"Subtitles:" "Luís Filipe Bernardes" "Has Miss Cavendish gone home yet?" "Oh, you're the young fellow from the Tribune." "No, Miss Cavendish ain't gone home yet." "Say, old timer, maybe you can tell us something about this rumor." "What rumor?" "Why, about Miss Cavendish retiring from the stage... and letting her daughter take her place." "Say, listen." "Do you two young newspaper fellows want to know something?" " Sure." " Well, I'll tell you." "The Cavendishes never retire." "Cavendishes are eternal." "They go on acting until they're dead." "And when the Cavendishes die they go right on up to heaven... and start acting with the Cavendishes that are up there." " You don't tell me." " Yes, I do tell you." "Go on down to the stage door around the corner and see if that looks like Julie Cavendish is going to retire." "Come on, Pete." "Miss Cavendish, would you please sign this?" "Miss Cavendish, Miss Cavendish..." "I'm from the news." "We've heard you were going to retire." "Retire?" "Where would I retire to?" "Anything to say about your brother Tony?" "That scam on the coast." "I don't know anything about it." "Oh, for me?" "Here's one for you." "Mother, do you want to act on the road this fall?" " I most certainly do." " Then won't you please take care of yourself?" "You know Dr. Parker said you weren't to go out at night for a while." "Dr. Parker is an old goat!" "You know best." "Does Oscar know you're out?" "It's Oscar Wolfe's business to look after my tour, not after my health." "All right, but please take care of yourself." "All right, all right!" "Look!" "Look at that!" "Tony Cavendish!" "My son, a Cavendish, in Hollywood!" "All talking, all color." "All terrible." "I wonder what that reporter meant." " What reporter?" " Oh, nothing." "Where are you going in all your fancy clothes?" "I was going to a party but I changed my mind." "I'm tired tonight." "What's the matter, wasn't the house good?" "Oh, they were lovely." "I took seven curtain calls." "No, eight." "I always considered it a bad night if I didn't take at least fourteen." "I know, Fanny, but that was you." "Oh, I suppose it's just because I'm tired, but somehow the fun seems to have gone out of it all." "I've been doing it so long, Mother." " Wait till you're my age." " You love it, don't you, Mother?" "And Gwen loves it." "But I'm just in between now." "Between my mother and my daughter." "It's no fun to look either back or forward." "You are tired." "The way I feel tonight I'd give the whole thing up for one man who really loved me." "Who'd give me a happy, peaceful home." "Well, my dear, you're America's leading actress... beside with me." "You have a daughter who's going in to her first play next week... with you... and a brother who's almost as good an actor as his father Aubrey was... if that Hollywood date hadn't ruined him." "You are part of a great tradition, Julie." "Member of a royal family." "A little bit late to talk about love." "It's never too late to talk about love." "It's too late to talk about peaceful, happy homes." "Well, it doesn't hurt to wish occasionally that ours was a little less like a madhouse." "What do you want to do with the rest of your life, sit at home and crochet?" " I don't know how to crochet." " Or do you want to end it as I am, still trouping, still carrying on?" "With a heart full of splendid memories." "Memories of a great... a great career as a great actress." "A Cavendish." "One vote for Cavendish!" "No, Miss Cavendish hasn't returned from the theater yet." "Well, any minute now." "What?" "Yes, I'll tell her." "Yes, I'll tell her." " What is it, Della?" " I don't know." "It's something for Miss Julie." "New York called, Marine operator at one." "Marine operator, what's that?" "It's a ship at sea calling." "They've been trying to get you all evening." "Ship at sea?" "Miss French wants you to speak at her school on the 11th." "And there's some radio company wants you to talk for 15 minutes on the 9th." "The Evening Journal telephoned again... and the Postal Telegraph wants you to call." "And Mr. Wolfe is coming in the morning about your new play." " That'll be all, Della." " There were flowers and letters... and here are these checks to sign for those bills." "Not now, Della, I'll tend to those later." "The Langhorn Studio wants you to have another sitting." " That's all, Della, please." " Yes, Miss Julie." " Here's a telegram for you." " Oh, thank you." "You see, Mother, that's what I mean." "My poor darling." " You'll feel better in the morning, dear." " Yes, of course, darling." " Oh, good heavens!" " What?" "It's from Tony, dear little brother Tony." "Good gracious, is it anything serious?" "As far as I can make out, he seems to have killed somebody." "Anyone we know?" " From Dodge City." " Dodge City, California?" "Look, he's on his way here." "Listen." "Pay no attention to possible account of Denning incident." "His injury is not fatal." "It takes more than that to kill a movie director." "Arrive New York Wednesday." "California police have no authority outside state." "Under no condition talk to reporters." "Zita Zadak on this train but no trouble so far as I'm locked in drawing room." "Love to all." "He was a dirty dog anyway." "Tony." "Oh, good old Tony." "Zita Zadak." " Who's she?" " A movie actress, I suppose." "Great heavens." "Oh, my dear, Julie, do you think it's serious?" "No, Mother, of course not." "Now, Tony will get out of it all right." "He always does." "We may as well prepare for the storm when he arrives." "That's all this little house needs now, one more storm." "Still, I do hope, Julie, that Tony's all right." "Tony's all right, Mother." "Now please, why don't you go upstairs and get some sleep?" "Yes..." "To bed, to bed!" "'Knocking at the gates, what's done cannot be undone!" "'" "To bed, to bed..." "Hello." "No, Miss Cavendish is not here." "I don't know." "What?" "What?" "The S.S. Chrstabella calling?" "I don't know any S.S. Christabella." "Who?" "From where?" "South America?" "Who?" "This is Miss Cavendish." "Who?" "Marshall?" "Oh, Gilmore Marshall." "Oh, but of course, of course." "Why, Gil!" "What in the world?" "Why, it's been years and years." "I know." "Well, uh..." "Well, how are you?" "What are you doing on a boat called the S.S. Christabella?" "Oh... you're arriving tomorrow." "Oh..." "What?" "Oh, this is very exciting." "Yes..." "Yes." "Yes, about tomorrow noon." "I was afraid you wouldn't remember me, Julia." "I'm glad you do." "Your beautiful roses have just arrived." "Such beautiful roses." "Gil, don't you think you can get here before tomorrow afternoon?" "Couldn't you swim or something?" "You can swim very well, I remember." "No, I'm afraid not." "But I want to see you tomorrow afternoon." "But of course." "At four sharp." "I'll have the real me downstairs." "No, of course not." "No... oh, you'd be surprised." "Oh, I'm much younger than I used to be." "No, not a silver thread." "Say, how about you?" "Oh, I'm about the same." "I've settled down quite a bit." "At least I..." "I'd like to settle down." "Tell me, Julia, are you er..." "Are you still on the