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About Mrs. Leslie Page #6
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- 1954
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Reminds me of this roland kid.
Oh, good evening, pixie.
I was just thinking
of calling you.
Well, I told you I'd be here.
What are we having for dinner?
I don't like chops.
Put your things in my room
and then come
and sit right down here.
It's all ready.
How was skating today?
All right.
There, nice cold roast ham
and a nice big salad.
Such a warm evening.
Sit down, dig in.
I'll get you some nice iced tea.
I don't like tea.
Iced tea?
Well, milk maybe.
Milk?
Come on, sit down anyway.
Aren't they pretty?
Beautiful things
make you feel beautiful inside.
Here, have a hot buttered roll.
Do you have a root beer?
Yes, I have.
Oh, well?
Well what, pixie?
Well, can I have a root beer?
Yes, sure,
right in the icebox.
Well, I can't get out.
A glass.
You haven't eaten anything,
pixie.
I guess I'm not hungry.
That's the trouble
with you children nowadays.
How do you expect
your brains to work
if you're undernourished?
My brains work.
Turn on the radio, hmm?
Do you like music, pixie?
It's all right, I guess.
Well, good music, I mean,
like Beethoven and offenbach.
Who?
- Dizzy Gillespie.
- It's all right, I guess.
Who's your favorite orchestra?
Gee, I don't know.
Certainly is warm tonight.
I wonder if your mother
found the weather any cooler
up in Santa Barbara.
Gee, I don't know.
Well, it should be
cooler there.
Have you ever been
to Santa Barbara, dear?
Uh-uh.
What places
have you been, pixie?
You ever been abroad?
San Diego, I guess.
Gee, I don't know.
- Oh, no.
- Been all over, I guess.
Well, I mean foreign places.
I mean to ketchikan maybe
or Madagascar.
Do you want to?
Gee, I don't know.
Has iris next door
got a television?
Gee, I don't know.
Iris' little baby had measles.
Did you ever have measles,
pixie?
Gee, I don't know.
Measles are unpleasant.
So itchy, you know?
They're very unpleasant to have.
Well, I better change
my clothes before the kids come.
But I have strawberry
shortcake for dessert.
Berries make me break out.
Uh, can I use your shower?
Yes, pixie, you may.
It's in the bedroom,
right through there.
You sure we're supposed
to pick her up here?
Next door, she said,
at Leslie's rooming house.
Good evening.
I'm Mrs. Leslie.
Where's pixie?
I said
my name was Mrs. Leslie.
Hi.
I presume
you're oswald fogelmeister.
I'm who?
I'm buddy Boyd.
How do you do, buddy?
Now we're introduced, aren't we?
We're supposed
to pick up pixie.
Yes, I know.
Who's the devoted couple
in the back seat?
That's Diane and Paul.
They're going steady.
Oh, at least.
Don't they ever come up for air?
Hey, Tyrone,
put on the brakes.
In my day,
people only acted that way
with the shades down
and the lights out
and the neighbors
away for the weekend.
- What's with her?
- Hey, where's pixie?
We're in a hurry.
Yes, I see you are.
She's not joining you
this evening.
What do you mean?
Pixie's not coming with us?
Not tonight.
Ah, I bet
she's not even there.
Who does that old queen
think she is anyway?
Yeah?
What time is it?
I'm almost ready.
We're giving sort of a little
party here tonight, pixie.
One of my roomers,
Mr. McKay, is a dancer,
and he's going to show his act
to an agent.
He said he'd like an audience.
Would you like to stay?
I already have a date.
No, I'm afraid you haven't.
I sent them away.
You did what?
Sent them away?
When?
Just now.
They've gone.
You've got a lot of nerve,
Mrs. Leslie.
It didn't seem safe to me.
They're my best friends,
and you've got
Diane's father
is a very wealthy man,
and buddy's mother
has a diamond broach,
and they're very well-known
in society.
Does your mother know
any of them?
What difference
does that make?
Besides,
what's it any business of yours?
Boy, gee, what nerve!
Pixie, put that down.
- My mother lets me.
- I don't believe it.
I take my responsibilities
very seriously.
Tonight, I'm your mother.
How could you be
anybody's mother?
Why, I heard
you weren't even married.
Of course I was married.
Then where's a picture
of your husband?
Who was he?
Mom says you're just an old maid
pretending you were married,
ashamed to own up to you
never did get yourself a man.
If that's
your mother's opinion,
I don't imagine
she'd fancy your repeating it.
It's the truth, isn't it?
Sure, it's the truth,
so don't you tell me
what to do.
I bet I know
where I can find my friends too.
Go on, pixie.
Go on, run.
Find your friends.
I won't stop you.
You're right.
I'm not your mother.
I'm not anybody's mother.
How could I be?
I'm not anybody's anything,
because once I ran too,
all the way to California.
The year since I'd seen him
hadn't been too easy for me
thanks to Rick.
He blackballed me
and I'd had to pick up
Jersey, upstate,
the island, one-nighters,
anything to keep going
until Mr. Leslie's phone call.
Oh, I've had a very busy year
this past year, Mr. Leslie.
I've been doing a lot
of reading, history books.
Ask me anything you want to know
Where he was born,
when he died, anything.
Go on, ask me.
Vivi, you astonish me.
You mean you really enjoyed
reading about him?
Of course.
Well, if you liked that,
you'd love
corporal si klegg
and his pard.
Written by wilbur f. Hinman,
late lieutenant colonel,
65th regiment, Ohio veteran's
volunteer infantry.
I read it.
Read it?
You memorized it.
I also read
a rebel war clerk's diary
and the wearing of the grey
and Jeff Davis' memoirs.
I even read your precious
Roman's beauregard.
Oh, vivi.
Poor vivi.
Well, good evening,
Mr. hackley.
Good evening.
Those club dates
aren't enough, are they?
For instance, how much rent
do you pay on your apartment?
- $50.
- Okay.
There's phone, utilities,
laundry, eating.
Where do you manage pin money?
Oh, I just buy plain pins,
Mr. Leslie, honey,
not platinum ones.
But suppose you were sick.
You couldn't work for one reason
or another.
Vivi, you're not secure.
I'm secure six weeks
out of the year.
How many women can say that?
You sure there are fish
down there?
The way you live
the rest of the year,
you're on thin ice, vivi,
thin ice.
Oh, well, I'm a good skater.
You should have seen me
when I was a kid.
I was the best skater
on the lake.
I used to love the winters,
because that meant skating.
to anyone before,
about a house
and a little girl
in a green coat
and a mother who had
hot chocolate and cupcakes
waiting when I brought
friends home from skating,
a woman who made her house
behave like a home
and taught her only child
that good manners
were the backbone
of civilization.
I told him how mama died
and left me with him
until I couldn't take anymore
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