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I put a lotta trust in you, Chickie...
I know you do, Sidney.
Don't judge a situation where you don't know what's involved...
I swear, Sidney, I can't help it sometimes I wonder what I see in you...
That's no way to talk...
Or what you see in me, for that matter...
Stay down town tonight. Maybe we'll take in a show, etc.
If you want me to
Don't you ever get messages, Eyelashes? I called you twice.
I've been up to here. Listen, honey, tell me something. You know Susan Hunsecker...? Has she been in? I mean lately, in the last coupla days...?
I don't think so.
You're sure. Find out for me.
Sidney, can I talk to you a minute?
Is Frank D'Angelo around?
At the bar Sidney...
Don't tell me you started a polka with Leo Bartha?
No. That's what I mean I'm being fired for what I didn't do.
Avidly. He was staring.
Staring. Consequently, when he approached me on his way out I wasn't surprised, but I didn't let on.
He was writing a special Sunday piece on...?
...cigarette girls... And naturally
You were thrilled to be interviewed. Were you "interviewed"?
In his apartment
And where was his wife?
I don't know it's a big apartment. But I wasn't interviewed. In fact, I was totally unprepared for what happened.
We're old friends, Chickie quit it! A big columnist comes in this room, without his ballandchain and you make like a delicatessen counter! What did you think would happen in his house?
But, Sidney darling, the man must be out of his mind it was only eleven o'clock in the morning!
Do you think you could do something, Sidney?
That's what I'm thinking, Rita. Maybe...
Do you still keep your key under the mat?
Can you be there by twothirty?
Rita, say hello to Otis Elwell.
Hello.
Back?
One of those business meetings, honey always coming up in the middle of the night.
Don't you know who that man is?
Yeah. Otis Elwell. The columnist.
Yeah!
And he's a perfect stranger to me.
So take five minutes! Get acquainted! He's an important man he's lonely don't be dumb!
What do you want all of a sudden Lady Godiva...? Where's my other shoe?
What kind of an act is this?
Don't you think I have any feelings? What am I? A bowl of fruit? A tangerine that peels in a minute?
I beg your pardon! I turn myself inside out to help you and now I'm a heavy. Here's your shoe, there's your coat, that's the door!
Sidney...I...I don't do this sort of thing...
What sort of thing?
This sort of thing!
Listen, you need him for a favor, don't you! And so do I! I need his columntonight. Didn't you ask me to do something about your job? Don't you have a kid in Military School?
A girl needs a little romancing before she
Next time I'll call in a guy to paint silver stars on the ceiling!
What would you think of me if
Nothing I didn't think of you before.
that's what I mean!
That's a question I usually like to ask YOU. Your secretary phoned.
What about?
Something about a Frank D'Angelo trying to reach you...
Could this be that boy?
Dallas? Could be. He doesn't look like a reefer smoker...
Bribing me again?
And why should I bribe the woman who holds most of my heart?
Who put this item in about the comic? "If there's a more hilarious funny man around than Herbie Temple at the Palace, you'll have to pardon us for not catching the name. We were too busy screaming." Does this Temple have a press agent?
No. It's one of J.J.'s occasional beau gestes. Evidently the fellow's funny, so he gave him a plug.
What's your favorite ribbon to go around your favorite chocolates?
Let's wait till Christmas it's more legitimate then.
I know...I know you're the strongest cop in town.
I call him the boy with the ice cream face!
What's all the rush? You said three o'clock.
He's leaving early. After this "set". He'll be out in a couple of minutes...
It's nice, Sidney, that you give me this tip...
He's got them on him.
...And he's got them on him. I appreciate a thing like that I appreciate where you are looking out for the virtue of the city.
Is that a fact? He's a dilly, ain't he? By the by, what did he have against this boy?
He goes out with girls.
Well, I'll be darned. And what does J.J. think he SHOULD do?
Go out with DIFFERENT girls!
I thought he would.
Yeah... And another thing he's gonna say you 'resisted arrest'... You know J.J....!
Can I come out? No.
I have to talk to you, alone, J.J., that's why.
You had something to do for me you didn't do it.
Can I come in for a minute?
No. You're dead, son get yourself buried!
Mac! I don't want this man at my table...
I have a message from your sister.
I know Manny Davis.
Everyone knows Manny Davis... ...except MRS. Manny Davis.
Match me, Sidney...
Not just this minute, J.J....
Why don't you answer the man, Sidalee? He's trying to take you off the hook.
You just had a good example of it. A press agent eats a columnists dirt and is expected to call it manna.
What, some cheap, gruesome gags?
You print them, don't you?
Yes, with your clients' names attached. That's the only reason those poor slobs pay you to see their names in my column all over the world! Now, as I make it out, you're doing ME a favor!
I didn't say that, J.J.
The day that I can't get along without press agents' handouts, I'll close up shop, lock, stock and barrel and move to Alaska.
Spahish...that must show he likes "spigs", too.
I like Harry, but I can't deny he sweats a little.
You told me you'd break up that romance when?
You want something done, J.J., but I doubt if you yourself know what's involved.
I'm a schoolboy teach me, teach me.