"Subtitles:" "Luís Filipe Bernardes" "1929, yes sir, that was quite a year." "Mister Hoover was President." "There was a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage." "That was the year that Admiral Byrd planted our flag over the South Pole." "But on other poles a new form of exercise was capturing the national fancy." "Flag pole sitters." "Remember?" "Bobby Jones lost the amateur title that year." "Gene Tunney made news by quoting Shakespeare." "And Red Grange was still a national item." "But the big heartthrob along the Middle West flapper circuit that year was an up and coming young band leader named Chuck Arnold." "His silver megaphone and golden smile rustled the pages of many a moonstruck diary from Kokomo, Indiana to Keokuk, Iowa." "And, on a certain September night, in Bloomington, Illinois," "# Can't sleep a wink. #" "# Can't seem to think. #" "# It's something I just can't explain. #" "# What is this hoodoo, this mystical voodoo... #" "# That's haunting and taunting my brain?" "#" "# Here's the rhythm, here's the doorway, I'll go my way, you go your way. #" "# Crazy rhythm, from now on, we're through. #" "# Here is where we have a showdown #" "# I'm too high hat, You're too lowdown #" "# Crazy rhythm, here's goodbye to you. #" "# They say that when a highbrow meets a lowbrow # # walking along Broadway #" "# Soon the highbrow, he has no brow #" "# Ain't it a shame and you're to blame #" "# What's the use of prohibition #" "# You produce the same condition #" "# Crazy rhythm, I'm goin' crazy too #" "Okay, kids." "Okay, this is it, this is what you're waiting for." "Somebody's big moment." "The lucky number drawing." "Hold your breath and hold your checks." "In just a minute we'll know who's got the lucky number." "The drawing tonight will feature my manager and brilliant arranger, from Green Perk, weighing 170 lb., mostly gristle," "Mr. Oscar Hoffman." "To think I gave up a concert career for this." "What a disgusting way of making a living." "If my old piano teacher should see me now... he'd turn over in his Turkish bath." "Draw, Oscar." "And the lucky number is..." "number 864." "864, who's got it?" "864, who's the lucky lady?" "Don't be bashful, step up!" "864." "I know somebody's got it." "Who's the lucky lady?" " What's your number, Peggy?" " 864." "That's it." "It's you!" "Here, here, she's got it." "Hey, she's got it!" "There she is." "Step this way, miss." "Well, fortune smiles on a lovely lady." "And your name, miss, is..." " Mayhew, Peggy." " Miss Peggy Mayhew." "Now, let's see what we have here." "First we have from Bahm's Department Store... one book of green trading stamps." "A little applause on that one, don't you think, fellas?" "And, from Brock's Drugstore, we have a jar of Blush Face Cream." "Smells like er..." "Smells like Blush Face Cream." "There you are." "That goes with it." "And from Weavel's Lingerie Shop, a very feminine little article here..." "Yes, very daring, very uh..." "Hm, yes, very." "There you are." "That does it." "How about that?" "Let's put these right over here." "I'll just put them on the piano." "Now, in honor of Miss Mayhew, the boys and I would like to do a special arrangement of a little tune titled 'You Were Meant for Me.'" "# You were meant for me #" "# I was meant for you #" "# Nature patterned you #" "# And when she was done #" "# You were all the sweet things #" "# Rolled up in one #" "# You're like a plaintive melody #" "# That never lets me free #" "# For I'm content #" "# The angels must have sent you #" "# And they meant you #" "# Just for me #" "You're beautiful you know it?" "Oh, thank you." "My folks will be pleased." "Can I have my hand back, please?" "Don't go yet." "How about a prize for me?" "Prize?" "Something to remember you by." "Wait a minute, baby." "You can't do that and then just walk out of my life." "Please, everybody's looking." "You should have thought of that before you kissed me." "Now I'm compromised." "Why don't we just talk this thing over?" "But I'm..." "I'm with a boy." " Ditch him." " Oh, I can't." "Well, point him out to me." "I'll ditch him." "No, please, you mustn't." "We'll probably go for chop suey after the dance." "It's Ah Sing's, on Main Street." "Where is that joint?" "Ah Sing's, on Main Street." "Chop Suey place, Ah Sing's." "# You're like a plaintive melody #" "Dreamy night, isn't it?" "Nothing personal." "# That never lets me free #" "Hey, Peggy!" "How do you like those swell prizes?" "When the heart is impetuous the head must be cautious." "Oh, Eddy, you're just making that up." "No, that's what it says." " I wonder who thinks up those things." " They're supposed to be sayings by Confucius." "They're sayings by the Hong Kong Noodle Company." "Well, look who's here." "The great Chuck Arnold in person." "Well, what do you think?" "What can I say after I say I'm sorry?" "How do you like the band?" "Unfortunately they're doing their best." "Shrimp with lobster sauce." "Lobster with shrimp sauce." "That seems fair enough." "Oh!" "Excuse me." "My!" "Well, this is a pleasant surprise." " Yes, isn't it?" " Must be my lucky day." " Mr. Arnold, these are my friends..." " Pleased to meet you." "Could I have this dance?" "That is, if your friends don't mind." "Oh, they don't mind." "I never saw a man so indifferent to women." "Hiya, beautiful." "A face that lost a thousand ships." "Don't the people in this town stand in the corners and just... wait for you to go by?" "That's big time rollers you've got there, baby." "Man, what goes on behind those baby blue eyes?" "They're hazel." "They're looking blue in this light." "They're the dangerous kind." "They change color with every dress you put on, I bet." "I don't know." "I've never studied them." "It's time somebody did." "I want to make a survey of the whole subject." "Come on, let's get out the back way." "Please, Chuck, I can't." "You're not gonna give me a sad story about that kid you're with, are you?" "He looks like something left over from a bum town rummage sale." "Don't say that." "He's nice, and he's loyal... and he's waited a whole month to take me out tonight." "I'd wait a month, too, only I can't." "I've got a calendar by the tail." "I'm sorry, but I just can't." " You mean you really don't want to." " Oh, I do." "Maybe more than you do." "It's just that..." "Oh, I can't walk out on Roy." "It's not fair." "Suppose you let him take you home." "Could I meet you somewhere afterwards?" "It would be too late." "You sure make things difficult." "It's not me." "It's different for you, Chuck." "You'll go away tomorrow." "Probably never even come back to Bloomington again." "But I have to live here." "With my family and my friends." "You mean this is it?" "I just don't see you again." "I don't see how." "Not unless the committee votes to have play at the dance again next year." "Chuck, I'd really better be getting back to the table." "I wouldn't want them to feel hurt." " Them?" "How about me?" " Oh, you'll get over it." "You know, another town, another lucky number." "Will I?" "Won't you?" "Look, we play Peoria tomorrow night." "It's close by." "Why don't you come over there?" "Alone." "I'll try." "I don't know, I..." "I just got to get back to the people." "Golly, Roy." "I'm sorry if I