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Six forty-two
BOWLING ALLEY
The one that's making all the rhubarb. Isn't he wonderful looking?
Stella , I can't meet him now, not till I 'm bathed and dressed.
COCKTAIL LOUNG
Oh, great!
Well, I thought you'd volunteer that information if you wanted to tell me.
Thank you
Now, Blanche!
I weight now what I weighed the summer you left Bella Reve,
Now don't get worried, you sister hasn't turned into a drunkard,
She's just all shaken up and hot and dirty and tired.
Waiter! Waiter!
STELLA'S FLAT
Scalding.
Stella!
Well- I brought some nice clothes to meet all your lovely friends in
I've got to be near you, Stella. I've got to be with you, Stella.
- if you'll just try not to compare him with an officer. - He was an officer?
Why? Stella!
Gracious!
Stella, I- haven't asked you the things you probably thought I was going to ask.
And so I'll expect you to be understanding about what I haven't to tell you.
What, Blanche?
- The best I could do was make my own living, Blanche. - I know, I know.
But you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I!
- I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it! - Stop this hysterical outburst and tell me what's happened.
Oh, Stella. I knew you would I knew you would take this attitude about it!
I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard!
Father, mother! Margaret, that dreadful way! You just came home in time for the funerals, Stella.
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. How do you think all that sickness and dying was paid for?
Death is expensive, Miss Stella! And I and my pitiful salary at the school.
You, accuse me! Stand there and stare at me. Tinking I let the place to!
I let the place go? Where were you? In bed with your-Polack!
- Blanche! You be still! That's enough! - Oh, Stella, Stella, you're crying!
- Hey, are we going to play it out tonight? - No, not at my house. My mother's still sick.
- All right. You bring the beer! - (off scene) Break it up down there!
- I made the spaghetti dish and ate it myself. - Now, now, honey, I told you and phoned you we was playing Jax beer
- What's so funny? You never phoned me once. - I told you at breakfast - and phoned you at lunch
- Well, never mind about that. You just get yourself home. - Now, what d'you want? You want it in the newspapers?
Oh, yes. That's right, in Auriol. That's not in my territory. Liquor goes fast in the hot weather. You want a shot?
- No, I- rarely touch it. - Well, there's some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.
- Hey, do you mind if I make myself comfortable? My shirt's stickin'. -Please, please do
It's hard to stay looking fresh in hot weather. Why, I haven't washed or even powdered and - here you are!
You know you got to be careful sitting around in damp things, catching cold, especially when you been exercising hard like bowling is.
- Oh, I never was a very good English student. How long you here for? - I don't know yet.
- You going to shack up here? - I thought I would if it's not inconvenient for you all.
One of those cats Hey, Stella! What are you doin'? Fall asleep in there? Huh?
Well, I guess I'll strike you as being the unrefined type, eh? You know, Stella's spoke a good deal about you.
- She said you were married once, weren't you? - Yes. When I was quite young.
- Well, I figure maybe we ought - Forget about maybe. Come on just the same.
- Honey, will you get my blue net out for me? - Yes, Blanche.
Oh, honey, I'm takin' Blanche to Galatoire's for supper and then a show, because it's your poker night.
I put you a cold plate on ice. Oh, honey I'm going to try to keep Blanche out till the party breaks up because I don't know how she's take it.
- Well, isn't that just dandy! - So you'd better give me some money.
- Hey, where's she now? - She's soaking in a hot tub to quiet her nerves. She's terribly upset.
- Over what? - She's been through such an ordeal. We've - lost Belle Reve!
- How?
When she comes in be sure to say something nice about her appearance, And, oh, don't mention the baby. I haven't said anything yet.
I'm waiting until she gets in a quieter condition. And try to understand her and be nice to her, honey.
She wasn't excepting to find us in such a small place. You see I'd tried to gloss things over a little in my letters.
And admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful. That's important with Blanche. Her littler weakness!
Okay, honey, I get the idea. But now- I mean- now let's skip back a little to where you said the country place was disposed of.
- Oh- yes - How about- how about a few more details on that subject.
Now look, it's best not to talk much about it until she's calmed down.
Looks like that's the kind of deal. Your sister Blanche can't be annoyed with business details right now!
-You saw how she was last night. - Uh-hum. I saw how she was.
- Now let's have a gander ant the bill of sale. - I haven't seen any.
- She didn't show you no papers, no deed of sale or nothing like that? - It seems like it wasn't sold.
- Well, what in hell was it then, give away to charity? - Shhh! She'll hear you.
Oh, I don't care if she hears me. Now, let's see the paper!
Honey, there weren't any paper, she didn't show any papers, I don't care about papers.
