I am in touch
with all the groups. A moment's reasoning from one they know to be
sympathetic--
[_He goes out into the factory._]
SALVATORE: Hey, let's get that stuff divided up. I got an engagement.
FRANKEL: Yes; let's hurry. You can't tell _what_ they got planted round
here.
CARTER [_rapping_]: The meeting will please come to--
SALVATORE: Here, cut that out! We ain't got no time to--
SHOMBERG: No. Come to business; come to business!
NORA: The only way, comrades, to know how much we have gained since the
last division is to read the bookkeeper's report.
FRANKEL: Well, for heaven's sakes, go on--read it!
CARTER: Well, I did want to a long while ago, when we first set down and
begun the meeting. I says then, I report on my committee and--
VARIOUS MEMBERS: Oh, for heaven's sake! Go ahead! Cut it out!
CARTER [_picking up the sheets_]: On the first page is says Soomary.
RILEY: What's that mean?
MRS. SIMPSON: Oh, my goodness!
FRANKEL: Git to the figures!
CARTER: Well, here, on one side it says gross receipts--
SHOMBERG [_rubbing his hands_]: Ah!
CARTER: What?
SIMPSON [_shouting_]: Read it!
CARTER: Gross receipts $2,162.43. On the other side it says: "Cash paid
out $19,461.53."
[_All are puzzled._]
It didn't sound right to me, even the first time I read it. Looks like
he's got the wrong words, crossed over.
FRANKEL: Why, gross receipts last month was over twenty-four thousand
dollars!
SHOMBERG: Yes, and that was a fall off from the month before.
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