a maniac for a superintendent, and a boarder who is in and out of everybody's room all night trying to catch up with his nymphomaniac wife.

A homosexual bandit picks the wrong day, and ends up cornered by the nymphomaniac.

But the real test is the nut from the loony bin who is a complete schizoid.

In one person he plays the parts of two brothers, and has conversations with himself.

The characterizations are comically etched and the action is a succession of surprises and misadventures.