embarrassed you." "Gee whiz, did you have to kiss him, Peggy?" "On the bandstand, right in front of everybody." "I didn't mean to." "Something just came over me, I..." "I couldn't help it." "Funny it never comes over you when I'm around." "No, that's true, Roy." "Well, good night." "I had a lovely evening." " Thank you very much." " Don't mention it." "Roy... if uh... if you'd like to kiss me..." "Gee, Peggy." "Good night, Peggy." "Good night, Roy." "No voltage." "I understand we're quite the celebrities in town today." "Oh, mother, don't start that again." "I don't know." "Somehow it seems to me every time you go to see Clara Bow you get into trouble." "What happened, princess?" "Your daughter made quite a spectacle of herself last night." "Oh, mother, you're just making a big fuss over nothing." "Nothing?" "In my day kissing the conductor was hardly considered nothing." "Conductor?" "On what line?" "Oh, Dad!" "Chuck Arnold merely happens to be the most popular band leader in the country." "I don't care if he's John Philip Souza." "Kissing a man in public is something nice girls don't do." "Mother, sometimes I think you're still living in the moles' decade. ?" "From the way you young people carry on" "I'm glad I'm not living today." "I'll get it." "Hello!" "Oh, yes, Mrs. Hauser." "Yes." "No, we've finished." "Hm-hmm." "All right, I'll tell her." "Goodbye" "It was Mrs. Hauser, Mom." "She said the meeting's all ready to start." "Don't worry about the dishes, Mom, I'll take care of them." "Why, thank you, dear." "This is very sweet of you." " Are you sure you're feeling all right?" " I feel fine." "Now run along." "Have a nice evening." " Bye-bye." " Oh, Andrew." "You might take your nose out of those stamp albums long enough to help Peggy dry the dishes." "Not at all, my dear." "You run along and enjoy yourself." "It wouldn't hurt you to get to bed early tonight." "You were up very late last night." "Yes, Mother." "Good bye, dear." "Well, the dishes are all done, Dad." "I think I'll go out for a while." "Hm?" "I said I think I'll go out for a while." "Oh..." "Well, where to?" "Just to the bus station." "What for?" "I'm going to Peoria." "Oh, that's nice." "Peoria?" "One, please." "Somebody with you, young lady?" "Well, no." "I'm alone." "I'm sorry, but we don't admit ladies without escorts." "Well, you see, Chuck..." "Mr. Arnold's expecting me." "I know." "He's expecting a lot of people." "But I can't let you in without an escort." "Sorry, that's the rule." " Oh, hello!" " Hello." "You get around, don't you?" "Would you do me a favor?" " What, for instance?" " Would you take a note to Mr. Arnold?" "Mr. Arnold doesn't read very well." "Oh, Please." "Okay, but you'd be better off at home with a good book." "Even a bad book." "You look like an intelligent girl." "Why don't you take in a nice right movie?" "They're playing Midnight Madness with Clive Brook right down the block." "Please." "I came all the way from Bloomington." "Okay." "I'll deliver it right after this set." "You'd better wait outside." "Young America." "All the way from Bloomington." "You know what?" "I'm gonna do that kid a favor." "Save the looks." "I've got a hot copy of Spinoza's ethics up in my room." "All she'd ever get out of Arnold is a one night stand and a big hangover." "She's a nice kid." "She doesn't look the part." "Could be your sister... if you were better looking." "Oscar said we set another house record tonight." "What do you say about that, Chuck?" "Yeah, Chucky boy is blasé about house records." "Chucky Boy is all hot and bothered about that corn-fed Desdemona..." " ...that didn't show up." " Yeah." "Hey, what about a hot cup of coffee?" "Hello, beautiful." " You look like a mouthful of sunshine." " I feel like a wet dish rag." "Did something go wrong at home?" "I thought you weren't coming." "I've been here all evening." "I'm waiting for a bus." "Why were you waiting for a bus?" " They wouldn't let me in without an escort." " Why didn't you let me know?" "I did!" "I sent you a note." "I didn't get any note." "Oh, Oscar." "Oh, gee, I'm sorry, honey." "I'll make it up to you." " Would you like something to eat?" " I can't." "I've got to get home." "The last bus is due any minute." "You're not gonna start that line again, will you?" "You just got here." "I mean, I just got here." "I'm sorry, but I'll get it as it is for staying out this late." "There's my bus now!" "My bus!" "It's gone." "Don't worry, baby." "I'll get you home." "You'll have a bus all for yourself." "Oh, I don't care." "Chuck, I thought I was never going to see you again." "How do you think I felt?" "Come on, honey." "We got a lot of time to make up for." "I think I'd better call home then." "They'll be worried about me." "There's a drugstore right over here." "This is it." "It's called the Inspiration Point." "We come here on picnics." "Aw, and I forgot the marshmallows." "Do you care?" "It's beautiful, isn't it?" "Yeah, beautiful." "Peggy, what a face." "You always talk about my face." "Anybody can have a face." "Not like yours they can't." "Your hands are cold." "And you're shivering." "It's nothing." "I just got a little chill." "Do you have any hooch?" " Any what?" " Hooch, you know, whiskey." "Yeah, I know." "Just sounded kinda funny coming from you." " Why?" " I don't know." "Guess you're not the hooch type." "Anyway, it's kind of a funny word, hooch." "Hey, take it easy." "That stuff packs a wallop." "It is strong, isn't it?" " Is it just off the boat?" " Yeah, scraped off." "Then I add a little wood alcohol and some extract of apricot." "That's powerful, isn't it?" "Nah, not for an old-timer like you." "Take another slug." "Come on, button your eye." "Button your eye." "What an act!" "You never had a drink before in your life, did you?" " Uh-hum." " Then what's the idea of starting with me?" "Who are you trying to kid?" "I'm just trying to be a good sport, Chuck." "That's what you want, isn't it?" "How do you know what I want?" "Maybe that's just what I don't want." "Baby, I've had enough good sports to last me the rest of my life." "Maybe I'd like a girl that slaps a guy's face when he gets fresh." "What makes you think you know what I want?" "Your manager even tried to warn me off..." "Oh, that's fine." "Great." "What am I supposed to be, Svengali or Blue Beard?" "You're supposed to be Prince Charming," "And you might try being a little more charming." "You might try using your bean." "You're gonna get yourself in a lot of trouble... trying to act like a red-hot mama." " You're just a kid." " I know what I'm doing." "That's what you think." "Suppose I was somebody else tonight." "Suppose I..." "But you're not somebody else, Chuck." "That's why I'm here." "You're a funny kid, Peggy." "I'm dippy about you." "I'm dippy about you too, Chuck." "I have been for a long time." "Oh, Chuck, I love you." "Whatever happens tonight or afterwards..." "I'll always be glad just being with you." "That's fine." "But I'm taking you home." "Andrew, get up!" "Huh?" "Peggy, is she home?" "She's downstairs on the sofa asleep with a man." " A man?" "What man?" " How should I know?" "Oh, a stranger." " Say, Cora..." " Will you get up!" "And come downstairs and stop acting like an idiot." "Yes, of course, right