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November 17, 2022
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Hillview Drama's Opening Night of the Fall Play Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Thank you.
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Hello? Oh, it is working.
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Welcome, welcome everyone to Hillview Drama's production of Arsenic
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and Old Lace.
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This is cast number one. We have five casts.
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We have more kids going tomorrow and then...
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And these guys repeating on Saturday and tomorrow's cast on
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Saturday as well.
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Then after Thanksgiving, we'll be performing again.
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You can check your program for dates and kinds of things.
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But this has been an adventure so far.
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This is one of my favorite plays.
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It's a terrific kind of a comic, a dark comic romp in
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1940s Brooklyn.
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And...
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And funny enough, our superintendent, outgoing
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superintendent, Mr. Eric Burmeister, was in a production of this play in high
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school.
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And we were going to include a picture of it in the lobby, but we don't have it yet, so it's from his
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high school yearbook.
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He played Jonathan, the Boris Karloff Frankenstein lookalike
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character, which is typecasting for him.
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No.
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Okay, well, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, so three things really important.
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Cash photography, please.
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No food or drink in the PAC.
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I know that may come as a surprise.
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There are signs up, however, and it is very important.
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It's disturbing, the crinkling and crunching and things for other people.
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And it also just makes a terrible mess.
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Also, time to silence the cell phones.
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So, with that, I know the case.
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backstage is so excited
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and so happy you're here, and I am too.
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Well, okay.
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Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Oh, Dr. Harper,
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my sister Martha and I have been talking
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all week about your wonderful sermon last...
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Sunday. That's very gratifying,
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Ms. Brewster. We've seen so many
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ministers coming, though. And your
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sermons are not so much sermons as
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frenzy talks. Personally,
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I've always enjoyed my talks with Cardinal
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Gibbons. Or...
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Have I met him yet? No, dear,
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not yet. Are the biscuits good?
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Bully. Won't you have another biscuit,
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Dr. Harper? Oh, no. I always
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eat too many of your biscuits just to taste that
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lovely jam. I do hope they don't
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make us use that imitation flower again.
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I mean, with this war trouble, it may not be very charitable of me, but I've almost come to the conclusion
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that this Mr. Hitler isn't a Christian.
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If only Europe were on another planet.
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Europe, sir?
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To the West! There's your danger! There's your enemy!
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Japan!
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Why, yes. Yes, of course.
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No, Aunt Abby, more talk about the canal!
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Well, let's not talk about war.
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I must admit that war and violence...
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far removed from these surroundings.
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It is peaceful here, isn't it?
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Yes, peaceful.
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This house has a gentle virtue that went out
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with candlelight, good manners, and low taxes.
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It's just as it was
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when Grandfather Brewster built and furnished it.
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Except for the electricity.
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It was Mortimer who persuaded us
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to put it in.
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Yes, your nephew Mortimer seems to live only by electric light.
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I understand he's taking
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a langus into the theater again tonight.
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Teddy, your brother Mortimer will...
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He's here a little later.
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We're so happy it's Elaine Mortimer takes to the theater with him.
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Well, it's a new experience for me to wait up until three o 'clock in the morning for my daughter to be brought home.
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Oh, Dr. Harper, I hope you don't disapprove of Mortimer.
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We'd feel so guilty if you did, Sister Marth and I.
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I mean, since it was here in our home that your daughter met Mortimer.
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Of course, Miss Abby.
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And so I'll say immediately that I believe Mortimer himself to be quite a worthy gentleman.
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I must also admit, however...
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that I've watched the growing intimacy between him and my daughter with some trepidation.
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For one reason, Miss Abby, I'm speaking of your nephew's unfortunate connection with the theater.
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The theater? Oh no, Dr. Harper, Mortimer writes for a New York newspaper.
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I know, Miss Abby, I know. But a dramatic critic is constantly exposed to the theater,
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and I don't doubt but what some of them do develop an interest in it.
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Well, not Mortimer. You need have no fear of that. Why, Mortimer hates...
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theater really oh yes he writes awful things about the theater my my but
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as he says the theater can't
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last much longer anyway yes another year or two perhaps well now
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who do you suppose that is no
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thank you teddy i'll go hello
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mr rophy hello miss brewster how are you mr klein very well miss brewster
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what news have you brought me
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i don't know
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have nothing to report.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
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You know Dr. Harper.
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Hello, Dr. Harper.
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We've come for the toys for the Christmas fund.
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Oh, yes.
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That's a splendid work you men do, fixing up discarded toys to give poor children a happier
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It gives us something to do when we are sitting on the station.
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You can hire a plan card and then you start cleaning your gun.
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The first thing you know, you've shot yourself in the foot.
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Teddy, go upstairs and get that big box from Aunt Martha's room.
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How is Mrs. Brophy today?
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Mrs. Brophy has been quite ill, Dr. Harper.
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I'm sorry to hear that.
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Oh, she's better now. A little weak still.
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I'm going to get you some beef broth to take to her.
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Don't bother, Miss Abby. You've done so much for her already.
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We made it this morning.
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Sister Martha's taking some decor, Mr. Benitzky.
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I won't be a minute. Sit down and be comfortable. All of you.
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She shouldn't go into all that trouble.
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Listen, try to stop her or her sister from doing anything nice and for none.
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They don't even care how you vote.
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When I first came to Brooklyn, my wife wasn't well.
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When she died, and for the months before.
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Well, if I know what pure kindness and absolute generosity are,
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it's because I've known the Brewster sisters.
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Colonel, you promised not to do that.
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But I have to call a cabinet meeting.
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He used to do that in the middle of the night.
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The neighbors are a little afraid of him.
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Oh, he's quite harmless.
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Suppose he does think he's being a result.
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There's a lot of worse people who he could think he was.
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Darn shame.
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and I say I'm like this, hatching a cuckoo.
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Well, his father, your girl's brother,
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he was something of a genius, wasn't he?
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And their father, Teddy's grandfather.
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Seems to me I heard he's a little crazy, too.
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Yeah, crazy like a fox.
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He made a million dollars.
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Really, here in Brooklyn.
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Yeah, patent medicine.
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He was some kind of a quack of some sort.
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Old Surgeon Edwards remembers him.
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He used his house here as some sort of clinic.
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Turn him out on people.
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Yeah, I heard he used to make mistakes occasionally, too.
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The department never bothered him much.
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Because it was pretty useful in autopsies, especially poison cases.
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Well, whatever he did, he left his daughter's fix for life. Thank God for that.
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Not that they ever spend any of it on themselves.
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Yes, I'm well acquainted with their charities.
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You didn't know a tenth of it. When I was with the missing persons brew, I was trying to trace down an old man that we never did find.
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Do you know there's a renting agency that's got this house down on its list for furnished rooms?
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They don't rent rooms, but you can be sure that anyone who comes here looking for one will go away with a good meal and a few
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dollars in his pocket.
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It's just their way of digging up some people to do some good to.
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Oh, well, now, isn't this nice?
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Good afternoon, Miss Brewster.
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Good afternoon, Mr. Brophy, Dr. Harper, Mr. Klein.
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How are you, Miss Brewster? We dropped in together Christmas toys.
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Oh, yes, Teddy's Army and Navy. They're all packed.
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The colonel's upstairs after them. It seems the cabinet has to say it.
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Oh, yes, of course. I hope Mrs. Brophy's doing better.
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She's doing fine, ma'am. Your sister's getting me some soup from your figure.
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Oh, yes, we made it this morning. I...
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Just to get to some poor man who broke ever so many bones.
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Oh, you're back, Martha.
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How is Mr. Benitsky?
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Well, dear, I'm afraid it was pretty serious.
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The doctor was there, and they're going to have to amputate in the morning.
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Can we be present?
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He says it's against the rules of the hospital.
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You couldn't be of any service.
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And besides, you must bear yourself something.
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Here's the broth, Mr. Rofy.
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Be sure it's good and hot.
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Yes, ma'am.
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This is fine.
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A lot of kids happy.
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That old Malley boys and that's about soldiers.
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That's General Miles.
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I've retired him.
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What's this?
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The Oregon?
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Teddy, dear, put it back.
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But the Oregon goes to Australia.
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Now, Teddy.
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No, I've given my word to fighting Bob Evans.
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But, Teddy.
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What's different to what can get it?
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Bobby Evans, Izzy Cohen, we're all along, man.
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Thank you very much.
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Not at all.
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I must be getting home.
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Before you go, Dr. Harper.
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Charge! Charge the blockhouse!
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The blockhouse?
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The stairs are always set on one hill.
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Have you ever tried to persuade him that he wasn't Teddy Roosevelt?
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Oh, no! He's so happy being Teddy Roosevelt.
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Once, a long time ago.
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Remember, Martha?
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We thought if he would be George Washington, it might be a change for him.
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But he hid under his bed for days, and he just wouldn't be anybody.
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And we'd so much rather he be Mr. Roosevelt than...
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Well, if he's happy, and, what's more important, you're happy, you'll see to it that he
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signs these.
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What are they?
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Dr. Harper's made all arrangements for Teddy to go to Happydale Sanitarium after we pass on.
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But why does Teddy have to sign any papers now?
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It's better to have everything worked out.
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If the Lord should take you away suddenly, perhaps we couldn't get Teddy to commit himself.
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And that would mean an unpleasant legal procedure.
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Mr. Witherspoon understands they're to be filed away until the time comes to use them.
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Anderson? Who is he?
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He's the superintendent of Happydale.
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Dr. Harper has arranged for him to drop in tomorrow or the next day to meet Teddy.
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I must be running along now or Elaine will be over here looking for me.
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Give our love to Elaine.
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And Dr. Harper, please don't think harshly of Mortimer because he's a magic critic.
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Somebody has to do those things.
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Abby, did you just have tea? Isn't it rather late?
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Yes, and dinner's going to be late too.
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So, why?
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Teddy, good news for you. You're going to Panama and dig a lock for the canal.
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Delighted. That's bully, just bully. I shall prepare for the journey at once.
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Abby, while I was out?
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Yes, dear. I just couldn't wait for you. I didn't know when you'd be back and Dr. Harper was coming.
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But all by yourself?
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Oh, I got along fine.
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I'll run right downstairs and see.
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Oh, no, there wasn't time. And I was all alone.
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Well, Martha, just look in the window seat.
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Good afternoon, Miss Abby.
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Good afternoon, Miss Martha.
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I thought Father was here.
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He just this minute left.
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Didn't you meet him?
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No, I took a circuit through the cemetery.
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Mortimer hasn't come yet.
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No, dear.
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Oh, he asked me to meet him here.
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Do you mind if I wait?
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Not at all, dear.
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Why don't you sit down?
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Mortimer's was brought up to know better
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when a gentleman is taking a young lady...
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He should call for her at her house.
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He's done this too often. We're going to speak to him.
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Oh, please don't ask you a minute whose idea of a nightlife has to take me to a prayer meeting.
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It's wonderful to go to the theater almost every night of my life.
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Well, if Mortimer has to see some of the plays he has to see,
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at least he's sitting next to a minister's daughter.
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My goodness, Elaine, what must you think of us, not having tea feed away by this time?
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Abby, don't start with anything in the kitchen until Mortimer comes and then I'll help you.
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He should be here any minute now.
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Father must have been surprised not to find me at home.
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I'd better run over and say goodnight to him.
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Mortimer comes, you tell him, I'll be right back.
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It's a shame you missed him, dear.
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Hello, Mort.
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Hello, Elaine.
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Hello, Aunt Martha.
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Abby, Mortimer's here.
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Were you going somewhere?
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I was just going to tell Father not to wait up for me.
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I didn't know that was still being done, even in Brooklyn.
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Hello, Mortimer.
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Hello, Aunt Abby.
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How are you, dear?
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All right, and you look well.
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You haven't changed much yesterday.
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My goodness, it was yesterday, wasn't it?
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We're seeing a great deal of you lately.
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Well, come sit down.
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Abby, happen to be something for you in the kitchen?
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You know, the tea thing?
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Oh, yes, yes, the tea things.
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Well, you two just make yourselves at home.
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Just make yourselves at home.
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Well, that was pretty obvious.
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Also, where do you want to go for dinner?
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I don't care.
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I'm not very hungry.
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Well, I just had breakfast.
