The Great Ziegfeld Page #2

"Dear Ziggy, your proposition

interests me. " What did I tell you?

"But why fake a romance

between Sandow and Little Egypt?

Let's make Sandow marry Little Egypt...

...and I'll split the children

with you 50-50."

That message was collect.

- Fifty cents.

- Have you change for a dollar?

- Sure, but you always...

- Keep it.

Gee, thanks.

Florenz, I love you.

I will break chains for you...

...I will lift buildings for you,

but I will not have children for you.

But if I have children,

I will not split them.

- Oh, hello, Ziggy, I got your wire.

- I just got yours too.

Patterson tells me

he's putting you out Saturday.

- He tells me too.

- How do you do, Mr. Ziegfeld?

How do you...?

- How do you do, Miss...?

- Yes, Blair, this is Mr. Ziegfeld.

- I'm very happy to know you, Miss Blair.

- I'm so happy to meet you, Mr. Ziegfeld.

And this is Mr. Sandow,

the strongest man in the...

The strongest man in the world.

Jack tells me

the loveliest things about you.

Oh, yes, I imagine.

- I could tell you lovely things about you.

- He's only just met you...

...and he's going to tell

you all about yourself.

- Won't you sit down?

- Thank you.

- But no, we've got... There's a table...

- I've seen you many times...

...on the midway.

- Fibber. I bet you never even noticed me.

- Yes, I have.

Yesterday, you were wearing

a red dress trimmed in black lace.

- Yes.

- And a yellow hat, and it was atrocious.

- Oh, indeed?

- Each was all right in itself, mind you...

...but the combination...

And last Sunday, you were wearing

a blue gown and an orchid hat.

- Well, yes.

- And you were wrong again.

Well, aren't we the observer?

Do you always check the right

combinations for women?

- Always for beautiful women.

- Oh, well, that's nice. Thank you.

- How do I look today?

- Well, I don't like your hat.

- It shades your eyes, and I like your eyes.

- Thank you.

He ought to be packing his own clothes

instead of selecting yours.

- Come on, Ruth, we've got to go.

- Yes. Well, goodbye, then.

- I'll be seeing you around the grounds.

- Yes. Well, not after Saturday, you won't.

- That fella Billings makes me mad.

- Yes?

Even that music from his Little Egypt

drives me crazy.

You won't have to listen to it

much longer. Wait a minute.

Come away. For five weeks you've been

touching that elephant for luck...

...and now in five days, we get put out.

I know it's superstition, but an old Hindu

told me that if you touch...

...an elephant's trunk, and he raises it,

everything will be all right.

Wait, wait. We know we got hard luck

without that elephant should tell us.

Say, I know what's wrong. You should

touch him. You're the attraction.

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