"Subtitles:" "Luís Filipe Bernardes" "Come!" "Come quick!" "Loulou, Emil, Louis, come." "Ah, mister, hold the dogs, please." "Yes?" "And furthermore..." "I want you to know" "I have been thrown out of better theaters than this." "Phtui!" "Come hund, come." "We go home, come." "# It's only a shanty in old shanty town #" "# The roof is so slanty #" "# It touches the ground #" "# But my tumbled down shack #" "# By an old railroad track #" "# Like a millionaire's mansion #" "# Is calling me back #" "# I'd give up a palace #" "# If I were a king #" "# It's more than a palace #" "# It's my everything #" "# There's a queen waiting there #" "# With a silvery crown #" "# In a shanty in old shanty town #" "# It's only a shanty # # in old shanty town #" "# The roof is so slanty #" "# It touches the ground #" "# But my tumbled down shack #" "# By an old railroad track #" "Well that was short and sweet." "I told you we were wasting our time." "Please, fellas, wait till we find out what was wrong." "It's probably our music." "All right, boys, clear the stage for the next act." " We won't do, eh?" " No..." "It sounded all right but straight band acts are through." "You ought to work up something with a novelty." "You know what I mean?" "I might lead standing on my head." "Well, you'll be surprised how that'll help your act." "Come on, boys, a little speed." "Better luck next time, boys." "Jack..." "Send out number 5." "All right, come on, come on." "It's always the same old story." "Yeah, we certainly did wow that time." "I'm gonna quit this racket and get me a job with a soda fountain or something." "That's a fine way to talk." "He's talking sense, if that's what you mean." "Looks like I got to hock this clarinet again if I'm gonna eat." "Listen, Ted, we gotta face facts." "This was a good band at college, a great band." "Our friends said so, our mothers said so." "So did our sisters and sweethearts." "Well, I guess that lets us out." "Can't you fellas stand up and take it occasionally?" "Do you always have to give it out?" "What else have we been doing since we started?" "My jaw's sore from taking it so much." "I got you working all summer, didn't I?" " Yeah, at 25 a week." " That was last summer, this is now." "I think it's time we ought to call it a bust." "Next time I hock this g-string it's gonna stay." "Everybody's gotta go through this." "If you want the breaks, you gotta go after them." "Let's get down to brass tax, Ted." "That stage manager had the right dope." "We're just a band, another band." "We haven't any novelty, nothing different... nothing any ordinary college band hasn't got." " And nobody wants us." " Then we'll find a novelty." "We'll invent something new." " Who, you?" " Not alone." "We'll all get our heads together." "What for?" "I'm not a thinker." "I'm a baritone with an appetite." "Listen, palsy, my room rent is paid for two weeks." "If we don't click by then... leave for Buffalo and a job delivering ice." "That's a fair idea." "Two weeks more." "Two weeks more." "Everybody on?" "All right, but two weeks is the limit." "My stomach can only go so far." "And we thought we belonged in the band business." "Gimme your razor, Dell." " Okay." "Mi-mi-mi-mi..." "Mi." "Aw, what's the use?" "Caruso here's out for a week." "You see, it's like this, Ted." "My vocal cords are.." "Oh, tie your vocal cords around your neck and hang yourself." "What are you crabbing about." "I couldn't help it." "You could help getting drunk and screeching yourself hoarse, couldn't you?" "How can we go on without a singer?" "Say, maybe if you let me go to the drugstore for a bottle of balsam." "Yeah, for you to come back with a bottle of gin." "Besides, I haven't got the price for a bottle of balsam." "I gave my last $5 to that head waiter to hold that band out there to give you time to do something." "And what's more, if we don't get a free feed after tryout, we don't eat tonight." "How do you like that?" "Get ready, gentlemen, you are on next." "Now what are we gonna do?" "Well, who sings?" "You've got a sort of a voice, Ted." "Say, Ted couldn't run out the soup eaters." "Let's try it." "Listen, fellas, on your toes." "Maybe we can get by with just dance music." "At last we've got that great novelty they're looking for." "You want the crowd to know we're using tryout bands?" " Have somebody sing." " Yes, Mr. Meyer." " How are we doing?" " Ah, the boss is crazy about you." "Hey, how about doing your stuff?" "Where's your singer?" "Where is your singer?" "Go ahead." "Try a chorus." "We'll play soft." "# Sweethearts forever... #" " Is he singing?" " I don't know." "Ask him." "What that face exercise?" "Give it gas, eh?" "Can't you?" "Madame, you dropped your glove." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Hey, Grand-Duke!" "Lend me that megaphone, will you?" " Here." " Oh, thank you very much." "Here, boy." "Let us all in on the singing." "All right, wise guy." "# Ever, forever and ever... #" " Atta boy, that's all you needed." "Come on, sing out!" "What does he think this is?" "A Coney Island hot dog stand?" "Ted, quit it!" "# We may grow cold, dear # # but love like ours # # will not grow old, dear #" "# We will remember #" "# In May or December #" "# Sweethearts forever #" "# Forever and ever near #" "The megaphone's different." "You know, I think they like it." "Do you want me to tell him to cut it out?" "No, let him go." "# Forever and ever #" "# We may grow old, dear # # but love like ours # # will not grow cold, dear, #" "# We will remember #" "# In May or December #" "So soft and low." "# Sweethearts forever #" "# Forever and ever near #" "Hey, maybe you were right." "Hey, do you mind having a hat checked around here?" "Come on, get busy." "# I love you and so does he #" "# You're in love but not with me #" " I think he's putrid." " You said it." "Maybe so, but for some reason the ladies sure go for him." "Put on three extra waiters tomorrow, Antoine." "Captain." "Hey, it's one thirty." "I gotta get up in the morning." "Oh, just a few more songs, dear." "# I don't want to hang around #" "# Someone else's clover #" "# Happiness for two you've found #" "# And I'm the one left over #" "Gee, it looks as though we had a little novelty all along, only we didn't know it." "# We can still be friends, you say #" "# Yet I wouldn't care to stay #" "# I would just be in the way #" "# 'Cause three's a crowd. #" "Fine." "Now there you are, Mr. Taylor." "Now tomorrow night at 6:30." "Good night, Mr. Meyer, and thanks a lot." "All right, my boy." "Now take care of that voice of yours." "Don't worry, I didn't know I had one till tonight... and I sure won't do anything to hurt it." "That's the stuff." " Well, good night." " Good night." "Say, I wonder if they're gonna feed us." "Hey, fellows!" "We're in the bag." "Signed, sealed and delivered." "I guess you were too scared to know what your band was doing to boast you up." "I was sure scared all right." "It was lucky the drunk dug up that megaphone." "It drew the crowd's attention to it." "And did we throw it into them!" "That was great, just great." "Let's see what 's in the little paper." "Three fifty a week?" "You signed that?" "What's the idea?" " What's wrong?" " Only $39.50 apiece?" "And you're the guy that was going to hock his clarinet to eat!" "What are you squawking about?" "You're playing in a Broadway nightclub, the first one you ever saw the inside of." "And cash in your pants for four weeks." "We know what's our worth if you don't." "Why, we'd kill them tonight." "We opened up here crippled." "When I get my voice back, we'll be a riot." "By the way, the boss wants that megaphone stunt left in." "I could sing through a megaphone." "I'm not proud." "Now wait a minute, Taylor." "Any change in your act breaks the contract." "You sing through that megaphone." "Get me?" "You!" "Sure, if you want a clown act." "Anyway, I like to save my voice for what you're paying me." "That's all right, Mr. Meyer, everything's Jake." "Don't pay any attention." "The sight of a square meal gives them a swell head." "All right." "All you boys be here tomorrow at 6:30." "Yeah, $39.50 a piece..." "For heaven's sake..." "Why, Ted!" "I came to have breakfast with you... and tell you the best news in the whole cockeyed world." " We're over." " Grand!" " Come in and tell me about it." " You bet." "Get the milk." "Quick!" "I can't wait." "A funny thing happened." "We stumbled over a peculiar stunt." "Mack lost his voice." "I had to sing." " You?" " Yeah. can you imagine it?" "Well, the crowd couldn't hear me and started a razz." "Finally a drunk came along and handed me a megaphone for a gag." "I lost my temper and started to sing through it." "And the payoff is the customers liked it." "Oh, great!" "Yeah, they stayed there yelling for more till two o'clock this morning." " What do you suppose it was?" " The nerve of the thing, I guess." "The boss wants it in again tonight." "Oh, they'll get tired of it in a couple of nights but we shouldn't worry." "We've got a four weeks' contract." " Marvelous." " At $350 a week." " I'm fainting." " It isn't much." "But what do we care?" "We got a start in a New York nightclub." "We got a good little band, when they find that out, we'll sail right along," "...megaphone or no megaphone." " Of course you will." " Now, do I get my breakfast?" " Do you get your breakfast." "Hey." "Mr. Meyer would like to see you during the intermission." "Okay, thanks." "Gee, what did I tell you?" "A new contract." "Talk up to him, Ted." "Listen boy, we want three times as much as we're getting now." "When he mentions the first offer, laugh at him, ha-ha!" "Anybody heard of any other offer?" "Aw, show some guts." "Pipe down and put some pep into the music." "Okay, honey?" "This way, please." "Judie, are you secretly married or something?" "What do you mean?" "Oh, why come to a hideaway like this?" "I told you, I wanted you to hear this orchestra." "Well, it's the best little band in New York if it got you to go out with me." "Wait till you hear the best of it." "I don't have to." "There's been music in the air ever since you said you'd come to supper." "You know, Judy, when I asked you in the office to..." "Could you replace yourself with a couple of bottles of White Rock?" " Certainly." "Anything else, sir." " No, that's all." "You know, honey..." "Peter, you could do something with that band if you wanted to." "Are you promoting it?" "The leader's a friend of mine." "We went to college together." "Oh, I suspected as much." "You're the biggest publicity man in New York, Peter." "I wouldn't ask you to come here if I didn't think it was worth your while." "You wouldn't trifle with me, would you, gal?" "There's money in that band if you handle it." "Big money." "Yes, I can see." "My big moment is here." "Oh, you're not angry, are you?" "Oh, of course not." "Only what does a stooge like that have to get you this way?" "Wait till the evening's over and I'll ask you." "# I love you and so does he #" "# You're in love but not with me #" " Is this it?" " Shhh!" "Listen to him." "# I know two is company #" "# But three's a crowd. #" "# Every time that he's with you #" "I think he's superb." "He's lousy." "Hey, Sturgis, look at the dames." "# No, I don't want to hang around #" "Doesn't it give you a pain in the neck?" "Why limit it to necks?" "What's the matter, honey?" "Don't you love me anymore?" "Sure I love you." "But if you could only sing." "# Yet I wouldn't care to stay #" "# I would just be in the way #" "# 'Cause three's a crowd. #" "What do you think of him now?" "He can't sing, he only croons." "What's the difference?" "I don't know, ask him." "Oh, Ted, that was marvelous." "Crooner... 