Cradle Will Rock Page #4

- Where have you been?

- Oh, good grief.

- Excuse me, Mr. Houseman?

- I have to go to the hospital.

- The hospital? Are you hurt?

- No, no, no. Hello. My wife just had a child.

- How do you do?

- Oh, congratulations!

- Thank you.

Countess, may I introduce a supporting

member of our cast... Aldo Silvano.

- Plays the role of, um...

- I'm the fourth scholar.

- Fourth scholar, yes.

- Wonderful.

This ain't no political meeting house.

This is a damn theater.

We're not doin' nothing here but

entertaining and making people laugh.

Well, I'm making people laugh.

Get me up.

Mrs. Flanagan wants me to teach

those Reds how to make people laugh.

- Forget it. You?

- Nothing funny about Communists.

- There's nothing funny about you.

- Reds are glum, serious people.

- What about that Stinky Magoo? He was funny.

- He wasn't a Communist.

Oh, most certainly was.

As Red as a rooster's crown.

Melvin, you don't know what you're talking

about. Stinky Magoo was a Republican.

- He was Red, Tommy.

- No, he wasn't.

- Yes, he was.

- No, he wasn't.

- You would know.

- He was not a Red! Stinky Magoo was a Republican!

He was funny!

Well... he was funny.

You're right about that.

- God rest his soul.

- May he make God laugh.

Hear, hear.

Mr. Crickshaw,

hi-loo.

Uh, we are ready

for our tutorial.

- We're ready for our tutorial.

- We're ready to learn how to be funny.

And how to do the mouth thing.

It is fantastic, this art form

that embraces the future,

shatters convention and uses color

to create an exquisite sensuality, huh?

It looks all cut up.

- Shapes distributed geometrically.

- Exactly.

- What does it mean?

- It means whatever you want it to mean.

The Futurists, they exist

in the realm of emotion...

the Eros, not the intellect.

Ah, yes, Eros. I particularly like

the sensuality of the colors.

- Mmm, mmm.

- This one has interesting colors too.

Well, you have a very good eye,

Mr. Mathers.

- Gray.

- Gray?

- My name, not the color.

- Ah.

- Is that a Modigliani?

- Yes, it is.

Nelson Rockefeller,

meet Margherita Sarfatti,

- cultural emissary to Premier Mussolini.

- Piacere.

- Enchante.

- Delighted to see you, Nelson.

Mr. Mathers. Mr. Hearst, always

a pleasure. Good to see you, Mary.

Premier Mussolini is very thankful

to you and your family...

for your generous contribution

for the museum.

I understand that you...

are personally responsible...

for bringing

the exhibition here.

Well, my motives

are purely selfish, madame.

I've never been lucky enough

in my life...

to stand inches away from

a da Vinci or a Michelangelo.

Ah, how does it feel?

Extraordinary.

- Nelson can be very helpful in the oil department as well.

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