"THE GLASS MENAGERIE" "Subtitles by Seglora" "I never liked the stand watch not at any hour" "But the watch I hate most is the one called the dog watch" "I'd rather scrub the deck, I'd rather polish brass and scrape of rot than have to stand that watch" "It begins at 4 in the morning and last until daybreak" "Those are the hours when a man plays solitaire with a deck of old cards,card" "Yes,that's right,you remember, you remember the place,certain people in it" "I remember this city,a large mid western city,the washed out midland" "I remember so well the early morning sun tingling its way through the streets in eerie ways" "I remember certain alleys,where life began reluctantly in the morning" "The back of a building covered with a network of iron railings stairs called the fire escape" "And a dusty brick of walls concealing furious and desperate living in shabby rooms" "Mother had hung a pair of white laced curtains as if this to hide us from the unattractive reality of the world and city and neighbourhood that we lived in" "Inside those curtains was our place of residence,apartment at second floor south" "It was the light on my sister collection of glass that first caught my eyes when I woke up in the morning" "Little glass animals that was as fragile as Laura" "Oh,yes,there was also the ever presence smile of my father" "He was a telephone man who fell in love with long distance" "The last we heard from him was a postcard containing two words" "Hello,Good-bye" "And no address" "This is how I remember our living and welding together" "Rise and Shine,Laura" "Laura ,honey" "So let that brother of yours to get up" "Tom" "Tom,it's after seven" "Rise and Shine" "All right but I won't rise" "Tom,apologize to mother" "For what?" "You made her very angry last night when you slammed the door into her face" "She squalled" "Somebody slammed it,and if you apologize let you start beaten" "Why not speaking, is that such a tragedy" "Please Tom" "All right,all right.I tell her I'm sorry" "I'll tell her I'm sorry for living" "Laura" "Didn't I ask you to go to delicatessen to get some butter?" "Yes mother" "Do I have to conjecture to go out for it myself" "No mother" "Butter and what else?" "Corn and butter and tell him to charge it" "Mr Schulz makes such a terrible face when I say that" "Sticks and stones can break my bones" "A look on Mr Schulz's face is not going to hurt me" "Honey,try to look like a lady on the street we don't want to imitate our common neighbors" "Common can be contagious,honey!" "Unless you have a resistance" "Someone is going to break a leg on these fire escape,." "that landlord ought to be be sued for every pence he persists" "I forgot I'm not talking to you" "Good Morning" "Mother,mother I apologize,I'm sorry we quarreled last night" "I make myself hateful to my children" "No,you don't" "I've had to put up with a solitary battle all these years but you're my right- hand bower" "Don't fall down,Tom,don't fail" "I'll try" "In time you will succeed" "Promise me one thing,Tom" "What mother?" "Promise me you'll never be a drunkard" "I'll promise I'll never be a drunkard,give me this toast" "In these trying times we live in, all we have to cling to is each other" "Yes mother" "That's why it is so important to.." "Tom,Tom I sent your sister out so I could discuss with you" "If you haven't spoken to me, I would have spoken to you" "What do you want to discuss?" "Laura" "I'm late,ma" "You got a minute" "You know how Laura is so quiet,but still water run deep and she notices things" "I think she broods about it" "The other day I came in and she was crying" "What about?" "By you." "Me?" "She has an idea that you are not happy here" "What gave her that idea?" "Don't give her any ideas" "But you do act strange,Tom,I'm not criticizing you,but life hasn't been easy" "Yes mother" "So many things in my heart I can't describe to you,Tom" "But all this foresight,I love your father" "I know that" "When I see you taken on his way" "But what has that got to do with Laura?" "She says you hate the apartment,and you go out nights to get away from it" "Is that true Tom?" "No,look mother,you say that there are so many things in your heart that you can't describe to me" "That's true of me too" "There are so many things in my heart that I can't describe to you" "Tom" "Let just respect each others feelings" "Sit down you hadn't had your porridge." "I don't want any porridge,do you want me to punch late at the warehouse?" "That warehouse won't collapse if you are five minutes late,I must talk about Laura" "What about her?" "You are shouting" "I'm not shouting" "Yes you were shouting" "Tom,we got to make amends and provision,that's what it is about" "You've made provisions,you badgering me take all my savings and investing them in this business course for her which is an absolute waste" "Why is it a waste to prepare her?" "Because she is not cut out for it,mother" "I tried everything else.Will you name me one stone your mother left unturned?" "I've even talked at the Young People League at The Church,of Theatrical" "She spoke to nobody,nobody spoke to her" "All she does right now is fool with those pieces of glass, and play those worn-out records" "I don't know if that's any kind of life for a pretty girl to believe in" "I guess she is the type of people call home girl" "There is no such type" "And if there is,it's a pity, this is her own home, with her own husband sitting in it" "I can see the hand writing on this wall" "And terrifying.I mean,in the way you remind me of your father" "You got the wandering bug, the same as he has" "I saw that letter from the Merchant Marine,I saw it" "What where?" "They accepted your application" "You had no.." "Give me that letter" "Give it to me" "I know what you are out to" "When did this arrive?" "Yesterday,and I haven't had a minute of peace since I opened it" "All right.All right you go." "You go which ever way the wind drifts you north south east or west" "Not until somebody here to take your place young man" "What are you talking about?" "You know what I'm talking about" "I mean that you are going to be free of responsibilities when your sister is married and got a home of her own" "Then,and not until then" "You're a man,you will able to think of someway to help your sister" "You don't think of anything, anything but self,self,self" "Tom,put your shirt in" "Tom,don't you know some nice young man who can come and call on your sister?" "What?" "A nice gentleman calling.." "Mother what are you thinking.." "There you are Laura,honey" "Mother,you should have heard Mr Schulz said when I asked him to charge him" "Don't you quote that mercenary man to me" "I don't want to know what he said now or ever" "I was so embarrassed mother" "You don't get you embarrassed in this world,honey" "Don't you get embarrassed by anybody over anything at all ever" "You just remember that the Wingfields the first white people settle on the soil of Mississippi" "You said it" "Laura,Laura,you'll be late for your typing class" "Yes,mother" "Oh,honey,look you haven't had breakfast" "I don't want anything,I'm going to have an exam today" "You can't type on an empty stomach" "Now sit down" "Please don't make me eat anything I'll get something later" "Honey,let me see your purse" "Give me your purse" "Just as I thought,empty" "How you going to eat,how are we going to get to your typing class" "You were going to walk,weren't you?" "Now look,that is the car fare, lunch and car fare" "Bye Tom" "Good-bye" "Bye,honey" "Use the streetcar,honey," "You use it,public transportation system should be used liberally" "After all we all pay for it out of our taxes" "Bye honey" "Bye mother" "Tom why are you making all that racket?" "Mother,I'm looking for a book that is always yours the public library and I bet you took it" "If it was a decent book you wouldn't be ashamed of it" "If you weren't ashamed of it you would not try hide it" "I'm going to waste my time" "Here.If you didn't hide that book, young man, it wouldn't get lost" "Have you got anything else you'd like to tell me this morning?" "Another day" "All right then,do you mind if I go to work" "Tom,while you are there, will you try to find a nice clean wholesome boy for your sister" "Every morning after Laura and I had left the apartment mother would begin her vigorous campaign on the telephone roping in subscribers to one of those magazines matrons call The Housekeeper's Companion" "Hello" "Hello,Ida Scott?" "Who is it?" "It's Amanda Wingfield" "Oh," "Honey,how is that kidney condition of yours?" "Terrible" "Honey,you are a martyr, that it is what you are" "You're just a martyr,Ida,I was just looking into my little