"So...has he hired you?" "No way!" "Hiring's finished." "I would've had a chance yesterday." "These directors are all the same." "With them you can still be too late, even if you're a day early." "My singing's pretty good, though." "You told him you'd worked at 'Le Petit Casino'?" "Of course." "What'd he say to that?" "I should come back and see him when I'm well-known." "So I said:" ""That's now."" "Look... they're already advertising the new revue at the St. Martin casino." "Pooh!" "...it finishes tonight." "As of tomorrow, I'm out of work." "They would've taken you on." "I'm not their type." "They want women 2 metres tall." "They fill the stage better." "So, young ladies, taking a walk?" "Wouldn't you like to enjoy a pleasant moment the three of us having a drink?" "Thanks, but I don't like mixes." "Do you like the countryside?" "What's that to you?" "If you've got some spare time," "I've got a very pretty villa near Paris...at Gambais." "We'd make a round trip." "It'd be very nice." "We could have a snack." "I never eat in bed." "We're mothers of large families!" "Leave us alone or I'll call for help!" "Very well..." "but you'll come to regret it." "When a woman has slept there..." "She's had a bad night!" "What a phiz on him!" "It's a nice brown!" "I do like a man with a beard." "You've got strange tastes." "I'll buy you a coffee at Batifol's." "Maybe we'll change our minds." "What's up?" "My heel!" "I've broken it." "Keep it...it brings good luck." "You're getting mixed up with horse-shoes." "And under a ladder, too!" "Luckily I'm not superstitious." "It's only brides in white that bring me bad luck." "What's going on over there?" "That's enough of that!" "What d'you think you're doing?" "Silence!" "Down with obscene publications!" "Your newsstand constitutes a dispensary for the promotion of debauchery!" "Every one of these rags is an affront to decency!" "A challenge to public morality!" "What's going on here?" "Ah, it's you again!" "Watch your tone of voice, if you please." "I'm Chacaton, president of The League for the Defence of Virtue." "Oh, don't I know..." "I've heard it all before." "Meantime this idiot's torn up 60 francs worth!" "He has every right!" "Bravo!" "All honest people are with you." "Oh, thank you!" "Well!" "Aren't you hunting any more?" "I do NOT know you, mademoiselle." "What happened to you?" "..." "...swallow a G-string?" "Come on...calm down!" "If you'll come along with me now..." "With pleasure." "I'll make justice face its responsibilities." "My compliments." "Now blow your nose!" "But, mademoiselle..." "Oh, constable!" "What is it?" "It's a pair of panties!" "We don't usually show our bottoms to passers-by!" "Such indignity!" "Come with me." "I've been looking for you." "I've got 4 gigs for you to Berck-Plage resort." "70 francs for the 4...with ocean views." "A deal?" "I'm not exactly poverty-stricken." "But anyway, the sea's priceless." "No...find another sucker." "You'll regret it, old chap!" "Oh, Jean-Pierre!" "I've been looking for you!" "I've got 4 gigs for you at Berck-Plage resort." "Four gigs?" "Wait a sec.... 80 francs for the 4." "Including return fares of course." "Less my commission, it'll make 71 francs all up." "And you see the sea." "You're in luck..." "I've got some time." "If that's any help." "Good on you!" "Do me a favour." "Come over here and we'll sign you up." "Say, can I get an advance on the contract?" "You're kidding!" "You take me for a Rothschild!" "I'm so unlucky..." "no work for two months." "You've got your parents." "They're such stick-in-the-muds." "Couldn't you try them?" "You can talk!" "It's not the same thing." "I don't have the talent." "Then why the music-hall?" "I love it." "What do you earn?" "12 francs in Paris, 20 out-of-town, Seine-et-Oise excepted." "You'll sure do well on that!" "I suppose so." "We've been to Marseilles." "You can't go any further...it's on the edge." "If you go on, you'll finish up in the drink." "What's the matter?" "I've lost my bracelet." "You've lost your bracelet?" "Yes." "A present from my brother." "Caprice...what are you doing there?" "I've lost my bracelet." "You can't've." "G'day, Oseille." "G'day, Monsieur Bagnolet." "Hi, sweetie." "What was this bracelet?" "Something to remember by." "At your age, you wouldn't have to remember back far, eh?" "Well, it's not here." "What's this?" "I broke my heel." "You can't've." "Great." "Waiter, three more of the same!" "May I?" "I don't know if I should." "You should!" "My brother distinguished himself this afternoon in the Chamber... by giving an idiotic speech, ....so bad that I have to drink to forget it." "You have a brother?" "Yes, an MP." "And he's ashamed of me..." "I'm the only honest man in the family." "Here's my brother here." "No, not there...there!" "That one's far too nice." "There's my brother." "He's not called Bagnolet?" "No, his name's Gambier." "I took an alias so as not to be linked with this skunk." "What's a 'skunk'?" "The skunk, my pet, is an animal that emits, through its mouth, a discharge of stinking gas." "That's what my brother did today in the Chamber." "Cheers!" "Caprice!" "She's another one who'd be better off getting into an affair." "I can't understand this antipathy you have for her." "I just don't like that type of girl." "When she was a kid, I could sense it already." "I remember one day..." "At the lndustrie crossing, coming home from school," "I waited for her." "I gave her a hiding!" "Just like that." "No reason." "I just needed to do it." "Since then, not a word about it." "You're certainly single-minded." "We greet each other as usual." "We haven't fallen out." "But there's a coolness between us." "I know she hasn't forgotten her punishment." "And she knows that I know she hasn't forgotten." "Instead of talking about Caprice, are we going to repeat the song?" "Keep the change." "No, let me..." "No...my turn." "I start Friday at the Olympia." "That's no joke." "Have you worked on the arrangements?" "Yes." "I'm going to give them to you." "Hi, Monsieur Jeff." "Monsieur Marval!" "Cheers, Herculanum." "Get together Friday?" "Yes." "How you going?" "G'day!" "My photos?" "Ready." "They're a great success, as you'll see." "I enlarged the eyes, reduced the nose and made the mouth more sensual." "You're unrecognizable..." "it's wonderful!" "You crazy guy!" "What could he've been thinking?" "Who..." "Marval?" "No..." "Jeff." "Did you notice?" "He seemed to see nobody." "He only greets to show off a new hat!" "Maybe you upset him." "Don't be silly!" "Have I told you the story?" "Haven't I told either of you?" "It happened a while back." "He already got on my nerves when I was little." "One day I gave him a hiding at the Industry crossing!" "He always had it coming!" "Between when I was about 6 and 13, I was a holy terror." "At school I was 'The Tigress'." "What'd he done to you?" "Nothing." "I don't like guys who bang out 5 notes and think they're Chopin." "It's true!" "Just like every Corsican thinks he's Napoleon." "If I were you, I'd find Jeff and ask him for a song." "Why?" "To sing it." "Where?" "Anywhere." "He wouldn't do it for me." "Because you're a nobody." "Me a nobody?" "Well!" "You're like everybody else." "You sing other people's songs." "The only people who live on hand-outs are ministers." "Even if I did have a full stomach, I wouldn't agree with that." "You'll find it in literature." "One thinks of Mayol when he plays "Woman's hands"" "and of Dranem when he plays "The Green Peas"." "I could rattle off any number of star performers." "Mistinguett, famous for :" ""My Man."" "Damia, famous for...?" ""The Seagulls." Bravo." "Yvette Guilbert?" ""The Hackney Cab!"" "Yvonne George?" ""Leave Without Turning." Georgel?" ""Caroline!" And..." "Polin?" ""The Girl from Tonkin." Bravo." "And so it goes on." "The song that launches you will always be good for you." "And Jeff's the only one who can do it for you." "I've had my fill of bad luck for today." "Me go after Jeff?" "Never!" "But thanks for trying to help." "Don't settle for drinking water..."" "if you have a chance to drink wine."" "Waiter, I'll have a Chavignol!" "That sounds fine." "I see it using a red spot." "Where?" "In the last stanza, when she dies." "But she hasn't been stabbed." "Fair enough." "Make it a green spot." "That goes with the death pangs." "You like it a lot?" "Yes a lot." "I don't have the voice I had five years ago." "So you're replacing sound with light." "Very ingenious." "I get by best I can." "Besides, I've thought about it..." "in a year, no more strenuous songs." "I'll protect my voice with songs I can handle easily." "I've reached an age when I should exploit my charm." "From my heart...get it?" "The subtleties of the heart, eh?" "If you've got heart, you can play down the voice." "And if you've got voice, you can play down the heart." "You making fun of me?" "See you in a year, when I'll have polished my charm." "I'm forgetting." "I was forgetting the most important thing." "I definitely need a solid straightforward