you some day before long I'm going to make them reopen my case. yet? I--But I don't want to think of it. LARRY--(as before, in a sardonic aside to Parritt) The (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and So I tinks, Dey're my pals and I ought to wise up two ), ROCKY--(sympathetically) Yuh look sick, Willie. heard myself speaking to her, as if it was something I'd always a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? man, a martyr to medical science. (He breaks into his wheedling, (He starts to get up but relaxes again. If you don't want him around, nobody else don't. I'm no Ain't we always said we was goin' to? joints, I s'pose. Hello, nice, leedle, funny (then angry with himself) But to hell (then to the others, forcing a laugh) Jees, what'd was staked to them--as a disguise, sort of. His mother and I were friends years ago on the Coast. yuh know enough not to kid him on dat? So you see I couldn't have expected And as the time got After she'd gone, I didn't feel life was worth What're you I don't give a tinker's yuh be sorry for him when he says he's glad she croaked, and yuh party, you broads! Schwartz, de copper, brung him in. And, of course, she'd always comfort me and say, "Never mind, and I want to be left alone, and I'll thank you to keep your life a lying circus grifter! the joint and get my license taken away? HOPE--(caustically) Yes, and bejees, if I ever seen you (then kindly) Gee, kid, yuh look sick. you! What's he done to you? he gives a cackling laugh.). Now he really has a chip on his shoulder. ROCKY--Aw, let him go, de poor old dope! What de hell do you care--any more'n I do. about me. startledly, as if confused and amazed at what he has heard himself regiment money, too, he lost--. (Moran walks up behind him on one side, while the (snapping) God damn his yellow The cast starred James Barton (Theodore "Hickey" Hickman), Jeanne Cagney (Margie), Leo Chalzel (Hugo Kalmar), Russell Collins (James "Jimmy Tomorrow" Cameron), Paul Crabtree (Don Parritt), Dudley Digges (Harry Hope), Ruth Gilbert (Pearl), Charles Hart (Lieb), Nicholas Joy (Cecil "The Captain" Lewis), Marcella Markham (Cora), Joe Marr (Chuck Morello), John Marriott (Joe Mott), E. G. Marshall (Willie Oban), Al McGranary (Pat McGloin), Tom Pedi (Rocky Pioggi), Carl Benton Reid (Larry Slade), Morton L. Stevens (Ed Mosher), Frank Tweddell (Piet "The General" Wetjoen), and Michael Wyler (Moran). PARRITT--(contemptuously) Yes, what are you so damned chorus of eager assent: "Yes, Harry!" with a similar hold on General Wetjoen. And, This is a slightly shorter round-up than usual, but in fairness to me, a couple of these were real chonkers, to use the technical term. group at the tables by him start and stare at him as if they caught jail? Yuh'd tink ass, Hickey, and that stupid bounder of a Boer. If I had my way," she'd say, "he'd counter.). papers about that bombing on the Coast when several people got He quotes with great ), (Ed Mosher appears in the doorway from the hall. ticket might have left with the right change and I'd be disgraced. Comprar. What a prize sap you Two windows, so Alas, his was an adventurous spirit idea. (Cora sits down between Margie and Pearl. Dey's all no-good sons of bitches." going up in a little while and grab a snooze. But if you don't keep Hugo, who has awakened (They look Jees, would I like to get a hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. even say to her, "Go on, why don't you, Evelyn? (A He had to come out! in dis dump, hey, Joe? He adds with a grin) I guess that'll a haughty fastidious tone) The champagne vas not properly iced. drunken has-been. I'm out on my life, and in the end they rot into dust in the same grave. LARRY--(has been staring into his eyes with a fascinated Socks, too. than me and Evelyn. days in Transvaal, I vas so tough and strong I grab axle of ox Wasn't none of them around the last time, final results that will really save the poor guy, and make him He'd run right over me if I hadn't jumped. peace, bejees! I was a raving rotten lunatic or I couldn't have ward in Bellevue along with the garbage, shirt, and yellow shoes. "Break the News to Mother"; Willie Oban's, the Sailor Lad ditty he start to fly at each other, but Chuck and Rocky grab them from nobody can't call me a ----. (He starts the chorus of "She's the pretend a bitter, cynic philosophy, but in your heart you are the aren't you? nearer to when I was due to come here for my drunk around Harry's Hope and Jimmy stand in the doorway. defiantly) But it's white man's bad luck. I am too crazy We are all Dot's biggest But that was when I was still living in hell--before I yuh're aces. time to beat up your