away." "Maybe someone from Peoria." "Don't just stand there!" "Do something!" "So sound asleep." "They must have come in very late." "Wake up!" "Young man!" " Hm..." " Young man, wake up!" "Hello, mother." "Dad." "Oh..." "Oh." "Peggy, I want to know the meaning of this at once." "There's no hurry, Cora." "Yes, mother." "This is Chuck." "Chuck Arnold." "We were going to a hotel for the night, but I thought you might worry." "Oh, I forgot to tell you." " Chuck and I were married last night." " Oh!" "Oh... married." "This is kind of sudden, for instance." "Yes, I know, Dad." "It did all happen sort of suddenly." "It happened kinda sudden to me too but I seem to be a lot happier about it." "It's not that we're not happy, it's just that..." "I guess we'd all be a lot happier if we had some breakfast, huh?" "That's a good idea..." "Pop" "Now, Cora, we got married once ourselves." "It didn't seem to do us much harm." "I'm not saying it did do anybody any harm." "But I have a right to cry at my own daughter's wedding, haven't I?" "Mrs. Mayhew, I know we didn't do this thing according to file... but we couldn't, see, we didn't have time." "Believe me, I love Peggy." "Right down to my shoes." "Which one?" "Oh..." "I'll make some coffee." "Peggy, you can go down and get out one of those jars of plum preserves we put up last year." "And Andrew, take Chuck upstairs and show him where he can wash." "And don't detour him to those stamp albums." "Run along, son." "What's the idea, Chuck, where have you been?" "Eleven o'clock." "We've got time to burn." "Boys, I want you to meet Peggy." "Peggy, this is Billy, Boss, trombone," "Tiny, bass, Joe, second trombone, Harry, piano... and all the rest of them double on the hot comb." "You know him, this is Oscar, our manager." "Rigged my stuff two hours ago." " Hey, ditch the babe, will you?" " Quiet!" "Come on, boys, let's get started." "We gotta play Tahoe tonight." "It's all right, we're gonna make it." "Say, Harry, do you know what happened to my horns?" " They're up on top." " Pull over, will you, Tiny." " What's the idea, this is my seat." " I know, but just pull over." "Come on, step back here." "Look, sister, we gotta get going." "Haven't you got a home?" "I forgot to tell you." "Peggy's coming with us." " Oh, no, you're kidding." " Yeah, we got married last night." "Well, isn't anybody gonna say anything?" "They'd better not." "# I'm content # # the angels must have sent you # # and they meant you just for me. #" "# This old world was just a sadder place for me as could be #" "# I was lonely and blue. #" "# This old world then changed to paradise for me, suddenly. #" "# Why, because I met you. #" "# Although wealth and power I may never find, # # still, as long as I have you here, I won't mind, # # for... #" "# I'll get by # # as long as I have you. #" "# though there be rain #" "Getting impatient?" "Oh, no." "I could watch him all night." "This is fun." " You like it?" " I adore it." "Crowds, dancing." "It's like being in a party every night." "Who could ask for anything more?" "You're a lucky girl, Peggy." "It's gonna be one great party, night after night, after night." "# ...may come to me, that's true #" "# But what can I say?" "#" "# I'll get by # as long as I # # have you. #" "# Yes, I'll get by # # as long as I # # have you. #" " Hold it steady." " Salami?" "I wouldn't eat salami if you paid me." " 752!" " I got it!" "There's a winner right there." "Step this way." "The young America." "History in the making." "You don't have to stand here and watch this gruesome display of individualism." "You're such a big faker, Oscar." "You know you love it." "Love it?" "Sure." "Red hot mamas and their fat house sugar daddies." "Hot shots with hip flasks passing out in the men's room." "Music that has all the charms of a rubber plunger in a tub of sour milk." "You know what , if it was me, I'd rather be married to a plumber." "I think it would be more fun that way." "Maybe." "But I didn't fall in love with a plumber." "I fell in love with Chuck." "Do you mind if I fall in love with you a little?" " In a nice way, of course." " Why, Oscar, what a sweet thing to say." "Okay, don't rub it in." "It was a moment of unbridled sentiment." "You're so funny." "You're really an awfully sweet person." "Just so afraid of letting people find it out." "Why?" "Sometime I'll tell you the story of my life." "It's short, but dull." "Eventually?" "Why not now?" "Because your husband doesn't pay me to sit around and spin my autobiography." "I gotta go and shovel some gaggle sticks." "I still think you'd be better off in a movie." "They're playing 'Forbidden Hours', with Ramon Novarro, down the block." "Hey, here's another plug for us this week." "'Arnold Combo sets new house record." "Chuck Arnold and his Sophisticates garnering top grosses on the Midwest flapper circuit.'" " Pretty good, huh?" " It's wonderful, Chuck." " Pretty soon you'll be on the front page." "Pretty soon you'll be buying clothes at Hattie Carnegie's." "What clothes?" "You've bought me everything I could possibly use for the next five years." "I don't know." "How about a nice hunk of mink to snuggle into in one of those chilly New York afternoons?" "Chuck!" "Are we going to New York?" "Yeah, we're going to New York." "Why didn't you tell me?" "When?" "We're booked into the Pennsylvania Roof right after the 1st of the year." " Oh, Pennsylvania Roof, honestly?" " The deal's practically wrapped up." "Except for a few little details Oscar's working out." "Darling, I get all excited just thinking about it." " Will you write in a hotel?" " If you want to." "Twenty floors up." "I'll buy you a little bean blower." "You can shoot out all the lights in Herald Square just for laughs." "The Pennsylvania Roof, now playing Chuck Arnold..." "No, Chuck Arnold, now playing in the Pennsylvania Roof." "Oh, darling, I can see it now." "Won't that be something for the kids back home?" "Darling, did you see this?" "Oh, yeah." "Looks like the bucket shops are really having themselves a brawl, doesn't it?" " That reminds me." " Chuck, is it anything bad?" "Not if you're a bear." "What are we?" "Well, I think at the moment we're a little bullish." "Get me Mr. Hoffman's room." "I'm just going to check with Oscar." "Oscar, hey, listen did you talk to New York about Amalgamated Wire?" "No fooling, how much more do they want?" "Oh..." "Well, send it to them." "Sure, sure, don't let them spring us." "It's just a little flimflam to shake out the suckers." "Quit worrying." "We've done alright up to now, haven't we?" "Okay, well get on it." "Anything wrong?" "Naw, just a little flooring of the market." "Don't give it a thought, honey." "I'm way ahead of them." "Come on, Peg." "Your old man's gotta get to work." "Get me one of those number 4 smiles out of the bottom drawer, will you?" "I think those kids are gonna be kinda tough tonight." "Chuck, you go ahead." "Don't wait for me." "Yeah, I'll go ahead, I won't wait..." "What do you mean, don't wait for you?" "I have to finish my letter, and get dressed and..." " I'll be down later." " Okay, but... don't write a book, will you?" " Would you get me my hat?" " Hm-hmm." "# I could be a king, dear, uncrowned #" "# Humble or poor, rich or renowned #" "# There is nothin' I couldn't do #" "# If I had you #" " Hm!" " Do I look nice, Oscar?" "Like Tiffany's window." "Something special?" " It's our anniversary." " No fooling." "Hm-hmm." "Two months." "Well, what do you know." "Through good times and bad." " And you still love each other." " More than ever." "His nibs, the idol of jazz age, America's charm boy, your old man, does he know about this?" "Not yet." "But will you take him a note?" " Do you think you can trust me?" " I think so." "We know each other a little better than we did two months ago." "You said a mouthful, baby." "If I knew then what I know now," "I would have written a note about you myself." "# Good night, sweetheart # # till we meet tomorrow #" "# Good night, sweetheart # # sleep will banish sorrow #" "# Dreams enfold you # # and in each one I'll hold you #" "# Good night, sweetheart #" "# Good night. #" " Hey, Oscar." "How's the take?" " Moving on the record." "Hello, beautiful." "You know, I ordered a diamond tiara, it just didn't come." "I'll forgive you, darling, if you don't forget our golden anniversary." "This calls for a celebration." "Let me get the boys, we'll all..." "Darling." "Couldn't we go dancing alone?" "Just the two of us." "Sure." "I know just the place." "Somebody gave me a card, let me see..." "I know I got it here." "Dear Chucky boy..." "No." "The Blue Goose on Highway 66." "Dining and dancing till 4 a.m. How does that sound?" " Darling, I'd adore it." " What are we waiting for?" "Hold it, boys." "Don't put 'em away yet!" "There's gold in them that frills." "How are ya, Arnold." "You remember me, Harry Jarvis." "Mills Publishing Company." "Mills will make you millions." "It's the biggest thing to hit the boards since Firpo bumped into Dempsey." "and it's just your style, right down your alley." "And this is not a stock, it's a special and just for you." "When I told the arranger I was coming down here, he opened up one of his veins and wrote it with his heart's blood." "Pure alcohol." "How are you, Oscar, glad to see ya." "You're gonna love this number, it's terrific." "You know, the trouble with us is... our book is loaded with ballads." "Now..." "If we had a..." "I'll tell you." "You remember a tune we do called 'Crazy Rhythm'?" "This is 'Crazy Rhythm', it's the same thing." "Look, Arnold, you haven't had a new number in a dog's age." " Why don't you give it a try?" " Sure... sure..." "Let's take all the parts." "Harry, on the piano." "What's a good tempo for this?" "With a tune like this it doesn't make any difference." "Fast, slow, loud, soft, doesn't..." " Go ahead, Harry, give it to him." " Harry, do it like this." " One, two..." " That's good." "# No one to talk with, all by myself #" "# No one to walk with, I'm happy on the shelf #" "# Ain't misbehavin', I'm savin' my love for you. #" "# I know for certain, the one I love #" "# I'm through with flirting', it's you that I'm thinkin' of #" "# Ain't misbehavin', I'm savin' my love for you #" "Honey, I'll be with you in just one second." "# Like Jack Horner in the corner #" "# No one to talk with, all by myself #" "# No one to walk with, I'm happy on the shelf #" "# Ain't misbehavin, I'm savin' all my love for you. #" "# I know for certain # # the one I love #" "# I'm through with flirting', it's you I'm thinkin' of #" "# Ain't misbehavin, I'm savin' all my love for you. #" "# Like Jack Horner in the corner Don't go nowhere, what do I care?" "#" "# Your kisses are worthwhile waiting' for, believe me. #" "# I don't go out late, don't care to go #" "# I'm home about eight, me and my radio #" "# Ain't misbehavin, I'm savin' all my love for you. #" "# Ain't misbehavin, 'cause I'm savin' all my love... # # yes, I'm slaving' and a-ravin', even waving back goodbye #" "# Ain't celebrating' cause I want to keep a rating' # # by behaving' to be datin', can't forget my baby waiting' #" "# Like Jack Horner in the corner, don't go nowhere, what do I care?" "#" "# Your kisses are worthwhile waiting' for, One, two, three, four #" "# Believe me. #" "# Ain't foolin' around, tearing all over town, # like a hound dog, I'm bound to get found. #" "# Don't go out late, Don't better go out #" "# Oh, believe me, baby #" "# I swear to heaven I'm savin' all my love for #" "# Who?" "You!" "#" "# I am, savin' # # all my love for you!" "#" "Great, Arnold, you were terrific!" "You're gonna make a great wreck with that tune." "Thank you, fellas, that was wonderful." "Harry, put it in the book." "We'll play it just that way." " How did you like it, Oscar?" " Grand!" "You're gonna make a big wreck with your wife too." " Really?" "Did she like it?" " She loves it." "She's dippy about it." " Really?" "Where is she?" " Right over there." "Isn't that sweet?" "She's sleeping just like a little kid." "She's not a little kid." "She's a woman." "And you married her, remember?" " Chucky boy." "The eternal bachelor." " What's eating you?" "I heard you say you were gonna take her dancing at 12 o'clock." " It's a quarter to three now." " You're kidding." "Let me get my hat and coat." "I'll see ya." "Wake up, honey." "I wasn't asleep." "I just had my eyes closed." "It's a good idea." "Keeps the dust out of them." "I'm awful sorry, honey." "But we got started and I think I..." "That's alright, darling." "I know you have to keep up with the new tunes." " What time is it?" " It's a quarter of three." "We can still go out there." "They're open till four." "Let's make it some other night." "Don't look so guilty, darling." "Just like Oscar said, if I wanted to go dancing," "I should have married a plumber." "He's quite a philosopher, Oscar." "What did you say?" "I said I didn't fall in love with a plumber, I fell in love with you." "You see, I'm quite a philosopher too." "Oh!" "Peggy." "Peggy, what's the matter?" "Nothing." "Honey, what is it?" "Nothing, I guess I'm just tired." "It's alright, I'm just being silly, really." "Come on, no secrets." "Tell me, what's the matter?" "I..." "I guess I'm just lonely." "Miss your folks, huh?" "I miss you, Chuck." "Me?" "Honey, we're together practically 24 hours a day." "Yes, we're together all the time." "All that separates us is a bandstand and a million girls in party dresses." "Darling, I never even get to talk to you." "When you're not playing, you're rehearsing, and when you're not rehearsing, you're talking to Oscar or the boys." "When I'm awake, you're asleep." "and when I'm ready for bed, you want to go out for chop suey or something." "By that time I'm so sleepy I don't know what you're talking about." "Gee, honey, I never realized, but... playing and rehearsing, that's my job." "Oh, I know." "I'm not blaming you." "I..." "I guess I just had a different idea of how it would be, married to you." "What do you want it to be like?" "You want me to quit?" " Be a plumber?" " You know I wouldn't want that." "But if only we could be together sometimes." "Go for a walk, or for a ride, or on a picnic, just the two of us." "Not just..." "Oh, I'm sorry," " I'm just being a baby." " No, honey..." "I'm the one that's been a baby." "A spoiled brat." "Oscar's right, as usual." "He says I want all the privileges of marriage with all the prerogatives of bachelorhood." "Does that mean you don't care about spending