Dinner at Eight Page #4

Sit down, Dan.

- How've you been?

- Just fine.

I can only stay a minute.

Running down to Washington.

Seems like the President wants

to get down at the bottom of things.

The reason I asked you to come over, Dan,

was I wanted to put something up to you.

Sure. Go ahead.

It's about the Jordan Line.

Say, who put up this building,

Peter Stuyvesant?

Looks more like a museum than an office.

It was the last word

when the old gentleman built it.

It's been like this for 75 years.

I hope those old tubs of yours

don't date to this office.

What do you got on your mind?

You know all about our business.

I don't need to go into that.

Of course, this Depression

isn't going to last forever.

But if it takes a little longer

than we figure...

I want to know

if you and your associates...

would be in a position

to sort of tide us over.

I appreciate that I'd have to turn over

some of my holdings to you.

I'd rather not disturb

the other stockholders.

I don't know anything

about your business, Jordan.

But it looks to me like it's gone to seed.

All I have to do is look around this office.

To tell you the truth,

I don't think you have much to offer.

Now, look here, Packard.

Our ships have traveled the ocean

for a century.

We started from clipper ships.

We're not going to stop.

We're not through.

I'm sorry, Jordan. I didn't mean anything.

You know, I'm a businessman,

and everybody's bothering you.

- I apologize, Jordan.

- That's all right.

Now, I may be wrong.

Tell you what you do.

You get me some figures on this thing:

The assets, the stockholders,

a list of them, and the holdings...

You submit it to me,

I'll give you an answer within 24 hours.

That's very kind of you.

- What's the matter? Got a pain?

- Oh, no.

- It's a little indigestion.

- Indigestion? Half a lemon.

I get it all the time.

Half a lemon in hot water.

I got to travel, I'm in a hurry.

You send me all the dope.

I'll do whatever I can. So long.

Mr. Jordan, I wouldn't trust that man

as far as I could throw a bull by the tail.

I hope you're wrong.

I hope we're both wrong.

Why, what's the matter, sir?

I'm all right.

Hello.

Mrs. Jordan, sir.

Hello, dear.

Oliver?

Darling, I'm simply out of my mind.

I'm still shy one couple,

and I just can't find an extra man.

What am I going to do, dear?

You can do something for me, dear.

You can invite Dan Packard and his wife.

You're joking.

Ask that common little woman

to my house?

And that noisy, vulgar man?

He smells Oklahoma.

Oh, no, they're not as bad as that.

Anyway, it would be an enormous favor

to me if you did.

Of course, if it will help you, dear.

Hattie, you can't imagine.

Hattie just came in, dear.

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