The Solid Gold Cadillac
by George S Kaufman, Howard Teichmann

At the annual stockholders’ meeting of a colossal manufacturing empire called General Products, a polite little old lady named Laura Partridge, who owns ten shares, raises her hand and asks a question.

And that’s when the hilarity begins… She has read every page of the annual report and she wants to know why the chairman of the board is being paid $170,000 a year, and how many hours he works to earn this money… She puts one mild query after another, and pretty soon the new officers hush Laura up by giving her a phony job at $150 a week.

She is hired to be a kind of liaison officer for the other minority stockholders.

She takes her job seriously and makes solid friendships with the small stockholders.

When the former president learns – thanks to Laura – what a mess the current directors are making of his business, however, he resigns from his government job, and the big fight is on to regain control of his own business.

Things look dark indeed, the wicked directors are about to triumph, but then the proxies of all the small stockholders start pouring in, and thanks to them the little old lady and former president foil the wicked Board of Directors.