time with your wife?" "You wait, baby." "I'll prove to you how different it can be." "It's just this crazy routine, batting around in the country." "Do you realize we spend half our lives in that darn bus?" "Wait till we get settled in New York in a place of our own we can get used to." "No more hopping from one fleabag to the next." "We'll have all day to ourselves and Sundays we'll go places together and do things." "You'll see." "You'll have to think up excuses to get rid of me so you can have an afternoon for yourself." "Oh, Chuck, that sounds like heaven." "And I'm not waiting for New York." "I'm turning over a new leaf right now." "Let's see." "We play East Saint Louis tomorrow..." "I'll call Oscar and have him make plans so we can spend all day Sunday in Des Moines." "That's on a river, we'll hire a boat and go out to one of those islands and spend the whole day." " How does that sound for a start?" " Oh, darling, you're wonderful." " Won't you have another hard-boiled egg?" " I don't mind if I do." "Being out in the air like this certainly does give one an appetite, doesn't it?" "Don't you think you'd better put a little more cocoa butter on your nose?" "I think not." "The sun doesn't seem quite so strong now." "We could go wading." "I know, I'll teach you to swim." "Oh, no, you might get fresh." "Oh, look!" "Flowers in November." " What a lovely spot." " Yes, it's full of spots." "Where is your imagination?" "We're miles from civilization." "I've run out of all the handy quotations and now I'm getting down to brass tacks." "Come in." "Excuse me." "I must be in the wrong tenement." "Come on in, Oscar, we're just having a little picnic." "Yeah, I guess it has been." "Up till now." "What's eating you?" "I'd better come back later." "These scenes of domestic bliss upset my metabolism." "You'd better get used to it, cause it's gonna get worse and worse as the years go by." "Anyway, I've no secrets from my wife." "I see calamity on your face, so speak up, old man." "Which of our selections ran out of what money for how much and where?" " Here." "You can see for yourself." " Excuse me, honey." " Want a sandwich?" " No, thank you." " I don't believe it." " What is it, Chuck?" "Nothing, honey, it's just business." "When did you get this?" "Just picked it up at the desk." "It was there waiting for us." "Along with a few other items of interest." "I don't get it." "I thought this was all set." " So did I." " But, darling, what is it?" "Please don't be so mysterious." "It's nothing important, honey." "It's just a little change in itinerary." "We'll probably be on the road a little longer, huh, Oscar?" "Yeah, yeah." "Well, I'd better leave you two love birds alone." " You can go back to your... picnic." " Yeah, thanks." "Oh, yeah, our picnic." "Where's that egg I had..." " Darling." " Hm?" "That was beautiful." "It made me cry." "Makes my father cry, too when he thinks of all the money he threw away on my lessons." "You play so beautifully." "I wonder why you always act as if you were ashamed of it." "Because I hate amateurs." "I'm an all or nothing guy." "I wanted to be Rachmaninoff and the job was filled." "Now you know the story of my life." "But you didn't come up here to talk about me." "What's on your mind?" " I'm worried, Oscar." " What about?" "About what was really in that telegram." "Alright, I'll tell you." "The Pennsylvania deal's off." " Caput." " Oh, no, Oscar." "Yeah, that's what I always say." "A bunch of sharp operators in Wall Street get themselves tangled up in ticker tape so, Chuck Arnold can't play the Pennsylvania Roof." "Figure out the square root of that one." "Well, the Pennsylvania is not the only hotel in New York." "It's not just the Pennsylvania." "It's all the hotels, and the nightspots and the dance floors." "People aren't going to stop dancing overnight just because there's been a crash in the stock market." "Oh, no?" "Take a look at these." "Cancellations." "They've been coming in all week." "The tour's falling apart." "Does Chuck know about these, too?" "I don't want to spring everything on him all at once." "What's happened, Oscar?" "I heard Chuck say that..." "You heard him say I should send the broker more margin." "Well, I did." "That went down the drain with all the rest." "Chuck's more or less broke, Peggy." "That's the long and short of it." "I suppose I've done my share, letting him buy me so many things." "It's funny..." "I thought all Chuck ever had to do for money was to say, 'Hey, Oscar'." "I know what you're thinking." "Young America." "Well, never mind." "Young America isn't made out of match sticks." "You know what I'm really thinking?" "What a break it is for Chuck he's hooked up with someone like you right now." "Chuck's a funny guy." "He talks a good game." "Confident, carefree, good-time Charlie on the outside, but inside he's a sensitive guy with a pride that's made out of eggshell china." "He's a real artist in his own way." "You mean at making music that sounds like a rubber plunger in a tub of sour milk?" "I got a right to make jokes like that." "I've been with this outfit a long time." "You know what it means to take a bunch of tin ears and put them into a top flight musical organization that plays together, like they were getting their signals by Morse Code?" "You know what kind of guts, talent, imagination, the sweat it takes to put yourself across the way Chuck has?" "Never mind, Oscar." "We'll put Humpty Dumpty together again." "And it won't be with ticker tape either." "Only where do we begin?" "Well, there's nothing to do now but call off the rest of the tour, go back to New York and wait for the wind to die down." "What are you thinking about." "I was just wondering." "Maybe it would be better for Chuck and me to go home for a while." "Wait there for the wind to die down." "I'd feel a lot safer somehow, than 20 floors up over Herald Square." "I was hoping you'd think that way." "New York was sort of a wedding present Chuck was saving for me." "If things are as bad as you say... it's the last place we ought to be right now." "You're a pretty smart girl, Peggy." "But how are you gonna manage Chuck?" "He's kind of a stubborn guy." "I'll handle Chuck alright." "Don't worry." "Worry?" "I stopped worrying about you two a long time ago." "You're gonna be okay." "Yes sir, you're gonna be okay." " Why did you do that?" " Because you're sweet, and I love you." "This stock market crash is giving everyone the heebie jeebies." "It'll blow over." "Things will settle down in a couple of weeks, then we'll get together and line up another tour." "A bigger and better one." "Maybe add a couple of pieces." "Yeah, like a few harps." "Well, I guess that's about all." "Oh, except that I'm wanking up what's left in the till even steven." "That'll give each of the boys about $250 apiece." "When you get it split up bring it up here because I want to give it to them personally." "You don't have to be such a big shot about the dough." "You're a married man now." "You're entitled to be a little more conservative." "That's alright, Oscar." "Chuck's handling it just the way I want him to." "You better get the railroad tickets." "Oh, Oscar, we gotta get rid of that bus." "Think you can find a secondhand dealer