song, as number five, before the re-call, between "Who is Estelle?" and "My Heart is a Dead Rose"" "You should have something on hand?" "Costa?" ""The Little Tomboy?"" "No, bad finish." ""I left my heart in the cloakroom?"" "Oh no!" "I know that one." "Too much psychology." "Wait." "I knew I could hold out for what I want..." "Always the same." "When you ask him, he never has anything." "You have to go on your knees to get a song." "Oh no, old boy." "Not for me." "Why not for you?" "Never!" "It's never been given a chance!" "For good reason!" "It's been bad luck for those who've done it." "Chevalier tried it at 'Voltera' :" "came down with a burst appendix." "He almost croaked." "Georgel tried it at the 'Alhambra' :" "someone stole his costume." "Dalbret tried it in Marseilles :" "he got food-poisoning from some oysters." "Mayol, at 'Bataclan' :" "fell down the stairs." "Nina Tibert tried it at 'Le Petit Casino'." "She was bitten by a seal." "As for Claudine, she died on stage, in the middle of the first stanza.." "Coincidence." "Bad luck is always a coincidence!" "Since then, it's lost its evil power." "You aren't such a child as to believe that stuff." "I believe in everything." "So I don't take any risks." "Maybe you're right." "Don't encourage superstition!" "Bad luck does exist!" "There's the proof!" "This song hasn't done me many favours." "It was when I knew Odette." "I thought she was nice." "She was quite amusing." "She lit a fire at your place..." "said she was burning her past." "She was certainly an original." "She had...star quality" "Oh no!" "You're going to bring her back!" "At ease!" "Caprice, my child, come and say hello to the nice man." "You know Caprice?" "Who doesn't know Caprice?" "A charming creature." "You know Jeff?" "Who doesn't know Jeff?" "He's adorable." "Let's cut the crap." "Would you have a nice song for this child hidden away somewhere?" "An original song which gives the impression of having already been heard and which we'll always remember from the moment we hear it." "A song that's just for me." "A song?" "What for?" "To sing." "Whereabouts?" "Everywhere." "Who's going to sing it?" "Me, of course." "No way!" "..." "What with?" "With feeling." "My voice can handle your music!" "It'll make up for it!" "Don't get your nickers in a knot!" ""What with"?" "What does he write his music with?" "With an iron?" "Stop the quibbling!" "So, Jeff?" "So, Bagnolet?" "Oh!" "Costa!" "Play us that song that Marval liked so much." "Yes..." "Isn't that right, Marval?" "You're going to give it to her?" "Why not?" "I don't hold grudges." "Thanks for that." "Go on, Costa." "May I, Costa?" "Spring is everywhere ...on the balconies" "In the streets and songs" "Do re do mi fa fa fa mi re do" "Do re do re, do re do sol" "Mi fa sol la... all of the hearts are in love everywhere" "But you weren't there at the rendezvous" "So?" "You'll give me an exclusive?" "If Marval's prepared to relinquish." "Marval?" "You know me, I've always liked young people." "Oh, you're super!" "Thanks so much." "Don't mention it." "I'm sure it'll bring you good luck." "It's a lucky-charm song." "Costa...can we have it again?" "Oh!" "What?" "My bracelet!" "It was stuck in my sleeve." "You see..." "Lady Luck's been told." "She's taking care of you!" "You found your bracelet." "That's a sign." "The bells of your future success are ringing already!" "The roar of applause..." "I can already hear it here!" "Why has she stopped?" "She's been drinking." "Again?" "I can sing, sir!" "Certainly not!" "There are children in the audience." "It's crazy!" "He's got no feeling for comedians." "Come in!" "You've only sung three!" "I'm not in a play." "The public's paid to see you." "They can afford it." "This is shameful of you." "Shameful of me?" "You're kidding" "You and your posh accent." "Shameful of me!" "What am I then?" "A very great artist who wastes her gifts." "Oh, I know, Mary Flor, the Sarah Bernhardt of song." "You've seen this mug on the Sarah Bernhardt of song?" "Crazy..." "Nobody wanted you." "Everyone was saying:" ""She's finished."" "I took you on against all advise." "Result... first day you were late." "Thursday morning, you forgot to come." "Today you've left the audience in the lurch." "Have I deserved to be treated this way?" "At my debuts, they whistled for me." "Like Yvonne George." "You surprised them with your originality." "Yeah..." "I remembered that this evening during the re-calls." "Mob of cows!" "And you expect me to endure more!" "Zilch...you'll get nothing!" "That'll teach you." "You want to punish those who gave you success?" "I'm not kidding myself." "If you weren't in the room with your staff to start the applause..." "That's my business." "I'm here to give the public artists of your quality." "Of my quality?" "You're kidding!" "You don't appreciate your own talent." "No!" "We're not having this." "Go away!" "Don't I have the right to be thirsty?" "You have to choose between alcohol and your profession." "I've made my choice." "Gimme a drink!" "Can't you understand..." "I have no ambition?" "I don't give a hoot about all this." "Just put me on dry bread and water." "What do you take me for?" "A vegetarian singer?" "You want to extend my contract two weeks on that basis?" "Nothing doing..." "I finish Friday." "No argument." "That's better for you." "I'd show you up for what you are." "That's all there is to it..." "No need to want more." "Come on!" "I'll buy you a drink..." "my shout." "No?" "You'll kill yourself without me." "So...see you at the cemetery." "You'll do my exit." "Good God!" "Get me the audition book." "I really got them going!" "That clapping's all for me." "More!" "Too kind!" "More!" "Too kind, really." "More!" "Thank you very much." "Mary Flor's finished her contract." "Will you'll need a replacement until Friday?" "Someone at random." "That's how stars are made." ""Caprice, whimsical singer, promising voice." ""Might do for beginning of show and at end of season."" "Well, she'll do for the beginning of the show at the end of the season." "Friday." "Send a messenger." "Attention!" "Everybody smile!" "Don't move." "Caprice!" "You listening, Papa?" "This is the only one!" "Don't move!" "Absolutely still now." "Look at your mother." "Is she complaining?" "I have to move to look at her." "It's crazy." "Say..." "Quiet!" "There." "Your good side." "Smile." "Don't feel like it." "Make yourself." "Attention." "Caprice!" "Caprice!" "I've got a message for you." "You joking?" "No kidding." "What is it?" "Urgent." "Go to the end." "Where do you think you are?" "On a picnic?" "Émile's a pal." "If I'm in the way..." "We can all stay." "With a bigger plate." "Hurry up." "We'll soon be a whole regiment." "Ah!" "It's finished?" "Madame Bagnolet..." "Monsieur Bagnolet..." "please don't move." "Attention." "Don't move again!" "Smile." "There we are!" "Caprice!" "When you get the proofs, you'll keep one for me?" "Sure!" "Thanks for photographing me on the last day of my moustache." "Iconoclast!" "You really doing it?" "Got to get with the times." "It was OK in the days of Henri ll." "Moustaches are finished!" "If Henri ll came back?" "I'd let it grow again." "Auguste!" "If you shave off your moustache, I'll never speak to you again." "You can't leave my beard in the lurch." "I don't like it anymore!" "It's my crazy soup-strainer." "In memory of Vaillant." "Vaillant?" "The anarchist." "You don't know your French history." "Anarchists like you..." "A porcelain anarchist!" "Who told you my camera wasn't an instrument of the devil?" "When you see your ugly mug, you'll change your opinion." "If you shave off your moustache..." "Rest assured!" "He's been threatening to shave them off for three years." "The days pass, fashions come and go, but his moustache stays." "It's like the marriage bed." "When we got married he said:" ""I'll make one myself, to measure."" "He got the wood, the plan." "That was twenty years and 2 children ago, and it's not finished yet!" "Fortunately my mother lent me hers while we were waiting." "The poor woman left us without a deathbed!" "That wouldn't have been of any use." "She died in a train accident..." "in a 1st class carriage with a 3rd class ticket." "Death will have made a mistake." "You can't deny that I've started our bed." "Too late!" "The children are all made!" "Now when we go to bed, it's to sleep." "Who sent you a message?" "Oh, it's nothing." "A pal of mine, Charlotte." "You don't know her." "Little sister, I'm very worried, Phone me as soon as possible at Italie 29-38 Not a word to anyone." "Marcel" "Poor Marcel." "Ah, pity him!" "A bastard who ran off just because I gave him a couple of slaps." "When you're 19, getting slapped..." "Age doesn't matter." "In my day..." "But it's not your day any more!" "I'm still here!" "Keep your shirt on." "Why don't you do something about that mo." "You'll get a clip on the ear!" "Double dare you!" "Don't you defy ME !" "What are you waiting for?" "Come on...time for work." "Yes." "Better get to