Hans Christian Andersen Page #6

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but that's not the end of that

For round and round the world it goes

It lands here right behind myself

I pick it up and I read the note

which is merely to remind myself

I'm Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen...

Peter!

I'm Hans Christian Andersen

I bring you a fable rare

There once was a table who said,

"How I'd love a chair"

And then and there

came a sweet young chair

All dressed in a bridal gown

He said to her in a voice so true

"Now I did not say I would marry you,

but I would like to sit down"

I'm Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen's in town!

"The Ugly Duckling

by... Hans the Cobbler"!

You're looking at a writer. A real writer.

Tomorrow, the newspaper will say,

"Hans Christian Andersen" all day!

- Was that what the newspaper wanted?

- Yes.

They've printed one of your stories!

And the way it happened

is like a story in itself. Wait till you hear.

Peter, from now on, if anybody

asks you who you're working for,

you can say a writer.

You are working for a real writer!

"The Ugly Duckling by Hans the Cobbler. "

I can hardly believe it!

Peter...

Can you imagine...

Can you imagine

the schoolmaster's face?

One day, a newspaper

arrives from Copenhagen.

He opens it up and he looks,

and suddenly...

He can't believe his eyes!

"Hans Christian Andersen?" he says.

"Hans the cobbler?

"A story by Hans Christian Andersen?

"Hmm. Fine story. " Have a bite.

- There's something on your hand.

- That must be from the printing machine.

Peter...

Look.

- "Royal Danish Ballet returns from tour. "

- Yes, Peter.

She's back!

Peter, she's back!

What a day!

Everything is happening at once!

Hans, we promised some shoes for today.

I'll do it later. I couldn't possibly sit still.

She's back! I've got to walk! She's back!

Never before and never again

Never before and never again

No two people

have ever been so in love

Been so in love

Been so in love - it's incredible

No two people have ever been so in love

As my lovey dove and I

This is unique, the positive peak

We are the most unusual couple on earth

No two people have ever mooned

such a moon, juned such a June

Spooned such a spoon

What he means is that no two people

have ever been so in tune

As my macaroon and I

And when we kiss

- And when we kiss - what verse is this?

- It's hysterical, it's historical

- Let me tell it

- Certainly, darling.

No two people

have ever been so in love

Been so in love

It's impossible. No two people

have ever been so in love

As my lovey dove and I

This is the cream, the very extreme

The sort of a dream

you couldn't imagine at all

No two people have ever been so in love

as my lovey dove and I

No two people

have ever been so in love

Been so in love, been so in love

No two people have ever been so in love

As you and Mrs Hans Christian

Andersen!

Mrs Andersen.

Mr Andersen.

Mrs Andersen.

Mr Andersen.

Mr Andersen?

Mr Andersen?

Mr Andersen?

Mr Andersen?

Mr Andersen!

How sweet of you to be here

the very moment we return.

How did you know we were going

to do your ballet?

Never mind. Your real reward will come

tomorrow night when I dance it for you.

You will come, won't you?

Perhaps you will have words for me

by tomorrow night?

Come, Louise.

What would they say back in the village?

You and me getting ready to go

to the opera house in Copenhagen.

To see my ballet!

Would they believe it? Never.

"One of the cobbler's stories", they'd say.

"How can the children believe them?"

But even I wouldn't dare make up a story

like this - and it happens to be true.

Is it all right if I don't go with you?

What?

- I said is it all right if I don't go with you?

- No!

It's not all right if you don't go with me.

What's the matter with you anyway?

Something's wrong with you.

Come inside.

Now, what's the matter, Peter?

Come on. Out with it.

I've been trying to tell you

something, Hans, all day.

All right, Peter. Tell me now.

It's hard for me, Hans.

I don't know how to say it.

Never mind. Just say it.

I tried once to tell you,

but you wouldn't listen.

Then they went away,

and I thought you'd forget about it.

- They?

- I don't like people who laugh at you.

It hurts me when people laugh at you.

Back in the village when they made

fun of you, I wanted to kill them.

Laugh at me? What are you

talking about, Peter?

Her and him. You don't understand them.

What don't I understand?

You're making up a story about them,

like you do about everything else,

only this time it's about them,

not clocks and flowers and stars.

- She'll laugh at you, Hans!

- So that's it.

I thought so.

Is she laughing at me

when she does my ballet?

Was she laughing at me

when she kissed me?

- She kissed you?

- Yes.

You didn't know that, did you?

- I don't care. It's true what I'm saying.

- I'm sorry you said that, Peter.

You never lied to me before.

You don't have to come with me tonight.

Maybe you'd better see if you can

find work with somebody else.

You're old enough now

to be by yourself, and...

...I think we'd better part company

altogether because...

...because I don't think

we like each other any more.

I beg your pardon.

No one's allowed in

before the performance.

I am Hans Christian Andersen.

- The author of the ballet they're doing.

- Oh, good evening.

Don't you read the posters

outside your own theatre?

Make it lower.

Up, down again, around - that's it.

That's it.

Stay together.

Around...

Good. That's much better. Keep it up.

That's it. Now go around.

Come around this way.

Who are you? Get out of here at once.

Don't deliver shoes before a performance!

Leave them with the doorman.

- Try the arabesque again.

- The name is Andersen.

- Hans Christian Andersen.

- Andersen? The ballet writer!

I'd like to deliver these shoes

to Mademoiselle Doro.

Be a good fellow and get out now.

- Will you move the big shell upstage?

- Yes, sir.

Go out front and watch your ballet.

- I'll give her the shoes myself.

- No! Don't you touch them.

You can't give them to her now.

No one sees her before an opening.

Can you show us

where you want the shell?

I can't be everywhere at once.

Just move it on stage.

Will you please escort Mr Andersen

to the stage door? Quietly but firmly.

But I have these...

If you please, I'd like to leave alone.

Not you again! Don't you understand

this is no time to bother anybody?

Mademoiselle Doro

would not agree with you.

Why am I plagued with authors

on opening nights? Why?

- Overture in three minutes.

- In three minutes, we begin!

Ladies, take your places!

Open that door! Let me out of here!

I can see it.

I don't have to see her with my eyes.

I can see it all.

Come in!

- Good morning, madame.

- Good morning, Cline.

- It's not a very nice day, I'm afraid.

- It looks lovely to me, Cline.

And how good it feels to be

back in my own room. It seems years.

That it does, and what

a wonderful success last night!

I can hardly ever remember

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