THE PAJAMA GAME - Page 13
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HASLER Especially Marx and Klein, those damn pirates. ..
Gladys, don’t forget I’ve got a meeting of the Board of
Directors tomorrow.
GLADYS Yes sir. The books are all ready except —
ENTER SID HASLER Two threads, that’s what I got to tell them. Two
threads.
SID We’ve got to recall an awful lot of orders.
HASLER How many?
SID: They’re gonna let us know.
HASLER: Gladys, give me your entry.
SID Clear out for a while will you Mabel?
GLADYS Oh sure. I’ll get something to settle my stomach.
EXIT GLADYS HASLER Have it ready for the meeting tomorrow, that’s all.
EXIT MABEL SID Mr. Hasler.
HASLER Yeah?
SID I’d like to make a pitch.
HASLER Pitch? All right. Pitch ahead.
SID Before we get started let me make my position clear.
I’m for the company first, last, and always. But labour
problems have one way ... compromise.
HASLER Sorokin, you’ve been around here long enough to
learn something But you seem a little slow. I’m a
fighter Keep your dukes up, boy.
SID Yes, but...
ENTER GLADYS
HASLER Don’t waste your breath on me. Keep your dukes up.
EXIT HASLER
GLADYS Dukes up? What does that mean?
SID Mr. Hasler wants me to take boxing lessons.
GLADYS You certainly are a character.
SID And I’d like to get some information from you too.
GLADYS What kind?
SID Double entry.
GLADYS Well, you’re not going to get any information, so there.
SID Come here. I’m a desperate man and I hate to ask a
cute kid like you to do me a favour but ...