Line Notes

Maggie has graciously compiled line notes from one of our recent rehearsals. Check em out! M= Myrtle

V= Veta

EC= Chauvent

K= Kelly

W= Wilson

S= Sanderson

CH= Chumley

B= Betty

G=Gaffney

J= Johnson

L= Lofgren

M- p.34 When Mother left the house with Uncle Elwood I went over to the real estate office to put the house on the market.

M- p.34 Well, I found a man there who was looking for an old hose just like this to cut up into buffet apartments.

G- p.35 Why did she call me at the club when I was in the middle of a game, and scream at me to meet her here about something important?

G- p.35 Oh, not since he started running around with this big rabbit. But they did once. Once that mailbox was full of those little blue envelopes for Elwood.

G- p.35 Take your average man looking up and seeing a big white rabbit.

M- p.36 Take hold of her, Judge. She looks like she’s going to faint.

V- p.36 Leave me alone. Let me sit here. Let me catch my breath.

V- p.36 Let me sit here a minute and then let me get upstairs to my own bed where I can let go.

G- p.37 Then how could it happen to you? I don’t understand it.

V- p.37 I always said if a man jumped at me-- I’d fight.

V- p.38 You better get the authorities to clean it up.

G- p.38 Now let me take some notes on this. You said-- these doctors came up talk to you-- Dr. Chumley and-- what was the other doctor’s name?

V- p.38 Sanderson-- But Judge, don’t you pay any attention to anything he tells you. He’s liar.

V- p.38 I don’t even want to talk about it. You can’t trust anybody.

V- p.38 I know which is which. I don’t want to talk about it. I want to sue them and I want to get into my bed.

M- p.39 Listen, Mother, we’ve got to find Uncle Elwood-- no matter who jumped at you we’ve still got to lock up Uncle Elwood.

V- p.39 Wait until Elwood hears what they did to me. He won’t stand for it.

G- p.39 The thing for me to do is take some more notes.

M- p.39 It’s all Uncle Elwood’s fault. He found out what she was up to-- and he had her put in, Then he ran.

M- p.39 And, besides-- you’d better save some of that sympathy for me and Mother-- you don’t realize what we have to put up with.

M- p.40 Wait til I show you, Judge.

C- p.40 I have stopped by here to ask Mrs. Simmons if she has any other suggestions as to where we might look for him.

C- p.41 What happened this afternoon was an unfortunate mistake.

M- p.41 You try to get Mother to talk to him, Judge.

M- p.42 Oh, I don’t really know-- I--

M- p.42 Certainly. If you’ll forgive me I’ll precede you into the kitchen.

E- p.43 Hello, Chumley’s Rest? Is Doctor Chumley there?

V- p.43 Doctor,you might as well go home and wait.

V- p.43 Yes-- all right.

C- p.43 This picture over your mantel.

V- p.43 That portrait happens to be the pride of this house.

V- p.43 Oh, some man. I forget his name. He was around here for the sittings.

C- p.43 I suppose if you have the money to pay people, you can persuade them to do anything.

V- p.44 You brought this up; you may as well learn something quick.

C- p.44 Steady now-- steady-- don’t get excited. Everything’s all right. Now-- what’s the matter?

C- p.44 Better be quiet. I’ll take it.

C- p.44 Tell him. That will bring him here, perhaps. Humor him. We have to humor them.

V- p.44 Yes-- Elwood. Yes, dear. Harvey is here. Why don’t you come home?

V- p.45 Harvey just walked in the door! He told me to look in the bath-tub--

C- p.45 I’m going over there to get your brother and take him out to the sanitarium where he belongs.

V- p.45 I won’t tell you why, but if I didn’t, why would I be asking for a permanent commitment for him?

C- p.45 Then I must observe this man. I must watch the expression on his face as he talks to this rabbit.

C- p.46 Not at all. Don’t worry now. I can handle him!

K- p.46 Not yet. I just talked to the downtown dispensary.

S- p.47 I’ve no resentment against Dr. Chumley.

S- p.47 Yes--

K- p.47 Well, doctor-- I’d like to say I wish you a lot of luck, and I’m sorry to see you leave.

S- p.47 Are you sure you can spare these good wishes, Miss Kelly?

S- p.47 Miss Kelly--

K- p.47 I beg your pardon, Doctor?

S- p.47 I’d be careful of him, Kelly. He looked like a schizophrenic all the way across the floor.

S- p.48 Not that it makes any difference to you, but that girl is a charming little lady.

S- p.48 Oh-- if I could try something else on you-- just once!

K- p.48 If you aren’t the meanest person-- inflated ego-- case history!

S- p.48 Don’t run away. Let’s finish it.

K- p.48 For me-- oh, thank you!

K- p.49 I’ve never worn burnt orange.

K- p.49 Thank you. Did Dr. Chumley go over to his house?

E- p.49 I have a cab outside, if it’s possible for you and Miss Kelly to get away now.

K- p.49 I don’t know, Doctor.

E- p.49 I must apologize for being a few seconds late.

S- p.49 Just a moment, Dowd--

E- p.49 That’s very nice of him. I would like to help him too.

E- p.50 As I said, he did not confide his plans in me.

S- p.50 Mr. Dowd, Dr. Chumley went into town to pick you up. That was four hours ago.

S- p.51 Dr. Chumley did come into Charlie’s Place, did you say?

E- p.51 He had asked for me, and naturally the proprietor brought him over and left him.

W- p.51 Okay-- okay--

E- p.51 If those were his plans for the evening he did not tell me.

E- p.51 Dr. Chumley sat down in the booth with us.

E- p.51 Harvey then suggested that I buy him a drink.

E- p.52 Dr. Chumley and Harvey got into a conversation-- quietly at first.

E- p.52 Harvey seemed to feel that Dr. Chumley should assume part of the financial…

E- p.52 I agreed to take the whole thing because I did not want any trouble.

E- p.52 Mr. Wilson, you are sincere type of person, but I must ask you not to use that language…

E- p.52 There was a beautiful blonde woman-- a Mrs. Smethills--

K- p.52 Please hurry, Mr. Dowd-- we’re all so worried.

E- Dr. Chumley then urged Harvey to go with him to Blondie’s Chicken Inn.

E- p.53 I don’t know-- I had a date out here with Dr. Sanderson and Miss Kelly…

K- p.53 Maybe Dr. Chumley did go to Charlie’s Place.

E- p.53 And why not? Harvey was there. At first the Doctor seemed a little frightened of Harvey but that gave way to admiration as the evening wore on--

E- p.53 Stimulating as all this is, I really must be getting downtown.

E- p.54 Yes, my dear-- may I hold you hand?

K- p.54 Yes-- if you want to. Poor Mrs. Chumley is so worried.

E- p.54 For you I would do anything.

E- p.54 Quite sure-- but ask me again, anyway, won’t you?

E- p.54 Oh! I must be going. I have things to do.

E- p.54 Harvey and I sit in the bars and we have a drink or two and play the juke-box.

E- p.54 That was a rather interesting coincidence, Doctor.

E- p.55 I had just helped Ed Hickey into a taxi.

S- p.55 Dowd, when you were a child you had a play mate, didn’t you?

S- p.55 Think carefully, Dowd. Wasn’t there someone, somewhere, some time, whom you knew-- by the name of Harvey?

E- p.55 No, Doctor. No one.

E- p.56 Very well, Lyman. But I’m afraid I won’t be able to visit with you for long.