Guys and Dolls Page #10

but not your signature?

I was good in arithmetic

but I stunk in English.

Here. This'll put you through Harvard.

I'm rollin' the whole thousand.

And to change my luck,

I'm going to use my own dice.

- Your own dice?

- I had 'em made especially in Chicago.

I do not wish to seem petty,

but may I have a look at those dice?

But these dice ain't got no spots on 'em.

They're blank.

I had the spots removed for luck. But I

remember where the spots formerly were.

You are going to roll blank dice

and remember where the spots were?

Detroit... do you doubt my memory?

Big Jule, I have great trust in you.

Five and a five. Ten. My points: ten.

At least I got a chance.

He remembered a hard point.

Ten. I win. Six and a four.

- Which is the six and which is the four?

- Either way. I'm rollin' the 2,000.

Seven. I win.

I could have sworn

he would've remembered that.

Detroit...

I'm gonna take it easy with you this time.

I'm shootin' a dollar.

I'll cover all of it.

How do ya like that? Snake eyes. I lose.

I won't even bother to pick it up.

Benny, pick it up.

Detroit, I'm gonna give you a chance

to get even. I'm rollin' three Gs.

Three Gs! But that's my whole bankroll.

Three Gs. Get it up.

Well, here we go.

Down memory lane.

Lucky me. Eleven.

- I win.

- I'm clean.

Seein' that I'm on a lucky streak,

I will now roll the rest of you guys.

Wait a minute. You have got to

give me a chance to get even.

I will now roll you with my dice.

- What you gonna use for money?

- I will give you my marker.

And against your marker,

you want Big Jule to put up cash?

- Nathan done it.

- Yeah, I done it.

- What kind of a deal is this?

- Take it easy.

Him and his no-spot dice! Somebody

oughta knock the spots off of him.

Hey, Nathan, do not make Big Jule

have to do somethin' to you.

Detroit, I'm on my vacation.

Don't louse it up.

What could you do me?

Shoot me? Put me in cement?

At least I would know where I am.

I risk my neck to set up this crap game.

I even promise to get married on

account of it. And where do I wind up?

Broke, in a sewer. Believe me,

my tough friend from Chicago,

nothing you could do to me

would not cheer me up.

Here they are.

- And how is everybody down here?

- I smell fresh blood. Lookin' for action?

Not at the moment. I just came

to talk to some of my friends.

- We're shootin' crap.

- It'll only take a minute.

We're shootin' crap.

I would like to talk to you

about Sarah Brown's mission,

where you were interrupted last night.

What kind of characters walk around the

sewers of New York? Who is this joker?

Like I told you, he is the guy who was

tryin' to take the mission doll to Havana.

Oh, him. I suggest you return the way

you came, back to your prayin' tomato.

Around here your presence

is slowin' up the action.

If you are so eager for action, would you

care to make a wager on a proposition?

- Pray tell, what's the proposition?

- An old one my daddy taught me.

- Now am I right-handed or left-handed?

- Now how would I know a thing like that?

Well, I will give you a clue.

Nathan, give me that gu...

Now, to continue with

what I was talking about...

Tonight in the mission

they are holding a prayer meeting.

I promised to supply

that meeting with some sinners.

When it comes to sinners, no sewer in the

world could provide such a congregation.

I would consider it

a very great personal favour...

I don't wanna spend no time

in no hallelujah joint.

If not as a favour to me,

a favour to yourselves.

The air in the mission smells cleaner

than it does down here.

Rusty Charlie?

Society Max?

If anybody else would go, I would also go,

Sky. But you know me - I go anywhere.

Well, thanks, Nathan,

but just you alone is not enough.

Well, I tried.

Sky...

About that Havana business.

I regret that I temporarily

do not have the 1,000 to pay you.

I'm glad you reminded me, Nathan.

You won the bet.

But I thought you took

Miss Sarah to Havana.

You thought wrong.

Get on your feet, Big Jule.

I now have dough to roll you again.

- But with real dice.

- Nothin' doin'.

With honest dice, Big Jule

cannot make a pass to save his soul.

- What did you say?

- I said, with real dice,

Big Jule cannot make a pass

to save his soul.

That's very interesting.

Then maybe with honest dice,

I can make a pass to save his soul.

And yours and yours and yours.

I'm gonna roll these dice.

One roll. And on that roll I'm gonna bet

each of you $1,000 against your soul.

1,000 cash against a marker for your soul.

If I win, all of you show up

at the mission tonight. Have I got a bet?

Let me get this - hold it. Let me get this.

If you lose, then you gotta

give us each 1,000 bucks?

But if you win, then we all gotta

show up at the mission doll's cabaret?

Save-A-Soul Mission, midnight.

One meeting.

- If you lose, 1,000 apiece?

- 1,000 apiece.

- Well, that's OK by me.

- What have I got to lose?

What's the delay, Sky?

You turnin' chicken?

You know better than that, Horse.

You've seen me roll for twice as much.

Only I got...

I got a lot more than money

riding on this one.

They call you Lady Luck

But there is room for doubt

At times you have a very unladylike way

Of runnin' out

You're on this date with me

The pickings have been lush

And yet before this evening is over

You might give me the brush

You might forget your manners,

you might refuse to stay

And so the best that I can do

Is pray

Luck, be a lady tonight

Luck, be a lady tonight

Luck, if you've ever been

a lady to begin with

Luck, be a lady tonight

Luck, let a gentleman see

How nice a dame you can be

I know the way you've treated

other guys you've been with

Luck, be a lady with me

A lady doesn't leave her escort

It isn't fair, it isn't nice

A lady doesn't wander all over the room

And blow on some other guy's dice

So let's keep the party polite

Never get out of my sight

Stick with me, baby,

I'm the fella you came in with

Luck, be a lady

Luck, be a lady

Luck, be a lady tonight

A lady wouldn't flirt with strangers

She'd have a heart, she'd have a soul

A lady wouldn't make

little snake eyes at me

When I've bet my life on this roll

So let's keep the party polite

Why don't he shoot?

- Never get out of my sight

- Come on! Quit stalling!

Stick with me, baby,

I'm the fella you came in with

- Be a lady

- Sky's turnin' yellow!

- Luck, be a lady

- What are you scared of?

- Luck, be a lady

- What's the matter? Roll the dice!

- Tonight

- Comin' out, comin' out

Comin' out, comin' out, comin' out right

- I tell ya, I don't wanna go there!

- But, Big Jule, you give your marker.

And if you welsh, this will

cause me no little embarrassment.

I am sure you do not wanna

cause me embarrassment.

Well, if it ever gets back to Chicago

that I went to a prayer meeting,

no decent person will talk to me.

- Adelaide!

- How clumsy of me.

So sorry. An awkward coincident.

Adelaide, listen. I sent Nicely

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