it." "Good idea." "I've got my shopping to do." "Get me some whiting." "I love whiting." "Yes, I know." "'Bye for now." "Thanks for the coffee." "Don't mention it." "Off you go to work." "Caprice, come up to my place." "I'll do you a photo for a program, just in case." "'Just in case' is the way to put it." "With all the relationships she has, something should have turned up." "Turned up!" "The cemeteries are full of people who have turned up." "Like you." "You'd rather she finished up like Oseille?" "Me?" "No comparison." "I've no family, no talent...nothing." "Would you rather have talent or family?" "Luck." ""Luck"...eh?" "So... talent and no family!" "She's a nice little girl." "A pretty model for portraits." "Come and see me..." "We'll see what we can do with those eyes." "Hold that pose." "Absolutely still." "Why are you looking at me like that?" "I look at you as I see you." "Take your eyes off me." "On this rose." "I want you to look at the rose." "Why are you looking at me?" "You're hardly a psychologist." "Don't you see anything?" "Where?" "On your face." "Look at it closely." "More than that!" "And then?" "So?" "A bit closer!" "What has she got there?" "What have I got?" "Flirting with your eyes?" "It's not true." "I swear!" "Oh!" "A man of my age!" "You swore not to repeat it!" "It's written all over your face!" "Well, yes, I love you, if you really must know." "Ever since I saw you, I've felt more alive." "It's as if I existed more." "Thinking of you makes me forget myself." "There's nobody looks anything like you." "Your age means nothing!" "Anyway, I love your age, your voice, your beard, everything!" "It's not a laughing matter." "I love you as you are." "I wouldn't want you any other way." "If you changed, I wouldn't love you." "I've thought of killing myself, you know." "Yes...yes!" "At the last moment, I told myself that if I were to die," "I wouldn't see you again." "So I didn't kill myself." "I'd chosen the spot to commit suicide." "A spot where we'd once passed each other." "Briefly close..." "but not together." "You on a bus, me on foot." "On the Saints-Pères bridge." "Tell me I'm stupid." "Send me away." "Well, now...you don't usually talk much, but when you do, it's all at once." "What are you doing?" "Superb!" "I've taken several snaps of this child during her delightful tirade." "I've photographed pure love, a cry from the heart, the delight and the madness." "Oseille." "No reasonable man would refuse such an offering." "I'm not reasonable, but I accept all the same." "I don't deserve the pleasures that come with it." "but we all know that justice comes out of mad injustice." "If we only got what we deserved, we'd lead a rather destitute life." "I couldn't find any whiting." "No matter." "I don't have any appetite anymore, I only have desires." "I'm very happy for you." "Here." "You're getting a lot of messages today." "You be quiet." "How do you find Oseille?" "Very nice." "Why?" "Pretty?" "Oh, more than that." "Quiet." "Youthful?" "Of course, she's young." "As if she wasn't youthful at her age!" "Do you think..." "Quiet!" "...that a man could love her?" "Look at her." "You believe she can love?" "If she wants to." "Yes?" "Well...me too!" "You too?" "I find her young, kind and pretty." "Moreover, I'm a man." "She can love a man who thinks as I do, that a man can love her." "So that's it!" "I have a horror of lying, do you understand?" "And I respect you too much not to tell you that we've decided to tie the knot without further ado." "This can't be true?" "Tell me it's not true!" "Caprice, did you know about this?" "Calm down." "It's the greatest proof of fidelity that I could show you." "This I gotta hear!" "Think about it." "When I discovered you, you were a petite, piquant, delicate brunette." "A charming, desirable creature." "You were 18." "I made my life with that woman." "That was then." "Now she's no longer the same." "I lost her, in a manner of speaking" "And here, my love, I find you just as you were." "It's miraculous." "Look...contemplate." "Isn't it marvellous?" "You're the only one who'd allow me such a surprise!" "How can you answer to that?" "He has such a way with words..." "What luck to have such a husband." "And women's intuition!" "I bought three cutlets!" "You're a one!" "Now I've seen you in all your colours!" "Amusement aside..." "what was your message?" "You won't believe it." "Why?" "I'm opening Friday at the 'Olympia'." "Wow!" "Is Jeff in?" "Go through." "Goodness, you still at it." "What on earth's this?" "A song." "Where are you singing it?" "At the 'Olympia'." "Which 'Olympia'?" "The Olympia 'Olympia'." "So, when?" "Next Friday." "The same program as me?" "Of course." "I guess you're a curtain-raiser." "I don't know." "I'm replacing Mary Flor." "That can't be possible." "Mary Flor's a headliner with me." "I'll be at rehearsal, Friday." "How was this arranged?" "By an express message." "Jeff's song will have brought me good luck." "Allow me to doubt that." "So what'll you sing to them?" ""Spring is Everywhere", followed by... "It's My Shout"." "Sorry, I have an exclusive on "It's My Shout"." "You didn't want it any more!" "My fans insist I keep it." "It was a song that stood out." "You remember, when I stumble and throw the glass?" "Clang go the cymbals!" "The glass is one of my gimmicks!" "No way!" "I started it 1906 in "Last Whisky"." "I revived it in 1912 in "Alcohol Kills", and again in "It's My Shout"." "Right?" ""Right."" "Marval changes the song, but keeps the gestures." "Sorry, I'm keeping it." "You don't have to carry on." "You can stick your "Shout"..." "You're being smart." "I'm not top of the bill!" "You're having me on, aren't you?" "What?" "Serious?" "She's opening at the Olympia?" "She told you." "She must have stage-fright." "Me?" "You haven't seen me!" "Just listen." "Let's go, Costa!" "Stage-fright...you're kidding." "It's not fantastic." "In fact, it's extremely bad." "Bravo, mademoiselle!" "Marvellous!" "You can hear me?" "Couldn't be better." "Take a break..." "go and put on your stage dress." "After the rehearsal the two of us'll work alone." "If you listen to me you'll do well." "Or very badly." "Monsieur Marval, good to see you." "You too." "What are you waiting for?" "Give me an intro for Monsieur Marval, come on!" "Can she pull it off?" "I'm ignoring it." "She didn't have all she needed." "Does she have what it takes?" "It's all there." "Good afternoon, gentlemen." "So now..." "Piano...softly...softly." "All ready?" "Lights?" "Here!" "You know what to do?" "All written down." "For the lights I repeat "It's My Shout."" "You're doing that song?" "I think it's dumb." "Really?" "But when I throw the glass..." "That doesn't break!" "Please?" "Nothing." "Come on, let's not waste time." "I return on the last bar, acknowledge the audience, let them applaud." "Don't start in before I've made my announcement:" ""'My Heart is a Dead Rose', my latest creation."" "There's a place there." "At the second stanza, you'll see." "No, no!" "Your entrance!" "As if the public were here." "We don't worry about a dress rehearsal." "What are you waiting for?" "For the applause to finish." "Come in!" "At last!" "No harm done!" "You only just phoned me." "That tickles." "You growing a beard?" "Not for you." "You a star now?" "Oh, come off it!" "You've been advertised as a big deal." "That makes me feel dizzy." "Caprice Bosset was better than just Caprice." "Sounds like an orphan." "No, that's Réjane." "No one'll know you're my sister." "Don't be silly." "Pass my dress." "So tell me..." "you got problems?" "You could say." "You're not just kidding me?" "No, no." "Gotta get out of Paris." "To get away from what?" "Stuff." "Police?" "What do we have here..." "A ghost!" "What's new, Marcel?" "Been living it up?" "All well with you?" "Marvellous." "You know Oseille?" "Of course." "Madame Bagnolet Number Two." "You're kidding!" "One has to update things from time to time." "And Madame Bagnolet?" "She can't do everything any more." "Somebody was needed to assist her." "Caprice!" "You're on!" "Excuse us, we're going to work." "You're staying there?" "I'd rather not." "When are you through?" "You'll be able to see." "I'll leave you two seats." "Meet you back here after I've finished singing." "Is it really bad?" "I'll tell you about it." "There you are!" "Perfect." "Just come over here." "Stand there." "The dress goes to the floor." "No matter, we'll phone Madame Oisille." "I'm listening to you." "Don't be nervous, don't be scared of doing it!" "Smile!" "Beg your pardon?" "Smile!" "Come on smiling." "The audience'll think:" ""She's in a good mood, she's pleased to see us."" "It's happy to know you're happy." "They're happy, joy reigns supreme, and you're a triumph!" "Monsieur manager," "Please leave it to ME to train your boxer." "When you're ready..." "Round one." "Are they good tonight?" "Not bad." "What are you doing here?" "Dressing rooms've been changed." "And my things?" "My husband put them in our old dressing room." "Yes it