book and I discovered that your subscription to the Companion is running out just when our new serial by Bessie Mae Hopper is starting" "It's the first thing since she has written since Honey Moon for Three" "I believe this one is even lovelier, it's all about the horse in Long Island setting, a debutante get thrown from her horse and her spine is injured" "That's just what the horse did he just stepped right on her" "I don't care what happened to the horse" "Why do you sound so cross,honey?" "What's the matter?" "You woke me up it's only eight o'clock" "Eight o'clock?" "So it is,I didn't realize it was so early and I phoned" "All right,Amanda,stop be a redo blank and stop bothering me" "You will renew?" "I'll renew it" "You will?" "Bless you honey,bless you, you just go right back to sleep" "Bless you honey" "Ida Scott" "What is the matter with you?" "Why are you not in the class room?" "My locker stuck,it won't open" "Than put your things down underneath it and come right into the class room, the speakers start immediately,time waits for no one,not even for you Miss Wingfield" "Punctuality is the courteous of the Kings but it is also indefensible to clerks and stenographers and anyone else who hopes to establish herself in the business world.." "I'm sorry I'm late" "You have better hurry,Miss Wingfield" "Now then time has been sacrificed this morning to the failure of a single individual to adjust itself to the regulations necessary to this class as a whole" "Now then at exactly 930 the speed drill will commence" "Take your proper positions and do not flout your seat" "Get ready" "Do not stop to make corrections" "Five,four,three,two ,one,begin" "Stop it Miss Wingfield,come back" "You can't leave during a speed test" "Continue with typing.Miss Wingfield?" "There is a rush on that Hartland order from Miami,get to go air express" "Air express tonight" "Yes we heard you" "What do you think of that?" "Every order is a rush" "Don't ask for the shoes when they get to Miami, they sit on a department store window and they get sunburned" "That's what I like to get,sunburned" "My employment at the warehouse was like a long lingering sickness with each day maybe the last depending on the boss's patience and mine" "Both running out fast" "Honey,don't push your food with your fingers" "If you must push for something you need to push with this crust of bread" "And chew your food,animals have secretions in their stomach which enable them to digest food without mastication" "Human beings must chew their food before they swallow it down" "True,true" "I prefer to gulp my food" "Don't you want to give your salivary glands a chance to function?" "Go on,true true" "Mother,when I come home I like to eat in peace, which is impossible with you giving me instructions with every bite that I take" "It's disgusting all this talk about animal secretions,salivary glands,mastication" "Temperament like a Metropolitan star!" "You are not excused from the table" "I'm going to get a cigarette" "You smoke too much" "I'll bring in the coffee,mother" "No honey,you'll be there, you be the lady this time" "But I am off" "You resume your seat,little sister we got to keep you fresh and pretty for your gentlemen callers" "I'm not expecting any gentlemen callers,mother" "Sometimes they arrive when we least expect them, we have to be prepared to entertain them" "Fortunately when I was at your age I understood that of conversation" "I bet she did" "I remember on Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain" "I know what is coming" "Let her tell it Tom" "Again?" "She likes to tell us,I'm listening mother" "All right,mother,I'm listening" "I remeber one Sunday afternoon I received seventeen gentlemen callers" "Now I had to entertain them all" "and escort all them to the Governor's Costume Ball" "I tell you it was not enough in those days for a girl to have a pretty face and a graceful figure" "You have to have a nimble wit and a tongue to meet all occasions" "You had to have charm and audacity" "After the first dance everyone of my gentlemen callers rushed up to sign my programme" "During that course of that one evening" "I've must have used up over a dozen dance programmes to accommodate them all" "Never sat down for a moment, wearing a gran new pair of shoes and received twenty three serious proposals of marrying" "There was young Champ Laughlin, he was drowned in Moon Lake" "My Goodness he certainly left his widow well provided for a hundred and fifty thousands dollars in Government bonds" "And the Cutrere cousins,Wesley and Bates, Wesley was my own bright particular beaux" "Bates was jealous and while he was hot tempered, he knew I favored Wesley, that night he started a quarrel" "A quarrel that went on for months and finally they fought it out and poor Wesley was shot right through the stomach" "He certainly left his widow well provided for too" "He never loved that woman,it was my picture which was found on him the night he died" "And that brilliant young Fitzhugh boy from Greene County" "He never married.He went north to Wall Street and made a fortune" "I could have been Mrs J Duncan Fitzhugh" "But what did I do?" "Honey,how many visitors are you going to entertain this evening?" "I don't think there will be any,mother" "Not one?" "Not one?" "You must be joking." "Not one gentleman caller,it can't be true" "Where there must have been a flood, there must have been a tornado" "There is no flood,mother, there is no tornado" "I am not as popular as you were in Blue Mountains" "That is the fate I'm going to be an old maid" "Now what are you scribbling" "Poems" "What are you faffing about?" "I'm trying to save your eyesight" "You have only one pair of eyes and you got to take care of them" "I know John Milton was blind but that not what made him a genius" "Tom,why don't you sit up straight" "I fill in medical charts and I know what that position does to your internal organs" "Your stomach pressure against your lungs, your lungs pressure against your heart and that poor little heart just get discouraged because it has not got room to go on beating for you" "I give you my word,mother, my poor little heart can take it" "They are really poems?" " I hope so" "Think you can sell it?" "Why are you always hide things for me?" "You wouldn't let me see that book you were reading but I saw it just the same" "Did you take that book I was looking for this morning?" "I took that horrible book back to the library,yes" "That hideous book by that insane horrible writer" "I haven't got a thing,not a single thing in this house that I can call my own" "Tom,won't you just lower your voice I've got something to say to you" "I've had enough I'm going" "Where are you going?" "I'm going to the movies" "Why are you going to the movies all the time" "I go to the movies,mother, because I like adventure" "Most young men find adventure in their career" "An adventure is something you don't get much of at a warehouse" "You come back here ,Tom,until I am not through talking to you" "You are going to listen,I am at the end of my patience" "Where do you think I am at?" "Don't you think I have patience to reach the end of,mother?" "I know that it seems unimportant to you, what I'm doing,what I am trying to do" "You don't care about us" "All you think of is self I saw you were a peacock" "I'm only your mother, you should care about your sister a little better,you should" "You get three hour sleep and then you go to work,you are in no condition" "That's true I am in no condition" "No right.No right to jeopardize your job,jeopardize our security" "Listen.You think I am crazy about that warehouse" "You think I'm in love with Mid-Continental Shoemakers" "You think I'll spend 55 years of my life down there in that icebox interior with those fluorescent tubes" "But I go,every morning you come in yelling Rise and Shine,Rise and Shine" "I think how lucky dead people are,but I get up,I go" "How dare you rise your voice to your mother" "For one hundred and fifty lousy bucks a month I go" "I gave up all I ever dreamt of doing and being ever" "And you say that self,self is the only thing I ever think of" "Now listen,if self was the only thing I ever thought of,mother" "I would be where he is,gone,as far as the system of transportation reaches" "Don't grab at me" "I'm not grabbing.Where are you going?" "I told you I'm going to the movies" "I don't believe that lie" "You're right.You're absolutely right" "I'm going to the opium dens,yes,opium dens, dens of vice, and criminal hang outs" "I joined the Hogan gang,mother, I'm a hired assassin" "I carry a commie gun and a violin case, they call me killer,killer Wingfield" "I'm