"Hello, Charlie." "So be it, Miss Lily Mars." "Have your old career." "Go to New York City." "Go on the stage." "All I gotta say is good luck and goodbye." "Good morning, Charlie." "Good morning." "Hello, Charlie." "I forgot my hat." "Got any more bubble gum?" "No." "Oh, Lily, Charlie's back!" "Lily, Charlie's back already!" "Lily, Lily!" "Lily, Lily!" "No, no, I don't wanna see her." "I just want my hat." "Lily, here's Charlie!" "Lily!" "Lily!" "Davey, have you seen my hat?" "I don't collect hats." "I collect doorknobs." "Ain't she a beauty?" "Oh, Lily, Charlie's back!" "I am not." "I am not." "Oh, there it is." "Oh, excuse me." "Hello, Charlie." "Look, Mama." "Oh, you got it." "It's lovely." "Davey, get me the top for this." "Well, goodbye, Mrs. Mars." "Goodbye, Charlie." "I'll be sorry not to see you again, Mrs. Mars." "Oh, now, now, Charlie." "People shouldn't be mad at people." "Goodbye, Charlie." "Charles." "Hey, Charlie, wait for me." "Never again, you" " You actress." "Poor Charles." "He's so young." "So very young." "And it hurts me to hurt him but what can I do?" "Mama." "Oh, go on, dear." "I'm not laughing at you." "I like to see you act." "Mother." "Oh, now, I'm not mother." "I'm Mama." "Here's the hat for Mrs. Thornway." "Davey, where's the top to this?" "Here it is, Mama." "Lily, can I go to Mrs. Thornway's house with you?" "No, Davey, dear." "Her doorknobs might tempt you." "Oh, they already have." "Lily, please take me." "No." "Well, then could you sort of maybe get one for me?" "Of course not." "Oh, but they're such superdupers." "All right." "Here you are, dear." "I may not be back for some time but when I come back, I have a big surprise for you." "That's for luck." "Good luck." "Thank you." "Good luck." "Thank you, bye." "Goodbye." "Good morning, Miss Lily." "Morning, Andrew." "I brought Mrs. Thornway's hat." "I'll take it for you." "Oh, well I know how busy she must be this morning..." "...but, Andrew, I simply must see her." "Yeah?" "Yeah, come right in." "All right." "She's in the doctor's office." "Oh, thank you." "Well, I'll tell John just as soon as he gets here." "Come in, Lily." "Well, he should be here in a few minutes if his plane's on time." "Yes, Mr. Vail." "Yes, Mr. Vail, I understand." "You and Miss Rekay are motoring here." "You'll arrive early this afternoon." "And you think it would be a good idea to shoot Irene in the first act." "Yes, I'll tell John." "Goodbye." "Mrs. Thornway, I brought your hat." "It isn't exactly what you ordered, but" "Just a minute, Lily." "And wants to shoot" "Oh, bother." "He wants to shoot some girl." "But what girl and in what act?" "Irene in the first act." "Thank you." "Mrs. Thornway, when you ask your son about a part for me will you tell him I'd rather not play Irene." "You wouldn't?" "Not if she gets killed in the first act." "Let's see the hat." "Will you tell him?" "If he says no, will you try and make him give me a part even a little one?" "Maybe Irene?" "Lily, the last time I was able to make John Thornway do anything, he was 10." "He wanted to join the circus." "I persuaded him not to by locking him in the cellar." "Well, if I could just meet him and maybe act for him a little." "Lily, dear, he's going to be frightfully busy." "He always is." "Here today to close an old show gone tomorrow to open a new one." "That's John." "Never a minute for anything but show business." "Well, I'm show business." "My dear, but" "My dear child." "Oh, my dear child." "I know you'll love it after you get used to it." "The fashion magazine said it's the latest." "I know" " Oh, well, I wouldn't cut the feather if I" "That's John." "I know his slam." "Mimi!" "Lily, dear." "Mimi!" "You better wait in here." "All right." "Don't come out until I have John nicely buttered up." "All right." "John." "Hello, Mimi." "Welcome home, dear." "Well, you" "Do you like it?" "Well, it" "Do you?" "Yes." "Well, then that's good enough for me." "Oh, Mimi, it's good to see you again." "I hope you had a nice restful trip, dear." "I did." "I worked on the script of the new play from New York to Indiana." "Any telegrams for me?" "Five so far but the day is young yet." "They're on the desk." "John?" "Oh, John, it's beautiful." "Oh, but, John, you" "Yes, I know, I know." "I shouldn't've done it." "I have a message for you from Owen Vail." "Oh, he phoned?" "Asked me to tell you that Isobel is not coming by train with the company." "She's motoring here from Chicago with him." "Oh, well, that's fine." "And Isobel is-- Well, Isobel is Isobel." "Now look, Mimi, I don't care what Isobel does off the stage." "I love her as an actress." "I adore her as a leading lady." "I'll do anything I can to keep her happy in the theatre." "But I definitely, flatly, am not going to humor Miss Rekay by becoming one of her husbands." "John, do you remember Henry Mars?" "Used to come here often to tune the piano." "That's the man." "Yeah." "John, he died several years ago." "He did?" "I'm sorry to hear that." "He left a wife and five children." "Nobody knows how they manage, but they do." "Everybody in Midhaven worries about the Marses, except the Marses." "The oldest child's name is Lily." "That's Lily." "She's such a remarkable child, and so talented." "She acts." "Yes." "Experience?" "Oh, loads of it." "Peter Pan, Macbeth, the Follies." "Oh, really?" "Well, the Midhaven High School Follies." "John." "John!" "John!" "Mimi, there's only one thing in the world I will not do for you and that is it." "I have seen my last amateur." "But Lily's unusual." "Unusual." "Oh, Mother." "There's a Lily Mars in every town and all alike, full of hope and so hopeless." "I'll tell you what you do, Mother." "Let her down easy, but do it so she'll stay down." "She won't." "She'll bounce right up again." "You don't know Lily." "I don't and I'm not going to." "It won't hurt to meet her." "You can't just meet them." "She'll start acting on me." "Well, let her play a scene for you." "Not a scene, not a line..." "...not a word, not a syllable!" "All right, but you'll be sorry." "Lily, dear." "It's all right." "You don't have to let me down easy." "I heard." "I'm sorry." "He is pigheaded, isn't he?" "Yes." "Do you mind if I take the box?" "It's the only one we've got." "Of course." "All right." "Lily." "You know, I'm getting used to the hat." "It does rather grow on one, doesn't it?" "Oh, yes." "I think it's beautiful." "I love it." "It looks lovely on you." "Thank you." "Well, goodbye." "Goodbye." "She sees Stefan, she screams." "That's it." "That's it." "Mother!" "Mother!" "Yes?" "Oh, where is that thing?" "Where is it?" "Mother!" "Where is it?" "Where is it?" "Where is what?" "The play!" "The play!" "It's my only copy with the notes in it." "It's gone!" "It can't be gone." "It's gone." "I've got to find it!" "I've got to." "It won't do any good repeating