Just root for me ... to get over ... like you did before.... No—I’ll be all right here.... What a little boy learns, he never forgets.... Goodbye, Mary. [_He puts on skull cap and shawl, kisses the mazuzah, and is gone._] [_Faintly, through the closed windows, the murmur of the voices of the Children of Israel in prayer can be heard in the darkening room. The stained glass windows of the synagogue next door are lighting up and throw a many-colored radiance into the room._] LEE There goes your blackface comedian. MARY [_Passionately_]. Do you think that boy will be a Cantor all his life? LEE That boy’s career on the stage is ended. He’ll never come back. MARY He’s _got_ to come back. LEE [_Shrugs his shoulders_]. Well, I’m going. Better hurry, Mary. MARY [_Suddenly stops him_]. Wait— LEE What is that? MARY They are praying.... I want you to listen.... [LEE _comes over by_ MARY. _They stand silhouetted against the evening sky, a profile of radiance shed on them from the glowing window of the synagogue._] You are going to hear a blackface comedian singing to his God.... [_Now the choir can be heard in the noble strains of Kol Nidre._ LEE _and_ MARY _stand motionless._ JACK’s _voice rises, pouring forth in a flood of prayer; it subsides; rises again. Here is something of the same quality that he put, earlier that afternoon, into his cheap Mammy song._] Don’t you see, Harry, it’s in his blood.... He’ll _have_ to come back. LEE [_Slowly_]. I hope so. [_The wailing sing-song of the congregation beats in like the sound of surf; the choir’s rich harmonies rise again to the climax of Kol Nidre;_ JACK’s _voice, clear and passionate, poignantly tops them all as the curtain falls._] CURTAIN Transcriber’s Notes: Text Notes: 1. Italicized text is indicated with leading and trailing underscores. (_) 2. In order to facilitate word wrapping, ellipses in the middle of a sentence have been replaced with a group of three periods. This group has a leading and, unless a comma is present, trailing blank space added. Ellipses at the end of a sentence do not have a leading blank space, but closing punctuation has been added if needed. 3. Some text was silently italicized for consistency with other text. 4. Except as mentioned above and in the Change List that follows, every effort has been made to replicate text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard or inconsistently applied punctuation, inconsistently hyphenated words, and other idiosyncrasies. Change List (page numbers from original printed book):