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Suppose you wait until after the show?
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But that'll make it pretty late.
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won't it? Not with a little stinker we're seeing tonight.
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From what I've heard about it, we'll be out by 10 o'clock.
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You ought to be fair to these plays.
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I've never seen you walk out in a musical.
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Musicals tell me I have a humanizing
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effect on you. After a series play,
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we join the common people on the subway, and I listen
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to a lecture on the drama. After a musical,
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you bring me home in a taxi, and we have some laughs.
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Now, wait a minute, Dawn. That's a very inaccurate
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piece of recording. And it wasn't until after our first musical
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you told me I had nice legs, and I have too.
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Which reminds me, I'd better
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tell Father to please not wait up for me tonight.
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My falling in love with a girl who lives in Brooklyn.
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Falling in love?
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The only way I can regain myself is to keep you in New York.
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Will you marry me?
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Oh, Mortimer!
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How about tonight?
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I'm afraid Father will insist on officiating.
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Oh, gosh.
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Are you by any chance writing a review of it?
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Forgive me, darling. It's an occupational disease.
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I may give that play tonight a good notice.
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Nah, darling. Don't pretend you love me that much.
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Darling, I'll talk to you with Father and set the date.
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No, we'll have to see you at the rehearsal.
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There'll be a lot of other opening nights in October.
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How are you, Mr. President?
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Bully, thank you. Just a bully.
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What news have you brought me?
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Justice, Mr. President. The country is squarely behind you.
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I know. Isn't it wonderful?
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Well, goodbye.
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Where are you off to, Teddy?
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Panama's the seller. He digs locks for the canal down there.
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You're so sweet with him, and he's very fond of you.
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Yes, Teddy was always my favorite brother.
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Favorite? Were there more of you?
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There's another brother, uh, Jonathan.
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I've never heard of him. Your aunt's never...
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mention him? No, we don't like to talk about Jonathan.
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He left Brooklyn very early, by
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request. Jonathan
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was the kind of boy who liked to cut worms in two
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with his teeth. What became
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of him? I don't know.
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He wanted to become a surgeon, like Grandfather,
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but he wouldn't go to medical school first, and his practice
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got him in trouble.
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We're skipping
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dinner. We went off to start for half an hour.
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Well then, I'll leave you two alone
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together again. Don't bother, darling. I'm going to
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run over to speak to Father before I go out with you. He likes
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to pray over me a little. I'll be right back.
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I'll cut through the cemetery.
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Mortimer, we knew Elaine would be a good influence
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for you. Oh, by the way, I'm going to
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marry her. What? Oh, darling.
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Martha, Martha, come
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right in here. The most wonderful news.
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Mortimer and Elaine are going to be married.
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Married? Oh, Mortimer!
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We hoped it would happen just like this.
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Well, Elaine must be the happiest girl
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in the world. Happy? Just look at her
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leaping over those gravestones.
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Oh, by the way, I left a large envelope around here last week.
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It was one of the chapters of my book on Thoreau.
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Well, if you left it here, it must be here somewhere.
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What are your plans?
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When are you going to be married?
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There must be something more you can tell us about Elaine.
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Oh, Elaine thought it was brilliant.
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What was here?
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My chapters on Thoreau.
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Well, when Elaine gets back, I think we ought to have a little celebration.
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We must drink to your happiness.
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Martha, isn't there some of that Lady Baltimore cake left?
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Yes, and I'll open a bar...
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of wine and to think it happens in this very room well with
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your fiance sitting beside you tonight
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i do hope the play will be something you can enjoy for once it may even be something romantic
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what's the name of it um murder will out oh dear
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curtain goes up the first thing you'll see is a
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dead body
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Aunt Abby?
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Yes, dear?
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You were going to make plans for Teddy to go to that sanitarium, Happydale?
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Yes, dear. It's all arranged.
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Dr. Harper is here today and brought the papers for Teddy to sign.
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Here they are.
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He's got to sign them right away.
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That's what Dr. Harper said.
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Then there won't be any legal difficulties that we pass on.
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He's got to sign them this many.
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He's down in the cellar.
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Get him up here right now.
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There's no such tree as that.
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No, when Teddy starts working on the canal, you can't...
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He can't get his mind on anything else.
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Teddy's got to go to Happydale now, tonight.
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Oh, no, dear. That's not until after we're gone.
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Right away. I tell you right away.
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Why, Mortimer, as long as we live, we'll never be separated from Teddy.
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Listen, darlings, I'm sorry, but I've got some shocking news for you.
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You know how we've sort of humored Teddy because we thought he was harmless?
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But he is harmless.
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He was harmless.
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That's why he has to go to Happydale.
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Why he has to be confined.
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Mortimer, how can you say such a thing?
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Why? Why have you suddenly turned against Teddy, your own brother?
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You've got to know some time. It may as well be now.
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Teddy, he's killed a man.
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Nonsense, dear.
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There's a body in the window seat.
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Yes, dear, we know.
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You know?
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Yes, dear, but it has nothing to do with Teddy.
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Now, Mortimer, you just forget about it. Forget you ever saw the gentleman.
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We never dreamed you'd see.
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But who is he?
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His name's Hoskins. Adam Hoskins.
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That's really all I know about him.
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Except that he's a Methodist.
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That's all you know about him?
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Well, what's he doing here?
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What happened to him?
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He died.
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And Martha, men don't just get into window seats and die.
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No, he died for her.
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Well, how?
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Oh, Mortimer, don't be so inquisitive.
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The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it.
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How does the poison get into the wine?
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Well, we put it in the wine because it's less noticeable.
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You see, when we put it in tea, it has a distinct odor.
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We have put it in the wine.
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Yes, and I've been Mr. Hoskins in the window seat because Dr. Harper was coming.
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So you knew what you've done?
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You didn't want Dr. Harper to see the body.
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Well, not at tea.
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That wouldn't have been very nice.
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Now, Mortimer, you know the whole thing.
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Just forget about it.
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I do think Martha and I have the right to our own little secrets.
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Oh, and don't kill Elaine.
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Oh, Abby, while I was out, I dropped in on Mrs. Schultz.
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She's doing much better, but she would like us to take Junior to the movies again.
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But this time, we're choosing one.
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he wants to go? Junior's not going to drag us
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to another one of those scary pictures again.
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Hello? City desk?
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Do you know who this is?
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That's right. Say, Al, when I left the office,
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I told you where I was going, right?
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Well, where did I say?
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That's right. Well, it took me about
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a half hour to get to Brooklyn. What time have you got?
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Right. Then I must be here. Aunt Abby and Martha, come in here. What are we going to do? What
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are we going to do?
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Now, Mortimer, you behave yourself. You're too old to be flying off the handle like this.
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But Mr. Hotchkiss...
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Hoskins, dear. Well, whatever his name is, you can't leave him there.
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We don't intend to, dear. No, then he's down in the cellar now, digging the lock.
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You mean you're going to bury Mr. Hotchkiss in the cellar?
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Yes, dear. That's what we did with the others.
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No, you can't bet the others.
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The other gentleman.
27:39
When you say others, do you mean others? More than one others?
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Yes. This makes eleven. Isn't it, Tabby?
27:46
No, dear, this makes twelve. No, dear, I think you're wrong, because this makes eleven.
27:51
No, dear, because I remember when Mr. Hoskins first came in, it occurred to me that he would make
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just an even dozen.
27:57
But you really shouldn't count the first one. Oh, I was counting the first one. So that makes twelve.
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Oh. Hello? Oh, hello, Al. My, it's good to hear your voice.
28:10
Well, anyway, they're all down in the cellar.
28:13
No, Al, I'm glad you called. Look, get a hold of George right away. He's got to review the play tonight. I can't make
28:18
it.
28:18
No, Al, listen, George has got to cover the play tonight. This is my department, and I'm running it. You get a hold of
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George.
28:25
Alright, where were we?
28:26
What? Twelve?
28:28
Yes, Abby says we ought to count the first one, and that makes twelve.
28:33
All right, Ed Martha, tell me, who was the first one?
28:37
Mr. Midgley, he was a Baptist.
28:39
Of course, I still think we can't take full credit for him, because he just died.
28:44
Martha means without any help from us.
28:46
You see, Mr. Midgley came in here looking for a room.
28:49
It was right after you moved to New York, and it didn't seem right for that lovely room to be going to waste when there were so
28:54
many other people who needed it.
28:56
He was such a lonely old man.
28:57
All his kids and kin were dead, and it left him so forlorn and unhappy.
29:01
We felt so sorry for him.
29:03
And then, when his heart attack came, he sat dead, right in that chair, looking so peaceful.
29:08
Remember, Martha?
29:09
We made up our minds then and there that if we could help other lonely old men to that same peace, we
29:15
would.
29:15
He fell dead in that chair?
29:17
How awful for you.
29:18
No, dear.
29:19
Why, it was rather like both times.
29:21
Your grandfather used to have a cadaver to laying around the house.
29:24
You see, Petty was digging in Panama, and he thought that Mr. Midgley was another one of...
29:29
The yellow fever victims, that meant he had to be buried immediately.
29:32
So we took him down to Panama and put him down in the loft.
29:35
You see, that's why we told you not to worry.
29:38
It's because we know exactly what's to be done.
29:40
So that's how this all started?
29:42
That man walking in here and dropping dead?
29:44
Of course, we realized we couldn't depend on that happening again.
29:47
So, remember those old jars of poison in Grandfather's laboratory all these years?
29:52
You know your Aunt Moss is knack for mixing things.
29:54
You've eaten enough of her pick-a-lily.
29:56
Well, for...
29:57
one gallon of elderberry wine,
29:59
I take a teaspoon of
30:03
half a teaspoon of strychnine, and just
30:05
a pinch of cyanide. You'd have
30:07
quite a kick. Yes, as a matter
30:09
of fact, one of our gentlemen even found
30:11
time to say, how delicious.
30:13
Well, I should start getting things
30:15
ready in the kitchen. I wish you could stay for
30:17
dinner. I'm trying out a new recipe.
30:19
Oh, I couldn't eat a thing. I'll come
30:21
and help you, dear. Well, I feel
30:23
so much better now. Oh, you have
30:25
way for Elaine, don't you? How happy you must be. Well then, I'll leave you alone with your thoughts.
30:59
Oh! Oh, it's you.
31:01
Don't be cross, darling. Father could see that I was excited until I told him about us and how that made it hard for me to get away.
31:06
Oh, you run along home, Elaine, and I'll call you up tomorrow.
31:09
You know I always call you every day or two.
31:10
But we're going to the theater tonight.
31:12
Oh, no, no, we're not.
31:13
Well, why not?
31:14
Look, Elaine, something's come up. I'm just not covering that play tonight. Now, you run along home, I'll call you up.
31:19
But I've got to know what's happened. Certainly you can tell-
31:21
No, I can't.
31:22
But if we're going to be married...
31:24
Have you forgotten about 15 minutes ago you proposed to me?
31:27
Oh, yes.
31:28
Well, as far as I know, that's still on.
31:29
Now, you run along home, Elaine.
31:30
I've got something to do.
31:32
Listen, you can't propose to me one minute and throw me out of the house next.
31:34
I'm not throwing you out of the house, darling.
31:36
Will you please get out of here?
31:37
No, I won't get out of here, and I'll start some kind of explanation.
31:49
a minute, will you? Hold on! Look, Elaine, you're sweet, and I love you, but I want you
31:54
to go home and wait until I call you up. Don't try to be masterful. We're married, and I
31:58
have problems to face. I hope you're less tedious and uninspired. And when we're married,
32:01
if we're married, I hope I find you satisfactory. Elaine!
32:17
Hello, Al? Hello? Hello?
32:26
How'd you do? Come in.
32:28
I understand you have a room to rent.
32:29
Yes, won't you step in?
32:31
Are you the lady of the house?
32:32
Yes, I'm Miss Brewster, and this is my sister, another Miss Brewster.
32:35
My name is Gibbs.
32:36
Oh, won't you sit down?
32:37
I'm sorry, we were just sitting at the table for dinner.
32:40
Hello? Let me talk to Al again.
32:41
City desk. Al! City desk!
32:44
What? Oh, I'm sorry.
32:45
Sorry, wrong number.
32:46
May I see the room?
32:47
Why don't you sit down?
