Employees' Entrance Page #5

Get busy. I'm staking you.

I'll pick my own partners,

if you don't mind.

Have it your own way, Garfinkle.

I'm doubling your salary and

putting you on a bigger job.

Er, young lady,

Where's the basement?

On the 12th floor, madam.

You fresh thing!

Madeline!

Hello, darling. I had

to run up to see you.

How are you, anyhow?

How did you ever get

away from Kurt Anderson

Long enough to come up and see me?

He's out to lunch.

I hope he gets indigestion.

Oh, now, honey.

Close the curtains, martin.

Do you know what today is?

Sure.

Tuesday.

Oh, no, stupid.

This is our third anniversary.

We've been married 3 weeks today.

That's right.

Oh, martin, I don't get

to see half enough of you.

It's kind of tough sneaking

around like we were strangers.

Listen, honey, I'd like to tell the

gang here about us being married,

But I can't right now.

Our future depends on it.

Wait till I get a better

footing and a little money saved.

I'll tell Anderson

about us being married,

And he'll have to like it or else.

Who manufactures these toy dogs?

Stern's novelty company, jersey city.

Tell them we'll take them if they'll

take off the label "made in Germany"

And put on "made in

Japan. " It'll sell better.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Higgins is here again.

I don't want to see him.

He says he must see you.

He's been trying to

see you for two weeks.

That guy's getting in my hair.

Tell him to get out and stay out.

All right.

And call a meeting of the advertising

And merchandising

departments for 9:00 tonight.

Mr. Anderson, you can't do that tonight.

Who says I can't?

The grand ball of the

employees welfare association.

You've got to go, too. I

left a note on your desk.

Is that tonight?

Yes. And I bought a new dress.

Oh, don't make me work tonight, please.

Oh, you bought a new dress? Where?

Well, you see, I needed a-

Where did you buy it?

That little shop on sixth avenue.

Sixth avenue? What's the

matter with this store?

We even give you an employee's discount.

Well, they were selling

out, and it was cheap, and-

If my own employees won't buy here,

How can we expect anybody else to?

There are 12,000 of them.

Multiply your disloyalty by

12,000, and it means something.

Don't you realize we're

fighting for our lives here?

Can't I even spend my

money where I please?

Whose money? Who pays it to you?

You, I suppose.

To spend on sixth avenue? Not unless you

want to find yourself a job over there.

Oh, please, Mr. Anderson. I'm sorry.

I didn't realize.

I won't even wear it

tonight. I'll take it back.

No. Bring that dress in

here tomorrow morning.

I'll use it for a sample.

I'll show the head of

the women's department

What our employees are

buying on the outside,

And if she can't duplicate it

for less money, I'll fire her!

And that goes for every

department in this store.

Sixth avenue will think its

throat is cut when I get through.

I'll find out at the party tonight how

many dresses were bought on the outside.

Tell miss Sibley to look them

over and give me an estimate.

Yes, Mr. Anderson. I

hope you have a nice time.

Uh. Thanks.

Why don't you come back next week?

I'm sure he'll see you then.

Oh, there's no use.

There's no use.

Well, thank you again, miss

hall, for all your kindness,

And... good-Bye.

Pardon me. Where's the

lampshade department?

Why, 4 aisles down and

turn to your right, lady.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

How are the sales of men's

shorts to women going?

Great. 246 sales at 3:00.

Fine. We'll extend it to

shirts and socks next week.

Well, my boy, how do you like your job?

Swell.

You're just beginning.

Wait till you get your stride.

Mr. Anderson.

Mr. Anderson!

What's the matter with you?

What is it, Sweeney?

Mr. Higgins jumped out

of a window on the 9th.

Higgins?

When?

Dead?

Yes, sir. They took the body

to Campbell's funeral parlor.

I found this on the windowsill.

Thanks. I'll look after it.

"To Mr. Arnold Higgins

From the employees of Franklin

Monroe & company, 1906."

When a man outlives his usefulness,

he ought to jump out of a window.

That's the trouble with most men.

They don't realize when they're through.

Higgins was through.

I'll be through someday.

I hope I find it out

before someone else does.

But-He's worked here for 30 years!

We'll send him a wreath.

And I'm in his shoes. I took his job.

I feel like it was my fault.

Listen, martin, forget Higgins.

This is war, understand?

War. He's just one of the casualties.

Was he... married?

Nope. Never had time.

All alone. No friends. No

job. Must have been awful.

I'm alone. I've always been alone. It's

the only way a man can get anywhere.

Friends can't help you. They're

too busy selling their own peanuts.

And a wife makes a slave of you.

I was alone when I took over this

store. I've fought it through alone.

It takes brains to do that.

Haven't you... any friends?

You and I get along

pretty well, don't we?

Sure, Mr. Anderson.

Call me Kurt.

All right, Kurt.

Haven't you ever loved anybody?

Sure. I could have

married a hundred women.

One would have been enough, wouldn't it?

But I didn't do it.

I was raised on a farm

- A poor little farm in Ohio.

I nearly fell for a girl back there,

but I was too poor to marry her.

If I had, I'd have been there yet.

Might have had a son about like you-

Brought into the world to

struggle in poverty, like I did.

But I ran away from it, and I've

smashed my way through to where I am now.

And I've got you for

a son, just the same.

Get the idea?

Yes, I get it.

All right. Now get out of

here and come back at 6:00.

Can't I meet you at

the party? You see, I-

6:
00.

I don't know how long

I'm going to be able to

stand this, Mr. Anderson.

What's the matter with Ross?

All he wants to do

is play chess with me.

How do you stop a guy from doing that?

Try playing post office.

I'd much rather go back to the

department, if you don't mind.

I can't learn chess, and

I don't want to learn it.

There's nothing like a nice, snappy

game of chess to get you down.

Give him time, my dear. Give him time.

Won't you let me go?

Nope. You stay right where you are.

There won't be any chessboard

at the party tonight.

70 bucks a week for a chess player.

Do I have to be true to that guy?

Absolutely.

Ohh!

To the executive heads and employees

Of the Monroe department store,

I deeply regret that I'm unable

to be present this evening

To shake the hand of each

and every loyal employee

That has helped to make the

Monroe store a monument of success.

In these difficult times

which try men's souls,

I send you this message

to again remind you

That the founder of the Monroe store

Was a descendant of James

Monroe and Benjamin Franklin.

We have touched bottom,

But it is an elastic bottom,

A bottom from which we can

rebound to greater heights.

Signed, commodore Monroe.

You needn't have kept

me waiting for two hours,

Kurt Anderson or no Kurt Anderson.

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