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Backstage, Sugar cries over the millionaire who gave her a bracelet and is now sailing off to marry someone else. Daphne and Josephine want out, because "the place is crawlin' with mobsters." Meanwhile the mobsters themselves have decided Little Bonaparte should retire — and then they spot the two "broads" from the elevator.
Sugar's Heartbreak Over Junior
Daphne Wants to Get Out
The Mob Plots Against Little Bonaparte
Backstage, Sugar is heartbroken: Junior gave her a bracelet and then left to marry another woman in South America. Daphne and Josephine are afraid of the gangsters all around them. The mobsters, meanwhile, are plotting to get rid of Little Bonaparte, and when they notice the two women from the elevator, they decide to finish the job.
The scene stacks two kinds of danger. Sugar's heartbreak is real but based on a lie she cannot see: the perfect man is Joe in disguise, and the bracelet she treasures was paid for with someone else's money. Around her, the mob is doing its own arithmetic; they talk about assassinating Little Bonaparte the way a club discusses a motion — "Second the motion" — and settle on "we'll make sure there are no witnesses." That phrase is aimed at nobody in particular until the gangsters recognize the two women from the elevator. "Maybe those dames ain't dames," one says, and the room's danger flips from politics to the heroes. Joe and Jerry, meanwhile, are still planning to sneak away across town.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“No matter where I go, there'll always be a Shell station on every corner.”
She measures heartbreak in gas stations; the joke is silly and painfully true at once.
Informal
“We'll walk. And if we have to, we'll starve.”
A plain, stubborn answer turns desperation into comedy and shows how stuck they are.
Informal
“He's the first nice guy I ever met in my life.”
A simple superlative shows both her bad luck with men and her innocence.
Neutral
“The place is crawlin' with mobsters. Gangrene is settin' in.”
Swapping in a medical term for doom gives panic a grim comic edge.
Informal
“One of these days, Little Bonaparte and Toothpick Charlie will be singin' in the same choir again.”
A church metaphor for murder makes the threat chillingly polite.
Neutral
Siguiente · 19to err is humanLa escena: Spats Gets a Birthday CakeShe believes Junior has left her to marry another woman in South America. He gave her the bracelet she is wearing, so the gift now reminds her of what she thinks she has lost.
They think he has gone soft — 'Hasn't got it here anymore,' one says — and they begin to talk about replacing him, framing a possible killing as a motion to retire him.
Because they match the two 'broads' from the elevator: 'Same faces. Same instruments.' Realizing the women were also the witnesses they have been hunting, they decide to finish the job.
It is slang for a despicable, selfish person, from the word for a parasitic insect. Here it is the verdict on a man who gives a gift and then runs off to marry someone else.
