Come See the Paradise Page #3

GERRY:

Where will you go?

JACK:

I don't know. San Francisco, maybe.

GERRY:

You don't want to do that. Maybe I can talk to some people for

you.

JACK:

No, Gerry, no.

GERRY:

You see this yard?

JACK:

It's a nice yard.

GERRY:

You should see it in the daytime. It's beautiful. Really

beautiful. I got geraniums, I got magnolias, I got sweet peas.

I got a fountain. Hey, I'm even thinkin' of putting a pool in

for the kids.

JACK:

A pool would be nice.

GERRY:

It's enough for me, Jack.

JACK:

It's enough for me, too, Gerry.

SCENE 10

PAPA K:

I bring in these Japanese films to play at my theater and they do

okay. Good films. Big Japanese stars. But young people today,

all they're interested in is tap dancing. Fred Gable and Jinji

Rogers.

FUJIOKA:

Fred Astaire.

NISHI-

KAWA:

Kawamura...We're here to talk about money, not tap dancing.

PAPA K:

I know. I'll pay. I always do.

NISHI-

KAWA:

Not soon enough, Hiroshi. Now, Mr. Fujioka here has offered to

settle your debts.

PAPA K:

Fujioka?

FUJIOKA:

Hiroshi...I've been thinking about remarrying.

PAPA K:

Good idea. Your wife has been dead long enough.

FUJIOKA:

I was thinking of your daughter.

PAPA K:

Which daughter? LILY?

FUJIOKA:

Yes, LILY. A beautiful girl.

CHARLIE:

Papa! Papa! Excuse me, Mr. Fujioka, Mr. Nishikawa. Papa, it's

Mr. Ogata!

PAPA K:

Did the projector break again?

CHARLIE:

No! No! Papa, he's killed himself! He's killed himself, Papa.

I just found him.

PAPA K:

You're right. I should be in tomatoes like you, Fujioka.

SCENE 11

JOYCE:

Can you imagine killing yourself?

DULCIE:

Do you have to? We're going to eat.

CHARLIE:

It's the only thing he could have done. Why do you have to keep

talking about it?

LILY:

Mr. Fujioka? But he's old and he's sleazy! Papa, are you

serious?

JOYCE:

Why did Mr. Ogata have to kill himself? Why didn't he just kill

her?

CHARLIE:

Because of honor.

DULCIE:

Why do you have to kill anyone? Why can't they just make up? Or

why didn't he just leave her?

MAMA K:

I knew his wife, Mrs. Fujioka. Nice woman. Died too young.

LILY, he'd make a good husband.

DULCIE:

Papa, you smoke too much!

LILY:

But he's horrible. He's ugly. And he has bad teeth, Mama.

He's...

DULCIE:

Sleazy!

CHARLIE:

He's rich. And Papa owes him money.

LILY:

But I don't know him.

PAPA K:

That's all right. All I knew of Mama was a picture.

CHARLIE:

Listen to Papa.

LILY:

You're not marrying anyone, I am!

DULCIE:

Oh, you like the idea!

LILY:

I do not! I hate the idea!

MAMA K:

Just meet with him, for Papa's sake.

CHARLIE:

For all our sakes. We could do with the money. And we need a

new projectionist.

MAMA K:

Do as your Papa says. What harm can it do?

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