31-47 End of Act 1

Question 1

1. Emily: Oh Mama, you’re no help at all.

Answer 1

Thank you. Thank you! That’ll do. We’ll have to interrupt again here. Thank you. Mrs Webb; thank you, Emily.

Question 2

2. Stage Manager: There are some more things we want to explore about this town.

Answer 2

I think this is a good time to tell you that the Cartwright interests have just begun building a new bank in Grover’s Corners. And they’ve asked a friend of mine what they should put in the cornerstone for people to dig up…a thousand years from now.

Question 3

3. Stage Manager: And even in Greece and Rome, all we know about the REAL life of the people is what we can piece together out of the joking poems and the comedies they wrote for the theatre back then.

Answer 3

So I’m going to have a copy of this play put in the cornerstone and the people a thousand years from now’l know a few simple facts about us. See what I mean?

Question 4

4. Dr Gibbs: (has entered and is seated in his kitchen reading)

Answer 4

Well! - good deal of time’s gone by. It’s evening. You can hear choir practice going on in the Congregational Church. The children are at home doing their school work. The day’s running down like a tired clock.

Question 5

5. George: Well - prob’ly is

Mr Warren, elderly policeman, comes along Mainstreet trying door knobs; Mr Webb enters; crickets sound

Answer 5

Nine-thirty.

Question 6

6. Stage Manager: Most of the lights are out.

Answer 6

No, there’s Constable Warren trying a few doors on Main Street. And here comes Editor Webb, after putting his paper to bed.