THE PAJAMA GAME - Page 21
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ENTER HASLER
HASLER I hope this call turns out to be important What’s going
on here Now look! Look! That’s not nice. I don’t like
this. This is company property, Sorokin.
SID I’d better explain Mr Hasler
HASLER I think somebody better
GLADYS Look out! (CLUNK. Another knife)
HASLER What the hell! They’re trying to murder me!
SID I’ll stop that. (dashes out to Hines)
HASLER Call Senator Hickenlooper
GLADYS Yes Sir! (reaches for phone)
HASLER It’s a plot to murder me. They’ve imported gangsters
from Chicago. The old Al Capone gang
GLADYS I don’t think so Mr Hasler.
HASLER Don’t argue with me! Didn’t you see those knives!
That’s the work of foreigners!(offstage song 7½cents)
SINGING OFF STAGE
GLADYS But, Mr. Hasler.
HASLER It’s Chicago gangsters!
GLADYS Mr. Hasler, it’s —
HASLER They’re marching. What’s that?
GLADYS No, it’s the Union Rally. They’re going to have a
parade
HINES ENTERS WITH HASLER Where have you been? On the job, man. The place is
SID full of youngsters. They’re out to get me.
SID They’re not after you, Mr. Hasler. They’re after me.
HASLER Talk, talk. Why doesn’t someone do something?
Get me the police.
SID You don’t want to arrest Hines, do you?
HASLER Hines?
SID He was trying to kill me
HASLER He was? Hines, suppose you’d succeeded. And me
right in the middle of labour troubles. Suppose you’d
hit him.
HINES I could have hit him if I wanted to. I was just trying to
scare him.