'The Crooner'." "Do you know that's a great title for a guy?" "Oh, Ted..." " Hello." " Hello, Ted, how are you?" "Ted, you were marvelous." " Thanks." "Hey come on..." "He's not interested." "But the facts were very gracefully handled." "Oh, he's in a hurry." "He's gone to the office to sign a new contract." "Sure, for a thousand a week, I suppose." "The old one expires tonight." "They don't think he's so bad around here, even if you do." "Oh, hello, Ted." "I didn't know you were there." "Good evening, Mr. Meyer." " Well, your month's up tonight, eh?" " Yes." "You know, things are coming in a little better." " Just about doubled, hasn't it?" " Hm, no, but getting by." "It's that new chef that I took away from the Algonquin." "Boy, there's a cook, but it sure cost me plenty." " Yes, I'm bleeding for you." " Yeah, I'm just about breaking even now." "I ought to shut down and go to Europe." "I don't see why you don't." "Yeah, the nightclub business is all shut." " But there's no use squawking, I guess." " No." "I suppose you and your boys are anxious to stay on, huh?" "Like to feel it coming in for the next six months, eh?" " We're interested in a way." " Well, you're nice boys and I like you." "Here you are, you can sign right here." "That's $50 less than we've been getting." "Yes, but every week for six months, and a guarantee." " I guess we can do better elsewhere." " Listen, I'm doing you a favor." "That's the trouble." "You're so big-hearted we can't talk business with you." "Wait." "I can go to that phone and there'll be bands like yours waiting outside like a bread line." "Well, if that's the case, it's a bad business to be in." "So I and my boys are getting out of it." " All right, I'll make it $500." " Nothing doing." " What?" " Listen, Meyer... any band that's good enough to sit on that platform is worth $1,000." "Ted, you're crazy." "You're all swelled up." "Any fellow can sing through that megaphone." "It's just the novelty that gets them." "And another thing." "Between you and me... as a real singer, you're just ordinary." "I think so too, but so's your food." "So tell your chef to sing through the megaphone because I'm through." "All right, all right, if you don't like my price get out." "Don't waste my time, do you hear me?" "Get out!" "All right." "All right, I'll make it $1,000." "Sit down." "Bunch of burglars, you're all swelled up... and you ought to be out shoveling snow." " Here..." " Hello, Meyer." "Hiya, Taylor." "I'm out there with Judy." "She wants to see you real quick." " Something arrived really important." " Yes?" "Oh, hello, Sturgis, just a minute." " What are you signing, Taylor?" " Hey, there!" "A thousand a week?" "You would!" "Say, what have you got to do with this?" "I'm handling the kid." " Say, what is this?" " Hijacking." "Pure and simple." "Hey, Taylor, what is this guy?" "You don't want to stick in a joint where they let you wear coats like that, do you?" "Here." "Get rid of them both." "Do we sign or don't we?" "Maybe I'd better talk it over with the boys first, Mr. Meyer." "That's all right with you, isn't it, Dominic?" "I'll make it $1,500." "Gee!" "Here." "He don't want you." "Oh, no, not much." "Now go on out and check yourself with Judy for safekeeping." "I'll handle this." " See you later then, Mr. Meyer." " It's now or never." "All right, now." "Listen." "I gotta look after this kid." "He's got a great future." "Now play fair." "You know I know what he's worth." " $1,750 and I'll lay off." " All right, but not one cent more." " Now, will you beat us up?" " I know, but there's a..." "No buts about it." "I'm your manager." "Scram!" "That poor kid's bewildered." "He don't understand sprinkling money around the way you do." "That's a dirty rotten trick, Sturgis." "I discovered that boy, he's my protege." "Yeah, and you've been watching the fans eat him up for four weeks." "Had a fortune standing around here with your waiters and didn't know it." "You can't see money unless it's naked." "Now come on, let's read this contract." "I'm in a hurry." "If he takes you on, you're made." "Why, he's handled big shots like Joe Brown, and the Dolly Sisters and Ted Lewis." " Half a dozen other things..." " Gosh, does he really think I'm good?" "I don't know, but..." "Oh, Peter." "Mr. Taylor, Mr. Sturgis." "So what?" "Sit down, Taylor." "I want to talk to you." "Be nice to him." "Well, I turned down that offer." "The next time you plan to do business, go into bankruptcy first." "You'll save money." "I had no idea we were worth so much money." "You're worth what you can get." "What you're worth over that doesn't interest anyone." "Now let me tell you something." " Did Judy