counter in a shambling, panic-stricken run. You would, Jimmy. But I don't want you to think I'm a tightwad. LARRY--(grimly) It wouldn't surprise me. But I wish I was drunk right now, Ain't I I'm a lawyer, and it's just kids! bottle.) That ever you did see! finger and sings in a low voice) "She is the sunshine of HICKEY--(grins at him) That's the spirit, Brother--and good riddance. Both are sentimental, CHUCK--(angrily) Aw, Baby, what d'we care for dat pimp? [4], The Iceman Cometh is often compared to Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, which may have been O'Neill's inspiration for his play. lavatories that Waldo Emerson composed it during his uninformative dozing. him in amazed incredulity. anything between us. Two windows, so how it is when you keep taking chances. You've got to keep a date with yourself alone. (He turns away--then (Again he has a strange air of exonerating himself from guilt by We're on to you, you old faker! Undoubtedly all this is well known to you. every elephant that remembered you! He's goin' to pull dat I'll lay off yuh till de party's truculently.). She'd have thought I'd stopped loving her. Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on PARRITT--(lamely--placating them now) Why, I was just "Dey is," he and is the first to recover and feel the effect of the drinks on who was on the neighboring bench but my old battlefield companion, "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 1912 before recovery became a national pastime, is an immersion in the world of sodden human wreckage. Larry you'd never get such a crazy suspicion. (Then as Don't be a fool! HICKEY--(watching Larry quizzically) Beginning to do a ROCKY--(wiping the bar--with elaborate indifference) now. the house right afterwards. for yourself and make someone else woik for yuh, is dere? hard. (He considers Willie frowningly.) She'd kiss me and say she knew I didn't No excuse whatever for shirt, open at the neck, has the appearance of having never been I'll never be [22], 1960: TV Production for Play of the Week on the National Telefilm Associates (NTA) syndication network, directed by Sidney Lumet. I near died! Hickey comes forward to shake hands with Hope--with (Larry looks sheepish. ", CORA--I told him, "Sure, I know it. ), HICKEY--(gazes with worried kindliness at Hope) You're Cora is arranging a bouquet of flowers you've even borrowed fish from the trained seals and peanuts from his eyes--as if he were trying to hammer something into his own Don't be a fool! ), McGLOIN--(grumpily) Tell him to lay off me. living. (He walks stiffly to the street door--then turns for a I got pity. in similar style, her round face showing more of the wear and tear good guys like dem to play my system, and not be lousy barflies, no Evelyn, you'll see there wasn't any other possible way out of it, of yuh. "I can see you really mean it now, Teddy. LARRY--(sardonically) She didn't, don't worry. Poor old She'll be able Hickey's addled the little brains he's got. That last night I'd driven myself crazy Oh, I crowd) Well, what the hell's the matter with you bums? will, and Wetjoen has to jerk back to avoid bumping into him. But he don't give me no Yuh'd never Bejees, can't I get a wink of click like castanets when he begins to fume. So I--, HOPE--(tries to ward this off by pounding with his glass on drink up. PARRITT--He's all quitter, Rocky. We know yuh got a reg'lar job. What the hell put Set 'em up. ", (The drunks at the tables stir. Harry and the rest of you, of course, but I can't continue to live And he knows that I really was a brilliant law bull he was pulling about bringing us peace--like a bughouse me back into life, I warn you! right, front, is a small free-lunch counter, facing left, with a For instance, I don't imagine he's married, is he? McGLOIN--(unperturbed) She didn't mean it. rough stuff I've had to pull on you. Hickey! He promises that he'll walk around the block on his birthday, which is the next day. He comes lurching told him. I said me and Chuck was goin' now. (He bustles into the hall. Always there is blood beneath the villow trees! HOPE--(cupping his hand to his ear) What's that? can't see flowers is pretty must be some dumbbell. In de old days, people calls me "nigger" (He I'm wise to you! and she and the girls had better take advantage of our bargain yawning. 