The third. It contains the action. About half-way through
he moves across to her and says: "Don't cry, little girl, I can always
shoot myself!" And then he finds out that she is stone deaf from birth, and
hasn't really heard a word he said. So she goes forth into the world to
learn the Oral system, while he awaits her return, when he will begin
again. Are you ready? I'll ring up.
[Quite wonderfully the big cigar shifts to one corner of his mouth,
almost in line with his ear, and he whistles shrilly. The curtain of
the "six ads." flies away, and there's the automatic drama in full
swing. Three canvas walls, liberally stencilled in the worst Munich
style. And in this space are two pink gramophones on two green
pedestals. One is gilt- lettered "Arthur." The other silver-lettered
"Grace." The trumpets incline to each other a little, for this is a
love scene going on. On a white framed space in the back wall, stage
directions are written moviely. This one spells out "Arthur is still
speaking.
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