was too small for Madame Marval." "And for me." "It is not the jewel-case that makes the diamond shine." "It seems you've given up on Jeff's song?" "Nonsense!" "I sing it first, just before I'm booed off." "That's what I thought..." "And how many songs do you sing?" "Four...if I'm not whistled off." "They wouldn't dare." "Like the American star..." "You got it all." "And the same print as me!" "Yes." "I measured with my handkerchief." "If you don't succeed with an ad like that, you won't make it." "I'm at the bottom of the poster." "So if I fall..." "You should be in a funk." "Of course!" "I have to be put in my place." "What are you laughing at?" "That's just a scream!" "What?" "That romantic crooner there!" "When's Caprice on?" "There's another 2 numbers." "You like clowns?" "Don't ask me, I work here." "Here's your girl." "If only the theatre'd burn down!" "Off you go!" ""Spring is everywhere." Song by Jeff." "This song one of yours?" "Yes." "Why?" "Sure to be a success!" "Yes." "I have my criterion, you'll see." ""Your criterion?"" "I'm sure all my customers'll be singing it while they're there." ""While they're there?"" "When they're in my shop." "A song which you can sing right off is a song that'll go a long way." "Wait..." "When Georgel launched "Under the Bridges of Paris"," "That's when I started." "I'd just got engaged." "And I said to Monsieur Georgel :" ""Under the Bridges of Paris", will be a big hit." "And that was in 1914." "That tell you anything?" "My song'll be a big hit too?" "Better than two to one." "Thank you." "That's funny." "Monsieur Georgel gave me 10 francs, too." "But that was in 1914." "You coming, sweetie?" "No." "She's great!" "She's great!" "Strange dress." "I don't like the dress." "Do you, Auguste?" "I'd question her hair-do." "She stands badly." "Real people aren't like that." "All the same..." "a great pair of pins!" "Too many gestures." "Her voice doesn't do anything for me." "Like a metal drill!" "Knows nothing about makeup." "If she wasn't my daughter..." "Enough of that carry-on!" "Sorry?" "Enough!" "You're spoiling the show." "Don't listen to me." "I can't help hearing you." "I've the right to speak." "But keep it down." "I think she's very good." "You don't know what you're talking about." "I'm her mother." "Shut up!" "Leave my wife alone!" "Now the father gets involved!" "Let's hope she's his." "It's my daughter." "I'm her spitting image" "Enough!" "...." "Shut up!" "Yeah...shut up!" "That's it." "They're booing her." "It was inevitable with that song." "Lights-man please!" "Spot the gabblers!" "So it's you!" "Forgive me, it's my family." "We don't stand on ceremony." "It's my mother, an unruly child." "What'd I tell you?" "It's my daughter." "Too bad for her!" "Thank you!" "Can I go on without you interrupting me?" "So "Moi, j'ai du tsa", words and music by Jeff." "Go to it, boys." "Get a move on, it's not your father!" "That's sure is my girl!" "I'm just as God made me, not sad" "Neither big, small, good, or too bad" "Your glasses bring up a close view" "Without finding anything new" "My thighs are, as usual, a pair" "My breasts are but two as elsewhere..." "This is scandalous!" "For me it's all the same just what you see" "Look all you like..." "Enough!" "This is scandalous!" "You sing obscenities that shock chaste ears!" "Throw him out!" "Quiet, you hired clappers!" "At least we're not idiots like you!" "There are women here who are mothers of children!" "Or once were!" "Or who will be!" "Respect for them..." "Mothers of children say to you "Thank God you're not mine!"" "Silence!" "Let him speak!" "Speak, monsieur, speak." "We're all listening." "My name is Chacaton." "President of the League for the Defence of Virtue." "Mesdames et messieurs." "Ladies and gentlemen." "Answer yes or no." "Did my song please you?" "YES!" "Go to i!" "You are not shocking, gentleman?" "Not at all, lady." ""Lady"!" "No lady, eh...you Pommie!" "Lady Paname!" "[Lady Paris]" ""Lady Paname!"" "Lady Paname!" "Merveilleux..." "What'd he say?" "Lady Paname." "Not bad, Lady Paname." "If the words of my song shock you, block your ears and close your eyes!" ""Moi, j'ai du tsa", audio, visual and suggestive version!" "Maestro...." "Well then!" "I'm establishing the 'flagrante delicto'." "All the same, Auguste, she exaggerates." "What do you want?" "That's life." "She's got them!" "Oh, Monsieur Marval, I couldn't be happier!" "Isn't the clapping finished?" "That's enough for such an act." "You sang two." "You'll sing three more." "I heated up the room for you!" "Now it's enough to show your backside to be a success." "Show them what YOU've got, and they'll compare." "Let me concentrate!" "Alright already!" ""It's My Shout", my great success." "Maestro!" "It worked, eh?" "Accident." "I saw your brother coming out of Marval's room." "Isn't that odd." "Why?" "You were already on stage, he was already there." "Bravo." "My compliments." "Your retort was charming." "Same again every evening." "You're happy with me?" "You're going to meet the press." "There's your brother." "He's not very well-mannered." "He could have stayed to listen to Arsène." "So?" "Why couldn't you have waited to the end?" "I wanted to get closer." "It's true, this lie?" "I told you." "You'll wait for me?" "We're having a drink at 'Batifol's'." "I don't want to see the family." "I'll explain to you." "Papa won't come, it's his bedtime." "If I was him, I'd think about my vocal chords." "Silence!" "Excuse me." "Next time I'll bring an umbrella." "Right back...perhaps." "Get it cleared!" "Don't waste time." "The glass!" "Lucky escape!" "What a dump!" "That's really screwed me up..." "I can't win the crowd back." "Do a funny one!" "She's right!" "Off you go!" "Stay cool!" "Turn up the current!" ""Turn up the current..."" "I'd like to see you do it." "Life goes on!" "For a change of pace..." "a gay Parisian song." ""Where's Adèle"?" "Maestro!" "Poor man." "I'll have to start his clapping." ""Poor man!"" "This is all your fault!" "Why?" "if you'd sung a song that was more..." "The lights preferred to fall on a headliner." "They should have fallen on you." "Fate." "Fate couldn't have read its script." "Why should it have happened to me?" "I just know." "If he has bad luck..." "I forbid you to say those words while he's on stage." "What do I risk?" "The words don't frighten ME." "Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck!" "Enough of that!" "Your song went very well." "It's evil." "Brought bad luck to Chacaton." "Do you believe in Caprice now?" "I've never doubted her." "We had to make that heckling incident work for us." "I'll keep that in mind." "A good scandal doesn't hurt anyone." "That idiot did us a big favour." "What a slogan!" ""Lady Paname of Song"!" "Stunning!" "Isn't it?" "You off already?" "Yes." "I'm off to the printers to put a paper to bed." "Very funny!" "I'll rubbish you're star in the "Paris Echo"." "Chacaton is a friend of the firm." "He frequents places like this?" "Are you the manager?" "I have that honour." "Lower your voice." "I hope that you will have that person cease her exhibition and her ignoble, smutty and dishonourable songs." "May I present the author." "You said "ignoble"?" "I do not recant it." "And "smutty"?" "Yes." ""Dishonourable"?" "Yes." "I am sorry...you're going to receive a couple of slaps!" "Jeff." "After you." "I'd like to reconsider!" "Consider this!" "Calm down, all of you!" "It all blew up in his face." "We meet for a duel on the meadow!" "Where we'll find donkeys like you!" "What's going on here?" "A gallant man is avenging the honour of a pretty woman." "It's between the caprice-lovers and the caprice-haters!" "Explain yourself!" "You'll find the details in the paper!" "Keep it down." "Don't disturb the performance." "You can't hear yourself in here!" "Are you finished?" "Finished?" "Have you finished your number?" "Can I present mine?" "I won't be disturbing you too much?" "Maestro!" "Start again!" "Go to it, Toto!" "Raymonde, daughter of Bosset, known as Caprice, known as Lady Paname, my twilight drinks to your dawn." "The failure that I am, drinks to your success." "As for you, Jeff, you can soon spill the blood of Chacaton, as I shall spill the blood of the champagne vines, this evening." "Your health!" "And don't break the glass!" "Tremendous!" "Something tremendous has happened to me!" "Someone stole 4000 francs from my dressing room." "Give me 20 sous." "I left you 40 sous tip, I've had 4000 francs stolen!" "Come and sit with us!" "Yes." "Get them some glasses!" "We won't stay long!" "You heard?" "5000 francs stolen!" "No, 4." "That's quite enough." "Proves I'm not deaf, I heard 1000 too much!" "From the boss!" "In sympathy, that's nice." "Thanks, Batifol!" "Don't mention it." "We celebrating Caprice's debut." "When was it stolen?" "While I was singing." "The idea of singing..." "Cut it out...!" "It seems you've been tremendous." "It went well." "Didn't it, Marval?" "Yes, very well, thank you." "Someone stole 4000 from me." "No?" "It