living a double life, a simple honest double life by day I'm a poor warehouse worker but by night I'm a dynamic czar of the underworld,mother my enemies are trying to dynamite this place" "No" "Oh,yes" "They are going to blow us all up, sky high,some night" "Then I'll be glad" "Very glad,and so will you,because then you go up,up,up,over Blue Mountains" "You go up with a broom stick,you go up with your seventeen gentlemen crawlers" "I'll never speak to you again as long as you live" "Until you apologize" "One crack-and it falls through!" "Tom!" "What are you doing?" "I'm looking for the door-key" "Where have you been all this time?" "To the movies" "All this time to the movies?" "There was a very long programme." "There was two westerns,and a Bugs Bunny and a travelogue and a news reel, and a preview coming attractions and a fat lady had a fight with an usher" "Did you have to stay through everything?" "Of course.Twice.Oh I almost forgot, there was a big stage show and the headliner's name was Malvolio,the Magician" "He was wonderful." "He did the most amazing tricks and one of them was,he poured water back and forth between pitchers and first it turned to wine and then it turned to beer and then it turned to whisky" "How did you know?" "I know.I know because he invited people to come up out of the audience to help him" "So I came up" "Both shows" "It was Kentucky Straight Bourbon." "He was a very generous fellow" "He give souvenirs" "He gave me this" "This is his magic scarf" "Lovely" "Watch" "You wave it over a cage of canaries, and they become a bowl of gold-fish" "Then" "You put it over a bowl of gold-fish, and they fly away,canaries" "Isn't that a pretty scarf?" "That's beautiful" "I wish it was big enough to cover this whole ugly world" "The whole world isn't ugly." "While I was waiting for you tonight I listened to the music from the Paradise Club" "It was beautiful.The whole world was beautiful" "Because one little part was flooded with rainbows" "What about the rest?" "You know that magician,he has a wonderful trick of all" "What was it?" "We nailed him in a packing box, and he got out of it,without removing a single nail" "There is a trick come in handy for me, get me out of that warehouse" ""Someone to watch over me"" "Shhhh!" "Why are you shushing me for?" "You'll wake up mother" "Goody,goody!" "Pay her back for all those "Rise an' Shines"" "You know it doesn't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up box" "But who in the world ever got out of one without removing one single nail?" "Good Night Tom" "But you did?" "You got out" "Rise and Shine,Rise and.." "Tom's breakfast is ready mother" "Go tell that brother of yours" "Mother went out and bought strawberries and pretzel for you Tom" "Strawberries won't help me" "Please be pleasant she is upset" "Rise and Shine" "Rise and Shine" "Mother,I apologize" "Don't do it on account of the strawberries" "Mother,I'm sorry of all those things I said,really I am" "My devotion to my children has made me a witch" "I didn't say that!" "Dare you!" "You said you wanted me to go off on a broom stick,that's what you said" "I didn't mean it" "Well,you said it" "This time you hadn't been drinking, that what's worry me" "You haven't even been drinking" "Mother,I'm sorry" "Sit down" "Sit down and eat strawberries and eat you'll feel better" "Just coffee" "Cereals" "No,no,mother,just coffee" "You can't do a day's work on an empty stomach" "Don't gulp,don't gulp" "Often too hot liquids gives you stomach trouble" "It perforates the line" "Put some cream in it" "No thanks,mother,I don't want any cream,I just want it black" "Well put some cream and cool it off" "Mother,do you mind if I just please have it black?" "There is no nourishment in black coffee" "We have to do all we can to build ourselves up" "I'm sorry mother,I have to rush now" "Tom,I know your ambitions does not lie in that warehouse" "It cause for spark and endurance" "It sure does" "Tom" "Yes mother" "Tom,are you ashamed of bringing anybody up here?" "Are you ashamed of the apartment?" "I love it mother,believe me, I'll never want to move" "Will you please find some nice young man at that warehouse to get acquainted with your sister" "What is wrong with that I'd like to know?" "Tom,will you bring some nice young man" "Good Morning" "Tom,honey,please don't forget to bring someone home" "Yes mother" "Laura didn't tell us about her failure at Powe's business school" "Every morning weeks after she would pick up her books and leave" "But instead of going to school, she walked to all the places where the lonely spend their time" "Hello mother" "Mother I was turned directly to the thing you are typing" "Yes,deception.Deception" "Did you sell any subscriptions,mother?" "No,I didn't sell any subscriptions.I didn't have the heart,I didn't have the courage" "I just wanted to find out a hole in the ground and bury myself forever" "Why did you do that?" "Why are you staring at me,mother?" "Aren't you going to tell me what's wrong?" "I went to Powes Business College to find out how you are progressing" "Oh,oh,oh" "I am sorry,mother" "Good Lord,it is not the money I care about so much" "It's all my hopes and my ambitions for you gone up with puffs" "Just gone up with puffs like that" "Laura where were you?" "Where did you go when you were supposed to be at business college?" "I just went walking" "Walk.Deliberately trying to wear yourself out" "I didn't walk all the time,mother,sometimes I went inside places to rest" "Inside?" "Inside where?" "The library,the park.Lately I've been spending my afternoons in the Jewel-box, the big glass-house where they grow the tropical flowers" "Tropical flowers?" "Laura what are we going to do for the rest of our lives?" "Just sit in this room and watch the Parade go by?" "Amuse ourselves with the glass menagerie?" "Eternally play those phonograph records that your father left as a constant reminder of him?" "I can't go back to Powse.I got sick" "You got sick" "We won't have a business career-we've given that up because we got sick?" "Laura what is there left for us but dependency for the rest of our lives" "I won't be dependent mother, I'll go out and find work" "Work?" "What work?" "I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy positions in life" "I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon some brother's wife or sister's husband stuck away in some little mousetrap of a room, encouraged by one-in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest" "eating the crust of humility all their life!" "Is that the future that we've mapped ourselves?" "No.No" "I declare that it is the only alternative I can think of" "Not a very pleasant alternative,is it?" "Of course some girls get married" "Well,it is that we going to do,we are going to get you married!" "But mother,I'm crippled" "Don't use that word!" "How many times have I told you never never to use that word?" "You are not crippled.You have a slight defect that's all" "Hardly noticeable" "Laura you don't need to have to wear a brace anymore" "People have a slight defect,they cultivate other things to make up for it" "They develop charm,vivacity and charm!" "That's all you have to do" "One thing your father had plenty of-was charm!" "Girls who aren't cut out for a business career usually end up marrying some nice young man" "But mother,who would marry you" "You're not crippled" "Walk Laura" "Walk?" "Yes.Walk" "I want to see you walk" "Walk around this room" "Go on.Walk!" "Walk around this room!" "You're not crippled" "You are not crippled" "Mother would often say,I feel like just giving up,but this was a lie" "Giving up was the last idea that would enter her mind" "After Laura's failure with the business school mother was obsessed with the idea of somehow finding Laura a gentleman caller" "But this took money,patiently,grimly and sometimes even little desperately she went out looking for it" "It was hard on her shoes,it must been equally hard on her pride" "But what is pride when love for someone, and ambition for someone you love is concerned" "The image of a gentleman caller haunted our small apartment" "Rarely an evening would pass without a frantic appeal to bring home a nice young man to call on Laura" "Sure Northend got a good football team but you know when I was quarterback in Furlonmight we had a play that nobody could figure out" "Man what are you talking about?" "Wait a minute,I'm not kidding,look,coach Togan and me worked this whole play out" "It's kind of a shipping.." "O'Connor?" "Oh,yes,Sir" "What is this all this football talk?" "I was just telling the boys that team work is required in every walk of life" "No man makes a shoe