stage?" "Why..." "why what a question!" "Don't you ever read the newspapers down there?" "Now, Gil, you must tell me all about yourself." "Oh, no, not now, tomorrow at four." "Yes..." "Yes..." "Yes..." "Good-bye then." "I'm taking your roses up to my room." "Good-bye, my dear." "Table for two, waiter, not too near the music." "Aren't you giving a matinée today, Julia?" "Being a star, Oscar, they'll wait for me." "It was a very good entrance, Julie." "Dear little mother, wouldn't you like to go up and come down again?" "You're looking particularly beautiful today, if I may say so." "Oh, please do, Oscar because it's the most particular day for a beautiful party." "At least beginning at four o'clock it is." "Hello, darling." "Don't you look terrible." "I know I'm must fly, Mother." "I'm going right up and change." "Ah, how lovely, how peaceful and lovely..." "Oh, peace, peace..." "Go on, Oscar, that's beautiful." "A C.O.D package, Miss Julie, $39." "C.O.... what?" "A package, $39." "What am I buying for $39?" "All that for $39?" "Who's got $39?" "Oscar, let me have it." "Oh, Oscar, you're terrifying." "Julia, I'll cut it short." "We have now, let me see..." "Oh, it's five minutes past two already." "I want you downtown at my office, you and Gwen, 3:00 sharp." "Your office, I never go to your office, Oscar, what do you mean?" "Don't start to holler before I tell you." "Now..." "You remember I told you last night I was going to meet the Mauritania?" "Well, he came in." "Sir John Clark-Morton." "Oh, the author, oh, send him back." " Avoid authors that come over water." " An old Chinese proverb." " In fact, avoid all authors." " Let them eat cake." "If you Camilles will keep still a minute, I'll tell you what it is." "Now, this Clarke-Morton is a new playwright, and English." "And nothing will satisfy him." "He wants to read his new play to the entire company." "Is that so?" "I never heard anything so idiotic in my life." "But if you're really serious, I'll go through with it." "But it can't be this afternoon." "Julia, how often do I ask you a favor?" "This fellow has a play that I'm crazy to get a hold of." " Oh, no..." " Humor him a little bit... and tell him how good he is." "Now, what do you say?" " Oh, Oscar, no." " What do you say, Fanny?" "Tell him to go jump in the lake." "But why must it be this afternoon?" "Some other afternoon, perhaps, some less particular afternoon." "What's going on this afternoon, anyway?" "Are you going to be married or something?" "I can't do it, that's all, I can't." "So you wouldn't even do this for your poor old manager, huh?" "You've got a little appointment, tea, or buy a new hat, and compared to that," "Oscar doesn't matter..." "Oscar, don't cry." "Your tears unman me." "Well, well, never mind, never mind, but the next time you ask me to do something for you," "I..." "I..." "I..." "Oh, I'll do it anyhow." "What are you doing that's so important this afternoon?" "Well, I uh..." "I..." "Don't pay any attention to her, Oscar." "I'll see that she's there." " Mother, you don't understand, that's all..." " Oscar's done a lot of things for you." "You win, Oscar." "At 3 o'clock enter Julie Cavendish." "That's my girl." "Now, don't forget, 3 o'clock sharp." "You and Gwen go down to my office." "You start in 20 minutes sharp, eh?" "All right?" "We'll be there, but I could kill you for it." "That's the way to talk!" "Good-bye everybody, good-bye!" " Good-bye, Oscar." " Good-bye, good-bye." "Now, look here." "Now, Julie Cavendish, what's all this mooning about?" "What's this big renunciation scene, 'I can't do it this afternoon, I can't'?" "What does it mean?" "Gil's back." "Gil, what's that?" "Gilmore Marshall." "Sent me flowers last night and a note." "So that's it, eh?" "Would have been nice to have this afternoon free." "Good gracious, is he going to come here?" "He said about 4 o'clock." "Della will only have to put him off, that's all." "So he's come back to New York to spend his millions." "And I think if it hadn't been for me you'd have gone off to South America and given up your career and everything." "I wonder what he's like now." "He may have become very charming." "South America, millions..." "Probably a little gray hair." "Sounds all romantic, huh?" "No more romantic now than he was years ago." "What a siege that was." "Yes, and what a demon you were, darling." "I had to be." "You certainly acted like a mother in a melodrama." "How I ever got you where you are today is more than I know." "You were always at the point of running off with some young squirt." "And when you finally married Rex Colbert, ooph!" "Mother, out of the whole crowd why did I marry Rex?" "He was a wicked singer." " Yet with lovely manners." " Yes." "He was the kind of man that would kiss your hand without looking silly." "I guess that's what he must have been doing when I needed him." "That's one thing you must admit about Gil, Mother, he would have been dependable." "Oh, when you get a little older you begin to think that maybe..." "What's that, what's that?" "Oh, don't be alarmed, darling." "But I am curious to see him." "I had it all staged so beautifully, too." "I was going to wear my rose beige and a hat with a brim... look dignified and wistful, look girlish, a little provocative withal..." "Oh dear, oh dear..." "Oh, dear, behave yourself." "You can put that act on for him just as well tomorrow." "It's been a good many years." "What's a couple of hours more?" "I do hate disappointing Gil, though." "Well..." "And I did so want to look gorgeous, and gay, and glamorous..." "Is that all?" "That won't be very difficult, my darling." "Thanks, Mother." " You're sweet." " Yes." " Am I a fool?" " Yes." "Yes!" "Oh, don't you look swell?" "Oh, Gwen!" "Was it this afternoon you were going out to Westchester with Perry?" "Yes, he'll be along any minute." "Oh well, darling..." "You can't go, that's all." "You'll just have to put him off." "You must go with me down to Oscar's office to hear the author read the new play." "Mother, that's absurd." "You know I've had this date with Perry for a week." "I've never met his mother." "She's giving the tea just for me and she's having all those people there," "How can I?" " It can be some other time." " No, no, it can't now." "I've been all over it with Oscar and it's got to be this afternoon." "I promised." "Now there, Perry will understand." "I hope someone else will." "He picked a good day for it, this mister singing bob." "What is that?" "Joe!" "Della!" "I never heard such a scandal in my life." "Oh, Mother, surely that can't be Gil already." "All right, shut up, everyone!" " Take everything up to my room, Joe." " Yes, sir." "This way, boys." "Somebody run and lock the back door." "And you, take a look out of that window see if there's a man out there in a long overcoat of a filthy cut." "Well, how's America's sweetheart?" "Aren't you glad to see your baby boy?" "Tony, Tony, Tony!" "Tony, will you explain this trick, how did you get here?" "Tell you all about it in a minute." "Joe, get me 20 bucks." "Jerry brought me in from Mineola." "Ten apiece for the rest of the boys." "How