Lo and Behold!
by John Patrick

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A Nobel Prize winner has lived for years on a meager, unpalatable diet, to favor an ailing heart.

This lack of much heart has made the philosophy of his books coldly cynical.

After signing a will that leaves a third of his estate to his young doctor, a third to perpetuate his house as a sanctuary for his spirit and the final third to the Harvard Law School to insure that the terms of his odd testament will be carried out, he eats a sumptuous meal and dies happily.

Instead of the solitude he expected, he is beset by the spirits of an Indian girl pushed off a cliff by her lover, a Southern belle with a disturbing drawl and a phony liberal attitude, and a frustrated composer.

Then the pretty cook a former model who prepared the fatal dishes returns to the house and is mistaken for his illegitimate daughter.

He eventually finds peace by furthering a romance between the doctor and the young girl.

Press Reviews

"Patrick has learned the trick of inserting a big solid laugh line at the right moment."

— New York Daily News

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573611698
ISBN-10 0573611696

Lo and Behold! is a comedy play written by John Patrick and published by Samuel French .

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