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MY CLIENT, CURLEY
Sound. — Rap of baton.
Conductor. — All right, I know you’re tired, gentlemen, we’ve now been through 67 pieces already — but let’s try a few more and then we’ll quit until tomorrow.
Voice. — {Off) Has the caterpillar moved at all?
Conductor. — So far he hasn’t budged once, but maybe we’ll get him with the “ Habanera” from “ Carmen.”
Sound.— Baton rapping for attention.
Music. — “ Habanera” for about 12 measures . . . then . . .
Conductor. — {Perfunctorily . . . this is the sixty-eighth time he’s had to stop at the beginning ) Stop ! Stop ! {Music out) All right, try No. 69, “Rosamunde” ballet.
Music. — Same as above.
Conductor. — Stop. {Music out) Next, No. 70, Strauss’s “Perpetuum Mobile.”
Music. — Same as above . . . fade under.
Agent. — For two and a half days this went on, and, finally, after the two hundred and second try, something happened that really made the papers sit up and take notice all over again. The Amalgamated Press next day carried this story . . .
Sound. — Fade in printer . . . Establish and down for
Amalgamated. — Curley, the terpsichorean caterpillar, today staggered scientists and musicians when he suddenly went into a stately dance upon hearing the second movement of Beethoven’s ‘‘Eighth Symphony.” The movement, marked allegretto scherzando, was the two hundred and third musical sampling performed in an effort to determine whether the supercaterpillar could, or would, dance to anything besides the song “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby.” The insect further astonished observers by dancing in a contrapuntal manner to an arrangement of melodies from both the song and the movement. Scientists are unable {fade in music) to explain the phenomenon. The management of the caterpillar an¬ nounced meanwhile that Curley will appear as the lead in a ballet entitled “Extravaganza for Insects Only,” by William Saroyan and that Curley will also be seen soon in a dance recital at Carnegie Hall.
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