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Практический курс английского языка - Камянова Т.

Камянова Т. Практический курс английского языка — М.: Дом Славянской Книги, 2005. — 384 c.
ISBN 5-85550-177-9
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«Is there a pretty new girl downstairs?» I said, meaning Helene Shaw.
«I didn't notice,» said Harry.
It turned out that Helene Shaw had come for the tryouts, and Doris and I had our hearts broken. We thought that our club was finally going to put a really good-looking girl on stage. But the trouble was that Helene Shaw couldn't act at all. No matter what we gave her to read, she was the same girl with the same smile for anybody who complained of a wrong phone bill. Doris tried to make her understand that Stella in the play was a very passionate girl who loved her husband. But Helene just read the lines the same way again.
«Dear, I'm going to ask you a personal question,» said Doris. «Have you ever been in love? The reason I ask,» she said, «is that remembering some old love might help you to put more warmttfin you acting.»
«Well,» Helen said, «I travel a lot, you know. And practically all the men in the different companies I visit are married and I never stay at any place long enough to know many people who aren't. Another thing is movie stars. I don't mean in real life. I never knew any. I just mean up on the screen. I enjoyed sitting through movies over and over again, and imagine being married to a movie star. They were the only people who came with us. No matter where we moved, movies stars were there.»
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«Well, thank you, Miss Shaw,» I said. «Will you go downstairs and wait. We'll let you know.»
Unfortunately, we didn't find any other candidate for this role, and we decided to let Harry play a scene together with Miss Show. Helene came back upstairs, and we were very sorry and surprised to see that she was crying.
«I don't want to be the way I am,» she said. «I just can't help living the way I've lived all my life. The only experiences I've had, have been in crazy dreams of movie stars. You ask me if I've ever been in love,» she said to Doris. «No - but I want to be. I know what this play is about. I know what Stella is supposed to feel and why she feels it,» her tears didn't let her go on.
At this very moment Harry appeared on the stairs.
«Harry,» I said, «l'd like you to meet Helene Shaw. Helene - this is Harry Nash. If you get the part of Stella, he'll be your husband in the play.» Her tears stopped right then and there.
«l'd like you two just to play a scene together,» I said, and I handed them two play-books.
When the scene was over, Helen Shaw felt very tired, but she didn't look like a machine any more.
«Do I get the part or don't I?» asked Harry. I said yes, and he immediately left.
Then I said to Helen: «The part of Stella is yours. You were great!»
«I had no idea you had that much fire in you, dear,» said Doris
So we started having rehearsals four nights a week on the stage of the Consolidated School. And Harry and Helene were working so well together that it was worth seeing. I was certainly lucky - or I thought! was. Things were going so well that I had to say to Harry and Helene after one love scene: ' \
«Hold a little something back for the performance, please! You'll bum yourselves out.»
I told that at the fourth or fifth rehearsal, and soon the time finally came to put on the play. It was to run three nights - Thursday, Friday, and Saturday - and we murdered those audiences. They believed every word that was said on the stage, and when the curtain came down they were ready to applaud till morning. On Thursday night the other gins at the telephone company sent Helene a bouquet of red roses. When Helene and Harry were taking a curtain call together, I passed the roses to her. She came forward for them, and took one rose from the bouquet to give to Harry. But when she turned to give Harry the rose in front of everybody, Harry was gone.
I went backstage, and I found Helen still holding that one rose. There were tears in her eyes.
«What did I do wrong?» she said to me. «Did I hurt him some way?»
«No,» I said. «He always does that after a performance. The minute it's over, he leaves without even taking off his make-up. And he usually doesn't appear at our cast parties.»
Helene's performance on Friday night was nearly as good as Thursday's. On Saturday, however, it was her best performance. When the curtain came down on the final curtain call, Harry wanted to get away, but he couldn't. Helene didn't let his hand go. The rest of the cast were all standing around Harry and Helene, and Harry was trying to get his hand back. «WeH,» he said, «l've got to go.»
«Good,» she said. «1'Il let you go if you promise me one thing. Stay here until I bring you a present».
He promised. Jt was the only way he could get his hand back. While he was waiting, a lot of people congratulated him on being such a fine actor. But it never made him happy. He just wanted to get away.
Helene came back with a present. It turned out to be a little blue book It was a copy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. And Helen asked him to read a scene aloud. Those were the words of love. Then they suddenly disappeared. They didn't come to the cast party. One week later they were married.
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