1:01:00
The audition was at 2.30.
It's now nearly four.
1:01:02
Is it really? I must start wearing a watch.
I never have, you know.
1:01:06
Who read with Miss Caswell?
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- Bill? Lloyd?
- No.
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- Well, it can't have been Max. Who?
- Naturally, your understudy.
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It's unnatural to allow a girl
in an advanced state of pregnancy...
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I refer to your new and unpregnant
understudy, Miss Eve Harrington.
1:01:23
Eve? My understudy?
1:01:26
- Didn'tyou know?
- Of course I knew.
1:01:29
It just slipped your mind?
1:01:35
How... was Miss Caswell?
1:01:38
Frankly, I don't remember.
1:01:40
- Just slipped your mind?
- Completely.
1:01:43
Nor can anyone else present
tell you how Miss Caswell read,
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or whether Miss Caswell read
or rode a pogo stick.
1:01:49
Was she that bad?
1:01:52
Margo, I have lived in the theatre
as a Trappist monk lives in his faith.
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I have no other world, no other life.
1:01:59
Once in a great while,
I experience that moment of revelation
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for which all true believers
wait and pray. You were one.
1:02:05
Jeanne Eagels another, Paula Wessely,
Hayes. There are others, three or four.
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Eve Harrington will be among them.
1:02:13
I take it she read well.
1:02:15
It wasn't a reading, it was a performance.
1:02:17
Brilliant, vivid,
something made of music and fire.
1:02:21
How nice.
1:02:23
In time, she'll be whatyou are.
1:02:26
A mass of music and fire.
1:02:29
That's me. An old kazoo with some sparklers.
1:02:34
Tell me, was... Bill swept away too?
1:02:38
- Or were you too full of revelation to notice?
- Bill didn't say.
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But Lloyd listened to his play as if
it had been written by someone else, he said.
1:02:47
It sounded so fresh,
so new, so full of meaning.
1:02:51
How nice for Lloyd. How nice for Eve.
How nice for everybody.
1:02:56
Eve was incredibly modest.
She insisted that no credit was due her.