tell you who I am?" " I said you were the biggest..." "All right." "Now, Taylor, I'll manage you for two years." "I want 25% of all you make," "If I can't get you $7,500 a week in six months it's all off." "You don't owe me a cent." " $7,500?" " Maybe $10,000 a week." " I'm being conservative." " Do you think we're that good?" "Personally, I think you're lousy." "I think spinach is lousy too." "But if they want spinach, let's give them spinach." "Oh." "I've been watching the dames around here and they're all after something." "And they seem to think it's you." "That's good enough for me." "What I don't understand is how you're going to..." "When I build you up, you'll have your own nightclub." " What?" " And a daily hour on the radio." " Honest?" " Marconi's gift to the morons." "I'll put on a newspaper campaign that'll make your head swim." "You know, Taylor." "This appeals to me." "I love to make something out of nothing." "What am I supposed to do?" " You just be the hairdresser's delight." "Make your noises through your little megaphone and avoid pink toothbrush." "Now, what do you say?" "You don't seem to think very much of me, Mr. Sturgis." "I'm not personal." "In this deal you're just an article." "Outside of that you must be okay." "Judy says so." "Now I'll tell you what I think," "If you're all you crank yourself up to be and want to handle me, then I must be pretty good." "You're gonna like yourself completely before we're through." "Well, do we play ball?" "I don't know." "You're telling me to turn down $1,750." "Who got you that offer?" "Meyer wants me." "Yes, and when he's through with you, no one will want you." "If I turn him down, I take all the gamble," "Take it, Ted." "Do as Peter tells you." "Okay." "See you later." "Mr. Taylor, will you autograph this menu for us?" "Sorry, I haven't got a pencil now." "Here, use mine, Ted." "Thanks." "Mine too?" " Thank you." " Don't mention it." " Oh, Ted." " Yeah?" " My pencil, please." " Oh, thanks." "You shouldn't have been so rough with him, Peter." " He's spoiling already." " He won't spoil." "Well, if he don't, it's a miracle." "Oh, Peter." "Boracic acid was a swell eyewash until they put a fancy label on it and sold it for a dollar." "Now it's hard to get your pencil back." "Well, I leave it up to you, fellas." "Was that an offer or wasn't it?" " Say, Taylor, are you screwy?" " Now wait a minute, fellas." "I walked into Meyer's office." "and he had a contract all made out, ready to sign for $300." "That's $50 dollars less than you've been getting." "Yes, naturally." "I'm a businessman" "Well, I got him up to a grand." "Then a fellow named Sturgis came in." "The biggest publicity man in New York." "Promises you the blue out of the sky." "He only ran Meyer up to $1,750 to show what he could do." " Grab it, you chump!" " Wait a minute, will you?" "Sturgis says if I sign a contract with him he'll build us up to $7,500 a week in six months." "Or the whole contract's off and we don't owe him a dime." "Yeah, this guy Sturgis talks big." "But he only talks." "He handles some of the biggest shots in Vaudeville." "Besides, Judy says he's okay." "Judy says he's okay?" "Now we've got it." "What Judy says goes with me." "And we pass up $1,750?" "Are you fellows going to stick with me or not?" "What if we don't?" "You can stay here with Meyer, 'cause I'm through." "Now wait a minute, Ted, my boy..." "I look upon you as my own protege." " We could talk..." " Talk to Sturgis, He's my manager." "Come along, fellas, next number." "Make it snappy." "Well, that's that." "Boys, wait a minute." "You guys are all crazy if you let him get away with that." "You're up and coming." "You've got a great future ahead of you." "If you'll only keep your heads." "All right, Meyer, listen." "We'll work for you." "For $1,500 a week without him." " Without him?" " Sure!" "I'll sing." "Why, you palookas ain't worth thirty cents without him." "And get this." "When he says 'him', he means me!" "Little Teddy Taylor." "Mr. Sturgis isn't in." "I don't know when he'll be in." "Oh, yes, Mr. Taylor." "The usual runaround, same as I got all day yesterday." "He's never in his office." "He doesn't work that way." "Well, how does he work then?" "I've seen him twice in four weeks and all I got then was the same old vague promises." "Oh, Ted, it takes time." "Time nothing." "It's taken $7,000 cash." "That's what we'd have today if we'd signed with Meyer." "Instead of that, we're back to jumping hotel bills." "Ted, Peter wouldn't make you wait if he weren't sure he could land you." "Well, I'm not so sure that my boys can eat." "I jumped them off a job and now I'm gonna get it back for them." "At least wait and talk to him." "He doesn't know you're broke." "When I see him, I'll tell him plenty." "I'm going to sign with Meyer for $1,750 or even less if he won't pay it." "Oh, Ted, don't be a fool." "Wait a minute." "Hello?" "Mr. Sturgis, please." "It's very important." "Telephone, Mr. Sturgis." " Telephone for me?" " Yes." "Hello." "Hello, Peter?" "Where have you been?" "Ted's just left here to sign a contract with Meyer." "What?" "And I've just got him a contract I wanted." "Sure." "It's all ready for his signature." "Oh, the dump head." "Any messages?" "Take them." "I'll be back." "But Peter..." "Peter." "Hello?" "Yes, madame?" "Golden Slippers Café." "Yes, madame." "Table for four?" "Yes, madame." "No, no, madame." "That band isn't here anymore." "But we got another