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MY CLIENT , CURLEY
Agent. — ( Rising above mercenary motives) Are you accusing me of sacrificing Curley’s health for profits ? ( Scornfully ) Why, that’s ridiculous! Curley is . . .
Sound. — Knocking on door . . . all noise stops, including Stinky's protestation.
Agent. — Yes, come in.
Sound. — Door opens.
Girl. — Just got another wire from the coast. Disney’s raised his offer to twenty thousand.
Agent. — ( Heatedly ) Twenty! Tell him one hundred thousand or nothing !
Music. — Sock cue . . . down behind.
Agent. — Well, the papers get hold of the lepidopterists’ story, and there’s another pile of publicity. It gets to be a moral issue, with preachers delivering sermons, and all like that. I’m attacked editorially for exploiting caterpillar labor. But, on the other hand, I am defended as an individualist who refuses to submit to regimentation.
Defender. — A man owns a clever bug. He has the right to manage that bug. There is no question about his status as manager of that bug. Yet he is asked to release his client for scientific purposes. He refuses. He has a right to refuse. Nobody denies that right. Yet, in certain quarters, he is attacked merely because he insists upon his constitutional guarantees. We say it is consoling to find a man, in this day of reckless encroachment upon the individual, who will stand up and fight for his rights. We wish him well. We stand behind him, foursquare, our feet firmly implanted in the soil from which his bug has sprung, to support his defiance of those who would turn back the progress of man.
Agent. — The American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution send Curley an engraved silver-plated twig and a miniature flag to put on top of his box. The foreign correspondents get busy and cable long stories to their papers. In Madrid, the Spanish Graficano comes out with a dirty dig.
Graficano. — Mas los norte-americanos no deben olvidar que la danza espanola es la mejor de todas y que si la oruga del
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