yourself." "I didn't leave it on the plane." "I didn't leave it in the car." "I'll search the house." "Hello?" "Yes, this is John Thornway." "Oh, you found it." "Where, whe" "In an ash can?" "Want it?" "Of course I want it!" "Will you bring it right--?" "Will you--?" "Oh, you can't." "Yes, yes, sure I'll come, but wait a moment." "What's your address?" "Hey." "Are you John Thornway?" "Yeah." "The guy who produces all those shows?" "That's right." "How do you do?" "How do you do?" "I'm" "I know who you are." "Do you know who I am?" "No." "Oh, come right in, please." "I'm in rather a hurry." "Yes, if you'll just come and sit down, please." "Oh, don't sit there." "Sit here, please." "Please." "Ladies and gentlemen" "You've heard of Sarah Bernhardt" "She really was a dilly" "But Sarah Bernhardt couldn't compare To the gal who's known as Lily" "You've heard of Eleanor Duse" "Her drama knocked them silly" "But Duse was an amateur Compared to a gal like Lily" "On your mark" "Get set" "For here comes Lily!" "Yet, here's a spot." "Out, damned spot." "Out, I say!" "One two..." "Who would have thought that the old man had so much blood in him?" "Fie, Macbeth!" "Fie!" "A soldier, and afraid?" "What, will these hands never be clean?" "But no more of that, my Lord, no more of that." "Oh, no, no, no." "All the perfumes in Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." "Look not so pale, Macbeth." "Come, man, put on your nightgown and come to bed." "To bed." "To bed!" "There's a knocking at the gate." "Come, give me your hand." "What is done cannot be undone." "Come." "To bed." "To bed." "To bed!" "How was I, Mr. Thornway?" "Awful." "Well, what did I do wrong?" "Everything." "And now, Miss Mars, will you please give me back my play." "But I did it exactly as I was told." "You mean somebody told you to do it that way?" "Yes." "Professor Eggleston, in school." "Miss Mars, I'm going to talk to you for one minute quietly but firmly." "I shouldn't, but you're a friend of my mothers and you come from my town." "And your father brought me into the world." "That is not one of the qualifications, Miss Mars, for success on the stage." "I am going to give you no encouragement whatsoever." "But what I want is a job." "Miss Mars, I give an actress a job for only one reason and that is that she is the best I can get for the part." "Miss Mars, I have neither the wish, the time, nor the patience to teach anybody how to act." "Lady Macbeth is walking in her sleep." "She is talking to herself, not to a boyfriend in the gallery." "She is a strong woman." "She has murdered a king so she can become a queen." "But her conscience has crept into her dreams and is gnawing at her mind." "Gnawing like a relentless rat." "Gnawing, gnawing." "And you play her as if she were a high school girl with a bellyache." "It is not:" ""Come, man, put on your nightgown and come to bed."" "It's:" ""Come, man put on your nightgown and come to bed." "There's a knocking at the gate." "Come." "Give me your hand." "What's done cannot be undone."" "Oh, bravo!" "Bravo!" "Miss Mars, where's my play?" "You've been sitting on it." "That's yours too." "Mr." "Thornway?" "No!" "It's not about me, it's about my brother." "Does he act too?" "No, he collects doorknobs." "Doorknobs." "Yeah, and that was a superduper." "Oh, well, thank you." "Lily, can I blow out the candle?" "He'll be sorry." "You bet he will." "Thanks for the knob." "Lily, don't feel bad." "I don't feel bad." "I just feel mad." "Hopping mad." "Children, children, children." "What's all the fuss about?" "We're being hopping mad, Mama, for Lily." "Well, go be hopping mad in the dining room." "Go on." "Well?" "He didn't like me at all." "Perhaps he doesn't like Shakespeare." "You should've done something more lowbrow like Ten Nights in a Bar Room, or Why Girls Leave Home." "Or that sad scene from The Secret Bride." "Yes." "No coy little laugh, she just goes." "Yeah?" "Yeah?" "Excuse me, Mr. John, there's a lady here." "Shoot her." "I think she's an actress." "Go away, you pest!" "What's the matter, Johnny?" "Let me in!" "Isobel." "Angel!" "Angel." "Pest." "Pest." "Angel." "Make up your mind, Johnny." "Well, it's angel." "I thought you were somebody else." "A girl?" "No, no, no, a pest." "Well, yes, a girl, but a pest." "She's been hounding me." "Johnny, what have you done?" "Nothing, not a thing." "And you?" "I mean, recently?" "Nothing but think of you, Johnny." "The lonely weeks on the road, in Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Chicago." "Pittsburgh?" "Yes, Pittsburgh." "What was that big pig-iron man doing?" "Helping you think of me?" "Well, I had to have a little fun." "Innocent." "It's all right." "You have all the fun you like." "Just don't miss any more Saturday matinees." "In there you have no heart." "You have a box office." "Goodbye." "Now, now, where you going?" "Pittsburgh!" "I don't have to work for you." "I can leave the stage and marry a man with a million dollars worth of pig iron." "Then why don't you?" "I don't like pig iron, Johnny." "I like you." "Oh, not bad, John, not bad." "But can't you put a little more oomph?" "A little more crunch?" "Oh, stop it, Owen." "Owen." "Ow" " Owen" " Look you can't shoot Irene in the first act." "Second act?" "No, no." "Now, you've written a swell play." "Let it alone." "When do we go into rehearsal?" "Next week." "All right, now, off with you." "I'll see you back here tonight." "Mimi's tossing a high-class brawl for the troupe." "Right now I got things to do." "Oh, Johnny, I want to see your hometown." "And it wants to see you, darling, tonight, at your best." "So it would be a swell idea if you went on back to the hotel and took a nice long nap." "Come on, you too, Owen." "Bye-bye." "Goodbye, Johnny." "Goodbye." "Now let's see." "Irene enters down left" "Listen to me." "You must." "You shall listen." "It's not for my sake, but for the sake of this poor, innocent child." "Why should she pay for our folly?" "See?" "She has your eyes and your smile but not your name." "Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Could be a racket, you know?" "It must be." "Papa!" "That girl's lying." "But that baby." "She's the image of John." "Papa!" "She does holler like him." "Please, I want nothing for myself, nothing!" "Please." "I beg you on bended knee." "Please!" "Please!" "Now, that's enough." "This won't do you one bit of good." "When I say no, I mean no!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Shut up!