The themes of Solid Gold Cadillac, corporate malfeasance and foolishness, subjugation of the needs of ordinary people to the greed of corporate executives, the virtues of kindliness, are very timely, although this play is more than fifty years old.

       This Lakeport Community Players production is a comedy written in 1953 by Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman and directed by Mary Howe, starring Joan Holman as Mrs. Partridge, the retired actress who sets General Products Corporation on its ear, and Ken Blythe as Big Ed McKeever, General Products larger-than-life former chairman. "This is good funny theater -- you'll laugh" said the reviewer for the New York Journal-American at the time, but then, the Journal-American has been gone for nearly that long.

       Joan Holman is very well known to theater - goers in Lake and Mendocino counties. Our well-loved nonogenarian thespian has appeared recently in The Gin Game and Driving Miss Daisy, and there are few indeed who don't know that she can really act and can be riotously funny.

       Ken Blythe has been out of the county for quite some time, acting in other theaters in other climes, but he returns to the very demanding role of Ed McKeever who declaims one of the most elaborate monologues you will ever laugh through. It takes a lot of acting ability to play a smart and accomplished man, blind to his inability to act.

       Solid Gold Cadillac will be shown on March 7, 8, 9, and the following weekend, March 14, 15, and 16. General admission tickets are available at Wild About Books in Clearlake and at the Main Street Gallery / Arts Council in Lakeport, and reserve tickets are to be found at Catfish Books in the Willow Tree Plaza in Lakeport. If there are any left there will be tickets at the door, you dreamer. There will be a champagne reception before the show on opening night.