in this town to take it off our hands?" "Darling, I've been thinking." "Why don't we go in the bus?" " Just you and I" " Sure, that's the solution." "She's..." "Honey, you're kidding." " No, really." "I think it would be fun." "We could take our time." "There'll be just the two of us... we could go on picnics along the way." "It'd be sort of like a honeymoon, darling." "Don't you think, Oscar?" "Yeah, just like a honeymoon." "Well, you kids talk it over and let me know what you decide." "Oh, we've decided." "We're going in the bus, aren't we, darling?" "Well, don't just stand there." "You heard me... er... us." " Where are we going, darling?" " Slight change in course." "With any kind of a stiff breeze we oughta raise Bloomington in a week." "Oh, darling, you're wonderful." "And it will save us a lot of money." "Now wait a minute, Let's get this straight." "We're going to Bloomington so you can see your folks, not so we can save money." "Yes, darling." " Chuck." " Hm?" "You know, I've been thinking." "You are sort of impractical about money." "Do you think it would be a good idea if I managed our finances on this trip?" "I mean, I am pretty good at it." "I got an A in algebra." " Of course, if you'd rather not..." " Darling, yes, I'd rather." "Leave in my Union Card, will ya?" " Well now, if you're going to..." " I was only kidding." "Boy, oh boy, the way a dame inches in up on a guy." "But these are my real treasure." "The 1861 1 cent blues." "Of course, they're not too rare in themselves, you understand, but... these are especially valuable specimens." "Very light, you see." "They sure don't weigh much, do they?" "Oh, no, no, it's the color, the shade." "Many collectors specialize in shades." "Shades and perforations." "But, of course, if you look closely, you'll notice the slight depressions." "That's because it's intaglio, you see?" "Hm, it's because it's intaglio." "Mother, look at them." "The paler the blue, especially in the peripheral area, the greater the value." "Now, for some reason, in Tasmanian greens, it's just the other way around." "You know, Chuck's going to turn out to be just like Dad." "Will you look at him, Mother, he's having the time of his life." " What'll you have, Chuck?" " Lemon frost for me, Eddie." "Peggy, I've been looking for you all evening." "Are you gonna be here for the jamboree next month?" "Well, I'm not sure, Louise." "You see, our manager..." "No, I just got a line from him this morning." "As a matter of fact they want us to go in to the Flamingo Room in Miami, in January." "Gee, Peggy, are you going to spend the winter in Miami?" "Well, naturally, if Chuck goes, I go." "Oh, sure, we'll probably go on to France, you know, play a couple of weeks in Paris, and then on to Vienna." "Have you ever been in Vienna?" "Beautiful Vienna in the spring?" "So beautiful with the sidewalk cafés, and the little oompah bands playing there." "You know there's only one thing they like in Vienna better than a Strauss waltz and that's a waltz by Strauss." "And the beautiful ladies go clicking up the street this way, and the beautiful horses come clopping down the street this way, and between the clicking and the clopping there's something." "Hey, Chuck, ain't she sweet?" " Oh, no, not that again." " Come on, Chuck, like we did last Saturday." "With all that jumping around?" "# Ain't she sweet?" "#" "# See her coming down the street #" "# Now I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet?" "#" "# Ain't she nice?" "#" "# Look her over once or twice #" "# Now I ask you very confidentially, ain't she nice?" "#" "# Just cast an eye in her direction #" "# Oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection?" "#" "# Perfection. #" "# I repeat, don't you think that's kind of neat?" "#" "# Now I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet?" "#" "# Ain't she sweet?" "#" "# Ain't she sweet?" "#" "# Just cast an eye in her direction. #" "# Oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection?" "#" "# Perfection #" "# I repeat, don't you think that's kind of neat?" "#" "# Now I ask you very confidentially, ain't she sweet?" "#" "# Just cast an eye in her direction #" "# Oh me, oh my, ain't that perfection?" "#" "# I repeat, don't you think that's kind of neat?" "#" "# Now I ask you very confidentially, # # ain't she sweet?" "#" "Too sweet." "Give me some money, hon." "It's our last one." "Sure like to have one of those records, Chuck." "It's really not one of our best." "The guy we had playing at our clarinet was limping all over his obbligato." "Hey, Eddie, this'll take care of the sodas and I want each of the kids to have a copy of that record." "We gotta go." "We'll see you again some..." "Will you autograph this for me, Chuck?" "Sure, anytime, bring it around the house, honey." "Good night." "Seeya kids." "Chuck, that was kind of crazy, wasn't it?" "Twenty dollars!" "Why?" "Figure it out." "I buy these kids $20 worth of records, they take them home, play them for their friends, their friends go out and buy $500 worth of records." "That's simple arithmetic." "Yes, but friends have any money?" "You mean everybody in the country's gone broke?" "Nobody's gonna buy any records anymore?" "I don't know about everybody, but I do know about us." "Darling, that was our last $20." "All that talk about Florida and Paris in the spring." "It sounds so show off." "Even if it were true." "It is true." "Anyway, it could be true." "Trouble is, honey, you don't understand." "The band business could change just like that." "And we'd be on our merry way, riding high." "The main thing is you can't let down." "People get the notion that you've hit the skids, then you're really through." "You seem to think that our only problem is to keep up a front." "You seem to forget, darling, we got to live behind that front, buy clothes, pay bills." "Oh, honey, you worry too much." "I spent some of the best years of my life in hock." "Chuck, will you talk sense for a minute, just one minute." "We've been home five weeks now." "We've got to take stock of ourselves." "Figure out how we're going to get along." "Darling, our money is gone." "With nothing coming in." "Who says nothing coming in?" "Told you I'd be hearing from New York any day now, didn't I?" "Come here." "Take a look at that." "$278,00!" " Where from?" " Royalties." "Famous records company." " Quarterly accounting." " $278,00." "We're rich!" "Like I told you." "I've got resources." "Now will you quit doubting your husband and let me handle these things?" "Oh, darling, I never doubted you." "It's just that one of us has to be a little practical." "Alright, I'll tell you what to do." "From now on, you be practical... and I'll be beautiful." "Alright?" "Taking him his breakfast again, I suppose." "Look, mother, Chuck is my husband." "And if he wants to sleep late, and I want to bring him his breakfast, it's nobody's concern but ours." "Well, you needn't bite my head off." "Dear, take a jar of this plum jelly." "Chuck likes that." "Oh, I'm sorry, Mother." "But honestly, I'm getting sick and tired of people in this town acting as if Chuck were..." "Well, I don't know, some freak or something." "Just because he likes to sleep late." "Why shouldn't he?" "He's always done