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Pa" "Now, go on away, please, and stop hounding me." "But, Mr. Thornway" "Go on, beat it, and take that grubby child." "If you'd just give me a fair chance" "Come here, come here." "Here are a couple of passes for the show." "Go down and see some acting but for heaven sakes don't do any more." "Oh, thank you, Mr. Thornway." "Thank you, Mr. Thornway." "Got any bubble gum?" "Oh, she just loves bubble gum." "Do you know what I'm gonna do if I ever catch you anywhere near me again?" "No, Mr. Thornway." "No, Mr. Thornway." "Now listen carefully, young lady." "Yes, Mr. Thornway." "Yes, Mr. Thornway." "I don't care where it is, or how many other people are there." "I'm gonna take you across my knee and spank the acting out of you." "Now go on." "Beat it." "Yes, Mr. Thornway." "Yes, Mr. Thornway." "Go on, beat it!" "Could it be the moon" "Or the fiddler's tune Played so dreamily?" "Is it really love" "Or the Gypsy in me?" "Can you tell me why?" "Tell me how can I Solve this mystery?" "Is it really love" "Or the Gypsy in me?" "Not so very long ago" "A fortune teller told me" "Someday he will come along" "And in his arms" "He'll hold me" "Since we've been apart I talked to my heart" "Both of us agree" "This is really love" "Not the Gypsy in me" "Strike your cymbal Beat your drum" "Hold back the dawn And may tomorrow never come" "Play Zigeuner, play till dawn" "Play it faster till at last a rhapsody is born" "I know how I fell Underneath the spell of this melody" "This is really love" "Not the Gypsy" "In" "Me!" "Supper is served." "Supper is served." "Lily, let's go home." "Not yet." "Then let's go someplace and have a hamburger." "Boost." "Boost." "Come on, Charlie." "Boost." "Boost!" "You must try coming in through the door sometime." "It's so much simpler." "Yes, if you're invited." "You're Mr. Owen Vail, the man who writes such wonderful plays, aren't you?" "Well, I'm Lily Mars." "And you can do so much for me if you only will." "It's no good my talking to Mr. Thornway, he won't listen to me." "He will to you and if you spoke to him about" "Wait!" "Why, it's" " It's the" " You're the girl that" "What's the matter?" "Tell me this:" "Has John Thornway never done anything for you?" "No, never." "Well, what reason does he give?" "He doesn't like me." "He doesn't like" "You wait right here." "But, Mr. Vail." "Mr." "Vail." "Stay there." "You will speak to Mr. Thornway?" "Don't you think it's time you called him John?" "Has anyone seen Mr. Vail?" "There you are, Mr. Vail, I was looking for you." "Supper's served." "Come on." "Both of you." "There's only one of us." "I heard a girl's voice." "No, that was me." "You?" "Oh, yes." "I often talk to myself." "Soprano?" "Sometimes." "Oh, it's me, Lily, Mrs. Thornway." "Why, Lily Mars." "Come in, dear." "Oh, no, I don't think I'd better." "Nonsense, we'd love to have you." "Oh, I don't think your son would." "I guess he must have told you about" "About that?" "Don't let that worry you anymore." "Things like that don't upset John for very long." "Come on." "Come in, Mr. Vail." "Don't upset him?" "Now make yourself perfectly at home." "Thank you." "Good evening, Lily." "Good evening, Lily." "Excuse me." "Good evening, Professor Eggleston." "My dear, Lily." "Delighted to see you." "Thank you." "How are the children?" "Three of the-- Three of them had the mumps but they're fine for now, thank goodness." "Excuse me." "Did he say children?" "Well, yes." "Wait right here." "Miss Rekay, I saw your show, and your Gypsy number" "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Where's John?" "Where is John?" "That girl is here." "Girl?" "What girl?" "What girl?" "You mean--?" "Did she bring--?" "No." "And it seems there's not just one." "There are:" "Three?" "At least." "Maybe:" "Four." "Well, can I play too?" "What is this, a new game?" "No." "An old one." "John, you've simply got to do something about that girl." "What girl?" ""What girl? " Lily Mars." "Has she been working on you too?" "Don't pay any attention to her." "You did." "Not a great deal." "I simply told her what I tell all the others." "Others?" "Yes." "There's at least one in every town." "But why are you interested in this one?" "I've seen this one." "And the child." "One of them." "This afternoon." "Outside your window." "Well, you low-minded snoopers." "Of all-- You ought to be ashamed of yourselves." "She's one of those stage-struck kids that thinks all she has to do to be an actress is make a wish." "I told her if she ever bothered me again, I" " I" "Excuse me." "John." "Oh, John." "Just a moment." "Will you autograph my program?" "Yes, I'd be delighted." "Such beautiful music." "Marvelous." "For you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Yes, thank you." "Thank you." "And hit the hit parade It was growing pop" "And it couldn't stop" "Now it's number one" "Thanks to Tom, the piper's son" "Tom, Tom, the piper's son" "He's stole a tune and away he run And away run he" "With that melody" "Tom was hot, the tune was sweet But he revamped it with a new offbeat" "And the classic thing" "Got a shot of swing" "Mr. Brahms cried "Ach "" "So did Mozart and Bach" "And to hear them rave" "Paganini tumbled over in his grave" "And now that tune that no one played Has stepped right up and hit the hit parade" "It was growing pop" "And it couldn't stop!" "Now it's number one Thanks to Tom, the piper's son" "Once more, please." "By special request." "It's all right with me." "Keep singing." "Tom, Tom the piper's son" "Stole a tune and away he run And away run he" "With that melody" "Tom was hot, the tune was sweet But he vamped it with a boogie beat" "And the classic thing Got a shot of swing" "Beethoven turned gray" "So did, did Debussy and Bizet" "It was such a stew" "Tschai" " Tschaikovsky said "I'm gonna sue"" "And now that tune that no one played" "Has stepped right up And hit the hit parade" "It was growing pop" "And it couldn't stop" "Now it's number one Thanks to Tom, the piper's son" "I do hope Mr. Thornway will do something for Lily." "Oh, I think he will." "Good." "Good." "I guess you were kind of surprised to see me pop up here tonight, weren't you?" "I was." "I shouldn't have been knowing what a talent you have for popping up." "But I didn't see you come in." "I didn't exactly come in." "You see, I came over the wall." "And just where did you...?" "Right over there." "That's right where you going to:" "But when I was singing, you looked so interested." "I am not." "So human." "I am not." "Now, Miss Mars, this way out." "Please." "Mr. Thornway, please take me to New York with you tomorrow." "I can do so much for Mama and the kids." "You might start by washing that grubby little sister." "Poppy is not grubby." "She was made-up for the part." "Miss Mars." "Very well." "If you really want me to go." "I do, Miss Mars." "I do very much." "All right, over I go." "But you're gonna have to boost me." "Come on, boost." "You're afraid of me." "I'm what?" "You are." "Well, that's one thing I didn't know till now." "There are a lot of things you don't know about yourself." "One of them is why you're making me go back over that wall." "Well, that is one thing I do know, young