His Girl Friday 1a

St. George’s Academy of Dragon Slaying and Spoken English www.myESLfriends.com His Girl Friday Scene 1a   Movie time stamp 0:00Video and Audio MP3 can be found at www.archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/HisGirlFridayEslVideosByScene http://www.archive.org/details/HisGirlFridayEslAudioByScene Recorded classes for ESL students may be found at www.wiziq.com This script was prepared by George Machlan ofMy ESL Friends ( myeslfriends.com ) for use inteaching English to ESL students. Recordings ofour class use can be found at www.WIZIQ.comThanks to "Screenplays for You" http://sfy.ru/and "Script-o-rama"  www.script-o-rama.comfor making this script availableHis Girl Friday (1940)by Charles Lederer.Based on the play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.1939Lead in shot:It all happened in the "Dark Ages" of the newspaper game -- when to areporter "getting that story" justified anything short of murder. Incidentally you will see in this picture no resemblance to the men andwomen of the press of today.Ready?Well, once upon a time ---BACKGROUND VOICE1 Copy boy!2 Make it snappy and hurry back.1ST OPERATOR3 Morning Post, city desk...Just one moment please, I'll connect you.2ND OPERATOR4 Morning Post...REPORTER5 If anyone asks (for) me, I'm down at the courthouse.6 Elevator, hold! Down! Down!OFFICE BOY7 Hello, Hildy!HILDY8 OH, Hi ya, Skinny.MAISIE9 Hi, Hildy.HILDY10 Hi, how are ya?11 Tell me, is the lord of the universe in today?MAISIE12 Yes, he's in, in a bad humor.13 Somebody must've stolen the crown jewels.14 Shall we announce you?HILDY15 OH no, no I'll blow my own horn.16 Bruce you should wait here, I'll be back in ten minutes.BRUCE17 Even ten minutes is a long time to be away from you.HILDY18 What did you say?BRUCE19 Huh? Wha, uhHILDY20 Go on.21 So go ahead.BRUCE22 Oh I just said that even ten minutes is a long time to be away from ya.HILDY23 I heard ya the first time.24 I like it that's why I asked ya to say it again.25 I can stand being spoiled a little.26 The gentleman I'm going in to see did very little spoiling.BRUCE27 I'd like to spoil him just once.28 Sure you don't want me to go in with you?HILDY29 Oh no, I can handle it.BRUCE30 Well if things gets rough, remember I'm here.HILDY31 I'll come a-running, pardner.32 Oh, hello Jim.BACKGROUND VOICES 33 Hello.... Hi.... Hi ya Hildy...HILDY34 Oh, hello, Beatrice. How's "Advice to the Lovelorn"?BEATRICE35 Fine, my cat just had kittens again.