EVA

Hello and goodbye!

I've just unemployed you

You can go back to school--you had a good run

I'm sure he enjoyed you

Don't act sad or surprised, let's be friends, civilized

Come on little one!

Don't sit there like a dummy!

The day you knew would arrive is here--you'll survive

So move, funny face!

I like your conversation--you've a catchy turn of phrase

Your obviously going through some adolescent phase





MISTRESS

So what happens now

So what happens now

Where am I going to



CHE

You'll get by you always have before





MISTRESS

Where am I going to



EVA

Don't ask anymore



(EVA turns PERON's MISTRESS out into the hall.)



13. PERON'S LATEST FLAME



CHE

At the watering-holes of the well-to-do

I detect a resistance to...



ARISTOCRATS

Precisely!



CHE

...our heroine's style



ARISTOCRATS

We're glad you noticed



CHE

The shooting sticks of the upper class



ARISTOCRATS

Give her an inch...



CHE

Aren't supporting a single ass

That would rise for the girl



ARISTOCRATS

...she'll take a mile



Such a shame she wandered into our enclosure

How unfortunate this person has forced us to be blunt

No, we wouldn't mind seeing her at Harrod's

But behind the jewelry counter--not in front



CHE

Could there be in our fighting corps

A lack of enthusiasm for...



ARMY

Exactly!



CHE

...Peron's latest flame?



ARMY

You said it brother



CHE

Should you wish to cause great distress

In the tidiest officer's mess

Just mention her name



ARMY

That isn't funny!



Peron is a fool, breaking every taboo

Installing the girl in the army H.Q.

And she's an actress! The last straw

Her only good parts are between her thighs

She should stare at the ceiling, not reach for the skies

Or she could be his last whore

The evidence suggests

She has other interests

If it's her who's using him

He's exceptionally dim

Bitch! Dangerous Jade!



ARISTOCRATS

We have allowed ourselves to slip

We have completely lost our grip

We have declined to an all-time low

Tarts have become the set to know



EVA (on the air)

I'm only a radio star with just one weekly show

But speaking as one of the people I want you to know

We are tired of the decline of

Argentina with no sign of

A government able to give us the things we deserve



ARMY

It's no crime for officers to do as they please

As long as they're discreet and keep clear of disease

We ignore, we disregard

But once they allow a bit on the side

To move to the center where she's not qualified

We are forced be on our guard

She should get into her head

She should not get out of bed

She should know that she's not paid

To be loud but to be laid

Slut! Dangerous Jade!



(EVA, the glamorous movie star, enters,

flanked by HEAVIES.)



CHE (in the guise of a reporter)

This has really been your year Miss Duarte

Tell us where you go from here Miss Duarte

Which are the roles that you yearn to play

Whom did you sleep--dine with yesterday?



EVA

Acting is limiting the lines not mine

That's no help to the Argentine



CHE

Can we assume then that you'll quit? Is this because of

your involvement with Colonel Peron?



HEAVIES

Goodnight and thank you



(They push CHE aside and EVA out)



ARMY

She won't be kept happy by her nights on the tiles

She says it's his body but she's after his files

So get back onto the street!

She should get into her head

She should not get out of bed

She should know that she's not paid

To be loud but to be laid

The evidence suggests

She has other interests

If it's her who's using him

He's exceptionally dim







ARISTOCRATS

Things have reached a pretty pass

When someone pretty lower class

Graceless and vulgar, uninspired

Can be accepted and admired