one." "Very, very good." "Really." "Tell them we'll be back Monday." "Yes, madame." " Coming back?" " Sure." "That is, if Meyer talks turkey." "And I think he will." "I hear you haven't been doing very well since we left." "Not much." "Have you?" "Oh, fine, We closed an engagement in Boston on Saturday night." "Were we a riot." " So I hear." " Did you?" "I have your trap drummer working for me for the past two weeks in the kitchen... washing dishes." "Oh, so you're here, Taylor." "Hello, Mr. Meyer, how are you?" "Well, what can I do for you?" "Well, I thought we might er..." "that is..." "I might be ready to talk business." " Hm, Sturgis ain't so hot, huh?" " No, not so good." "I knew you'd come back." "Come in." "I just happened to be passing..." " ..." "I thought I might drop in to see you." " Yeah, I know, I know..." "Come on in." "So you want your place back, eh?" "Sit down." "Make out a memorandum contract to sign." "For Ted Taylor and his band, six months... at $750 a week." " He means $1.750." " I mean $750 and that's all." " Well, that's that." "Good-bye." " Good-bye!" "Give my regards to the park benches." "Make it out." "He'll come back." "I'll give you $3 if you get me there in ten minutes." "Come on, will ya?" "Hurry, please, can't you hurry?" "Come on, driver, step on it, will ya?" "Well, Taylor, it's shrunk." "$700." " Why, you..." " Oh, time is money." " Well, give it here." " Here, sit down." "I'll get even with you someday." "Say, we're having a hard time getting signed up, aren't we?" "Hold it there." "I'll be right back." "Hey, what the..." "And I've got a nice new broadcasting hour set for tomorrow at six." "Gee, that's the biggest hour in the air." "You'll be singing to 2 million people." "Isn't that wonderful?" "Yeah, isn't it?" "If you click, I can put you in any nightclub in New York City at $2500 a week." "I guess that's getting off the spring board." "Whew, did I have a narrow escape." "Every manager in the racket will be watching your fan mail from tomorrow's broadcast." "Bigger the mail, bigger the salary." "Think I'll get many letters?" "Well, the world's record is 4500." " Why, Ted, you're going to get..." " Please." " What?" " I was telling Judy... when I first heard you sing..." "I've got a hunch you'll come pretty close to the record." " That means I'll be made." " Yeah... into something." "Oh, driver, pull over here." "Here's my apartment." "Let's go up and have a little drink to celebrate." "I'd like to talk to Judy privately for just a minute if you don't mind." "No, not at all." "Come on, let's go downtown and get married now." " Why, darling!" " Why not, don't you care enough?" " You know I do, silly." " Then why wait?" "I couldn't help hearing what you said." " Well, you can be our best man." " Wait a minute, my boy." "Tomorrow you got a radio date with a half a million yearning women." "They don't want any bride gumming it up." " What do you mean, we can't get married?" " Not now." "You're married to your public... that is, if you're really serious about making the success." "Well, I don't think you're right, but we'll talk about it upstairs." "Later." "Now you chase down to Tabor's Art Gallery and sit for photographs." "I made all the arrangements" " What for?" " After tomorrow's Radio Hour... furniture stores are gonna give them away with bedroom sets." "Come on, Judy." "Tabor's Art Gallery on 44th Street." "Friends, I'm about to introduce to you" "Mr. Teddy Taylor and his band." "Mr. Taylor was well known in the New York nightclubs but this is the first time he has sung to you." "I think you are going to like Mr. Taylor." "In fact I think you'll like him so well that you'll insist we keep him in our program for many months to come." "If you do like him, write to him." "Send your letters care of the Wide World Broadcasting Station, New York City." "Mr. Taylor." "# We're sweethearts forever #" "# Forever and ever #" "# We may grow old, dear #" "# But love like ours # # will not grow cold, dear #" "# We will remember #" " Isn't he doing wonderfully?" " He can't miss." "There's a woman born every minute." "# Sweethearts forever #" "Oh, a new pest, eh?" "Don't do that!" "Oh, let's hear the police columns." "The minute we get something that's lovely, you turn it off." " Oh, that's rotten." " It's divine!" "That radio will bust us up yet." "# Forever and ever #" "# We may grow old, dear #" "# But love like ours # # will not grow cold, dear #" "# We will remember #" "# May or December #" "# Sweethearts forever #" "# Forever and ever near #" "Oh, look, he's going to sing." "# I love you and so does he #" "Teddy Taylor's singing." "He sure is." "Never heard anything like it before." "That's crooning, I want singing." "Looks like that Teddy Taylor's singing again." "I'll say." "# 'Cause three's a crowd. #" "# Now I don't want to hang around #" "# Someone else's clover #" "# Happiness for two you've found #" "# And I'm the one left over #" "# We can still be friends, you say #" "# Yet I wouldn't care to stay #" "# I would just be in the way #" "# 'Cause three's a crowd. #" "This is the most wonderful night I've ever known." "I can hardly realize it's Teddy." " He's certainly soaking it up tonight." " Soaking up what?" "The applause." "You know, it's just like hooch." "Some can carry, some can't." "Hello, Taylor." "Remember me?" "Well, who are you?" "I'm the guy that handed you the megaphone." "Well, well." "Say, fellow, if I helped to make