Synopsis

The scene is set in an Office of Inventions, where a girl comes for a job. She is ignored, until a nondescript little man from the town of Bellac comes to her aid. He demonstrates that she can have her way with any man if she will, upon meeting him, declare that he is handsome and compare him to the statue of the Appollo of Bellac (nonexistent). This she does, beginning hesitantly with the clerk and working up most successfully to the Chairman of the Board. The play is alive with wry and trenchant observations on the comical attitudes and truths that man assumes in life.