Excerpt from Her First Scoop: A Comedy in One Act
Madge (smiling). Hardly. Taxis are not for hard - work ing reporters, Maggie. If a second flood were upon the world, and the rest of you were hurrying to a safe Mount Ararat, duty would force me to keep pencil and paper above the billows in order to prepare for a possible extra.
Maggie. How you do put things, Miss Madge. (pre pares check and lays it on table.) madge (taking up check). The journalistic path, Maggie, seldom blossoms the proverbial rose. On a day like this I am easily persuaded that a handful of thistles is mine for the grasping.
Maggie (sympathetically). Hasn’t today’s work been pleasant?
Madge (carelessly). Oh, pleasant enough, I suppose. I’ve been interviewing a theatrical star.
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