32:50
That won't do much good if I don't like the room.
32:52
Is Brooklyn your home?
32:53
Haven't got a home.
32:54
Live in a hotel.
32:55
Don't like it.
32:56
City desk?
32:57
Are your family Brooklyn people?
32:59
Haven't got any family.
33:00
All alone in the world?
33:03
Well, Martha.
33:04
Well, you've come to just the right house.
33:06
You sit down.
33:07
Hello, Al?
33:08
Mort, we got cut off.
33:09
Listen, I can't cover the blaze tonight.
33:11
That's all there is to it.
33:12
I can't.
33:13
What's your...
33:13
you go to there's an episcopal practically right next door i'm presbyterian used
33:18
to be what's yours
33:19
doing in bermuda oh well uh certainly i told him you could go to bermuda that's my department isn't
33:24
it well there must be somebody around the office is it always this noisy oh he doesn't live
33:29
with
33:29
us there must be somebody around uh you know the office boy bright one the one we don't like
33:33
you look around the place i'll hold on i'd really like to see the room it's upstairs
33:38
won't you get a glass of our wine before we start up
33:41
touch it we make it ourselves it's elderberry wine
33:44
elderberry wine haven't had it since i was a boy
33:47
thank you well there must be some printers around
33:51
uh you know joe he's a third machine from the left
33:54
do you have your own elderberry bushes no but the cemetery's full of them no
33:58
i'm not drinking but i'm gonna start now do you serve meals
34:02
we might but first to see whether you like our wine
34:09
Mortimer, not that.
34:11
Ah! Get out of this house!
34:13
You want to be murdered? You want to be poisoned?
34:15
Do you want to be killed?
34:18
Now you've spoiled everything.
34:20
You can't do things like that.
34:22
It's not only against the law, it's wrong.
34:24
People wouldn't understand.
34:26
He wouldn't understand.
34:27
Abby, we shouldn't have told Mortimer.
34:29
What I mean is, well, this is developed into a very bad habit.
34:33
Mortimer, we don't try to stop you from doing things you like to do.
34:37
I don't see why you...
34:38
You shouldn't interfere with us.
34:42
Hello, Al?
34:43
All right, I'll see the first act, and I'll pan the heck out of it.
34:46
But listen, Al, you've got to do something for me.
34:48
Get a hold of O'Brien, the head of our legal department.
34:51
Have him meet me at the theater.
34:52
All right, I'm starting now.
34:54
Listen, I've got to go to the theater.
34:56
I can't get out of it.
34:57
But before I go, will you two promise me something?
34:59
Well, we have to know what it is first.
35:01
I love you very much, and I know you love me.
35:03
And I want you to do just this little thing for me.
35:06
Don't do anything. I mean, don't do anything.
35:09
Don't let anyone in this house and leave Mr. Hoskins right where he is.
35:12
But we are planning on holding services for dinner.
35:16
Certainly. You don't think we would bring Mr. Hoskins without a full Methodist service?
35:20
Why, he was a Methodist.
35:22
Can't that wait until I get back?
35:24
Oh, then you should join us.
35:25
Yes, yes!
35:26
Oh, Mortimer, you'll enjoy the services.
35:29
Remember how beautifully Mortimer used to sing in the choir before his voice changed?
35:33
And you're not going to let...
35:34
Anyone in this house while I'm gone?
35:35
It's a promise?
35:36
Well, oh, Abby.
35:37
I mean, oh, Martha.
35:38
We can do that now that Mortimer's cooperating with us.
35:41
Well, all right, Mortimer.
35:43
Oh, do you have some paper?
35:45
I'll be back just as soon as I can.
35:46
There's a man I've got to see.
35:48
Here's some stationery.
35:50
This will be fine.
35:50
I can save time if I write my review on the way to the theater.
35:56
Mortimer didn't seem quite himself today.
35:58
That's only natural.
35:59
I think I know why.
36:02
just become engaged to be married. I suppose that always makes a man nervous. Oh, Abby,
36:07
if one of us is going to join us for the services, we'll need another hymnal. There's one in
36:11
my room. You know, dear, it's really my turn to read the services, but since you weren't
36:15
here when Mr. Hoskins first came in, I want you to do it. Well, that's very kind of you,
36:20
dear, but are you sure you want me to? It's only fair. Well, I think I'll wear my black
36:24
bombazine and father's old brooch. I'll go. Abby.
36:30
We promised Mordor we wouldn't let anyone in the house.
36:32
Who do you suppose it is?
36:33
I'll go look.
36:37
It's two men, and I've never seen them before.
36:40
Are you sure?
36:41
There's a car on the curb. They must have come on back.
36:43
Let me look.
36:46
Do you recognize them?
36:48
They're strangers to me.
36:49
Well, we're just going to have to pretend like we're not home.
36:58
Come in, Doctor. This is the home of my youth.
37:01
Yeah, Chani, it's a fine hideout.
37:04
Family must still live here. Something so unmistakably Brewster about the Brewsters.
37:09
Yeah, I'm hungry.
37:11
Look, Chani, drinks!
37:13
As though we were expected. A good omen.
37:16
Who are you? What are you doing here?
37:19
Why, Aunt Abby, Aunt Martha, it's Jonathan.
37:22
You get out of here!
37:23
But I'm Jonathan. You're necessary.
37:26
Jonathan. Oh, no, you're not. You're nothing like Jonathan, so don't pretend you are. You just
37:31
get
37:31
out of here. But I am Jonathan, and this is Dr. Einstein. And he's not Dr.
37:37
Einstein either. Not
37:38
Dr. Albert Einstein. Dr. Herman Einstein. Who are you? You're not our nephew, Jonathan.
37:44
My Aunt Abby,
37:44
you're still wearing that lovely garnet ring grandma bought you in England. And you, Aunt Martha,
37:49
still the high collar to hide the scar where grandfather's acid burns you. His voice sounds...
37:54
like Jonathan's? Have you been in an accident? No. My face? Dr.
37:59
Einstein's responsible for that.
38:01
He's a plastic surgeon. Changes people's faces. But I've seen that face before. Remember, Abby?
38:06
When we took that little short toy to the movie? I was so scared. It was that face!
38:12
Easy, Chani. Easy. Don't worry, ladies. The last five years, I give Chani three new
38:17
faces.
38:18
I give him another one right away. This last face, well, I saw the...
38:22
That picture, too, just before I operate.
38:24
And I was intoxicated.
38:28
See what you've done to me?
38:29
Even my own family.
38:30
Johnny, we're home in this lovely house.
38:33
How often he tells me of Brooklyn about this house,
38:36
about his aunts that he loves so much.
38:38
They know you, Johnny.
38:39
You know.
38:41
Speak to him.
38:42
Tell him so.
38:43
Well, Jonathan, it's been a long time.
38:46
What have you been doing all these years?
38:48
Yes, Jonathan, where have you been?
38:50
Oh, England, South Africa, Australia, the last five years in Chicago.
38:55
Dr. Einstein and I were in business there together.
38:58
Oh, we were in Chicago for the World's Fair.
39:00
Yes, we found Chicago awfully warm.
39:03
Yeah, it got hot for us, too.
39:05
Well, it's wonderful to be back in Brooklyn.
39:07
You and Abby and Martha, just as I remembered.
39:11
Sweet, charming, hospitable.
39:13
And my dear brother, Teddy, determined to become president.
39:18
Oh, Teddy's fine, just fine. And Mortimer's well, too.
39:22
No about Mortimer. He's evidently fulfilled his promise of his early, nasty nature.
39:27
We're very fond of Mortimer. Well, it's very nice to have seen you again.
39:31
Bless you, Aunt Martha. It's good to be home again.
39:34
Well, Martha, we mustn't let the summer snow boil over.
39:37
Yes, if you'll excuse us, unless you're in a hurry to go somewhere.
39:48
Well, Chani, where do we go from here?
39:51
We got to think fast.
39:53
The police.
39:54
The police have got pictures of that face.
39:56
I gotta operate on you right away.
39:57
We gotta find a place for that.
39:59
And we gotta find a place for Mr. Spinalzo, too.
40:02
Don't waste any worry on that rap.
40:05
But, Chani, we got a hot stick for our hands.
40:07
Forget Mrs. Spinalzo.
40:08
But, Chani, you can't leave a dead body in the wrong way.
40:11
You should not kill them, Chani.
40:12
He was a nice fellow.
40:13
He gives us a lift.
40:14
Um, what happens?
40:16
Said I looked like Frankenstein.
40:18
That's your work, Doctor.
40:20
You did this to me.
40:21
No, we find a place somewhere.
40:22
I fix you up quick.
40:24
But, Tani, I got to eat first.
40:26
I'm hungry.
40:27
I'm weak.
40:29
Well, Jonathan, we're glad you remembered us and took the time to come in and say hello.
40:34
But we were never happy while you were in this house, and you were never happy while you were in it.
40:38
So we've just come in to say goodbye.
40:41
And, Abby, I spent a great time...
40:42
many hours regretting the many heartaches I must have caused you as a boy. You were quite a trial
40:47
to us, Jonathan. My greatest disappointment for Dr. Einstein. I promised him that in
40:52
passing through
40:53
Brooklyn, I'd bring him here for one of Aunt Martha's home-cooked meals. I'm sorry. I'm afraid
40:58
there wouldn't be enough. Well, it's a pretty good -sized pot roast. Pot roast? Well,
41:03
Abby, I think
41:04
it's the least we could do. Thank you, Aunt Martha. We'll stay there then. Well, we'll hurry it along.
41:09
Yes. Oh, Jonathan.
41:11
If you want to freshen up, why don't you use the washroom in your grandfather's old laboratory?
41:15
Well, we get a meal anyway.
41:17
Grandfather's old laboratory.
41:18
Doctor, a perfect operating room.
41:21
Too bad we can't use it.
41:23
After you finish with me, we'll make a fortune on this house.
41:26
An operating room, a large ward in the attic, ten beds.
41:29
Doctor, practically everyone in Brooklyn needs a new face.
41:32
Easy, Chani. You're on. They don't want us here.
41:34
Well, we are invited for dinner, aren't we?
41:36
Yeah, but after dinner, leave it to...
41:39
me doctor this house will be our headquarters for years oh that would be beautiful this
41:44
nice house
41:45
ah you're on such sweet ladies i love them already i get
41:50
the bags yeah doctor wait until
41:53
we're invited if they say no doctor to helpless old women it's like comes
41:58
to a beautiful dream
41:59
only i hope i'm not dreaming it's so peaceful that's what
42:04
makes this house so perfect for us
42:28
Well, Johnson, you've led a very interesting life, I'm sure, but we really shouldn't
42:33
have
42:33
allowed you to talk so late.
42:35
My meeting Dr. Einstein in London, I might say, changed the whole course of my life.
42:40
I've been to South Africa, then Amsterdam, and I wanted to go back to South Africa.
42:44
Dr. Einstein made it possible for me.
42:46
Oh, good job, Tani.
42:47
When we take off advantages, his face looks so different.
42:51
The nurse had to introduce me.
42:52
I love that face.
42:54
Still carry a picture around with me.
42:57
This looks more the way it used to look, but still, I wouldn't know you.
43:01
I think we'll go back to that face, doctor.
43:03
it's safe now well i know you both want to get to where you're going dear
43:08
aunts i'm so full of
43:10
that delicious dinner that i'm unable to move a muscle yeah it's nice here but it's
43:15
very late and
43:18
i found it what'd you find teddy the story of my life my biography here's
43:23
the picture
43:23
i was telling you about general that's me and that's you my how i've changed
43:29
well you see
43:31
picture hasn't been taken yet. And now, General, we will both go down to Panama and inspect the
43:36
new
43:36
lock. No, Teddy, not to Panama. We go some other time. Panama's a long way off. Nonsense. It's
43:42
just
43:42
down in the cellar. The cellar? We let him dig the Panama Canal in the cellar. General Gothels,
43:47
as President of the United States, Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I
43:52
command that you
43:53
accompany me on the inspection of the new lock. Teddy, I think it's time you went to bed. I
43:58
beg your
44:00
Who are you?
44:01
I'm Woodrow Wilson.
44:03
Now go to bed.
44:06
No, you're not Wilson.
44:07
But your face is familiar.
