Narrator Intro: WANTED: A CHAPERON talagang nag effort sila ng costume para sa

Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero mga viewers natin ngayon diyan sa FB live

CHARACTERS: (di na kasama) (All the Dj says Hi) So ayon all set na! Lights
DON FRANCISCO (the father) Camera Action
DOÑA PETRA (the mother)
NENA (their daughter) (insert background music na bago agad para

ROBERTING (their son) sa scene na to)

DOÑA DOLORES
FRED (her son) PETRA. (Calling). Francisco!

FRANCISCO (the servant) FRANCISCO. Ha?

PABLO (the mayordomo)
PETRA. I'm calling the servant!

DJ: (insert background music na FRANCISCO. Demontres with that Servant!

pangackground ng dj kapag nagsasalita) Having the same name as the owner of the
house!
Magandang magandang Morning sa inyong
lahat sa lahat, nakatutok pa rin kayo sa PETRA. I'm going to kick him out soon. He
broke your plate again.
105.5 FiliViiibe (mimiyuh’s tone). Sa mga
nakikinig diyan sa radio at sa mga nakatutok Narrtor: Francisco, the servant, enters. He
ngayon sa aming fb live just sit back and is a dark, tall, thin boy. He looks foolish and
is. He has his mouth open all the time.
enjoy. Oras na ngayon para sa ating
(insert bg music and sound effects)
#How’sYourFamily segment at nagkaroon
tayo ng itatampok mula sa request ni PETRA. Did you make that sign I told you?

Shaina Santosidad isa siyang fan at reader SERVANT. The one you told me to write:
ng ilang akda ni Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero "Wanted: a Muchacho?"
partikular na ang Wanted: A Chaperon to the
PETRA. (irritated). Yes, Don Francisco!
memory of Amalia B. Reyes published 1947. SERVANT. No, senora. I didn't make it yet.

Upang mapagtagumpayan ang pagsasagawa PETRA. Que estupido! Hala, go out and
make it immediately! (SERVANT goes out.)
nito sasamahan tayo ng ating mga co-DJ, closes door sound effects
ayan mag hi naman kayo sakanila at
FRANCISCO. Wait, where's Nena and so ROBERTING. Father, I couldn't get a taxi.
Nena went to the party last night without a (tantrums)
chaperon?
FRANCISCO. Your mother told you to take a
PETRA. Asleep in her room and yes but it jeepney.
was the first time.
ROBERTING. But I'm visiting my girlfriend!
FRANCISCO. Yes, I know, but imagine a
Filipino girl going to a party without a FRANCISCO. Visiting girls at this time of the
chaperon. day and as I remember you went to the
party last night unchaperoned?
PETRA. After all, she didn't go out with Fred
alone. She went with her best friends. PETRA. Does Roberting need a chaperon?

FRANCISCO. Yes, those two girls, since they FRANCISCO. I'm not talking about
arrived from abroad, our daughter learned Roberting! I'm talking about the girl he took
all the wrong things they learned from out!
those places.
ROBERTING. Yes, Father. I took Lia to the
PETRA. Don’t be unfair with her, she's party alone.
grown up!
FRANCISCO. You young modern people,
FRANCISCO. Chaperon may be Old- when I was courting your mother, her
fashioned, in some other civilized father, mother, her three sisters and two
countries. distant relatives sat in the sala with us?

PETRA. But isn't the Philippines civilized? ROBERTING. But why so many, Father?
Anyhow our women can take care of
themselves. But if the mind is trained, why, FRANCISCO Because in those days we were
the heart will be ruled by the mind. more careful about a woman's reputation.

FRANCISCO. No, Petra, if a person is ROBERTING. But that was those days and in
intellectual, it doesn't make' him moral. other countries -

PETRA (Exaggeratedly, just like a woman). FRANCISCO. The Philippines is different, my

Ay, you're so apprehensive, Francisco,. son. Our climate, our traditions, our innate
psychology-- all these make our people
(ROBERTING comes in.) insert sound effects different from foreigners.
agad
ROBERTING. But my girlfriend has studied
abroad. A Filipino girl can't easily change
her temperament. It is inborn. (A knock is (SERVANT goes out. PABLO, looking about,
heard.) insert sound effects agad gets one cigar-then a second--when about
to get a third, PETRA comes in.)
FRANCISCO. Somebody's at the door.
Francisc-er-Francis! Francis! PETRA. Good morning.

ROBERTING. Who's Francis? PABLO. It says "Wanted: A Muchacho." I'm

applying-
FRANCISCO. The servant. I gave him a new
name. Paquito! Francisquito! PETRA. You mean-you wish to be a
muchacho?
(insert footsteps agad)
PABLO. I wish you wouldn't be so insulting,
SERVANT. Yes, senorito. senora, but I want to be what they call in
Europe a mayordomo.
FRANCISCO. No, no, my son Roberting here
is the senorito, but I'm the senor! See who PETRA. And you wish to work here as a-er-
is knocking. as a mayordomo?

(SERVANT goes out. ROBERTING and PABLO. That's it!

FRANCISCO go to their rooms) insert sound
effects PETRA. What can you do?

NARRATOR: Presently SERVANT comes in, PABLO. I can watch the house when you're
followed by PABLO. out, accompany the children, if you have
any parties to attend I can even sing.
(He is a fat, dark fellow. He is all dressed
up-- wears a tie and everything He smokes PETRA. Okay then, I'll pay you eighty pesos.
a cigar.) including board and lodging.