lady, it's to teach you a lesson." "Just like a naughty little girl." "I know why you treat me as a child it's because you're afraid to think of me as a woman." "All right, boost." "One, two." "Goodbye." "I beg your pardon." "What's the matter, Lily?" "Nothing." "Don't cry, Lily." "I hate him." "I just hate him." "I hate him too." "Who does she hate?" "Children." "Children." "Now, now, now." "It isn't as bad as all that no matter how bad it is." "Why are you crying?" "Because Lily is." "Lily, why are you crying?" "Mr. Thornway wouldn't give me a job and he sneered at me and he told me to go home and wash my grubby little sister." "Me?" "And he made me climb back over the wall." "Well, Lily, dear, that's nothing for you to cry about." "Were you mean to him?" "Did you sneer at him?" "Did you call him grubby?" "Did you make him climb a wall?" "Well, then." "Who should be ashamed?" "Him." "Right." "Who should be crying?" "Him." "And if you shouldn't be crying what should you be doing?" "Laughing." "That's right." "Now then, off to bed all of you." "Come on, laugh yourselves to sleep." "Scoot." "Mama, when I grow up can I be you?" "I'll try and arrange it." "Now scoot." "Lily, you're something that's very wonderful to be." "What, Mama?" "Nineteen." "Nineteen and nowhere." "Some very successful people didn't get their start until well past 20." "Right now it looks like I'm gonna be well past everything before I get my chance to do what I've always dreamed of doing." "Being an actress, and a good one too." "I could give you and the kids all the things you want." "I've got what I want." "What you want's in New York, isn't it?" "And you're in Indiana." "Well, if you want to get what you want, you've got to go where it is, don't you?" "Well, then." "Davey?" "Davey!" "Yes, Mama?" "Get George and bring him here to me." "I'm not gonna let" "You will too." "Let's have no fiddle-de-dee about this." "But, Mama, I can't" "Here." "I got it." "I was sound asleep." "Here's George, Mama." "Thank you, Davey." "Now run along." "Good night." "Good night, dear." "Now you're going to take this and go to New York." "It's only $28." "But I just can't" "Who's Mama around here?" "Good night, dear." "Davey?" "Davey?" "I want you to put this money in George, but don't let Mama see you do it." "Can't you put the money in George?" "I won't be here." "Oh, not now, dear." "You can do it tomorrow." "All right, girls." "Places for the finale." "Excuse me, but" "Excuse me, but..." "Where did you get that hat?" "It's a copy." "I made it myself." "Ninety-eight cents." "Can I go in with you?" "Are you in the show?" "No, not yet." "I just got to New York today, but" "Sorry, honey, but Thorny has a strict rule against visitors." "Well, come on." "Snap your shirttails." "What is this?" "What's cooking, Mike?" "Hi, Mike, what do you know?" "Hi, Mike." "What do you know?" "Everybody but you." "Oh, well, it's perfectly all right." "You see, I know Mister-- I know Thorny." "Do you, now?" "His father brought me into the world." "Did he, now?" "Well, if you bother the son during rehearsal, he'll do just the opposite for you." "Well, thank you anyway." "Young lady if you wanna see Mr. Thornway, why don't you send your name in to him?" "Because I wanna see him." "Lady, that does not make sense." "It does to me." "You see, we had kind of a misunderstanding." "He doesn't know I'm here." "So why don't you let me go right on in and surprise him--?" "I'm sorry, lady." "You can't surprise Mr. Thornway." "Only by appointment." "Now, get off with you now." "Well." "Here?" "That's right." "Darling, I want you to always wear that hat to rehearsal." "Everything goes well when you do." "Certainly." "It's my lucky hat." "Excuse me." "But could you tell me where Mr. Tho" "So you wiggled in, did you?" "Wiggle out now, wiggle out now, or I'll" "Mike!" "Miss Rekay." "I thought you were, but you weren't, were you?" "Excuse me, I apologize." "I beg your pardon." "I'm" " I'm sorry." "I" "What's the matter with Mike?" "I'm afraid he's been drinking." "Shouldn't do that." "That sets a bad example." "Come on, let's follow it." "All right, girls." "Come on, line up for the last number." "Owen, coming with us?" "Nope." "For a drink?" "Yeah!" "Mister--?" "Come on, this is a Russian number, girls." "Move." "Move." "At the Club Tovaritch There is romance in the air" "Love is everywhere!" "When you hear the balalaika You had best beware" "Everyone is there!" "Say." "Say!" "Wake up!" "Wake up!" "What happened?" "Get locked in?" "Yes, ma'am but I wanted to be." "Sorry, but there's no sleeping permitted in this theatre." "But I haven't got any place to" "Out." "Out." "All right." "I'll find some other way to see Mr. Thornway." "Well, goodbye." "Say, wait a minute." "Is it about a job?" "Where you from?" "Indiana." "How old?" "Nineteen." "I'm from Nebraska." "I was 16." "There's a boy back home who wants to marry you." "The one who wanted to marry me was a fine young fella." "The kind who was sure to get ahead." "Yeah, that's Charlie." "That was Sam." "And he did all right too." "Now he's the big man out that way." "Everybody said I was an awful fool not to stay home and marry Sam." "But there was something I wanted more than him, or anybody or anything." "And that was to go on the stage." "Well, where am I?" "Gee." "And you've been trying since you were 16?" "Bless your heart, child, I didn't start with a broom." "First I carried a spear." "Then the third year I got a line to speak:" ""Madame, dinner is served."" "Oh, then there were a lot of years, and a lot of shows." "And a husband or two." "And then there was a song that got to be my song." "That was all before your time." "What's your name?" "Lily Mars." "Lily, know what you are?" "Foolish?" "You're me." "The same eager, hopeful, stage-struck little hick I was half a century ago, with the same question to answer." "What do you want?" "I wanna be an actress." "Know what I'd do if I were you?" "Go home?" "Lily, I think you are home." "I know I am, and I'd rather be here even doing what I'm doing, than be anywhere else on earth." "Because this is where I belong." "Every little movement" "Has a meaning of its own" "Every thought and feeling" "By some posture can be shown" "And every love thought That comes a-stealing" "O'er your being Must be revealing" "All its sweetness" "In some appealing little gesture" "All of its own" "Every little movement" "Has a meaning of its own" "Every thought and feeling" "By some posture can be shown" "And every love thought That comes a-stealing" "O'er your being Must be revealing" "All its sweetness" "In some appealing little gesture" "All of its own" "All right, dear, come on, run through it once with me now." "Now watch this, Gene." "Hit it, Colly." "What is this throbbing within me?" "What is this rhythm so new?" "What is this beating