was tremendous!" "You can say that can't you?" "Tremendous!" "You got a second?" "He doesn't care." "Nobody cares." "There's a theft at the Olympia, and he doesn't care." "If you hadn't changed dressing rooms, the money wouldn't have been stolen." "Why?" "Your dressing room isn't lockable." "Mine is." "They should have stolen from me, if I hadn't been moved." "It's like the lights." "They should have fallen on you." "To some up, everything happened to you that should have happened to her, except the success." "That's your fault too." "The opposite would have amazed me." "If you'd stayed in my dressing room..." "Who would have prompted your songs?" "This mania about prompting..." "You'd rather I stay in whatever hole you happen to have!" "I never have a "hole"." ""Never a hole?" No." "He was left stranded twice at Biarritz." "Never a hole?" "He's not a singer, he's a golf course!" "You prompt me when I don't have a hole, and you don't prompt me when I have one." "A joke which cost me 4000." "A lot of help you are!" "Come on, calm down!" "Go to bed." "Sleeping is signing the armistice." "Don't be silly!" "As soon as I'm enjoying a pleasant dream, she comes into it and makes a scene." "You think I'd set foot in one of your dreams?" "I'm too careful to do that!" "You spend your life there!" "I'll finish with sleeping..." "so I won't have to see you anymore." "Agreed." "Tomorrow I get in touch with that imbecile's seconds." "And no excuses!" "No forgiveness!" "Be humane!" "Count on me!" "No hard feelings?" "Oh!" "You know me." "See you tomorrow, Monsieur Jeff." "Thanks for all you've done." "You're quite a guy." "Give him a hug!" "He's dying for it!" "I adore you!" "With success, you adore everyone." "'Til tomorrow, Madame Marval!" ""Tomorrow?"" "Don't count on it." "After the way my husband spoke to me..." "I don't cling to a man just because I lived with him for 25 years." "What an idiot!" "Goodbye!" "See you tomorrow!" "What are you waiting for?" "Come and sleep at the house." "You crazy?" "Wrong." "Move it!" "Having to deal with an idiot at one o'clock in the morning!" "I'll remember this!" "There you have it my dear friend." "There's my life!" "If anyone suggests marriage to you, join the Foreign Legion." "In a marriage, you're never on equal footing." "What is it?" "Look at me carefully...you've seen me!" "Don't carry on like a child!" "Not you too!" "Don't take sides with a man who says you have no talent, and that you cheat everyone you work with!" "I'm curious to see what he'll become without me!" "Goodbye!" "What's she have?" "You don't break up on a terrace." "What's that?" "Waiter..." "Monsieur Marval, forgive me." "Oh!" "Just when I..." "Leave it..." "Go, it's OK." "It's weird." "You took Caprice's seat." "3 minutes before..." "Your song, your song!" "It was supposed to bring Caprice bad luck." "You're telling me!" "You can't even count on bad luck!" "You might as well sleep here." "What will the oldies say?" "Good morning!" "That'll be a change." "So then." "Concerning..." "Concerning what?" "Nothing." "Give me the 4,000 francs." "What 4,000 francs?" "Marval's 4,000 francs." "You crazy?" "No." "It's in the right-hand pocket of your jacket." "Come on, be a nice boy." "Give it to me." "You don't want to hand it over to me?" "I can well understand that feeling." "So... take off your jacket!" "Take off your jacket." "And go hang it on the screen." "There we are!" "We're quits." "You imbecile!" "Idiot!" "Risking your freedom for 4,000 francs!" "What if you'd been arrested?" "You bet!" "Been there?" "I can't afford to be free." "And here's me thinking you just wanted to visit us." "That's it!" "If you hadn't changed dressing rooms, I wouldn't have stolen it." "Luck of the draw, eh?" "You silly duffer!" "I gotta have 8,000 francs in a week's time." "If I had a diamond necklace 'round my neck, I'd sell it." "Too bad my neck's an empty jewel-case." "Come on, let me help you make your bed." "Why the 8,000?" "To pay a debt." "Gambling?" "No." "A debt of honour." "You really are a scream!" "You steal to preserve your honour!" "You want a towel?" "After..." "Let's put it down as a debt of love." "A woman who had you sign an account before making love?" "What's her name?" "Claire." "And you owe her 8,000?" "Not her!" "Who?" "Fred." ""Fred?"" "Yes, he's her lover!" "So you're Fred's mistress's lover!" "She's in with him!" "Demanding 8,000 francs." "For the goodwill?" "Who is Claire?" "A good kid." "She used to be a hairdresser." "I want her to get out of that and be happy." "You've found the trick." "And if you don't come up with the 8,000 for the liquidator?" "He'll come down on me." "So he says." "You don't have to obey the laws of a place you don't belong to." "Are you a Bosset, or are you just a pimp?" "You won't pay a sou, and you'll hang on to Claire." "First you'll go find her." "Then you'll stay here!" "Are you a man or not?" "You're not going to call the police?" "Who do you take me for?" "We don't need cops to tell Fred to get moving." "Do I Know him?" "Is he from around here?" "No." "Bastille's his territory." "He never comes 'round this way." "So how'll he find you?" "8,000 francs..." "Is she all that pretty?" "So, that cow's left me." "24 years." "You were with one girl for 24 years?" "No wonder she dumped you." "No!" "We were together those 24 years." "That's a helluva time!" "And now I'm a widower!" "You're in luck." "Me too!" "Every night about this time, I'm a widow." "So shall we...?" "What?" "Console each other." ""Console?"" "You're a widower, I'm a widow." "We can blend the two!" "Don't have to tell anyone." "Are you crazy!" "Deceive my wife the night she left me?" "!" "So why'd you tell me about it?" "You listened to me." "'Cause I thought you'd come up with me." "And not because you found me interesting?" "You interested me because I thought I interested you." "Are you coming up or not?" "I've never paid for love." "I'm Marval, the headliner star." "How do you spell that?" "In capital letters." "No kidding..." "Marval, of the 'Olympia'." "I know the 'Olympia'." "I created "My Heart is a Dead Rose"." "I'm a romantic crooner." "So you say!" "What?" "So you say!" "If you'd had any romance in you," "I'd have offered it to you for free, ages ago." "Listen to me... this is unheard of!" "I tell you I'm Marval!" "Marval!" "So what...you pathetic slob!" "You've taken my photo." "The day before I had to shave off my moustache." "He's been threatening to do it for 3 years, but it's like our bed!" "You go on about the same thing every day!" "Like you drink the same pint of red every morning!" "Chew it properly, Oseille!" "Else you'll get a stomach ache!" "Got to teach her everything!" "She's waited 'til now to find a mother!" "Thanks to me!" "'Morning all!" "Did you enjoy last night?" "I liked everything except your dress." "That's why I chose it." "You might've come to my dressing-room." "You know your father, after 10 o'clock..." "It doesn't matter." "I thought you were going to get messed up by that idiot." "But you hit the nail on the head!" "She didn't go to school for nothing!" "It was like a political contest!" "Though you might have kept your bottom to yourself." "You're living in my house." "At your age you can do what you want, but three cups of coffee is one too many." "Well, it's for Marcel." "Your brother's back?" "Your son is back!" "Marcel?" "You're going to take his photo?" "A snapshot." "I don't think he'll be around for long." "And he's not alone." "He brought his fiancée." "His fiancée?" "Where are they?" "In bed." "That's not where a fiancée should be!" "Where else?" "Go on up!" "Before I do that, tell me what she is." "What she is?" "Claire!" "22, 163 cm, 54 kg." "Claire!" "There!" "Here she is, your daughter-in-law!" "And here we have Monsieur and Madame Bosset," "Bagnolet Family  Co, and Massicard." "Would you like a coffee?" "Make yourself comfortable dear girl." "What do think of her?" "Pretty." "They can say whatever they like, I like you!" "Two sugars?" "Marcel's not coming down?" "Let him sleep, he's recovering." "He's recovering!" "If he doesn't come down, I'll put a boot up his bum!" "That'll change his mind." "You going to start all that again?" "I'll try and restrain myself." "Nice girl there." "Can she talk?" "Yes, monsieur." ""Monsieur"!" "Don't ever come at me with a poncy "monsieur"!" "Let's go." "Don't let him bother you." "Papa's a one-off." "I have the honour to greet you." "What about the duel?" "Are you a second?" "With Nielson." "I'll take care of my client's interests." "And try to find me some whiting." "You and your whiting." "It's a mania with you!" "Surely between the two of you, you can find me a whiting!" "So, got an appetite?" "I'm counting on you." "You've got to fix it." "No duel!" "I'll follow my client's instructions." "Jeff's going to risk his life!" "How does that concern you?" "He looks at you through a glass eye... a song-smith who thinks he's Chopin..." "Taxi!" "Here, read this article." "You'll learn from it." "Lady