SERVANT. whom do you want to see? PABLO (tuwang tuwa). All right! I'll take the
job!
PABLO. Who's the owner of the house?
Narrator: PETRA enters and arranges the
SERVANT. The senora, of course. chairs. NENA comes in. NENA is about
eighteen, and she's wearing a nice-looking
PABLO. Gago, then tell your senora I want Pair of slacks. She obviously has just risen
to see her! (irritated) from bed for she keeps yawning atrociously.
(insert sound effects)

NENA. Where’s the Sunday paper?

FRANCISCO. Wait a minute, Nena. Sit down. PETRA. Ah! So he is your son! We’re just
So you went to the party alone last night? I thinking he doesn't look a bit like you.
hope that’s the first and last time you go to
a party unchaperoned. DOLORES. Certainly not. He's the spitting
image of my third husband!
NENA. But there's nothing wrong, Father.
After all I’m an educated girl. (NENA yawns FRANCISCO. What can we do for you?
so desperately that she looks like an
acrobat. PETRA and FRANCISCO stare at DOLORES (Pointing to FRED). Ask him!
each other.)
PETRA What is it, Fred?
PETRA. Yes, Francisco. Can't you see she's
educated? (FRANCISCO gulps and wonders FRANCISCO. Nena! Nena! Roberting, call
if his wife is crazy. ROBERTING enters.) Nena! (ROBERTING goes out.)

FRANCISCO. Why are you here? (NENA, wearing a sports dress, comes in;
followed by ROBERTING) insert sound
ROBERTING. I couldn't hire a taxi. No effects na may pumasok
money.
DOLORES (Ominously). My son-and your
PETRA. I told you to take a jeepney. daughter-.

ROBERTIlNG. Anyhow Incidentally I met PETRA. What happened, Nena?

Fred's mother a short while ago.
NENA. Why. nothing, Mother and you know
NENA Did she say why she was coming? it! (pointing to Dolores)

ROBERTING. No.. But she seemed sore at DOLORES. Nothing. che! People saw them
me. In fact she seemed sort at you, too, come and go unchaperoned. You’ll say
Father. nothing happen? Imagine a girl going to a
party alone!
(Several knocks are heard.)
FRANCISCO. (Advancing). She was with your
DOLORES (Fanning herself vigorously). son, wasn't she?

FRANCISCO. So you wanted to see me and DOLORES. Unfortunately!

petra, oh and this is your son Fred, I
imagine. FRANCISCO. Then if my daughter was with
your son, what danger was there?
DOLORES. Don't imagine-He is my son!
DOLORES. People are talking about last (closes gate) insert sound effects
night-
NENA (Between sobs/umiiyak/ madramang
PETRA. But what happened? background music). Making all that fuss for
nothing! The truth is that I quarreled with
FRED. Nothing. nothing! (DOLORES notices Fred during the party and left him. But I
that the group's hostile eyes are fastened came home with Luding and Lolita. Fred's
on her) mother had been trying to interest me in
her son-that's why-he told his mother-and
FRANCISCO. (Approaching DOLORES). You —
mean to tell me you came here and raised
all this rumpus when nothing, absolutely FRANCISCO. Ay, hija mia, go in now and let
nothing, happened? this be a lesson to you.

DOLORES. Well! I wouldn't be too sure NENA Che! (walk out na padabog & slams
about absolutely nothing! Besides, I have to door insert sound effects)
very careful-about my beloved son's
upbringing. FRANCISCO. Incidentally, Roberting, I hope
nothing happened with you last night as
FRED. It's your fault Nena! you went out with Lia.

NENA. What do you mean my fault, ROBERTJNG. Yes, but nothing happened-- I
dumbbell! think.

FRED. I'd slap your face if I weren't a (The SERVANT is seen coming in from the
gentleman! corridor/ dahan dahang yapak ng paa insert
sound effects)
ROBERTING. I'll slap you even if Mother
says I'm no gentleman at times! SERVANT. Uhmm, am I still the servant
here, senora? (shy)
DOLORES. (To ROBERTING). Don't you dare
touch my son! Che! PETRA. Yes, I suppose we'll have to bear
with you for a while.
FRANCISCO. Mind your own business! Tell
your son to stop looking dumb! Get out of SERVANT. I won't have to put out the sign
here before I call the police! anymore-"Wanted A Muchacho"?

FRED. The police! Mama, the police! FRANCISCO. No! Make another and put
"Wanted: A Chaperon"!
DOLORES. We're going, che!
PETRA. Wanted a Chaperon?
FRANCISCO. Yes, for our daughter Nena.

PETRA. Que verguenza! I, her mother, will

chaperon Nena (She stares out the window.
She sees somebody coming.) wait,
Roberting! Roberting! (ROBERTING
appears.)

ROBERTING. What is it, Mother?

PETRA (Pointing outside). Isn't that your

girl-friend Lia?

ROBERTING. Why, yes?

PETRA. And who is that old man along with

her?

ROBERTING (Swallowing). That's-er-that's

her father and.. He's Carrying-a gun!!
(Running outside.) Tell them I'm out!

FRANCISCO. Ay, Petra! We need two

chaperons! Che! (PETRA stares at him.)