Hello, Dolly! Libretto
Hello, Dolly! Libretto
Hello, Dolly! Libretto
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MRS. LEVI (Cont'd)<br />
(Continuing as she hands cards to people)<br />
Now, I might also mention I'm available for financial consultation, Instruction in the Guitar and Mandolin,<br />
Short Distance Hauling ....and Varicose Veins Reduced!<br />
(MRS. LEVI boards horsecar)<br />
Mrs. Levi!<br />
ALL<br />
CALL ON DOLLY<br />
SHE'S THE ONE THE SPINSTERS RECOMMEND,<br />
JUST NAME THE KIND OF MAN YOUR SISTER WANTS<br />
AND SHE'LL SNATCH HIM UP.<br />
DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR MAIDEN AUNTS<br />
(AMBROSE KEMPER enters left)<br />
AND SHE'LL MATCH 'EM UP<br />
CALL ON DOLLY....<br />
AMBROSE<br />
MRS. LEVI<br />
(Getting off horsecar)<br />
....Mr. Kemper, the artist! You know, I'm something of an artist myself, I do those silhouettes with scissors and<br />
black paper, here's one of Ada Rehan looking the other way. I have to do them like that because I'm no good<br />
at noses.<br />
AMBROSE<br />
Mrs. Levi, the train for Yonkers leaves in five minutes and if we don't get there on time....<br />
MRS. LEVI<br />
But we will, Mr. Kemper! And not only will Horace Vandergelder give you permission to marry his niece,<br />
Ermengarde, but he will also dance at your wedding and not alone either because I happen to be engaged in<br />
finding him a suitable second wife himself.... What he really wants is someone steady to clean the house. As<br />
my late husband Mr. Levi always said, marriage is a bribe to make a house keeper think she's a householder....<br />
AMBROSE<br />
I know all about it, Mrs. Levi! Half New York says' he's going to propose to Mrs. Irene Molloy this very<br />
afternoon!<br />
MRS. LEVI<br />
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