ACT IV
Scene 1: Same as Act III.
Heroine discovered in a pensive mood and an expensive gown.
Enter villain without knocking. He is no “knocker,” though he be a villain.
“I have come for me answer!”
“Will you have it wrapped up?” she answers, a la Siegel-Cooper, and, seizing a glass of wine, she dashes it in the villain’s face.
“Car-r-se the luck!” he yells. “The drinks are on me.”
Slow curtain to give the villain time to put on dry clothes for Act V.
Now, instead of an elapse of nine years between acts four and five, I have written the play in nine acts. That ought to prove an innovation.
Between acts seven and eight another innovation: coffee and rolls will be served. The ushers will pass hot coffee and the curtain will come down with a roll.
Between acts eight and nine morning papers will be distributed, and the milkmen will be admitted free.
Now comes Act V.