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15 Cards in this Set
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RICHARD: Thank you Mr. Whiteside. I got a great one.
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Hello there! (to june and richard)
Good evening sherry. Really sherry, you have this place looking like an old parrot cage. did you nap while I was out? what's the matter dear? cat run away with your tongue? |
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WHSDE: don't look at me with those great cow-eyes, you sex ridden hag. where have you been all afternoon? alley-catting around with bert jefferson?
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Sherry, bert read his play to me this afternoon.
It's superb. It isn't just a play written by a newspaper man. it's superb. I want you to read it tonight. It just cries out for cornell. Will you send it to her sherry? and will you read it tonight? |
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WHSDE: No I will not read it tonight or any other time. and while we're on the subject of mr. jefferson, you might ask him if he wouldn't like to pay your salary since he takes up all of your time.
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Oh come on now Sherry,
it isn't as bad as that. |
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WHSDE: I have not even be able to reach you, not knowing what haylofts you frequent.
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Oh, stop behaving like a spoiled child sherry.
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WHSDE: don't take that patronizing tone with me you flea bitten cleopatra. i'm sick and tired of your sneaking out like a love sick high school girl every time my back is turned.
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well, sherry, i'm afraid you've hit the nail on the head.
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WHSDE: stop acting like zazu pitts and explain yourself.
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I'll make it quick sherry.
I'm in love. |
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WHSDE: Nonsense.This is merely delayed puberty.
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No sherry, I'm afraid this is it.
You are going to lose a very excellent secretary. |
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WHSDE: You are out of your mind.
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Yes, i think I am, a little.
But I'm a girl who's waited a long time for this to happen and now it has. Mr. Jefferson doesn't know it yet, but I'm going to try my darnest to try to marry him. |
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WHSDE: Is that all?
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Yes, except that- well- I suppose this is what might be called my resignation, as soon as you've got someone else.
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WHSDE: Now listen to me maggie... I have a deep affection for you.
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I know that, Sherry.
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WSHDE: I don't want you making a fool of yourself
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I'm not, Sherry.
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WHSDE: You are my dear. I cannot believe that this is anything but a kind of temporary insanity when you are swept off your feet in seven days by a second-rate small-town newspaper man.
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Sherry, I can't explain what's happened.
I can only tell you its so. Her I am a hard-bitten old cynic, behaving like a True Story Magazine, and liking it. Discovering the moon- and ice skating. I keep laughing to myself all the time, but there it is. What can I do about it Sherry? I'm in love. |
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WHSDE: It's completely unbelievable. Can you see yourself, the wife of the editor of the Mesalia Journal, having an evening at home for Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Poop-face and the members of the book of the month club?
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Sherry I've had ten years of the great figures of our time, and don't think that I'm not grateful to you for it.
I've loved every minute of it. They've been wonderful years, sherry. gay, stimulating- I don't think anyone's had the fun we've had. But a girl can't laugh al the time, sherry. There comes a time when a girl wants- Bert Jefferson. You don't know Bert, Sherry. He's gentle and he's unassuming and well, I love him, that's all. |
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WHSDE: I see. Well I remain completely unconvinced. You are drugging yourself into this Joan Crawford fantasy and before you become completely anesthetized I shall do everything in my power to bring you to your senses.
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Now listen to me Whiteside.
I know you. Lay Off. I know what a devil you can be. I 've seen you do it to other people, but don't you dare do it to me. Dont drug yourself into thinking that all you're thinking of is my happiness. You're thinking of yourself a little bit too, and all those months of breaking in somebody new. Ive seen you in a passion before when your life has been disrupted and you couldn't dine in Calcutta on July twelfth with Boo-Boo. Well that's too bad, but there it is. I'm going to marry Bert Jefferson, if he'll have me and don't you dare try any of your tricks. I'm onto every one of them. So lay off. that' my message to you, Big Lord Fauntleroy. |
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PREEEN EXIT
(line) That's alright Maggie dear, we all lose our tempers now and then. (line) Fine |
Sherry I'm sorry for what I said before, I'm afraid I was a little unjust.
(WHSDE) I promised to have dinner with Bert and go to a movie but we'll come back and play cribbage with you instead. (WHSDE) See you soon Sherry dear, Good bye. |