many are there?" " Seven, sir." "Six, without me." " That makes about 90 bucks." "Now remember, you fellas, if any of those reporters ask, you didn't see me." "Never came near me, don't know anything about me in fact you never even heard of me." "Uh... you better not say that." "They wouldn't believe it." "Hello, sis." "Well!" "Hey, uh..." "Let them have the money, will you?" "Here, Joe." "Tony, your arm!" "That doesn't amount to anything, I hit him too hard, that's all." "How did the fight start in the first place?" " Well, you see..." " Ah, this will be good." " Tell us all about it, Uncle Tony." " Uncle?" "I'll strangle her." "Hello, Dell, how you been?" "How about a bite for us?" "Bring everything you got, will you, eh, babe?" "But first I've got to have a hot bath." "Come on upstairs, everybody, while I take a bath." "Now look here, Tony Cavendish, you listen to me!" " What is it, Ma?" " How did you get here?" " You were in Dodge City yesterday..." " Sure, I came by airplane from Chicago." "A plane, Mother, what a disappointment..." "I couldn't come on a train, they're watching the trains." "And I've got to lay low in this apartment till I sail." " Sail?" " Sail where?" "Europe, of course." "Tomorrow in the Aquitania." "Oh, I hate pictures!" "Come on, come on, I'm gonna have a bath." "How did it start, tell me, how did this fight start?" "Oh, this alleged director!" "He had it coming to him ever since we started to shoot." "He put this girl on the picture and when she got stuck on me he got sore." "But Tony..." "And then what happened then?" "Come on, we're over here." "I'll tell you what happened." "When I'm on location doing a desert scene, see, this guy Denning picks out the worst camel in the pack and says, 'You ride that one.'" "I took one look at it and said," "'You ride it yourself and see how you like it.'" "He said, 'Who's directing this picture, you or me?" "'" "I said, 'You're directing the picture nut you're not directing me," "I'm through with it, and you can take this to remember me by.'" "I wouldn't be so worried about it unless you killed him." "Who is this train woman?" "Who is this zickary-zackory?" "Just the same as Tony's other zickary-zackories, Mother." "I'm late, I must go." "Bye, you!" "Hey!" "Who is this zickary-zackory?" "Oh, Mama, she's a Pole." " Look out for Poles!" " Yeah." "Well, fancy meeting you here." "Hello, Perry." "Well, I can't go." "What do you mean you can't go?" "I've got to go to Wolfe's office to hear the play read." "There's no way out of it." "I've got to do it." "You can't mean that you're breaking this date just to go and hear somebody read their play." " What play?" " The play." "The play that goes in rehearsal tomorrow." "That Mother and I are doing." "Why, you've read it a thousand times." "You've read it to me." "But this is different." "The author is reading it." "Oh, well let him, the silly ass." "What do you care?" "Oh, Perry." "I wanted horribly to go with you." "I made an awful fuss, but what could I do?" "You know, Gwen, this isn't the first time you've done this to me." "Oh, Perry, don't be unreasonable." "You know it's just because of the new play." "Yes, but there'll always be a new play, won't there?" "Well, I realize it's inconvenient sometimes, but it is for me too." "Well, what are we heading for, that's what I'd like to know." "How is it all going to work out?" "Well, I don't know." "What is there to work out?" "After all, you marry the person you'd rather be with more than anyone else in the world." "But where will you be half the time?" "Rehearsing or something." "Now, don't be fantastic." "Rehearsals last three weeks." "All right, and then what?" "You'll be at the theater every night." "Your work will just begin when mine's all over." "You'll have dinner at six." "I probably won't even be home." "By midnight, you're all teed up and ready to start out." "And I've got to be at work in the morning." "Now, you wouldn't want me to be one of those wives, would you?" " Bridge, and household, and babies..." " Why not?" "What's the matter with that?" "Because I can't do that sort of thing any more than you can do the other." "I'm an actress, Perry, an actress." "What does that mean?" "Suppose you turn out to be as good as your mother, or better." "What is there to it when it's all over?" "Get you name up in electric lights, a fuse blows out, phht, and where are you?" "Oh, I suppose the world would go to pieces if you didn't sell 100 shares of consolidated whatnots for ten cents more than somebody paid for it." "Listen, you can't compare acting with business." "Is that so?" "I can give you the names of actors and actresses of 300 hundred years ago." "Dozens of them." "Name me two XVII century stockbrokers." "All right, I'll give up my work, trail along after you carrying a little Pekingese..." "It's not a Pekingese!" "Oh, Perry, how can you..." "How can you..." "Listen, Gwen I..." "Forgive me, darling." "It wasn't my fault." "Forgive me." "Oh, dear, it's just that I'm such a fig about you." "I can't help but want you all to myself." "Oh, we're a couple of idiots." " We've never quarreled before." " And we won't again." "There isn't anything in the world that matters to me except you." " We must have been crazy." " You're all that matters to me." "Oh, Gwen darling, darling..." "Now come on, honey." "It's late." " What?" " You're coming with me, aren't you?" " Oh, Perry." " What?" "You haven't heard a word I've said." "I heard everything you said." "You heard what I said too, didn't you?" "Oh, it's like a bad dream." "I can't go." "Haven't I explained to you I can't?" "Oh, yes?" "Well, I've got to be going, of course." "And get there." " Julie, are you ready?" " I'll be right there." "Gwen, are you ready?" "Bravo, Tony!" "Bravo!" "If I'm not violating any dear old tradition of the Cavendishes, would it be all right for me to ask where my lunch is?" "In fact, where the..." "Asta mañana!" "Mr. Wolfe just telephoned from the office, Miss Julie." "Good-bye, Mother darling." "Good-bye, you brute." "Come on, Gwen." " I'm not coming." " Gwen!" "Will you please put on your hat and coat." "I don't just mean that I'm not coming now." "I'm not going to be in this play." "I'm not going to be in any play." "I'm through with the stage!" "Before you've started?" "I'm not going to let it mess up my whole life." "You mean..." "as you think it has mine?" " If you like." " Oh Gwen, darling." "What do you want at the end of your life?" "A box full of stocks and bonds?" "Or a heart full of splendid memories?" "Oh, my dear, you don't know what you're talking about." "I'm sick of all this." "I'm sick of being a Cavendish." "I want to be a human being." " But you are a Cavendish." " Then I don't want to be." "But you've got to be." "Gwen, you can be the greatest of us all." "All preceding Cavendishes have just been stepping stones for you." "What's that, what's that?" "I'll be a stepping stone for nobody." "And as for Aubrey Cavendish, there's nobody since his day that can touch him." "That's what I mean!" "What's there to it when it's all over?" "Get your name up in electric