by himself,is that right?" "Yes.That's right" "I think Mr Mendoza,you're like the coach of the football team" "You supply the line power, we supply the man power, work together like a well trained team" "That's makes lot of sense,O'Connor" "Thank you" "Makes a lot of sense" "How am I doing?" "Fine" "I think I'm improving" "You certainly can handle Mendoza" "Here,have you got a cigarette?" "Yes" "You know,it's all in the line, if you think like a president of Mid-Continental Shoe Company you'll be the president" "I don't want to be President" "Right now I am committing myself to a future that does not include this warehouse" "Where are you gaffing about?" "Look" "What's that?" "You are joining the Merchant Marine?" "Yeah" "What for?" "Don't you ever feel like going place?" "Sure I'll go places but not on the ocean" "I never pick up a shoe in this warehouse that I don't shudder thinking how short life is and what I'm doing" "Forget it all that stuff how short life is" "Get you no place" "I bet you are still writing poems?" "Just what I figured.What a crazy guy" "You know what's the trouble with you?" "You are running away from things" "You want to face facts" "Shakespeare, I'm going to tell you for your own good" "What good?" "Public speaking" "You and me.We are not the warehouse guys." "Thanks.What has that to do with public speaking?" "Fit you for an executive position" "Look.Ask yourself one question." "What is the difference between you and me and the guys in the front office?" "Brain?" "No.Ability?" "No.Just one little thing" "What's that one little thing?" "Primarily it amounts to social poise" "Being able to square up to people and hold your own on any social level" "Wingfield!" "What kind of cigarettes do you smoke?" "They must be very long and very slow burning" "I've just getting a bit of fresh air,Mr Mendoza, your ventilating system went out of order" "Open ventilating system.You don't like" "If the management had the alternative of scrapping you or a 50000 dollar ventilating system, which do you think they scrap?" "By the good might have to.." "But Mr Mendoza.." "Excuse me Mr Mendoza" "Yes" "Are you going to be busy Tuesday night?" "Why?" "I was wondering whether you could spare an evening to talk to a public speaking class on factory management" "What?" "You know how it is,night school,all theory nothing backed up by practical experiences" "With your background" "My factory,well,I'll have to think about it" "Thank you Mr Mendoza" "Thanks" "Another minute I would have blow my top" "When you first meet Mendoza,you don't like him,only get to know him, you hate him" "Mother,dinner ready?" "As soon as Laura gets back,I send her after some things" "Where are you?" "Out here mother" "Get cool" "A fire-escape landing's a poor excuse for the veranda I used to have back home" "When I was a girl we used to do all our entertainment on the veranda in summer" "You smoke too much" "A pack a day,21 cents a pack how much would that be in a month?" "Let me see 30 times 21 that will be, anyway not to give you night full course in accounting in Washington U" "Wouldn't that be lovely?" "I'd rather smoke" "I know,I know,that's the tragedy of it" "Excuse me" "Mr Raines" "That is your name I believe" "Certainly,Madam" "That was Mr Gammer told me" "So you just moved in?" "Tom,this is Mr Raines" "Yes.I know" "Pardon me , I think neighbours vertical as well as horizontal neighbours are to get acquainted don't you?" "Yes Ma'am" "Mississippi?" "No Ma'am.Nashville,Tennessee" "Nashville.Do you know the Powder fields of Nashville?" "The Powder fields?" "No,Ma'am, I don't recall them" "Ah,pity" "Won't you come in and have a full cup" "I'm terribly sorry,Ma'am,I can't go right now,I going out on a date" "We will give you a rain check then" "Thank you Mam,I 'll take it upon me then,Good-bye" "Good-bye" "Good-bye" "Young bachelor.Seems bashful" "Gun-shy" "The world is just full of lonesome young men just longing for someone to get them a friendly smile" "What are you looking at?" "The moon" "Is there a moon?" "It's rising over Schulz's Delicatessen" "So it is!" "A little silver slipper of a moon." "Did you make a wish?" "What did you wish?" "I wished for success and happiness for my two precious children" "I get so weary wishing that all the time" "I wish when there is a moon and when there isn't a moon" "I thought perhaps you might have wished for a gentleman caller" "Whatever gave you that idea?" "Don't you remember asking me to fetch one?" "I never asked but suggested it" "You did it repeatedly" "I'm going to bring one" "What?" "A gentleman caller" "You mean you've actually asked some nice young man to come and visit your sister?" "I've asked him to come to dinner" "Son,how perfectly lovely" "Did he accept?" "He did" "It's definite ?" "Very definite" "How soon?" "Pretty soon" "How soon?" "Quite soon" "How soon?" "Very,very soon,Friday" "Friday?" "Friday night" "But Tom,but it gives me no time,no time at all" "Time for what?" "Preparations.You should have phone me the moment he accepted" "The whole place has to be thrown together" "Mother,I tell you,you don't have to make any fuss" "Now let me see" "Look at that tired old day bed and awful length" "Bad looking carpet look like it was peeled off back of a maimed Arkansas mule" "I tell you he is a very simple" "We can't have a gentleman caller in a pigsty" "I wish I had time to paper the walls" "Mother" "Tom,Tom,we don't have a thing to wear, we don't have a blessed thing to wear" "Mother,stop talking about my wearing anything if you don't stop this fussing I'm going to tell him not to come" "Tom,you can't do that,people hate broken engagements,they got no place to go" "Where did you meet him?" "At the warehouse.Where else could I meet him?" "What's his name?" "O'Connor.Jim O'Connor" "Does he drink?" "Well,your father did." "Don't get started on that!" "Then he does drink" "Not that I know of,mother" "Nothing I want less for my daughter than a man who drinks" "Aren't you being a just a bit premature?" "What does he make?" "Make?" "Yes,his salary at the warehouse,how much?" "Well I would judge it approximately 165 dollars a month" "That's not princely" "It's 15 more than I make" "Don't I know that but for a family man" "Mr O'Connor is not a family man" "He might be some time in the future" "You're sure he doesn't drink" "Give me a nickel I'll call him on the phone and ask him" "Don't you be supercilious with your mother" "These things have to be investigated discreetly to save a girl making a tragic mistake" "How did you happen to make such a tragic mistake?" "That innocent look of your father's had everybody fooled" "I declared that man could charm a burial trees" "Tom" "Yes Mother" "Come here" "My wedding silver" "Mum,O'Connor is nobody to impress" "I hope he is not too good looking" "No,he is not too good looking" "He's not downright homely?" "He is not downright homely, he is just medium homely" "Character's what to look for in a man" "Put that things away,we will polish them tomorrow" "Yes,mother" "Tom,Tom,did you tell him you had a sister?" "No,mother,he doesn't know about Laura" "He will now,he'll know about Laura" "I didn't tell him anything about her." "I didn't let on that we had dark ulterior motives" "When he sees how pretty and lovely she is, he'll thank his lucky stars he was invited to dinner" "Mother,you mustn't expect too much of Laura" "What do you mean by that?" "She seems all those things to you and me because she's ours and we love her." "We don't even notice she's crippled any more" "Don't use that word" "Well,she is.And that's not all." "What do you mean that's 'not all'?" "Laura is very different from other girls" "I know that.And I think that difference is all to her credit" "No.Not quite all.In the eyes of other-strangers-she's terribly shy she lives in a world of her own and that makes her seem peculiar to people outside the house" "Don't use that word peculiar" "You have to face the facts,mother" "I don't know in what way she is peculiar" "Laura lives in a world of little glass animals" "She plays old phonograph records -that's about all" "What are you going to now?" "Rest after dinner you worn me out mother" "That must be Laura" "Laura,Laura,I have good news, I've got the best news ever" "Friday we're going to have a gentleman caller" "Come on up,honey,come on and make a wish on the moon" "What?" "A little silver slipper of the moon" "Turn this way my honey and look over your left shoulder" "Now wish!" "What shall I wish for?" "Happiness!" "Good fortune!" "That's a little happiness, a little bit of good fortune" "Mother,I've only 50 cents" "Don't you worry,we've friends, friends are more