Alexander's Ragtime Band Page #2

And if you think that I'm gonna work with

you, you've got another guess coming.

Oh, what made you think

that I'd want you with my band?

Your band?!

- Oh, give me my music...

- Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.

This is a situation.

Let's try and figure it out.

Oh, I've got it all figured out.

And I don't want any more to do with you.

Is that plain, fancy-pants?

- Always a pleasure to meet a lady.

- You bet it is.

- Say, you were good.

- I know it.

- Let her go.

- Girlie!

Gee, look at what you've done.

Everything's going along swell

and you have to start

an argument with her.

That girl's a whiz.

Wait a minute. Let's be reasonable.

Reasonable? Say, what do you think

I am? A half-wit or something?

Don't pay attention to him. He didn't mean

it. He was just shooting off his mouth.

Come on back. Let's pretend

it didn't happen. We all need the job.

Oh, say, I wouldn't go back there

if it was the last job on earth.

I've seen all I want

of that stuck-up pain in the neck.

- Yeah, but look...

- Let go of me.

There he goes again, playing my music.

Opening tonight, Alexander's Ragtime

Band! The hottest music on the coast!

And the queen of ragtime, Stella Kirby!

With the finest fish dinner in town!

Opening tonight,

Alexander's Ragtime Band!

Not bad, boys.

These openings tie me up in knots.

I'm shaking like a coochie dancer.

You call this an opening?

You should have seen the outfit I was with

the night we opened at the Crystal Palace.

That was an opening.

Hello, Martha? It's Roger.

Listen, I've got to talk to Aunt Sophie.

I'll try. Will you hold the phone, please?

It's Roger again.

I have nothing to say to him.

I'm very sorry, Roger.

She won't talk to you.

All right. Thank you, Martha.

Good night.

Alexander! Hey!

- You, Alexander!

- Yes?

Thank you. Professor Heinrich!

- So your name's Alexander now?

- Yes, that's right.

Uh, won't you come in and...

sit down and have a glass of beer?

Not tonight.

I just want to know

if you're really serious about all this.

Oh, yes. Very.

But Roger, you spent your whole life

preparing yourself for something fine.

How can you throw it all away on this...

this ragtime?

But I like ragtime. I believe in it.

And besides, I have

what I've always wanted: a band.

Won't you stay and listen?

See for yourself.

No. You know your own mind.

You always have.

- Good night.

- Good night, Professor.

Hey, come on, come on!

Let's have a little life around here.

- Bring on that girl.

- Right away.

- Who is it?

- It's me.

- What do you want?

- I want to see how you look.

Oh, I look swell.

- Do you mind if I see for myself?

- No, come on in. What do I care?

It cost me my last dime.

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