Paname triggers a brawl at the 'Olympia'." "How does this make me look!" "This article's absurd...ridicule!" "Inspired by you!" "Me?" "Who else has an interest in telling these lies?" "Aren't you fighting a duel?" "Yes!" "But not for your beautiful eyes!" "I don't fight for what's not there!" "I'm fighting foe my song." "That's all." "So you really are fighting for nothing!" "You can say what you like..." "You were in a better mood last night!" "You forced a kiss on me!" ""Forced?" I kissed you to please Bagnolet!" "And again!" "Caprice! "Lady Paname"!" "Which of you's in this." "Me, I'm..." ""a composer"!" "What composer?" "We're not told!" "A nameless composer!" "Who knows?" "Maybe someone else slapped Chacaton?" "Maurice Yvain probably." "Or... or Christiné." "Or Scotto." "Surely not!" "They all would've been named." "Since no one's named, it's all up to you." "I'll send a denial." "I already have." "I didn't want anyone to think there was something between us." "You've done it?" "Papa sent a tube message." "Although it lacked a stamp." "You know where I've been?" "At the police station!" "No?" "Yes!" "I was taken there because I had no papers on me." "When you've got a name, you shouldn't need to have them!" "They kept you all night?" "Yes." "And you were arrested around here?" ""Around here?" They wouldn't have dared!" "I'm too well known!" "No, I was arrested near Champerret Gate." "What were you doing over there?" "I don't know." "I walked and walked..." "I didn't dare go back home alone." "it's true...without my wife I'm an orphan." "You need a coffee." "No, no coffee!" "Yes, yes!" "OK...with two sugars...eh?" "A croissant?" "Oh!" "That's what I need!" "At least, when I'm eating," "I'm not thinking about myself and all my misfortunes." "The lights fall down before my eyes, the fights going on during my song, 4,000 francs stolen..." "Madame Marval who made so much of it..." "A waiter who spills drinks on my new suit...." "And to cap it all...poof!" "...into the clink!" "And what caused all this?" "Because of you!" "Because of that song." "But you'll withdraw it, eh?" "Say you'll withdraw it." "Which song?" "The fatal song." "The one that Jeff gave you as a joke." "Oh yeah...?" "Well, well. "A joke."" "Very funny." "My lucky charm!" "Ah, well...it's still going on!" "How so?" "It doesn't matter..." "I'm getting used to it." "It is me who's top of the bill, and they only talk about you." "They might at least mention my 4000 francs, if not my song." "Not a thing!" "My theft should have got me some sort of mention." "In the end, I'd rather you benefit." "After all you're a woman." "I haven't harmed you on purpose." "As soon as you withdraw the song..." "Withdraw that song?" "Nielson will never do it!" "Alright." "I won't insist!" "We'll have an experiment this evening ...we'll see what happens." "But you're responsible!" "As for me, I'm taking a bath." "It'll relax me." "Well...someone's stolen my watch!" "Bastard." "It didn't work!" "Your song betrayed you!" "She went over to the enemy..." "Lady Luck is with me against you." "I owe my success to you, my little Jeff." "No hard feelings." "Thank you." "You won't have to deal with an ingrate." "I can say now that the game is won." "I took a risk." "I knew the song's reputation." "And even so...!" "Yes." "Chevalier's appendicitis, Dalbret's bad oysters." "Georgel's theft, Mayol's fall, Claudine's death!" "I sang your wicked song anyway!" "I'm not a magician." "I'm more superstitious than you, but I believe in myself." "You don't believe in me." "But you believe anything else!" "Even though I fought for you!" "A guy like you, fighting for me?" "Shove it, you piece of meat!" "Ooh!" "...where's her dignity hidden?" "No way you impress me with your phony gypsy airs!" "You weren't swaggering so much that last time." "Last time?" "The lndustrie crossing." "The hiding." "What?" "Didn't I give you a hiding, at the lndustrie crossing?" "After school!" "It took three of them to get me off you." "You nearly had to be scooped up!" "You squealed to the teacher!" "You dirty little liar!" "You've switched the roles!" "So why did your mother complain to mine?" "Lordy, she's not stupid!" "So as not to have to pay compensation!" "I'll have your mother say that in front of you!" "My mother wouldn't say shit to you!" "What?" "You don't scare me with your crêpe-georgette shirts!" "Filthy brute!" "Hang on a sec old boy!" "I'll show you what a hiding is!" "You had enough now?" "Don't go too far!" "Not TOO far." "You've made my life very happy!" "It must finish as it is now." "It should have been like this to start with." "Boy, when I saw you parading through the district with other girls, that really upset me!" "You chipped my heart!" "Is it that fragile?" "Like porcelain." "At 14 I would have died for you." "No kidding." "Died?" "Suicided." "I soaked matches in water all night!" "The next day I swallowed water, and waited." "Oh, I'm not dead, but my heart was in it." "You don't doubt it?" "You'll fill me with remorse!" "I remember your mistresses." "Albertine." "You've forgotten?" ""Albertine?" Yes!" "When she talked to men, she shoved her breasts under their nose." "Wait." "Isn't that Albertine?" "Not quite." "Let's see..." "Ah, there she is." "She's here." "I barely see her, but it's right on." "She had a blue dress." "A raucous laugh." "Her father was an old typesetter." "She lived at 132 something street..." "Something?" "I remember the tune, then the name escapes me." "That's what it was." "132, Rue du Faubourg-St-Denis, 4th floor." "She smoked American cigarettes." "She loved rum babas." "She danced the java like a princess of the blood." "She was a dancer at the Opéra." "She has 4 children, and she married a fireman." "Dear Albertine." "And me?" "What?" "What tune will you remember me with?" "Ah yes!" "I remember exactly." "I joined in 1904." "So I've got a benchmark." "That was the year I put out my first mahogany table." "From Cuba!" "From Cuba, yes, you're right." "Your mahogany, I can see it now." "And you met your wife in 1910." "'Cause I've got a benchmark!" "Yes, the floods." "What floods?" "No, not floods!" "1910... the top year for drownings." "A polished walnut with a beautiful pattern." "Great year!" "The one when Caprice failed her school certificate!" "The year of the ebony table." "What a nightmare that ebony was!" "I dreamed about it for 2 years!" "Yes, old boy." "When Caprice went off on her second escapade." "The evening I delivered the Henri ll sideboard to Marval!" "That was a funny time!" "But what a sideboard, eh!" "Massicard!" "Yes?" "You thirsty?" "No, but I'll have a drink anyway." "Come and have a snort." "Up yours, you old bastard!" "What's your fiancée doing?" "She'll get up to go to the salon." "She'll do shaves?" "The hairdressing salon!" "Can you imagine shaves, Massicard?" "At the hairdressers!" "Good one!" "Come on now, empty your glass!" "What's got into you?" "What's got into me?" "Yes." "I'm just too happy for words." "Don't get carried away!" "You won't think about it any more tomorrow." "I made a mistake." "I've gone soft." "We were both here, she came up to me and put her arms around my neck." "You can imagine the rest." "I like Caprice better than the blondes who come in here smoking and burning holes in the sofa." "She loves you." "I don't want to love or be loved." "I just want to be free!" "FREE!" "I know myself." "I'm weak." "So I have to be aggressive." "Yet you behave like a boor." "No I don't." ""No I don't!"" "When you don't want a woman you don't start off by taking her." "Oh, phooey!" "I owe her nothing." "She owes me nothing." "We're quits." "If you were me could you resist?" "Pardon me..." "When I started here 6 years ago, within 5 minutes it was settled." "I sleep with a man to extricate myself and then become just a friend." "I'd never have a boss as a lover." "A vaudeville..." "life's a vaudeville." "We understand nothing." "Do you know who I found was the second to our opponent?" "One named Léonard Gambier." "My brother." "Yes, my dear boy!" "Chacaton's on his committee." "Meaning?" "Gambier seemed out of place in this affair of honour." "Honour..." "he wouldn't know it if it fell on him!" "He's playing at ignoring me and making a thing of only talking to Nielson." "Then, as formerly, I was on first-name terms with him and I've called him "Billy Lolo"." "And what of his other second... a tax-collector." "Conclusion?" "The sight of me has scandalised these gentlemen." "Apparently I wasn't in the prescribed uniform." "And they said that I smelled of Chavignol." "I directed them to roses, if they wanted a change of perfume." "So what's happened!" "We meet again tomorrow." "We've already recognized the quality of your opponent's offense... emphasizing the dramatic impact of the slaps he received and thereby the possibility of getting away with excuses." "This is the result of the 1st interview" "I thank you." "It's the least I could do." "But if tomorrow," "Gambier trips up with the least