I still remember every detail about it. It played at the old Maxine Elliot Theatre, such a beautiful house. Hell, I've probably toured Hay Fever and played it in summer stock at least twenty times. What a wonderful idea. The Bliss family is ultra-Bohemian.
Mother is a retired actress who makes a crisis out of every scene and father is a novelist.
The daughter and son are handsome and ill-mannered. The guests receive an unusual and rude reception. Soon mother is paired off with the diplomat, the daughter with the athlete, the son with the flapper, and the father with the son's young woman. Dramatizing for all it's worth, the mother fears she must tell her husband about her romance with the diplomat, then realizing her daughter is younger and more attractive to young men, she enacts a scene of noble sacrifice, and, noticing her husband's flirtation, she quickly follows with a poor unhappy wife scene. The family is used to such displays and is unimpressed, but the guests are bewildered.