Three Little Words Page #2

of mind over matter.

For my next deception,

I have here a little handkerchief...

What's going on...?

I'll be right back, Mr. Clanahan.

- You see a goose go by here?

- I saw a lot of them down there.

Watch carefully, please.

Ordinary hat. Ordinary drinking water.

I pour it in the hat like this:

Place it on my head like that.

- Where is he? Where is he?

- Just a minute, you.

That baseball player,

if I ever lay my hands on him...

Get out of my theater

and don't ever come back.

I ought to sue you

for that performance.

I ought to take you to court,

you small-time swami.

Oh, shut up.

- Hello.

- What are you doing here?

Charlie traced you for me.

Nice comedy routine, Bert.

That maniac in a baseball hat.

I was going great until then.

- I had them right there, I was killing them.

- Listen to him.

Every theater in the country

is waiting for Kalmar and Brown...

...but Kendall The Great is killing them

in Coney Island at 5 bucks a night.

What were you trying to prove?

That we ought to use magic in the act?

Not necessarily.

You know what magic is to me.

- It's a hobby. It relaxes me.

- You look relaxed.

Come in.

- Say, a couple of them got away.

- Get out of here!

Bert Kalmar.

That's Bert Kalmar, the songwriter.

Say, Mr. Clanahan, that's Bert Kalmar.

- I saw him at the Palace.

- Yeah. I heard you tell the rabbit.

I recognized him without his mustache.

Sure, sure. Here, son.

And don't look

for another job right away.

Just take a nice, long rest.

Thank you. Thank you.

Now, with your kind indulgence

we'd like to show you what happens...

...when two dancers get married.

Mr. and Mrs. Hoofer at home.

Thank you.

They loved you, Jess.

See them applaud?

- Bert, I was so nervous.

- So was I. You know...

- Sorry, Mr. Kalmar.

- My fault.

Flowers for you.

Oh, they're beautiful.

Who are they from?

The president and I. We chipped in.

- Bert, what is it?

- I don't know.

"Kalmar and Brown, who opened

their new act to bravos last month...

...have been cancelled

following an accident backstage.

Doctors say Kalmar

will not be able to dance...

...for at least a year, possibly two."

I couldn't think of a tougher break.

It's Jessie I'm thinking about.

She can't just sit around waiting.

When you lay off too long,

they think you're through.

And I'm not gonna let that

happen to her.

Now, why can't she just pick up another

partner and take out the same act?

Bert, I told you,

the act needs your name.

She wouldn't make the expenses.

- You sunk a lot of dough into it, huh?

- Not much. Just everything I own.

- Hello.

- Hi, Jess.

- Hello.

- I've ordered breakfast.

- How are you, Charlie?

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