- Wait! Now, listen! Did you ever hear of the Napoleonic code, Stella? - No, Stanley, I haven't heard of the Napoleonic
- Now, I'll go get it. Now just let me enlighten you on a point or two. - Yes?
Now, we've got in the state of Louisianan what's known as the Napoleonic code.
You see, according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband also and vice verse.
Could you listen? Now like, take for instance, if I have a piece of property, or you had a piece of property-
My head is swimming!
All right, then. Okay, we'll wait till she's through soakin' in a hot tub and then I'll inquire if SHE is acquainted with the Napoleonic code.
It looks to me like that you've been SWINDLED, baby, and when you get swindled, under the Napoleonic code, I get swindled too. And I don't like to get swindled.
Oh, Stanley, you've no idea how ridiculous you're being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone else of our family could leave perpetrated a swindle on anyone else.
- Oh, come now! Where's the- where's the money if the place was sold? - Not sold- lost, lost!
Now, will you just open your eyes to this stuff here? Now, I mean, what she got here- out of a teacher's pay?
Will you look at these fine feathers and furs that she come to preen herself in here?
What is this article? That's a solid gold dress, I believe. And this one here. What is that? A fox-piece!
Could anyone afford a genuine fox-piece a half a mile long! Where- where are you fox-furs?
Oh, this here bushy snow-white ones, no less! Where are your white fox-furs?
Those are inexpensive summer furs that Blanche has had a long time.
listen! I have an acquaintance who deals in this sort of merchandise and he's comin' in here and making an appraisal of this.
Now, listen! I'm willing to bet you there's thousands of dollars invested in this stuff!
Well, all right, now. What is that? The treasure chest of a pirate!
Oh, Stanley!
- Bracelets of solid gold! Where are your pearls and gold bracelets? - Shhh! Be still, Stanley!
- And here you are! Diamonds! A crown for an empress! - A rhinestone tiara she wore to a costume ball.
Yeah? Well, I have an acquaintance who works in a jewelry store. He's coming in here to make an appraisal of all that stuff. Here's your plantation, or what was left of it.
You have no idea how stupid and horrid you're being! Now close that trunk before she comes out of the bathroom!
- The Kowalskis and the Dubois have just a different notion on this. - Indeed they have, thanks heavens- I'm going outside.
- You come out with me while Blanche is getting dressed. - Now since when are you giving me orders?
- Are you going to stay here and insult her? - You bet you life I'm going to stay here.
Hello, Stanley! Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented and feeling like a brand new human being!
-That's good. - Will you, then Excuse me while I put on my pretty new dress!
Go right ahead.
Thank you.
I understand there's to be a little card party here tonight to which we ladies are cordially not invited!
That's right.
- I'm going to ask a favor of you in a moment. - What's that going to be, I wonder?
- Well, I can't do mo more with them. - You mean with your big clumsy fingers.
- Why, thanks It looks like my trunk has exploded. - Me an' Stella was helping you unpack.
- Well, you certainly did a fast and thorough job. - It certainly looks like you raided some stylish shops of Paris, Blanche.
- Clothes are my passion! - How much does it cost for a string of fur-piece like that?
- Why, those were a tribute from an admirer of mine! - He mush have had a lot of - admiration!
Oh, in my youth I excited some admiration. But look at me now! Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be- attractive?
I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they' ve got.
I once went out with a dame who told me, " I'm the glamorous type," she says, "I am the glamorous type!" I say, "So What?"
- And- what did she say then? - She didn't say nothing. That shut her up like a clam.
- Did it end the romance? - Well, it ended the conversation- that was all.
You know that some one, Blanche, that are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff whereas some men just are not.
- I cannot imagine any which of a woman casting a spell over you. - That's- right.
You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to
Well, I never did care for wishy-washy people. That was why, when you walked in here last night, I said to myself- "My sister has married a man!"
Stanley! Stanley, you coming outside with me and left Blanche finish dressing!
Honey, do me a favor. Run to the drug-store and get me a lemon-coke with plenty of chipped ice in it! Will you do that for me, Sweetie? Please!
Yes.
The poor little thing was out there listening to us, and I have an idea she doesn't understand you as well as I do
All right, now, Mr.Kowalski, let us proceed without any more digression. I'm ready to answer all question. I've nothing to hide. What is it?
In the state of Louisiana, we' ve got here what is known as the Napoleonic code, according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband also and vice verse.
My, but you have an impressive judicial air! ...... All right. Cards on the table. I know I fib a good deal.
After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth, and this is the truth.
I never cheated my sister, or you or anyone else on earth as long as I've lived.
- New, where's the papers? In your trunk? - Everything that I own is in that trunk.
What are you thinking of! What's in the back of that little boy's mind of yours?
Let me do that! It will be faster and simpler I keep my papers mostly in this tin box.
