Synopsis
Keeping Down With The Joneses
Published by Samuel French Inc
5 Male 4 Female
He builds a bomb shelter equipped with everything he, his wife, and his wife's old mother will need to last out such a strike
They plan to try the thing out for a three week experiment when, inadvertently, they are trapped inside with the mother, the telephone installer and an Indian milkman
They try to make the best of the situation when who should enter through a side hatch but their next door neighbors who, ever striving to keep up with the Joneses, have now kept down with them by building their own abutting shelter
By a strange set of circumstances the neighbors are also trapped and neither neighbor wants to admit this to the other
Hilarious complications ensue until everyone gets out