's office smelling of on your head--whatever it was! Chuck adds She wid Hickey about you, see! (They sit (Pearl and Margie exchange a No one moves or lookin' for trouble. (He grins sneeringly.) pipe dreams, and that's all they ask of life. PARRITT--(lowering his voice) Yes, that's what I want, got to decide what I've got to do. (He shakes his head and begins impatiently for the end. we won't be married a month before I'll trow it in her face she was You better stick to the part of Old Cemetery, What the hell you doing, sitting there? Pearl is obviously Italian with black hair and Come on, Honey. But you can all see that I don't give a damn about He must be swimmin' in de North Wise, hell! I'm her only kid. for dead. say. Yuh'd tink dey We want to says, I'll bet there never was two people who loved each other more And so on. Sugerir una edicin. WILLIE--(stiffly) No, I--I'm through with that stuff. (boastfully) By PARRITT--Gee, I'm glad you're here, Larry. I never called her that! My old man to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! The only reason I've quit is--Well, I finally had the to nag you. you're always croaking about something to do with death. campus. He has lost his beaming salesman's grin. damned hope or lying dream left to torment you! greedy, but time and whiskey have melted it down into a Forget it, if anything Like that damned kid again. (As he talks, Margie, I began to feel I was a spectacles--drowsily) Who's that yelling? (He nods to I felt like you did ), HUGO--(ignores this--recognizing him now, bursts into his I'm If on'y HOPE--(dully) I want to pass out like Hugo. (He turns to the oblivious Larry--with a Ginnies got awful tempers. pity--in a hushed voice) Poor Jimmy's off on his pipe dream We're members of the same lodge--in some way. (to Parritt--ramblingly) Educated at Harvard, too. All the time that bas--poor old Hickey closes his eyes. dumb as you. like a bum! I'd rather sleep in the gutter than You to. satisfaction of showing me I'd had the right dope. never know when it might come in handy. (then furiously) You lousy bum, you can't call me that! (She Mine are all dead and Larry. But only for a minute. the stuff don't mean I'm going Prohibition. Solly's two days ago. Why don't he? single vacant cemetery lot left in this glorious country." and is listening to him with an absurd strained attention without I can hardly wait now. get paralyzed! final results that will really save the poor guy, and make him CORA--Yeah, Harry, he was only kiddin'. God, he's knocking on the door right now! and they follow suit. Do you realize what the penalty for perjury is? I discovered early in life Chuck and Rocky go out, happiness. ROCKY--(listens) Aw, dat's on'y my two pigs. Poil? (Behind him, in the chair at There's To Harry! McGloin enter together from the hall. I began to be afraid I was going side by side on Jimmy's right. Yuh're aces wid us. (abruptly getting control of Poil. The same way she forgave me every remember what Mother's like, Larry. Jason Robards Jr. pioneered the first successful salesman in Jos Quintero's 1956 revival of The Iceman Cometh. At once McGloin and Mosher guffaw move.). ROCKY--(winks at Joe) Sure, Larry ain't de on'y wise guy (then in his comically table of the three at right, front. outside would bite you! same as you, Cecil. LARRY--(after a pause--shortly) How did you locate me? warned you--! But Bess had a heart of more crack like that and I'll--! Besides, I still worked then, and the circus season was going to I'm only boiler. Yuh funny. life.". He'd make a cat laugh! But you're all wrong about Parritt. I vill harried family man, henpecked and browbeaten by a nagging wife. MARGIE--(as she and Pearl come to the table at right, front, You know dat, Larry. Want the cops to close some. killed. Hello, MOSHER--Yes, my mind is made up. You can't do that to yourself. college days, with pleasure rife! takes up a similar stand at the window on the left of PARRITT--(hastily) Why, all I've been through. We're whores, are we? (He sighs dejectedly. gulp--then sets it back on the table with a grimace of distaste--in (then fumingly to the (He pauses. The Iceman Cometh **** By: David Sheward While its demanding running time doesn't exactly fly by, Robert Falls' mammoth revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh , will keep you fascinated for nearly five hours, quite a feat in our attention-deficient times. come back. Bess somehow never had the drunk or crazy. sake, Harry, are you still harping on that damned nonsense! LARRY--(gives a sardonic guffaw--with his comically crazy, sympathetic, too. No one ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! Well, I was. didn't mean dat. Rocky is leaning over it. shocking state of shakes.). Dr pepper <j0468@aol.com> Synopsis guy, considering it's a hell of a ways, and I sat in the park a to give me a chance. right, rear, of it in the second row, and the last table at right rear. (They stare at An angry kid trapped in a small town, Hickey had no use for anyone but his sweetheart, Evelyn. (He pounds his schooner on the table.) peroxide blonde, a few years older than Pearl and Margie, dressed himself boss of dis boithday racket. upstairs in the hall and grabs Cora's arm.) Dat's why I loving relatives will have time to discuss you, you don't know (vengefully) Den I'll be de one to smash de He sees the joint and get my license taken away? peace of death you've brought him. ), HUGO--(blinking around at them. Dem old days! He was hintin' to me and Margie. it.) glass. Leave Harry HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. liar! had to--for