Babes on Broadway Page #5

Well, excuse me.

Are you taking a lesson?

No, no, I'm just tuning the piano.

You mean I won't be able

to take a lesson?

You certainly won't. Where've you been?

This is the third time in a row...

- It's wonderful, wait till you hear.

- What?

They got the thing passed.

We're all going to the country.

Two weeks, for free.

Isn't that marvelous?

- All the kids?

- The whole settlement house.

Mr. Stone just told me.

And I'm president of the whole thing.

- Congratulations.

- This is Barbara Jo. This is Mr. Williams.

- Pleased to meet you, Mr. Williams.

- Mr. Williams is an actor, you know.

- A real actor? On the stage?

- Well, I...

Here's your cake. Here, Barbara Jo.

Gee, you don't look like an actor.

That's what most of the producers think.

- Won't you sit down, Mr. Williams?

- Thank you.

You know, Mr. Williams, there's a couple

of things I don't understand about acting.

Only a couple of things?

When you're on the stage...

...you have your arms around the girl

and say:

"I love you more than

anything in the whole world. "

- Yeah?

- Do you really mean it?

Well, that depends upon the girl.

Yeah, I suppose so.

But, gee, when Robert Taylor says it,

he makes me believe it.

You know, Penny's gonna be an actress.

She's always acting.

- Eat your cake, darling.

- Well, I am eating it.

Oh, well, got to be going.

Big meeting tonight.

Wait until the kids

find out they're really going.

Some of them

never even seen the country.

- Tell Papa I couldn't help it.

- I'll tell him, but you better practice.

Why, Penny, you know I love to practice.

Goodbye, Mr. Williams.

Sure like to see you act sometime.

Well, thank you.

Bye, Penny.

- Won't you sit?

- Won't you sit?

Here we are, just as if we had planned it.

Yeah, you mean just as if we didn't.

You know, I have a feeling that you're

gonna be that unknown quantity in my life.

What's that?

Something

that brings a fellow good luck.

The springboard. The inspiration.

The thing that everything adds up to.

Gee, that's quite an assignment.

Not with what you have.

Just what have I, Mr. Williams?

Well, it's a combination.

A combination of something sweet

and warm.

Plus a quality

that's far away from everybody.

Reflection of talent, that's what it is.

There's something special

lighting everything around you.

- I didn't know I had that.

- Sure, that's what you have.

And as soon as I see

Thornton tomorrow...

...why, I'm gonna tell him

to take a good look at you.

Before you know it, we'll be dancing

on top of the world, together.

Oh, gee, that would be fun,

if it ever came true.

As soon as I get through

with the audition...

...why, I'll come back over here

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