That keeps on repeating" "I love you?" "I love" "You, my dear" "Don't you know it's you?" "When I look at you" "I hear lovely music" "Can it be my heart that sings?" "When I look at you" "I look at an angel" "Tell me where you've parked your wings" "Dizzy me Silly moon" "Crazy quilt of a sky" "Are you real or a dream" "That got caught in my eye" "My dearest" "When I look at you" "I'm looking at rainbows" "Stars come tumbling down from above" "And I'm in love with you" "My" "Love!" "Places for the Russian number." "Come on, shake your shirttails." "Get going." "There should be a stampede around here." "Come on, move." "There you are!" "At the Club Tovaritch There is romance in the air" "Love is everywhere!" "When you hear the balalaika You had best beware" "Everyone is there!" "There is Toscha, Sascha, Mischa, Grischa, Rimsky, Pimsky, Anton, Danton" "Georgevitch, Oh, Porgevitch Oh, Niegin, Iliavitch" "Tomazoffsky, Borisloffsky Woizikeffsky, Igoreffsky" "Feodoroff, Anniloroff" "Will be at the Club Tovaritch" "Hi!" "You." "Come here." "Hello." "Mr. Thornway, I'm sorry." "I" "Keep the change." "Thank you, Mr. Thornway." "Thank you very much for the lunch." "It was the best I ever had and the biggest." "That long train ride gave you an appetite." "Train?" "And spending all night in a theater isn't nourishing." "I guess not." "Aren't they--?" "Miss Mars let's get something settled once and for all." "I'm letting you stay in the show only because:" "You knew my father." "You know my mother." "You come from my hometown." "You're in New York in need of a job." "Well, I needed a few more girls in the show anyway." "I wish there was some way I could show my appreciation." "There is." "Just do your job." "Oh, I will." "Now, some of the girls live in a boarding house they've affectionately dubbed the "Incubator"." "It's reasonable, respectable." "But where you live or what you do outside of the theater is strictly your own affair." "Miss Mars, you understand, don't you?" "Absolutely." "You want me to live in an incubator and not to bother you." "Yes, yeah, that's the gist of it." "So starting right now, you're strictly on your own." "I wash my hands of any responsibility for you." "All right." "And, Miss Mars there's one thing that I must ask you not to do around the theater." "What's that?" "Don't wear that hat." "Well, Mr. Thornway, it's" "It's the only one I've got." "Yes, yes." "Well, here we are." "This is it." "This is the "Incubator"." "A lot of fine young actresses come out of here." "Of course they have to go in first." "Well, thanks again for the hat." "You know it didn't have to be a boughten." "A boughten?" "What's a boughten?" "Oh, that's what Poppy calls a store hat." "You know, one you don't make yourself." "It's boughten." "I always make my own." "Yes, I know." "Good afternoon." "Have you any rooms?" "No, sir." "Not even a small one?" "I'm sorry." "We do not take mixed couples." "We take only ladies." "Well, will you take this one?" "Yes, certainly." "Well, that's fine." "I have to be getting on back to the theater." "All right." "Do you want me to come with you?" "No." "No." "You be at rehearsal tomorrow morning at 9." "Sharp." "Goodbye, Miss Mars." "Goodbye." "And thank you very much." "Oh, Lily, for your brother." "Oh, thank you, Mr. Tho" "John." "Hi, Mike." "Hello, Mr. Thornway." "What do you" "I" "Rosebud?" "Yes, sir?" "Is that Miss Rekay's?" "Yes, sir." "She gave it to me." "Where is she?" "She's in her dressing room." "Waiting for you." "I'll tell her you here." "But, Isobel, it was written for you." "I will not play it as it is." "But Isobel" "He's here." "Rosebud, I told you to throw that hat away." "So you know more than I do?" "Who doesn't?" "All right, then." "Why don't you write a play?" "Why don't you?" "Now, what goes on here?" "Our star has decided she doesn't like the third act." "I hate it." "It doesn't march along." "It dribbles." "Now, let's sit down and we'll talk about it." "Quietly." "Are you sure you have the time?" "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, dear, but I had to have lunch." "What did you two eat, an elephant?" "And then after lunch I had things to do." "Business." "Hello?" "John." "For you." "A lady." "Me?" "Yes, you." "Hello?" "Oh, hello, dear." "Well, it's nice to hear your voice." "It's my mother." "Yes, yes, she's here." "No, I mean, she's not here." "She's here in the incubator." "Incubator?" "Yeah, it's a sort of a club." "A young folks home." "John, will you give her a job?" "Well, I've already given her one." "Hello." "Tell her Mama and the children send love." "I'm Mama." "Tell her I know I don't need to worry, but I will." "Well, you needn't, Mrs. Mars." "I'll be just like a father to her." "Oh, yes, yes, yes." "It's respectable." "It's painfully respectable." "Hold on." "John, you will keep an eye on her?" "Oh, yes, yes, yes." "Now, look dear I have to say goodbye now because some people are waiting." "Goodbye, dear." "Well, after all my father did bring her into the world." "Now about that third act." "What seems to be wrong with it?" "Everything." "Brighter dialogue, stronger scenes." "Such as?" "Such as you are going to write." "Goodbye." "Well?" "Well, what?" "You got any ideas about the third act?" "No." "Have you?" "No." "I was thinking about women too." "What has Miss Mars got to do with this?" "John, I wish I had as much money as you don't know about women." "Look, if you were sore at me." "You'd punch me right in the nose, wouldn't you?" "With pleasure." "Yeah." "All right." "If Isobel were squawking about one scene I might think she was sincere, but no, she doesn't like the whole act." ""It doesn't march along." "It dribbles."" "Yeah, and if you keep on being so chummy with that babe from the woods" "I am not chummy with Miss Mars." "Isobel's imagining things." "John about such things, women do not imagine, they know." "I don't know how they know, but they know." "Catch that, will you?" "Hello?" "Miss Lily Mars is here to see Mr. Thornway." "Shall I send her up?" "Why, yes." "Yes, certainly." "Right away." "It's" " It's your laundry." "How could it be?" "I didn't send out any laundry." "You do your own?" "Oh, come on now." "Come on, let's get to work." "Well, here's how it goes." ""Stefan enters." I'm Stefan." ""Nadina is singing." You're Nadina." "Me?" "Now you can't go on with the gay song, so you break." "Oh, I'm a Gypsy I'm" "Come in, come in." ""Who is she?" "Who is she? "" ""Please, believe me." "There is no other woman, darling."" "Just leave it in the hall out there." ""You mustn't cry."" ""Why are you here?" "Go away, leave me alone."" ""No." -"What do you want? "" ""First, I want to tell you that you're beautiful." "And then I want to take you in my arms."" ""Oh, Stefan."" "All right, now stop your kidding, Owen." "Who's kidding?" ""Oh, Stefan."" "Excuse me." "Here's