Footlight Parade Page #2

Honest, I am.

My real business is insurance...

but I have a lot of spare time

so I think up titles.

- Right out of your head?

- Yes, here's some I thought up yesterday.

"Girls of Spain, Girls of France,

Girls of South America"-

Keep them under your hat.

What do you do,

just travel around the world?

That's right.

Maybe you could use them for prologues.

I'll sell them cheap.

Tell you what you do,

you go over to Gladstone.

Sounds like his kind of stuff.

Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.

Here you are.

- Cats!

- First drink that.

Working all night again. I thought you said

you were going home early.

I did go home, that is...

I mean, I started to go home,

right after dress rehearsal, about 3:00 a. m.

And then bingo! I got an idea. Cats!

I was walking on the street

and saw some cats.

You ever see cats walk? Just like that.

A regular dance rhythm.

- So, you came right back here?

- That's just what I did.

I got the whole thing all mapped out.

Seven boys and seven girls, tomcats

and pussycats, cast down in one.

Then we go to full stage

with an alley drop...

with the ash cans and a board fence.

Twelve girls come out in kitten costumes.

They're the children, see?

Now forget the cats, will you?

If you don't let up, you're going to

meow yourself into a padded cell.

Now, go on, get washed

and I'll get you a clean shirt.

You're right, Nan. You're perfectly right.

Perfectly right.

But it's still a good idea.

- Here you are.

- Oh, thanks.

Oh, get Mr. Kent

some tomato juice, toast and coffee.

And a bottle of milk for the cat.

Hello? Yes, all right, wait a minute.

Hold on.

The Gay Nineties unit

calling from Kansas City.

The park number runs too long.

All right, I'll talk to him.

Hello? Hello, cut out your first chorus

and open up with your second.

That'll fix it, won't it? All right, fine.

Two units came in yesterday,

finished their tour.

Say, you're slowing up.

Haven't sent out a unit this week.

We're getting two next week.

That is if I can stay out

of the laughing academy that long.

I put a peach into rehearsal yesterday.

Prosperity idea.

- Ring Harry for me, will you?

- Skulking Thompson?

- What have you got against him?

- Just don't like him, that's all.

Sometimes I get the feeling

you don't like anybody.

If you only knew.

Come in.

- Hello, Bea.

- Hello, Nan.

Good morning, Mr. Kent.

- Where's Thompson?

- Out for a few minutes.

He'll be out for life

if he doesn't stick closer to business.

Gould signed 30 more theaters.

That means I've got to think

of three new prologues a week.

Dust off the straightjacket, baby,

we'll need it.

You'll need it.

Mr. Kent, about the bridesmaid unit,

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