lights and then the lights don't work, or something." "And then where are you?" "And you, the great Cavendish, that none of the young girls in this country can go to sleep on account of." "On account of you none of the..." "Oh, you know what I mean." "What have you ever done with your life?" "Have you ever had babies?" "Have you ever known what it was to have a home and a husband?" "You touched on a secret dream of mine, Gwen." "I wish you had spared me." "Lunch!" "I'm through with you all!" "I'm going to be Mrs. Perry Stewart." "And whoever wants to be a Cavendish is welcome to it!" "Gwen!" "Tony shouldn't be making that noise." "He's only been here 24 hours." "You can scarcely read in any room in the house." "I had to lock the door in my bathroom." "( Lines from Romeo and Juliet )" "Oh-oh, Mr. Tony!" " Sorry, toots." "( Lines from Romeo and Juliet )" "Have I not won thee fairly?" "Fine, dear!" "Here you are, Mack, I'll be up in a couple of minutes." "Yes, Mr. Tony." "Oh, you should have seen your father hold off eight of them." "Oh, what a swordsman he was." "What a master!" "Aubrey and Fanny Cavendish... in 'A Gentleman of Trust'." "He'd turn around, hit him right down the stairway." "Then, up the banister and quick as a wink he'd whirl and catch one coming up behind him!" "Thrust, yank, exit!" "That scene was, oh..." "It took a full bottle of liniment every week." "Oh, those were the days, Fanny." "Those were the days." "Yeah..." "Say, where's Julie?" "What time is it anyhow, it's late!" "She should be here any minute." "The matinée's over." "It's a quarter after five." "Is she getting my passport or isn't she?" "I've got to get out of here." "Can't sail without a passport, she ought to know that." "She isn't getting your passport." "Who says you've got to go to Europe?" " What for?" " A million reasons." "I feel like it." "I want to get away." "You can have it, your ancient and royal profession of acting." "I'm through!" "You've been saying that ever since you played Little Lord Fauntleroy." "I mean it this time." "That's why I'm going abroad." "You give me two years in Munich with my violin and that Ascher... and I'll show you what the stage means to me." "I can be a great musician." "Or I might go away into India with Krishnamurti." "Study Hindu philosophy, it's the only real thing in the world." "You wear just one garment, a long white robe." "And you eat just one food: rice." "That ought to be restful." "The stage, agh!" "I'm gonna spend ten minutes in the Cathedral of Chartres..." "Now look here, look here." "You think you're fooling me about why you're going to Europe." "Cathedrals, and violins, and rice?" "It's that dago woman you're running away from." "Well, suppose I am." "But I'm not afraid of her!" "Then what is it?" "It's just..." "that breach of promise..." " What breach of promise, dear?" " $200,000." "She wants two..." "That's why I've got to stay cooped up here." "You don't suppose I'm afraid of reporters, do you?" "But if they ever tag that little paper on me, I can't sail." "$200.00 for breach of promise?" "Why wasn't I told of this?" "I suppose I was too young to know." " Well, you see, Fanny..." " Get away from me!" "$200.00 for breach of promise?" "Assault and battery on this director, probably another $100.000" "Well, it's worth it, I tell you." "What did you ever promise this movie actress that's worth $200.000?" "What..." "Woman's voice?" "No, but I'm not taking any chances." "Who's that?" "Oh, it's Julie, Julie, it's all right." "Oh, hello, Julie." "Oh, I'm getting pretty fed up on your dear public, Tony." "Did you get it, Julie?" "The entire population of New York is standing out the doorstep howling for a glimpse of America's foremost screen lover." "In the meantime they take what fortune sends... or a piece of it." "My dear, your coat is ripped." "Come and sit down." "You'll be worn out for another performance..." "My passport, have you got my passport?" "Oh dear, what a day this has been." "Mother, how's Gwen?" "Is she better?" "No, no, she's still sulking in her room." "She hasn't been out all day." " Now look here, Julie..." " Shut up, Tony." " Has she eaten anything?" " No, she wouldn't even drink her tea." "Miss Julie, Mr. Cartwright phoned." "Mrs. Blair's dinner has been postponed" " ...for a week from Wednesday." " Not now, Della, please." "The shop called up about your fitting." "Your dress won't be ready..." "That be hanged!" "My boat sails at midnight, what have you done about my passport?" "Tony, my love, Wolfe is bringing it." "Oh, he is, eh?" "Why didn't you say so?" " He's bringing the money, too." " Thanks, Ma." "I paid for your reservation." "By the way, you neglected to tell me that you were roughing it across in the royal suite." "You don't expect him to travel like a stowaway, do you?" "You got the right idea, Mom." "Oh, hire a battle ship, if you like." "Only don't forget I'm a poor working girl." "It'll all blow over in a month." "That's why I want to get away." "Why must it be Europe?" "What are you going to do when you get there?" "He's going to eat rice and play the violin." "Oh well, I'm going to see Gwen." "Don't forget, nobody is to know I'm in the house." "There are only about 10.000 people downstairs who seem to have caught on to your secret." "I'll lure them all right." "But you'll have to go out to catch the boat, won't you?" "Oh, no..." "Oh, no, it's all been arranged." "They're going to back the Aquitania up to the door for him." "Della, did he phone?" "Mr. Marshall phoned eight times." "Last time he said he'd be right over." "Now, why don't you lie down and relax?" "I'll bring you dinner on a tray." " You have another performance tonight." " I know, Della." "I'm going up to see Gwen." "Are you feeling better, darling?" "Oh, Mother, I don't mean to act like a prima donna but I feel like hell, that's all." "I know, dear." "Bless my soul, what's all this darkness about here?" "You can't see a hand before your face." "He didn't even telephone." "He might at least have telephoned." "How do you know he didn't telephone?" "Tony's had the receiver off almost all day." " Then maybe he tried?" " Yes, yes." "There, Gwen." "Oh, Mother, I love him so." "There's nothing to cry about, darling." "No, you can love him and marry him too, can't you?" "You see, Gwen, it's hard for us to realize that you wouldn't want to carry on." "Your mother and I both got married but we didn't think we had to drop more important things to do it." " There isn't anything more important." " Oh, for heaven's sake." "Marriage isn't a career, dear." "It's an incident." "Aubrey Cavendish and I were married in the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, England, just before the matinée." " The wedding stopped all..." " I know." "I know, but I guess I'm not like the rest of you." "You think you're not, but you are." "Mary him if you love him, Gwen." "But don't give up everything to do it." "The time may come when you'll hate him for it." "Hate Perry?" "You just don't know what you're talking about." "Oh, but I do." "There are all sorts of things you'll have to give