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- 1939
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SWANA:
You haven't seen her yet?
LEON:
No, and believe me I've tried
everything! I must have telephoned
her a hundred times. I've sent her
telegrams, I've sent her flowers...
I asked her to dinner... I offered
her seats for the Opera...
SWANA:
That proletarian! In the old days
we'd have had her flogged.
LEON:
That wouldn't have done any good.
Not with her.
(forgetting himself)
She's the most incredible creature
I've ever seen.
SWANA:
You just told me you hadn't seen
her.
LEON:
Well... er... I caught a glimpse of
her when she walked through the lobby.
SWANA:
Imagine the carpets of a self-
respecting Parisian hotel dirtied by
the boots of a muzhik! What does she
look like?
LEON:
You can't imagine.
SWANA:
That bad?
(Leon nods)
Old or young?
LEON:
Timeless. When she comes into a room
you'd think that the Bolsheviks had
taken over Paris. She wears her cheap
miserable blouse as though it were
the latest model by Schiaparelli.
What a woman! What a woman! There is
a Russian snowstorm in each of her
eyes.
SWANA:
You saw all that in one glimpse?
LEON:
(getting up)
Darling, if we're going to get
anywhere someone has to keep his
eyes open!
(he walks over to the
bathroom)
SWANA:
Now, darling, soak in your beautiful
pine bath and let Gaston shave you.
Leon exits into the bathroom. As he does so a bell rings.
SWANA:
Gaston!
There is no answer. After a slight pause she herself goes to
answer the bell.
DISSOLVE TO:
MEDIUM SHOT -- ENTRANCE HALL -- LEON'S APARTMENT, shooting
toward the door.
Swana goes to the door and opens it. The Three Russians stand
outside. Seeing Swana, they are a little intimidated.
THE THREE RUSSIANS
How do you do?
Swana suspects that for the first time she is being confronted
by representatives of the Soviet government.
SWANA:
Yes?
KOPALSKI:
We want to talk to Count d'Algout.
My name is Kopalski.
SWANA:
Oh... you are the three gentlemen
from Moscow?
KOPALSKI:
Yes.
SWANA:
(icily)
You may wait.
She closes the door.
STAIRCASE HALL -- IN FRONT OF LEON'S DOOR
The Three Russians, very impressed, stand looking at the
door which has just been closed.
BULJANOFF:
That's her.
KOPALSKI:
Imagine! The niece of the Czar opening
the door for us.
BULJANOFF:
Once in Petersburg I was driving
down the Nevsky Prospect in my cart
and Her Highness in her troika swept
down from the opposite direction,
and when I couldn't make way quick
enough she spat in my face.
IRANOFF:
Now look here, Buljanoff. You never
were in Petersburg, you never owned
a cart, and she never spat in your
face. Who are you trying to impress?
At this moment the door is opened by Leon in his bathrobe.
LEON:
Hello, boys.
ALL THREE RUSSIANS
Leon!
LEON:
Come in, come in.
They enter.
LIVING ROOM -- LEON'S APARTMENT
Leon and the Three Russians enter.
LEON:
What's new?
KOPALSKI:
(excitedly)
Leon, Leonitchka, she is not going
to negotiate! She is going to fight
that injunction. She's going to make
a precedent of it!
IRANOFF:
She says she won't be intimidated by
parasites. She called the Duchess a
blood-sucking aristocrat and a
blackmailer.
LEON:
(eagerly)
What did she say about me?
IRANOFF:
(after a moment's
consideration)
I think she covered you with the
parasites.
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