

Maid to Order
Tom Taggart
Played with the asides and intensity inherent to the genre.
A riotous evening for actors and audience.
There's gloom in the Follansbee mansion since Rachel's grandchild disappeared.
She's inconsolable.
Then Faith Hopewell staggers in-- babe in arms-- and stays on as a maid.
Rachel doesn't want to see another baby-- so Faith hides the child.
Jimmy, the delivery boy, falls in love with Faith and Longfellow, the villain, tries kidnapping the child.
He's foiled by Faith-- Jimmy's revealed as the missing son in law-- the baby to be the family heir-- and the villain gets amnesia and is sent to the Salvation Army to do good works.
| Character |
|---|
| Rachel Follansbee her daughter, a middleaged woman who carries a load of grief not too bravely. |
| Maude Filbert friend and contemporary of Rachel's who is a kindly neighbor. |
| Faith Hopewell a young and innocent girl in her late teens who searches for the Bluebird of Happiness. |
| Jimmy a stalwart young man who is a delivery boy. |
| Ferguson Longfellow an evil man with a heart to match. |
| Letitia Carruthers a very old lady who is partly deaf. She has her livelier moments when the occasion demands. |
Foiled By An Innocent Maid is a American play written by Fred Carmichael and published by Samuel French (1977).
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