up, darling." "Gay things, and amusing things." "Oh, but Gwen," "If I could only make you realize that the thrill you get out of doing your work is bigger than any other single thing in the world." "Oh, I know, there's love." "But you can be the most fortunate person in the world, Gwen." "You can have both." "Just don't make the mistake of giving up one for the other." " No, child." " Work!" "Acting isn't anything." " What's acting compared to..." " Oh, it's everything!" "It's work and play, meats and drinks, and home and babies." "Oh, they'll tell you it isn't your fancy, Gwen, but that's a lie." "They'd give their years to be in your place." "Do you think I could have stood these last two years hobbling around on this thing..." "If I hadn't known that I was going back to it?" "Every night, when I'm sitting here alone," "I'm really down there, at the theater." "Seven-thirty, they're just going in at the stage door." "Good evening, to the doorman." "Taking down their cues, looking at the mirror at..." "Eight o'clock!" "The stage hands are setting up!" "Come on, Miss Cavendish!" "Come on..." "Greasepaint, rouge, mascara..." "Fifteen minutes, Miss Cavendish!" "My costume." "Miles, where's the rabbit's foot?" "Overture, overture..." "Good evening, everybody!" "How's the house tonight?" "Shhh..." "Curtains up, props huge..." "Enter!" "That's all that's kept me alive... these last two years." "And you were down there for me." "Going on, going on... going on!" "Oh, Mother!" "Grandmother, Grandmother, what is it?" " What happened?" " Joe!" "Joe!" "I'll do it, I'll go on, Grandma, I promise I'll go on!" " What happened?" " Send for the doctor." " What's the matter, what is it?" " It's Mama." "Well do something, what are you all standing around for?" " Be quiet..." " Mom, Mom, Mom..." "Oh, my poor Mama..." "Mama, can't you come to, Mom?" "There you are." "Oh, Mom, are you all right, Mom?" "Oh, Tony..." "Tony!" "Oh, Mom..." "Here, I'll take your shoes off, dear." "There, Mom..." "Hold her head, hold her head." "Here you are, take a swig of this, Mom." "Sure, that'll make you feel better, Mom." "Are you better now, Mom?" "Take her over there on the couch." "I'll take her, Joe, I'll take her." "Come along now." "Make her lie down, put her head... here..." "There you are, right over here..." " Come along, darling." " Just take it easy, lean on me." "You're doing swell, there you go." "There you are..." "Pull her feet up." "There you are..." "there you are, Mom." "Now come on, get out of here, get out of here, go on..." " It's all my fault!" " Good golly, Gwen..." "Get out, get out, all she needs is rest," "I'll take care of her." "There you are, Mom." "Feel better now?" "I'll never forgive myself." "Now Gwen, you must stop blaming yourself." " Ahhh..." " Well, how's Mother?" "Oh, she's all right." "You know, it's a funny thing." "What's so funny?" "I can't get a quiet moment in this house." "I suppose the bull felt the same way about the china shop." " Hello, hello..." " Oscar, how about my passport?" " That's what I came to talk about." " What?" "It is not so easy, these fellows..." "Oscar, you don't mean to say you can't get it." "No, I don't say I can't get exactly..." "Oscar, another 24 hours in the house with this caged lunatic and you could order straitjackets for two." " Now, now, now..." " Oh, you promised me." "Did Oscar ever fail you?" "We'll get that passport all right." "I hope..." "I won't take no for an answer!" "You got to get that passport!" " Tony you're being unreasonable!" " Chuck me I'm being unreasonable!" "But you haven't done anything so terrible." "You've hit a movie director and made love to a Pole." "Chances are both will recover." "You don't know what you're talking about." "You'll find out if it's terrible or not!" "Oh..." " Why, if this woman..." " Oh, Tony, stop acting!" "Now, what can she do to you?" "Now keep quiet and calm down." "Ha!" "What can she do to me?" "What kind of a jam do you think I'm in?" "What do you suppose I drove all the way from California for, the ride?" "I've got to get out of here, I tell you." "Zita's in town this time, do you know what that means?" "You don't know that Pole cat." "Why, I've seen her pick up..." "She's a killer." "She just can shoot as look at you." "She's a Pole!" "She's cuckoo about me." "And she knows I'm through with her." "If you don't want anything to happen to me, well, all right." "You're a fine sister." "I'm only your brother, so why should you bother about me?" "But I'm telling you now, if you get me all over the front page so will you, and so will Gwen and the whole royal family!" "Now if that's what you want, believe me, you're going to get it!" "Much obliged, Oscar, for all your trouble." "Poor Tony." "He's gone completely Hollywood." "I wonder what he's doing now." "Probably cutting his throat." " Well, Oscar, he probably is." " No, no..." "I'm going to see how Grandma is." " What's the matter with your grandma?" " She's ill." " She's ill?" " Oh, yes, she fainted." "She fainted?" "She fainted and you didn't tell me..." " I hadn't any time..." " (Oscar in German)" "I don't want you to go up there, Oscar," "She must have quiet, she mustn't have any excitement now, remember." "Oh..." "Gil." "Oh, Gil..." "You must really make allowances for us... we're even more... more..." "upset than usual this afternoon." "Something wrong, can I help?" " Oh, it's just." " Perhaps I shouldn't have come." "Oh no, I'm glad you did." "You're still sane, aren't you, Gil?" "So strong, and reliable and sure." "Oh dear..." "I was going to be so ravishing on our first meeting." "I was going to be so divinely cool, so beautifully serene..." "I had it all planned." " Would... you go out and come in again?" " Hm?" "Just go out and come in and then hold my hand, like that." "And I'll say, 'Oh, Gil, so it's really you after all these years.'" "That seem like centuries." "You haven't changed a bit." "Come over here." "Still the same." "The same slim, fair-haired girl I knew so well." "Tell me." " Are you as famous as they say?" " Oh, probably." "But you haven't exactly been hidden from the public age yourself." "What was it you found lying in the streets, radium or something?" "No, not radium, platinum." "Oh, only platinum, oh..." "Bet you've made millions and millions, haven't you?" " Let me touch you." " Oh, I've done pretty well." "You're certainly the top of the heap in your line, aren't you?" "No, just Zita." "I feel eager to get out of tabloid newspaper nowadays without a story of one of the family." "Tony's king at the moment." "Yes, I saw the crowds downstairs." "Say, what's he going to do?" "Try and get away?" "Oh, it's really an awful mess." "He wants to sail tomorrow on the Aquitania... and we can't get a passport." "Passport?" "Aquitania?" "Tonight?" "Why, Gil..." "You mean you know somebody who might..." "Lohengrin 92097" "Oh!" " How soon can he get down there?" " Oh, right away, I should think." " Tell him to get ready." " All right." "John, let me talk to Moran." "You actually mean you can do it?" "Oh, if you only could." "Don't you know there isn't anything