Bad Girl Page #2

to keep her good

if she don't want to be.

Get 10 cents'worth of potato salad too.

Don't brlng Llmburger.

I don't want the flat all smelled up agaln.

Oh, I know what to get.

Gee, I wish she wouldn't holler

down the stairs that way.

It don't give the house no class.

My mother always used to

holler down the stairs.

She did?

Yeah.

So's my old man. He sold his coat

for a drink and caught pneumonia.

He was a terrible lush.

Gee. My old lady was nice though.

- Hello, Dot.

- Hello, Paula.

Geez. Everything

lives in this house.

Nobody'll speak to her

anymore but me.

It makes my brother sore when I do.

But as Edna says, nobody knows whether a person's

good or bad but the person themselves.

And they won't tell.

This Edna jane does most of

your thinking, don't she?

Edna's swell. She's got a kid almost seven.

She's a widow.

Jerome 7...

4-7-5-3.

Her mother's been awful sick.

Hello? Esther?

You better come over.

Yes.

Now, Esther...

you gotta control yourself.

9:
15.

I had just looked at the clock.

You better stop in at Mr. Levant's.

Esther, you gotta get

ahold of yourself.

There's things to be done.

Good-bye.

Your mother, Mrs. Gardner?

- Yes.

- Oh, I'm so sorry for you.

Thanks, Miss Haley.

Still stays hot out, don't it?

Do you want me to

go up with you, ma'am?

Thank you very kindly.

I'm all right.

I'm just a little tired, I guess.

Good night.

- Good night.

- Good nlght.

You know, a tenement house

like this is awful funny.

Here her mother's dead

on the fifth floor.

And only this morning...

on the second floor...

Mrs. Mills had a new baby.

Yeah? Well, she didn't do

that kid no favor.

- What do you mean?

- I mean bringing it into the world...

where she ain't got money enough

to take care of it.

Oh,Joe, that's

a terrible thing to say.

What's the kid

got to look forward to?

Starvin' himself to death

in some tenement.

Born on the second floor and...

probably die on the fifth.

His whole life spent in climbin'

three flights of stairs.

- Oh,Joe, you're terrible hard.

- Yeah?

Well, here's one guy's

gonna beat this game, see?

No poverty, no pinchin',

no scrimpin' for me.

I got $580 saved up, see?

In a couple of months,

I'm gonna have my own radio shop.

Yeah. Gee, there are a lot of things

in life besides just money.

Yeah. Sure there's a lot of things

in life beside money.

But you gotta have money

to find them.

Well...

I gotta go now.

My brother will

lay me out in lavender.

I went to Coney Island once

and didn't get in till midnight.

Was he sore.

He hit me in the eye.

- He did?

- Yeah.

- Say, do you want me to go up with you?

- Oh, no.

- That'd only make it worse.

- Yeah?

Well, no guy's gonna hit any jane

I go out with, brother or no brother.

Oh, he just wants to see

that I keep straight.

- But as Edna says-

- Ah, who cares what Edna says?

Well...

I gotta go now.

I told you not to

brlng any Llmburger cheese In here.

I won't have the flat

all stunk up!

Well, It don't smell after It's eaten.

There's a tenement for ya.

A woman dies, a baby's born...

and a guy's wife

won't let him eat Limburger.

Gee, you're a funny fella,Joe.

In fact, you're the first guy I ever went

out with that didn't try to get fresh.

Well, I gotta go now.

Say,Joe, you know,

I like you an awful lot.

Okay.

You'll probably be just nutty enough

to call me up at the shop.

The number's Schuyler 4...

6-5-8-3.

Four, 65, 83.

That's the way I always remember numbers.

Well, good night.

So long.

Hey. Walt a mlnute.

My name ain'tJoe.

It's Eddie Collins.

Just a moment.

Oh, Eddie.

Oh, Eddie, uh, will you have this gentleman's

set finished by tomorrow morning?

Yes, sir. I'll work on it tonight.

You've got a great set.

- Mmm. Your wife will enjoy that.

- Oh, I haven't any wife.

- Oh.

- That's why I'm able to pay $300 for a radio.

Well, there's something to that. Of course,

if you keep your radio turned on all the time...

you have the effect

of a wife anyway.

- Yes.

- Oh, that's good.

Ah, you hear?

That fella's got the right idea.

Eddie, now, you take

a lesson from him.

Don't get married.

Not a Chinaman's chance.

He's been getting a lot of telephone

calls lately, Mr. Lathrop.

- Ah.

- Well, I'd hate to see you making any mistake, Eddie.

Why, you can have your own

little place in six months.

- But not if you let a woman get a hold on ya.

- Oh.

I never even think about it.

That's the danger. Do you suppose any man

would ever marry if he thought of it?

Why, I can't even talk to a girl.

You know, it's funny

about me that way.

I'd like to be nice to women.

You know, say nice things to them,

like fellas can.

I can't though.

I think of nice things to say.

But when it comes to putting 'em into words-

I only say something

sarcastic and mean.

- Hello?

- But me get married?

- That's a laugh.

- Well, I hope so.

Yeah. Hey, sheikh.

Hello?

Hello, stupid.

How are ya?

Sure, it's me.

Yeah. The same place.

In front of Loft's candy store.

Listen, unconscious.

Be on time.

I ain't waitin' for any dizzy janes

on a street corner, see?

Yeah.

7:
30.

Okay.

Uh-uh.

Oh-

Waiting for me, baby?

- I'm waiting for my husband. He's the cop on this beat.

- Excuse me.

Yeah.

- I was just going.

- Well, ain't that swell.

Say, you got a lot of nerve letting me stand

out there in the pouring rain.

Gee, I didn't know it was so late.

I got to foolin' around with this thing.

Ain't it a pip?

It'll bring in anything from KGO to L20.

- No kidding.

- Yeah. Sweet job, huh?

Come here, and I'll show you

what I had to do with it.

What do I care what you had to

do with it? I'm not Marconi...

or Edison or whoever

invented the thing.

- I'm standing out there-

- All right. My mistake.

Radio's my job.

I'm gonna have my own store soon.

- I thought you were interested in my work.

- I am interested, Eddie.

But, gee, I got a right to be sore,

standing out in the rain like that.

Well, after all,

you can't saw sawdust.

What kind of a crack is that?

You can't saw sawdust. "

I mean it's done.

All I can do is say that I'm sorry.

- Do you forgive me?

- Well, I got a right to be sore.

All right. You're sore.

What are you kicking about?

- Well, I got a right.

- All right.

- Well?

- Well?

Aw, come on.

Say you forgive me.

Aw, come on. Come on.

Come on. Say it.

Come on. Come on.

Okay.

How'd you ever find the place?

I remember you said it was

on the third floor in the front.

Come on. Take your coat off

and stay a while.

Oh, no, Eddie.

Let's go to a movie, huh?

Ah, look. It's raining

cats and dogs out.

- Well, I can't stay here.

- What's the matter with this?

My brother would rip me apart if he knew

I was alone with a fella in his room.

Suppose your landlady found me.

Gee, she'd think I was a tramp or something.

Ah, they don't expect

nothing raw here.

This ain't no $12-a-day hotel.

Ah, let's wait downstairs then.

It might rain for an hour yet. Let's stay

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