"The field is out of the gate headed straightaway for this feature race." "The track fast, weather clear, six furlongs out of the chute." "The flag is up." "We may get a start any moment." "Battling Fur at a little fraction." "And there they go." "Channel Boy breaks on top, Picassio's away at second Harper's Ferry third." "That's all you gotta do, girlie?" " What?" " Feeding pigeons, for crying out loud." " Why?" " Why not?" " What?" " What a park." " Would you care for a peanut?" " Would I what for?" "Peanut?" "Care for?" " I bothering you?" " No." "Okay." "So why you wanna bother me?" "Who's?" "What a park." "You said it." "A person can't even open their mouth in it." "Hey, how about you shut up?" "We're trying to play a serious game here." "Look, girlie, I don't mind a pickup once in a while only I like to do the picking, see?" "How'd you like to watch some of your language?" " Who are you?" " Nobody, that's who." "So, what are you trying to make a big stink?" " Who, me?" " Sure, you." "Not who." "Comes in, walking in barefooty, sits down on the top of me..." " Top of?" "...starts throwing around peanuts gets all them dusty birds over." "Top it off, she tries to pick me up, as if I ain't got enough troubles now." "Listen, how'd you like a good smack in your face?" " Why don't you try it." " Because it's too hot's why." "What a park." " How'd you like that?" " Not bad." "A real interesting shot." "Is there a water fountain around here?" "Yeah." "Come on, I'll show you." "My whole throat's dry from getting so mad." "No, no." "Probably from the peanuts, no doubt." " Have one?" " Thanks." "What'd you say about a shot?" "Movie shot, grabbed it while you were screeching." " What's the idea?" " It's my business." "Documentaries." " What's that?" " Well, I make movies." "Only they're about real things." "People, places, things." "This one I'm working on now is about Central Park." "Well, I'm glad you think I'm a real thing." "Decidedly." "Have a drink." "On me." "What are you doing, following me around?" "Let's go, sunshine." "What a park!" " You think he'll be all right?" " I doubt it." " Okay, son?" " I'm thirsty." "Come on, Michael." " Ma, can I have a dime?" " No, Michael." "I'm losing my patience with you." "I wanna get a bottle of soda." "I'm thirsty." "No, Michael." "You've had enough to drink." "No." "I'm losing my patience with you." "Wait till your father hears about this day." "Are you a New Yorker?" "Only since about less than two years." "Are you?" "Ten years, still not used to it." "I'm from Westfield, New Jersey." "The one thing I can't understand about New York is why everybody here's so unfriendly." "I've wondered too." "Where are you from?" "Binghamton." "Upstate New York." " Pete Sheppard." "How do you do?" " Thank you." " Well, do you have a name?" " Of course." "Well?" " Yeah?" " Gladys Glover." " Glad to know you, Gladys." " Thank you." " Gladys Glover, huh?" " It's not much of a name." " Why do you say that?" " Because nobody ever heard of it." "And I guess nobody ever will." " You mind that?" " Of course." "You're on the young side what that seems so important." " After a while, you won't care so much." " Sure, because then it'll be too late." "What's your line?" "Well, since this morning about 11:30, nothing." "I got canned on account of three-quarters of an inch." " Around the hips." " Well, think of that." "I had this good job modeling girdles." " You know what they are?" " Well, sure." "This designer and the boss got into a whole hassle on account of a couple of wrinkles." "Back and forth." "Back and forth." "I was in the middle." "So the designer says the girdle's the right size, I'm the wrong size." "So the boss says, "I'll bet you $50."" "So Mr. Ostrander took the bet." "He's a designer." "They got out a tape measure." "Just my luck." "This morning, three-quarters of an inch too much." "So it would've been all right, except on account of losing the $50." "The boss tells me to go get my time." "I wouldn't get discouraged." "Sometimes you lose a job just to get a better one." "I don't know." "I just wanna think it over." "I mean, the whole thing over." "That's why I came here to the park." "I always think I can think better in the park." "That's why I took my shoes off." "I always think better with my shoes off." "You ever notice that?" "On or off, I have trouble." "But what I have to think about is if I should stay in New York in the first place, or else go back home." "I mean, you take New York." "You never meet anybody to talk to unless it's somebody you happen to know or somebody fresh or looking for something they're not entitled to." "It's an extremely unfriendly community." "If you only knew how long it took me to save up the $1000." " What $1000?" " That I saved up." "The reason I came to New York was to try and make a name for myself." "And I haven't even gotten started on it." "I'm getting nowhere." "You know what I mean?" "Some people, when they get to that point where they realize that they're getting nowhere they just kill themselves." "But I don't feel like it." "Well, that is a fairly drastic step." "The only other thing is to go back home." "Do the same thing as everybody else." "Go back to work in the shoe factory." "Marry the first man that asks." "Or the second." "And then goodbye "name for yourself."" "Goodbye dreams." "In fact, goodbye, Charlie." "If you'll forgive me, Gladys I'd better get back to being gainfully employed." " Thanks for the peanuts." " You're more than welcome." "Say, if you'd care to give me your address I could drop you a postcard and show you this picture when it's done." "I'd give my right arm to see myself in the movies." "Just give me your right address." " 262 West 61st." " Yeah?" "Fine." "Room 9." "Well, so long, Gladys." "I saw that in a French movie last week." "I've been meaning to try it ever since." "Good luck to you, Gladys." "I sure hope you make a name for yourself." " If that's what you want, you'll get it." " How?" "It's just a theory of mine that not only where there's a will, there's a way but where there's a way, there's a will." "See?" " So