in the world I wouldn't..." "Hello." "Julie, if I thought you needed me, I'd go to the end of the..." "Hello, Moran, this is Marshall." "Now get this." "I want an emergency passport, Aquitania tonight." "That's right." "Meet me on the Cunard dock in half an hour." " Can he make it in half an hour?" " Yes, yes..." "Oh, 20 minutes." "I'll give you the data when I see you." "Tony, Tony!" "Oh, Gil, it's wonderful of you." "You're one of those strong-hearted men, aren't you?" "Tony, Tony!" "We got it." "Hurry up, get your things on!" " What do you mean, the passport?" " Yes." " Gil got it for you." " Gil who?" "Never mind, never mind, give him 50 bucks." "Shhh, Mother." " Joe, Joe!" " Yes, sir?" " Is everything ready?" " Yes, it will be." " All right, get to it." " Yes, sir." "Oh, sis, you're grand." "I knew I could count on you." "Old reliable." "Much obliged, old fellow." "Who is he anyway?" "Is he always like this?" "Oh..." "Oh, sometimes families are..." "Just happens that blood is a little thicker than usual today." "Julia..." "The reason I went away was so that you could go ahead and be an actress." "All that stuff about Cavendish and the stage being your real life and... the only way you can be happy." "Well, you've got everything you went after." "And how about it?" "Are you happy?" "Happy?" "I don't know." "Why, of course you're not, Julia." "I stayed away all these years because I thought at least you were living the life you wanted most." "And now I come back and find this." "Why, you ought to have everything in the world." "You ought to have everything done for you." "Done for you by someone who loves you." "Don't you know what you ought to be doing instead of this, the sort of life you ought to be living?" "Why, you ought to be in a country house somewhere... with a garden, and trees..." "Somehow you look garden and trees." " Oh, Gil..." " Julia, I..." "I've got a little place in England, it's..." "Oh, I can't describe it, I'm not good at that sort of things." "Don't try." "Let me imagine." "Or you can go..." "You can go anyplace else you want, Cairo..." "St. Moritz... any place you want." "Well, my dear?" "Oh, I'm so tired of deciding things." "Julia... what fools we've been." "Wait, let me think." "You've had too long to think." "It's settled." "No, please..." "I'm not sure what's happened." "I can't think clearly." "I'll tell you what's happened." "Something that should have happened years ago, that's what happened." "I think you'd better go now." "All right." "But I can come back, can't I?" "Yes, tonight after the theater." "Till tonight." " Joe, Joe, where's the..." " Tony, you'll disturb Mother." "We gotta get out, Joe!" "Come on, tell those men to come up!" "What's all this hullaballoo?" "Tony, how I wish you were out of this house..." "I'm not making any hullaballoo, you're making all the hullaballoo!" "Nobody's been quieter than I have in this house..." " Blather, one can't get a wink!" " Mother, what are you doing up?" "You're quite all right again, eh?" "You haven't been to sleep, go back to bed." "Julia, you make her go to bed." "I'll go get her some medicine." "What's all this excitement about?" "What's this all about?" "There you are, Fanny, you're the comeback kid." "It's not excitement..." "Gwen!" "I can't go to bed, I can't go to bed, not with Tony going." " How soon will Tony be gone?" " I'll be gone in 30 seconds." "All aboard, finger up..." "Hello, Gwen." " Did you call me?" " Yes, take Mother by her arm." " Lean on me, Mama..." " You leave me alone!" " I don't want to?" " You oughtn't to be up at all." " Gwen, you've been crying." " No, I haven't." " Tony, are you ready?" " What?" "Oh, one more day of this is just about all for me." "Now, Mother, you've got to go back to bed." "Not until Tony has gone." "The very minute he..." "Tony, are you coming?" " All set!" " Oh!" " The end of a perfect day." " Joe!" "Now, Tony, don't hire a cab and come back." "Joe, send him away no matter what happens." "Tony..." "Tony, aren't you going to say good-bye?" "Tony..." "He didn't even say good-bye." " Why, that's outrageous!" " Tony, wait for me." "Don't let him go, don't let him go..." "He's never gone away like this before." "He didn't look at me." "He didn't... speak to me." "Oh, Tony..." "Oh..." "Oh, Mother darling, it's all right." "He's not going to Arabia." "Now, don't make yourself ill, dear." "All aboard!" "Farewell appearance." " Tony!" " Well, how do you like it?" "It fit on me, didn't it, huh?" " What are you all made up for?" " Boarding a boat, of course." " What's that?" " Why, sure..." "My double makes a dash for the taxi the crowds swarm after him, give them a nice run up 5th Avenue, then I get out, get into my cab, in ten minutes I'm on the dock." " Voilà!" " Oh, Tony!" "Good-bye everybody!" "Good-bye, Mom." "The open sea, the salt, the Arctic wind, I'm on my way!" "Remember, the Cavendish tribe." "Oh, let's all go out and ring doorbells." "Oh, Miss Julie, you must eat something." "It's late, you've got to go to your performance." "I know, now mother, you promised me you'd go to bed." "I won't, I won't go to bed." "What, Fanny's not in bed?" "Julia, what are you thinking of?" " What?" "I tried to..." " You should be in the theater anyway." "You've got to see Ferenc Molnár before you go on." " What?" " But Mother hasn't had dinner yet." "She doesn't need any dinner." "She's got to watch her weight." "Ohhh!" "Someone!" "What's the matter?" "What's going on?" "Perry take her out of this!" "Take her away before it's too late." "Take her where she'll never hear the word stage again, or Cavendish." " Take her away!" " Julie!" "I'm not going to marry him." "Not going to marry him?" "Not going to marry him?" "I'm not going to marry him and spoil his whole life." "Oh, Gwen!" "If you don't you're going to throw away your whole life and for what?" "This?" "So that years from now you can be standing here as I am, a madwoman in a family of maniacs?" "Not much, Gwen, you're not going to." "You're going to marry Perry Stewart." " No, I won't." " Oh yes you are." "You're going to do what I didn't do." "They told me I had to be a Cavendish, oh yes, you did!" "But you're going to marry him now, tonight, tomorrow, and I'm going to be there with you and stand up beside you and cry for happiness as if it was me." "And why not?" "You've all had your turn, why didn't I have mine?" "I can walk out and nobody can stop me." "From now on I'm going to live!" "You don't believe it, but I'll show you." "I'm going to marry Gil Marshall." "I'm going to Egypt, Cairo and Constantinople." "What do you think of that?" "If it's hard to take it, then I'm through with it." "I'm never going to act again." "I'm never going to put my foot on a stage again as long as I live." "I'm never going inside of a theater again." " I'm never..." " Miss Julie, it's 8 o'clock!" "Oh, good heavens, I'm late!" "Come in." " Oh, Oscar, my lamb." " Lieblich." "You renegade." "Oh, it should do, it should do, the lot you care about me." "The only man in your mind is this Mr. Whosis." "All the way from South America he's got to come to ruin my