The Barkleys of Broadway Page #9

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But when you started calling me

and showing me the way...

I realized that, compared to you...

he's a cheap, incompetent hack.

I love you, darling.

You've made me very happy.

Mary! Come on, help me find the key.

I've got to find the key.

You know, the one I put away.

Now, Mrs. Barkley, if you'll...

Taxi!

390 River Terrace, please.

All that I know is

You'd be hard to replace

Where else in all the world

Such loveliness and such grace?

The poet often chanted

The love he found divine

But never was he granted

A lady-love like mine

Deep down, deep down inside

My secret heart knows

The more that I'm with you

The more and more my rapture grows

Without you at my side

I fear

No future could I face

For you'd be oh, so hard to

Hard to, hard to, hard to

Dinah, what are you doing here?

Hello. I came to see you.

Well, this is a rare honor.

I would have thought

that you'd be out celebrating.

Well, don't worry.

I'm going to make you very happy.

I won't contest it.

You can have your divorce.

Thank you.

Divorce happens

to suit my plans perfectly.

As a matter of fact, I'm expecting

a young lady here any minute.

So, if you don't mind...

- Shirley?

- Shirlene.

- Then you and she are really...

- We're mad about each other.

- Congratulations.

- Congratulations to you, too.

I hope you'll find your new director

easier to get along with than I was.

I doubt that.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Don't you even want to shake hands?

Perhaps you should not be

quite so demonstrative...

throwing your arms around me and

kissing me in front of all of those people.

Discipline, you know. Discipline.

- Darling, your accent was amazingly good.

- Wait a minute.

Had me completely fooled until tonight...

when Jacques walked in

while you were on the phone.

Dinah, you know.

And you tortured me like this?

Just a little torture.

Why, you know

that I almost walked into the East River?

- I almost shot myself?

- No.

- I almost jumped off that roof?

- My poor darling!

- You might have almost killed yourself.

- I know.

I love you so.

- It mustn't happen again, darling.

- No.

We mean much too much to each other.

You're such a wonderful girl.

And such a talented actress.

Your performance was magnificent.

You are great.

I have an idea for a play.

- I don't want to do another play.

- No more dramas?

- No biography.

- No messages?

No worrying about the plot.

Then we'll have

nothing but fun set to music.

We'll have tempo.

You know, that good old tempo.

Just give me that Manhattan downbeat

That beats a tempo of its own

You've got to shout, "This is it!"

The day you visit

The jumpenest town was ever known

Keep your Paree and London town beat

Pop Knickerbocker stands alone

Drive up any avenue,

swing down any street

There's no beat has

Manhattan downbeat beat

Manhattan has a beat that's all its own

Manhattan has a beat to call its own

So, Mr. Leader, when you give

the band the downbeat

A one, two, three

And give them that Manhattan downbeat

That beats a tempo of its own

You've got to shout, "This is it!"

The day you visit

The jumpenest town was ever

Was ever known

Keep your Paree and London town beat

Pop Knickerbocker stands alone

- Drive up any avenue

- Swing down any street

No beat has Manhattan downbeat

No beat has Manhattan downbeat

No beat has Manhattan downbeat beat

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