it." "His rhythm's different from ordinary people." "If it was my husband, he'd change his rhythm to just plain march time." "Honestly, dear, don't you think you'd both feel better if..." "Chuck was occupied with something?" "Well, I mean, while he's waiting?" "Mother, you seem to forget." "Chuck is a very important person in his field." "I can't have him frightened or bullied into doing just anything." "Something's bound to turn up sooner or later, even if times are bad." "Meanwhile, thank goodness, they're still buying his records." "I'll have some money for you this afternoon." "My goodness." "We're terribly touchy today." " Hey!" " Come on, darling." "Get up." " What time is it?" " Lunch time." "I brought your breakfast." " Here, you lazy, shapeless, cake eater." " I think you're cute, too." " Come on, give me a kiss." " Hm-hmm." " Oh, come on." "Mother says I spoil you." "And I think she's right." " There's some mail for you." " Oh, Variety, huh?" " A check from the record company, too." " Good, open it." "I got a surprise for you." " I have a surprise for you, too, darling." " Yeah?" "how much?" "You tell me yours first." "Look, Peggy." "Was that the cat's hat?" "I bet that'll bring results." "The whole page, darling?" "It must have cost a fortune." "No, only $150." "I don't have to pay for it till next month." "Let's see your surprise." "Some surprise." "I don't get it." "They had some of the biggest artists in the business." "How could a big concern like that go broke?" "It doesn't make sense." "I know, darling." "Nothing seems to make sense these days." "There's nothing for you to be concerned about, Peggy." "This sort of thing happens to women all the time." "Married women." "I..." "I was just thinking about Chuck." " You see, he doesn't know yet." " Well, tell him!" "He's a big boy now." "Two is company, but three is a marriage." "I want you to lead your ordinary, normal life." "Eat well, and be happy, and come back to me in about a month." "Here, take a spoonful of this whenever you think of it." "You don't need it." "But it'll make you feel precious." " Hello, Peggy." " Hello, Mr. Brock." "Maltine and cod liver oil." " Feeling a bit seedy, huh?" " No, I'm alright." " It's just to make me feel precious." " Oh." "It won't be a minute." "Peggy!" "I thought you were coming over last night, you and Chuck." "Oh, Chuck was so tired, Louise." "He's been working awfully hard." "He's been making some terrific new arrangements." " Come on over and have a soda." " No, I..." "Oh, come on, my treat." "Oh, it isn't that." "I just got a million things to do." "Come on, Peggy." "I haven't seen you in a dog's age." " Here you are, Peggy." "A dollar five." " Thank you, Mr. Brock." "Just charge it." "Hello, Peggy." "Been away?" "How's Miami, Peggy?" " You want a frappe, honey?" " Oh, I think just a lemon frost for me." "Coming right up." "I see by the papers Vincent Lopez is playing at the Flamingo Room." "Lucky break for him Chuck decided to settle down in Bloomington, huh?" "Make me a Broadway, Eddie." "Lots of whipped cream and less conversation." "What happened to Paris and Vienna, Peggy?" "You remember, piano with the horses clopping up the street, and the women clipping down the street and between the clipping and the clopping it's really something?" "My friends!" "My very good friends." "How long has it been since you were patting Chuck on the back calling him a great guy?" "Oh, he was in the limelight then." "Well, now he's out of work." "Yes, he's out of work, I'm not ashamed of it." "Only it's funny." "Cause I still think he's a great guy." "He's so far above you, you can't even begin to understand him." "You with your chocolate malted milks." "Do you think you can tear him down with your vicious little jokes?" "Why, you're laughable." "Peggy!" "Mother, I heard Dad singing upstairs a minute ago." "That doesn't fool me." "I know your father." "He's worried about something." "He hasn't looked at his stamp collection in days." "# If a body meet a body Comin thro' the rye, #" "# If a body kiss a body, need a body cry?" "#" "Good morning, Cora." "Good morning, princess." " Good morning, Dad." " Ah, buckwheat cakes!" "Andrew what on earth are you doing in that outfit?" "Oh, just thought I'd get back into harness again for a change." "Well, don't look so discombobulated, you two." "One would think I was too old to do an honest day's work." "You've had to lay off some more men down at the yard, haven't you?" "Just temporarily." "But that's got nothing to do with my needing a little exercise." "Look at me, I'm getting flabby." "Look at that." "Looking like a bay window." "A little physical work will do me the world of good." "Even Dr. Smith said..." "I know what Dr. Smith said." "He said you ought to be taking things a lot easier, that's what he said." "Work never hurt anybody, Cora." "It's letting down that kills people before their time." "I gotta run now." "I got an appointment." "Andrew, you haven't eaten a thing!" "I'll make it up for it at lunch time." "How's Chuck this morning?" " We won't know for several hours." " Yeah..." "Bye, Cora." " Goodbye, dear." " Bye, princess." " Bye, Dad." "# All the laddies smile at me when... #" "Finish your coffee, Mom." "I'll get it." "Telegram for Mr. Arnold." " I'm Mrs. Arnold." "I'll take it." "Sign here, please." "Thank you." " What is it, dear?" " Telegram, Mom, for Chuck." "Chuck!" "Darling!" "I'm coming." "Oh, boy." "These Middle Western hours." "It ain't human." "Hurry, darling." "It's a telegram." "It's from Oscar!" "Oh, what does it say?" "A spot for you." "Pick up band." "Starting Oriental Theater, Chicago, Monday." "Five shows daily." "Seventy-five weekly." "Report to G. Mason Moore and we'll start rehearsals tomorrow morning." "Don't be surprised if you look up and see me playing the piano." " My God, it's Oscar." " Oh, darling." "Why, show us a base." "Seventy-five dollars a week." "Why, I did better than this when I was a kid, after school." "It's not so bad, Chuck." "Just to tide us over." "Are you crazy?" "You know what would happen if it got around that I was playing a job like this for that kind of money?" "This guy must have a screw loose sending me a telegram like this." " What are you going to do?" " I'll tell you what I'm gonna do." "I'm gonna send him a wire that'll curl his hair." "Seventy-five dollars a week, five shows a day." "Look up at him and see him..." "Buckwheat cakes?" "You know?" "On second thought I think I'll do it after breakfast." "I couldn't do myself justice on an empty stomach." "I can't see why it would be so awful for you to take that job." "I just can't." "Honey, what would you think if you saw Jascha Heifetz playing fiddle on a ferry boat?" "Oh, Chuck, stop." "That isn't even funny anymore." "You're not Heifetz." "And even if you were, you can't go along forever with your head in the clouds, keeping up a front, ignoring the facts of life." "Darling, there are bills to pay." "We've managed alright so far, haven't we?" "Yes, but what if something should come up?" "Like a big doctor bill, or something." "I suppose we ought to come up and then we'll stop worrying about it." " I'll be hearing from Oscar any day now." " You just heard from Oscar!" "Darling, sometimes I