- What are those underneath? - There are love-letters, yellowing with antiquity, all from one boy.
- The touch of your hands insults them! - Don't put that stuff!
Poems a dead boy wrote. I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can't!
I'm not young and vulnerable any more. But my young husband was and I- I-
I'm sorry, I must have lost my head for a moment. Everyone has something they won't let others touch because of their- intimate nature
What is Ambler & Ambler? A firm that made loans on the place.
Then it was lost on a mortgage? That must have been what happened.
There are thousands of papers, stretching back over hundreds of years, affecting Belle Reve as piece by piece our improvident grandfathers exchanged the land for there epic debauches-
Here they are. All of them, all papers! I hereby endow you with them! Take them, peruse them- commit them to memory, even!
I think it's wonderfully fitting that Belle Reve should finally be this bunch of old papers in your big, capable hands
- I have a lawyer acquaintance who will study them out. - Present them to him with a box of aspirin tablets.
Blanche, under the Napoleonic codea man has got to take an interest in his wife's affairsand I mean, especially now that she's going to have a baby.
Stella? Stella going to have a baby? I didn't know she was going to have a baby!
Stella, Stella for a star! How lovely to have a baby! It's all right. Everything's all right. I felt a bit shaky, but I think I handled it nicely,
I laugh and treated it all as a joke. I called him a little boy and flirted! Yes, I was flirting with your husband, Stella!
Oh, I guess he's just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he's what we need to mix with our blood now that we've lost Belle Reve and have to go without Belle Reve to protect us.
Oh, how pretty the sky is! I ought to go there on a rocket that never comes down
Red-hot! Red-hot!
- Are you going to upstairs and tell her to cut that out? - If I go upstairs, I won't come down. Let's just forget it.
remember that night she poured boiling water through the cracks in the floor?
- Come on! What d' you say? - No! I'm out, I've got to go home pretty soon.
Every time you win a big pot you all like to stop.
- Well, I got a sick mother and she don't go to sleep until I get in at night - Shut up, I say.
- You tell the guys the kettle's on the stove. - I couldn't break up the game.
- How do I look? Wait till I powder. I feel so hot and terrible. - Do I look done in?
- Why, you are as fresh as a daisy. - One that's been picked a few days.
- Why don't somebody go to the Chinaman's and bring back a load of chop suey - When I'm losing you want to eat!
- Well, well, well. I see you boys are still at it! - where you been?
Blanche and I took in a show. Uh, Blanche, honey, this is Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Hubbell.
- How do you do? Please don't get up. - Nobody's getting up here. So don't get worried.
- Poker is so fascinating, Could I kibitz? - You could not. Why don't you women go up to Eunice's?
- How much longer is this game going to continue? - Till we get ready to quit.
- Couldn't you call it quits after one more hand? - Hey! That's my coat!
- Oh, she's about the same, thanks. - She appreciated your sending over that custard.
- Is he married? - No.
- What does he do? - He's on the precision bench in the spare parts department.
- No, Stanley's the only one in his crowd that's likely to get anywhere.
- You ought to see their wives. - Oh, I can imagine. Big, beef things, I suppose.
- You hens- cut out that cackle in there! - You can't here us.
- What d' you say, Mitch? - Come on, Mitch, are you here?
Aw, come on, will you? Let the girls have their music!
- What the heck were you doing, then? - He was looking through them drapes.
- Now deal the hand over again and let's play cards or quit. - Deal me out.
- Uh, the Little Boy' Room is occupied right now. - Oh, excuse me.
- Oh, good. What a pretty case. Silver? - Yes, yes, read the inscription.
Oh! "And if God choose, I shall but love thee better- after- death!"
- Well, there's a story connected with this inscription. - It sounds like a romance.
- No, no! It's a pretty sad one- the girl's dead now. - Oh!
She knew she was dying when she gave me this. A very strange girl, very sweet- very!
she must have been very fond of you, Sick people have such deep, sincere attachments.
- It sure brings it out in people. - The little there is belongs to people who have known some sorrow.
- Dubois. - Dubois?
It's a French name. It means "woods and Blanche" means "white", so the two together mean "white woods" .
- You are Stella's sister, are you not? - Yes, Stella is my precious little sister.
- I call her little in spite of the fact she's somewhat older than I am. - Oh!
Just slightly. Less than a year. Will you do something for me?
I bought this adorable little paper lantern at a Chinese shop on Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb! Will you, please?
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
- Well, I guess we strike you as being a pretty rough bunch. - I'm very adaptable- to circumstances.
- You may be a school teacher but you're certainly not an old maid. - Why, thank you, sir! I appreciate your gallantry!
Coming.
Well, I bet you teach art or music? Well, of course I could be wrong. You might teach arithmetic.