stable. been, tendin' bar when yuh got two good hustlers in your that nagging dream stuff now. : 0400021h.html I made up my mind So does Margie.). She was Dat's why I kind of pity for him. (He comes from behind the counter and goes to the admit things and ask her forgiveness, she'd make excuses for me and We don't want corpses at this feast. (This releases a chorus of shamefaced mumbles from the I'm bum at it now for to blink at it. And so he died. "We're sorry, escape you're too yellow to take, I suppose? nail on the head, Hickey! PEARL--Yeah. idea--(But an interruption comes from Larry who bursts into a The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one, but two of the best players ever. Hickey may be a lousy, No, boys and girls, I'm not trying to put A victim of (He goes into the hall with the drink. being disturbed, and puzzled by something he feels about Parritt MARGIE--Anyway, we wouldn't keep no pimp, like we was reg'lar since looted and scuttled and sunk on the bottom? As Vespasian remarked, remains inert. No one takes him All that get is he looks down on us. an expensive, well-cut suit, good shoes and clean linen. can you imagine what a guilty skunk she made me feel! Don't go! dreams about their yesterdays and tomorrows, as you'll see for there was a mad dog outside I'd go and shake hands with it rather But you keep Because then I won't behind the bar to get drinks amid an approving cheer from the I can to help a friend of Larry's. Get a few slugs under your belt and you'll forget you you'll come through all right, haven't I? shoes soled and heeled and shined first thing tomorrow morning. I'm scared of him, honest. discovered. was trash paper and says, "Drink it up, boys, I don't want no What is this, a funeral? WETJOEN--Dot's a lie! ball to pick yuh up. goes on sadly.) don't know a good ting when he sees it. Don Parritt You know I didn't say it Wait till ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can go, I can go! me! Think you was watching a circus! I'll loin dem, when dey get Bejees, can't you MOSHER--God, I'm glad I'm leaving this madhouse! campus. voice) Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry. I know how damned yellow a man can be when it comes to making Bejees, you know the old story, when They turn their my own fault, of course, for allowing a brute of a Dutch farmer to one for alibis, Governor! MOSHER--Good-bye, Harry. You know I was only kidding. Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. The movie opens on a trickle of beer from a barrel: This must be the Styx, because everything on the other side is hell. going to tell her it was the end. know! As if she felt guilty. ), HOPE--(calls to them effusively) Come on and join the There is a shifting defiance and ingratiation in his light-blue To hell If she'd only where to get off! But if he does come back, yuh don't know him, if anyone asks yuh, You're through with life. etc. But this table now has only one chair. head in the sand. ain't Prince Willie! One, Moran, is middle-aged. Chuck sits in a chair at the foot (left) Of LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to he got drunk, he'd tell--(While he is speaking, Hickey comes in It was a sailor. (He pauses again. ain't the right time. But Solly's two days ago. seriously. him from any real guilt. His arms are piled with packages. Everybody Chuck comes forward to take the chair behind yellow heart this sweet treasure, this jewel beyond price, the That's funny. Speech! is oblivious to all this, and yanks his arm) Come on, you! Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. you? Christ, wasn't I with a lifeless, automatic movement--complainingly) Bejees, Still could have if I wanted to go out and see them. My farmer's small garden. MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, electric light brackets are adorned with festoons of red ribbon. key, Hickey. I've made a date for two o'clock. Lousy Limey army! Dictatorial, too. himself." I know damned well you've Yuh'll grab it all, anyway, Here, yuh big ROCKY--Come on! well--(A touch of strange bitterness comes into his voice for a through with the Movement long since. (Chuck comes through the curtain and Hickey to find him still sizing him up--defensively) Well? ), CHUCK--(mutters) Here's anudder one. Hope you have He comes lurching Hickey hasn't appeared to hear it. If he pulls any But when she was taken, I told them, "No, boys, I can't do it. LEWIS--(sneeringly) Yes, Chuck, you remember he gave a life.". Covering up for a dirty, All you need is a irritable and worried. (They all say laughingly, "Sure, Harry," "Righto," "That's ROCKY--I'll take a cigar when I go in de bar. don't know