44:10
Perhaps later, on my hunting trip to Africa.
44:13
Yes, you look like someone I might meet in the jungle.
44:17
It's your brother, Jonathan.
44:20
Had a space change.
44:21
So that's it.
44:22
A nature baker.
44:23
And perhaps you'd better get to bed now, Teddy.
44:26
Jonathan and his friend go back.
44:27
to their hotel general gotholt inspect the canal all right mr president we go
44:32
to panama bully bully
44:34
follow me general it's down south you
44:39
know well
44:47
and abby you spoke of our hotel but we have no hotel we came directly
44:52
here well there's a very
44:54
nice hotel just leave martha
44:56
This is my home.
44:57
But, Jonathan, you can't stay here.
44:59
We need our rooms for our lodgers.
45:01
Well, not just now, but we're planning on having some.
45:05
So then my old room is still free.
45:07
But, Jonathan, there's no place for Dr. Einstein.
45:09
You'll share a room with me.
45:11
No, Jonathan, I'm afraid you can't stay here.
45:14
Dr. Einstein and I need a place to sleep.
45:17
And it wouldn't be very pleasant for any of us if...
45:20
Abby, perhaps we should let them stay here tonight.
45:23
Well, just for tonight.
45:25
Now that's settled, so please get my room ready.
45:27
It only needs an airing house.
45:29
I think you and Dr. Einstein will find it comfortable.
45:31
We keep ready to show our lodgers.
45:33
I'm afraid you'll not appreciate Dr. Einstein's skill, but you will.
45:36
In a few weeks, you'll see me looking like a very different Jonathan.
45:40
He can't operate on you in here.
45:41
Dr. Einstein and I get organized.
45:43
Oh, and I forgot to tell you, we're turning Grandpa's laboratory into an operating room.
45:47
We expect to be quite busy.
45:49
Jonathan, we will not let you turn this house into a...
45:51
A hospital?
45:54
Heavens no.
45:55
It'll be a beauty parlor.
45:57
Hey, Tony, down in the cellar.
45:59
Dr. Einstein.
46:01
My aunts have invited us to live with them.
46:02
Oh, you fixed it.
46:04
Well, you're sleeping here tonight.
46:07
Please, get my room ready immediately.
46:10
Well, for tonight.
46:12
Tony, when I go down in the cellar.
46:15
The Panama Canal.
46:16
Panama Canal?
46:18
It's a whole teddy dub.
46:19
It's Mrs. Spinalzo, six feet long and four feet wide.
46:23
Down there.
46:24
You'd think they knew we were bringing Mrs. Spinalzo along.
46:27
That's hospitality.
46:28
Rather a good joke by my aunt, having a body buried in the cellar.
46:32
How do we get him in?
46:33
Well, we can't just walk him through the door.
46:36
I know.
46:37
We'll drive the car up between the house and the cemetery.
46:39
Then, once everyone's gone to bed, we'll bring Mrs. Spinalzo through the window.
46:43
Just think, we've got a bed tonight.
46:45
Easy, doctor.
46:46
Remember, you're all...
46:47
operating tomorrow. I'd fix you up beautiful. And if you don't? Jonathan, your
46:53
room is ready. Then you can go to bed. We're moving the car up behind the house. It's all right where it is until morning. I
46:58
don't want to leave it in the street. It might be against the law. Oh,
47:04
Abby, what are we going to do? Well, we're not going to let them say more than one night in this house for
47:09
one thing. What would the neighbors think? People coming in here with one face and going out with another? But Abby,
47:15
what are we going to do?
47:16
with the splits of Mr. Hoskins.
47:18
Oh, Mr. Hoskins.
47:20
He's been so patient, poor dear.
47:22
Well, I think Teddy had better get him downstairs
47:24
right away.
47:31
I will not invite Jonathan
47:32
to the funeral services.
47:34
Oh, no. We'll wait until he's gone to bed
47:36
and then come down and hold the services.
47:39
General Gothels was very pleased.
47:41
He said the canal was just the right size.
47:44
Teddy, Teddy, there's been another yellow fever victim.
47:46
Dear me, this will be a shock to the general.
47:48
Then we mustn't tell him.
47:50
But it's his department.
47:52
No, we mustn't tell him, Teddy.
47:54
I'm sorry, Aunt Abby. It's out of my hands. Army regulations, you know.
47:58
No, Teddy, we must keep it a secret. Yes.
48:01
A state secret?
48:03
Yes, a state secret. Promise?
48:05
You have the word of the President of the United States. Cross my heart and hope to die.
48:10
Now let's see.
48:12
How are we going to keep it a secret?
48:14
Well, Teddy, you go downstairs.
48:16
When I turn out the lights, when it's all dark,
48:19
you come up and take the poor man down to the canal.
48:21
Now go along, Teddy, and we'll come down later to hold the services.
48:25
Your man after the president will say a few words.
48:28
Where is the poor devil?
48:30
In the window seat.
48:31
It seems to be spreading.
48:32
We've never had yellow fever there before.
48:37
Martha, when Jonathan and Dr. Einstein come back...
48:40
Let's see if we can get them to go to bed right away.
48:42
Oh, yes, and then by the time they're asleep, we'll be all dressed for the funeral.
48:46
Abby, I've never seen Mr. Hoskins.
48:49
Oh, my goodness, that's right, you are out.
48:51
Well, just come right over and see.
48:53
He's really very nice looking, considering he's a Methodist.
48:59
We're bringing the luggage through here.
49:01
Jonathan, your room is waiting for you.
49:03
You can go right up.
49:05
I'm afraid we don't keep looking hours, but you two can go to bed.
49:08
Now, you must be very tired, both of you, and we don't go to bed this early.
49:12
Well, you should. It's time I came home to take care of you.
49:15
But we weren't planning to go into...
49:16
Aunt Martha, did you hear me say, go to bed?
49:21
The instruments can go upstairs in the morning.
49:24
Now then, we're all going to bed.
49:27
I'll wait till you're up, then turn out the lights.
49:29
Another flight, Doctor.
49:31
Run along, Aunt Martha.
49:33
All right, Aunt Abby.
49:35
I'll be right up.
49:36
Now, Aunt Abby, turn out the lights.
50:13
All right, Chani.
50:14
I'll get the window open.
50:15
You go around and hand him through.
50:17
No, he's too heavy for me.
50:19
You go outside and push.
50:20
I stay here and pull.
50:22
Then, together, we bring him down to Panama.
50:25
Look around the house.
50:25
From my top of the glass, you open the window.
50:28
All right.
50:38
Ah!
50:39
Who left this open?
50:41
Dumb cuffer.
50:44
Johnny?
50:46
Okay.
50:50
Johnny?
50:52
Wait.
50:54
You lost a leg somewhere.
50:56
Come on.
50:58
Uh!
51:03
that was me tiny i slipped be more careful well they
51:10
lost the leg
51:14
all right now i got him
51:20
summoning at the door go quick no i'm in here go quick
51:25
miss abby miss martha
51:29
Miss Abby
51:30
Miss Martha
51:32
Who is it? Is that you?
51:34
Teddy? Who are you?
51:35
Who are you?
51:36
I'm Elaine Harper. I live next door. I came over to see Miss Abby and Miss Martha
51:40
Turn the lights, Doctor
51:42
Chose rather an untimely moment for a social call
51:44
I think you better explain what you're doing here
51:46
We happen to live here
51:47
You don't live here. I'm in this house every day and I've never seen you before
51:51
Where are Miss Abby and Miss Martha?
51:53
What have you done to them?
51:55
We're obviously better to introduce ourselves
51:56
This is Dr. Einstein.
51:58
Dr. Einstein?
52:00
The surgeon of great distinction and somewhat of a magician.
52:04
And I suppose you're going to tell me you're Boris Karthik?
52:06
I'm Jonathan Brewster.
52:07
Oh, you're Jonathan.
52:08
I see you've heard of me.
52:10
What have they said about me?
52:11
Only that there was another brother named Jonathan.
52:13
That's all that was said.
52:14
Well, that explained everything.
52:15
I'll be running along home.
52:16
If you kindly unlock the door.
52:18
That explains everything?
52:20
Just what you mean by that.
52:22
Why'd you come here this time of night?
52:23
I thought I saw someone...
52:24
crawling around the house. I suppose it was
52:26
you? I thought you saw someone prowling
52:28
around the house. Yes, isn't that your car?
52:31
You saw someone at the car? Yes.
52:32
What was the man doing at the car? I don't know.
52:34
I was on my way over here. What else
52:36
did you see? Just that. That's all. That's
52:38
why I came over here on and told Miss Abby to call the police.
52:40
But if that was you and that's your car, I don't need
52:42
to bother, Miss Abby, and I'll be running along.
52:44
What else did you see?
52:47
I don't know. I was on my way
52:48
over here. I think you're lying.
52:50
I think she's telling the truth, Chani.
52:52
Let her go now, huh?
52:53
I think she's lying, and I think she's dangerous and that she shouldn't be allowed around loose.
52:57
Take your hands off me!
53:02
It's going to be a private funeral.
53:04
Teddy! Teddy! Tell these men who I am!
53:06
That's my daughter, Alice.
53:09
No, no, Teddy!
53:11
Doctor, your handkerchief!
53:13
The cellar!
53:21
What's going on down there?
53:22
You caught a burglar. A sneak peek. Go back to your room.
53:25
We'll call the police.
53:26
We've called the police. We'll handle this. Go back to your room. Do you hear me?
53:36
Where have you been?
53:37
To the Norabase Theater. I should have known better.
53:40
My gosh, I'm still there.
53:42
It's your brother, Jonathan, and this is Dr. Einstein.
53:45
I know this isn't a nightmare, but what is it?
53:49
Come home, Mortimer.
53:50
Who did you say this was?
53:51
It's your brother, Jonathan.
53:53
He's had his face changed.
53:54
Dr. Einstein performed the operation.
53:58
Jonathan, you're all a whore.
53:59
But do you have to look like one?
54:01
Oh, Mortimer.
54:04
Do you remember the things I used to do to you when we were boys?
54:07
The needles under your fingernails?
54:08
My gosh, it is, Jonathan.
54:10
Yes, I remember you.
54:11
I remember you as the most vicious, venomous, detestable form of animal life I ever knew.
54:15
Now, don't you two boys...
54:17
Boys start quarreling again the minute you've seen each other.
54:19
There won't be any fighting, Aunt Abby.
54:21
Jonathan, you're not wanted here.
54:22
Get out.
54:23
But we did invite them for tonight, and it wouldn't be very nice to go back on our word.
54:27
All right, fine.
54:29
Tonight, but first thing in the morning, out.
54:31
Where are they sleeping?
54:32
We put them in Jonathan's old room.
54:33
Oh, that's my old room.
54:34
I'm sleeping there.
54:35
I'm here to stay.
54:36
Oh, Mortimer, we're so glad.
54:38
Uh, we sleep down here.
54:40
You bet your life you sleep down here.
54:41
You sleep on the sofa, and I sleep on the window seat.
54:45
The window seat? Oh, well, let's not argue about it. The window seat's good enough for me tonight. I'll sleep on
54:50
the window seat.
54:51
You know, all this argument is making me think of Mr. Spinozzo.
54:56
Spinozzo, no, Mortimer. It really is unnecessary to inconvenience you like this. We'll sleep down here.
55:01
Jonathan, your sudden consideration for me is very unconvincing.
55:04
We get all of our things out of the room, eh?
55:08
Don't bother, doctor. By the way, doctor, I've completely lost track of Mr. Spinozzo.
55:13
Who is this Mr. Spinalzo?
55:15
Just a friend of ours Connie's been looking for.
55:18
Well, don't bring anyone else in here.
55:19
Don't worry.
55:20
While we pack, I tell you all about it.
55:23
Mortimer, you really don't have to sleep down here.
55:25
I can go and leave Martha, and you can take my room.
55:28
No trouble at all, Aunt Abby.
55:29
We'll be packed in just a few minutes.
55:31
Then you can have the room, Mortimer.
55:33
You're just wasting your time.
55:34
I told you I'm sleeping down here.
55:36
Mortimer, what's the matter with you, darling?
55:38
I've almost been killed.
55:39
You've almost...
55:40
Abby, Martha!