you that way, I'm sorry." "I wouldn't do it to my worst enemy." "Nito." "Hello?" "Who's speaking, please?" "Miss Judy." "Hello, Judy dear." "How are you, darling?" "Hello, Ted, I'm so excited." "Have you seen the papers?" "I've been reading the notice in the Times." "Are they all as wonderful?" "Yes, quite nice." "Quite all I expected." "I thought you'd be over with the rest of them by now." "Well, you see, I slept late, dear." "The strain of that opening wore me out." "Well hurry along, darling." "I'm making breakfast." "Hotcakes." "I'm sorry, dear, but I'm right in the middle of packing now." "Yes, I'm moving to the Waldorf." "Naturally, I can't go on living in this hut." "How about having lunch together, say one o'clock at the Ritz?" "Oh, darling, I've never been to the Ritz." "All right, I'll meet you in the uh... in the foyer." "Don't you want me to help you pack?" "That's good of you, dear, but the man will attend to all that." "The man." "The valet." "Yes, he came this morning." "All right, old girl." "One o'clock at the Ritz." "Bye-bye." "Nito." " Haven't you fellows been home?" " Home?" "Look at that!" " So you've been celebrating." " Sure, wasn't you?" "No, I need my vitality." "You seen these?" "Say, we bumped into a guy that wrote one of those, in a speak." " You did?" "Which one?" " A mug named MacGillicuddy." "Oh, yes." "He gave me a flowery notice, didn't he?" "Yeah, and that's why Tommy socked him." " Tommy socked him?" " Sure, yeah." "I guess I'm a big enough success to stand what the critics say about me without you guys butting in." "Say, listen, we're all a success." "Any of our band gets knocked, we all get knocked." " Sure!" " No need to get so cut up!" "I don't happen to be a member of the band." "What?" "If it's any news to you guys, the band is supporting me." "Oh, well..." "Yes, and I put you all into fat jobs." "The least you can do when I'm giving my heart's blood is to stay sober, not get things gummed up." "Sorry, Ted." "We didn't know about the blood stuff." "What's more, you were rotten last night." "You drove me nearly crazy." "Instead of being my best, I was rotten too." "Band rehearsal at 4 o'clock so you might as well go home and get some sleep." "Good idea..." "Now, if you boys are gonna work for a genius you gotta learn how to conduct yourselves." "I'd like everyone to pass out quietly." "Well, that was worth the price of admission." "What do you mean wisecracking in front of my men?" "I wouldn't do that." "They know how it is to work for a sensitive person like you." "All my artists are like this after an opening." "I had the same trouble with Paderewski and Fritz Kreisler" "Just a bundle of nerves." "Nito!" "The spray." "You think you'll be all right for tonight's show?" "# I send my love with these roses #" "# A love that is painful and true #" "# Each little petal discloses #" "How do you expect to dance with that music?" "It's too slow." "Come on." "Aw, it's rotten." "You see, they don't like to dance to it." "What's the matter?" "The young genius won't sing his songs in dance time." " Showing off his voice." " And you know what did it, don't you?" "The last returns just came in from that radio fan mail contest." "He bust all records by 1264 or something." "And don't he know it." "Yeah, that's what hurts." "You can't blame him." "He'll get over it." "That bird can't take it." "Yes he can take it." "You wait and see." "# ...what is a rose for you. #" "Are you a lawyer in your soul?" "I love him." "Well, I hope you don't wake up." "But if you ever do, I want to be there." "Say, you were just grand, Teddy." "You were marvelous." "Darling." "Sit down awhile." "All right, if little uncle Peter over here is agreeable." "I'm all sweet and powdered." "Well, I hear you broke the fan mail record." "By 1265 letters." "I heard 1264." "Gosh, I gave it to the press one letter shy." " Maybe they'll hold the edition." " Oh, Peter!" "Ted, it's getting hard to dance when you sing." "You slow down so." "People are complaining." "Why should they dance when I sing?" " Ted, the tempo's all..." " You don't realize, Judy, when I'm singing through that microphone most of America is listening." "Do you suppose that most of America would give a hoot whether... these people can dance or not?" "Or are they interested in my voice?" "And when Asia quiets down and needs him too..." "Oh, well, that's another problem." "My fan mail doesn't mean a thing to you, does it?" "Let me show you what it does mean." " Oh, Peter, don't!" " It's coming to him." "Cast your beautiful eyes over that." " Six stenographers, $300, what..." " Stay with it." "Stationery, stamps, $150..." "Say, what is this?" "You got 5600 fan letters since the contest started, didn't you?" " Yes." " Well, 5000 of those... came from your uncle Peter." "From me." "Do you mean to say that you sent those letters?" "It's true, Ted." "I thought you'd be happy." "But if you deceive me like this how can I get a line on my public?" "You can get it right now." "It's about time you get a line on yourself too." "Say, do you know you're a common enough occurrence?" "Just another bonehead swelled up on the publicity that your own money pays for." " Oh, yes?" " That's all," "Listen, I've made soap famous the way I'm making you and the soap was only horse fat." "But still the public was getting a better break for its money." "Next number, Mr. Taylor." "Go on, Woman's Home Companion." "Peter, you were brutal." "That's