just don't understand you." "You've been waiting for months for something to turn up and now this job comes along and..." "Honey, I've tried to explain to you a lot of times." "Look, I spent years building up a reputation." "I'm supposed to be a big-shot band leader." "I couldn't afford to take a job in a scrub band." "That's the beginning of the end." "There's no way to get off that toboggan except at the bottom." "You just don't realize." "Darling, we got off that toboggan quite a ways back." "The end was about six months ago." "Darling, I'm sorry." "But you're living in the past." "$75 a week with a scrub band is better than nothing at all." "Not for me it isn't." "I'd rather go out and dig ditches or take in some floors to scrub." "Oh, stop it, Chuck." "You're not gonna help matters any by being stubborn and unreasonable." "Alright, so I'm stubborn, so I'm unreasonable." "Maybe this whole depression was my idea." "Maybe I started the whole thing." "I went out and sold that 13 shares of Amalgamated wire, the panic was on." " You're talking like an idiot." " Honey, why pick on me?" "Why not pick on Mr. Hoover, or Mrs. Hoover, or the Federal Reserve Bank?" "Why not your old man for not selling more bricks?" "Because at least he's working, he's doing something." "He's not just hanging around the house week after week waiting for a miracle to happen, sponging off the family..." "Okay, Peggy." "I think you said enough." "Darling, please." "I didn't mean to hurt you." " I just tried to make you realize." " You have." "Oh, don't be childish!" "Okay, Grandma." "I must be toddling along." "You're not going to solve anything by running away." "I'm not running away." "I'm walking to the nearest exit." "I'm going to New York, where I wanted to go in the first place." "If you want to come along, okay." "If you want to stay here, okay." "I'm through sponging off your family." " Is that your ultimatum, Chuck?" " If you want to call it an ultimatum." "Said you could come with me, if you wanted to." "And I'm not gonna beg you." "You don't have to." "I'll give you my answer now." "You can go." "Alone!" "And you can sit around and have a good time razzing me with your family." "New York." "One way." " Coach or Pullman?" " Coach." "That's $28,75." " How much time have I got?" " About an hour. 11:50." "You change in Chicago." " Any place I can check this bag?" " Yes, sure, right over here." "Peggy." "Peggy." "Peggy." "Yes, Mother." "You said you'd set the table for me." "In a minute, Mother." "Think we'll use the blue set tonight." "It's that sort of day." "Peggy, darling." "Sometimes we have to learn the hard way." "Maybe it had to happen like this for you to realize..." "Mother, stop!" "If you're going to say one word against Chuck..." "I was only going to say that sometimes things like this have to happen for people to realize how much they need each other." "I'm sure you'll hear from Chuck." "You'll see." "Oh, I'm sorry, Mother..." "I just seem to have gone to pieces." "Father will be home soon." "You don't want him to find you like this, do you?" "He won't." "I'll be alright in a minute." " Oh, Oscar," " Don't be so cordial." "You'll have a hard time getting rid of me." "I'm sorry, Oscar." "I thought..." "Oh, come on in, will you?" "I am glad to see you." "You've got magnificent control." "You're like the Rock of Gibraltar, Oscar." "You'll never change, will you?" "I feel like a blob of raspberry Jell-O." "Believe me, I'm quivering." "I don't like airplanes." "I get nervous when I have to walk down a stoop that doesn't got a banister." "So I sit in the sky all night, like a petrified albatross just to get to Chicago to meet Chuck, and all I find is a high-hat telegram." "Where is the guy?" "He's gone, Oscar." "Gone?" "You'll stay to dinner, won't you?" " Yeah, but uh..." " Come on then, help me set the table." "So that's the way it is, Oscar." "Chuck's gone to New York... and I'm staying here." "You mean you two are going to let a little matter of pride..." "No matter!" "Chuck's pride is no little matter." " Look, Peggy, maybe..." " Oscar, it's no use even talking about it." "Chuck's made his choice." "He's gone to New York... and as far as I'm concerned, he can stay there." "Well, I guess Chuck just wasn't cut out for marriage." "Oh, I wouldn't say that." "He gave a pretty good imitation of a happily married man for a while." "Yeah, imitation is right." "Chuck's like one of these showy fighters with a glass jaw, he looks fine in the early rounds." "But get him in a tough spot and he'll crumple like a dish rag." "This had to happen sooner or later." "I think you're being a little harsh with him, Oscar." "No, Peggy, believe me." "It's better you found the guy out now, while you're young." "You can still do something with your life." "Why don't you find some other guy who's solid and steady?" "Maybe a little dull, but somebody you can depend on." "You know, thoughtful, considerate." "I don't think we should judge him, Oscar." "After all, Chuck had to work awfully hard to get where he is." "So what?" "Lots of people work hard." "Trouble with Chuck is he thinks this whole Depression is his own personal tragedy." "Well, I think you should be ashamed of yourself." "You call yourself Chuck's friend." "It seems to me you could find something decent to say about him instead of running him down with his own wife." "So you really don't hate him, do you?" " Oh, Oscar, what am I going to do?" " Now you're talking sense." "Look, I think I know where I'll head for." "First thing tomorrow morning." "Who is it?" "It's me, princess." "Oh, Dad." "Dad, this is Oscar Hoffman, an old friend of Chuck's." "How do you do, Mr. Hoffman?" "Any friend of Chuck's..." " You'll pardon my appearance." " Certainly." " You're having dinner with us, of course." " Yes, Dad." "He's been asked." "We're just about ready, as soon as you get washed." "We'll need another place." "Well, Dad." "Chuck isn't going to be here for dinner." "I'll explain later." "You'd better explain now, Peggy." "Chuck!" "Oh, darling." "Yes, 1929 was a funny year." "And so was 1930." "Old values crumbled, old hopes and dreams went by the board." "But gradually things began to change." "There was life in the old horse, after all." "And the Mayhew Brick Works flourished once again... under the emphasis of the man whose former talents had once all been directed toward music." "Remember, a brick isn't just a brick." "It's the earth and sweat of America." "Every brick you sell helps build our country." "It also helps build our bank balance." "Now go out and sell bricks." "You can't go back without seeing young Chuck." "He's almost three now." "You won't recognize him." "The lucky number dance." "Remember, Peggy?" "Gee, those were wonderful days." "These are the wonderful days, Louise." "I still have my lucky number." "Dance?" "And I get to dance with my husband." "You're beautiful, you know." "Am I?" "My folks will be pleased." "Can I have my hand back, please?" "Aw, don't go yet." "How about a prize for me?" " A prize?" " Hm-hmm." "Something to remember you by." "# You're like a plaintive melody. #" "# That never lets me free. #" "# For I'm content # # the angels must have sent you # and they meant you # # just for me. #"