long." " Thanks." " Yes?" " What?" "Someone?" "I want to see Mr. Pfeiffer, please." " Who?" " Mr. Horace Pfeiffer." " Isn't this his place?" " This is the Horace Pfeiffer Company." "But there is no Mr. Pfeiffer." " Excuse me." " Just what was this in reference to?" "To..." "About the sign on Columbus Circle." "Yes?" "It says it's for rent." "Yes?" "Well, so who do I see in reference to it if there's no Mr. Pfeiffer like you say?" "Well, one moment." "Well, that's Mr. Entrikin." "Walk down the hall and turn left, on the floor below." "No, no." "I don't want the average space." "Give me the exact footage on each location." "Come." "What was that?" "All right, go ahead." "Good morning." "Have a chair." "Thank you." "Go ahead." "You." "It's about the sign space you have for rent over there in Columbus Circle." "How many?" "All right." "Oh, yes, the double bulletin board." "I don't know what you call it." "It's pretty big, all right." "Right." "I'll take it up with C.D." "Yes, that's available." "How much do you charge to rent it?" "Well, now, just whom do you represent?" "Oh, just myself." "I see." "But what's your idea?" "Of what?" " Of making this inquiry." " Oh, I'm not making any inquiry." "I just wanna rent that sign." "That is, if it isn't too expensive." "I see." "Well, it's something personal, if that's what you mean." "I'm sorry, but I'm too busy for this sort of thing." "What sort of thing?" "What's the matter?" "Well, here's to pay for it with and everything." "Yes?" "See if you can get an option." "Of course, if you're too stuck-up or you think it's right to treat somebody like some kind of a nut." "Call you back." "I just happened to be walking along and the sign said for rent and it said your name and your address, so I want it." "So you say you haven't got the time." "What kind of a place is this anyway?" "The space rate on that location is $210 per month." "Three months minimum." " Yes?" " Never mind 11:40. 11:30's all right." " I'll take it." " What?" "What's the matter?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "Wait a second." "Wait a minute." "Hey." "Hey, painters." "Wait a minute." "Hey." "Hey, sign painters, listen." "Hey, listen." " What's that?" " G. G." " What'd she say?" " "Oh, gee."" "Not C, like you got it." "G, like you haven't got it." "What?" ""Not C, like you got it." "G, like you haven't got it."" "Look at the paper." "What?" ""Look at the paper."" "Sure enough." " Thanks, lady." " Thank you." "Faster." "Please, faster." "I don't want excuses." "I just want that space." "But, Mr. Adams, you said you'd call me by Monday." " What about it?" " Well, you didn't." " Well, what about it?" " Well, then I phoned you." "Well?" "And they said that you were still away on your weekend." " Oh, they did?" " So I tried again on Tuesday..." "All right, all right." "Then I just assumed you'd lost interest." "You know that the Adams Soap Company has always used that space for every summer campaign." "You know how my father feels about that space." " He's very partial to it." " I know..." "Why don't we all watch our blood pressure, Mr. Adams." " I'm sure it can be arranged." " Nothing to it." "Don't smooth me, gentlemen." "Right now he tells us it's tied up for three months." " Excuse me." " Yes, but I'm quite sure that as soon..." "Send her right in, please." "She's here." "Troubles are over." "Sit down, Miss Glover." "Sit down." "Go ahead." "Now, Miss Glover, thank you very much for coming up." "I told you on the phone that you wouldn't regret it, and you won't." "These gentlemen are terribly keen to use that Columbus Circle space which you have tied up right now." "Now, they're fully aware that in asking you to give it up they're probably interfering with some plans which you have." "After all, nobody hires display space just to put their name on it." "What they're prepared to do is this." "And in my opinion, it's a very handsome offer indeed." "Reimburse you to the full extent of what you've spent so far and in addition, make you a bonus of..." "I think the figure mentioned was $500." "I don't think so." "Oh, this is Mr. Evan Adams III." "Miss Gladys Glover." " How do you do?" " How do you do, Mr. Adams III?" " Why not?" " Why not what?" "Would you care to make a counterproposal, Miss Glover?" "What's that?" "Well, if you won't accept $500, what would you accept?" "Oh, nothing." "Come now." "Surely you have some figure in mind." "No, I haven't." "You would take 5 million, wouldn't you?" "Oh, certainly." "Now, somewhere between 500 and 5 million there must be an acceptable figure." "I don't wanna do this." "In 73 days more, the whole thing will be over and then you can have it back and do whatever you want." "I don't like being hollered at." "What'd I do anyway?" "Excuse me." " Hello." " Hello." " Hello!" " Hello." "Well, what are you doing around here anyway?" "I live here." " Where?" " Room 7." " Since when?" " Today." "Gee, that's great." "I wasn't figuring on this much of a welcome." "You're welcome." "What's happened to you?" "Last time, you were ready for the river." "That's over now." "I'm fine." "I haven't changed." "I'm the same as I was before." " Only in a different way." " I see." " Well, I have to go up now." " Yeah, so do I." "Say, you happen to be over around Columbus Circle lately this week?" "No." "Why don't you go up there sometime." " What for?" " Oh, look around." " At what?" " Different things." "Such as what?" "Different signs." " Signs?" " Sure." " Don't you ever look at signs?" " I suppose." "Take my word." "If you go up there around Columbus Circle you'll see something." "Gladys." "Is it possible you've been out in the sun too much today?" " Well, not me personally, no." " What?" "Is that your room, seven?" " You like to see it?" "My room?" " All right." "Not really settled down yet." " What kind of view is it from here?" " Oh, enchanting." "What's a good place to eat around here?" " Room 9." " I meant for me." "Glad to have you anytime." "I couldn't do that, unless you let me take you out..." "Sure." "Why not?" " Well, what about tonight?" " Okay." " Fine." " You