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JIM:

This is his opening attack on you,

Governor! Take my word for it!

What did he buy a paper for? Why

did he hire a high-pressure editor

like Connell for? He's in the oil

business! I tell you, Governor,

he's after your scalp!

GOVERNOR:

All right, Jim. Don't burst a blood

vessel, I'll attend to it.

(flips button on

dictograph)

Get me Spencer of the Daily

Chronicle , please.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. SPENCER'S OFFICE

MED. SHOT:
SPENCER is on the telephone

SPENCER:

Yes. Yes. I saw it, Governor . . .

and if you ask me that's a phoney

letter. Why, that gag has got

whiskers on it. Huh? Okay, I'll

get the Mayor and maybe the Chamber

of Commerce to go after them.

(into dictagraph)

Get Mayor Lovett on the phone!

INT. MAYOR'S OFFICE

MED. SHOT:
Of MAYOR's secretary.

SECRETARY:

(picking up phone)

Hello? Sorry, the Mayor's busy on

the other phone.

CAMERA PANS over to the MAYOR who is fatuous and excitable.

MAYOR:

(into telephone)

Yes, I know, Mrs. Brewster. It's a

terrible reflection on our city.

I've had a dozen calls already.

SECRETARY enters scene.

SECRETARY:

Spencer of the Chronicle .

MAYOR:

Hold him.

(into phone)

Yes, Mrs. Brewster, I'm listening.

The SECRETARY lays down the receiver.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. CORNER OF A BEDROOM

CLOSE SHOT:
Of MRS. BREWSTER—stout and loud. She is propped

up in bed—a breakfast tray on her lap—the newspaper by her

side.

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