Act 1, Scene 6: Play; within A Play Flashcards
If you have anything on your mind say it I despise insinuations
I despise hypocrisy. You’ve got a date tomorrow night with that dancer, Jane case.
What do you know of Miss case?
That she’s your mistress!
Has it occurred to you that your accusations may be incorrect? I do happen to be acquainted with a girl named Jane case, but only acquainted. She was in that musical I backed. I sometimes have dinner with her when I’m in town.
Breakfast too. At Sutton place. You pay the rent.
Whoever told you that fairy story?
Without knowing it, Miss Case herself!
It was a year ago.
I saw a beautiful handbag 👜 in Dunhill’s window.
I didn’t have much money W/ me but I knew you had a Charge-Account there for your cigars 🚬, so I decided to go in and see 👀 if I could use it.
When I went up to the counter, a girl was buying an expensive photo frame. To my amazement, I saw she was trying YOUR photo in it for size. I couldn’t help hearing what the girl said to the clerk.
In fact I deliberately listened!!!.
She said: CHARGE it to Mr Russell Wayne!
15 WALL STREET, and send it to Miss Jane CASE, 1008 Sutton Place SOUTH, penthouse E.
When the clerk commented on the distinguished appearance of the man in the photograph, Miss Case said: that’s my fiance we’re going to be married 💒 next year….
I walked out of the shop in a daze. I couldn’t believe that you would be so double-faced. Unhappily I found out that there wasn’t a shadow of a doubt.
Well elizabeth, I won’t attempt to justify my actions. But there is one glaring error in your investigation. You and your mother have always come first. Never, not for one second, have I contemplated breaking up my homeand marrying Miss Case.
I can’t quite believe that, Daddy.
You see, I’ve watched you,
Lying regularly for over a year now!
Then if everything I say is suspect, there doesn’t seem to be anything more we can say to one another. You’ve closed your mind and hardened your heart against me.
I’m sorry Daddy.
It’s true.
Nothing you can say will move me.
Not ever again.
Curtain. Okay, eve. That’s it for this morning. It’s time for lunch.
Oh dear. Can’t we go on? I wanted to show Mr Roberts what I can do with act 2.
Lloyd: you don’t have to show me, eve. I’ve seen all I need to see.
You mean I’m Terrible!! 😞
Lloyd: there’s no doubt about it. In fact, eve, you do a lot more than merely keep up the curtain. You’d give a first-rate performance. It’s a revelation to me. You bring a whole new quality into the play. I don’t understand it.
Perhaps it’s because I’m the right age for the part, as you wrote it. Of course, I can’t be compared to Miss Crane. She’s in a class by herself. Way up there. But I do have youth.
Lloyd: what beats me is that my line sound different somehow. They seem to have more rhythm.
It could be that I stick to the text as you wrote it, Mr Roberts. Miss Crane does a lot of, revising. I asked her once why she changes the line so much and she explained that she has to make them her own.
Lloyd: she sounds better when she uses mine.
Mrs Roberts, I’m terribly grateful to you for dragging Mr Roberts here.
I know it must have been a bore 🐗 for both of you.
Harvey, thank you for all your help.
You know, Harvey is a wonderful director.
Yes he is very efficient…….. It could be a little more unrestrained.
Oh, that would be MarvelouS! Can we go out the stage door? My coat’s in Miss Crane’s dressing 👗 room.
