Radium Girls Lines Flashcards
Grace: Oooh! There she is!
Walk up to podium w/ societywoman and Sochocky
Reporter: Madame Curie! What will you do with the radum?
Curie: Eh?
Reporter: What will you do with the radium?
Curie: Uh… I will continue my experiments to fint petter mesots for se treatment of se cancer
Sob Sister: Is radium a cure for all cancer?
Curie: Cure for se cancer? Yes, yes. Cure for se cancer! Sat is so. It has alreaty cure-t all kints of se cancer.
Sob Sister: But some doctors dispute that!
Curie: Sen sey to not understant se mesot. Sere is no question– Ratium will cure se cancer.
Sob Sister: Madame Curie! How have you been able to devote yourself both to science – and to your children?
Curie: Ah. It has not been easy. (ah hahaha) Put my taughters share my gratitute to se American women for sere interest in science and my work. I am most grateful.
Male Shopper: Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars!
Store Owner: Ask me, it’s all a sham
Customer: What do you mean? Those girls are very sick!
Store Owner: Sicka workin’ sure!
Shopgirl: Then I’d travel all around the world - first class. With all my friends.
Store Owner: I’d play the stock market.
Grace: I try not to think about it.
Store Owner: But it must get to ya sometimes-
Male Shopper: And all they have to say about it is-
Everyone: No comment!
Knef:I couldn’t put out a cure, no. I’m saying- I scratch your back you scratch mine.
Board 1: How so, Doctor Knef?
Board 2: An excellent idea. (muttered agreement)
Board 1: I don’t know. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss Knef’s proposal.
Roeder: What do you mean?
Board 1: We’re in a very bad situation here Mr. Roeder.
Board 3: And it’s going to get worse.
Board 1: And the papers are full of stories about those girls…