Time for a play!

[Noor]

You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw


http://archive.org/stream/younevercantell02175gut/nvrct10.txt

A snippet:

Well, in a seaside resort there's one thing you must have before anybody can afford to be seen going about with you; and that's a father, alive or dead.

(He looks at them alternately, with emphasis. They meet his gaze like martyrs.)

Am I to infer that you have omitted that indispensable part of your social equipment?

(They confirm him by melancholy nods.)

Then I'm sorry to say that if you are going to stay here for any length of time, it will be impossible for me to accept your kind invitation to lunch.

 

[phrodeau]

I used to work in a place that repaired projectors, and the film used to test audio sync showed two actors reading from "Mrs. Warren's Profession".

CROFTS. I never intended that. On my word as a gentleman I didn't.
VIVIE. It does not matter. I suppose you understand that when we leave here today our acquaintance ceases.
CROFTS. Why? Is it for helping your mother?
VIVIE. My mother was a very poor woman who had no reasonable choice but to do as she did. You were a rich gentleman; and you did the same for the sake of 35 per cent. You are a pretty common sort of scoundrel, I think. That is my opinion of you.
CROFTS. Ha! ha! ha! ha! Go it, little missie, go it: it doesn't hurt me and it amuses you. Why the devil shouldn't I invest my money that way? I take the interest on my capital like other people: I hope you don't think I...

And that's where the director said "cut".

From where I worked, I could hear this dialogue about twenty times a month.