On the Town Act 1, Scene 10

Question 1

Enter

Answer 1

Just put ‘me down anywhere, Chip.

Question 2

But I haven’t time to stay for dinner. It’ll take you, I should say, roughly four hours to cook all this stuff. Besides, I’ve got to find Ivy Smith.

Answer 2

Ivy Smith! Ivy Smith! That’s all I hear. Fine friend you’ve got, falling for a picture.

Question 3

Well, she is a remarkable girl. She sings and dances and- and-

Answer 3

Yeah, yeah, that’s swell.

Question 4

And besides, she’s beautiful.

Answer 4

Well, stop looking wistful. You’ve got a girl who can cook. Besides, don’t you know all those pictures are touched up? You put ribbons in my hair and photograph me through a wall, and I bet you couldn’t tell the difference.

Question 5

I’m not so sure, besides, I’ve got to find the real Ivy Smith.

Answer 5

O.K. Here’s the phone. We’ll call the IRT and find her.

Question 6

Just like that?

Answer 6

Sure. Put ‘me down anywhere. No. no, on the floor. IRT? Hold it, Jack.

Question 7

We- Hello?- I’d like to speak to Miss Turnstiles, please- Miss Ivy Smith- Oh, she’s not there? Well, look, I’d like her address, please, an telephone number- Oh, you don’t?- Well, look, I’m a sailor and I’m here for one day- Hullo? Hey, they hung up! They don’t give out that information- especially to sailors.

Answer 7

Well, ya did your best, kid.

Question 8

I tried, didn’t I? I did try.

Answer 8

Yeah, you were sensational. I cried like a baby!

Question 9

And I’ll try them again later.

Answer 9

Yeah. Much later. Let’s try this first.

Question 10

Well, as long as I tried…

Answer 10

Well, what the hell are you doing here?

Question 11

I’m soddy, Hildy, I just couldn’t go to work today- got an awful code- and I didn’t know…

Answer 11

Of all the days you picked!!!

Question 12

Oh, I’b not her mother!

Answer 12

Chip, this is my roommate, Lucy Schmeeler. She’s a grand girl.

Question 13

I’ve soddy. Hildy and I sleep in shifts. She goes out to work at night. I cob home from work at night. She cobs home from work in the morning and I go out to work on the morning.

Answer 13

All right, he gets it. Thank you.

Question 14

I gotta get some gargle. I got the gargle.

Answer 14

Well, I’m very glad to hear that. Lucy, would you step into the other room for a few minutes?

Question 15

What for?

Answer 15

I’d like to go over some figures with you.

Question 16

Figures?

Answer 16

The rent, Lucy, the rent.

Question 17

I’ve going to an air cooled movie. Hildy says- that you and she…

Answer 17

It will do you a world of good, Lucy.

Question 18

Goodbye, Mr Chips.

Answer 18

Well, now what?

Question 19

We eat, huh?

Answer 19

Sure, we can do that first.

Question 20

You claim you can cook.

Answer 20

That’s often been considered one of my strongest points.

Question 21

Yeah? What’s the specialty of the house?

Answer 21

Me!!