wanna see my room?" "Sure thing." "My view wasn't so beautiful last week but this week it's sensational." "Notice anything?" "No." "What?" "What's the matter with your eyesight?" "Nothing." "You got any ideas for after dinner?" "I thought it would be nice to go over to Columbus Circle and sit around." "Well, sure, if you want to." "But that doesn't sound like entertainment to me." " Wait and see." " Gladys?" " I..." " Yes?" "Oh, excuse me." " Did you get your message?" " No." "I left it by the phone." "You have to call Mr. Adams." " The third?" " No, he only called twice." "Excuse me." "I guess you two are pretty old friends, huh?" "Oh, yes, indeed." "I hear you have a movie machine in there." "Oh, that's right." "I'll show you some fascinating documentaries." "Don't do me no favors." "Pay your rent 5:00 Fridays no radio after 11, and we'll get along fine." "Check." "Well, sure, but I mean, what's the point, Mr. Adams?" "Well, I know, but it's not a question of any deal." "Well, sure, I'm open-minded." "No." "Why should I have anything against you?" "What kind of a break?" "Okay, 7:30." "Goodbye." "Yes?" "Oh, look, about tonight, I'm sorry, but I can't." "It's sort of business, you know what I mean." "Well, sure, if it's business." "Well, maybe tomorrow night." "No." "I have to go to Westfield for a couple days." "Family stuff." "And I won't be back till Friday morning." " All right, what about Friday lunch?" " Okay." "Wish you'd told me before I got my hair brushed." " I'm sorry." " Yes, I am too." "I was looking forward to a big evening sitting around Columbus Circle." "Pete, listen." "Everything's beginning to go great for me, just great." "In a way, it's all on account of you." " It is?" " Something you said." "Well, it made me do something I did." " And, well, that's why." " Well, that's fine." " So thank you very much." " It was really nothing." " Thank you." " What for?" " For coming out this way." " What way?" " I mean, I appreciate it." " So do I." "Oh, wait, wait." "Wait, wait, wait." "Oh, no, wait." " Wait." "Where are you going?" " What is it?" "Aren't you gonna go around Columbus?" " What for?" " To see it." " It?" " What this whole date's about." " What?" " What I've got that you want." " What you've got...?" " The sign." "Oh, the sign." "Yes." "Yes, of course." "Every time I see it, I get a bigger one than last time." "Boot." " Would you drive around once more?" " A pleasure." "If you knew what it means to me how it makes me feel and all..." "If you knew, you wouldn't ask me for it." "Not even for your own soap." " I have another idea." " Like?" " Well, I..." " Once more?" " What?" " Around once more." "But just once more." "I'm getting a little hungry." "What's food?" "Now, what I had in mind was this that we share the sign." "Then we'd all be happy." "I'm happy now." "When you think that last week I was nobody and this week I've got my name on that big sign and dancing in a place like this where everybody's somebody." " You said something up at the office." " Yeah." " Something about 73 days more?" " From tomorrow, 72." "Now, my idea is this." "If you split the space with us, you could be up there for six months." " I could?" " I'd see to it." "In writing?" "If you like." "Only not in such big letters, huh?" "Well, no." " Look!" " What?" " Walter Winchell." " Oh, yeah." "That makes the seventh big name I've seen tonight." "What a night." " Well, good night." " Good night." " Thank you very much." " Not at all." "I had a real good time." " Unusual." " So did I." " Well, good night." " Good night." " Well, good night." " Good night." "Well, this is it." " What?" " Where I live." " Oh, good." " So I guess I better go in." "Very well." " Because it's pretty late." " Yes, it is." "And besides, I don't think your car's safe down there." " No?" " You don't know this neighborhood." "Locked." "They don't need keys, not around this neighborhood." "I'm scared you'll lose your car." "I have another one." "Shall we?" " See that?" " What?" "You better go." " I'll call you tomorrow." " Okay, but..." "But I don't think I wanna give up my sign." " Yes?" " Open up." " Who is it, please?" " Open up." " What do you think...?" " I wanna talk to you." " What about?" " That thing up in Columbus Circle." "I went over there, all right." "First off, I couldn't believe my eyes." "Then I thought, "What a gag."" "Since then, I have been thinking about it, and it gets my goat." "Why?" "I smoked a pack and a half of cigarettes trying to figure it out." " What out?" " And you." "Cost money, doesn't it?" " Certainly." " Where'd you get it?" "It's my own." "I saved it up." "And is that the best you can think of to do...?" "What sort of a fruitcake are you anyway?" "No sort of." " So kindly get out of my room, please." " With pleasure." "It's none of your business." " It is if there's a maniac on the loose." " I'm no maniac..." "Just once, every so often, something really gets my goat." "And this is one!" "To think I actually know a grown-up, civilized woman who can take her hard-earned cash, just take it and throw it away on a nonsense, as though it were garbage!" "You hear me ask you what you do with your money?" " Don't bother, I haven't even got any." " All I did..." "All I did is happen to meet you in the park, by accident." "So I don't see where that gives you the right to tell me off." "Correct." "And furthermore, different people do different things that may seem crazy to other different people but that doesn't make it." "Correct." "And furthermore, do me a favor and butt out!" " Would you do me a favor?" " Like what?" " Remember my name?" " Sure, Pete Sheppard." "Well, do me a favor and forget it!" " Is it still on for Friday lunch?" " Certainly!" " Thank you very much!" " Don't mention it!" "So the point that we're trying to make is just this that there's no reason for you to be unreasonable." "I don't think I'm unreasonable." " You don't?" " No." "I think I'm reasonable." "You're the ones that are "un."" " Wait a minute." "Here's something." " Where?" "Would this be a solution?" "Supposing we gave you two signs in trade