Phone Call from a Stranger Page #2

That was a show in New York.

I saw it. About a year ago, wasn't it?

Were you in that?

- Don't you remember?

- Let me see. Uh-

Um, "Thank You So Much, Daddy"?

Pardon?

That's the name of the song I sang-

"Thank You So Much, Daddy. "

I remember it.

I saw it with Mrs. Trask...

last March at the Majestic Theatre.

- You remember my routine?

- Of course.

Let me tell you about this number.

This is the only song

I got in the show...

and out of town,

some head-shrinker wants to throw it out.

Then I got this idea. And, brother,

from then on, it was in but good.

Yeah?

What'd you do with it?

I did a strip with it.

Don't you remember?

I remember it.

And you forget

a beautiful song like that?

No, ma'am.

Not on that one either.

We've only got three more flights out of

here tonight, and there's no reservation...

in the name ofTrask on any of them.

Mm-hmm.

All right, snap it up, folks, before

they change their minds again.

Ooh! I'm terribly sorry.

- Dr. Fortness.

- Thank you.

Thank you.

- Binky Gay.

- Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh-

You mind if I hang on to you?

No, of course not,

if it'll make you feel any better.

I got a million of'em.

Babies fly nowadays,

like it was crawling...

from the dining room

into the kitchen.

Just feel my hands.

They're absolutely clammy.

Well, why do you do it

if it scares you so?

A train's too slow

for the way I feel.

I've been away for over a year now.

You know how it is

when you get that old feeling.

I can't get back to him fast enough.

Hey, we're moving.

We're rolling out to take off.

Did you get a long run in that show?

Lousy.

Died in six weeks.

What did you do then?

Not much of anything.

That's why I'm going back.

- You heard of success stories, haven't you?

- Mm-hmm.

Me, I'm different.

I'm a no-success story.

- Didn't you ever try for another show?

- Sure. All of them.

I even auditioned for Rodgers and Hammerstein

a couple of months ago.

For Mary Martin's part

in South Pacific.

- What did they say?

- "Thanks very much. "

I'm really surprised.

I thought you were very good.

I should've thought you'd be

a great success after that.

Thanks. Not after

the way I got started.

I may have thought I was a singer,

but after that show...

I was strictly a stripper,

and that's all.

Not that I got anything

against stripping.

But for the real dough,

you gotta be able to keep 'em on.

Take Dinah Shore, for instance.

She could sing in a Persian rug,

and it'd be all right.

Hey, we stopped.

We've reached the runway, I guess.

Besides, if you gotta

take 'em off when you sing...

there's just so far you can go.

Then, boom, the cops

are chasing you over the back fence.

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