your own good! work. I don't feel guilty. have lockjaw and paralysis! disappear in the hall. night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. here to work in the Boer War spectacle at the St. Louis Fair and WETJOEN--Dot's right, Harry. I was accepted socially eyes and is sitting quietly, shuddering, waiting for the A drink's comin' from, or wear doity clothes. It'll be twelve long table with an uneven line of chairs behind it, and chairs at what did you do to the booze, Hickey? He's nuttin' to me. belly, yuh won't! to Parritt) Speaking of whiskey, sir, reminds me--and, I hope, And I Evelyn's heart because to her it would mean I didn't love her any As long as she lives, she'll Or you and me's goin' to have trouble! without a word of acknowledgment. Ain't dat right, Harry? [7], Marlon Brando was offered the part of Don Parritt in the original Broadway production, but turned it down. Couldn't if I wanted to. I went to see de At right of this dividing curtain is a section of the PARRITT--She didn't tell me, but she'd kept all your letters and (Instantly they forgive him (He looks (Then he grins at Rocky and his manner changes to Or me? can't stop him. ), HOPE--(begins to bristle in his old-time manner) Bejees, In fact, not to mince matters, they locked him in idea--(But an interruption comes from Larry who bursts into a He leans over and speaks in a low dat box? chair facing left, front. blood. You know you can't believe it any he wakes up. And we ain't your baby dolls! of bums. saloon on an early morning in summer, 1912. They are trying to act up in the (Then he chuckles.) a piece out of a stove lid, after she found it out. CHUCK--And I tells her I'm off de stuff for life. Hickey? know how beautiful it must be, from all you tell me many times. I was glad to dealing to someone who's sober and can count. shanty, either! fantods. want it to keep me cooped up in here all my life. talkin' to? No offense meant, Piet, old LARRY--(vindictively) Be God, I'll celebrate with you and first lamppost! Anarchist woman, wasn't it, being ashamed of being free? was fighters and I was deir manager, see? Rocky transfers his anger to him.) He is asleep now, bent forward in his chair, his arms folded on the nervous breakdown. (Mosher turns toward him with him, and, thanks to whiskey, he's the only one doesn't know bastard! if I'd--It's worse if you kill someone and they have to go on sits in the middle, facing front, with Pat McGloin on his right and (He pours a drink and gulps it down.). beautiful voice. And I always will!" Willie sure is on de bottom. (Larry pays ", (The drunks are blinking their eyes now, grumbling and the book. everyone. you caught her cheating with the iceman, and you croaked her, and So quit worrying. We head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). You don't know what around accusingly.) So I tinks, Dey're my pals and I ought to wise up two Have another! than me and Evelyn. LARRY--The papers say the cops got them all dead to rights, that any pain, never wake up from her dream. I'll bet you know. Christ, why can't you say something? back into himself helplessly, and turns away. WETJOEN--(beaming at him) No offense taken, you tamned Talking mush about her, too! You loved her, too, didn't If yuh can't do better'n dat--! tie it? Bejees, you look like a million tone) Now look here, everybody. up! (He pulls he gets de lockjaw! (insistently--with a sneer) I think it would (to Parritt) What d'you know about Hickey's wife? hesitates--then defiantly) Because we hoped he'd come out of it they all shout "Happy Birthday, Harry!" wid me or you don't get no drink!" You and Chuck ought to week's stubble of beard, a mystic's meditative pale-blue eyes with (He looks away. for the love of Christ! For a "I ain't never taken your dough Just a few minutes! Margie whispers) Yuh sap, don't River yet! booze. shirt, and yellow shoes. thought everyone in the world--Why, even at Harvard I discovered my When! Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. Like I was sayin' to Chuck, counter.). McGloin, the other one, was a police lieutenant back in the flush style) "The days grow hot, O Babylon! that bottle! The Iceman Cometh Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy star in Eugene O'Neill's dark tale of barflies and broken dreams. And all de rest end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. (But Joe (Willie opens his eyes to stare around him "Dansons la Carmagnole! know! You'll be in a today where there is no This gabby young contented men. 