my laundry." "Good evening, Miss Mars." "Good evening." "And good night." "I wanted to" "I'm terribly sorry, we're very busy it's time all young actresses should be in bed." "I was in bed, but I couldn't sleep." "I just tossed and tossed." "Whenever I'm worried, I toss and toss." "Well, that's very interesting." "What's worrying you?" "Our show." "Now she doesn't like it." "I like it." "I love it." "I think it's a wonderful play." "Really I do." "But may I say something?" "I know of no way of stopping you." "Well, I think we need a new finish." "Isobel doesn't like the third act, Miss Mars doesn't like the finish." "Tell me, Miss Mars, what's wrong with it?" "Well, to me it just fizzles out." "Fizzles?" "Just fizzles" "Stop fizzling!" "Well, now listen." "Here's the way it goes." "Stefan says, "l wanna take you in my arms."" "Nadina, "I want you to dearest." "I've been away for years, and I never wanna leave again."" ""As Nadina and Stefan gaze tenderly into each other's eyes, curtain." Not natural." "If I were in love and all they did was gaze tenderly into my eyes I'd have another fight." "Well, Miss Mars, what would you do?" "Well, look, I'll show you." "Now, you're Stefan." "Go on, say your line." "And then I want to take you in my arms." "And I want you to, dearest." "I've been away from them for a million years and I never wanna leave them again." "Curtain." "Here's where I think we really helped it." "You follow the chambermaid up the stairs." "Say goodnight." "You go into your room." "She has her line." "Curtain." "I love it." "Yeah, that's great, John." "That takes care of all my objections." "Fine." "Now let's try it, shall we?" "From where?" "The two of you are looking at each other and the chambermaid enters." "Oh, yes." "All right." "Chambermaid." "Your Excellencies, your rooms are ready now." "May I show you to them?" "Come on down and answer the phone." "Lily, you're wanted on the telephone." "Oh, it's Thorny again tonight?" "Oh, dear." "Dear, dear." "Hello?" "I'm just leaving the apartment and I'll be right over to pick you up." "Goodbye." "Goodbye!" "Yeah?" "She is?" "Well, tell her I've gone." "Tell her I've" "She's already on her way up?" "Oh, that's bad." "All right." "Well, thanks." "Thanks." "Hello, darling." "Well, I was just taking a cold shower to wake me up." "You mustn't touch me." "You'll get all wet." "I've got to work all night." "So you told me." "But, John, take tonight off." "Let's go out somewhere." "Now, angel, you mustn't tempt me." "Work is work." "But you haven't taken me anywhere in two whole weeks." "Yes, I know, but tonight is not the night." "No, I simply can't go out with you tonight." "That's all." "Then I'll come in." "Isobel, you must be worn out from that rehearsal today, aren't you?" "Oh, no." "No?" "Just look at all this work I've got to do." "Poor boy." "Oh, don't touch anything." "You'll get everything mixed up." "Remember the first time I sang for you?" "Yes, of course I do." "That's one night I'll always remember." "So shall I, John." "Look, Isobel, darling, I've just got to work." "Wait, wait, wait." "When I look at you" "I hear lovely music" "Can" "There is something wrong with this piano." "I'll fix it." "Can it be my heart that sings?" "Well, good night now." "It's awful." "It's terrible." "What?" "The piano, it needs tuning." "Now, darling, you run home and take a nice long rest." "I certainly wish I could." "If you won't change your mind, so I better go home." "Well, I'm sorry." "But you know with the show opening in a week and everything I'm so busy that I-- Well, you know how busy I am." "Yes, I know." "You're so busy you take your shower with your tie, shirt, coat and pants on." "Think about a cowboy When you think of yippee-yee" "Think of English crumpets When you think of havin ' tea" "Think of silver moonlight And how lovely it can be" "But when you think of lovin ' Baby, think of me" "Think of snowcapped mountains When you think you'd like to ski" "Think of Cuba-libres When you think you'd like a spree" "Think about the movies For a set of dishes free" "But when you think of lovin ' Baby, think of me" "Good evening, Mr. Thornway." "Table 53, please." "This way, please." "Thank you." "Ladies and gentlemen, I see a celebrity among our customers." "It's the ace of the racetrack, the year's leading jockey, Dixie Bray." "What are you gonna do to entertain the folks?" "Nothing." "All I can do is ride." "Well, next time I think you'd better bring your horse." "Here's a man who has presented many actors, so for a change I'm gonna present him, John Thornway." "How are you, Bob?" "Fine, John." "Say, who's the lady I see you with?" "Oh, I'm Lily Mars." "Yeah?" "What do you do?" "I'm a chambermaid." "In what hotel?" "Not in any hotel." "In John Thornway's new show, Let Me Dream." "What do you do in the show?" "Do you make beds for the audience?" "Oh, I should say not." "They're not gonna fall asleep during our show." "Well, what are you gonna do to wake us up?" "Well, I" " I can sing a little." "Come on, sister, you're on." "Is it all right?" "Go right on." "Excuse me, I'll telephone John." "Maybe he'll come here and join us." "But, darling, he's probably fast asleep." "He'd better be." "When I look at you" "I hear lovely music" "Can it be my heart that sings?" "When I look at you" "I look at an angel" "Tell me where you've parked your wings" "Dizzy me Silly moon" "Crazy quilt of a sky" "Are you real or a dream" "That got caught in my eye?" "When I look at you" "I'm looking at rainbows" "Stars come tumbling down from above" "And I'm in love with you" "My love" "He doesn't answer." "Oh, well, John's a very sound sleeper." "We're going to another club." "New place, just opened." "Oh, no, I want to stay here." "But you won't like it here." "You won't like it at all." "You're not gonna be a chambermaid very long." "Let's try another and swing it a bit." "All right." "Besides that, we can't get a table." "I can't get a table?" "You hear?" "Yes." "Well, if they want me to sing for my supper." "Come on." "What is this throbbing within me?" "What is this rhythm so new?" "What is this beating That keeps on repeating" "And what am I dreaming That I wake up screaming" "I love you?" "I love you" "I love you" "I love you" "John, I" "When I look at you" "I hear lovely music" "Can it be my heart that sings?" "When I look at you" "I look at an angel" "Tell me where you parked your wings" "I mean, your wings" "I mean, your wings" "I mean, your ever-loving, turtle-doving wings, Jack" "Dizzy me" "Silly moon" "Crazy quilt Of a lackadaisy, crazy quilt of a sky" "Are you real as your seeming '" "Or a dream that I'm dreamin '?" "Or are you just a sty That got caught in my eye?" "Just a sty in my eye" "When I look at you" "I see a rainbow" "The sun, the moon The stars in June" "Come tumbling down from above" "And