55:41
No, it was Jonathan.
55:42
He mistook her for a sneak thief.
55:44
No, it was more than that.
55:46
He's some kind of maniac.
55:47
Mortimer, I'm afraid of him.
55:50
Do you have any smelling salts?
55:51
No, but do you think some hot tea or coffee would...
55:54
Make some for me, too.
55:55
I'll make some...
55:56
I haven't had any dinner.
55:57
I'll make something for both of you.
55:58
Oh, Abby, or Martha, we can leave our house downstairs here now.
56:02
You weren't going out anywhere, were you?
56:03
Do you know what time it is?
56:04
It's after 12.
56:05
Well, 12!
56:05
Elaine, you've got to go home.
56:07
Well, you wanted some sandwiches for you...
56:09
Oh, it won't be a minute.
56:10
Don't you remember we wanted to celebrate your engagement?
56:14
Yes, that's what we'll do.
56:15
We'll make a supper for both of you.
56:17
Oh, and we'll open a bottle of wine.
56:19
All right.
56:20
Oh, no, no wine.
56:22
What is going on in this house?
56:23
What do you mean, what's going on in this house?
56:25
You were supposed to take me to dinner and the theater tonight.
56:28
You called it off.
56:29
You asked me to marry you.
56:30
I said I would.
56:31
And five minutes later, you threw me out of the house.
56:33
Tonight, just after your brother tries to strangle me, you want to chase me home.
56:37
Listen, Mr. Brewster. Before I go home, I want to know where I stand. Do you love me?
56:41
I love you very much, Lynn. In fact, I love you so much I can't marry you.
56:44
Have you suddenly gone crazy?
56:46
I don't think so, but it's only a matter of time.
56:48
You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
56:52
That's why I can't marry you, dear.
56:54
Now, wait a minute. You've got to do better than that.
56:56
No, there's a strange taint to the rooster blood.
56:58
Now, just because Teddy's a little, it goes back to the first Brewster.
57:01
The one who came over on the Mayflower is the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa...
57:06
Mortimer, that's just ancient history.
57:08
No, it's the whole family.
57:09
Take my grandfather.
57:10
He tried his patent medicines out on dead people to be sure he wouldn't kill them.
57:14
He wasn't so crazy.
57:15
He made a million dollars.
57:17
And then there's Jonathan.
57:18
You just said he was a maniac.
57:19
He tried to kill you.
57:20
But he's your brother, not you.
57:22
I'm in love with you.
57:23
And there's Teddy, too.
57:24
You know Teddy.
57:25
He thinks he's Roosevelt.
57:26
No, dear, no Brewster should marry.
57:28
I realize now that if I'd known my father in time, I'd have stopped him.
57:31
Now, darling, all this doesn't prove you're crazy.
57:33
Look, your aunts, they're Brewsters, aren't they?
57:35
And the sanest, sweetest people I've ever known.
57:37
Well, even they have their peculiarities.
57:40
Yeah, so we're lovely peculiarities.
57:43
Kindness, generosity, human sympathy.
57:45
There's another one!
57:46
Oh, Mortimer, there are plenty of others.
57:48
You can't tell me anything about your aunt.
57:50
I'm not going to.
57:51
Listen, Elaine, you've got to go home.
57:52
Something very important's just come up.
57:54
From where?
57:55
We're here alone together.
57:56
I know I'm acting irrationally,
57:57
but just put it down to the fact that I'm a mad Brewster.
57:59
Listen, if you think you're going to get out of this by...
58:01
Pretending you're insane?
58:03
You're crazy.
58:04
Maybe you're not going to marry me, but I'm going to marry you.
58:07
I love you, you dope.
58:08
Well, if you love me, will you get the heck out of here?
58:10
Well, at least take me home, won't you?
58:12
I'm afraid.
58:13
A little walk through the cemetery.
58:15
Good night, Elaine.
58:16
I'll call you up in a day or two.
58:18
You, you critic.
58:20
And Abby and Martha, come in here.
58:22
We'll be in in a minute, dear.
58:23
Come in here right away.
58:26
Where's Elaine?
58:27
Who is that in the window seat?
58:29
you mr hoskins it is not mr hoskins who can that be are
58:35
you trying to tell are you trying to tell
58:37
me you've never seen this man before i certainly am why this is a fine how do you do it's getting
58:42
so anybody thinks he can walk into this house now aunt abby don't try to get out of this that's
58:46
another one of your gentlemen mortimer how can you say such a thing that man's an imposter if he came
58:51
here to be buried in our cellar he is mistaken oh aunt abby that you admitted to me that you put mr
58:55
hoskins in the window seat yes
58:57
Well, this man couldn't have just gotten the idea from Mr. Hoskins.
59:01
By the way, where is Mr. Hoskins?
59:03
He must have gone to Panama.
59:04
Oh, you buried him?
59:06
No, not yet. He's just down there waiting for the services, poor dear.
59:09
We haven't had a minute what with Jonathan in the house.
59:12
Oh, dear. We've always wanted to hold a double funeral.
59:14
But I will not read services over a total stranger.
59:17
A stranger? Aunt Abby, how can I believe you?
59:19
There are twelve men down in the cellar, and you admit that you poisoned them.
59:22
Yes, I did. But you don't think I'd stoop to telling a fib?
59:29
Well, Mortimer, I'd like to have a word with you.
59:32
A word's about all you'll have time for, Jonathan,
59:34
because you and your doctor friend are getting out of this house just as soon as possible.
59:37
You've arrived at the wrong solution.
59:39
Take your suitcase and get out!
59:41
Jonathan, you're beginning to bore me. Move on.
59:43
Just because you think you've graduated from the back fence of the typewriter,
59:46
don't think you've grown up!
59:49
I'm saying you're leaving, and I mean now!
59:52
Do you think I can be frightened? Do you think there's any...
59:54
anything that I fear. I've lived a strange life, Mortimer, but it's taught me one thing,
59:57
to be afraid of nothing. They're just looking to see what's in that window seat. Now,
1:00:03
Aunt Abby.
1:00:10
Jonathan, let Aunt Martha see what's in the window seat. Aunt Abby, I
1:00:15
owe you an apology.
1:00:17
I have very good news for you. Jonathan is leaving. He's taking Dr. Einstein and their
1:00:21
cold companion.
1:00:22
with him.
1:00:24
Jonathan, you're my brother. You're a Brewster.
1:00:26
I'm going to give you a chance to get out and take
1:00:28
the evidence with you. You can't ask for more than that.
1:00:31
Very well.
1:00:32
In that case, I'll have to call the police.
1:00:35
Don't reach
1:00:36
for that telephone. Are you still
1:00:38
giving me orders after seeing what happened to Mr. Spinalzo?
1:00:42
Remember what happened to Mr. Spinalzo can happen to
1:00:44
you, too.
1:00:49
Oh, officer...
1:00:50
O'Hara, is there something we can do for you?
1:00:52
I saw your life, son, and I thought there might be a sickness in the house.
1:00:55
Oh, you've got company.
1:00:56
I'm sorry.
1:00:57
Oh, no, no.
1:00:58
Yes, come in.
1:00:59
Yes, come right in, Officer O'Hara.
1:01:01
This is our nephew, Mortimer.
1:01:03
Pleased to meet you.
1:01:03
And this is another nephew, Jonathan.
1:01:05
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
1:01:07
Well, it must be nice having your nephews visiting you.
1:01:09
Are they going to stay with you for a bit?
1:01:10
I'm staying.
1:01:11
My brother Jonathan is leaving.
1:01:13
I've met you here before, haven't I?
1:01:15
I'm afraid not.
1:01:16
Jonathan hasn't been home for a year.
1:01:18
Your face looks familiar to me.
1:01:20
Maybe I seen a photograph of you somewheres?
1:01:22
I don't think so.
1:01:24
Yes, Jonathan, I'd hurry if I were you.
1:01:26
Your things are all packed anyway, aren't they?
1:01:27
Well, you'll be wanting to say our goodbyes.
1:01:30
I'll be running along now.
1:01:31
Oh, what's the rush?
1:01:32
I'd like to have you stick around until my brother goes.
1:01:33
I just dropped in to make sure everything was all right.
1:01:36
Oh, we're going to have a cup of coffee in a minute.
1:01:38
Won't you join us?
1:01:38
Oh, I forgot the coffee.
1:01:40
And I'd better make some more sandwiches.
1:01:42
I have to know your appetite by now, Officer O'Hara.
1:01:44
Don't bother.
1:01:45
I'm due to ring it in a few minutes.
1:01:46
Oh, you can have a cup of coffee with us. My brother will leave in a few minutes. Sit down.
1:01:51
Say, ain't I seen your brother out here someplace?
1:01:53
I don't think so.
1:01:54
He certainly reminds me of somebody.
1:01:56
He looks like someone you've probably seen in the movies.
1:01:58
Oh, I never go to the movies. I hate him.
1:02:01
My mother hates him, too. My mother was an actress. A stage actress.
1:02:05
Perhaps you heard of her? Peaches with Thor? Her big hit was my Jeff.
1:02:08
Played it for three years. I was born on Thor. The third season.
1:02:12
Yep. To City, Iowa.
1:02:14
I was born in the dressing room at the end of the second act, and Mother made the finale.
1:02:18
Wow, what a trooper.
1:02:20
There must be a good story in your mother.
1:02:22
You know, I write for the theater.
1:02:24
Say, you're now Mornor Brewster, the dramatic critic?
1:02:27
Well, I'm certainly glad to meet you.
1:02:29
Say, Mr. Brewster, we're in the same line of business.
1:02:32
I'm a playwright.
1:02:33
Oh, just being on the police force is just temporary.
1:02:36
How long have you been on the force?
1:02:37
Twelve years.
1:02:38
I'm collecting material for a play.
1:02:41
With all the drama, I...
1:02:42
See you being a cop, Mr. Reister?
1:02:43
You got no idea, but we thought it was on the street.
1:02:46
Brooklyn, I think I have.
1:02:47
Say, what time is it?
1:02:49
Ten after one.
1:02:50
Gee, I gotta ring in.
1:02:51
Oh, wait a minute, O'Hara.
1:02:52
On that play of yours, I may be able to help you with it.
1:02:55
Say, it was my fate walking in here tonight.
1:02:57
Look, I'll tell you the plot.
1:02:59
Oh, you're leaving now, Jonathan?
1:03:01
Good, you haven't much time, you know.
1:03:04
Well, everything's just about ready.
1:03:05
Oh, you're leaving now, Jonathan?
1:03:07
Goodbye, Dr. Einstein.
1:03:09
Oh, doesn't this be...
1:03:10
belong to you? Oh, yes, Jonathan. You can't leave without all of your things. Oh, well,
1:03:15
O'Hara, it was nice meeting you. I'll see you again and we'll talk about your play. Oh, I'm
1:03:18
not leaving now, Mr. Brewster. Why not? Well, you just offered to help me for my play. Didn't
1:03:22
you? You and me are going to write my play together. I can't do that, O'Hara. I'm not
1:03:26
a creative writer. I'll do the creating. You just put the words to it. But, O'Hara. Sir,
1:03:30
Mr. Brewster, I am in this house till I tell you the plot. Well, in that case, we'll be
1:03:35
running along. Don't try that, Jonathan. You've got to take everything with me.
1:03:39
Oh, listen, O'Hara, you run along that way. My brother's just going and...
1:03:43
I can wait. I've been waiting 12 years.
1:03:47
Oh, don't bring that in here. O'Hara, will you join us for a bite in the kitchen?
1:03:50
The kitchen? Jonathan's leaving. Oh, well, that's nice. Come along, Officer O'Hara.
1:03:54
Sure you don't mind eating in the kitchen, Mr. O'Hara? And where else would you eat?
1:03:58
Goodbye, Jonathan. Nice to see you again.
1:04:03
I'm glad you came back to Brooklyn, Jonathan, because it gives me a chance to...
1:04:06
throw you out. And the first one out is your boyfriend, Mr. Spinalzo. Look, Mr. Brewster,
1:04:11
we can talk in here. I'll be right there. I might have known you to grow up and write
1:04:14
a play with a policeman. Get going now, all three of you. Doctor, the affair between my
1:04:19
brother and me has got to be settled. Now, Chani, we got trouble enough. Your brother
1:04:23
gives us a chance to get away. What more could you ask? I don't understand. This
1:04:29
was
1:04:30
a good many years. Now, Chani, let's get going.
