He strings along Doctor Bradley by promising to consult on the manuscript of Forty Years an Ohio Doctor.  
The title character is so impressed by a cake which contains absinthe in the dough that he offers a job to a cook named Sarah.  He strings along Doctor Bradley by promising to consult on the manuscript of Forty Years an Ohio Doctor.  He regrets summoning the glamorous Lorraine Sheldon from England to break up the courtship of the editor of the Mesalia Journal and his assistant Maggie Cutler, but his friend Banjo helps him resolve the crisis with the help of a handy mummy case sent to him by the khedive of Egypt.  The action takes place during the two weeks before Christmas, during which time the Stanley family is forced to put up with a cranky celebrity after he fractured his hip on their doorstep.  FTP, name this play dedicated to Alexander Woollcott, a work about Sheridan Whiteside by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.
The title character is so impressed by a cake which contains absinthe in the dough that he offers a job to a cook named Sarah.  
The Man Who Came to Dinner