On Moonlight Bay Page #2

Look.

It's my brother. He's dead.

It might be better for you if I were.

I'm gonna teach you kids a lesson.

Run, Marjorie! Come on!

Give me that gun, you little brat.

Come here!

- Mr. Winfield?

- Yes?

- I'm William Sherman.

- Who?

I met your daughter in the barn.

Oh, yes, yes.

We've been expecting you. Come in.

Thank you, sir.

Wesley, will you tell Marjorie

she has a visitor?

I guess she knows it.

She's been watching out the window

for the last half-hour.

Won't you step into the living room?

She'll be right down.

Thank you.

Not bad.

- Marjie, will you stop fidgeting?

- I can't wait, Mother.

You want that young man to know that

you've never had on a party dress before?

And, another thing, try not to walk

like a first baseman.

- I won't. Can I look now?

- Yes, now.

Oh, Mother! Mother, I'm beautiful!

I know, dear.

Isn't it pretty?

- What's the matter?

- Sometimes, nature needs a little help.

- Oh, Mother.

- All's fair in love and war.

Hello, William.

Good evening, Marjorie.

- Mother, this is Mr. Sherman.

- Good evening, Mr. Sherman.

How do you do, Mrs. Winfield?

These are for you.

Oh, they're lovely.

Thank you very much.

Well?

Well, I guess, we'd better be going.

- Yes, have a good time.

- We will.

Thank you.

Oh, your hat.

- Thank you.

- Night.

- I'll just put these in water.

- Thanks. Good night.

- Good night.

- Good night, sir.

Is that our daughter?

It's amazing

what a little paint and powder will do.

Yes, isn't it?

It's no use. I've told her 1,000 times,

a gentleman always walks on the outside.

I hope he doesn't try to dance with her.

He's liable to get spiked.

The University of Indiana. I'm a senior.

It must be wonderful.

It's a farce.

All the fellas are interested in

is playing football and baseball.

And women.

Women and more women.

Can you think of a bigger waste of time?

What's wrong with baseball?

Baseball? it's the national insanity.

At a time like this,

when civilization is crumbling

beneath our feet,

our generation is playing baseball

and singing songs like...

"We were sailing along

"on Moonlight Bay." isn't that silly?

I rather liked it.

You heard the rest of it?

You have stolen her heart

"Now, don't go away."

As We sang love's old sweet song

On Moonlight Bay

That must have been written by a man

with a glass of beer in one hand

and a rhyming dictionary in the other.

I think it's beautiful.

- Maybe we'd better dance, huh?

- Dance?

All right.

Tickets, five cents each, please.

Five cents each?

You have to buy happiness these days.

Shall we dance?

William, that's one of these new dances

that I don't know.

- Well, this is just a two-step.

- That's the one.

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