important than all the riches in the world" "We want the credit desk,please" "Yes,Mam,right over there" "Thank you" "I want to talk to the gentleman in charge of the charge account,please" "What can I do for you,Madam?" "I received a very strange letter the other day from the credit department" "Informing me that my charge account had been discontinued" "And I just want to say I've been doing business with this store since I first arrived in St Louis 22 years ago" "By and large my whole residence is furnished with things from Bowman's department" "All my linen ,practically all my silver will definitely come with my trousseau and every stick of furniture in my house came directly from Bowman's department" "I think it was extremely surprise, not to say discourtesy of uncouth to send me a letter like this" "So cold and so formal" "I declare just that it struck me like a tornado" "It seems,Madam,that your account was cut off because of an item of 8 $ and 75 cents due from that quarter" "Last what?" "What is last quarter?" "Honey,I don't understand these business technicalities,do you?" "If there is something owing on my account,I assure you that nothing would give me greater pleasure than to settle it here right here and now" "I'll get you a new credit card,Mrs Wingfield,excuse me" "Where did you get the money?" "As long as you got cents you can always afford a little more you can without them" "That's where this lovely,lovely word credit comes in" "If you can't have friends without credit but you have credit as long as you've got friends" "Here you are,Madam" "Thank you" "It has all been straightened out" "Thank you,Madam" "You see Laura,how easy it is to lose friends" "If it hadn't been for that nice young lady we would have lost the friendship of Mr Bowman's Department Store" "Now you come along,honey, the unsettling expedition is over we are going upstairs now, and just charge and charge" "Finished" "Laura,why are you trembling?" "Mother,you make me so nervous" "How do I make you nervous?" "By all this fuss, you make it so important" "But it is important" "I declare I don't understand you at all" "Turn around honey" "Every time I try do anything the least bit different for you, you always seem to set yourself" "I guess.." "Now go and take a look at yourself in the mirror,young lady" "Go on" "I almost forgot" "Turn around,honey" "Mother,what are you doing?" "Improvement.They call them 'Gay Deceivers'" "I won't wear them" "You will" "Why should I?" "Because,to be painfully honest, honey,your chest is flat" "Mother,you make it seem like we are setting a trap" "We are,all pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap and men expect them to be" "Now look at yourself,young lady." "You look as pretty as an angel on a picture postcard" "Go and sit down over here." "I'm going to fix myself up" "I'm going to show you something, you will get a big surprise" "Your mother is going to make a spectacular appearance" "What are you going to do?" "Possess your soul in patience,honey, -you will see !" "Are you ready Laura?" "Here I come" "Will I do?" "That's lovely" "It used to be,honey,it used to have a lot of flowers all over but they got such a sad looking, so I took them off" "It's still beautiful.I led the cotillon in this dress" "I won the cakewalk twice at Sunset Hill" "I wore it one spring at the governor's ball in Jackson" "See how I sashayed around the ballroom,Laura?" "I hope they get here before the rain starts" "I told that brother of yours to bring Mr O'Connor right home so we wouldn't lose our gentleman caller" "What is his name?" "O'Connor" "What is his first name?" "Honey I don't recall,oh yes I do it.It was Jim" "Jim O'Connor?" "Yes.That's right.I've never knew a Jim that wasn't nice" "We both know a Jim O'Connor in High School" "If it's the same one,you have to excuse me,I won't come to the table" "Laura what nonsense is this?" "Whether it is him or not,you won't be excused from this particular table" "I have to" "I am not going to humour your silliness,Laura" "Sit down" "I've had about enough from you and your brother,both!" "So just sit there and compose yourself and let them in when they arrive" "Please don't make me open the door" "I will be in the kitchen busy making the dressing for the salmon" "Fuss,fuss-silliness over one gentleman caller,just one that's all" "What would you do if you were seventeen?" "You like Hawaiian notes?" "Sure,sure I like Hawaiian notes" "They remind me of the islands" "You've been to the islands?" "I was born there,a little glass hut" "Typhoon blows it out" "What are you doing here?" "Just passing through visiting relatives" "I work for a cargo line in the South Pacific" "Right now I am recuperating from a run in with Chinese pirates" "On the Yangtze river" "You're kidding" "No,held for ransom,torture they took matches and they burnt them under my fingernails but I didn't tell them a thing" "About what?" "In the national secret,I had them tattooed on my.In code of course" "My first mate squealed the yellow rats" "When we came to Shanghai,captured more torture,they put my foot in a vice" "And they squeezed it and squeezed it until.." "I'm sorry" "That's all right" "What are you doing?" "Cruising down the Yangtze" "Have a drink?" "No thanks,nothing for me" "Have a drink on me.Two straight bourbons." "Fresh you up" "For what?" "The evening" "Do you think I want to meet your mother with whisky on my breath?" "My mother is a lady to whom the odor of whisky brings back the fondest and the tenderest recollections of my father" "Oh,Shakespeare I have the most wonderful surprise today" "I got an invitation to the Progress Club Dinner" "You know what that means,don't you?" "What?" "That means that the boys on the front office got their eyes on me" "For a junior executive position,eventually" "That's great" "Yes Sir,oh I might as well tell you they have got your eyes on you too" "You mean I am going to be invited to the Progress Club Dinner,eventually?" "I mean you are going to be out of a job,eventually unless you watch out" "That's all right with me" "To the Merchant Marine" "You feel strong now?" "Me?" "As a bull" "We'll go across the alley and meet my folks" "You know, Shakespeare,I never thought of you having folks" "If we come through the back of the Paradise,we find a broad avenue" "Across which is the stately residence of the Wingfields" "Forlorn and spacious,brooded over by ancient oak trees" "Hung with Spanish moths" "Under one of these venerable patriarch in the forest" "Admiral Thomas Wingfield signed his now famous declaration of irresponsibility" "What a crazy guy" "Here we are" "Taking me in the back-way" "No,the front" "Let's go for it across that leak!" "Laura honey,Laura that's ours, Tom must have forgotten his keys" "Shakespeare,you're sure this is the night" "Mother you go to the door" "You toiled for that moment and lose your line" "Please,mother,please,I can't" "I'm sick" "Just a second" "Look I've been through it too much,go to that door and let them in" "Hurry,pluck up courage and use it" "Laura,did you hear me" "Laura,do as I tell you" "Yes mother" "Hello,Laura ,this is Jim.Jim this is my sister Laura" "I didn't know you had a sister" "Pleased to meet you" "How do you do" "I'm OK" "Your hands are cold Laura" "Yes I've been playing the victrola" "You've must have been playing classical music" "You ought to play a little hot swing music to warm you up" "Excuse me" "What's the matter?" "Laura is very shy" "Shy,huh?" "It's unusual meet a shy girl nowadays." "I don't think you ever mentioned you had a sister" "I thought you knew" "No" "You want a part of it?" "Thanks" "Those cartoons" "Tom" "Yes mother" "Is that you and Mr O'Connor?" "Yes mother" "You just make yourself comfortable there" "Yes mother" "Ask Mr O'Connor if he would like to wash his hands" "No thanks I took care of that at the warehouse" "Who's that?" "That's my father" "Yeah" "First world war,ah?" "He got through all right" "He went to work for a telephone company" "Fell in love with long distance" "You see how he grins?" "Yes" "He's been after him going on since sixteen years" "Jim,you won't mention anything about my plans for mother will you?" "What plans?" "You know about joining the Merchant Marine" "I made my dues this month, instead of the light bill" "You will be sorry when they turn the lights off" "I won't be here" "Good Evening" "Mother?" "You look so pretty" "That's the first compliment you ever paid me" "I wish you look as if when you going to say something pleasant so as I could expect" "Mother this is.." "Mr O'Connor" "Mr O'Connor" "How do you do,Mrs Wingfield" "Introductions are entirely unnecessary I've heard so