business." "His boat gets in tonight, eh?" "It couldn't sink or anything." "Oscar, it's your own fault." "Why didn't you marry me?" "Marry you?" "It's bad enough to manage you." "My sympathy, Oscar." "Julia, what do you want with being a millionaire's wife?" "With Gwen being a society woman, all I need is Fanny should marry" "John D. Rockefeller when my season is over." "Oscar, that's what I came to talk to you about." "What, is Fanny marrying Rockefeller?" "The doctor called up this morning." "She can't go on with this tour." "Fanny?" "He says you've got to cancel some way or other without her knowing it," "I knew it would be a blow to you, dear Oscar." "I'll fix it." "She won't suspect anything." "But Julia, do you realize what that means?" "There won't be a Cavendish left on the stage." "Yes, I know, but..." "Oh Julia, listen, I've got a play here for you..." " No, Oscar..." " I've got a play, I'm so crazy to produce it, Julia." "I don't care how much I lose on it." "No, Oscar, I'm through with it." "I'm through with it forever." "I know, that's how you talk now." "You've just closed a big run, you're tired." "What will you do when you're restless?" "What will I do?" "Why, I'm going on my honeymoon." "What are you going to talk about alone with this fellow?" "Platinum mining?" "Don't be absurd, lots of things." "The theater he don't care about." "Imagine." "Well, there are lots of other things in the world besides the theater." "Yes, but not for you." "We're going to travel, we're going places..." "Music and places, exciting places." "Well, you might just as well see the world." "With him you'll need it." " Oh, Oscar, you just don't like Gil." " No, no, not for you." "He's the kind that will tell you you've got too much makeup on." "He'll organize you." "Well, that might be rather pleasant after years of practically checking my own trunk." "No, no, not for you." "You were independent too long." "You got to be headman." "Oscar, you just don't understand." "I want to have fun." "Fun?" "It's work that's fun." "You've had more fun in the last 20 years than any other woman in America." "You're the finest actress we have in this country and you stand here and you tell me you want to have fun?" "Oh, Oscar, I want peace and quiet." " I want to relax." " All right, go ahead." "Relax while you could be making history." "Go on, get married." "But wait till 8 o'clock comes and you don't have to go to the theater anymore." "How bored you'll be with your bargain." "Oh... don't be ridiculous." "Della, are there any messages?" "No, Miss Julie." " Nobody called up?" " No." " All day?" " All day." "Oh..." "Della, what time is it?" " Oh, about 8 o'clock." " Oh, dear..." "Forget it." "Della." "Come here." "What's that you're doing?" "I'm making a mat out of your old stockings." "Out of stockings?" "Oh dear!" "I always wondered what happened to old stockings." " Isn't it pretty?" " Yes, it's lovely." "Della..." "What's the matter with this place?" "Looks so dreary." "Flowers, that's what it is." "We don't have flowers here anymore." "No." " Hm, the don't come in like they used to." " They certainly don't." "Well, maybe we'll have to buy some." "Della, what do you suppose women who aren't actresses do with their evenings?" "Oh..." "Go to the theater, I suppose, hm?" "That looks nice, let me see." "Let me try it, Della, wait a minute." " What do you do now?" " Now put this through your fingers." "There... now..." "Now put your needle through the next hole." " That one?" " Yes, dear." " Now what?" " Catch the silk and pull it through." "All the way through, all the way." " That's the way." " Oh, that's fun." " Now the next hole." " Ah..." "There, it's just a simple crochet stitch." "Crochet?" "Is that what this..." "Am I crocheting?" "Take it away, take it away, please." "I never thought I'd come to that." "Oh, It's Mr. Marshall!" "Never mind, Della, I'll go, I'll go." "Oh, Gil, I thought you'd never get here!" "Julie, I'm sorry, I'm so glad to see you too." "Oh, I have chocolate on my hands, put your coat down." "I couldn't wait to get here, you know?" " You look simply marvelous." " I never saw you looking better in your life." "Come and talk all about yourself, what you've been doing and everything about yourself." "The radium mines... or was it copper..." "I've forgotten..." "Come on, tell me about everything." "Well, the trip was about as usual, pretty hot when we started, but cooled off when we came up north." "How nice." "The trip usually takes eighteen and a half days but this time owing to the perfect weather we did it in exactly eighteen days." "Eighteen days!" "Oh, is it as far as that?" "Julia, you'll love it down there." "Sixty miles from the nearest town." "You won't see a theater, electric signs on a stage door from one year's end to the other." "Up at six, bed at ten." "Peace, quiet, no traffic, no motor horns..." "Nothing but the vast solitude of those tremendous planes." "It sounds rather... restful." "Our nearest neighbor is 30 miles away." "Señor Zamarco, he's a Spaniard of the highest type." "You'll see a lot of the Zamarcos." "He married a Kansas City girl, daughter of Julius Kranz." "The meat packer, you know." "Oh, Julius Kranz, yes..." "She's a very fine woman." "And most entertaining." "They're staying at the Ritz." "I told them that I'd take you over there a little later on tonight." " Tonight, Gil?" " Hm-hmm." "You and she will have lots in common." " Really?" " Yes, she plays the harp." "Oh..." "Yes, I tell you, Julia, they're fine solid, substantial people." "None of your..." "I wonder what that is." "No one, I hope, on our first evening together." "Hello, darling." "Hello, Oscar." "Hello, Gil..." "Or should I say Father?" " Darling," " How do you like being a lady of leisure?" "So your boat didn't sink, eh?" "Well, it's certainly delightful to be all together like this, isn't it?" "Well, Gwen, giving up the stage certainly seems to agree with people." "Eh, Perry?" "Well, as a matter of fact I uh..." " Oh, Oscar, you tell them." " No, no, you tell them yourself." "Oh, it's the most marvelous play, only a bit, but the sort of part I've always wanted to do." "You know, it's a lady with her hair back like this and she stands like this..." "Anyway, Perry's going on a business trip..." "What on earth is she talking about?" "She'll tell you." "Oh, is the boyfriend a little upstaged tonight, Mrs. Stewart?" "No... only a sort of a shock to him having the leopard show it's thoughts." "But Perry, darling, you'll be gone five whole weeks." " Four." " And the house runs itself... and I'll have nothing to do and..." "I just can't give up this play." "Because if I'm any good at all, it will put me where I can..." "Well, anywhere." "Oscar says it can't possibly last more than two months at the most." "Oh, a light begins to dawn." "So it's Oscar's play." "Oh, Oscar, aren't you the wily one?" "Well, what's so immature?" "Last season you and Gwen were going to read the play for me." "Then Gwen got married, now you're doing the walking out." "But you still can have your part if you want." "No, no, Julia's through with