for this one?" "Two?" "Possibly three?" "How big?" "I don't know offhand." "We'd have to look into it." " But not as big as this one, huh?" " Possibly not, no." " No soap." " What?" "After all, Gladys..." "Miss Glover, the size of the sign doesn't matter." " No?" " No." "No, it's the location." "Now, what if we found you four fine locations and fitted them up for you?" "How about six?" " Very well, six." " And where?" "Let me have the chart, will you, please?" "Now, let's see." "There's a fine one on 47th Street." " Well..." " Most desirable." "And one in the 42nd Street subway station." " Well..." " Then there's one on the West Side." " Yeah?" " And one on the East Side." " Yeah?" " And one in Grand Central Station." "So now I'm all over the place." "This may be the best lamb chop I ever had." "One of them's an electric sign." "Did I say that?" "You sure know what to do with them." "I bet if I held out for eight signs instead of six, I would've got eight." "Fish is what I like." "Did you ever go down to the Fulton Fish Market?" " No." " I'd like to take you down there." " How about tomorrow night?" " Fine." "And on the way down, you can look at some of my signs." "The Central Park picture's practically finished." " Really?" " I just need to get some music." " I'm dying to see it." " Next week." " You know what would be nice?" " What?" "If you took pictures of some of my signs and put it in." "You certainly are one fine cook, Gladys." "I bet I'm the only cook that's got her name up on six signs all over New York." "What's the point of it?" "Where's it getting you?" "No place." "No place?" "I started out with no signs, so then I got one sign so then I got six." "So where do you get "no place"?" "I don't know what it is, honey, but I cannot get through to you." "Let me put it this way." "What most people, real people, want is privacy." "That's about the best thing anybody can have." "Not me." " What is this craze to get well-known?" " Why craze?" "Do you think everybody is so anxious to be above the crowd?" " Yes." " But what's the point of it?" "In the first place, everybody can't be above the crowd, can they?" "No." "But everybody can try if they want to." "But why isn't it more important to learn how to be a part of the crowd?" "Not me." "It isn't just making a name." "Don't you understand that?" "It's making a name stand for something." " Names stand for different things." " So who said not?" " Want my opinion?" " No." "My opinion is this." "It's better if your name stands for something on one block than if it stands for nothing all over the entire world." "I don't follow your point." "I wish you could." "This thing is getting more in our way every day." "What do you mean "in our way"?" "I mean that..." "There's a lot of things, sensible things we could talk about and do and try for but I can't seem to get you down to Earth." "What's so wonderful about Earth?" "Well, when this whole thing is over when the bubble bursts, I'll show you." "Pete?" "Do you like me?" "I sure do, except for one thing." "Well, if you do, don't you be the one to burst the bubble." "Okay." "And another thing." " Could I ask you one question?" " Sure, Gladys." "Would you come out and look at one sign?" "Best coffee I ever had in my whole mouth." "I think that one's my favorite." " Why?" " I don't know." "It's so..." "So clear." " Let's go." " Wait." "I wanna buy a few things." "Some towels." "Well, buy me one too, for my head." " Could I help you, madam?" " Yes, please." "I want six of these." " You'll take them with you?" " No, COD." " Name?" " Gladys Glover, G-L-O-V-E-R." " Address?" " 262 West..." " What?" " 262..." " Did you say Gladys Glover?" " That's right." " Are you her?" "Yourself?" " That's right." " Well, for heaven's sake." " Why?" "Well, we were wondering all last week about that." " Miss Glover, would you mind?" " What?" "Would you mind signing this for my little niece?" "She collects them." "She'll get the biggest kick." " Harold!" "Guess who this is." " Yes?" " I give up." " It's Gladys Glover." " No kidding." " Why should I?" " Who?" " Don't know, dear." " Gladys Glover." " Oh?" "Who's she?" " See?" " My, my." "She gave me her autograph, Harold." " Would you mind?" " Of course not." "Me too." " Would you sign here?" " Will you sign this?" " Who is it?" " I don't know." "Please, Gladys, let me have your autograph." "You got a pencil I can borrow for a minute?" "I must get her autograph." "Hey, quit shoving." "I was here before you!" "Me next, Gladys." "Do you mind, Miss Glover, signing my book?" " Who is it?" " Nobody, believe me." "St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 8." "Now for the National League." "There were only three games today." "Philadelphia at Milwaukee was rained out." "The Giants defeated Chicago 5 to 3." "Cincinnati beat St. Louis 10 to 9." "Brooklyn..." "Three days more and I'm nobody again." "Yeah, but I'll show you how to enjoy that." "If I only had the money." "It isn't a question of money, believe me." "I could have been on the covers of matchboxes, pencils anything you can think of." "We're gonna have a long talk in a few days, Gladys." "In fact, several other talks." " In fact, we may end up talking..." " What about?" " What do you think?" " Why not now?" "Because this is important." "And I've got to wait till I'm sure that your ears and eyes and your everything are just a little more ready to..." "Well..." " Gladys Glover." " Yeah?" "Gladys Glover." "Gladys Glover." "Gladys Glover." "Mean anything to you?" "He's talking about me." "Well, it's the subject for your Manhattan Nightcap for tonight." "New Yorkers are speculating as to the answer to one of the most unimportant questions of the day." "Namely, who or what is Gladys Glover?" "Did you hear that?" "Signs bearing this mysterious name are appearing all over our town." "But it's this department's guess that Gladys Glover is a second cousin to the famous Kilroy." "That's 30 for tonight, friends." "See you tomorrow." " Good show tonight, Brod." " Naturally, thanks." "Telephone, Brod." "Yeah?" "Speaking." "Who?" "Oh, can it." "Who is