much about you from my boy" "I finally said,Tom I said,good gracious why don't you invite this paragon to supper" "Mother" "I don't know why my boy is so stand-offish, that's not Southern hospitality" "Won't you sit down?" "Thank you,Ma'am" "It's very warm" "Yes.Warm already" "Our blood gets to thicken it takes a while for us to adjust ourselves when the season changes" "Mother.." "When it comes to Whitsun this year, I declare,I just wasn't prepared for it" "Then all of a sudden,heavens, it's just like summer weather" "I ran to the trunk and pulled out this light dress" "It's almost historical.I had to wear something cool.And you said it was very.." "Mother" "Yes,honey" "How about supper?" "You go and ask your sister if supper is ready" "You know sister is in full charge of supper" "You just tell her you two big hungry men are working for it" "Mr O'Connor.Did you meet Laura?" "Oh,yes she.." "Let you in" "Yes,mam" "She is very pretty" "Yes ,Ma'am" "She is domesticated too" "It's very rare to find a girl as sweet and pretty and lovely as Laura,and so domesticated" "I never was at all" "Oh.." "I never could make a thing but angel-food cake" "But then,of course, in the South we had so many servants" "Gone,gone,gone.All vestige of gracious living just gone completely" "It's.." "I just wasn't prepared for what the future brought me" "But man proposes and woman accept the proposal" "Mr O'Connor I married a man who worked for a telephone company" "But he fell in love with long distance" "Yes I know Tom.." "He started to travel and kept on traveling and I tell you,I've not the slightest idea where that man traveled to" "Excuse me.It must be the blue dress." "I didn't mean to get started on my tribulations" "Tell me about yours,Mr O'Connor." "I hope you haven't got any" "Well I.." "Tom?" "Yes mother" "Is supper ready?" "It looks to me that it is on the table" "Please,please,let me" "Quite so it is.How pretty." "Where is sister?" "Laura isn't feeling well she says that she thinks she'd better not come to the table" "What nonsense" "Laura" "Laura,honey,please come to the table." "We can't be seated until you come to the table" "Yes,mother" "Dinner is served" "Oh fine" "I'm hungry" "Allow,Mrs Wingfield" "Thank you for that" "Mr O'Connor, Thomas" "Laura!" "Laura!" "Please" "Thank you" "Laura,honey,you're keeping us all waiting" "Laura,honey" "We can't say grace until you come to the table" "Laura" "Mother I.." "Laura" "I'm so sorry" "You are sick" "Tom,take your sister to the living room" "Laura,you go and rest yourself on the sofa" "Standing over the hot stove just made her sick" "Sure" "She is normally very healthy,I told you it was too warm this evening" "There's rain,a nice fresh rain has come up" "Yeah" "Then everything will be fresh and colder" "She'd be all right mother" "Helas,I think we may have grace now" "Tom,honey,you say grace" "What?" "Honey,what we'll usually do before we give a meal" "We say grace,don't we?" "'For that which we are about to receive,we thank you,Our Lord and for all manifold mercies to us this day" "God's Holy Name be praised" "I declare Mr O'Connor" "I haven't had such a pleasant evening since I don't know when" "Thank you,Mrs Wingfield." "I'd like to propose a toast" "To your South" "Oh,South" "Shakespeare,what do you think happens?" "Maybe it's the storm" "Where was Moses when the lights went out?" "Do you know the answer to that one,Mr O'Connor?" "I don't think I do" "I heard one answer but it wasn't very nice" "Guess they must just have blown a fuse or something" "Do you know anything about burnt out fuses,Mr O'Connor" "I know a little about it,Mrs Wingfield, but where is the fuse box?" "Must be in there about the stove" "It helps" "It's in the kitchen,near the ice box" "Thank you" "Watch out" "Don't stumble over anything" "I've got eyes like an owl" "What happens?" "Wouldn't be awful if we lost him" "Are you all right,Mr O'Connor?" "Yes, I'm all right Mrs Wingfield" "I'd better help him" "Tom.That light bill I gave you a few days ago the one I told you we got the notices about?" "Yes" "You didn't neglect to pay it,by any chance?" "Yeah.." "You didn't.I might have known it" "I think I broke a plate" "Don't fret about it" "Fuses are all right" "We'd better have some illuminations from the candle" "I only intended them for ornamentation" "Spend the rest of the evening in 19th Century" "Before Mr Edison found that electric lamp" "Candle light is my favorite kind of light" "That is because you are a romantic" "Tom,as a penalty for your carelessness you can help me with the dishes" "Let me give you a hand,Mrs Wingfield" "Oh,no.Laura is all by herself in the parlor why don't you go and keep her company" "Sure" "Perhaps you coax her to drink the glass of wine,might do her good" "All right" "It's elderberry in the main" "You can keep them carrying both at once?" "Sure,I'm superman" "Tom,you get into the apron" "Yes,mother" "Tom you get inside there after you have the table" "Hello Laura" "Hello" "How are you feeling now, better?" "Yes,thank you" "This is for you" "Drink it" "Elderberry wine" "But don't get drunk" "Where will I put the candle?" "Anywhere" "How about here on the floor?" "All right?" "I'd better put a newspaper under to catch the drippings" "Sure,the Chronicle wouldn't mind" "I like sitting on the floor,do you have any objections?" "No" "I'd better use this pillow" "How about you?" "Don't you like sitting on the floor?" "Yes I do" "Why don't you then?" "I will" "Better take a pillow" "I can't see you sitting way over there" "I can see you" "Well,I know,but that's not fair." "I'm in the limelight" "Now I can see you" "Comfortable?" "Yes" "So am I" "Comfortable as an old cow" "Will you have some gum?" "No thanks" "Are you sure?" "I think I will indulge it." "With your permission?" "Your brother tells me that you are shy.Is that right Laura?" "I don't know" "I judge you to be an old-fashioned type of girl" "Well,I think that's a pretty good type to be" "I hope you don't think I am being too personal,do you?" "No" "I think I will have a bit of the chewing gum,if you don't mind" "Sure" "Thank you" "Well?" "Well,this?" "How are they getting along?" "How should I know" "All I know that it is a chivalrous young man,we've introduced to your sister" "I do want it to be a success" "I do so much want it to be a success" "I know,mother" "Tom,how many times have I told you" "What have I done wrong?" "Wait" "You know,I've an idea seeing you before" "I had the idea as soon as you opened the door" "It seems almost like I was about to remember your name but the name I started to call you wasn't a name, so I stopped myself before I said it" "Was it Blue Roses?" "Blue Roses,my gosh,yes,Blue Roses" "I didn't even connect you with High School,somehow or other" "But that where it was,High School" "I didn't know even you were Shakespeare's sister" "How did I ever get to call you Blue Roses?" "I was absent from school for a while with pleurosis" "When I came back you asked me what was the matter, and I told you that I had pleurosis" "You thought I said Blue Roses" "You know this sure is funny" "Yes,it is" "Yes sure,I remember now" "Say,you was the one who always came in late" "That was very high for me get up the stairs I had a brace on my leg then" "It clumped so loud" "I never heard any clumping" "To me it sounded like thunder" "I never even noticed it" "I used to have to go clumping up the aisle while everyone was watching because my seat was in the back row" "You shouldn't have been so self-conscious" "I know,but I was" "That's why you sort of stuck by yourself" "I never had much luck at making friends" "Laura,people are not so dreadful when you get to know them" "That's what you have to remember" "Everybody has problems." "You think of yourself of being the only one who is disappointed but just look around you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are" "Take me for instance." "I hoped when I was going to school that I would be further along at this time,six years later than I'm now" "Remember that wonderful write-up I had in the school year book?" "Yes" "Said I was bound to succeed in anything I went into" "The Torch!" "Here you are in The Pirates of Penzance" "Oh,the pirate" ""When the foreman bears the steel, to rent oorah,to rent orrah we are comfortable field to rent oorah"" "I sang the baritone lead in that operetta" "I remember.It was beautiful" "You heard me?" "All three times" "No?" "Yes" "All three performances?" "All three?" "I wanted to ask you to autograph my programme" "Why didn't you ask me to?" "You were always surrounded by your friends I didn't have a chance" "I was beleaguered by females in those days" "You