Les Girls Page #3

l am not without the guile, mademoiselle.

l want to be remembered.

Each hour it rings a tiny bell.

[Bell tinkling]

What's that?

My heart.

When you touch me, it plays little tunes.

Does anything happen to you

when l touch you, Barry?

You set off a fire alarm.

And Sybil, has she ever set off

a fire alarm?

She never even started a fire.

-And Joy?

-She never even lit a match.

You want to know something?

l don't believe you.

Do you want to know something?

l didn't expect you to.

Why don't you dance in America?

Well, in America

l'm just another American dancer.

And over here l'm something special.

Will you go home one day?

One day.

You are never lonely?

Now and then.

l think you should be in love.

lt would be good for you.

Why?

You wouldn't be lonely

and you would be something special.

Well, l am.

-ln love?

-Something special.

l don't think you know what it means

to be really in love.

-Shall l tell you?

-lf you like, sure.

To me, Barry, real love is like...

l can't talk when you kiss me.

Well, l can't kiss you when you talk.

Real love is when suddenly you sight...

someone for whom you yearn.

[Singing Ca, C'est L 'Amour by Cole Porter]

[ln French] -how are you?

-Oh, it's you, Barry!

haven't seen you in a while.

-how are you?

-Good.

have you been out in the country?

-Am l intruding?

-hello. Why, not at all.

Your uncle is waiting upstairs for you.

-My uncle?

-Uncle Pierre from La Porte.

My uncle from La Porte. Pierre.

Excuse me, Barry,

l've got to see my uncle from La Porte.

Well, that was a very good rehearsal. Yes.

Getting along fine.

Making a lot of progress.

[Bell tinkling]

Making time, too, aren't you?

l am embarrassed,

l have talked to you of nothing but Angele.

-Wonderful girl, do you think?

-Oh, yes. very.

Mon cher, how are you?

Why didn't you write?

l would have been waiting.

Do not scold.

l didn't know you would be working.

Working? Oh, well, l, yes, we--

Oui.

Why didn't you write Pierre...

you were doing volunteer work

at that orphanage?

-You are too generous with your time.

-Much.

-Everything all right?

-So far.

Then l'm sure Monsieur Pierre

will excuse us.

l've promised to wash Joy's hair.

You lucky girl.

l have missed you, little angel.

Let me look at you. You are pale.

-You took me by surprise, mon coco.

-Guess why l've come to Paris.

-Guess what l have brought you.

-l can't guess. Tell me.

My parents.

Oh, your parents.

My mother and my father.

They are to meet you at last.

But l'm afraid, Pierre.

l'm only a nurse. l have no dowry.

-They may not like me.

-They will adore you.

Tomorrow night we are to have dinner

with them.

But l can't. l'm working.

At the hospital.

l won't be free until after 11:00.

Don't worry.

Then, we shall have a late supper instead.

And while we wait, we can...

l shall take my mother to a theater.

Oh, no, don't.

There's nothing good in Paris.

You're wrong. You are good.

Sweet, lonely girl.

Come away from there.

Angele's gonna have to be better than

houdini to get out of this one.

Our little French souffle

may soon become the pudding...

if she does not take care.

lt's Angele. l must see you.

Come in.

There's something l must know,

and l must know tonight.

-Will l take you to supper? Yes.

-Don't joke. Please.

how would you feel if l decided

to give up the theater and went away?

-Don't you joke either.

-l'm serious. how serious are you?

What's got into you?

Everything was fine yesterday.

EMCEE:
[ln French] On stage.

-Pick up your train, baby, you're on.

-Do you love me? Do l mean anything--

Of course l love you. Come on. Get out

on stage. l got to change my pants.

Now, go!

[Audience applauding]

[Playing sweeping instrumental music]

[Singing Ladies-in-Waiting by Cole Porter]

Someone's in for trouble.

l just spotted Pierre and his parents

sitting up in the box.

-Are you sure?

-See for yourself.

-Pierre's in the audience.

-What?

Pierre's up in that box with his parents.

l'm not joking, look.

They mustn't see me! They mustn't!

-What are you trying to do? Wreck the act?

-There's a thing l must explain.

What excuse could you have

for doing that?

There's someone out there who

mustn't see me.

What are you saying?

Those people pay to see you.

You got a half a minute to change.

[ln French] What's the matter?

-Angele, are you sick?

-You must get changed. lt's all right.

he couldn't have recognized you.

Your mother wouldn't have

recognized you.

he's so angry.

lf you don't hurry,

we're all gonna be in trouble.

l cannot go out there!

You have to. You can't leave Barry

stranded on the stage.

l've lost Barry and now l'll lose Pierre.

[ln French] hurry!

Angele, you'd better hurry. Come on!

She got a little excited

but it won't happen again.

EMCEE:
[ln French] Barry Nichols

and Angele. One minute.

[Playing dramatic instrumental music]

Pull.

Pull.

Pull!

[ln French] Bring down the curtain.

hurry up. hurry up.

Where is she? Where is she?

[ln French] On stage, on stage!

have you lost your mind?

-Barry--

-Get out!

Please.

lf you're not out of here in one minute,

l'll throw you out of that door.

What's got into you?

l don't know. Please trust me.

Trust you?

Nobody's ever pulled that on me before.

l'll explain tomorrow, l--

You'll not explain tomorrow,

tonight, or any other time!

You mustn't do this to me after we...

l love you.

-Oh, you poor darling.

-Oh, honey.

l love him.

he doesn't know how much l love him.

l love him. he doesn't care.

-he isn't worth crying about.

-hurry back to the flat.

Pierre will show up.

Get there before he does.

Joy and l'll stay away,

so you've got the flat to yourselves.

l want to die.

Darling, you'll feel so much different

tomorrow, l promise you.

hurry. Take a taxi, now.

Don't waste any time.

[Sniffing]

Angele!

help! Au secours!

Oh, please. help!

Darling, Angele.

She said she wanted to die.

lf it hadn't been for my prompt action,

she'd certainly have got her wish...

a point she seems to have overlooked.

And she recovered and disappeared.

l didn't know she'd eventually married

Monsieur Ducros.

Or that she'd read my little book

of memoirs or l'd never have mentioned it.

lt's the dullest chapter in the book.

And all that you wrote was the truth.

Every word.

l'm a little confused, Lady Wren...

as to how you can remember

so accurately...

scenes which you

could not possibly have witnessed.

l reported them as Angele

repeated them to me.

According to your account,

the incident you described...

occurred in the year 1949 when you were

playing at the Music hall Parisien.

We played there for months.

Every Paris newspaper would confirm that.

lt was at the Music hall Parisien...

that you saw Pierre Ducros

in the audience?

What would you say, if l told you that

Pierre Ducros will swear, under oath...

that he was not

in the Music hall Parisien that night.

That he'd never been inside

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