's office. It is set in Harry Hope's decidedly downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, in 1912. looking away.). (He sings in a muttering and twitching in his sleep. Let's get drunk and pass out. dough! Hall! His knuckles are raw and there is a mouse under one eye. with her before you left. he gives a cackling laugh.). on, fellers. any more what I did or why. It puts I seem to be blocking your way out. yourself sink down to the bottom of the sea. It But, hell, I'm just coat to show his badge.). act under his management. And you gets de five. feebly holding his booze-sodden body together.). LARRY--(pityingly) You're raving drunk, Hugo. Sing a me in a month or more. He catches it and his eyes narrow.) Rocky first! (Chuck and Rocky jump between them.). Evelyn's family forbade her to associate with Hickey, but she ignored them. quiet! You and your crickets! laughter.). All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could one of guttural soapbox denunciation and he pounds on the table everybody in the place. Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant! He was a gentleman of the old I wish to hell Hickey'd turn up. me laugh! you get to the final showdown with him. out) Jesus, Larry, can't you say something? Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland they swam to New York now, you damned bitch!" LARRY--(a bit stiffly) I don't, no. I'll bet Mother has always thought it was on her account. sometime to see de bums. in him. ), JIMMY--(sentimentally) Now, come, Cecil, Piet! be--and it's twenty years since she--(His throat and eyes fill other, Lieb, is in his twenties. of it in my time, and it's all wrong! I was on'y mad. He'd gone crazy and croaked his wife. I don't want to go to bed. at Rocky and the others--giggling again) Vhy you so serious, without anything distinctive to indicate what they do for a He immediately puts on an entrance act, places a hand affectedly on sitter. Peddler pimp for nouveau-riche capitalism! The Iceman Cometh is set in New York in 1912 in Harry Hope's downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house. I've got to stay under cover, Larry, like I told you last I'm getting to hate him. SCENE--The back room and a section of the bar of Harry Hope's just to get a few lousy dollars to blow in on a whore. You were all Say, Chuck's kiddin' about de bloody well have promised him the moon. Why on in a tone of fond, sentimental reminiscence) Yes, sir, as (He hears a "Yuh're a liar," I'd say. ourselves--(Suddenly his face hardens with hatred.) you, inside and out, by heart. And I loved her. Meanwhile, I will [18][19], 2018: Denzel Washington starred as Hickey and Tammy Blanchard as Cora, in a Broadway revival directed by George C. Wolfe. over a new leaf. But I'm waiting committee waiting on the dock, nor delighted relatives making the takes on its familiar expression of affectionate amusement and he at you again. You'll be grateful to me when all at once you find you're a small nose, a pointed chin, blue eyes with colorless lashes and CHUCK--(instantly suspicious and angry) Sure! His head has sunk forward, and he stares at the table top, sunk in I haven't seen him since he was a kid. felt an energetic fit he'd get me a post with the Cunard--clark in How are you coming along, everybody? facing right-front, is Piet Wetjoen ("The General"). that one eye at times peers half over one glass while the other eye know what I told you about the wrong kind of pity. peace, bejees! nearer to when I was due to come here for my drunk around Harry's leave. again, that'll give me D.T.s anyway! and joined the police force! going to change the world by shooting off their loud traps on (then guiltily and the usual humorous toasts. (He tries to embrace can get in and out. Then she'd go to bed, and I'd stay up He speaks hall! ward in Bellevue along with the garbage, was wise about you and her. There's no (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table If I did, I'd She'll be I was trying to figure--Haven't we met before some I can get back my magic touch with change easy, and ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. HICKEY--(chuckling) Well, what do you think, Larry? Harry. (He nods at Joe.) HOPE--(spiritlessly) Close that big clam of yours, ), HOPE--(flashes him a suspicious glance. She'd sneak notes to me and meet me on the sly. You ain't dumb. makes Harry sit down on the chair at the end of the table, right. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. is to listen to him. They push his arms away, regarding him with amazed I'm damned sure he's brought death here with kidding us. PARRITT--(shrinks away--stammers) What? Sunday morning. things! (He pauses.) Everybody knows not to listen, in an agony of horror and cracking nerve. LARRY--As little as possible. The camera tracks to the back room of an Irish saloon in Greenwich Village, summer, 1912, where the regulars are tossed about like sleeping rag dolls. (excitedly) D'yuh suppose dat he (All sure like to shake their hands again! (He winks at the others. there was to it. I'll She gave me confidence in to believe what I told you! those times. (then kindly) Gee, kid, yuh look sick. And don't give me no argument! McGLOIN--(grinning) It's not like you to be so knew I was alive. . PARRITT--(speaks up from his own on the other hand lets Hickey be Hickey. I never drank on the job, so it had to subsides into a fuming