only a spanking to what he really needs." "You know, in about a week he'll have it all figured out." "That if he only received 600 legitimate letters, the other 5000 would have written if they could have only gotten around to." " Peter!" " Hello, beautiful." " Don't I get a kiss?" " Don't be silly." "Where's Ted?" "I'm afraid the girls are going to be disappointed." "He's given his Jap valet power of attorney to autograph their albums." "But where is he?" "You'll be presented to him at his hotel." "He stepped off the train at 125th street." " Why?" " You know how it annoys him... when the dear public musses his hair." "Oh, dear." "Hello, Nito." "How's the maestro?" "Oh, please let us in..." "We want to see him." "Oh, Ted!" "Oh, hello, darling." "Just a moment, I'm uh..." "I'm rather 'désabille'." "That's French for 'cream still on the face'." " Judy!" " Ted!" "Sweetheart." " Gee, I'm glad you're back." " Are you really, dear?" "Nice of me, wasn't it?" "Well, so long." "See you at the shop, beautiful." "Good-bye, Peter." "You know, I think it's about time I got rid of that bird." "Oh, well." "Thank you." "Oh, forgive me, my sweet." "By the way..." "Nito!" "My engagement book." "Something's been worrying me." "What is it?" "You know, dear, I've so looked forward to spending my fist evening at home with you." " Had you?" " Yes, and bless you..." "I can't keep track of a thing." "That's too bad." "You see, I'm sort of being rushed to death socially these days." "Yes, I know." "Do you like them?" "Oh, no, no, they're a vapid lot." "But because they're who they are, they think they can make demands on my time." "It's a beastly nuisance but it's all part of the game, you know, all part of the game..." "Thank you." "Oh!" "Confounded!" "What's the matter?" "You see, I met the Chatfield Browns in Chicago." "They were coming on to New York and wanted me to attend some sort of an affair they're throwing tonight." "Of course, one can't risk society people." "But I had no idea it would come the first night I was home." "That's all right, Ted." "I don't mind your going in the least." "Ahhh!" " Ah, signor." " Buon giorno, caro amico." "Buon giorno, professore." "Judy..." "This is Signor Tamborini, my singing instructor." "Miss Mason." "Signor Tamborini heard me sing in Chicago." "He dropped all his pupils and came on just to cultivate my voice." "So you can imagine what he thinks of it." "Si, signorina, in one year he will sing at the Opera House in Milano." "In two years he will sing at the Metropolitan." "Isn't that rather sudden?" "With his voice?" "No!" "Such color, such warmth, such gusto." "Ah, signorina, he is what you call a 'naturale'." "Come, signor." "I've got a surprise for you, Judy." "Miss Mason, are you musical?" "No, I don't know much about it." "It is too bad." "Then you cannot appreciate our friend here." "Amico, andiamo, eh?" "Andiamo." " Let's give her the song" " Si." "Bravo, bravo, bravo!" "Look!" "Tears!" "You have made her cry." "Maybe I haven't got 'it'." "We regret to announce that the Teddy Taylor broadcast scheduled for this period will not be on the air." "Owing to a very bad throat and the advice of his doctor," "Mr. Taylor will have to rest for at least a week." "But you will not be entirely disappointed as we have arranged for your pleasure a special program of Mr. Taylor's records." "A week seems all too short, doesn't it?" "However, this is only the first night." "Did I have a time getting away." "That doctor had to think fast." "Was it worth the trouble?" "Well, I'm here." "I suppose after that gallant speech I should go completely gaga." "Why not?" "I wonder what there is about you." "It can't be your colossal conceit." "Well, I am attracted by the queerest things." "Are you really attracted?" "Well, I asked you to come in the boat." "But somehow I can't make up my mind whether you're a grand patient or... just a victim of my morbid curiosity." "Since all women are after you... perhaps it's just a herd instinct." "Yes..." "Perhaps." "Perhaps you're right." "It's a little early to become analytical, isn't it?" "Yes." "Personally, I never analyze." "I just take what pleases me." "Oh..." "My master." "You are delicious." "This is Thursday, isn't it?" "Yes." "A propos of what?" "I'm wondering how you can possibly stretch the topic of yourself over two more days." "You talk so rapidly." "Do you mean to say I'm boring you?" "Oh, no..." "But if you could only remember something of the time before you were weened it would be a variation." "Evidently I no longer interest you." "Of course you do, my dear." "Only I'm in such a state, that every time you kiss me" "I'm wondering what the page number is going to be in your autobiography." "Perhaps I'd better go ashore." "Oh, I'd hate to think of it." "Still, we're all so worried wondering what your absence will do to your public." "And the sea air to your larynx." "Perhaps you should." "Then, with your permission, I think I'll ask the captain to head for the pier." "I can't refuse you anything, Ted." "Thank you." "And I'm all washed up with sanitariums." "Hurry up and come on out." "Aren't you dressed yet?" "Not quite." "I want a kiss." "I'm surprised you didn't stay the week out." "Why, no reason for it." "What's the good of a doctor if you don't take his advice?" "Oh, my voice is all right." "Listen." " The mountain air must have helped it." " Nothing like it." "Well, I'm glad you found the air so beneficial because