I might as well face it" "I'm in love!" "Was I all right?" "Did you--?" "Miss Rekay." "I'm sorry, but, but" "But" "But, but what?" "I didn't know you were here." "Well, I wasn't." "But as luck would have it I happened to drop in just in time to catch your act." "Clever, very clever." "Isn't she, John?" "Well, there I was and he said do something." "I didn't know what to do." "So you imitated me." "Well, Miss Rekay, any time you want to, you can imitate me." "Oh, thank you." "That's very kind of you, Miss Mars." "And I'll never sing your song again, I promise." "Honest." "Neither shall I. Honest." "Isobel, do you care for a drink or anything?" "No, I don't care for a drink or anything." "I'm sorry to break up this party." "But I'm getting tired, John, very tired." "I think I'd better be taken home right now." "Come on, Owen." "Isobel, I've called a rehearsal for 9 in the morning." "You come in whenever you like." "I'll do that, John." "Good night." "Oh, now look what I've done." "She's mad, John, good and mad." "Come on, let's dance." "It's exactly 5:00 p.m." "All right, so what, time signal?" "All this waiting, waiting, waiting." "And for what?" "For a woman to make up her mind." "From me they get 10 minutes, tops." "Stop your worrying." "Rekay'll be back." "She's always getting hoity-toity and flouncing out." "But this time she means it." "It'll take a little high-powered coaxing and petting." "John knows how to handle her." "Hope he hasn't lost his touch." "All right, Scotty, you can tell them they can all go home." "Everybody." "Everybody, that's all for today." "What time tomorrow?" "I'll let you know tomorrow, that's all." "Is there anything I can do, John?" "Yeah, Scotty, you can go out and get drunk." "For me." "Anything I can do, John?" "Well, you can help Scotty." "Anything I can do?" "Hey." "Yeah, you help the two of them." "That'll be all for today." "John?" "Hi there." "Hello." "I'm going home." "Back home." "Tonight." "No." "No, you're not." "But if I go away everything will be all right with the show and everything." "I'm calling off the show." "Oh, no, you mustn't." "I'm not gonna do it unless I can do it right." "But, John, I've been thinking that maybe I" "I know what you've been thinking." "I believe I could do it." "What do you think?" "I think that I'm in love with you." "Oh, John, I" "You run along now and I'll let you know what I'm gonna do just as soon as I know myself." "All right." "Love." "I hate love." "Women?" "You can have them." "Thanks, I got some." "Good night, fellow comedians." "I'm going home to my wife the one in Brooklyn." "I shall walk all the way, and I hope, I hope it's raining." "And when I'll get home, if my supper isn't ready, I shall beat her." "And if my supper is ready, I shall not eat it." "Farewell." "There's a guy that gets drunk and has the D.T.'s all at the same time." "Well?" "The show opens as planned, one week from tonight." "With Rekay?" "Without Rekay." "Right." "Now here's what I'm gonna do." "Don't." "She's clever but she's not nearly ready to step into a big part." "It'll take years before she's ready to carry a Broadway show." "Just the same, I'm gonna take a chance." "Wait." "We're the ones that have been drinking." "Think it over, John." "It's an awful big gamble." "What's show business?" "Lily." "Lily, telephone." "Lily, telephone." "It's Thorny." "Hello?" "Yes, John." "Yes, John." "Oh, yes, John." "What's happened?" "Where are you going?" "Hey, Lily, wait." "Where you going?" "To the theater." "Like that?" "What?" "Mama!" "Mama!" "What is it?" "What happened?" "Hello, operator, get me long distance." "Yes." "Oh, Lily." "Oh, I'm so tickled that I'm tickled." "Oh, bless your heart child." "Well, it's only what I expected sooner or later." "Good night, dear." "Lily, be sure to eat plenty of fresh vegetables." "Goodbye." "Hello, operator?" "Get me the Midhaven Daily Press." "Children, guess what?" "Lily is a star." "Will she twinkle?" "She'll twinkle." "Midhaven Daily Press?" "I have a very important piece of news for you." "Tell him about it, Mama!" "Tell him about Lily!" "Children, stop it." "Be quiet." "Be quiet." "Not you." "My name is Lily Mars' mother." "Guess what?" "A little more wine?" ""No more champagne, Stefan." "More kisses."" "No." "No?" "No, Lily." "No." "Look, darling, try to remember you're a mature Russian princess." "On your honeymoon." "Yes." "Not a village belle on a hayride." "That's all right, darling." "Come on now." "Let's try it again." "All right." "From your entrance." "You're doing fine, honey." "Keep it up." "Don't get excited." "Don't get excited now." "All right." "All right." "Oh, Stefan, how could you do this to me, and on our honeymoon?" "No, no, no." "You're not suffering enough." "She's wiggling enough." "Go on, go on." "Suffer." "Suffer." "Oh, Stefan, how could you do this to" " Ouch!" "And on our honeymoon." "Now, darling, you know what I want." "Yes." "You're sure?" "Yes." "That's fine." "Okay, Beethoven, hit it." "I heard a tune in the moonlight" "From the distance arising" "Troika bells harmonizing" "A Russian rhapsody" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Will you send this out for me, Mike?" "Sure will, Syd." "Say, how'd it go?" "Well, it's a good sign when the dress rehearsal smells." "How was the Mars kid?" "It's a good sign when the dress rehearsal smells." "Attababy, baby." "I was all right, wasn't I?" "Oh, sure." "Sure you were." "And you're gonna be all righter too." "Now relax, huh?" "All right." "Here." "Thank you." ""When John Thornway's new play, Let Me Dream, opens in New York Friday night the star will be none other than Lily Mars, daughter of Mrs. Flora Mars of Midhaven."" "I can't believe it." "Oh, I'm in heaven." "Ouch." "All except my feet." "Frankie, I wonder why John didn't come back to see me?" "Well" " Well, he never does." "Once the show starts off in dress rehearsal, he just stays out front and lets it roll." "I made some mistakes, but not very big ones." "Oh, well, sure." "Everybody makes mistakes." "Now relax and save your strength." "You gotta go out there tomorrow night and murder a lot of people." "Relax." "Oh, hello, Mr. T." "Is she decent?" "Yeah, sure, come on in." "Will you go and tell Scotty not to leave?" "Yeah, sure." "Hello." "Hi there." "How was I?" "First." "Lily, you've learned more in a few weeks than most actresses learn in a lifetime." "With a little luck and a lot of hard work, you're gonna be a great actress, someday." "Now, I've called another dress rehearsal for tonight." "We'll start just as soon as the cast has had a little rest and got something to eat." "All right, boss." "I'm ready." "No, Lily." "I hate worse than anything in the world to tell you, but no, you're not ready." "I should have had more sense than to let you tackle such a tough part but I wasn't being sensible