My Sister Eileen (1942)

Janet Blair: Eileen Sherwood

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• Ruth Sherwood : [reading cereal box]  Nature's Broom. Gonna have breakfast all day long...

  Eileen Sherwood : Oh, but it's good for you. It's roughage.

  Ruth Sherwood : I like to vary it with a little smoothage, like a steak!

• Ruth Sherwood : [There is a loud explosion]  What was that?

  Appopolous : A little blasting - the new subway.

  Ruth Sherwood : You mean they're blasting right underneath us?

  Appopolous : What are you worrying about - those engineers know how much dynamite to use.

  Eileen Sherwood : But, does it go on all the time?

  Appopolous : Oh no, they knock off at midnight and they don't start again till six in the morning.

  Ruth Sherwood : Six in the morning?

  Appopolous : Listen. In New York you live either a. over a subway or b. where they're building a subway or c. you don't live in New York.