"America's first newspaper comedy melodrama" is what the Southwest Star called Don't Print That! (or, Ten Nights in a Newsroom). "Fast-moving and fun-filled"..."A real romp-and-stomp boo-and-hisser...with plenty of big yuks"—were some of the comments from the media when Eddie Cope's comedy opened at Theatre Southwest in Houston, Texas.

Publisher Lew Grantstedder tries to keep his town honest and respectable. Mayor Pizor is a crook. On Lew's side are his beautiful daughter Loria and his printer, who is in love with Loria. Helping the Mayor in his attempt to ruin the newspaper are Hannah and her uninhibited demonstrators who go so far as to toss Lew in a blanket. With strong, currently topical melodramatic action, the play is rampant with fun and suspense for cast, crew, and audience. For all groups and ages.

Designed especially for theatre groups that like to fill their bank vaults with the income from an annual melodrama, DON'T PRINT THAT! is inexpensive to produce, easy to rehearse and stage, and loaded with fun for cast and audience.

3-acts; small-town newspaper office; today.

"A fine entertainment...enthusiastic audience...a marvelous hissable villain"—Sue Dauphin, KUHF Radio. "The fun appeal for audiences lingers on...an ever-thickening plot"—Houston Post.

Other Cope plays: Agatha Christie Made Me Do It, Agatha Christie Tackles Texas, Airport 1904, Frankenstein's Centerfold, The Invisible Man, The Last Tango in Pango Pango, Without a Clue

See also: High Noon in the Styrofoam; Lily, the Virtuous Seamstress; Lost in Tumblerock; Million Dollar Baby; Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; Virtue Is Its Own Reward

Quickie Money-Maker Melodramas: The Saga of Sagebrush Sal, Ragweed Cowboy Joe, George Washington Swept Here, The Shaky Tale of Dr. Jakey