were very popular" "I was spoiled in high school" "Everybody liked you" "Including you?" "Yes I did too" "Laura,give me that programme" "Better late than never" "Thank you" "My signature may not be very much worth just right now" "But some day,maybe,it will increase in value" "You know,being disappointed is one thing, being discouraged is something else" "I am disappointed but I am not discouraged" "How is Emily Meisenbach getting along?" "That kraut-head" "Why do you call her that?" "Well,that what she was" "You mean that you are not going with her anymore?" "I never even see her" "It said in the Personal Section that you were engaged" "I know,but I wasn't impressed by that propaganda" "It wasn't truth?" "Only in Emily's optimistic opinion" "Oh" "Mother" "Schhh" "Mother" "What?" "If you want to hear what they are saying why don't you go into the dining room and sit down,comfortably" "It's a nice young man" "So full of charm and vivacity and.." "And charm" "I do hope he appreciate Laura" "It's a pity she had to collapse at the table" "Did you see how beautifully he acted?" "He took no notice the tar as it stopped raining" "I think so" "Tom.I'm so excited" "Calm down yourself mother possess your soul in patience" "Oh,mother" "You finished high school?" "You know what I think is the trouble with you?" "Inferiority complex" "You know what that is?" "That's what they call it when someone low-rates himself" "I understand it because I had it too" "I had it until I took up public speaking,developed my voice" "Do you know that until then" "I never thought of myself being outstanding in anyway whatsoever" "You did so?" "No,Sir" "I have a friend,who says I can analyze people better than doctors that make a profession of it" "That's wonderful" "I don't claim that being necessary true but I can sure guess a person's psychology" "Excuse me Laura,I always takes it out when the flavour is gone" "I'll use this scrap of paper to wrap it up in." "I know how it is when it get stuck on your shoe" "Yes,that's what I judge to be your principal trouble a lack of confidence in yourself as a person" "I'm basing that fact on a number of your remarks and on certain observations I've made" "For instance that clumping you thought was so awful in high school" "You see what you did?" "You dropped out of school you gave up an education" "All because of a little clump which is as far as I can see is practically non-existent" "But that's not true,you've seen me walk" "All you have is a little physical defect magnified a thousands of times by your imagination" "You know what my strong advice to you is?" "Think of yourself as superior in some way" "Just look around you,what do you see?" "A world full of ordinary people,all of them born and all of them going to die" "Which of them has one-tenth of your good points" "Or mine,or anyone else's,as far for that matters,gosh" "You mean everybody is superior in some way" "Some in many" "All you've got to do is discover in what!" "Take me for instance,my interest happen to lie in electro-dynamics" "And I want to be ready to go right along with it" "I'm trying to get in on the ground floor and also to be made for the industry itself to get under way,full steam" "Knowledge-Zzzzzp!" "Money-Zzzzzp!" "Power!" "That's the cycle in which democracy is built" "I guess you think I think a lot of myself,don't you?" "Oh,no" "No,I don't" "We are going to get right to the top" "What?" "Because the night school" "Oh,Jim,he really goes in for self improvement" "Tom,you should have told me" "Why?" "Any young man who is study public speaking is aiming to have an executive position some day" "You smoke too much" "Engineering,that is the thing for the future" "That's the sort of thing every mother should be told concerning any young man who comes to visit her daughter" "Seriously or-not" "Is this something you're more interested in anything else?" "I do have my glass collection" "Glass?" "What kind is it?" "Ornaments,animals mostly" "Here's an example of one if you'd like to see it" "Sure" "Be careful,if you breathe,it breaks" "Then I'd better not touch it, I'm awfully clumsy with things" "I trust you with it" "Now you're holding it gently" "Take him over by the light, he loves the light" "All right" "Do you see how the light shines through him?" "Yes.It sure does shine" "I shouldn't be partial,but he is my favourite one" "Unicorn?" "Aren't they extinct in the modern world?" "After all,my little fellow,he must feel sort of lonesome" "If he does,he doesn't complain about it" "He stays with the other horses that don't have horns and they seem to get along very nicely together" "How do you know?" "I haven't heard any arguments among them" "No arguments,huh?" "Well,that's a pretty good sign!" "Where shall I set him down?" "Just put him over on by the table" "They all like a change of scenery every once in a while" "Hey!" "Look how big my shadow is when I stretch" "It stretches all across the ceiling" "Let us see if it stopped raining" "Oh,yes it has" "There is a wonderful band over at The Paradise" "How about cutting a rug a little,Miss Wingfield?" "Oh,no" "A waltz" "Let the rest of the world go by" "I can't dance" "There you go again,that inferiority stuff" "But I never danced in my whole life" "I'd only step on you" "I'm not made out of glass" "Oh,come on,try it" "Just hold your arms out a little" "A little bit higher" "That's right" "Don't tighten up,that's the main thing about it,just relax" "Let yourself go now Laura" "Yes,let yourself go" "I'm trying" "Easy does it" "Don't be stiff" "Loosen the backbone.There now you're getting it" "Am I?" "That that's lot better" "It's broken" "Now it'll be like all the other horses" "Failure,you favourite piece of glass too" "It doesn't matter.Maybe it is a blessing in disguise" "I'm awfully sorry,I was the cause of it" "I'll imagine that he had an operation." "It will make him less freakish" "Now he will be more at home with the other horses" "Nice that you have a sense of humour about it" "Say,how about going dancing at the Paradise" "Oh,no" "Why not?" "I have never been there" "All the more reason why you should go" "No I couldn't" "There you go again.You said you couldn't dance.But you found out different" "Now you say you can't go to the Paradise" "That means only one thing." "That you're still afraid" "Of what?" "You don't have to be afraid of anything" "That's psychology" "Come on Laura,we're going out." "You're going to have confidence in yourself, and I'm going to give it to you" "What about mother and Tom?" "I'll take care of that.Oh,Mrs Wingfield" "Mr O'Connor" "Mrs Wingfield." "Laura and I have decided to go out dancing at the Paradise.Do you mind?" "Do I mind?" "Why Mr O'Connor?" "I've always said that dancing was the most civilized form of social intercourse" "You go right ahead" "Thank you" "When you come back I'll have refreshments waiting for you" "Thank you,again,Ma'am" "Wingfield,may I have the first dance?" "Doesn't everything look wonderful after a rain" "Yes" "Tom,come here" "You've done it" "What have I done now,my lady" "Taken to dancing" "How well she walks" "Either ways holding their arm" "Next time he'll bring her a corsage, I just know he will" "Then there will be regular visits, then he will ask her to picnic" "And picknic lead her to her first kiss" "The first kiss will lead to a ring" "And a ring will lead strict to the altar" "Oh Mother" "Tom,I dreamt ,worried and prayed for this day" "You have too,son?" "You never wanted to admit it, admit it you have?" "I know you have" "You wanted to make Laura happy and now you've done it" "Tom,it all come true,hasn't it?" "Come on,we show them how" "Easy does it" "That's good" "Having fun?" "Sure you have" "What's the matter?" "I have got smoke in my eyes" "What are you doing?" "Blowing the smoke away" "I like the way you smile" "With your eyes" "Doesn't everybody?" "No,most people smile with their lips" "Doesn't mean a thing" "Doing great" "You need a rest for a little while" "Let's sit this one out" "All right" "You've changed,Laura" "Since high school?" "Since an hour ago" "You've stopped being bashful" "Wouldn't be funny if you never remembered to be bashful again?" "If tonight was the end of all that, and from now on you only remembered that you were a very attractive person" "Honestly" "I wish you could sing and face that dance floor with those coloured Dance Band" "They were looking at you wanted to know who you were and I was proud of the fact that I was your partner" "You keep saying that" "Haven't anyone ever told you that you are pretty?" "Well you are" "In a different way than anyone else" "I wish that you were my sister,I'd teach you to