this?" "What?" "It is?" "Gladys Glover in person." "Well, insulting in what way?" "Well, now, you can't blame folks for wondering, now, can you?" "Say, where are you anyway, and how long you gonna be there?" "No, I just wanted to get the rest of the story." "Yeah, fine." "I'll be right down." "Gladys Glover?" "The mystery woman!" "Correction." "For "mystery woman" reads "screwball."" "I'll let you know." " Keep going, sweetie." " Well, that's about all." "Except I was telling Pete if I had money, I could've made myself into one of the most well-known people around." "Let me ask you something, Glover." "What if I could plant you around a few spots?" "You know, radio, TV." " Would you do it?" " Do what?" " Go on." " Yeah, but do what once I'm on?" " Look, Gladys..." " I don't know." "Maybe just tell your story." "It's funny." " Funny?" " Well, fascinating." " I might get scared?" " No, you wouldn't get scared." " I think so." "I better not." " Yeah, that's right." "Might be some cash in it." "There would?" "Might." "Of course, I'd expect my cut." "Oh, sure." "Why not?" "You're not hooked up in any way?" "How do you mean?" "Well, like engaged or engaged to be engaged." " Look, mister..." " Wait a second." "Why?" "I was just thinking, there's this TV turn." "They call it Man and Wife." "You get married on the program." " I understand it's quite a haul." " Really?" " What are you looking at?" " I don't know." "Gladys, please don't get mixed up in anything more." "You wanna turn into a freak?" "How do you...?" "There's The People Speak." "They're looking for goofballs." " You hear?" "You're a goofball." " Now, that's just a figure of speech." "I happen to know this fella who runs the program." "Let me sound him, see what happens, okay?" "Go ahead, sound." "Ladies and gentlemen, you have just heard the story of three very great and very brave men." "And so another miracle is entered into the annals of exploration." "Gentlemen, thank you for an inspiring story." " Now?" " When he gives you a wave." "And here she is, the gal who believes in signs." "Come on." "Everyone wants to be famous, don't you?" "Everyone would like to see their name in lights, wouldn't you?" "But as Mark Twain once said about the weather:" ""Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it."" "Well, Gladys Glover is one girl who decided to do something about it." "But let's get her own story in her own words." "Well, Gladys, how did you get this idea?" ""It just came to me." "I was walking along, and I happened to feel on the blue side." "And I just lost my job, and I realized that I certainly was a failure." "And I realized how the whole reason I came to New York in the first place was to see if I could not make a name for myself." "And time was going by, and I was not getting any younger." "And it looked like I never would." "And so then I saw this big..."" "And then what happened?" ""And so then I saw this big sign up there on Columbus Circle." "And all of a sudden, I seemed to see my name on it."" "That's happened to many of us, I'm sure." ""Oh, yes." "And so then I began to wonder how much it would cost." "So I went down and asked the man, and this is how it started." "I was in a store and somebody who saw my sign asked for my autograph." "That was some thrill, and this is too."" "You mean, being with us on The People Speak?" ""That's right." "Some thrill."" "Thank you, Gladys Glover." "And another thrill is I'm gonna get paid for it too." "Indeed you are." "Indeed you are." "Do you mind telling us what you're gonna do with the money?" "I'm gonna rent a lot more signs and put my name on them." "Thank you very much." " She's all yours, man." " You were great, honey." "Just do that all the time." "Just say whatever comes into your head." "Okay, whatever." "So the real value of discussion, say, on a program like this or this sort, for example, is the point of view..." "All she's got is nerve, far as I can see." "Maybe that's all you need nowadays." "Four programs in one week." "She's making a name for herself." "Well, to get back to our topic:" "At what age should a girl marry?" "It seems to me, Dr. Manning, that it's very dangerous to generalize." "We have found now after many, many years..." "I quite agree with Ilka." "I know lots of girls who've been married at 16, and very happily too." "Well, statistics show us that an early marriage..." "Connie, for a certain type, maturity is terribly important." " lf you consider..." " Gladys, what do you think?" "Well..." "I think, if they're big enough, they're old enough." "But, now, seriously, Dr. Manning." "Don't you feel that the laws governing this whole matter..." " ...are very outmoded?" " If you mean..." "Of course, Ilka." "Most of them were written too long ago." "And by men." "Then, of course, there is the whole question of the parents' consent." "To do what?" " May I just read...?" " I'm terribly sorry." "Our time is up." "Good night, and thank you so much, Dr. Manning." "This is Ilka Chase saying good night." " Give me a double." " A double what?" "A double anything." "What do I care?" "Anybody suggested to me that this Gladys Glover thing was gonna mushroom like this, I wouldn't have believed it." "That's just the point." "We're more or less responsible for starting the whole promotion." " So why don't we get the benefit of it?" " What's the angle?" "The average American girl." "There's a lot of penetration there." "Something the customer can identify with." "Right." "It's a whole new approach to the endorsement angle." "Who endorses products now?" "Movie stars, opera singers, debutantes, six-day bicycle riders." "The whole thing's been done to death." "How's this?" ""Stars use it." "Celebrities too." "But more important it's the favorite of average American girls such as Miss Gladys Glover."" " I don't think she's so average." " Why not?" " Because she's unusual." " That's what you don't seem to realize." "What?" "The average American girl is unusual." " How's that again?" " Exactly." " He's got something there, B.P." " Wait a minute." "Wait." "I see a big campaign with photographs