Mr. Lucky Page #3

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An iceberg, but I'll melt her down.

- Ok if I get something to eat?

- Sure. Go down the galley, see what they got.

Thanks, Joe.

Thanks a lot!

Boss, when you clean out a guy like Zepp,

you hadn't outta keep him around.

- Is that any way to treat a soldier?

- But I'm telling you chief.

Crunk... never give a sucker an even break

and always keep an eye on a pal.

Remember that!

Hey where can I get a car? I gotta

put on the dog for a few days.

I know a fella in town's got a sedan.

Yeah, well get it and meet me on

the dock in half an hour.

Ok chief.

U.S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION

So long, Crunk.

Joe!

We'll just have to sell some more

tickets darling.

- Wish we knew how.

- Even the whole lot wouldn't be half enough.

- Yes?

- Miss Bryant, there's a recruiter here in the office.

- I don't know what to do about it.

- Well hang on to her, we can use anybody.

But Miss Bryant it's rather a special case.

Well send her in before she

changes her mind.

You see her dear, I've got a

hundred things to do.

She has scads of money and will buy a

box of tickets.

I'm her.

I've been thinking over what you said

yesterday.

And I was wondering why you couldn't

use me in this set up.

You mean, you want to enlist in

this organization?

Time for every man to do his bit.

- If it wasn't for this weak heart I'd...

- Arteries!

Arteries... same thing. How about it?

What about all this gambling at

the ball business?

Oh I forgot it. Too bad, great idea.

Yep, good for the cause.

Well let it go.

Well as personnel officer I have no

right to refuse any enlistment.

However, I think I should warn you...

We've had a few men before, but they all

asked to be transfer to more active branches.

So many women around get on

their nerves.

- That won't bother me.

- I might have known.

Perhaps you better read this first. We

expect a lot of our workers.

Thank you. Do you mind if I

sit down please, maam?

Oh of course not.

How do you do. I gather from what's

going on, you want to enlist.

- Yes maam.

- You're sure you know what you're doing?

I'd do anything to help the cause.

I think that's wonderful. Don't you Dorothy?

We do need a man in this office. You

said so yourself yesterday.

- Why waste time looking around?

- Why indeed!

You're sure you know what you're doing?!

- Definitely.

- Perhaps you're right.

- The discipline will be good for him too.

- Now you fill in the application, I'll get you a button.

- Thank you.

- Sign on the bottom line Mr. Basco-pollus.

Bascopolous! I didn't think you'd

forget me.

I don't intend to.

- Like it?

- Like it...

I'm fascinated.

There you are. Now you're one of

us Mr...

- Bascopolous.

- Oh yes, of course.

- Bascopolous? Greek?

- American!

- Naturalized.

- Well now you get to us...

Dorothy will take good care of you. And you come

and see me when you have a moment to spare...

and tell me how you're getting on.

Greek ?? wonderful!

Everything's fixed. I'm in!

Stand up! Take your hat off my desk!

Put out that cigarette!

Recruits are not allowed to smoke

during office hours.

Put a fresh bottle of water on that

cooler please.

Yes.

How would you like to begin with

a propaganda project?

Yes sir or madam.

Do you know how to knit?

Knit?

I asked you if you knew how to knit.

Knit?

In England, men who are incapacitated knit

without hesitation.

Knit?!

Why the best knitter I ever saw was

wing commander Barnstable...

He picked it up while he was in a

plaster cast.

- I don't knit!

- That's exactly the attitude we're trying to combat!

- Now look here. I don't mind...

- We want a group of obviously masculine men...

to take up knitting. Do it perfectly

casually in public places.

- You think I'm strong enough?!

- I'm quite certain.

Half the women who were knitting for

us last year are...

now learning to drive ambulances

and run buses.

Do I get to trim a hat?!

You don't seem to get the idea of the

organization you just joined, Mr. Bascopolous.

We're people who won't be able to get in

to the actual fighting.

We resent that fact.

So we take our resentment out in doing

our best to help when and how we can.

Well I'm not backing out...

I can't knit because I don't know how.

That settles it!

Report to Mrs. Van Every. She's our

best instructor.

Or do I tear this up?

- Okay, knit.

- And take your hat!

Okay, hat.

Inaudible dialogue.

Now you sit down with the rest of the

girls and I'll be glad to show you.

Now, let me look at your hands.

Yes they're really clever hands. You

should have no trouble at all.

Now the first thing you do is to learn

how to hold the needles.

Now you hold the knitting in the

left hand like so.

Now you take the needle... we learn

to keep those little piggies...

you take the needle and stick it so

into the stitch... you see?

And then make a loop and throw

the yarn over...

and bring it through... come, come,

come, come!

Now you try one, you see.

Hold the needle in this hand.

Yes! Now you see how simple it is.

Down...

Now I'm gonna show you how to rib.

You knit one, just as you've been doing...

and then you purl one. Now this is...

a purl, not the kind you pass before

swine.

P U rl.

Now look here. You bring your needle so

from the back to the front...

That's a boy. Yes...

and throw the yarn over in front

instead of back.

That's the difference between a purl

and a knit.

There you did it... bless his heart.

Now pick it up. There you have it.

Now you see...

It's knitting one, purl one. Knit one

purl one...

Be calm... be patient... be exact.

Can you help me, I dropped me purl.

I'm beginning to like it.

You're a pioneer and pioneers are always

know...

- for their great moral bravery.

- Sure great moral bravery.

- Boss, people are watching.

- So what!

- What do you want them to think.

- Will you look out, I almost dropped a stitch.

- Ah, for Petes sake.

- Oh pipe down!

Mrs. Van Every, this is the Crunk,

my driver.

- How do you do, Mr. Crunk.

- Take off your hat!

Take that cigarette out of your mouth.

Sit down!

- Give him the needles.

- Don't be alarmed, young man.

Let me look at your hands.

Go on, show the old goat your hands.

Where's your moral bravery.

Yes, they look as though they'd be quite

skillful at picking up things.

Now the first thing you do is learn

how to hold the needles.

- You hold this in this hand...

- Joe!

And then you hold the other needle so...

You take the one gimmick and you stick it

in here like this and then you take the string...

and put it between the two gimmicks...

then you take it and you just, haul

it off.

- That's all there is to it.

- Hey Crunk!

The thing kind of gets you.

- Did you show em how to purl?

- I haven't gotten to that yet boss.

You know Joe, you shouldn't a had a leave me

at that knitting table with all those wacky wrens.

Well I had to. I wanted to talk to the

head of that joint while...

that dame was out the way.

- How'd you do?

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