slip of the tongue and the slightest insult," "I'll slap the tax-collector!" "Why?" "Tax-collectors don't get slapped enough." "In the meantime..." "My compliments and all my best wishes." ""Compliments?"" "On my way here I met Caprice." "What'd she say to you?" "You know as well as I do, for that matter." "Everyone in the district is running around rejoicing." "After all it's a beautiful story." "A beautiful story...but short!" "Barely begun...already done!" "Rest assured, when she loves, it's for a long time." "This is not about her." "It's about me." "Me, who doesn't want her at any price, or under any pretext!" "This is just great!" "My life organised behind my back!" "Decided, without asking me if I love her, or she loves me!" "No!" "I won't accept a fait-accompli." "So why do you accept your present situation?" "That's a fait-accompli that you put in fifteen years in to make." "Painful, very painful!" "And it's you!" "Me?" "You arranged everything!" "Caprice didn't come here alone, but with you!" "It was you who got the song out of me!" "At the 'Olympia', it was you who got Chacaton worked up, and got me to slap him." "You saying how I fought for Caprice!" "No, I don't fight for Caprice, I fight for me!" "I'll tell Caprice myself." "I don't care." "No, I'll tell her, I will..." "you're right." "It's good, what you're doing here." "You've got a sense of sacrifice." "You're going to fight a duel..." "we don't know the outcome." "Don't you want Caprice to be sorry for you?" "You'd rather turn her gaze to some awful cad rather than know she's miserable well, that's fine." "I'll help you play out this dreadful comedy." "You can count on me." "If, as hopefully, all goes well, afterwards, God willing, it'll be easy to undeceive them." "Dear Jeff!" "It's amazing!" "Very well." "Make sure you understand." "He must fight without reservation." "With proper moral purpose." "When he says to you :" ""I may never see you again!" "Goodbye", be dignified and resigned." "You accept your fate." "You never had any illusions." "A bit sooner, a bit later, etc." "Don't fret about it!" "I'm not a girl to get tied up with someone." "If he really wants out, I won't hang on." "And what'll you do?" "Nothing." "I'll have a drink with him one last time." "As friends." "And I'll wish him good luck." "An excellent formula." "And I want him to hear me laugh as he comes down the stairs" "You're perfect." "I'll go to the window to see him one last time and when he's turned the corner..." "Bye bye baby!" "Have fun!" "I'd kill myself." "What?" "Yes." "Me, Jeff, he's always looked down on me." "It started the same time as me." "But the more I grew, the more he moved away from me." "I took my time!" "I came to him in small steps." "It's been a long funny sort of path." "There was Gaston." "You remember the courier cyclist?" "Jealous type!" "Always tracking me." "Then there was Robert." "Oh, he was fun." "But I didn't keep him." "He didn't fit in." "Maurice spent his life playing billiards." "The rest of the time he was worn out." "I wasn't really happy with them." "It was sort of love on the side." "Deep down was Jeff..." "my true number one." "I've been faithful to him through an in-between." "What's so extraordinary about it?" "My love!" "It's amazing." "A man that I love doesn't come along every day." "You'd kill yourself for him?" "Why not?" "You'd have that courage?" "To kill myself, yes." "You call yourself Caprice..." "a flirting name." "Not on yet?" "Next." "Bravo!" "Have you seen the papers?" "Why?" "Your brother called the Interior Minister about our scandal." "He requested a censure motion for the music hall, the theatre ..." "Wow, how about that!" "You've provoked a ministerial crisis!" "Voltera asked me when you'll be free." "I said you'd have four seasons here, so not under a year." "But we haven't signed anything!" "No, my sweet." "No contract between us two." "I trust you." "May I?" "I'm on." "May I?" "I want to watch her." "So?" "Things going better?" "Yes." "I got back my 4,000 francs." "The thief must have had remorse." "You're right there." "I missed my wife more." "She'd be regretting it already." "This evening I'm singing, "Come Back if You Wish."." "If she's there, she'll understand." "Let's hope so." "Tell me though..." "Is it true that you and Jeff..." "Who told you?" "Everyone's talking about it." "Well, well." "I'm on." "So when's this duel on?" "As soon as possible." "Is it a fake duel?" "With Mr Fake himself!" "It'll be a duel with pistols." "The conditions are very strict." "I'm not a cardboard-cut-out second!" ""Spring is Everywhere", a song by Jeff." "You're right." "Caprice should ditch this song." "I was looking for you." "You weren't in the auditorium." "This is for you." "For me?" "It just came by messenger." "It's urgent." "It went to your house, and your wife had it sent here." "Strange!" "How very strange!" "Should I go there or not?" "I'm going." "Please give Caprice my apologies, and tell her that I'm have supper in a private dining room." "With a girl?" "With my brother." "He wants a confidential interview with me." "For a man who so loves holding forth in public, that's very odd." "There." "You're delightful." "You can't go wrong in this dress." "Monsieur Bagnolet adores blue." "You're being such a good sport about all this!" "Why shouldn't I?" "It's perfectly natural!" "You're a good sort of person." "That's all that matters in life." "As soon as I saw you, I said to my husband :" ""That lass looks a good sort of person, mark my words!"" "There we are." "Madame Bagnolet." "Yes." "You never know..." "If I got angry with Monsieur Bagnolet, tell me you and I'll stay friends." "But of course!" "Why?" "You got something on your mind?" "No." "When you get the chance to know a woman like you, it's hard to get what Monsieur Bagnolet's done." "I like you a lot." "Privacy doesn't prevent feelings." "I'm not wicked, you know." "That's what I've been saying!" "You're a good sort of person!" "Excuse me." "Isn't Claire here?" "You can see very well she's not." "She's not come back from the hairdresser's." "I saw her taking a taxi." "She knew where she was going." "In a taxi, are you sure?" "As sure as I can see you!" "That's odd for her." "Use the time to have a shave." "It's nice like that." "You'll see...when it's grown." "You like it?" "Beards always look good." "Especially on men." "She should be back." "Maybe she was held up at Batifol's." "If I were you I'd go check it out." "Oseille'll go with you." "Go along with Marcel." "Check both sides of the street." "I shan't be long." "Take your time sweetie!" "Don't hurry back on my account!" "Oh, poor Marval!" "Whistled!" "They whistled me!" "At 55!" "It happens to everyone." "Not people as successful as me." "It just takes one idiot in the audience." "I sang as I've sung for 30 years." "Maybe that was it." "So you have some special insight?" "Three weeks ago I was in Marseilles with the same repertoire a triumph." "Thursday night, I finished at 'Petit Casino'...a new triumph." "I come here... complete flop!" "I was thinking yesterday, "They're not good, it'll be a better audience tomorrow."" "But now I'm starting to believe I'm losing it." "Washed up." "I'm washed up." "It's all over." "Curtain." "Same as happened with Paulus." "Failure fell on him like that for no reason." "One moment you're the public's darling, then...bang!" "The darling no more." "Did you hear the whistling?" "Yes, a little bit." "Hardly anything." "Sounded like a leaking meter." "So?" "You heard?" "Oh yes...they whistled you." "Whistled!" "No... whistled to themselves." "Your presentation's become so old-fashioned." "Your hand on your heart, your three steps forward..." "Love, the blue flower..." "it's all old-hat!" "Try something else." "What?" "I don't know!" "Sing in a grey suit, that'll lighten it up!" "Dance!" "Lose weight!" "They won't recognise me!" "And then they won't whistle you." "Here's the maestro!" "I did what I could." "Despite the brass and drums, we couldn't drown them out!" "Leave it be." "Maybe they'll be kinder tomorrow." "Don't you worry about it!" "If it starts again, we'll drop the curtain." "Rest assured we all have our personal disasters." "You can't complain." "You're a success." "You've got your public." "I've got even more public." "My wife was my public." "And she's run off." "She'll come back." "Caprice, someone wants you." "Who?" "He didn't say." "'Scuse me." "Look after him." "I'm here on behalf of Fred." "That mean anything to you?" ""Fred?" Fred who?" "Just Fred." "A buddy of mine." "I don't know any buddies of yours." "What about Claire, you don't know her either?" ""Claire?" Yes." "No." "And the kid Marcel?" "don't know any 'Kid Marcel'." "Your brother Marcel?" "That Marcel!" "Yes!" "'Kid Marcel', no." "You must know what I wanna say, since you got him stashed at home 'til the heat's off." "In case he gets burned!" "Right?" "You're well informed." "Pretty well." "And to prove it... the four grand he swiped." "Who stung