On Moonlight Bay Page #2

He's liable to get spiked.

The University of Indiana. I'm a senior.

It must be wonderful.

It's a farce.

All the fellas are interested in

is playing football and baseball.

And women.

Women and more women.

Can you think of a bigger waste of time?

What's wrong with baseball?

Baseball? it's the national insanity.

At a time like this,

when civilization is crumbling

beneath our feet,

our generation is playing baseball

and singing songs like...

"We were sailing along

"on Moonlight Bay." isn't that silly?

I rather liked it.

You heard the rest of it?

You have stolen her heart

"Now, don't go away."

As We sang love's old sweet song

On Moonlight Bay

That must have been written by a man

with a glass of beer in one hand

and a rhyming dictionary in the other.

I think it's beautiful.

- Maybe we'd better dance, huh?

- Dance?

All right.

Tickets, five cents each, please.

Five cents each?

You have to buy happiness these days.

Shall we dance?

William, that's one of these new dances

that I don't know.

- Well, this is just a two-step.

- That's the one.

You leave everything to me.

I guess I thought you were a southpaw.

I mean left-handed.

Excuse me, miss. I think you dropped this.

- I did?

- Yes.

Would you excuse me?

Pardon me, your girl dropped this.

...even better with your eyesight.

Flyball is a game of accuracy.

Hiya! Hiya! Hiya! Step right up, folks.

Everyone wins at Sunny Jim's,

the most popular game on the midway!

Won't you come back

for just one more dance, please?

William, I just want to go home.

I shouldn't have come in the first place.

It was all a horrible mistake.

Step right up, folks. it's an honest game.

You hear that? Come on, I'll win you a doll.

I love to lose, folks.

I'm really a retired millionaire.

And this is how I wile away the idle hours.

Here you are, son. Three balls for a nickel.

All I have to do is knock the bottles down?

Knock them off the shelf,

you win a coupon.

A coupon? Well, how do you win the doll?

Three coupons and it's all yours.

So simple a child could do it.

People win it everyday.

Can't keep them on the shelves.

Well, here goes.

That's one coupon.

I'm sorry, son.

You weren't paying attention.

I said, "Off the table."

All right.

Well, well, well, the first loser today.

You've got lead in the bottom

of those bottles.

Twenty-twenty vision, eh, son?

Step right up, folks.

Everybody wins at Sunny Jim's.

He's a fake. Just like everything else

in this world.

- Let's go.

- Just a minute, friend.

Just to show you

my heart's in the right place,

I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I'll give three chances,

absolutely free, to the young lady.

- Oh, no, I...

- it's free.

Free! Free to the young lady!

Go ahead, Marjorie, it's probably

the first thing he has ever given away.

It's an honest game.

- It is an honest game!

- I won the doll.

Well, the young lady proved

it can be done.

Too bad she wasn't paying for her turn.

Now, wait a minute, what about that doll?

Come on, William, let's go home.

No! I'm not leaving here

till I get that doll.

Now, listen, move along, son.

You had your turn and you lost.

The young lady had

a couple of practice shots. That's all.

All right, here they are, folks.

Step right up there. Three for...

I don't like grafters or cheats

in high places or low.

Look, there's a soapbox

around the corner, kid. Beat it, will you?

We let men like you get away

with little things.

And before we know it, you've taken away

our lives, our liberty and our property.

Why, in you runs the blood

of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun!

When did they let you out, kid?

Here you are, friends, three for five.

Who's gonna have...

I'm not a man who believes in force,

but your type should be strung up

to the nearest lamppost by the free men

of the world before it's too late!

Here, take the doll and leave me alone!

All right, step right up, folks!

You hear? Everybody wins at Sunny Jim's!

I tell you...

William, I had a wonderful time.

So did I, Marjorie, and to think

we might never have met

if you hadn't taken a shot at me.

Don't joke about that.

Why, I might have killed you.

What's one life more or less

when all of Europe's bathed in blood?

Won't you come in and have

a nice cool glass of buttermilk?

Yeah. I guess I'd like that.

- Marjorie?

- Yes, William?

In all fairness,

I've got to tell you something.

What?

I don't believe in marriage.

But I just asked you in

for some buttermilk.

Well, I didn't want to drink it

under false pretenses.

Well, my goodness!

Maybe I don't believe in marriage, either.

Now, please, don't be angry, Marjorie.

it's nothing personal. it's just that...

Well, I think that marriage is slavery

for the woman and prison for the man.

I think that if two

people are truly in love,

they needn't be bound by convention.

Well, my goodness! So do I.

- Marjorie, I...

- Yes, William?

What happened?

That's the new power plant.

It breaks down regularly. Every night.

Oh, my. How long do the lights stay off?

Sometimes for hours.

Maybe I better light a match.

Well, I guess you better

show me to the door.

Yes. I guess I better.

Marjorie, I'd like to call on you again.

- When?

- Would tomorrow morning be too soon?

Oh, no.

I guess you better light another match.

Marjorie, I think you're the most beautiful

and the most feminine girl I've ever met.

Thank you, William. Thank you very much.

Well, good night.

Good night.

I guess you better light another match.

I don't have any more.

We don't really have

any buttermilk, either.

Doesn't he ever go home?

Alice, can't you get her in here

to finish her lunch?

Let her be, George.

I never thought I'd see the day.

She's sitting cow-eyed in the swing

and he's playing records for her.

I'll have to ask that young man

his intentions.

Oh, George.

I'll do it very discreetly,

but it has to be done.

Marjorie's young and very inexperienced.

All she knows about men

is their batting averages.

In case you're interested,

this one's batting a thousand.

- Let's play the other side, huh, William?

- All right, Marjorie.

- Cuddle Up a Little Closer?

- Yeah, I like that.

It's Wesley. The lattice

at the front of the porch is loose

and he crawls under

and comes out all bugs.

Wesley, you come out of there right now!

I said come out of there!

What are you trying to do?

Choke a person to death?

I may have to sit here for the next

half-hour just trying to catch my breath.

Here, Wesley, maybe this'll make you

breathe a little easier.

Gee, thanks! I feel fine now!

I'm not interrupting anything, am I?

Why, Father,

I thought you'd gone back to town.

No, I thought I'd like to have

a little talk with William

before he leaves for college

and his studies of... Law?

- No, sir, not law.

- Then it must be medicine.

Well, a doctor these days can support

a wife and a family very nicely.

Father.

- I major in English literature.

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