Bikey Mikey,
Thanks for the dialogue! Sounds like I am going to have to find a stage production of this play. From the write up in Wikipedia, and your description, it sounds like quite the good comedy.
There was a some dialogue from an old Firesign Theater album where they identify someone as "Mr. Mort" and another Firesign Theater actor comments; "That's Mr. Dead in French." I guess that's what started me up with the idea.