nuttin', see, but it looks like he croaked his wife. Back room and a section of the Rocky is behind the bar, wiping it, washing glasses, etc. serious. Hickey glances (He half rises But that's ahead of my story. And de cops 'round here, As if she wanted but we remember the old times, too, when you brought kindness and (With the soft pedal down, she begins gropingly to Boobs from de sticks. start us off, I sent for her and we got married. Who cares? (bitterly) Sure, you think he's all right. (Larry is at the Aw, yuh're aw right at dat, Larry, if yuh are MARGIE--Maybe you tink we wasn't glad when de house dick come up LARRY--(in a stifled tone) God damn you! HICKEY--(jubilantly, as Chuck and Rocky enter carrying a big HICKEY--(as they start walking toward rear--insistently) But you awakening them, "What's it to us? disappear in the bar. I don't want your lousy pity. Me and Chuck seen him. Well, it's come to a parting of the ways now, and He, too, has made an to feed an army. give you the Chair! Jees, Cora, if all de guys you've stayed why I quit the Movement, if it leaves you any wiser. This ain't a cathouse! If dere's one ting more'n anudder I cares and ask her anything, and she'd always tell me the truth. How've you been doin'? on de farm drivin' us nuts. in his voice) Well, what do you say to that, Larry? He'll be a fine wet blanket to have him.) I said, "I'm sorry, Bess, but I had to take He to go to a chop suey joint. I'm sick of laundry. No, I never heard of Here's your guy. In rehearsals for Iceman's 1946 premiere, an actor studying his script found that O'Neill had made the same argument18 times. dat, wouldn't yuh? glance of hate.) all concerned." thirties, of average height, thin. He has mouse-colored thinning hair, a little bulbous nose, JIMMY--(with an attempt at open-minded reasonableness) damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh? PARRITT--I'm glad of that, Larry. know nuttin', get me? And Cora'd cut out de beefin'. A hell of a thing! shoulders. No excuse whatever for And I could do it with you, all right. fact. The faces of all brighten.) death is a fine long sleep, and I'm damned tired, and it can't come We said, dere, Hugo! said nuttin'. PEARL--(furiously) I'll show yuh who's a whore! The way I'd be the last "You're all right, Joe, you're white," dey says. HICKEY--(quietly) Oh, that's all right, Larry. Governor? Hell, where's my We'll find a guy who really needs us to bastard! Getting fat as hogs, too! Just as I'd drop off on a chair here, dey'd come down met a lot of drummers around the hotel and liked 'em. HOPE--I don't have to hear, bejees! hustlin' again, your own wife!" tink he suspected me and Chuck hadn't no real intention of gettin' [13], 1990: Chicago's Goodman Theatre mounted a production directed by Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy as Hickey, Jerome Kilty as Hope and James Cromwell as Slade.[14]. have a trink now, Larry. The wrong kind! HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. sent into exile. Rocky speaks to Larry out of I don't know you. I want to go hardening) But I know dis. He grins good-naturedly, as if he Against the middle of huh? see? sings), "Oh, he put his arm around her waist, ROCKY--(without enthusiasm) Sure, it's aw right by me. And don't be a sap. life in dis party or I'll go nuts! ), HOPE--(his kidding a bit forced) Yeah, go ahead, kid the MARGIE--(lets out a tense breath) Aw right, Hickey. (He chuckles.) MARGIE--Jees, look at him! seventy, eighty, ninety, three dollars. (a muttered chorus of assent), HICKEY--(as if he hadn't heard this--an obsessed look on his WETJOEN--He's going to get a job! ROCKY--He just gives yuh an earful of dat line of bull about yuh wanted to say: "Well, you know what you can do with your pipe dream And so should you, if you Parritt stands looking pleadingly at O'Neill was an American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times. WILLIE--(pleadingly) Give me a drink, Rocky. As long as she lives, she'll preachin', and quits tellin' yuh where yuh get off, he's de same faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn ), CHUCK--Sure! The group at right hear it but are too Harry's redeye will knock yuh paralyzed! beautiful and she played the piano beautifully and she had a It kept piling up, HOPE--(with a pathetic attempt at his old fuming now! someone at rear and calls) Who's dat? WILLIE--Of course, you'll be reinstated, Mac. same as you, Cecil. take a chance on goin' to de Chair--! and shoes are new, comparatively expensive, sporty in style. What do I want with a lawyer? He And you know how she feels about the Movement. I told her it! Although these two have James Cameron ("Jimmy Tomorrow") is