1:04:34
not going. We're sleeping right here
1:04:36
tonight. With the cop in the kitchen and
1:04:38
Mr. Spinalzo in the window seat, that's
1:04:40
all he's got on us. We'll take Mrs. Spinalzo
1:04:42
and dump him in the bay. Then we'll come right
1:04:44
back here. And if he tries to interfere...
1:04:47
Now, Chani... Doctor, when
1:04:48
I make up my mind... Yeah, when you make
1:04:50
up your mind, you lose your head.
1:04:52
Brooklyn ain't a good place for you. Doctor!
1:04:55
Okay, but we got to stick
1:04:56
together. Someday, we get
1:04:58
stuck together. If we come back here,
1:05:00
do we have to take these with us? No.
1:05:03
Hide them in the cellar.
1:05:04
Move fast.
1:05:06
Mr. Finalezo can go the same way he came in.
1:05:13
Hey, Johnny, come quick.
1:05:15
What's the matter?
1:05:15
You know that hole in the cellar?
1:05:17
We got an ace in the hole.
1:05:19
Come, I show you.
1:05:33
Yes, Mortimer?
1:05:34
God! Where have you two been? I thought I told you to get out!
1:05:37
We're not going.
1:05:39
Oh, you're not, eh? You think I'm not serious about this?
1:05:41
Do you want O'Hara to see what's in that window seat?
1:05:42
We're staying right here.
1:05:44
Alright, you asked for it. This gets me rid of you and Officer O'Hara at the same time.
1:05:48
Officer O'Hara, come in here.
1:05:50
You tell O'Hara what's in that window seat, I'll tell him what's down in the cellar.
1:05:54
There's an elderly gentleman down there who seems to be very dead.
1:05:58
What were you-
1:05:59
two doing down in the cellar what's he doing down in the cellar no thanks ma'am they were fine i've
1:06:03
had plenty now what were you gonna say to officer o 'hara say mr brewster your aunts want to hear
1:06:08
it
1:06:09
too shall i get them in here no you can't do that you've got to ring in the heck with ringing in
1:06:12
i'll get your aunts in here and tell you the plot no there's too many people we'll get together
1:06:16
alone someplace later why don't you two go down to the cellar the cellar
1:06:22
that's all right with
1:06:22
me is this the cellar no we'll go to uh kelly's you're gonna ring in on the way all right
1:06:27
I'll only take a couple of minutes.
1:06:31
I'll ditch this guy and be back in five minutes.
1:06:33
I expect to find you gone.
1:06:35
Wait for me.
1:06:36
We'll wait for him, Doctor.
1:06:38
I've waited a great many years for a chance like this.
1:06:41
We got him right where he wanted.
1:06:43
Did he look guilty?
1:06:44
Take the bags back up to our room, Doctor.
1:06:47
We thought we heard somebody leave.
1:06:49
Just Mortimer.
1:06:50
He'll be back in a few minutes.
1:06:51
Is there any food left in the kitchen?
1:06:53
Dr. Einstein and I would have...
1:06:55
enjoy a bite. But he won't
1:06:57
have time. No, if you're still here when
1:06:59
Mortimer gets back, he won't like it.
1:07:01
He'll like it. He's gotta like it.
1:07:03
Get us something to eat while we
1:07:05
bury Mr. Spinalzo. Oh, no!
1:07:07
He can't stay here. No, Jonathan,
1:07:09
you've got to take him with you. There's a friend
1:07:11
of Mortimer's down there who seems to be
1:07:13
waiting for him. Friend
1:07:15
of Mortimer's? He and
1:07:17
Mr. Spinalzo will get along great together.
1:07:19
They're both dead.
1:07:20
Oh, he must be Mr. Hoskins. Mr.
1:07:23
hoskins you know about what's downstairs of course we do but it has nothing to do with mortimer
1:07:28
he's one of our gentlemen your gentlemen yes and we will not have strangers
1:07:33
buried in our cellar
1:07:35
but but mr hoskins mr hoskins is not a stranger besides there's
1:07:40
no room for mr spinazzo the
1:07:42
cellar's crowded already crowded with what there are 12 graves down there now
1:07:47
12 graves that leaves
1:07:50
very little room
1:07:51
And we're going to need it.
1:07:52
That means you and Aunt Martha have murdered...
1:07:54
Murdered?
1:07:55
Certainly not.
1:07:56
Why, what we've been doing is a mercy.
1:07:59
You've done that here, in this house, and very then.
1:08:02
Chani, we've been chased all over the world.
1:08:05
They stay right here in Brooklyn and do just as good as you do.
1:08:10
You've got 12, and they've got 12.
1:08:12
No, I've got 13.
1:08:14
No, Chani.
1:08:16
Well, 13.
1:08:18
It's Mrs. Spinalzo.
1:08:19
and the first one in London, two in Johannesburg, one in Sydney, one in Melbourne, two in San
1:08:23
Francisco, one in Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix? The filling station. The
1:08:29
three in Chicago and the one
1:08:30
in South Bend. That makes 13. But you can't count the one in South Bend. He died of pneumonia.
1:08:36
He
1:08:37
wouldn't have gotten pneumonia if I hadn't shot him. No, Chani. He died of pneumonia. He
1:08:42
don't count.
1:08:43
He counts with me. I say 13. No, Chani.
1:08:47
You've got 12, and they've got 12.
1:08:49
The old ladies here are just as good as you are.
1:08:52
Oh, they are, are they?
1:08:54
Well, that's easily taken care of.
1:08:55
All I need is one more.
1:08:58
One more.
1:09:00
Well, here I am.
1:09:06
Oh, they are, are they?
1:09:07
That's easily taken care of.
1:09:09
All I need is one more.
1:09:12
One more.
1:09:14
Well, here I am.
1:09:19
Oh, they are, are...
1:09:21
Thank you, girls.
1:09:23
So I need one more.
1:09:25
One more.
1:09:33
Pardon.
1:09:35
Thank you, girls.
1:09:36
So I need one more.
1:09:39
One more.
1:09:46
Thank you.
1:18:43
We'll be right back.
1:19:10
Thank you.
1:22:08
Hi, everyone.
1:22:09
Intermission is ending.
1:22:10
Please return to your seats.
1:22:12
Thank you.
1:22:59
We'll be right back.
1:23:17
Thank you.
1:23:45
We'll be right back.
1:24:13
Thank you.
1:24:48
You can't see that!
1:24:49
We can't see that!
1:24:56
All right!
1:24:57
You'll see whose house this is!
1:24:59
I'm warning you, you'd better stop it!
1:25:01
Hasn't Mortimer come back yet?
1:25:04
It's a terrible thing to do!
1:25:05
It's very good methodist!
1:25:06
It's a complete stranger!
1:25:07
I will not have our cellar desecrated!
1:25:10
And we promised Mr. Hoskins a full Christian funeral.
1:25:13
Where do you suppose the Mortimer is?
1:25:14
I don't know.
1:25:15
But he said to Jonathan,
1:25:17
You just wait.
1:25:18
I'll settle this.
1:25:19
Well, he can't very well settle it while he's out of the house.
1:25:22
That's what we want settled.
1:25:23
What's going on down there?
1:25:27
Fred, where's Teddy?
1:25:28
The Mortimer, where have you been?
1:25:29
I've been over to Dr. Gilchrist.
1:25:30
I've got his signatures on Teddy's commitment papers.
1:25:32
Is Teddy in his room?
1:25:33
Once I get his signatures on here, I can task Jonathan.
1:25:36
What have they got to do with it?
1:25:38
Teddy responsible for those 12 graves I can protect you, don't you?
1:25:41
No, I don't see.
1:25:42
And we pay taxes to have the police protect us.
1:25:44
You've got to get Jonathan out of this house.
1:25:46
And Mr. Spinalzo, too.
1:25:48
Will you please let me do this my own way?
1:25:49
You've got to see Teddy.
1:25:50
If they're not out of here by morning, Mortimer, we're going to call the police.
1:25:53
They'll be out, I promise you that.
1:25:54
Go to bed, will you?
1:25:55
I wouldn't say get out of those clothes.
1:25:57
You look like Judith Anderson.
1:25:58
Well, Abby, that's a release, isn't it?
1:26:01
Yes, if Mortimer's going to do something last, it just means Jonathan's going to a lot of...
1:26:06
Unnecessary trouble. We'd better tell him.
1:26:09
Oh, Jonathan, you might as well stop what you're doing.
1:26:12
It's all done. Do I hear Mortimer?
1:26:13
Well, it'll just have to be undone.
1:26:15
You're all going to be out of this house by morning, Mortimer's promise.
1:26:19
Oh, are we? Well, in that case, you two can go to bed and have a pleasant night's sleep.
1:26:23
Yes, come along, Aunt Evie.
1:26:26
Night, auntie.
1:26:28
Not good night, Jonathan. Goodbye.
1:26:30
By the time we're up, you'll be out of this house. Mortimer's promise.
1:26:34
And he has a way of doing it, too.
1:26:36
Then Mortimer is back.
1:26:37
Oh, yes. He's up here talking to Teddy.
1:26:39
Goodbye, Jonathan. Goodbye, Jonathan.
1:26:41
I think perhaps we better say goodbye to Mortimer instead.
1:26:44
Oh, you'll see Mortimer.
1:26:45
Yes, I'll see Mortimer.
1:26:48
Phew! That was fixed up. Smooth like a lake.
1:26:52
Nobody ever knew that we were down there.
1:26:54
That bed feels good already. Forty hours we didn't sleep.
1:26:57
Come on, Johnny. Let's go up, yes?
1:27:00
Forgetting, Doctor.
1:27:02
My brother, Mortimer.
1:27:04
We do that tomorrow or the next day.
1:27:06
No, tonight, now.
1:27:08
But Chani, I'm tired, and tomorrow I gotta operate.
1:27:11
Yes, Doctor, you're operating tomorrow, but tonight we take care of Mortimer.
1:27:15
But Chani, we got to bed, eh?
1:27:18
Doctor, see, it's going to be done, can't you?
1:27:21
I can see. I know that look.
1:27:23
Well, it's a little too late for us to dissolve our partnership.
1:27:25
Okay, we do it, but the quick way, the quick quick's like a lemon.
1:27:29
No, no.
1:27:30
No, no, no, no. I think this calls for something special. I think perhaps the
1:27:36
Melbourne method.
1:27:37
No, no, Chani, not that.
1:27:39
Two hours, and when it was all over what? The fellow in London was just as dead as the fellow in Melbourne.
1:27:44
You had to work too fast in London. There was no aesthetic satisfaction.
1:27:51
Ah, I thought it was something to remember.
1:27:54
Remember? I bet I didn't.
1:27:56
No, Chani, not Melbourne.
1:27:58
Not me.
1:28:00
Doctor, where are your instruments?
1:28:02
I won't do it, Chani.
1:28:03
I won't do it.
1:28:04
Get your instruments.
1:28:05
No, Chani.
1:28:06
Where are they?
1:28:07
Oh, yes.
1:28:08
In the cellar.
1:28:09
I won't tell you.
1:28:11
I'll find them, Doctor.
1:28:13
Oh, don't do that, Mr. President.
1:28:15
But I cannot sign any proclamation without alerting my cabinet.
1:28:19
Well, this must be a secret.
1:28:21
A secret proclamation?
1:28:22
How unusual.
1:28:23
Japan mustn't know until it's signed.
1:28:25
Japan, those devils.
1:28:26
I'll have it signed at once. You have my word.
1:28:28
I can let the cabinet know later.
1:28:29
Yes, let's go and sign it.
1:28:30
You stay here.
1:28:32
A secret proclamation must be signed in secret.
1:28:34
But at once, Mr. President, I'll have to put on my signing clothes.
1:28:43
Ah, you go now, eh?
1:28:45
No, Doctor. I'm waiting for something. Something important.
1:28:47
Please, you go now.
1:28:49
Dr. Einstein, I have nothing against you personally.
1:28:51
You seem to be a nice fellow.
1:28:53
Take my advice. Get out of the South.
1:28:54
and get just as far away as possible.
