Rodney. Do you know anything against the duck? No, you don’t, but when a duck lays an egg it’s a damn fool and keeps quiet, but when a hen does—cluck, cluck, all over the place! Advertising!
(The curtain is down.)
(The Second curtain:—Peale and Rodney on either side of Martin, are talking advertising, while Mary has her fingers to her ears.)
(The Third curtain:—Martin is protesting angrily to Mary, while Rodney and Peale are talking gleefully to each other and shaking hands.)
Curtain.
ACT II
Scene: The private office of the 13 Soap Company. A rather commonplace room, furnished comfortably but not elaborately. The walls have several posters extolling the virtues of 13 Soap—such as “Do you believe in signs?” “13 Soap is unlucky for dirt.” “Be Clean. Cheap Soap for Cheap People.” “13 Soap is the most expensive soap in the world, one dollar a cake.” There is a particularly large stand in the up-stage wall bearing the legend:
“The average cake of soap gives you 56 washes. A cake of 13 soap gives you only 24,
But
What Washes!”