by, say, Con Cooley." "That's enough." "That's it." "Not too languorous." "Now, give us a smile." "Keep it "Glover." That's it." "Good, good." "Hold it." "Now, let's have the pose." "Now, let's have the smile." "That's good." "That's fine." "Plenty of movement now." "That's it." "Winter sports!" "Smile again." "Enjoy yourself." "Relax." "All right!" "Now, don't get excited." "Take it easy." "Is she all right?" "Is she all right?" "Okay, babe?" "You're all right." "Don't be nervous." "Everything is fine." "You can't fall." "That's a girl." "All right, let's go, fellas." "Come on." " You all right, Con?" " Smile." "Smile, now." "That's a girl." "Plenty of movement." "Come on." "Enjoy yourself." "Smile." "Now, let's make this a good one." "Fine, fine." "Come on, smile." "Come on, Gladys!" "Look lovable!" "I'm pooped." "You know how much you earned today?" "What's the difference?" "I'm too tired to count it." "What you need is a nice, long, cool drink." "Or a nice, long, cool sleep would be better still." "How would it be if we stopped up at my place?" " I don't know." "How would it be?" " Excellent." "I get a wonderful breeze up there from the river." "We could relax talk things over." " What things?" "Oh, different things." "Different things from what?" "As a matter of fact, there's something..." "There's something important." "I ought to take it up with you tonight." "It can't wait." " It can't?" " No." "It's about a big cross-country personal appearance tour that I had in mind." " For me?" " That's right." "Oh, I can't tonight." "I've got a date, sort of." "Oh, to do what?" "To drive out to Westfield, New Jersey, and meet these certain people." "That's a big drive after a long day's work." "Yeah, but I promised this person to meet these people." "What about our conference?" "You see, I'd have to go to the board first thing in the morning." "If I don't, it'll be another two weeks." "Then it'll be too late." "Too late for the cross-country appearance?" "Well, for the arrangements." "Well maybe I could ask." " That's the way." "Imported." " That's right." " Great little car." " I like it." " I like it too." "Something?" "What's a car like this worth?" "Oh, about $5,000." " Why?" "Do you want to buy it?" " Yes, I do." "Only, I don't have $5,000 on me just now, and I don't get paid until Friday." "That's too bad." "You wouldn't take $11 and about 30 cents?" "I do have that on me." " No." " I didn't think you would." " Hey, that's a nice shirt you got on." " What?" " I don't wanna buy it." "I just noticed it." " Thank you." "I'm a great friend of Gladys." " Oh, is that so?" " Yes, it is so." " She's a fine girl, Gladys." " I'm not so sure." " No?" " I'm still thinking it over." "There's quite a lot to her on the one hand, but on the other hand, no." " What did you say your name was?" " I didn't say." " Sheppard." " Adams." "I know." "You're the fellow she's working for." " Well, I wouldn't put it that way." " Well, what way would you put it?" "Just trying to help her get what she seems to want." " How's is she making out?" " Beautifully." "How are you making out?" " I can't complain." " I can." " What?" " You wanna hear me?" "No, thank you." "Well, goodbye and bad luck, Mr. Adams." "I enjoyed our little chat." "Thank you." " Yes, who is it?" " Me." "I knocked at your door." "I wanna see you." " Well, you've already seen me." " What?" "You saw me, but didn't notice." "I was on the stoop." "You went right by." " Oh, I'm sorry." " There's this fellow waiting downstairs." "I know." "Could you do this?" "It's stuck again." " Should I tell him to go?" " Well, he's waiting for me." " He is?" " That's one of the things I wanted to tell you." "We have to do the Westfield thing another time." "It's sort of business." "Look, Gladys, any other kind of date, you wanna break it, okay." "But this has been set up for a week." "And when I go to the trouble of calling my mother, and she fixes us dinner and my father probably even shaved." " Maybe tomorrow night?" " Dinner will be cold by then." " I feel just terrible." " You should!" "I have to tonight, for the board of directors." " What?" " A cross-country personal appearance." "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you!" "Please don't be nasty." "I'm so tired." "You're not too tired to see junior down there." " Listen, Pete, I'm over 21." " From the neck down, yeah." "All right!" "Can't you try and understand?" "That's the whole trouble." "I do." "I wish I didn't." " But it's business!" " What kind of business?" " That's some fine question, I must say!" " Then how about some fine answer?" "Go ahead, Gladys." "Go ahead." "These stairs are killing you." " There you are." " Yes." " You feeling better?" " Much." "There's nothing like champagne." " Yes, there is." " What?" "More champagne." "It's a very interesting thing I found out." "All these different things..." "I mean, the expensive ones, like champagne and thick steaks and silk stuff." "What I mean to say is, it's very easy to get into the habit." "But then you take, like, different things." "Like, once when I was at a boarding house they gave bean sandwiches for lunch." "That's a habit I never got into." "Hello." " What's this?" " What's what?" " This." " Nothing." "I thought it was something." "No." "That's not nothing." "You're very sweet." "So, what about this cross-country...?" " This what?" "The personal appear..." "I'm sorry." " Oh, I'm sorry!" " Fine place for vintage champagne." "Oh, I'm sorry!" "Was that an accident, or did you do it on purpose?" "I'll tell you the truth." "I don't know." "You don't know?" "Everything is so sudden." "Incident..." "Incidentally, that chap I met outside your house earlier tonight." "What chap?" "Sheppard?" "Oh, Pete." " He said his name was Sheppard." " That's right." "Pete Sheppard." "What about him?" "Oh, he works on movies." "Documentaries." "Very interesting." "Is it anything?" "Is what?" " You and he." " Oh, no." "Oh, no!" "He's just sort of a neighbor." "In fact, he doesn't even like me." "In fact, more like hate." "Why?" "Well not exactly hate." "We just think each other are