Ethel Grey Smith Farmer was the playwright. "The Day of the Kidnaping" was her most memorial play.

Bill Smith played three parts and had to change hats for each part. In this play, he had to be multi-talented. He was the "father", "policeman" and "kidnaper".

Martha Smith Willis played the part of the mother, Susan Gauger, and Martha’s baby doll had the leading role, playing the part of the kidnaped baby.

The location for their play was the old barn behind their home. It started off with Martha and Bill nonchalantly playing bridge in the upstairs (loft) and saying "I take this one, you take that one."

While playing bridge, Bill would jump down and go outside to change hats. He came back in and grabbed the baby and ran with it and threw it as far as he could. Martha would scream, "The baby has been kidnaped".

Bill would then come in with father hat, "What are we going to do?" He would then go to call the policeman, and come back with the police hat, and take notes from Martha as what had happened. He would then leave and come back with the baby and leave baby with Martha.

Bill would then come back with the father hat and they all lived happily ever after until the next production of their play.

This was a big time production and to help aid the planes flying onto their farm find the location of the theatre, they erected a telephone pole so it would be easy to spot from the air.

Their dad was sitting in the house one day and looked out the window and saw the cow rubbing his back against something that going from side to side. He jumped up and ran out to the barn and saw that telephone pole.

The pole had to come down to prevent injury to anyone or any of the farm animals so that was the end of their hopes of everyone flying in to see their play.

There was the time that Ethel Grey put Martha on a mule to get Martha away from Ethel and her boyfriend. It was Martha’s first mule ride and she went riding off in the woods.

Bill and Ethel Grey would take the old ironing board and put a paper bag over the small end of it, cut holes in the bag for eyes, mouth, etc. and hang a mop over the bag so as to look like hair and have Martha go outside to the back of the house and it would frighten Martha and she would start running, but before she could get to the other end of the house, they had moved the "goblin" and Martha would go running back, and naturally before she got back, the "goblin" had moved to the other location.

There was the time that Don Smith had tied a rope to Grandma Cornelia Belk’s rocking chair, and run the rope thru the bedroom window that overlooked the porch, and when Grandma Belk sat in the chair, she would start rocking even if she didn’t want to rock. She always knew as she never turned around and would say, "Don Smith, I know it is you. I do not want to rock".