Never arithmetic, sir, never arithmetic! I don't even know my multiplication tables!
No! I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drug-store Romeos whit reverence for Hawthorne and Withman and Poe!
But I bet that some of them are more interested in other things.
How very right you are! Their literary heritage is now what they treasure above all else. it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before.
Drunk- drunk- your animal thing, you! Get out! Get out! All of you, get out!
Stella!
Stella!
Hey, baby!
You can have my bed, Stella. Blanche and I will have Steve's place,
Look, look! She ain't comin' down and she ain't going to talk to you either. So you might just as well not call her.
Hey, Stell-lahhhh!
- You quit that howling down there and go to bed. - Eunice, I want my girl down here!
- You shut up or you're going to get the law on you. - Hey, Stell-lahhhh!
You can't beat on a women an' then call'er back! She won't come! And her goin' t' have a baby!
- Listen, Eunice! - I hope they do haul you in and turn the fire hose on you , same as the last time.
Hey, Stell-lahhhh!
- Hey, Stell-lahhhh!
- Miss Dubois? - Oh
- All quiet along the Potomac now? - She ran downstairs and went back in there with him.
- I'm not used to such- Naw, it's a shame this hand to happen when you just go here.
- Violence! Is so- Set down on the steps and have a cigarette with me.
- Why, I'm not properly dressed. - That don't make no difference in the Quarter.
There's so much-so much confusion in the world Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now.
- Stella! - Hmmmh?
- Stella! Oh, my baby, my baby sister! - Blanche, what is the matter with you?
- He was as good as a lamb when I came back - and he's really very, very ashamed of himself.
- And that- that makes it all right? ... - No! Eunice and you had breakfast?
Do you suppose I wanted any breakfast? you're so- matter of fact about it all, Stella.
What other can I be? He's taken the radio to get it fixed. It' didn't land on the pavement so only one tube was smashed.
- And you are standing there smiling! - What you are want me to do?
- Just pull yourself together and face the facts. - What are they, in your opinion?
I wish you'd stop talking it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.
I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and these pokers impossible to live with.
I understand how it happened- a little, You saw him first in uniform, an officer, not there but-
- I'm not sure it would have made any difference where I saw him. - What you are talking about is desire- just brutal desire, Stella.
- I just- tremble for you - I can't help you trembling if you insist on trembling!
Suppose? Surely you can't have forgotten that much of our up-bring, Stella,
that you just suppose that there's any part of a gentleman in his nature! Oh, you're hating me saying this, aren't you?
- Go on and say it all, Blanche. - He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits!
There's even something- sub-human about him. Thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is- Stanley Kowalski- survivor of the stone age!
Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you- you here- waiting for him!
Maybe he'll strike you or maybe he'd grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet!
His poker night! -you call it- this party of apes! Maybe we are a long way from being made in God's image, but Stella- my sister- there have been some progress since then!
Such things as art- as poetry and music and some kinds of people some tendered feelings have had some little beginning!
That we have got to make grow! and cling to, and hold as our flag in this dark march toward whatever it is we're approaching
Hey, Stella?
- I bet you got under the car. - That jerk mechanic at Fritz's just don't know his axle grease from third base-
Hey!
- Did Eunice get the police? - Nah, she's getting' a drink at the Four Deuces.
- Hey, Stella, I can't find my new pair of shoes. - We cleaned in there. I'll get them.
Astrological sigh. I bet you were born under Aries. Aries people are forceful and dynamic.
- Stanley was born just five minutes after Christmas. - Capricorn- the Goat!
- Say, do you happen to know somebody named Shaw? - Why, everybody knows someone by the name of Shaw?
Well, this somebody named Shaw is under the impression he met you in Auriol,
but I figure he must have got you mixed up with same other party because this other party is somebody that he met at a hotel called the Flamingo.
Why, I'm afraid he does have me mixed up with this "other party". the hotel Flamingo is not a place that I would dare to be seen in!
- You must've got pretty close if you could smell it. - The odor of cheap perfume is penetrating.
Twelve dollars an ounce! I'm nearly out. That's just a hint if you want to remember my birthday.
I figure that he must have got you mixed up but he goes in and out of Auriol all the time so he can check on it and clear up any mistake.
- I'll see you at the Four Deuces! - Hey! Don't I rate on one kiss?
Don't cry. I only do that with this other girl because I love you, baby.
- Honey, there was- quite a lot of talk in Auriol. - Talk! Who cares!
Why, ..I haven't been so good the last two years or so, since Belle Reve started to slip through my fingers.
Soft people- soft people' ve got to court the favor of the hard ones, Stella. They've got to shimmer and glow I don't know how much longer I could turn the trick.
It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I- I'm fading now!
- Have you been listening to me ? - I never listen to you when you are being morbid!