have confidence in yourself" "You know,different people are not like other people but being different is nothing to be ashamed of" "Because other people are not so wonderful" "Look at them.They're one hundred times a thousand." "But you,you're one times one" "They wander all over the earth,you just stay here." "They're common as weeds,but you're Blue Roses" "Blue is wrong for roses" "It's right for you.You're pretty" "In what way am I pretty?" "In every way,believe me,your eyes, your hair is pretty,your hands are pretty" "You think I'm making this up because I'm invited to dinner and have to be nice" "I could do that Laura, I could put on act for you and say lots of things without being very sincere" "But I am.I'm talking to you sincerely" "Somebody needs to build up your confidence and make you proud instead of shy and turning away and blushing" "Somebody ought to kiss you" "I shouldn't have done that." "Would you care for a cigarette?" "You don't smoke,do you?" "How about a mint?" "My pocket's a regular drug store" "No thank you" "Shall we go?" "Yes" "You know Laura,if I had a sister like you,I'd do the same thing as Tom" "I'd bring fellows home to meet you" "The right type" "The type that appreciate you" "Tom made a mistake about me" "Maybe I got no call to be saying this" "That might not been the idea in having me over" "But what if it was?" "There is nothing wrong in that" "The only trouble is in my case" "I'm not in the position to do the right things" "I can't take down your phone number and I can't call you" "Next week and ask you for a date" "I just thought I had better explain the situation" "In case you misunderstood and I hurt your feelings" "Laura is that you?" "Yes mother" "Did you have a good time ,honey?" "Fine.I'll bring in something cold to drink in a minute" "You won't call again?" "No,Laura,I can't" "As I was trying to explain I've got strings on me" "I've been going steady" "I go out all the time with a girl named Betty" "She is a nice quiet home girl like you in great many ways" "We get along fine" "I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip up the river to Alton on the steamer Majestic" "Right away from the start it was love" "You know,being in love made a new man of me" "The power of love is really pretty tremendous" "Love is something that changes the whole world" "It happened that Betty's aunt took sick, she got a wire and had to go to Centralia" "When Tom asked me for dinner, I naturally accepted the invitation not knowing that" "I wish you would say something" "I've made you children some liquid refreshments" "Jim,do you know that song about lemonade?" "'Lemonade,lemonade Made in the shade and stirred with a spade- Good enough for any old maid'" "No,I never heard it" "Why are you so serious ,Laura?" "We were having a serious conversation" "Fine.Now you're better acquainted" "You,young people,are much more serious-minded than my generation" "I was so gay as a girl" "You haven't changed a bit,Mrs Wingfield" "Tonight I'm rejuvenated.The gaiety of the occasion,Mr O'Connor" "I'm baptizing myself" "Let me help you" "I'll skip right back ,I know where my place is when young people are having a serious conversation" "Don't forget Mr O'Connor, now that you have found your way here,we want you to come all the time" "Not just once in a while but all the time" "Don't go Mrs Wingfield,as a matter of fact I've got to be going" "You must be joking?" "It's only the shank of the evening" "Well,you know how it is" "You mean you're a young working man and have to keep working men's hour" "We'll let you out early this time but only on conditions that you stay later next time much later" "What will be the best night for you?" "I guess Saturday night the best night for working men?" "As a matter of fact I've got a couple of time-clocks to punch.Mrs Wingfield" "One in the morning and another one at night" "Now you are ambitious,you work at night in the warehouse?" "Well not work but Betty" "Betty?" "Who's Betty?" "Just a girl.The girl I go steady with" "Is it serious?" "We're going to be married the second Sunday in June" "Ohhhh-How nice" "Tom didn't tell me that you were engaged to be married,Mr O'Connor" "The cat's not out of the bag at the warehouse yet" "You know how they are.They call you Romeo and stuff like that" "It's been a wonderful evening,Mrs Wingfield." "I guess this is what they mean by Southern hospitality" "It was nothing at all" "I hope it doesn't seem like I'm rushing off" "But I promised Betty I'd pick her up at the Wabash depot and by the time I get there, her train will be in" "Some women are pretty upset if you keep'em waiting" "I know all about the tyranny of women" "Good-bye,Mr O'Connor.I wish you happiness and good fortune" "Thank you" "You wish him that too,don't you Laura?" "Yes I do" "Thanks again Mrs Wingfield" "So long,Shakespeare" "Good-bye Laura" "Don't you forget the good advice I gave you" "What are you doing that for?" "I want you have him as a souvenir" "Laura.I'm going to treasure this" "Jim!" "Some time if you and Betty have a free evening,we'd like to have you visit us" "Thank you Laura" "Why are you smiling as if something good had happened?" "I've had a lovely evening ,mother" "Had a lovely evening?" "You had a lovely evening?" "It makes you happy when I entertain a man who is already engaged to another girl?" "But mother I danced tonight." "I danced for the first time" "I'm so glad that I saw Jim" "Well,Jim now,go to pick up Betty at the Wabash depot" "You won't see him again" "But mother I have invited Betty and Jim to visit us" "What?" "Laura this is no time to be gracious about it" "What do we care about Betty?" "What do we care about Jim?" "Tom" "Yes mother" "The gentleman caller gone already?" "The gentleman caller has made an early departure" "That was a fine joke you played on us!" "How do you mean?" "You forgot to mention that Mr O'Connor was engaged to be married" "Jim's engaged?" "So he just informed us" "I didn't know" "That's very strange" "What's strange about it?" "Didn't you tell me that he was your best friend at the warehouse?" "He is,but how did I know?" "It's very strange to me that you didn't know that your best friend was engaged to be married" "The warehouse is were I work,not where I know things about people" "You don't know things anywhere.You live in a dream,you manufacture illusions" "Laura,believe me I didn't realize" "I believe you Tom" "You had us make fool of ourselves" "The effort,the preparations,the expense" "New shade to the lamp,new coat for Laura." "All for what?" "I'm sick of being blamed for everything that goes wrong in this house" "Tom should have known" "Mother.It isn't Tom's fault" "Laura" "I don't understand you" "I don't understand you at all" "I've never understood my children" "You young man you're going to make up for what you have done to your sister" "Where are you going?" "I'm going out" "That's right.Don't let me interfere with your selfish pleasures" "Go,go,go,Go to the movies" "Go on then Go on" "All right I will!" "The more you shout about my selfishness the quicker I'll go,and I won't go to the movies" "Away you go,walk out the way your father did,we'll manage without you" "I'm strong enough to take care of Laura, you can go to the moon you selfish dreamer" "Mother" "Tom,Tom" "Forgive me Laura" "Forgive you for what?" "For running away and leaving you behind" "I understand Tom" "Do what you always wanted to,travel,right" "Thank you Laura" "Where will you go Tom?" "Far away.To the moon.Maybe" "I didn't go to the moon.I went much further" "I followed my father's footsteps attempted to find in motion what was really lost in space" "I traveled around a great deal." "I would have stopped,but I was pursued by something" "It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise" "Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music" "Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass" "But all at once my sister touches my shoulder" "I turned around and looked into her eyes" "Laura,I tried to leave you behind me but I am more faithful than I intended to be" "Laura" "Yes mother" "Don't soil your dress,honey, you got to stay fresh and pretty for your gentleman caller" "What did you tell me the young man's name is?" "Richard" "Richard,I've never known a Richard that wasn't nice" "I made a pitcher of lemonade for you both," "I hope he doesn't care for anything stronger" "What time do you expect him?" "Right now mother,there he is, coming down the street" "The long delayed but always expected something that we live for" "Hello" "Hello" "And that is how I remember them,my mother and my sister and so good-bye" "Subtitles by Seglora"