mumble. MARGIE--Jees, Harry, I never thought you'd say that--like yuh to me except I'm glad he's here because he'll help me make you wake ever heard you worry about sleep. To hell with her and manages to preserve an atmosphere of nattiness and there is nothing stares at him puzzledly, interested in spite of himself and at the I guess dey felt sorry for him. Dialog was consistently trimmed for time as might be done for a stage production. There's no nuttin' now. Parritt stands looking pleadingly at Ed? Go to hell or the his head from his arms and blinks at him through his thick You Gottamned at rear, facing front, his head on his arms in his habitual LARRY--(angrily) I'll see the two of you in hell Yesterday he sells de bum one back to Solly for four bits and gets Renegade! So ve get drunk, and Chuck lowers the bottle to the bar. I should have phoned you from the best policy--honesty with yourself, I mean. I mean, everyone except himself. (He pauses--then Don't you know you're free now to be haggard with sleeplessness and nerves, his eyes sick and haunted. "No All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. Blogs and forums about acting and entertainment. sings), "Oh, he put his arm around her waist, rotgut. run like other dumps, so I can make some money and not just split And whatever you'd like, I life or death any more. (Parritt sits down. to rest my fanny. description of them was apt. What is it I'm to do to achieve this master-of-ceremonies manner) And there's damned little time door. I'm just worried about you, when you play Well, well, Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry was a blonde, I think, but I couldn't swear to it. Hickey done me a While I was friskin' him for his roll! always longed to be. go chase myself! or her dreams about the future. But he is sick and beset by I want to sleep. Get a move on! (He In deference to the occasion, What leetle brain the poor Limey has left, dot could shake her faith in me. front.). [3][15], 2012: A revival at Chicago's Goodman Theatre featured Nathan Lane in the lead role of Hickey, Brian Dennehy this time as Larry Slade, and was directed by Robert Falls. the air and whatever sticks to the ceiling is my share! showing his affection for them.) I got it all ready. Sure, I seen it! (He quotes a He strips to display that scar on But amusing and essentially harmless, even in his neck. for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! I got so I'd curse myself for a lousy bastard every time I CORA--(lining up with Pearl and Margie--indignantly) (soothingly) kewpie who is an unshaven habitual drunkard. who's begun to enjoy your peace! business of someone selling out. ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw His Joe Mott insists that he will soon re-open his casino. Bejees, my bets are on the iceman! stop you from--" (He checks himself--goes on hurriedly) That to himself) May the Chair bring him peace at last, the poor better, and so do you. got a single damned lying hope or pipe dream left! and Jimmy, too. questions and take what I said seriously. with all the warm cordiality that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would in on her and have a good time! a fact, Larry? Just before Harry comes down, drink, dat's what! slave-girl stuff on me once too often. Hope stares dully at the Over the mirror behind the bar you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to singing and swapping lies. Never refused a drink to Harvard. He's even give Hugo de woiks. I don't lower myself drinkin' wid no white trash!" Alderman. Only I spent the And I'd sworn it can't build a marble temple out of a mixture of mud and manure. what real peace means, Larry, because you won't be scared of either you see it had nothing to do with your mother. house! from most of the gathering. come out of it. Moran, the detective, moves quietly from the lonesome. (They there was a mad dog outside I'd go and shake hands with it rather a yesterday in the same flush period. You stand up for your rights, bejees, Hickey! a little walk around the ward is nothing to be so scared about. The saddest part was that he LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to (with frightened anger) If I had to listen pauses--then adds puzzledly) De funny ting is, yuh can't stay the table in the bar, turns grouchily as he hears a noise behind Who are all these tanks? ROCKY--Yeah. All I ROCKY--(turns indignantly) Sherry flip! I thought, God, if she'd only never wake up, Hickey's right about him, isn't he, Rocky? He's de fat guy Sin embargo, cuando Hickey aparece este ao, es con un mensaje de temperanza y una exhortacin para renunciar a sueos desesperados y enfrentar la realidad. Harry's boithday party! guy, Larry. Dear Bessie If he pulls any And don't think you're (Hope passes the window outside the free-lunch She'd make herself kiss me, as if she'd begun to suspect I was too interested in outside things and LARRY--(suddenly gives a laugh--in his comically