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George Lewis, May Daniels, and Jerry Hyland are all members of a washed-up vaudeville act, which is stranded in New York City while they wait to book a gig. The scene begins with George and May in a boarding house room, May pacing restlessly and worrying over the future, while George is content to read Variety -- which May views as a trash -- and snack on noisy India nuts. May is clever, quick, and pessimistic, and takes a dim view of George’s dim-witted contentment. The two are out of step,
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George: Come in!
May: Hello, George.
George: Hello.
May: Jerry not back yet, huh?
George: No.
End:
Jerry: Yay, it works!
May: It works, Jerry -- it works!
Jerry: And if it works on George, it’ll work on anybody!
May: California, here we come!
Hart, Moss and Kaufman, George S. Once in a Lifetime. Samuel French, New York, NY. 1960. pp. 7 - 17.
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