SIDE 1

MAYOR SHINN

As Mayor of River City I welcome you River Citizians to the Fourth of July exercises. Now, the Wa Tan Ye Girls will present a spectacle my wife—

(MAYOR SHINN looks at his notes.)

—in which my wife – Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, will take a leading part.

(EULALIE MACKECKNIE SHINN and the other WA TAN YE GIRLS pose and gets ready to perform. TOMMY sneaks onstage and drops a large book behind the GIRLS. The crash scares them. EULALIE swoons.)

EULALIE

I’m shot, George, who shot me?

(There is a considerable disturbance as MAYOR SHINN comforts EULALIE.)

CONSTABLE

Who set off that cracker?

GRACIE

Tommy Djilas did it – Tommy Djilas did it.

ALMA

Yes, it was Tommy Djilas!

MAYOR SHINN

Mrs. Shinn will... recover. Now the Paine’s Fireworks Spectacle will be...