The Age of Consent (1932)

Arline Judge: Dora

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• Dora Swale : [as Mike enters the restaurant where she is a waitress]  Hello, pollywog.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Hello, Dora.

  [while looking for an empty booth to sit in, he overhears a couple talking loudly] 

  Unseen Female I : Whaddyou care if they're sharp or not? You can rub your beard off with a towel.

  Unseen Male I : Wait'll you start to shave. Alright, alright, what about free love?

  Unseen Female I : There's nothing free about MY love, Romeo. Just remember that.

  Unseen Male I : You for sale?

  Unseen Female I : Let's broaden the conversation.

  Unseen Male I : When I get on a subject I like to stay with it. Hey, how about that butter?

  [Disgusted with what he's hearing Mike gets up and moves to a different booth] 

  Unseen Female II : Stop it!

  Unseen Male II : [Brays stupidly]  I'm gonna find out things for myself. How do I know? Ya may be knock-kneed.

  [Brays again] 

  Unseen Female II : I thoughtcha came to college to develop your brain.

  Unseen Male II : Aw, who cares about brains? I come from a long line of people who work with their hands.

  [Brays yet again, and we hear a slap] 

  Unseen Male II : Alright, alright, whaddya wanna talk about?

  [Girl giggles incessantly] 

  Unseen Male II : That's not so funny.

  [Mike rolls his eyes and moves a second time] 

  Dora Swale : Are you working out for the track team or is this a new game?

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : I don't like free love with my meals.

  Boy in next booth : Trouble is with you, you're old fashioned.

  Girl in next booth : Maybe so, but what was good enough for my grandmother is good enough for me.

  [She picks up her purse and starts to leave] 

  Boy in next booth : Well I don't want to be honorable with you unless it's absolutely necessary.

  Girl in next booth : I'll call ya up sometime when I break training.

  [laughs and walks out] 

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Don't they ever talk about anything else?

  Dora Swale : What else is there to talk about? How about somethin' to eat?

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Oh, I don't know what I want.

  Dora Swale : Gimme three guesses?

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : People ever talk about marriage any more?

  Dora Swale : Some of the older people.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Why don't you get married? What do you hang around a dump like this for?

  Dora Swale : Scrambled eggs are nice.

• Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You're a good-lookin' girl.

  Dora Swale : Ya think so?

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You're bright...

  Dora Swale : Oh, I get it. Bein' bright don't getcha nowhere--just lookin' dumb. When I first got this job, I usta go home nights and study grammar. I thought it might help me if I talked better. But after goin' out with a couple of these apes around here, I threw the grammar out the window and went in for self-defense.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Well, after all creation didn't stop when they made THESE gorillas. You oughta know some nice fellas that...

  Dora Swale : Sure, you mean in my own class.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Oh well, I didn't mean...

  Dora Swale : Oh, it's ok. Listen precious, it ain't much fun after workin' hard all day and goin' home nights and just goin' to bed, but it's much better than sittin' around the rest of your life listenin' to some iceman's helper yawnin' himself to sleep.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Yeah, I guess you got life pretty tough at that.

  Dora Swale : Oh, I ain't complainin'--not as long as YOU think I'm goodlookin'.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : What's that got to do with it?

  Dora Swale : Oh, it just helps me go on.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Don't look at me--I'm gonna be a missionary.

  Dora Swale : You'd make a SWELL missionary.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [not sure if he's been insulted]  What do you mean by that?

  Dora Swale : Oh, you arouse my savage instincts.

  [Mike grins broadly.] 

  Dora Swale : She hit ya pretty hard, didn't she?

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Whaddya mean?

  Dora Swale : How about the chicken patties? We're trying to get rid of them.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Alright, wheel 'em in.

  Dora Swale : [shouting]  Chicken patties for one!

• Dora Swale : [at the hospital, crying]  He ain't dead, is he? So that's what it's like. Gee, life's pretty lousy, ain't it.

  Mr. Swale - Dora's father : We ain't the ones to say what's right and wrong.

  Dora Swale : Who *knows* what's right and wrong! A swell kid like that, who wasn't doing anything but tryin' to make somebody else happy. If there was a right and a wrong why wasn't he taken while he was breaking the Commandments instead of while he was tryin' to help somebody. Is that wrong to try and make somebody else's load lighter? Tell me that!

  Mr. Swale - Dora's father : We ain't the ones to say about these things, Dora.

  Dora Swale : Then why does everybody do it! Don't do this, don't do that. This is right, this is wrong. How do they know what's right and wrong? How does anybody know?

  Mr. Swale - Dora's father : You don't have to take their word for it, Dora. I've always tried to teach you what's right and wrong.

  Dora Swale : Yes, that's just it! You've always tried to teach me what you *think* is right and wrong. What if *you're* wrong, where's my comeback? I listened to you this morning, I listened to you all laying out my life for me. Just because I did something wrong - didn't seem wrong to me. But even if it was wrong, the only thing that's gonna make me right is to steal something that doesn't belong to me, then I don't wanna be right!

• Dora Swale : Hello, precious.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : You still here?

  Dora Swale : It's only 12 o'clock. I have the rest of the night all to myself.

• Dora Swale : Oh, come on in a minute. I may be able to scare up some liquid excitement.

• Dora Swale : My, but you look cute in that monkey suit.

• Michael 'Mike' Harvey : [drunk & dancing]  Turn off the heat, baby. I haven't got fire insurance.

  Dora Swale : Neither have I.

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : No firm would take it. It is too big a risk.

  Dora Swale : What?

  Michael 'Mike' Harvey : Too big. Too big a risk. The booze sure packs a wallop.

  Dora Swale : The old man got it off a fire boat.

• Soda Jerk : Where you going tonight, babe?

  Dora Swale : The same place you are only in a different direction.