For Me and My Gal Page #3

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I saw you through a window.

I heard you too.

Gosh, you two were swell together.

Terrific!

Weren't we, Jimmy?

But those after-the-show acts,

they never hold up.

Jo. Did Harry Palmer ask you

to team up with him?

- How'd you know?

- He'd be crazy if he didn't.

I saw you together.

You're a natural for each other.

Look, Jimmy.

I'm kind of sleepy.

What...?

What did you tell him, Jo?

I told him I already had a job.

Yeah?

Well, you haven't.

- What do you mean?

- I'm breaking up the act, Jo.

Oh, no, you're not.

I'm not gonna have you making

noble sacrifices on my account.

Who said anything about your account? And

who said anything about noble sacrifices?

I'm a comic.

I should have known that before.

I don't know what I was messing up my act

with girls and music and stuff like that.

Besides...

...I've got a new idea

that I'd like to try out with Sid.

Just the two of us.

Well, what made you decide all this

tonight?

I should have thought of it long ago,

but you know me, putting things off...

You know how it's been.

The act's not doing well.

I had a wire from Eddie,

said he can't get us bookings.

Lily's talking about leaving, and...

Well, it's the only thing to do, that's all.

If I thought you were trying

to pave the way for me...

Now, wait a minute. What are you

talking about? This is business.

No fooling. I wouldn't joke

about a thing like that.

It's good business too.

For everybody.

Oh, Jimmy. You're sweet.

- You're just as sweet as they come.

- Do you want to know something?

That goes for you too, double.

I'm gonna kind of miss you, kiddo.

Working with you hasn't been

like working at all.

- It's been more like...

- Palmer and Hayden.

Gee, think of that.

Palmer and Hayden.

It's the way we're gonna bill ourselves.

- Isn't that wonderful?

- Sounds swell.

Oh, I gotta tell him now, right away.

When you wore a tulip,

a big yellow tulip,

and I wore a big red rose.

When you caressed me,

'twas then Heaven blessed me,

what a blessing no one knows.

You made life cheery

when you called me Dearie,

'twas down where the bluegrass grows,

your lips were sweeter than julep,

when you wore a tulip,

and I wore a big red rose.

- Don't you think

you better go to bed?

Yeah. I guess so.

How I hate those man-traps.

Oh, well,

you take the lower tonight.

I wouldn't know how to act in one.

Hey, George.

- Whenever you're ready.

- Yes, sir.

Hey, listen to this.

"Eddie Melton has booked Jimmy Metcalfe,

comic...

...with Sid Simms

on the Orpheum circuit.

Metcalfe opens the 19th in Minneapolis. "

Isn't that wonderful? Look.

See? Here.

- I'd like a crack at some Orpheum time.

- Oh, now, Harry.

Well, I'm sick of playing

these two-bit towns.

- Chicago isn't a two-bit town.

- The part we're playing is.

Why must everything happen here

and now? You think that we have...

Yes, sir. I'll make it right up for you.

- I'll take that.

- I'll go back and have a cigarette.

- Let me know when he's finished, will you?

- Yeah.

- This a private car, sir.

- Excuse me. I was looking for the club...

Oh, I'm sorry. I was just

on my way back for a cigarette.

- I must have got off at the wrong floor.

- Why don't you have your cigarette here?

- Well, thanks a lot, but I...

- Please.

- I'd like one myself.

- Well, thanks. That's mighty nice of you.

- That's all, Celeste.

- Yes, ma'am.

Oh, excuse me.

Drink?

- Sure.

- Chartreuse, creme de menthe, vieille cure?

Surprise me.

- There you are.

- Thanks.

Say, this sure beats a club car, all right.

And better-looking people too.

Say! You're not...?

Well, I'll be darned. Imagine me,

sitting here with Eve Minard!

Say, you're not really...?

How do you like that? Guess you

never heard of me. Harry Palmer.

- Harry Palmer?

- Of Palmer and Hayden.

Oh, yes, certainly.

A fellow artist.

Nothing less. Get a load of this.

- Very nice.

- You get the rough idea.

- I must come and see you.

- I open in Chicago tomorrow.

- A full week too.

- Really? I open there tomorrow.

- At the Majestic?

- Well, no.

They booked me into

a smaller house this time.

- It's a good one though, for its size.

- Oh, that's fine.

Chicago seems to be much

more inviting now.

Well, the pleasure's all mine. If you want

to see the town, I'm your man.

Chicago, Boston, Detroit,

they're all the same. Except New York.

- That is a city.

- I suppose you've played the Palace.

Palace? Which one?

Which one?

Oh, there's only one real Palace.

- New York.

- Oh, yes. Yes, I've played there.

And I have a return engagement

before I sail.

Do you like to play there?

Yes. I like to play there very much.

- More?

- Sure. Why not?

Come to think about it,

I never caught your act.

- No?

- I know that you sing and all that...

...but what kind of stuff?

- Many kinds.

- Rags or ballads?

- As you like. I have it!

You danced for me,

I will sing for you, if I may.

- That'd be great.

- What will you like to hear?

Don't make it too highbrow.

You gotta gauge your audience.

- Give them something they'll understand.

- I think you'll understand this.

Most people do.

- Say, that's wonderful!

- You like that?

Do I? It's terrific!

Let's have an encore.

- Lf you wish.

- Certainly, I wish.

- Oh, hello, Jo. How do you feel?

- How do you feel?

Here's the other half of my act,

Miss Hayden.

- Won't you come in?

- Jo, this is...

Yes. Miss Minard.

I play your records over and over again.

- I love them.

- Thank you.

Well, I was just about

to come on back and turn in.

- Thanks for the song. It was swell.

- I hope you won't forget.

- I'll be at the Majestic.

- Forget?

- Well, good night.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Quite a dame, isn't she?

- Yes, she is.

Four grand a week. Oh, boy.

- Well, good night, kid.

- Good night, Harry.

- Come in.

- Ladies and gentlemen...

...I now give you Jimmy Metcalfe!

- Jimmy, darling!

How are you, Jo? Let me look at you.

My golly, you look swell!

- You're supposed to be in Minneapolis.

- We closed last night. A mild sensation.

- How is your act?

- Oh, fine.

Come on. Sit here, Jimmy.

Gee, it's good to see you.

Well, it's good to see you...

Say, who's this, General Pershing?

No. That's Danny.

He's enlisted.

No! What about the medical career?

- He's going back after the war.

- Doesn't he look swell?

- Yeah.

- Where's Harry?

Harry?

He's out with a friend.

You'll never guess who either.

- Eve Minard.

- Eve Minard!

Say, he's traveling

in pretty fast company, isn't he?

Yeah. Well...

...you know Harry.

She's a big success...

...and she's pretty...

...and, well...

Jo, you're in love

with that guy, aren't you?

Harry? Oh, no.

- I'm not in love.

- Hey, hey, shorty.

Remember me? Jimmy Metcalfe, the fella

that played Clifton Junction with you?

Oh, Jimmy.

It's way down deep inside of me.

He's wrong, and I love him.

He's right, and I love him.

It's no good.

Gee, what do you do

when you love somebody so much...

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