Act 1, scene 1 Flashcards
See ya, Louis.
Hi, Eddie!
Where you goin’ all dressed up?
I just got it. You like it?
Yeah, it’s nice. And what happened to your hair?
You like it? I fixed it different. He’s here, B!
Beautiful. Turn around, lemme see in the back. Oh, if your mother was alive to see you now! She wouldn’t believe it.
You like it, huh?
You look like one of them girls that went to college. Where you goin’?
Wait’ll B comes in, I’ll tell you something. Here, sit down. Hurry up, will you B?
What’s goin’ on?
I’ll get you a beer, all right?
Well tell me what happened. Come over here, talk to me.
I want to wait till B comes in. Guess how much we paid for the skirt.
I think it’s too short, ain’t it?
No! Not when I stand up.
Yeah, but you gotta sit down sometimes.
Eddie, it’s the style now. I mean, if you seen me walkin’ down the street…
Listen, you been givin’ me the willies the way you walk down the street, I mean it.
Why?!
Catherine, I don’t want to be a pest, but I’m tellin’ you you’re walkin’ wavey.
I’m walkin’ wavey!?
Now don’t aggravate me, Katie. . . The heads are turnin’ like windmills.
But those guys look at all the girls, you know that.
You ain’t “all the girls.”
What do you want me to do? You want me to…?
Now don’t get mad kid. . .
Well, I don’t know what you want from me. . .
Katie, I promised your mother on her death bed. . . I mean like when you stand here by the window, wavin’ outside.
I was wavin’ to Louis!
Listen, I could tell you things about Louis which you wouldn’t wave to him no more.
Eddie, I wish there was one guy you couldn’t tell me things about!
Catherine, do me a favor, will you? . . . Get her in here, will you? I got news for her.
What?
Her cousins landed
No! B! Your cousins. . . !
What. . . ?
Your cousins got in!
Whyn’t you run down buy a table cloth? Go ahead, here. . .
There’s no stores open now.
I know well I thought it was gonna be next week! I was gonna clean the walls, I was gonna wax the floors. . .
Maybe Mrs. Dondero upstairs. . .
Go, Baby, set the table.
We didn’t tell him about me yet.
What job? She’s gonna finish school.
Eddie, you won’t believe it. . .
No, no, you gonna finish school. What kinda job, what do you mean? All of a sudden you. . . ?
Listen a minute, it’s wonderful.
(E) It’s not wonderful. You’ll never get nowheres unless you finish school. . . (B) She’s askin’ you now, she didn’t take nothin’ yet.
Listen a minute! I came to school this morning and the principle called me out of the class, see? To go to his office.
Yeah?
So I went in and he says to me he’s got my records, y’know? And there’s a company wants a girl right away. It ain’t exactly a secretary, it’s a stenographer first, but pretty soon you get to be secretary. And he says to me that I’m the best student in the whole class. . .
(B) You hear that? (E) Well, why not? Sure she’s the best.
I’m the best student, he says, and if I want, I should take the job and the end of the year he’ll let me take the examination and he’ll give me the certificate. So i’ll save practically a year!
Where’s the job? What company?
It’s a big plumbing company over Nostrand Avenue.
(B) Fifty dollars a week, Eddie. (E) Fifty?
I swear.
Nostrand Avenue and where?
It’s some place by the Navy Yard.
What about all the stuff you wouldn’t learn this year, thought?
There’s nothin’ more to learn, Eddie, I just gotta practice from now on. I know all the symbols and I know the keyboard. i’ll just get faster, that’s all. And when I’m workin’ I’ll keep gettin’ better and better, you see?
(B) Work is the best practice anyway. (E) That ain’t what I wanted though.
Why! It’s a great big company. . .
I don’t like that neighborhood over there.
It’s a block and a half from the subway, he says.
And then you’ll move away.
No, Eddie!
Listen, Bea, she’ll be with a lotta plumbers? And sailors up and down the street? So what did she go to school for?
But it’s fifty a week, Eddie.
You wanna go to work, heh, Madonna?
Yeah.
All right, go to work. Hey, hey! Take it easy! What’re you cryin about ?
I just. . . I’m gonna buy all new dishes with my first pay! I mean it. I’ll fix up the whole house! I’ll buy a rug!
Why not? That’s life. And you’ll come visit on Sundays, then once a month, then Christmas and New Year’s
No, please!
. . . Believe me, Katie, the less you trust, the less you be sorry.
First thing I’ll buy is a rug, heh, B?
(B) I don’t mind. I smelled coffee all day today. You unloadin’ coffee today? (E) Yeah, a Brazil ship.
I smelled it too. It smelled all over the neighborhood.
(B) What time is it? (E) Quarter nine.
He’s bringin’ them ten o’clock, Mike?
Around, yeah.
Eddie, suppose somebody asks if they’re livin’ here. I mean if they ask.
. . . this is the Immigration Bureau – if you said it you knew it, if you didn’t say it, you didn’t know it.
Yeah, but, Eddie, suppose somebody–
. . . but the family had an uncle that they were hidin’ in the house, and he snitched to the immigration. . .
The kid snitched?!
Now look, Baby, I can see we’re gettin’ mixed up again here. . .
No, I just mean. . . people’ll see them goin’ in and out. . .
On his own uncle!
What, was he crazy?
. . . and they spit on him in the street, his own father and his brothers. the whole neighborhood was cryin’
Ts! So what happened to him?
. . . Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
Okay, I won’t say a word to nobody, I swear.
. . . I’ll wait, it only take a few minutes; I could broil it.
What happens, Eddie, when that ship pulls out and they ain’t on it, thought? Don’t the captain say nothin’?
Captain’s pieced off, what do you mean?
Even the captain?!
. . . So you gonna start Monday, heh, Madonna?
I’m supposed to, yeah.
Well I hope you have good luck. I wish you the best. you know that, kid.
You sound like I’m goin’ a million miles!
I know. I guess I just never figured on one thing.
What?
You better go help her with the dishes.
Oh! I’ll do the dishes, B!
. . . I’m not mad. you’re the one is mad.
Don’t worry about me, Eddie, heh?
