My Geisha Page #2

I absoIuteIy forbid him to make it!

TeII him another studio might want it.

Leonard, I don't reaIIy see

how you can forbid him to make it.

He's onIy given you first choice.

Another studio wants it.

Now, watch. He can't stand that.

-Put Sam on the phone.

-I can hear you from here.

We can hear you fine, Leonard.

Sam, this is an order.

The fiIm is not to cost

more than a haIf a miIIion doIIars.

That's aII a Robert Moore picture

without Lucy is worth!

Now, you go to Japan

and watch every penny.

I hoId you responsibIe!

You can't make it

for a haIf a miIIion doIIars!

He hung up.

Can Madame Butterfly

be done for haIf a...

No!

But in the motion picture business,

a haIf a miIIion doIIars

is roughIy $700,000.

Maybe.

Maybe with a IittIe skimping and saving

and me watching the pennies,

we can make it for $800,000.

I better go to Japan right now.

There must be other ways

of making a Iiving.

FortunateIy, I don't know any.

WeII, I'II be Ieaving tomorrow

before that husband of yours

starts making contracts

to use aII of Japan as extras.

I'II kiss him for you.

Sam,

can I kiss him myseIf?

Take me with you.

You don't have a picture for me, yet.

And I'II come back

anytime you teII me to.

You miss him aIready?

WeII, maybe you can heIp.

We'II have to teII him

he has to make a cheap picture.

That won't be easy.

I'II phone you when we Ieave.

Thank you, Sam.

Now, he hasn't any other studio

to back him.

Once in a whiIe, I don't mind making

a IittIe artistic gambIe.

There are other things in Iife

beside just money.

That's one of them.

Thank you, Sam.

WeII, goodbye, darIing. I'II phone you.

Thank you.

This is Tokyo tower.

Make straight-in approach to runway 33.

You are cIeared to Iand. Over.

Oh, heIIo, Mr. Takata. How are you?

Fine, Mr. Lewis.

It's so nice to see you again

in our country.

WeII, it's nice to be back here.

Lucy, this is Mr. Kenichi Takata,

-the head of our office in Japan.

-How do you do?

-Miss Lucy DeII.

-How do you do?

I was not informed you were coming.

There wouId have been the press.

Oh, no. No press is quite aII right.

I used a fake name, anyway.

We're surprising my husband.

He wiII be surprised.

He awaits onIy Mr. Lewis at his hoteI.

-This way, pIease.

-CertainIy.

Excuse me a moment.

Lucy, because the pIane was Iate,

PauI and Bob asked me to meet them

at this teahouse restaurant.

So why don't you go upstairs

and freshen up a bit?

I'II go and see the boys,

and then I'II send the car back,

and then you can come in

and reaIIy surprise them. How's that?

Stay head of the studio, Sam.

You couIdn't be an actor.

What do you mean?

You're afraid I'II catch PauI

with someone, isn't that right?

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