and now I've got to be." "And so have you." "Am I hopeless?" "No, darling, no, you're not hopeless." "It's just that you're green." "You're inexperienced." "Lily, it's a tremendous job for an actress to carry a whole show." "She has to have authority." "She has to have range and ease." "And a thousand and one tricks of the trade that you can only learn through experience." "She has to be a finished actress." "A big actress." "And I'm only a little one." "You're a good little one." "But this part calls for a good big one." "And I've got her." "You made up with Isobel." "It wasn't a question of making up, it was business." "Show business between two professional show people who understand that their job's are more important than their personal feelings." "Darling you and" "Miss Rekay wants me to put these" "Just a minute, please." "She can move in now." "Lily, take all the time you want to." "She shouldn't have barged in here like that." "Darling, I" "I can't tell you how rotten I feel about that but" "Hey, boss." "I'll be with you in just a minute, Scotty." "But here's how it's got to be:" "Isobel plays the princess and you play the" "Your old part." "Rekay called." "She wants this room or she's gonna take another powder on you." "Well, she'll just have to wait." "Lily." "Lily." "I don't want you to go but you can if you want to." "You can go away, you can go back home, you can hate me for the rest of your life." "But there's something else you can do if you want to." "You can come back tomorrow night and try to play that maid better than any maid has ever been played in any theater." "When you walk out on stage and say your few lines and give them everything you've got to give there'll be one less amateur in the world and one more professional." "Now, that's all up to you." "Here she is." "Surprise!" "Surprise!" "Surprise!" "Surprise!" "Congratulations." "Congratulations, Lily." "I'm so happy." "We'll all move to New York." "I'll get a lot of superduper doorknobs." "Wonderful." "You're wonderful." "We just had to come." "So we came." "In a bus." "We sold the piano." "Oh, well, I'm certainly glad to see you." "Oh, you're tired, dear." "Come and sit over here." "Right here in this big chair." "You look just the same." "Well, where's Poppy?" "Poppy?" "Oh, Poppy." "Children, did we come away without Poppy?" "No, Mama." "Did we leave her on the bus?" "No, Mama." "Well, then, she must be here." "Yes, Mama." "Poppy!" "Poppy!" "Poppy!" "Congratulations, Lily, dear" "Upon the start of your career" "We love you best of all the stars" "We're proud of you, Miss Lily Mars" "That's nice, dear." "She loved it." "I ' m not a star." "I ' m not even an actress." "I'm nothing at all." "Oh, there, there, dear." "Now no matter how bad it is, it isn't as bad as all that." "I wanna go home." "Oh, there, there, darling." "Look at him." "He's got the biggest moneymaker he ever had in his life." "And what is he doing?" "Moping." "John, how about Lily?" "Is she here?" "I don't know." "What about her part?" "Well, if she isn't here to play it, the other girl will." "I heard a tune in the moonlight" "From the distance arising" "Troika bells harmonizing" "A Russian rhapsody" "Where roses bloom in September" "Where autumn leaves are swaying" "To balalaikas playing" "John, how soon is Lily supposed to make her entrance?" "Right after Isobel's song." "Where?" "Through that door over there." "Pick a rose in September" "When it's spring you'll remember" "A Russian rhapsody" "When it's spring you'll remember" "A Russian rhapsody" "Stefan." "Waiters." "No more champagne, Stefan." "More kisses." "Your excellencies, your room is ready." "May I show you to it now?" "Children, quiet." "Quiet." "Good night, Your Excellencies." "Good night." "And may your dreams be beautiful." "Thank you." "Thank you." "I'm so glad, dear." "I knew she'd come back." "I'll see you later." "Isobel, darling, you were swell." "Thanks for coming back and I'm very happy about everything." "You should be, John." "I am too." "Now run along and see Lily." "And tell her for me she's a real trouper." "And you're very lucky." "Swell, kid." "You were swell." "You were swell." "Oh, and you were swell." "Swell." "Hello." "Swell." "You were sw" "Oh, Scotty, listen, thanks a million." "It was swell." "Leo, costumes swell, swell." "You were swell." "You" " Oh, I beg your pardon." "I thought he was in the" "This should be good for two years." "Yes." "Listen, where is Lily dress" "Lily's dressing" "Oh, it's all right." "Never mind." "You were swell, Scotty." "She just left." "Oh, well, thanks." "You were swell, Prissy." "Thank you." "Lily." "Lily." "Hi there." "Hello." "Thanks for coming back." "I never enjoyed any actress's performance so much in my life." "Oh, John, I was only on the stage for a minute." "It was the happiest, the most thrilling moment I ever hope to have in the theater." "It made me sure that I was right about you." "John, we've got an audience." "Well, you just wait until you see the audiences you're going to have." "You've heard of Sarah Bernhardt She really was a dilly" "But Sarah Bernhardt couldn't compare To the gal that's known as Lily" "Where there's music" "There'll be singing" "Where there's singing You'll find skies of blue" "For when all the world goes wrong" "A simple little song" "Will always bring a rainbow Smiling through" "With a rainbow" "There'll be laughter" "Chasing after sunshine from above" "Where there's sunshine" "There'll be music" "And where there's music" "There's love" "Hey, mister, that's my sister." "She's marriaged." "Poppy, be quiet." "Yes, Poppy, you'd better or you'll get put out." "Not with my mother-in-law here." "For songs are souvenirs" "That live through the years" "The grand old songs never die" "Where there's music" "There'll be dancing" "No matter where you go" "It's 3:00 in the morning" "We've danced the whole night through" "That melody, so entrancing" "Seems to be made for us two" "I could just keep right on dancing" "Forever dear with you" "Where there's music" "There'll be dancing" "And romancing" "To the rhythm that is new" "Gotta dance" "Gotta dance" "Broadway rhythm It's got me" "Everybody dance" "Broadway rhythm It's got me" "Everybody dance" "Broadway rhythm it's got me" "On the gay white way" "In each merry café" "Orchestras play" "Taking your breath away with that" "Broadway rhythm it's got me" "Everybody sing and dance" "That Broadway rhythm" "That Broadway rhythm" "When I hear that happy beat" "Feel like dancing down the street" "That Broadway rhythm It's got me beating" "Broadway rhythm It's got me" "Broadway rhythm It's got me" "It's the sweetest beat From the sweetest street" "Known as Broadway" "The street of a million dreams" "Broadway" "Where nothing is what it seems" "Broadway rhythm's got me" "And where there's rhythm" "There's music and love"