all that sort of thing." "Oh, Mother, you're pleased, aren't you?" "Of course, darling, of course I am, especially..." "Julia, where's your mother?" "Mother's on the road this season." "She's playing in Brooklyn here." "On the road?" "I wonder you allow it." "She wouldn't be happy doing anything else." "Oh, it's a dog's life." "By the way, here's something that will interest you." "There was a theatrical troupe on board, American." "They'd been stranded in Buenos Aires." "Poor devils, they... they didn't even have enough money to get home." "But we uh... we got together and followed through." "Yes, I suppose I got a little sentimental on account of you people." " I'm sure they must have appreciated it." " Oh, they certainly did." "It seems the manager skipped off with the money." "You know how these fellows are." " Dear me, yes." " Oh, Oscar knows best." "You'd think they'd be downhearted, but not a bit of it." "They were absolutely carefree as soon as they got on the boat." "And they turned out to be quite a decent lot." " Why, some of them are married." " Oh, yes, even actors marry, you know." "Oh, what is that noise?" "Tony!" "You're back!" "Hello, sis, how have you been?" "How are you, Gwen, Oscar?" "Joe, got any beefsteak?" "Take them out of here." "How's my pretty?" "Tell you all about it in a minute." "All the fascinating facts..." "Gunga... ( Native language )" "Hey, toots, show him where to go, will you?" "He's going to stay in the house?" "Gunga saved my like over in India... another minute and the tiger would have had me." "What do you mean by bursting in on us like this?" "Why didn't you let us know?" "Couldn't ley you know, that's why I came by way of Canada." " I landed in Canada." " Canada?" "Hello, George, how are you?" "Glad to see you, boy." "Why Canada?" "The Aalkanians and the Shlesingens were going to declare war on each other." "I knew if I got out she'd marry him and everything would be all right." "What's he talking about, or is he making it up?" "Oh, it's been in the papers." "Natalia broke off her engagement with Rupert of Schlesingen." " And the Albanians..." " Just a moment, who's Natalia?" "Natalia's the princess of Albania." "She's a nice kid, but I didn't mean anything serious." "That's the trouble with these princesses, sheltered lives... you dance with them a couple of times, they want to elope with you." "Of course, when she broke off with Rupert, the Prime Minister sent for me..." "Oh, I'm beginning to understand." "You started the European War." "Oh, no, I don't think they'll fight." "No, she'll get over it." "Say, toots, how about a little food?" "That's a good idea." "I'll start that now." "Anyway, that isn't why I came back, Oscar, listen." "I was cruising around to buy something for a bite and I happened to pass by a little theater stuck away in a courtyard." "There's a poster standing on the outside and I started to read it." "I don't know, I got a hunch about it and I went in." " Well, say." " Good, eh?" "Good?" "It's the greatest show I ever saw in my life." "And I bought it." "You're to wire them $3000 tomorrow, American money." " You bought it?" " What for?" "I'm going to act in it, of course." " Tony, you're going back to the stage?" " Sure!" " What's so wonderful about that?" " Wait, I'll show you, I'll show you." "Where the devil..." "Here it is." "Now here's the scene plan." "You can't make anything out of this but I'll show you how it works." "What's that there?" "You don't enter or exit in the ordinary sense, you just slide..." " ...or else slipped down by wires." " Wires?" "Swenger, the fellow who does it in Koenisberg fainted six times the first night." "Here's the big kick." "You see that, where my finger is?" "Yes." "Well, in that way, we cut out our overhead 14%." "Yes, but I should think that would increase your depreciation." "That swings the whole thing around, the audience becomes the actors and the actors become the audience." " It serves them right." " I tell you it's a knockout." "Of course, the great thing about this play is takes two nights to do it." " Two nights?" " Tony, you're cuckoo." "Wait a minute, You don't understand what this thing is." "It's a modern version of the Passion Play." "And you play what?" "The lead, of course." "Pure blank verse and the incidental music..." "Wait, I'll play it for you." "Is there a good woman's part in it?" "Julia, I'd like to have a word with you." "The sacrificial moment runs right through." "Tear your heart out." "Julia, you're not interested in this sort of nonsense anymore, are you?" "Imagine." "Get your things, darling." "I don't like to be late." "Oh not now, dear." "Now, and then when he comes down from the mountains there's a stunning passage." "Hello?" "What?" "Oscar, it's for you." "Hello?" "Oh, shut up, you kids." "What?" "Mrs. Cavendish?" "Yes, yes, yes..." "Right away." "What is it, Oscar?" "Your mother." " We've got to go to the theater." " Tony, Gwen, hurry up." "I never was so proud in my life, I should say." "She was giving one of the best performances I ever saw her give." "Mr. Ferguson, what shall we do?" "Will Mrs. Cavendish be able to finish?" " I don't know..." " Shall I call the act as usual?" " Yes, yes." " Okay." "There, there, all right now, Mom?" "The music..." "the intermission's almost over." "Help me..." "Help me to get up." "No, I advise you to lie quiet." "Advise, advise..." "Doesn't the man realize there's a performance going on?" " Listen, Mom, take it easy..." " Please lie down, it's all right." "It's all right, Ma, you'll go on again tomorrow." "You can't go on tonight." "Better go out and tell them." "Money refunded at the box office." "Bring down the curtain." "Bring down the curtain?" "Are you mad, Wolfe?" "Bring down the curtain?" "Cavendishes don't bring down the curtain." "We always finish the play." "Oh, Julie, help me." "No, Mom, you can't go on, no..." "Kitty, get my costume!" "Fanny, Fanny, my darling, don't try," "Kitty, fix that dress for me." "Julie..." "It's all right, Mother dear, I know the part perfectly." "We'll finish the play." "She can play it, Mom." "Last act!" "Everybody on the stage for the last act." "Oh, Gwen, go help Julie." "Mother, the first line of Miss Whitlow is 'So good to be home.'" "Yes, and then enter with 'How nice, sweetheart,'" "And then, 'Is there anybody home beside yourself?" "'." "No, no, 'Who's at home beside yourself?" "'" "'Who's at home beside yourself?" ", yes." "Last act!" "Last act!" "Ready, Mrs. Cavendish?" "Yes, yes..." "I'm ready." "Mother, Mother..." "Doctor, please..." "Quick!" "Quick!" "Oh, Grandma." "Oscar, she's gone." "The greatest trouper of them all." "Fanny... my girl." "Curtain's going up!" "Go on, darling." "Julia..." "I'm going back to South America... alone." "But I want you to know that I understand." "This is your life up here and that's mine down there." "And we could never make a go of it." "I think you're right to stay." "And I am proud of you, Julia." "I'm proud of your family." "Good-bye." "God bless you." " All right, bring up the curtain." " Yes, Miss Cavendish." "Subtitles:" "Luís Filipe Bernardes"