[Lee blows his whistle and stops the singing.]
Lee
I’ve got an idea. We won’t use this stage again until the dress rehearsal. Gene, send the girls up on the roof. [In less time than it takes to tell, the chorus girls have been shooed off the stage. Carter and the rest move back to an obscure part of the stage. Lee brings Jack down where we can hear clearly what they say. Mary comes with them. During the following conversation a drop comes down. It is the back of a country scene—you gather from the lights which play around its translucent surfaces that it represents a wisteria-hung house front.] Now, Jack, there’s a big kick in the Mammy number. I want you to do it alone with no one on the stage. Just you and the spot light. Cut out the running around and put your heart into it. Give it all you’ve got. If you do it that way, you’ll be a knockout.
Mary
That’ll be wonderful, Jack.
Jack
[Not quite casually]. Do you think so?
Mary
[To Lee]. Harry, they just brought my last act costume and it’s nothing like the sketch.