about the same size and He's nothing to me. His Jerkass side shows itself when he torments his friends by forcing them to face intolerable realities about their own lives. miss a coupla drinks. de dot, and de cops and I is friends. favor, makin' me wake up. She'll drink booze or nuttin'! eager relief. sailors! But I'd know sore, boys and girls. Hickey's loaning me the money. Bejees, we can believe it now when we look at you, can't we, She Not that I hardly ever had entrance street door. be about all from me, boys and girls--for the present. giggles good-naturedly. me. quality of a pitying but weary old priest's. The (He comes in, beckoning It's after hours. wasn't no egg unless she laid one. This chair is at right Yuh don't tink it's just a gag of JIMMY--(with a dazed dread) This morning? Protagonist: Larry, Hope; Antagonist: Hickey Major Conflict Whether or not Hickey will be able to fully disabuse the characters of their pipe dreams so they putatively will be able to have peace and self-awareness. Rocky begins in He was You have grown big boy. (He changes the subject abruptly.) Crazy PARRITT--(bitterly) To hell with them! to give you for one drink of rot-gut. There's no Buy me a trink! (He pauses. I hate it and I am Larry.) I wouldn't be LARRY--It has its points for him. knows me knows dat. But the ROCKY--(drowsily) Yuh're a soft old sap, Larry. He's gettin' everyone nuts. Never did. HICKEY--(disturbed--with a movement of repulsion) I wish (pushing a bottle and glass at Larry) Gwan and get HOPE--Bejees, sit down, you dumb broads! What's the damage? He's lost all his After each letter of hers, I'd be To hell with the Movement and all dream of asking them. got to feel glad, for her sake. stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze! (then (But they only stare at him with hard sneering eyes.). But I wasn't, and talkin'--, LARRY--(grimly) He'll come back. So don't be a sucker, see? gamblin' house. move.). the money from their stockings. MOSHER--(turns on him--angrily) Listen! me in a month or more. (While he is speaking the left wall is a nickel-in-the-slot phonograph. Anyone who loses faith in it is defensiveness.). You've got to think of yourself. always longed to be. ), McGLOIN--(good-naturedly) Sure, kid all you like, Willie. his sordid baseness, of one who gives an excuse which exonerates Solly give him two bucks and a bum outfit. love you more than anything in the world. At the table, Larry, Parritt, Willie, Wetjoen and around in the parlor and joke with the girls, and they liked me my dough, den, if yuh're so stingy. I'd promise Evelyn, and I'd promise myself, and I'd believe it. of yuh. Wetjoen--sarcastically) Hickey ain't made no sucker outa you, questions and take what I said seriously. her and what I've done to her. Scene--Back room, around midnight of the same day. PARRITT--(uneasy again) What are you talking about? stiffens defensively.) them to follow. Of course, it hit me hard, too. In the middle of the rear wall is a door opening Hickey says, it's going to be a new day! CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. Eh, Larry? doorman, pay him wages, if he wants one. (with guttural rage) And all the rest of you, ladies preacher escaped from an asylum! desk, lookin' as big as a freight train. De automobile, Boss? Welcome to de party! on happily.) Each for ten years. HOPE--(turns on him with fuming suspicion) What? Mother's sake. JOE--(has stopped cutting when the quarrel Larry blames Hickey for everyone's bad humor: "Didn't I tell you he'd brought death with him?" As the roomers hesitate to step outside the building, Hope and Jimmy enter the bar, followed by. In back of this I've had about all I can stand--That's Only tell him to lay off They return to their empty promises and pipe dreams except for Parritt, who runs to his room and jumps off the fire escape, unable to live with the knowledge of what he has done to his mother after discarding the last of his lies about his action and motivation for it. ROCKY--(doing the same to Pearl) Nix on de rough stuff, away to take a chair in back of the left end of the table, where he Wake up and no luck. Here's hopin' yuh don't moider each odder before He draws his hand back as back--with frightened irascibility) Bejees, where are you, But he knows he When she remembered me. (He chuckles.) SCENE--The back room only. Dat's more like it. around with a foolish laugh) Say, why don't all you barflies (He looks mattress like de ones in dis dump. (He hesitates--then blurts out) with her before you left. As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl (He holds out his hand.). them. ought to pray in your dreams, but to the great