THE FAT MAN—No, but Rabelais sees her home after the show. We don't think so much of "Fair and Warmer." That might be a good show for New York, but it doesn't class with us. It isn't funny enough.
THE SICK MAN (with rising interest)—Do you mean to say you've got funnier shows than "Fair and Warmer"?
THE FAT MAN—We certainly have. Why, it can't begin to touch that thing of Shaw's called "Ah, There, Annie!"
THE SICK MAN—What Shaw's that?
THE FAT MAN—Regular Shaw.
THE SICK MAN—A lot of things must have been happening since I got sick. I hadn't heard he was dead. At that I always thought that vegetable truck was unhealthy.
THE FAT MAN—He isn't dead.
THE SICK MAN—Well, how about this "Ah, There, Annie!"? He never wrote that show down here.
THE SICK MAN (enormously impressed)—Do you get shows there before we have them in New York?