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My coat?

I'm so sick.

You'll feel better later on. I hope I do.

Ohh! Now, give me your tie. I'm so weak.

No more cigars

for me.

Benny!

Take off your shirt.

Hey! I ain't that weak.

I'll get it off myself.

When you get it off,

put this on. Yes, ma'am.

I'll call a tailor.

Is the tailor comin'?

He'll come and get all

your clothes dry and ironed.

Tell him not

to bring any cigars.

And I don't want no

chocolates either. Here, Benny.

Okay, Benny.

Come alive!

Oh, Benny.

I'm so sick.

You poor little thing.

Come over to the bed.

I want my mama. We'll

get her for you, Benny.

Here's a glass of water.

And here's something that'll

quiet you down, but good.

Just a minute, please!

Here you are, Casanova.

You're supposed to swallow

it like candy. All right.

Look, sweetheart,

the pill.

I'll take the pill.

Will you bring these back as soon

as you can, please? Yes, ma'am.

I hope nothing serious

has happened to Benny.

Maybe I better telephone

Miss Temple's apartment.

Let me see.

Here it is.

Starlight Arms Apartments,

Wilshire Boulevard.

Whitney 7039.

Ah, yes, sir?

Goodring, come into

my office at once.

Very well, sir.

Mr. Van Loan wants to see me

right away. I wonder what he wants.

Oh dear.

Hello?

Hello!

Hello!

Hazel? Hazel!

Hazel, Hazel? Before

I go completely insane,

tell me what

is this all about?

Hazel, before I toss this boyfriend of

yours down the elevator shaft, wake up!

This is a fine time

for company.

What do you want? Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm looking for Benny Miller.

You've come to the right place. I'll give you

what's left of him after I get through with him.

Oh, nothing's happened?

He's all right, isn't he?

Who are you?

I'm Martha Hill.

Benny and I are to be married.

Married? That's a laugh.

Come here. Take a look at your

loving bridegroom. Take a good look!

Benny! Who is she? That's my wife.

Wake him up so I can kill him

when I come back.

Benny? Benny, Benny!

Wake up, wake up!

Oh...

Hello, Martha.

How are you?

M-M-M-M-Martha!

Martha, I can explain

everything. I'm not interested.

Put on your clothes and get out and

I don't care what happens to you...

as long as you live!

Martha?

Martha!

Oh, what did

I do wrong now?

Thank you, Mr. Morrison. You're welcome.

Mr. Morrison, isn't it

terrible? Fine guy that Benny.

Calls on my wife and sends

his clothes out to be pressed.

Wait'll I get my hands on... Mr.

Morrison. I'm just as mad as you are.

But Benny's not like that. If

you'll just let me take care of him.

No, I'm bigger and stronger and

far more brutal. I didn't mean that.

Benny's a lamb, only

he belongs down on the farm.

I've got my car. I'll take him

back to Cucamonga tonight.

Cucamonga? Now? Mm-hmm.

Okay, take him away. I

never want to see him again.

Hey, where's...

Well,

how do you like that?

Trying to steal

my pants again.

That's...

Ohh!

Hello!

Oh, yes, P.S.

I'll be right over.

Mr. Van Loan, boys and

girls of the home office,

this reminds me of the wedding to

which everybody came except the bride.

Could it be that the great

mind reader is absent-minded?

No, I don't think so.

The truth of the matter is,

he's afraid to show up.

I can prove to you that he definitely

is not a mind reader and never was.

Uh, would you kindly come

to the platform, Miss Burke?

Oh.

Would you mind?

Folks, allow me to introduce Miss

Ruby Burke, Mr. Chandler's secretary.

President Van Loan,

ladies and gentlemen,

at the request of Mr. Morrison

I flew down from Stockton.

I don't care what you promised

Mr. Morrison, he don't scare me.

How can you be so

stubborn? I ain't stubborn!

And I ain't gonna leave until I get the

cash prize for being the best salesman.

Look, there's Ruby.

And who is Ruby?

She was the best friend I had

in Stockton. Ain't she cute?

You do all right, don't you?

Hazel, Ruby.

You don't need

to join the navy.

You don't understand. Ruby

was only trying to help me.

That's what I mean. You always

find some girl to help you.

First me, then Ruby,

then Hazel!

You can have them.

See if I care.

And get Ruby or Hazel or some other silly

girl to help you out of the mess you're in.

I wouldn't raise a finger

to help you.

And I wouldn't marry you

for anything in the world!

Martha, we're engaged!

And then the boys

started ribbing Benny.

You know, the old

mind-reading gag?

No matter what article he pointed

to, they'd say that was it.

It was pitiful the way

Benny fell for it.

The boys could hardly

keep their faces straight.

When Larry brought him in

blindfolded with a bar towel...

and big pieces of cotton

sticking out ofboth ears.

Well, on the way home, I tried to tell

him that he wasn't really psychic...

Didn't he believe you?

No. Not only that, but...

he thought I was

proposing to him.

Aw, come on,

just a little bit.

Aw, sweetheart, please?

Come on, darling.

Sweetheart,

won't you do that?

Just move a little.

Hello, Mr. Perkins.

Hello, Benny.

Will you give me a hand?

Sure.

I thought you

were in Los Angeles.

I was, but I come back

home. Something go wrong?

Everything. I lost my girl,

I lost my job,

I lost a lot of money, I lost

a vacuum... I lost everything.

Oh no. You still got a home

and your mother.

You betcha

I still have a mother!

Look, Mr. Perkins,

my mother loves birds.

I brought her home

a canary.

Will you give me a lift

to the house? I will.

If you help me get Astabula

home, I'll ride you to the house.

What do you want me to do? Take him

by the head and I'll get in the back.

Okay, come on, Astabula. All right.

Astabula, come on.

Pull, Benny.

Come on, Astabula.!

Come on, Astabula.

I wanna go home

and see my mother!

Astabula.

Come on, Astabula.

Mr. Perkins, you pull him

and I'll get up and drive him.

You get up here and I'll

get down near the head. Okay.

Wait 'til I get set.

Go ahead, push him.

Hey, hey, no!

Not this end.

Mr. Perkins! That's all

right. I got him by the head.

This is the end that

worries me, not the head.

Come on now.

Mr. Perkins!

Mr. Perkins, will

you stop teasing him!

I'm trying to get him to move

here. He's moving this other end.

Mr. Perkins,

don't try to pull him.

Come on this end and push,

push like that.

I'll push him from the

rear. Come on, Astabula.

Hey, Astabula! Astabula! I better get up...

Listen, Mr. Perkins!

No more of that.

Come on, Astabula.

Astabula!

Oh!

Mr. Perkins,

make him stop!

Mr. Perkins,

never mind.

Mr. Perkins,

I'm gonna walk.

Mr. Perkins,

I'm gonna walk!

My bird.

My bird!

Oh, he's here!

Benny, Benny!

Oh, Benny, I thought

you'd never come back.

You mean, you're not mad at me, Martha? No.

It was the longest, most horrible

night I ever spent. Me too.

I had a terrible time

hitchhiking up here.

Sometimes I'd get a ride and

sometimes I didn't. Mostly I didn't.

I'll bet Mom's awfully

disappointed at me.

Me coming home without

the $10,000 I promised her.

No. She never once thought

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