1:28:56
Trouble, yeah?
1:28:56
You get out.
1:28:58
All right, don't say I didn't warn you.
1:29:00
I'm warning you.
1:29:02
Get away quick.
1:29:03
Things are going to start popping around here any minute.
1:29:06
Listen, Johnny's in a bad mood.
1:29:08
When he liked this, things happen.
1:29:10
Terrible things.
1:29:11
Jonathan doesn't worry me now.
1:29:14
Don't those plays teach you anything?
1:29:17
About what?
1:29:17
Well, at least the people in the plays act like they got sent.
1:29:21
That's more than you do.
1:29:22
I think so, eh? You think people in plays act intelligently?
1:29:25
Oh, I wish you had to sit through some of the ones I had to sit through.
1:29:28
Take the little opus I saw tonight, for instance.
1:29:31
In this play, there's a man. He's supposed to be bright.
1:29:33
He knows he's in a house of murderers.
1:29:35
He often knows he's endangered. He's even been warned to get out of the house.
1:29:38
But does he go? No! He stays there.
1:29:41
Now I ask you, doctor, is that what an intelligent person would do?
1:29:44
You're asking me?
1:29:46
He doesn't even have enough sense to be frightened to be in his garden.
1:29:49
For instance, the murderer...
1:29:50
Invite him to sit down.
1:29:52
Oh, you mean, won't you sit down?
1:29:54
Believe it or not, that one was in there, too.
1:29:56
And what did he do?
1:29:58
He sat down.
1:29:59
Now, mind you, this fellow's supposed to be bright.
1:30:00
So there he sits, just waiting to be trussed up.
1:30:03
And what do you think they used to tie him with?
1:30:05
The curtain cord.
1:30:06
Well, why not?
1:30:07
Very good idea.
1:30:09
Very convenient.
1:30:10
A little too convenient.
1:30:11
What a playwright's giving you some imagination.
1:30:13
The curtain cord.
1:30:14
He didn't see him get it?
1:30:16
He thought there was his back to him.
1:30:18
of stuff we have to suffer through night after night and they said the critics are killing the
1:30:23
theater it's the playwrights who are killing the theater so there he sits the big dope this fellow
1:30:27
who's supposed to be bright just waiting to be dressed up and gagged well
1:30:33
you're right about
1:30:33
that fella he wasn't very bright now
1:30:39
mortimer if you don't mind we'll be finishing the story now
1:30:43
mortimer i've been away for 20 years but never
1:30:46
once in all that time were you out of my mind now doctor
1:30:51
we go to work please honey for me the quick
1:30:54
way no doctor this must really be an artistic achievement all right
1:30:59
all we are performing in
1:31:01
front of a very distinguished critic all right let's get it over with all
1:31:06
ready for you doctor
1:31:07
i gotta have a drink i can't do this without a drink pull yourself together doctor
1:31:15
I gotta have a drink.
1:31:16
When we walked in here, there was wine, remember?
1:31:21
Oh, I gotta found a drink.
1:31:24
That's all there is.
1:31:25
We both need a drink.
1:31:31
I split with you.
1:31:33
Doctor, please, where are your manners?
1:31:36
Oh, Mortimer, I realize now it was you who brought me back to Brooklyn.
1:31:40
Doctor, my dear death.
1:31:43
Brother.
1:31:47
Darn that idiot.
1:31:49
He goes next.
1:31:49
That's it.
1:31:50
He goes next.
1:31:51
No, Teddy.
1:31:52
That's where I stop.
1:31:54
Not Teddy.
1:31:55
We'll get to Teddy later.
1:31:56
We don't get to him at all.
1:31:58
Now we've got to work fast.
1:32:00
The quick way.
1:32:01
Yes, Doctor.
1:32:02
The quick way.
1:32:04
The girl's got to quit blowing that horn.
1:32:07
It's all right, Officer.
1:32:08
We're taking the bugle away from him.
1:32:09
There's going to be hats to pay in the morning.
1:32:11
We promised the neighbors he wouldn't do that anymore.
1:32:13
It won't happen again, officer. Good night.
1:32:15
I'd better speak to myself.
1:32:18
Hey! You stood me up!
1:32:20
I waited an hour at Kelly's for you!
1:32:24
What happened to him?
1:32:25
Well, he was explaining what happened in the play you saw tonight.
1:32:28
That's what happened to the fellow in the play.
1:32:30
They have that in the play you saw tonight?
1:32:33
Gee, they practically stole that from the second act of my play.
1:32:37
In the second act of my play.
1:32:39
Just before, I'd better dig in at the beginning.
1:32:42
It opens in my mother's dressing room, where I was born.
1:32:45
Only, I ain't born yet.
1:32:48
Oh.
1:32:50
No.
1:32:51
You've got to hear the fly.
1:32:54
It opens in my mother's dressing room, where there I am.
1:32:58
Where there she is, making up, see?
1:32:59
And all of a sudden, in through the door, comes a man with a black mustache.
1:33:05
He turns to my mother and says,
1:33:07
Miss Latour, will you marry me?
1:33:09
He doesn't know she's pregnant.
1:33:35
There she is, lying unconscious across the cavern of lingerie.
1:33:40
The man in the black mustache is standing over her with a hatchet.
1:33:44
I'm tied up in a chair just like you are.
1:33:47
This place is an inferno of flames on fire.
1:33:50
And all of a sudden, in through the window comes Mary LaGuardia.
1:33:56
Hey, remember who paid for that?
1:33:58
Go easy on it.
1:33:59
Val, I'm listening, ain't I?
1:34:01
What do you think of it so far?
1:34:02
Val, it put...
1:34:03
Tommy, if he ain't got no more interest in that, he don't get a drink.
1:34:07
All right, it's three days later, and I've been transferred, and I'm undercharging.
1:34:11
That's because something's on my back.
1:34:13
So, I'm walking on beat on Staten Island, 46th Precinct.
1:34:17
And the guy I think I've been following, turns out, has really been following me.
1:34:23
Don't let anybody in.
1:34:25
So, I figure a lot of smartness.
1:34:27
There's a vacant house on the corner of the street.
1:34:29
I go with him.
1:34:31
I stand there in the dark when I see the door handles turn.
1:34:36
I mean, it's Cops.
1:34:38
I pulls my guns.
1:34:40
I braces myself against the walls and I says,
1:34:46
Oh, hello, boys.
1:34:48
What the heck's going on here?
1:34:50
Hey, Pat, what did you know?
1:34:51
This is Mortimer Brewster.
1:34:52
He's riding my play with me.
1:34:53
I'm just telling the story.
1:34:55
Well, did you have to tie him off to think of Lizzie?
1:34:57
Joe, you better put him out at the station.
1:34:58
The whole force is out.
1:34:59
looking for you. Did they send you here for me?
1:35:02
We didn't know he was here.
1:35:04
We came to one of the old ladies that there's a heck
1:35:05
to pay. The colonel blew that bugle
1:35:07
again in the middle of the night. From the way to
1:35:09
neighbor's time and calling in, what I...
1:35:11
You'd think the Germans dropped a ball on
1:35:13
Flapish Avenue. Gee, Mr. Brewster,
1:35:15
I gotta run along. So, I'll run
1:35:17
through the sit-back switch. Let's get away from me.
1:35:21
Say, you know what time it is? It's after
1:35:23
eight o'clock in the morning. It is!
1:35:25
Gee, Mr. Brewster, them
1:35:27
First, you asked, you went a little long, but I don't see anything we can leave out.
1:35:31
You can leave it all out.
1:35:32
Who's this guy?
1:35:33
That's my brother.
1:35:34
Oh, the one who ran away.
1:35:35
So he came back.
1:35:36
Yes, he came back.
1:35:38
This is Brophy.
1:35:39
I'd better let them know he found you, Joe.
1:35:41
Mac, tell the lieutenant to call us the big man, hon.
1:35:45
In the brewster house.
1:35:46
You want some room in?
1:35:47
Oh, all right.
1:35:48
We'll hold him right here.
1:35:49
The lieutenant's on the way over.
1:35:51
So I've been turned in, eh?
1:35:54
You got me.
1:35:55
So you and that stool pigeon brother of mine are going to split the reward.
1:35:59
Now I'll do some turning in.
1:36:01
You think my aunts are sweet, charming old ladies, don't you?
1:36:03
Well, they've got 13 bodies buried in their cellar.
1:36:06
Teddy! Teddy! Teddy!
1:36:07
What the heck are you talking about?
1:36:08
You'd better be careful what you're saying about your aunts.
1:36:10
They haven't been friends of ours.
1:36:12
I'll show you. I'll prove it to you.
1:36:14
You come down with me to the cellar.
1:36:15
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
1:36:18
13 bodies.
1:36:19
And I'll show you where they're buried.
1:36:21
So you don't want to see what's done in the cellar?
1:36:23
Go on down the cell with him, Abe.
1:36:25
I'm not sure I want to be down on the cell with him.
1:36:27
Look at that face. He looks like Boris Karloff.
1:36:30
What about? Hey, what do you think you're doing?
1:36:35
Well, what do you know about that?
1:36:38
Come in?
1:36:40
What the heck are you mind doing here? I told you I was going to handle this.
1:36:43
Well, sir, we were just about to.
1:36:44
What happened? Did he put up a fight?
1:36:46
This ain't the guy that blows the bugle. This is his brother. He tried to kill Klein.
1:36:57
Turn him over.
1:37:00
I kind of think he's wanted somewhere.
1:37:02
Oh, you kind of think he's wanted somewhere?
1:37:04
If you guys don't read the circulars we hang up in the station, at least you could read the true detective.
1:37:08
Certainly he's wanted in Indiana.
1:37:10
Escape from the prison for the criminal insane.
1:37:12
For gosh's sake, that's how he was described.
1:37:14
He looked like Karloff.
1:37:16
Was there a war mentioned?
1:37:17
Yeah, and I'm claiming it.
1:37:19
He was trying to get a...
1:37:20
down in the cellar.
1:37:20
He said there were 13 bodies
1:37:21
buried down there.
1:37:22
13 bodies?
1:37:23
And that didn't tell you
1:37:24
he'd tip you off
1:37:25
he came from a nuthouse?
1:37:26
I saw a long side
1:37:27
kind of crazy.
1:37:29
Oh, it's Shakespeare.
1:37:30
Where have you been all night?
1:37:31
And you need father to tell me.
1:37:32
I've been right here, sir.
1:37:34
Writing a play
1:37:34
with Mortimer Brewster.
1:37:36
Well, you're going to have
1:37:37
plenty of time
1:37:38
to write that play.
1:37:38
You're suspended.
1:37:39
Now get back and report in.
1:37:41
Can I come over some time?
1:37:42
Is this Jason typewriter?
1:37:43
No, get out of here.
1:37:45
Take that guy somewhere else
1:37:46
and bring him, too.
1:37:48
You can find out about his accomplice.
1:37:49
The guy that helped him escape?
1:37:51
He's one of two.
1:37:52
No wonder Brooklyn's in the shape it's in with a police force full of flatheads like you falling for that type of story.
1:37:57
Thirteen bodies in a cellar?
1:37:59
But there are thirteen bodies in the cellar.
1:38:01
I am President Roosevelt.
1:38:03
What is this?
1:38:05
He's the fellow that blows the bugle.
1:38:06
Good morning, Colonel.
1:38:09
Well, Colonel, you've blown your last bugle.
1:38:12
Dear me, another yellow fever victim?
1:38:15
All the bodies...
1:38:16
to the cellar of yellow fever victims.
1:38:17
No, Colonel, there's a spy that we caught in the White House.
1:38:20
Will you get that guy out of here?
1:38:22
If there's any questioning of spies, that's my department.
1:38:25
You keep out of this.
1:38:26
You're forgetting.
1:38:27
As president, I am also head of the Secret Service.
1:38:31
Captain, I'm Mortimer Brewster.
1:38:32
Are you sure?
1:38:33
I'd like to talk to you about my brother Teddy,
1:38:35
the one who blew the Google.
1:38:36
Mr. Brewster, we ain't gonna talk about that.
1:38:38
He's got to be put away.
1:38:39
I quite agree with you.
1:38:40
In fact, it's all arranged for him.
1:38:42
I've got this commitment paper signed by Dr.