him for that?" "Eh?" "Didn't realise Marcel had a sister who was loaded." "Now we know that, the rates've been increased" "Now it's 15 big ones instead of 8." "Cost-of-living's up this year." "May I..." "Too easy." "They're sitting ducks at your place, waiting to be picked off." "So how can we return empty-handed?" "No kidding!" "I didn't know pimps went duck-hunting." "Whoa up!" "..." "have some respect for a man!" "So you're the boy who runs errands for Mr Fred?" "He'll give you 'til tomorrow night to cough up." ""To cough up?" Yes." "Tomorrow night." "The 'Double Chevron'." "You know where that is?" "We'll be waiting in the back room." "That's all ..." "In matters of business, Fred don't like being crossed!" "Question...a question..." "you wanna get up?" "And out the back door..." "Meaning what?" "Beat it!" "You gonna beat it?" "Scram, before I get serious!" "Some respect!" "Just like you, respect's out the door" "Go to it, boys!" "Keep some for my matinee!" "What'd she say?" "That cow!" "She said to come back." "So?" "So...what?" "She can still walk!" "Ah, good...you're sure?" "Thank you." "There's no one at your brother's." "Who answered?" "The maid." ""He's left for the Chamber."" "I've a bad feeling about this." "Maybe we're fretting about nothing." "He may've been in an accident." "Don't get excited." "It's still early." "Like me yesterday, I was worrying about Claire." "She came back." "But she wasn't gone 24 hours." "So?" "Still nothing on Bagnolet?" "No." "We better give his description..." "Here I am." "This is what my brother has done to his brother!" "Yes, it's me." "Don't you recognize me?" "Hotel Manager, Department Head..." "Inspector of Finances, a Colonel in civvies, that's me!" "The late lamented Bagnolet!" "Dead or alive, where've you been?" "And your beard?" "What happened to it?" "It was stolen, with everything else." "Someone took me and replaced me with this dummy." "But they razed it to the ground old boy!" "So what happened?" "A fraternal ambush." "My brother offered me a dreadful beverage." "Six glasses of poison, which made me such putty in his hands .... that I gave up." "Well, you were totally smashed." "I was what I was but I was Bagnolet." "Now I'm nobody anymore." "Or soon will be." "I'm the brother Leonard has dreamed of all his life." "It seems I wasn't presentable," "That I was a second in a duel, but without prestige." "And the funny thing is, is that the duel won't happen." "No kidding?" "You haven't read the papers?" "Chacaton was sent to the hospital's special section." "He was a lunatic." "Like all real lunatics, he was taken seriously." "He voted for my brother." "He was arrested destroying religious images, and he claimed he was wearing the shirt of baby Jesus, because he was stark naked." "Does Jeff know the duel's off?" "I dropped by to tell him." "So the comedy's over?" "I believe so." "I told him to come and see you." "You may kiss me!" "I don't want to anymore!" "What?" "If I were to kiss you now, it'd mean I never loved you before." "As for me, I'll kiss you double!" "Thanks." "Bagnolet's been wonderful." "When he told me your idea, I could have kissed him." "Why?" "There's no greater proof of love." "You'd rather have me keep a bad memory than leave me with regrets." "I've never been so happy before." "Just as I was about to fight!" "You egoist!" "Well..." "I could have died right then...happy!" "You could easily make me that happy again." "You need a haircut." "What are you thinking?" "Bagnolet told me about your brother." "The 15,000 francs." "None of your business." "Don't say that." "Do me a favour." "Are you crazy?" "I beg you." "Let's put it down as... a debt." "I don't love you, Caprice." "I was wrong...forgive me." "No..." "I don't love you." "For both of us...it was love at first sight." "Is this a joke...no?" "Our love was a joke." "Such a good joke, we nearly fell for it." "I want to be a free man." "I really do like you a lot, you're a great pal, but if you try and make me love you I'll finish up hating you." "For a moment we forgot ourselves." "That's it." "We forget it ever happened." "As a result, if we find ourselves in need of love... we'll grab it sooner." "You're right." "We didn't make love we just settled a kids' quarrel." ""Give me my ball back," ""and get back on your scooter."" "We couldn't even play together." "We weren't in the same class." "No hard feelings." "Let's toast to friendship and "The war to end all wars", as Marval sings." "Listen..." "No, don't say anything." "Drink." "And shut up." "Now go." "Get out." "Good luck." "Have fun." "You've already said it." "How're things?" "OK." "You?" "Yeah...getting there, thanks." "We haven't finished!" "Are you going to answer me?" "Are you going to answer me?" "Where've you been hanging out?" "What are you here for?" "You're not singing." "Didn't you hear." "I've lost my voice." "It'll miss you." "And you're on tonight?" "As usual." "So...see you tomorrow." "Take care of yourself." "Thanks." "Two more baskets." "Put them with the others." "Who from?" "More from the General and from Monsieur Thibaut." "They're inviting you to supper." "I'm not hungry." "You don't need me anymore?" "No, you can go." "Hang on, I nearly forgot." "Give me that the last day!" "I want to." "See you tomorrow." "Hi, Caprice." "They didn't recognise me at the door." "What a mug!" "What would that idiot, do without me?" "Who?" "The man I was yesterday." "I've one consolation." "My brother's fallen into ridicule." "Unfortunately, ridicule doesn't kill you off in France." "You can thrive on it." "You've seen Jeff?" "Of course." "Was he nice to you?" "Very nice." "And all went well?" "Yes, we'll be married on the 14th of July." "July 14?" "Yes." "I want to remember the date of our wedding." "I'll have a benchmark." "Every time the flags go out in Paris, it'll remind me of something or other." "You're lying." "I've just seen Jeff." "And what did he tell you?" "The truth." "Are you going to joke about it?" "If I was going to make a joke about it it's been done already." "Whoever kills themself for Jeff will not look like me." "Bravo!" "In that case, I'll never leave you." "If you have no evil intentions, you won't mind me being here?" "You always seem to be one step ahead of me." "Piffle!" "I'm not going to spend my life with you in tow!" "No 'buts'!" "You think you're a barge?" "Tonight I've got a rendezvous." "Who with?" "With myself!" "Good night!" "Don't be angry, I want to be alone!" "Open up!" "No use calling out, there's no one here!" "I'll give the key to the doorman." "No hard feelings!" "Ten!" "Yours." "12.10." "She's not coming." "Don't be so sure." "You'll see we won't go without." "See what?" "See what you'll see!" "Telling you!" "What the hell are you up to?" "Marcel's left town." "He knocked me out with some strange tea." "Siddown." "I can't do the impossible." "So?" "He had me out in no time at all." "I don't know what he gave me," "But Marcel knew it was me who told you about Caprice." "As for the cash, it's a question of profit against loss." "What?" "Don't damage the décor." "You're right." "You got anything more to add?" "That I can spend at the department store?" "You can't take stuff back after you've used it." "Get back to selling your fanny." "It's not my fault." "I warned you." "We shouldn't've seen each other." "You saw me, and the word got out." "Are you gonna get out?" "I got the message!" "I've had better welcomes." "Are we s'posed to clap?" "Which of you's the bit of scum called Fred?" "Jeff!" "Great news." "My voice's back." "My wife too." "Wonderful, eh?" "No?" "You're not listening?" "She'd gone to her sister's and now she's full of remorse." "It all evens up." "Who's gone?" "Marcel!" "Where's he gone?" "On his honeymoon." "You're the one I was looking for." "Come here a sec." "My wife's back." "Great." "Great." "Oseille's left... for Toulon with Marcel." "With what money?" "I lent him 3000 francs of your money." "You couldn't have refused him." "You loved that little girl so Doesn't matter." "Come on!" "I've just heard an incredible story about Caprice." "She's committing suicide over a news item." "About you." "Over a news item?" "Here." "This'll explain." "You said she was the only woman capable of inspiring a great love!" "You've been scared of that love." "You see, she's sacrificed herself!" "And she confided this to Fred." "Now you're free." "Imbecile!" "Imbecile?" "Who would that be referring to?" "You fall well." "I need you." "Hang on." "Quick Paulo!" "OK." "You're witness to the fact that I'm not a witness." "I'm not here." "The strongmen of the troupe!" "What's that under your eye?" "One I copped." "Can you see it?" "A bit." "No matter." "Hey!" "22 Faubourg Saint-Martin." "But it's opposite!" "Right now 'opposite's' a long way away." "Show me the way." "There you are!" "No!" "Don't have time." "No, tonight is quite different." "I'm coming up." "My wife's back!" "No kidding!" "Room 146." "Good night!" "Subtitles:" "FatPlank [aka RLB] for KG"