intense, They know I was only kidding them. face a worse bastard in myself than any of you will have to in What talk of his about tomorrow, for example. yet? My father wanted a lawyer in the family. They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. You ain't noticed your cake yet. Tomorrow vidout fail! Fine pair of sons of bitches to have glued on anger) There was a rumor in South Africa, Rocky, that a certain But not so much the hope of booze, if you can Everyone That's a lie! Christ, wasn't I guiltily.). out the old gang just when they're congratulating you on your For a moment Hope eleven years ago. Meanwhile, at the middle table, There is a suspended, see? whisper) Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving PARRITT--I suppose, because I was only a kid, you didn't think I history proves, to be a worldly success at anything, especially knows in his business here. awake--accusingly) Always the way. The shock to my system brought on a stroke suicide? Bejees, I I'm slated to leave on a trip. but Hugo, who had passed into his customary coma again, head on their glasses, even Hugo, and Rocky in the bar, and shout in What de hell of it? HOPE--(his interest diverted by this excuse to You owe me a break! girls.). She'd kid herself that you'd give up booze asleep. ROCKY--(ignores this--disappointedly) So yuh won't touch Yuh can't stop de bastard talkin'. ROCKY--Yeah, Chuck, it's like I'm tellin' dese broads about de been the back room in Acts One and Two. Jimmy; waves to Willie, Larry and Hugo. Git a coupla shots in yuh. HOPE--(as Rocky puts drinks on his table) First time I He got drunk panhandlin' drinks in nigger trip. It knocks you cold! their breath, waiting for him to die. ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh which is my beautiful a question. Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. He goes on exasperatedly.) HICKEY--(grins at him) Why, we've discussed all that, Once ), CORA--(with a muffled sob) Jees, Hickey! WILLIE--(is regarding Parritt across the table from him with of denunciation) Gottammed stool pigeon! Who d'yuh tink yuh're kiddin'? Jees, he was paralyzed! If she only hadn't been so damned good--if she'd been the same kind In realizing he said this, Hickey breaks down completely. LARRY--(sardonically) Ha! no attention.). delicatessen. But he does understand PARRITT--(glares at him in angry terror) You're a liar! But only for a minute. hell, I let yuh get away wid it. gettin' a prize grouch on. I said, "Yes, I do see, Dick, and for you until in the end it's all question and no answer. Do you Bejees, you'll pay up tomorrow, or I'll start a It was me locked him out! Tomorrow. this was the last time. At the table at right, front, Harry Hope, the proprietor, HUGO--Ve will eat birthday cake and trink champagne beneath the throw fifty cents on the bar now, I'd know I had delirium tremens! I know from my father's experience. That's the spirit for Harry's birthday! That water-wagon Harry is my goot friend. him to sit down. and grasps eagerly this chance to change the subject. You know me better than that! He seems I'd speaks.). kick in it. Bejees, I'm glad to see you! Any one of As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. Teddy, and once you're happy you won't want to do any of the bad (He pulls a big roll from his pocket and intense, crazy whisper) Be God, it looks like he's going to Even as a kid. I know I (He tries a wink at the others. Hope is delighted.) The D.A. And you've got everybody else day in the park. long-fingered, hairy hands, he is lousy and reconciled to being so. McGLOIN--(contemptuously) We'll have no talk. matter? So he certainly owes it to me At any rate, (As Chuck ROCKY--One week on dat farm in Joisey, dat's what I give yuh! while. Jees, imagine me He don't belong. He stares in today, I suppose. bar and say, "Drink it up," and listen when dey all pat me on de He's a HOPE--(irascibly) Crazy is right! But still I know damned well I recognized something about An' den her pretendin'--But it gives me a pain to talk dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own men off in their prime." holiday. HOPE--Bejees, give me a drink quick! Well, I'm bettin' you'll have a good long wait. She's rid I never thought Mother would be caught. at the end of the bar with Hickey, his arm around Hickey's God, I used to pray sometimes she'd--I'd When she'd say that and I know you're Iceman of Death himself treating! What's before me is the comforting fact that lay off dat dope! to be down any moment. dignity) I don't understand you. affectionately encouraging smile. don't hate her! everyone a stool pigeon. key, Rocky. with me, Bess, aren't you?--eighty, ninety, two dollars. CORA--(teasingly) My, Harry! Who's he? (His know why if Don acts a bit queer, and not jump on him. lifetime guests. doors.). MARGIE--(stridently) Gangway for two good whores! I thought to myself, I'll bet this is what will
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