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You, Chris, the family physician.
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Teddy signed him himself, you see, and I've signed him as next of kin.
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Where's he going?
1:38:49
All right, I don't care where he goes, as long as he goes.
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Oh, he's going all right.
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But I want you to know that everything that's going on around here, Teddy's responsible for.
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Now those, uh, 13 bodies in the cellar.
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Yeah, yeah, those 13 bodies in the cellar.
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It ain't enough that the neighbors are all afraid of him and him disturbing the peace with that bugle.
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But can you imagine what would happen if the story about 13 bodies in the cellar got around?
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And now he's starting a yellow fever scare.
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Thirteen bodies.
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Do you think anyone would believe that story?
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Well, you can't tell.
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Some people are just dumb enough.
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You don't know what to believe sometimes.
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About a year ago, a crazy guy started a murder rumor over in Greenpoint.
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And I had to dig up half the necker lot just to prove that.
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Oh, will you excuse me?
1:39:29
Good morning, murderer.
1:39:30
Good morning, dear.
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This is Mr. Witherspoon.
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He's come to meet Teddy.
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To meet Teddy?
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Mr. Witherspoon, the superintendent of Happydale?
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Oh, come right in.
1:39:37
This is Captain...
1:39:38
Lieutenant...
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I'm glad you're here.
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super because you're taking him back with you today today i didn't know that not today oh look
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elaine i've got a lot of business with you run along home i'll call you up not on your life i
1:39:48
had no idea it was just me the papers are all signed he goes today you
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men will find out that
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i'm no molly cuddle when the president of the united states is treated
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like this what's this
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country coming to there's your man super oh just a minute uh mr president
1:40:08
Very good news for you. Your term of office is over.
1:40:11
Is it March the 4th?
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Oh, now I'm on my hunting trip to Africa.
1:40:16
Well, I must get started immediately.
1:40:22
Is he trying to move into the White House before I've moved out?
1:40:27
Oh, this is Mr. Taff, Teddy.
1:40:28
This is Mr. Whitspoon.
1:40:30
He's to be your guide in Africa.
1:40:32
Bully, I'll bring down my supplies.
1:40:34
When the safari comes, tell them to wait.
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Goodbye, Aunt Abby. Goodbye, Aunt Martha.
1:40:39
I'm on my way to Africa. Isn't it wonderful?
1:40:42
Good morning, darlings.
1:40:43
Oh, we have visitors. This is Lieutenant Rooney.
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How do you do, Lieutenant?
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My, you look like the fast-budget policeman say you are.
1:40:50
Why the lieutenant is here.
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You know, Teddy blew his bugle again last night.
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Yes, we were going to speak to him about that.
1:40:56
It's a bit more serious than that, Mr. Rooster.
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And haven't you met Mr. Whittaspoon?
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He's the superintendent of Happydale.
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Oh, Mr. Whittaspoon, how do you do?
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Have you come to meet Teddy?
1:41:04
He's come to take him.
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Uh, undies, the police want Teddy to go there today.
1:41:09
Oh, no, not both. We're alive.
1:41:10
I'm sorry, ladies, but it has to be done.
1:41:13
The papers are all signed, and he's going along with the superintendent.
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We won't permit. We'll promise to take the buble away from him.
1:41:20
We won't be separated from Teddy.
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I'm sorry, ladies, but the law's the law. He's committed himself, and he's going.
1:41:25
Well, he goes. We're going, too.
1:41:27
Yes, he'll have to take us with him.
1:41:29
Well, why not?
1:41:31
Well, that's the end of the watch.
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But you see, it's impossible.
1:41:33
We can't take the same people here at Happydale.
1:41:35
Mr. Witherspoon, if you'll let us live there with Teddy,
1:41:38
we'll see to it that Happydale is in our will,
1:41:40
and for a very generous amount.
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Well, the Lord knows we need the money, but I'm afraid.
1:41:45
Now, let's be sensible about this, ladies.
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For instance, here I am, wasting my morning
1:41:49
when I've got some serious work to do.
1:41:51
You know there's still murders to be solved in Brooklyn?
1:41:54
Oh, um, are there?
1:41:55
It ain't only his bugle blowing,
1:41:57
and the neighbors all afraid of him,
1:41:59
but things would just get worse.
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Sooner or later, we'd be put through the trouble of digging up your cellar.
1:42:03
Our cellar?
1:42:04
Yeah, your nephew's been telling around that there are 13 bodies in your cellar.
1:42:07
But there are 13 bodies in our cellar.
1:42:10
If that's why you think Teddy has to come away,
1:42:12
you'll come down to the cellar with us and we'll prove it to you.
1:42:15
Oh, there's one, Mr. Spinalzo, who doesn't belong here and who has to leave.
1:42:19
But the other 12 are our gentlemen.
1:42:21
I don't think the lieutenant wants to go down in the cellar.
1:42:24
He was telling me that only last year he had to dig up a half-acre bod.
1:42:27
Weren't you, lieutenant?
1:42:28
Oh, you won't have to dig here. The graves are all marked. We put flowers on them every Sunday.
1:42:34
Flowers? Superintendent, don't you think you can make room for these ladies?
1:42:37
Well, I...
1:42:38
You can come along with us and we'll show you the graves.
1:42:41
I'll take your word for it, lady. I'm a busy man. How about it, Super?
1:42:44
Well, they have to be committed.
1:42:45
Oh, Teddy committed himself. Can't they sign the papers?
1:42:47
If you'll let us live with Teddy, we'll sign the papers.
1:42:50
Where are they?
1:42:51
Yes, where are they?
1:42:54
Where are they, Lieutenant?
1:42:55
Good morning, Mr. Clyde.
1:42:56
How do you do, Mr. Klein? Are you here, too?
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Yeah, me and Rolfie got rather than acting in the kitchen.
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Well, sign him up, Superintendent. I want to get this all cleaned up.
1:43:04
If you'll sign our team bodies.
1:43:07
And you here, Aunt Abby?
1:43:08
I'm really looking forward to going.
1:43:10
The neighborhood here has changed, so just think of front lawn again.
1:43:14
Oh, we're overlooking something.
1:43:16
What? We're going to need the signature of a doctor.
1:43:18
Oh, Dr. Einstein. Will you come over here? We'd like to have you sign some papers for us.
1:43:22
Please, I'm...
1:43:23
Just come over, Doctor.
1:43:24
At one point last night, I thought the doctor was going to operate on me.
1:43:28
Just come over, doctor. Just sign right here, doctor.
1:43:30
Were you leaving, doctor?
1:43:31
I think I must go.
1:43:33
But aren't you going to wait for Jonathan?
1:43:35
I don't think we're going to the same place.
1:43:37
Oh, hello, Elaine. Glad to see you. Stick around, huh?
1:43:39
Don't worry, I'm going now.
1:43:40
Hello, Mac. Rooney.
1:43:42
We've picked up that guy that's wanted in Indiana.
1:43:44
Now there's a description of the accomplice right there on the desk.
1:43:47
Read it to me.
1:43:49
Yeah. About five foot six.
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Fifty-four.
1:43:53
140 pounds, blue eyes, tops with a German accent, posed as a doctor.
1:44:00
Oh, it's all right, Lieutenant.
1:44:01
The doctor here has a sign of papers.
1:44:03
Thanks, Doc.
1:44:04
You're really doing Brooklyn a service.
1:44:08
Mr. Brewster, you say now is next to...
1:44:10
Of course.
1:44:12
That's fine.
1:44:13
So that makes everything complete?
1:44:15
Everything legal?
1:44:15
Oh, yes.
1:44:16
Well, now, aunties, you're safe.
1:44:18
When do you think you'll be ready to start?
1:44:19
Well, Mr. Witherspoon...
1:44:21
Why don't you go upstairs and tell Teddy just that he can take long?
1:44:25
No, Mortimer, you stay here.
1:44:26
We want to talk to you.
1:44:28
Yes, Mr. Witherspoon, just upstairs and turn to the left.
1:44:31
Well, Mortimer, now that we're leaving, this house is really yours.
1:44:35
Yes, dear, we want you to live here now.
1:44:37
Oh, Aunt Abby, I couldn't.
1:44:38
This house is too full of memories.
1:44:40
But you'll need a home when you and Elaine are married.
1:44:42
Well, that's very indefinite.
1:44:44
It's nothing of the kind.
1:44:45
We're going to be married right away.
1:44:47
Mortimer, Mortimer, we're really very...
1:44:49
worried about something. No, don't. You're going to
1:44:51
love it at Happy Day. Yes, we're very
1:44:52
excited about the whole thing. But
1:44:54
that's just it. We don't want anything
1:44:57
to go wrong. Will they investigate those
1:44:59
signatures? Don't worry. They're not going to look up
1:45:00
Dr. Einstein. It's not his
1:45:03
signature, dear. It's yours.
1:45:05
You see, you sign us
1:45:07
next to skin. Of course. Why not?
1:45:09
Well, it's something we never
1:45:11
wanted to tell you, dear. But now you're
1:45:13
a man. Something
1:45:14
you know, too. You see, dear?
1:45:17
You're not really a Brewster.
1:45:20
Your mother came to us as a cook, and you were born three months afterward.
1:45:24
But she was such a sweet woman and such a good cook, we didn't want to lose her.
1:45:27
So, brother married her.
1:45:29
I'm not really a Brewster.
1:45:31
Now, don't feel too badly about it, dear.
1:45:34
And Elaine, it won't make any difference to you.
1:45:36
Elaine, do you see?
1:45:37
Do you understand?
1:45:38
I'm a bastard!
1:45:42
Well, I better get breakfast started.
1:45:46
Mortimer's coming over to my house.
1:45:47
Father's gone to Philadelphia, and Mortimer and I are going to have breakfast together.
1:45:50
Yes, I need some coffee. I've had quite a night.
1:45:56
One moment, Witherspoon. Take this with you.
1:46:00
My car's out front.
1:46:04
Oh, Jonathan! Are you leaving too?
1:46:06
Yeah, he's going back to Indiana.
1:46:08
There's some people there that want to take care of him for the rest of his life.
1:46:12
Well, Jonathan, he's...
1:46:13
It's nice to know you have some place to go.
1:46:15
We're leaving, too.
1:46:16
Yes, we are going to Happydale.
1:46:18
And this house is seeing the last of the roosters.
1:46:21
Unless Mortimer wants to live here.
1:46:23
I have a suggestion.
1:46:24
Why don't we turn this property over to the church?
1:46:27
Well, we never thought of that.
1:46:29
After all, it should be part of the cemetery.
1:46:31
Let's get going.
1:46:32
I'm a busy man.
1:46:34
Goodbye, aunties.
1:46:35
Well, I can't better my record, but neither can you.
1:46:38
So at least I have that satisfaction.
1:46:40
The score stands equal.
1:46:41
Twelve. Twelve.
1:46:49
Jonathan always was a mean boy.
1:46:51
Never could stand to see anyone get ahead of him.
1:46:55
Mr. Witherspoon, did your family live with you at Happydale?
1:46:58
I have no family.
1:47:00
Well, I suppose you consider everyone at Happydale your family.
1:47:04
I'm afraid you don't quite understand.
1:47:05
I've had at the Institute, I have to keep my head quite aloof.
1:47:08
That must make it very lonely.
1:47:09
only for you? It does, but my duty is my duty. Well, Martha, well, if
1:47:15
Mr. Witherspoon won't join us for breakfast, I think we should at least offer him a glass of elderberry wine.
1:47:20
We make it ourselves. Elderberry wine? Why, yes. But Happy Deal, our relationship will be much
1:47:25
more formal with you. I thought I had it. You don't see much elderberry wine nowadays. I thought I had
1:47:30
my last glass of it. Oh, no. Here it is.
1:47:44
I don't see much elderberry wine nowadays.
1:47:45
I thought I had my last glass of it.
1:47:47
Oh, no.
1:47:49
Here it is.
1:47:59
I don't see much elderberry wine nowadays.
1:48:01
I thought I had my last glass of it.
1:48:03
Oh, no.
1:48:04
Here it is.
1:48:15
I don't see my clothes are very worn nowadays.
1:48:17
I thought I had my last glasses.
1:48:19
Oh, no.
1:48:20
Here it is.
1:48:33
Thank you.
