This play was written in 1950 by Mona Graham and John Ware and features a public spanking for one of the main characters, Griselda
A high school comedy with a strong underlying theme of good citizenship. Larry Bennett, prize debater of his home state, comes to Washington on a sight-seeing trip with other members of the senior class. Their teacher and chaperone, Lucy Clark, is engaged to a young congressman, Kenneth Taylor. Taylor is sponsoring a bill in the House to provide scholarship loans to young people. He asks Larry to have lunch with some of his colleagues who are on the fence about the bill, but Larry, normally a modest boy, has meanwhile met the teen-age daughter of a senator, and been flattered out of all sense of proportion. He gives an absurdly pompous interview to the press, then manages to jam the legislative machinery when he participates in a Senatorial debate. Before the boy comes to his senses, the Scholarship Loan Bill has been jeopardized, Taylor's re-election threatened, and the young congressman's romance with Lucy almost wrecked. But Larry's high school sweatheart, Babs Davis, saves the day in a surprise ending that involves the intervention of the President. The play avoids any identification with partisan politics.
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LUCY (at the end of her patience): Griselda, you’ve caused enough trouble for one day!
PEMBERTON: Young lady, I’m ashamed of you! Miss Clark, you’ve had experience with youngsters. What do you do with a girl like this?
LUCY: In extreme cases, Senator, I do this!
She takes Griselda, and sitting on the sofa, turns her over her knee and spanks her. Griselda shrieks, as the others laugh with delight and Russell snaps a picture.
GRISELDA (scrambling to her feet, to her father, indignantly): The papers said you ought to be proud of me!
She flounces out.
PEMBERTON (to Lucy, who rises): Miss Clark, I’ve been wanting to do that for years!
They shake hands.
