Just Around the Corner

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[Chorus]:

JUST AROUND THE CORNER

MAY BE SUNSHINE FOR YOU

JUST AROUND THE CORNER

SKIES ABOVE MAY BE BLUE

KEEP A LITTLE SMILE ON

THAT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO

IN LITTLE WHILE:

YOUR TROUBLES:

THEY WILL DISAPPEAR

LIKE BUBBLES:

JUST AROUND THE CORNER

THERE'S A BLUEBIRD ON HIGH

WAITING ON A RAINBOW

IN THE SKY:

WAITING ON A RAINBOW

IN THE SKY:

SUN MAY PEEK TO ANSWER HOWDY

JUST AROUND THE CORNER

FROM YOU:

[Ends]

Miss Penny, Miss Vincent

wishes to see you.

- [Woman] Miss Penny is here now.

- Hello, Gus.

- Hello, Miss Penny.

- Is my daddy here?

Penny, come here, please.

Penny, I have some

sad news for you.

But you'll be a brave

little girl, won't you?

- Is it about my daddy?

- Yes, Penny.

- Has anything happened to him?

- No. No, dear, no.

But he's sent for you.

You're going to leave us.

- Are you gonna take me right now, Gus?

Right this minute?

- Yes, Miss Penny.

- I'm gonna live with my daddy at the Riverview?

- Yes, Miss Penny.

On and on, for keeps?

- Yes, Miss Penny.

- Oh, Gus!

Maybe I'd better

wait outside.

It's very sad news, Miss Vincent,

but I wanna be brave...

even though I am

gonna miss everybody so much.

- And now I'd better pack. Don't you think?

- Oh, yes.

- It's not polite to keep people waiting.

- No, dear.

Please, may I be excused?

I feel awful sad about

leaving you, Miss Vincent.

- Good-bye! [Laughs]

- Good-bye.

- Good-bye, Miss Burns.

- [Door Closes]

I wonder why Mr. Hale is taking her

out of school so suddenly.

They're going abroad,

no doubt.

It wouldn't be finances.

His last check is overdue.

Finances? Hardly--

with the Riverview

as an address?

- Why, Miss Penny.

- Hello, Corporal.

- Please don't stop me now.

I've gotta find my daddy.

- Wait a minute.

Hey, Penny,

come back here!

Fine doorman you are-- Lettin' her go

right through the door.

What kind of a doorman

you call that?

Hello, Mr. Waters.

I'm back.

Uh, Miss H-- Uh--

[Chuckles]

[Man]

No, no, no. [Groans]

[Shouting French]

Attention.

[Continues In French]

- La porte.

- No, no "la porte."

Attention. Attention.

[French Continues]

- La table.

- No! No!

- [Shouting In French]

- All right. Have it your way then.

- Who are you?

- Who are you?

[French]

Je m'appelle Penny.

[French]

- What'd she say?

- What did she say?

Did you not listen?

A lesson we have

one week behind.

J'habite ici.

"I live here."

That proves

how stupid you are.

- You don't live here and neither does she.

- Don't mind him.

He's all mixed up. I'm the one

who lives here-- My daddy and me.

I beg your pardon.

This is my uncle's apartment.

I live here with my mother and my sister and

my Uncle Sam. Now, kindly vacate our premises.

Do you think I don't know where I live?

We've lived here three years.

Unless you want trouble with my daddy,

you'd better get out and--

I'm more sorry than I can say. I'm deeply

embarrassed. Come along, Miss Hale, quickly.

- But why?

- Run along, little girl. Scat! Shoo!

- Daddy!

- I'm taking you to your daddy right now.

- Where are you?

- This is very unfortunate. I apologize.

It will never happen again.

I assure you. I'm very sorry.

- I'm distraught, distrait.

- Daddy!

- Miss Hale, will you please-- Listen--

- Daddy!

Children are impossible

these days.

They don't ask if they live

in your house, they just tell you.

They walk right in and tell you.

You haven't a moment of privacy...

without some child coming in

to tell you she lives with you.

Mother, I pointed out her

mistake to her emphatically--

- not only in English, but in French.

- In French? Bah!

But why did Daddy move?

He liked our penthouse, and I loved it.

Oh, questions, questions.

Curiosity killed a cat once.

- Your cat?

- Yes-- Uh, no.

And stop saying "our penthouse."

It isn't yours. Not anymore.

- [Dog Barking]

- [Clicking Tongue]

- Kitty.

- Penny, darling!

- Oh, I'm so glad to see you.

- Oh!

Show Miss Hale to her

father's apartment at once. Oh!

- That's it, boy. That's it, boy.

- Whoa!

- Come on.

- [Barking]

[Laughing]

[Barking Continues]

Okay.

This is my new job

since I've seen you last.

I think it's a wonderful way to earn money--

just playing with dogs.

Yeah, that's what I thought

when I took the job.

But everybody's got

their troubles, I guess.

Gee, even little

half-pints like you.

Now, you got a good,

strong chin.

Keep it up, darling,

no matter what happens.

- What for?

- Hello, Penny.

Hello, Mrs. O'Toole.

Mr. Hale? Mr. Hale?

Daddy?

- Penny. Oh.

- [Laughs]

- Oh!

- Oh, Daddy! Daddy!

I went up

to the penthouse.

A lot of funny people

live there now.

No wonder you moved

down here.

- Did Gus take you up there?

- Oh, no.

I just supposed--

I mean, I thought--

Gus didn't take me.

Well, he's working for those people now

because we haven't any job for him.

- I... sold our car.

- Oh.

Well, then, you and I are gonna have

a lot of nice walks together, aren't we?

Oh, sure.

Do you remember--

Do you remember how hard I used to

work before you went away to school?

How I was always planning buildings

and putting them up?

We had hardly any time at all

to be together.

And you were tired

all the time.

Well, that wasn't so good,

was it? But it made money.

We had money to live in a penthouse

and have a car and Gus and all the others.

But now it's awfully hard

to get jobs.

There seem to be enough buildings,

so I'm not working...

and we haven't so much

in our pocketbook.

But you see what that means? It means

we have all that extra time to be together.

- That's a lot better, isn't it?

- Sure it is.

But there's one thing

I want to do.

There's one thing

I want to finish.

That's the one building

your daddy wants to finish.

- Why?

- I put all my money into it.

A lot of other men did too,

because it took a great deal.

Then we had bad times, and a banker

came along and took it away from us.

- What's a banker?

- [Chuckles]

Well, a banker--

A banker is a sort of person that, uh--

that keeps things that belong to other people.

- You mean a burglar?

- [Chuckling] Oh, no.

No, darling, not that.

But we're not licked. And your daddy

is gonna make that banker understand...

that he must let me

go through with the deal.

And then we can move upstairs,

and you can go back to school.

Who wants to go upstairs

and go back to school?

Not me.

I like it here.

There aren't so many stairs to climb,

and the rooms are small.

- I don't have to walk around so much.

- [Laughing]

- Oh!

- My legs are so short...

it used to wear me out walking across

that big apartment.

And it was so high, I used to get dizzy

looking down at all the people.

- Remember?

- Uh-huh.

Now it's different.

I can look up.

It'll be fun guessing what kind

of people go with all those feet.

And besides, it's about time

somebody looked after you.

A man without a woman around the house

is quite a problem.

[Grunting]

[Humming]

- [Bangs Dish]

- [Stops, Resumes Whistling]

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