
Footlight Parade
- G
- Year:
- 1933
- 104 min
- 142 Views
- What a laugh.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, it doesn't mean a thing.
- They laughed at Edison, too.
Looks like I'm an assistant
to a guy out of a job.
You remember when mahjong
was popular, don't you, Harry?
- So what?
- It's a fad.
I've staged 50 musical comedies
and I'll stage 50 more.
I hope you're right.
Frazer and Gould are putting
Never Say No into rehearsal...
and I'm doing the numbers.
- Am I going with you?
- If they don't run out of ink. Let's go.
- Hiya, Kent.
- Hello, boys.
When does Never Say No
go into rehearsal?
Chester, it don't. You can't give
the public what they don't want.
- What show are you gonna do?
- No show if we're in our right mind.
People ain't paying for shows no more.
Talking pictures is what they want.
So, it don't mean a thing, huh?
Plays is a dead issue.
We're in the picture business, exhibitors.
Yeah, we just bought four houses.
They deliver the show in tin cans
and we got nothing to worry about.
So musicals are out, huh?
Yeah, come on around the corner
and I'll show you why.
Yeah, come on around the corner
and I'll show you why.
There's the answer.
It's a lot better to fill your theater
10 times a day at 40 cents a ticket...
than to charge $5 a seat
and have it half-filled once a night.
- Yeah, if you're lucky.
- Come on, I'll show you.
Won't last.
Excuse me, Zeke, official business.
From now on, he'll be getting plenty
of orders, but they won't all be by wire.
- Here's your answer.
- Oh, well, no matter.
I'm so proud of you, John.
So, you're in the picture business, hey, Si?
Who's that, Whistler's mother?
There's competition.
We're booking a house down the street.
So we give them a little prologue
to fit the picture.
What's the picture, Uncle Tom's Cabin?
We're showing Slaves of the Desert.
So we put on something oriental
to fit the plot.
That prologue wouldn't fit anything
but an ash can.
Just the same,
it costs more than the picture.
Say, why don't you let me put on
some of those prologues for you?
- No, no. No more prologues.
- No more prologues, Chester.
That oriental flesh is too expensive.
After this, we're giving our customers
talking pictures and nothing else.
Well, so long.
I gotta break the bad news to the wife.
Red line, I hear you calling me.
Listen, what you better do
Maybe I haven't made myself
understood, honey.
They're not doing
any more musical shows.
I always said they'd catch up with you.
Is it my fault if somebody invented
talking pictures?
I don't care whose fault it is.
It's time you earned some money.
I'm used to good clothes
and everything that goes with it.
- Well, haven't I always given you...
- Yeah. What goes with it.
Listen, I'm fed up with you
and I have been for a long time.
Well.
- I'll show you.
Here, sign that and I'll be
tickled to death to get a divorce.
- You sure this is the way you want it?
- Absolutely.
Well, that's that.
Here's your aspirin, 18 cents.
Say, how do you do it?
The place next door charges a quarter.
Yeah, but he's on his own.
We got 100 stores.
- What does that mean?
- We buy in big lots.
When you're buying for one store,
you get soaked.
When you're buying for 100...
I see, practically name your own price.
That's it.
Say, that's marvelous.
The chain store idea solves everything.
Thanks a million.
- Hey, your aspirin!
- Take it yourself. My headache's gone.
Come on, Al.
Listen, boys, I just bought some aspirin.
- Drunk again?
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