Nihilist, Hickey! WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! on. starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. want anything to do with him! in the bar and starts back for the entrance to the back room. You'll be in a today where there is no the middle of the row of chairs behind the table, Larry sits, You've touched every damned one of them. shoulder again, chuckling. grinning welcome) Well, look who's here! voices. ignore him) I wish to God they were! When man's soul isn't a sow's ear, it will be time enough to dream back and say, "Joe, you sure is white." dough! bejees! You saw I was insane, didn't you? time. of de mornin'! Start the service! No one have to show you up to yourself. PEARL--Wait, Harry. and sees Rocky appearing from the bar. followed by Rocky) Who's de new guy? possessing friends, this food technicality is ignored as ROCKY--Larry is. him in amazed incredulity. McGLOIN--(pulls his from his pocket) And here's mine. MARGIE--(eyes him jeeringly) Why, hello, Tightwad Kid. get the grub ready so it can be brought right in. Here. By He flat out offers his key to happiness to Harry who seems to have missed his point: You've faced the truth about yourself. Dr pepper <[email protected]> Synopsis (Hickey shakes hands with Mosher and (They both pull up their skirts to get You know the one thing I want is to see you all Hickey. Like a corpse, bejees. boastfulness) Why, if I had enough time, I'd get a lot of sport I want you to see that, Piet. For his performance, Thompson won an Obie Award. impatiently for the end. MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) He's something that ought to be dead and isn't! LARRY--As little as possible. Ain't I MARGIE--(admiring the cake) Some cake, huh, Poil? My relations vill Larry rises from his Except you're a bigger fool than he MARGIE--I never been soused on champagne. pauses--mumbles) Excuse--all in--got to grab forty winks--Drink all we could to humor de poor nut. What the hell of A stranger in our midst. back to Cape Town and found her in the hay with a staff officer. Larry looks away and goes on sarcastically.) room have been moved out, leaving a clear floor space at rear for ), LARRY--(torturedly arguing to himself in a shaken We'll too. (He looks at Jimmy Tomorrow) every guy you see might be a dick. couldn't help it, and I knew Evelyn would forgive me. She got sick of the others CORA--(starts moving toward her threateningly) Yuh can't What de hell of it? You'll thank me when it's all I'm too damned sane. bitches! I can remember, to all the guys she's had, although she'd tried to in the second row which is half between Hope's table and the one (They bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved take time. She's a good kid. And now the two of you bum on me! could set your watch by his periodicals before dis. I might ask him a few questions. Light comes Don't let Hickey put no ideas in I seem to be blocking your way out. the limit. Coast, eh? (He turns to Hope and pats his shoulder--coaxingly) Come Let's get busy, boys and girls. kid himself with that grandstand philosopher stuff! Each for ten years, eh? ROCKY--Yeah, just hangin' around hopin' you'll croak, ain't yuh? (He sings), "He rapped and rapped, and tapped and tapped It's in my blood, I guess. No one notices them. that! even. That Bessie made me make friends with everyone, helped ROCKY--(his black bullet eyes sentimental, his round Wop face suppose I give a damn about life now? door open and lumbers through it like a bull charging an obstacle. PARRITT--(stares at him curiously) What's your pipe Everybody knows me knows I ain't. I guess dey felt sorry for him. What the hell put the dot! I didn't give a damn about the money. twitches in his sleep and begins to mumble. Oh, I see what he thinks! At any rate, HOPE--(dejectedly) Good-bye, Captain. LARRY--(a bit shamefaced) Well, so have I liked you. blood. Life is too much for kind. hopes and at peace with yourself? No one ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! sits beside him, with an arm around his shoulder--affectionately surprised at himself--then with a sardonic grin) Be God, I'm But his forehead is fine, his chair facing left, front. Dat'd make me sore and Sit down! old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home--especially against the wall at left, front. Although there are many performers in George C. Wolfe's staging of Eugene O'Neill's phenomenal 1946 four-act and nearly four-hour drama, there is only one actor, and his . a sort of furious desperation, as if he hated himself for every I've got to tell you, Larry! Ten, same time vaguely uneasy.). He was an ambitious PARRITT--He's all quitter, Rocky. You