wacky." "I suppose it's because we probably don't understand each other." " But you and I we understand each other." "Don't we?" " We do?" " Of course we do." "That's nice." "That was all right." "Thank you." "Thank you." "You must be pretty experienced, huh?" "In what way?" "Well, I mean I guess you do quite a lot of this, don't you?" "I suppose I do my share." "You just live here alone?" " By yourself?" " Yeah." "I suppose that's why." "Why?" "You must be on the lonesome side." "Yes." "Yes, I am." "You ever think of getting a parrot?" "A what?" "That would be nice company." "Somebody to talk to." "I mean, something." "And, of course, there's lots of parrots can talk." "So then you could be talking to it, and it could be talking to you, and..." "I mean, you probably wouldn't be talking to each other, but it'd be talk." " I'd rather have you." " Than a parrot?" "Yeah." " I think I better be going." " Why?" " Because I'm not enjoying myself." " Oh, give me time." "I don't mind the way you're acting, exactly." "What I mind is the way you give the idea you're sort of entitled." " Maybe I am." " Oh, well, sure." "If you wanna make it into a sort of business proposition." "Well, that's what you're doing, isn't it?" "If you want true romance, missy, the magazines are full of it." "The way it looks to me, Mr. Adams, there are two kinds of people:" "The ones who do anything to make a name for themselves." " And ones who'll do almost anything." " And which are you?" " I'll let you know." " Now, wait a second." "No." "You didn't really wanna have a conference." "Least not the kind I thought." " You just said that." " But after all..." "In the second place, this is the most important thing soon there will be ads and signs saying I'm the average American girl." " Your idea, wasn't it?" " Well?" "Well, I don't think the average American girl should do this." "So good night." "Remember this day, Gladys?" "That was the first time I saw you." "You hadn't met me yet, but you were about to." "And when I made that close-up, I had no idea you were gonna turn out to be someone special." "But a few minutes later, at the time I shot this I had decided I was gonna make a try with you." "This was right after I left you." "I followed you." "And a few days later, I moved in, right into here right across the hall from you, and lived here." "I wonder if you realize how tough it's been living across the hall from you." "And I suppose it's all right now to tell you that I sure never did get much sleep." "It was quite an uncomfortable thing to lie there in the dark, night after night knowing that you were only a few steps away." "Well, at first it wasn't so bad, because I had hopes that the trouble I was having was only temporary." "I was confident that things would develop with us." "But as time has gone by, I've realized more and more that this thing is just never gonna work out." "Now, maybe I didn't handle it as well as I should have." "Maybe all of those times that I got sore at you, you thought I really was." "But I wasn't, Gladys." "No?" "What I was sore at was that crackbrained idea of yours that seemed to be taking up all of your time, your energy and interest and attention, so you had no time to concentrate on anything else!" "Least of all me." "That's what I was sore about." "And the other day, when you drove up in that last straw I knew my goose was cooked." "Here I had gone along figuring all the time that I was competing with your passion for fame." "And suddenly, in one fell swoop, I realized I'd been wrong all along." "Now, it is just hopeless for me to try and compete with a man who drives a foreign car and wears a silk suit and, no doubt, real gold cuff links." "Also, I had a good look at this Joe and, well, I'm only being honest with myself when I say that in my opinion, he's even better-looking than I am." "Although I personally have reached a point where I sort of like my looks." "But then, of course, I've been around with them for quite a long while." "Well be that as it may I never got around to bringing up the subject of "I love you."" "But no doubt you're aware of it." "I'm sorry to bother you with all of this, but I couldn't face handling it in person, and I can't write." "So this is probably the best way." "The reason I did not wanna just disappear is because I wouldn't want you to ever think badly of me." "In fact, I hope that you can remember me with some amount of affection because that is the way I intend to remember you for the rest of my life." "Goodbye, Gladys." "What's doing?" "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no!" " What do you say?" "Time's a-wasting." " I hate this idea." "We'll talk later." "Put it in your mouth." " No, I'm telling you..." " Just do it, will you, Gladys?" "All right, let's have the pose." "Just let your arms hang down." "That's right." "And look miserable." "I can do that without even trying, mister." "And don't talk." "That's it." "Let's get the next one." "Snap it up now." " Why did I let you rope me into this?" " Rope?" "This is one of the best touches we've hit." "I feel foolish, and I don't like to feel foolish." "Why, sugar?" " Because." " Don't you realize that every place that uses this display, we get $20?" "They're talking about 1000 displays." "Don't you understand what that means?" "20,000." " There's one thing you forget." " What?" " It's a fake." " Oh, come on." " Not only that, it's dishonest." " Well, don't worry about it." " And it's not dignified." " Well, isn't tomorrow dignified?" " What tomorrow?" " The Air Force." "I got them to name a plane after you and your picture taken with generals and colonels and everything." "Isn't that dignified?" "Well, yes, but this isn't." "Well, will you let me run it, baby?" "I've done a lot of things in my life, some stupid, but never crooked." "Okay." "And certain people I know, they're gonna know it's a fake." " What do you care?" " I don't mean everybody." "But a few people." "One." "I care what they think." "Him." "He." "I don't even know where he is, but wherever he is..." "Will you close your mouth?" "I wrote a