Beauty and the Boss Page #2

those who are addicted to it.

I'll make a financier of you yet.

Suppose we dine together and

talk it over? Your house?

Yes, at eight.

The three of us. Paul, you and I?

No women?

No, no women.

Oh, how strong you are.

And I'm so weak.

Nonsense.

Women are just a habit.

When you've had the

habit as long as I have.

It's a very difficult one to get rid of.

What are you doing here?

Well?

I .. I thought you might want me

to go on with the dictation.

Didn't you understand what I said?

You are no longer in our employ.

You didn't really mean

that I was to go, did you?

I never say anything I don't mean.

It was wonderful taking

dictation from you.

But it wasn't so wonderful reading

what you wrote for the dictation.

Oh, I couldn't help it. Every time

I looked at you I hit the wrong key.

What have I to do with your mistakes?

Well, your hair has such

an adorable touch of gray.

Your eyes frighten me,

but your smile intoxicates me.

That's enough, Miss Frey.

And please consider yourself discharged.

You are going to get another secretary?

Certainly I'll get another secretary.

A plain, practical young woman

who will always strike the right keys.

You may go now.

Goodbye.

Oh, Miss Frey.

Would you sit down?

What .. what did you say?

Won't you sit down?

I don't understand.

You see .. you are no

longer in my employ.

You're just a charming young person who

is giving me the pleasure of company.

Oh, it begins to dawn on me.

We were all wrong you see.

You are a girl for the evening who I

met unfortunately, only in the daytime.

You are a playgirl

that I .. I talk business to.

Then you will see me sometime,

even if you don't employ me?

I .. uh ..

I shall see you in the evening. When

there is no business day to be ruined.

When?

When I have a weak moment.

I suspect it may be soon.

Oh, Baron .. you are very dear to me.

And I suspect before we're finished.

You are going to be dear to me.

Go to the cashier's office.

Tell him to give you six months salary.

And leave your telephone

number with Ludwig.

I'll call you when I'm in a proper ..

Or rather .. an improper mood.

You are a darling. I'm so happy!

No. Save it.

This is not the moment.

I'm too busy now.

Pardon me.

I should like to see the

president of the bank.

He's very busy just now.

I'll wait.

He is going to be very

busy for several days.

Well .. well that's alright.

I'll wait.

But did you .. did you have appointment?

No, sir.

I am sorry young woman.

But no-one can see the president

without an appointment.

Good morning .. I ..

What?

I am ..

Who are you?

I .. I ..

How did you get in here?

I came through the door.

Why weren't you announced?

I never see anyone

without an appointment.

Yes. That's what they told me.

I pretended I was a waitress.

Who are you?

My name is Susie Sachs.

I am nobody at all but I had to see you.

Everyone told me it would be impossible.

Apparently not for you.

Even though I'm little,

I don't give up easily.

Well, that is very praiseworthy

but I haven't time to listen.

Good morning.

Oh no, please.

My condition is urgent.

I must talk to you about it.

Be quick then.

I'm a stenographer,

and I want a position.

What? A stenographer?"

Please give me a job.

You will have to apply

to the personnel manager.

And I am sure there are no vacancies.

Oh yes there is.

I know that you just

discharged your secretary.

How do you know that?

I have the back doormen organized.

And how do you do that? Bribe them?

Oh no, I have no money.

But I'm so poor they take pity on me.

They telephone me when anyone

is dismissed. I rushed right over.

At least 100 girls will apply for that

job, and all as poor as church mice.

Our race is so numerous.

Well, are all the other

mice as speedy as you are?

Oh no. I'm the fastest.

Didn't I get here first?

All I need is a job and I must have it.

Sorry, but you've come

to the wrong place.

And if I were you, I wouldn't burst in

on the next bank president you visit ..

Quite so unceremoniously.

It's .. not done.

You mean that I have to go?

Certainly, I mean it.

You have already taken

up a deal of my time.

I know it. I humbly apologize for that.

But I'm not going.

What?

I can't give up so easily.

It would be cowardly.

I might cry and try to

work on your feelings.

But I won't cry. I won't be weak.

And I will be encouraged to remember

that now the municipal government ..

Is holding an investigation

into my affairs.

An investigation of your affairs?

Yes. And here it is.

An investigation of the

unemployed within this city.

Which the authorities say is

growing more critical each day.

And I am their problem. I personally.

I am the unemployed.

Well, I honestly hope that the municipal

government will arrive at some decision.

If the government doesn't

solve my problem by noon.

We won't have anything to eat

tonight or tomorrow morning, either.

Why, that's unbelievable.

My fortune right now is half a crown in

cash and twenty centimes in corned beef.

Of this my mother receives ten

pfennigs worth for lunch.

I six, and there will be four

pfennigs worth left for my dog.

And that will be the

end of the corned beef.

Go on.

There are some things for

which I always have time

Your life is a hard one, isn't it?

Yes, life is hard. Darwin says

it's a battle for existence.

Do you read Darwin? You?

Yes. I've read that the weak

and inferior must perish.

And the few that are brave

must fight for the race.

In this case the race is mice.

I begin to respect that road.

I had no idea what a game

citizen he or she could become.

But today is a crisis.

Either I get work or else ..

Or else this afternoon ..

This afternoon?

You will do something desperate?

Yes.

Something I've fought

against for months.

What, Susie?

I'll go to the movies with

our landlord's son.

Is that so dangerous?

Do you dislike this young man?

No I don't. I have a future to think of.

And it's not the landlord's son.

So I refused his invitation to stay

home and practice shorthand.

Why, you're really a heroine.

No, I'm not, but I fight. And it's not

easy to fight on an empty stomach.

You .. really are often hungry?

Hungry? That doesn't describe it.

I belong to the poor who press

their noses to the window.

You've seen girls looking in

windows, haven't you, Baron?

Yes, at jewelers.

I belong to the delicatessen group.

I gaze into the show window and imagine

I'm eating the delicious pieces of food.

Oh, that's very touching.

For luncheon I look at

frankfurters and potato salad.

But dinner isn't so simple.

I take a sardine and divide it.

You divide a sardine?

Yes. It is the appetizer.

While I eat that I

look at trout and salmon.

Then I turn my attention to the

English roast beef or fried chicken.

Of course I drink wine with that.

Not out of a glass,

but through the glass.

In the meantime, I've eaten

two thirds of a sardine.

I divide the rest into small bits.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes