Act Two

Question 1

Johnny: Well, here it is.

Answer 1

Boy!

Question 2

Johnny: Johnny Antonelli on Park Avenue. Who’da thunk it. Like the piano? That bar? Those chairs. the idea is if you get drunk you don’t have far to fall.

Answer 2

Boy. This makes our place look like the stockyards. You must be making more money than I thought.

Question 3

Johnny: They tore up the contract….You ever read The Vanity Fair?

Answer 3

The book or the magazine?

Question 4

Johnny: The magazine.

Answer 4

Sure.

Question 5

Johnny: they’re gonna have an article about me….If I did that they’d say I was camping.

Answer 5

I guess it’s because you’re new, they have to compare you with somebody.

Question 6

Johnny: You’re right…I bet Lefty Grove, Carl Hubbell, financially I’m better off than they are.

Answer 6

When are you going to christen the place?

Question 7

Johnny: You mean with a party? In a couple weeks. In another way it was christened already?

Answer 7

Anybody I know?

Question 8

Johnny: Yeah. Yeah, you know her - you know. I’d rather not say.

Answer 8

Check. Well, as they say in Harlem, I gotta take a run-out powder. Good luck in the new apartment, Johnny. And I’m proud of you, you deserve the whole thing.

Question 9

The where MARY is a model.

Answer 9

(Bob gets up) Hello, Mary. I told you I’d bring my sister in. Well, here she is. Jean, this is Mary Stewart.

Question 10

Saleswoman: He didn’t come back after lunch.

Answer 10

He? I thought the boss was somebody named Elise Brennan.

Question 11

Saleswoman: Ooh, and what a man. If you know what I mean.

Answer 11

You’ll shock my sister.

Question 12

Mary (to Jean): Do you want to see anything in particular?

Answer 12

Show her everything. Alimony, Mary. Big settlement. Alimony. Don’t you get a commission?

Question 13

Jean: Her father works in the mill?

Answer 13

Did. He died a couple of years ago.

Question 14

Jean: You ‘d certainly never think she ever lived on Slag Hill.

Answer 14

She lived at the BOTTOM of Slag Hill. But her mother was quite a woman. She made Mary finish Catholic High, and take piano lessons, learn to sew.

Question 15

Jean: And she isn’t married?

Answer 15

Not married, but there’s somebody.

Question 16

Jean: She’s being kept?

Answer 16

I don’t know for sure. She’s got somebody, but she keeps on working.

Question 17

Jean: The somebody isn’t you, I take it.

Answer 17

Listen, don’t think for one minute I wouldn’t. But I never got to first base.

Question 18

Jean: You know, boys are lucky. Just think, now you used to know this girl, because Daddy made you work in the mill, and that’s how you knew Johnny Antonelli. Oh, I’ve got to meet him.

Answer 18

You’re going to.

Question 19

Jean: I’d like to see that show every night. I’m in New York, just for him.

Answer 19

Don’t count on brilliant conversation, because brilliantly he does not converse. And by the way, don’t mention Johnny to Mary, or Mary to Johnny.

Question 20

Jean: Oh?

Answer 20

You mention one to the other and he or she gets sad, as the case may be. I don’t know why, I don’t know when, but something happened.

Question 21

Jean: It’d be almost too perfect if the two best products of the mill ever got together.

Answer 21

Yes, they pulled two good heats when they pulled those two.

Question 22

Jean: Is that some new dirty slang I haven’t heard?

Answer 22

If you knew more about the mill you’d know what pulling a heat means.

Question 23

Jean: I’m sorry, but it sounds more like kennel talk.

Answer 23

(Laughing) So it does.

Question 24

Jean: How would you like to have lunch with me tomorrow?

Answer 24

Oh, come one, Jean. Aren’t you having lunch with Jonesey? Jonesey’s a girl from Philadelphia, as dull as anything the Main Line ever produced, and that’s covering a lot of dullness. Don’t expose Mary to that.