from now on you're gonna keep taking it." "What?" "I suppose you were so high in the mountains that you didn't see last night's paper." " I'm sorry, Judy, I..." " Oh, Ted, you're simply contemptible." "Wait a minute, Judy, let me explain, I..." "I had to go." "It was a matter of business." "And you had to lie." "You had to bribe a doctor to lie." "Because I knew you wouldn't see it in the right light." "And what light do you think I see it in now?" "Well, you are jealous, Judy." "Of women who'd waste time with a stuffed shirt like you?" " I pity them." " Oh, Judy, don't lose your head." "Do you want to go now or listen to the rest of it?" "Well, there's some excuse for me in my business." "I haven't made excuses for you, oh, no." "I've only watched you change from a nice boy to the biggest cad and the silliest ass in all New York." "You and your airs of a genius." "You make me sick." "Don't you know yet that you're just tripe?" "Cheap tripe wrapped up in pretty packages for yokels." "I stood up for you when regular people were laughing and sneering at you." "Because I thought you had some intelligence." "I thought that when these publicity powders wore off you'd snap out of it." "But you can't." "Peter was right, you can't take it because you're just a born four flusher." "And you always will be." "And I wish you'd get out!" "Judy!" "Judy!" "Come on, guys." "Hey, captain!" "Where's the football party?" " Right this way." " Atta boy!" " This music is terribly draggy." " It's rotten!" "Come on, Taylor, step on it." "What's the matter with him?" "Has he got a bun on?" "He can't carry much." "Why, look!" "Hey, Ted, what's this?" "A cemetery serenade?" "No, it's a sailor's hornpipe." "He's a yachting man." "They've been razzing him all night." "He ain't got no life in him." "His old girl just kicked him over the barricades." "I hope she kicked him right where he needed it... and that ain't in the face." "All this baloney about a sanitarium and a sore throat... then letting the papers dump him off some dame's boat." "If he hands the public another laugh like that, pfft, he's through." "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea." "And the skipper brought along his little daughter to bear him company." "Take that stuff back to college." "This is a nightclub." "Come on, you fellas, kick into it." "Don't blame us because they're giving you the razz." "# You're just a beautiful melody #" "That's the stuff, Taylor." "It suits you like a water nymph." "That's the last crack out of you!" "Say it through your megaphone, sailor, or they'll find out you're a soprano." "Dominic, he hit a cripple." "Hey, come on, gang." "Come on, get out of here!" "Let go of me!" "Let go!" " Get out you!" " Do you know you hit a cripple?" "What?" "You hit a cripple and you knew it too!" "Stand back folks, stand back, please." "Listen, everybody, please!" "Please!" "I want to apologize." "Honestly..." "I didn't know he was a cripple." "Here you are, bum!" "Oh... say, it's time for the Roy Merrick hour." "Hello, America." "Roy Merrick speaking." "I am able to announce that Peter Sturgis, New York's best known press agent and Miss Judy Mason are about to take the fatal step." "Perhaps you remember that six months ago" "Judy and Teddy Taylor were a flame." "Taylor was the crooner who flashed onto Broadway and the Radio world with the suddenness and the brilliancy of an incandescent light and then flashed out again as suddenly." "In a few short months, Taylor spent his whole fortune trying to forget." "Today he is about where he started playing a saxophone in a Harlem orchestra." "So here is good luck to Peter and Judy from all their friends." "And here is good luck to Teddy Taylor if he happens to hear this." "Broadway is a fickle mistress." "But she forgets past faults as quickly as she forgets past success." "Maybe Teddy will do better next time." "I'm sorry you heard that, Judy." "Oh, that's all forgotten, isn't it?" "You're the pluckiest little kid I ever knew." "Does it take pluck to marry you, Peter?" " I want you to be happy, Judy." " I will be." "I'd do anything in the world to make you happy." "Would you?" "Let's be married tomorrow." " Do you mean that?" " Too sudden?" "Not for me." "Since that Merrick person has spread the news all over America," "I'd like to do it quickly and quietly." "Hello?" "It's Ted, Judy." "Can't you hear me?" "Yes, it's Judy." "Gee..." "It's good to hear your voice again." "But I don't want to bother you, I..." "I've heard the news." "And I just wanted to say I..." "I wish you all the luck in the world." "Thank you, Ted." "Good-bye." "It was Ted." "He wishes me happiness." "But it doesn't matter, Peter." "If you want me, I'll marry you tomorrow." "All right." "I'll telephone you at noon where to meet me." "Hello?" "Yes, Peter." "I have my bags packed." "Here I am, waiting at the church." "Yes, I know the place quite well." "I'll meet you there in half an hour." "All right." "Bye-bye." "Ted!" "Judy!" "How do you happen to be here?" "Well, Sturgis telephoned and asked me to meet him here." "He isn't here yet?" " Are you Miss Mason?" " Yes." "Mr. Sturgis wanted me to give you this." "And now it is our great privilege to bring to you the new sensation of the air," "Bang Busby, who will croon for you in his inimitable manner," "'Sweethearts Forever'." "# We're sweethearts forever #" "# Forever and ever #" "Peter's always right." "Subtitles:" "Luís Filipe Bernardes"