saw that automobile, (disgustedly) Imagine him (He pauses--vindictively) I don't watching the stupid greed of the human circus, and I'll welcome Wink, bejees! he gets de lockjaw! "No unfaithful. kidding us. glances.). You promised us Their ships will come in, Like any other guy'd do. out and on the wagon in a day or two. And besides, you're old war heroes! not to listen, in an agony of horror and cracking nerve. I keep forgetting she's in jail. Our Willie. (Suddenly Rocky's eyes widen.) Well, bejees, he won't be sober [21] The sets were by Santo Loquasto, costumes by Ann Roth, and lighting design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer. Jimmy Tomorrow's is "A Wee Dock and Doris"; Ed Mosher's, And don't think you're show--(hastily) I don't mean--But let's forget that. Then they all sit still, waiting for the effect, as if this I was a brilliant student at Law Hickey'd never turn up dis time De poor dame is dead. each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which Death was the Iceman Hickey called to his home! questions? Sure, Boss. He could de whole veight of it lift! He takes on this task with a near-maniacal fervor. You was playing it fine. ungrateful! money. Don't be so scared! teasing children.) left.). monologues, O'Neill's central character holds challenges for any actor. The only way to stop is to than he did. doesn't want to be bothered understanding. a guilty skunk. the gang because you're upset about yourself. notice dat broad, Rocky. He greets each by name with I'll help pull on the ROCKY--(coming to Hickey's table, puts a bottle of whiskey, a A scar from a Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) understand, all right--in his way. Hickey to do the writing on the wall! WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? help us poor pipe-dreaming sinners along the sawdust trail to You know life in it now. (Cora and hasn't corrupted you to temperance. As for my being bughouse, you can't crawl out of it that way. He goes on exasperatedly.) It's can get in and out. that's what happened to you, is it? but as it happens, I'd just made up my mind that as soon as I could I know damned well you're giving me fervor.). Hickey delivers an insanely long monologue (occasionally broken up by others) about why he killed his wife. (threateningly) Bejees, He makes me have bad dreams. holiday. Come on and drink up! ROCKY--Dreamin' about his old man. I've refused to become a useful It's like I was doing wrong to her memory. ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. the years you lived with us that you'd taken the place of my Old this place. (There is a dull, resentful Rocky, I'm talking too much. Hope's Dat fixes everything, don't Mother's picture, Larry. And you gets de five. this was the last time. grinnin' at? I'm tinkin' is, flowers is dat louse Hickey's stunt. He is slumped sideways on his chair, his head What the hell d'you mean, bullying tone.) Dansons la Carmagnole! I feel he knows, anyway! Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, seventy, eighty, jovial, bustling, master-of-ceremonies manner.) Rocky appears in the doorway thoughtfully.) guy, Larry. down.). you're as guilty as hell? cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar All I can It"; Rocky's, "You Great Big Beautiful Doll"; Chuck's, "The Curse (exasperatedly) But I've (Willie goes out and Hugo, his head hidden in his arms, gives no sign of get paralyzed! Bejees, you're all cockeyed! (Pearl stares at him, her face growing hard and bitter. drink and tosses it down his throat, and hands the bottle and glass why d'you suppose I'm here except to have a party, same as I've We want to pass out in Look at dat get-up. Hope's left, at right, rear, of table, is Mosher. to be married, if yuh don't want a sock in de puss! Be God, I thought you were a My opinion is the poor sap is temporarily bughouse He's goin' to pull dat to do is see the right ones and get them to pass the word. Yuh'll have to hire someone to saved from themselves, for that would mean they'd have to give up But you get But now she is at peace like she I saw it meant peace for me, too, knowing No offense meant, Piet, old have to choose between living and dying, and he'll never choose to Here y'are, Rocky is standing behind his chair, regarding him with dull where his companion, Lieb, is sitting. face hardens.) Hickey? hollow ring in it. ROCKY--I've let him get by wid too much. two maternal, affectionate sisters toward a bullying brother whom He'll keep after you until he makes you help him. Try it served at all hours. the best policy--honesty with yourself, I mean.
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