speech for you for tomorrow." "You have to memorize it." "And wear something simple and dignified." "Because tomorrow is dignified." "Yeah, but today isn't." " What do you say?" " All set." "Okay, clear it." "Here we go, Gladys." "Let's have the pose." "Let's see a smile now." "Oh, no!" "A real smile!" "Think of the money." "Think of not doing this anymore." "Good!" "Hold it!" "To think that of all the girls in America you have..." "No." "You men of the military air transport service have chosen me "the girl we would most like to be up in the air with."" "And all I can say, from the bottom of my..." " From the bottom of my..." " Heart." "From the bottom of my heart." "Let me read it from the paper." ""Gen. Dunkley, Col. Wiley and all you fine men."" "This has been the greatest day of my life." "To think that of all the girls in America you men of the military air transport service have chosen me "the girl we would most like to be up in the air with."" " Hold it!" "Hold it!" " Move in closer, fellas." "Put your arms on them." "Everyone look at her." "Quiet, will you, please?" "We're trying to tape this." "Start again, Gladys!" "Gen. Dunkley, Col. Wiley and all you fine men..." "Kiss her, somebody!" "Kiss her!" "One on each side." " Look like you enjoy it!" " Quiet!" "Quiet!" "Start again, Gladys!" "Gen. Wunkley, Col. Diley and all you fi..." "Fine men to think that of all the girls in America, you men of the military air transport service have chosen me:" ""The girl you would most like to be up in a plane with." And naming this magnificent plane after me, I can only say, from the bottom of my..." "Heart." "From the bottom of my heart, this means..." "It's all right." "She's just nervous." "Stay there." "We'll be back." "She's okay, nothing to worry." " What's the matter?" " I don't know." " You sick?" " No." "What are you trying to do?" "This wasn't easy to set up." " I don't care." " You don't care?" "Who are you not to care?" "Now, come on." "Pull yourself together here." "Get through with this, or I'll drop you like a hot potato." "I wish you would." "I wish everybody would drop me." "Just leave me alone." "Where do you come off throwing temperament around here?" "You cluck!" " What?" " You heard me." "You're a nobody that I've blown up into a property." "You haven't done so much, Mr. Clinton." " You just made me a freak." " You were a freak when I first met you, only I'm showing you how to cash in on it." " You've been doing all right too, right?" " Sure, sweetie." "We've been doing all right, and we can continue." "And we can do better, only you have to stay in line." " No!" " Why no?" "Because it's all over, the whole thing." "The whole goofy thing." "There's no sense to it, no nothing." "What's the good of being above the crowd all the time?" "What's wrong with being part of it?" " What is all this?" " Well, if you don't understand I'm just sorry for you, that's all." "It isn't just making a name." "What's that?" "It's making a name stand for something even on one block, instead of for nothing all over the world." " Now, wait a minute..." " What most people want is privacy." "That's about the greatest thing anybody can have." "You know what's the trouble with you?" "You're not real." " I'm real enough to pop you one." " Try it." "All right." "Now we blow off the steam." "Now let's get down to the facts." "The fact is there's only one thing I want." " Like what?" " You can't get it for me." "I don't even think I can get it myself." "But I'm gonna have to try." " What's happening?" " Just a spin." "Be right there." " Roger." " Yeah, yeah, roger." " Now, listen, Gladys..." " Okay, I'll do it." "Thattagirl." "Now, look, kid." "I'll forget everything you just said and you forget everything I just said." "Fair enough?" "Look, honey, don't conk out on me." "We got all this stuff going for us." "And listen, Gladys, the way the dough is rolling, I figure..." "And listen, Gladys, the way the dough is rolling, I figure..." "Hold it, fellas." "Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of Gladys Glover, she just wants me to say that, well she was a little overwhelmed, but she's all right now." "Gen. Dunkley, Col. Wiley and all you fine men this has been the greatest day of my life." "Not only because you wanna name a plane after me but because today I found out I don't want you to." "And why?" "I'm nobody to name a plane after." "I don't stand for anything." "But that plane does and so do you fellas." "That makes you somebody, even if nobody knows your names whatever they are." "Because every one of you are one of the crowd." "Hey, that's an idea." "Why don't you call your plane One of the Crowd?" "Because that's what it is, and that's what makes it great." "Gen. Dunkley, Col. Wiley and all you fine men hooray." "That's it." "Laugh it up!" "That's it." "Don't go away, anybody." "So I really appreciate your help, folks." "You see, the idea is this." "We're making this picture on how the people who come here look to the animals." "See what I mean?" "Now, the shot that we're trying for is you looking at the chimp, you see?" "Okay, here we go." "Now, everybody watches me just as if I'm the chimp." "You see what I mean?" "You know?" "Everybody's looking up at me." "That's it!" "That's it!" "Everybody watches me." "Let's go, kids." "All right." "Somebody down front, throw a peanut at me, would you?" "That's it." "One at a time." "Take it easy, will you?" "That's it." "Take it easy!" "Take it easy." "One at a time." "One at a time." "That's it." "Everybody's watching the chimpanzee." "Every..." "Well, wouldn't you know it?" "Just as we're getting it going almost." "Hey, Pete!" "Look, will you?" "I figure we can make it to Pittsburgh before dark." "Like to get just past and get a nice little room in one of those motels and get right to bed." "Then in the morning, get in an hour on the road before breakfast." "Can't we have breakfast first?" "I'll tell you what." "I will get up first and bring you back your breakfast in bed." "How about that, Mrs. Sheppard?" "Fine." "What are you looking at?" "Nothing." "Absolutely nothing."