On the Town Page #2

For you, anything. What's your name?

Chip.

Chip, huh? Bet you can't guess mine.

There are over two million

girl's names registered...

All right, you win. It's Esterhazy.

Brunhilde Esterhazy.

Pleased to meet you.

- Why don't you come up to my place?

- What?

Look, Chip, I've been waitin' for you

all my life.

I knew you the minute I saw you.

You're for me.

I like your face, it's open,

you know what I mean? Nothin' in it.

The kind of a face I could fall into.

- Kiss me.

- Please, Miss Esterhazy.

Just call me Hildy. Why don't you ditch

these guys and come up to my place?

Lady, I hardly know you.

I've only got one day in town.

- I want to see all the famous landmarks.

- Stick with me, kid, I'll show you plenty.

Hey, here it is.

Oh, yeah, Columbus Circle.

- Hey, Esterhazy, what're you doin' here?

- Hello, Spud. What's on your tiny mind?

Don't sweet-talk me.

This cab is due back in the garage.

Bixby's waitin' to take it out.

Get in there or I'll report you.

Okay. Okay.

We must have just missed the train.

Taxi. Taxi. Taxi.

I'll bet we'll find dozens of glamour girls

at Grant's Tomb.

- Sure.

- Taxi, anyone?

You don't wanna waste your whole day

lookin' for one girl.

Taxi. Taxi.

And besides, Gabe,

you always got the picture.

When we get aboard ship,

you can hang it up in a locker.

The picture! Look, fellows,

it's full of clues.

- If I follow them, I'm sure to find her.

- What?

She has to be at one of these places.

We can track her down easy.

Gabe, what's happened to you?

I don't know. All I know is

I gotta find this girl.

Get your red hot taxis here.

Wait a minute, fellows.

I don't want to spoil your day.

- You guys go ahead.

- What's it say on the card?

If we do this systematically,

we can find her in a couple of hours.

It says she's studying painting

in the museums...

Museums?

Come on. Let's try it.

Well?

Here I am.

- Where's the nearest museum?

- Museum of Anthropological History.

Okay, let's go.

Only if he gets up front.

What's the big idea?

I knew you'd come back.

They all come back.

How much do we owe you?

Never mind. Let's run it up a little.

I'm coming in with you.

This unique skeleton is the result

of 20 years unceasing labor.

This dinosaur roamed the earth

six million years ago.

Let us move on.

Excuse me.

Don't be frightened, lady. They're all dead.

Hold it. It's fantastic. I've simply got

to get the two of you together.

Oh, my dear, you are priceless.

Thank you. How about some cheesecake?

What a lucky girl I am.

I've got to get your measurements.

I'm a Junior Miss, size 11,

very high-waisted.

Gorgeous.

Now, it's my turn.

Stop! How dare you!

I was only playin', lady.

What are you doin' tonight?

Now, just a minute. I want you to know

that my interest in you is purely scientific.

I'm just a cold-blooded scientist...

...and I'm writing an anthropological study

for this museum.

It's called Modern Man - What Is It?

- The name is Claire Huddesen.

- Pleased to meet you.

I took your picture just now

because you look exactly...

...like this Pithecanthropus erectus,

a man extinct since 6,000,000 B.C.

I look like that?

I look like that.

Now, don't be moody.

You made an understandable mistake.

And now the head.

That subsuperdolichocephalic head!

Sailor, I love you for having that.

All my life I wanted someone

to love me for my sakidophalic head.

Don't be bitter.

There aren't many of us left. We had

a sakidophalic class reunion last year.

Not many of the old faces around anymore.

Well, that'll be all. You can go now.

How come a girl like you is interested

in this anthropo... whatchamacallit?

You see, it's this way.

I've been running around too much

with all kinds of young men.

I just couldn't settle down...

...so my guardian suggested

I take up anthropology.

He thought if I made a scientific study

of man, I'd become more objective...

...get them out of my system,

be able to control myself.

- Has it worked?

- Almost completely.

I was just asking if she knew

where I could find Miss Turnstiles.

- Sure.

- Of course.

And I was just doing a bit of research.

Dr. Kinsey, I presume.

Really, I was just telling your friend...

Ozzie.

...Ozzie, what a remarkable specimen he is.

An exact throwback

to the Pithecanthropus erectus.

Hey, look. She's gonna put me in a book.

- Holy smoke!

- How about that?

Yes, you see, there are all too few

modern males...

...who can measure up to the prehistoric.

"Modern man is not for me

"The movie star and Dapper Dan

"Give me the healthy Joe from ages ago

"A prehistoric man

"What has Gable got for me

"Or Mrs. Johnson's blond boy, Van

"I want a happy ape with no English drape

"A prehistoric man

"Top hats, bow ties

"He simply wore no ties

"Bearskin, bearskin

"He just sat around in nothin' but bearskin

"I really love bearskin

"Some guys care a lot for me

"But my excitement they can't fan

"Because I still await my primitive mate

"We've had a date

Since the world began

"My prehistoric man

"No psychoanalysis

"He never knew what made him tick

"He never paid, it seems,

for telling his dreams

"Poor prehistoric Dick

"Jitters, jitters

"He never had jitters

"No repression

"He just believed in free self-expression

"I love self-expression

"He had honest calluses

"He never worked to pile up dough

"So unlike you and me

No ulcers had he

"Simple and free in the long ago

"Poor prehistoric Joe

"Bebop, bebop

"They didn't have bebop

"Tom-toms, tom-toms

"They sat all the day

just a beatin' on tom-toms

"I really love tom-toms"

Tom-tom!

That's good!

Watch out!

We'd better get out of here. Come on.

Come on.

Come on, let's go!

- Calling car 44.

- That's us.

Report to Museum of

Anthropological History.

Investigate collapse of dinosaur.

- Collapse? Why, that's terrible.

- Why?

She's my favorite singing star,

that Dinah Shore.

The professor at the museum

seemed miffed.

How'd you feel if someone broke

your dinosaur?

I never had one, we were too poor.

Well, can I drop

the three of you someplace?

No. We're all helping Gabey

find Miss Turnstiles.

Let's try all the other museums.

We're stickin' with you, Gabe.

We don't give up that easy.

Well, neither do I.

Toujours I'amour.

At least I'm catching up on my culture.

Where do we go from here?

She might be at

the Symphonic Hall Building.

- Symphonic Hall?

- Yeah.

Wait a second.

I want to get something straight.

You're all going to the Symphonic Hall?

Yeah.

If she isn't there, you'll go someplace else?

Sure.

- And then someplace else?

- Yeah.

And you guys have to be back on the ship

at 6:
00 tomorrow morning?

Well, it seems to me if we split up,

we'd get farther.

I mean, we'd get farther looking for her.

We'd keep looking but we'd look...

...in three different places

instead of the same place.

Yeah. Maybe Hildy and I could go to

the subway people for some information.

That's a splendid idea. Ozzie and I,

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