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Karen Nash has booked suite 719 at the Plaza Hotel for herself and her husband to celebrate their (early) anniversary. However, her hopes for a romantic evening are dashed by Sam’s heavy workload. He prioritizes business over sentiment and has been on the phone to his secretary for most of the time so far. Miss McCormack now arrives with important papers for Sam to look over. Both Sam and Miss McCormack conveniently ignore Karen as she hovers in the background, trying to make her presence felt.
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START: (The doorbell rings)
... Hey, come on. The champagne is here.
(She opens the door to the bedroom and calls in)
If you don't come out, I'll tell the waiter you wear dentures.
(She crosses and opens the front door. JEAN MCCORMACK stands there. She is SAM'S secretary. She is a trim, attractive woman about twenty-eight. She is neatly dressed, bright, cheerful and smilingly efficient)
... Oh! Hello, Miss McCormack.
[... …]
END: JEAN It's all right. I'm used to it now. Best wishes again, Mrs. Nash.
KAREN (As JEAN starts out) Thanks, dear. And see that he buys me a nice gift.
JEAN (Smiles) I definitely will.
(Closes the door)
Neil Simon, “The Plaza Suite”, The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol. 1, pp.521-525.
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