The Cat's Meow Page #4
if you experience the following:
you see yourself as the most
important person in any room;
you accept money
as the strongest force in nature;
and finally,
your morality vanishes...
without a trace.
Well, thank God none of us
have been infected, eh, WR?
Umm... yes.
Thank God for that.
Charleston, everybody!
Come on, Pops,
let's show 'em how it's done!
You bet!
What are you looking at?
Oh, I'm tired.
Let's sit down.
Sit? I want to pound my feet so hard
the devil will complain.
Come on, Jay,
take us to the moon!
They've just shot all this
a couple of days ago.
I haven't seen
any of it yet.
Shh!
It's wonderful...
There!
You see that throne?
That throne
is from the 1 6th century.
That's King Lewis II.
I brought that over from Hungary.
Honey, you're wonderful.
Just wonderful.
Get in there!
- Ow!
Wow, Marion, look at you!
Yeah, but that movie
sure went in the shithouse.
Okay, Willie's at the wheel
for two hours so who's first?
- I am!
- Hands off, you little tramp!
Marion, you always have
the best moonshine.
bottles arrive from her many admirers.
Well, this one sure's got
sex appeal. Who gave it to you?
Who do you think?
Hmm, I see...
Well, it's mine now.
Ahoy there.
Tom, how are you?
Stuffed!
That was some banquet.
Wait until tomorrow. Marion's
prepared quite a birthday feast.
- Yep, she is.
It's so hard to love someone
in our business.
There's so many men
who prey on beauty.
And not sincerely either, but
in cruel ways, just for the conquest.
Take a character
like Chaplin for example.
He's absolutely notorious.
I'm sure you've heard about Lita,
his leading actress.
Mm-hmm.
Apparently she's pregnant
with his child...
she's only 1 6
for Christ sakes!
That's why I keep my Nell
far away from show people.
Women aren't as strong as we are.
They're easily fooled,
their hearts
are easily corrupted.
Yeah, yeah, it is a concern.
It must be, especially...
considering the amount of time you're
forced to spend 3,000 miles apart.
I can help you with.
- What do you mean?
- Well...
if we were to merge
along with
all the other benefits,
I could keep an eye
on her for you.
Hmm...
What makes you think
she needs to be watched?
- Well, she certainly has...
- Is four a crowd?
Not at all. Join us.
You were saying, Tom?
We can talk later.
- Such a charming cabin!
- Good night, everyone.
What a nice man.
Yes. Very nice.
- Here I am with surprises!
- Charlie!
- Let's see what you got, Celia.
- It's dope, Didi.
You had that
the whole car ride?
If I'd told you in the car
that box would be empty right now.
Is it true what they say
about a Jazz man and his instrument?
- Every word, sister.
- Oh!
You're with me.
Come on.
Hey!
You're not gonna be a flat tire
about our playtime, are you?
You do as you like,
Marion, dear.
Just don't expect me to join you
in such infantile nonsense.
Frank, I admire your marriage.
So simple... clean.
- Thank you, WR.
- Nothing complicating things.
Frankly I feel uninteresting
compared with the...
colorful lifestyles
of your other guests.
Lord knows what
they're all up to at this hour.
Frank,
I won't hear such talk.
The codes of decency are something
to be held in high regard.
We should feel no shame for not being
as liberal-minded as the rest.
Darling, please.
No disrespect, but you know what
- Said to me at dinner?
- What?
She had the gumption
to ask if Frank was my lover!
- No!
- Yes!
What did you tell her?!
I said, "Mr. Barham is my husband,
deary, we're not lovers."
- You set her straight.
- The thought of such a thing!
Among the finest
I've ever tasted, Celia.
The absolute finest.
- Who is it?
- It's me.
If you say,
"It's Tom Ince
to see Ms. Margaret Livingston
alone in her cabin
on a Saturday night,"
you'll get a big surprise.
It's uh...
Tom Ince to see
Miss Margaret Livingston
alone in her cabin
on a Saturday night.
I suppose that's the best
I'll get out of you.
...He said it was a sausage!
All right, everyone,
time for charades!
We call them "sha-raids."
These are the subjects
I've prepared.
Well...
We will be one team.
Very well.
Didi and Celia
will be team two.
- What a gyp.
- Shut up!
Come on, Marion. Choose.
Two medical students
I once knew.
- Let them get started.
- Noo...
"Indian Love Call,"
by Harback and Hammerstein!
- Guppies!
- No, no.
King and Queen Tut!
There was no Mrs. Tut!
- Oh oh oh!
- Oh, he's getting her now.
Concubines!
Oohh!
I know! Sex!
This charade
is being misread.
Marion, come outside
so I can explain it to you.
Now, Marion,
what's going on?
I promised myself
this wouldn't happen.
You had to promise yourself?!
I don't know,
l... can't think straight.
Have you slept with him?
- No.
- Have you?!
- No!
- Thank God.
You're not
in love with him?
He thinks
he's in love with me.
Charles is only capable
of a monogamous relationship
with his own movies.
But I want
Before you what?!
Listen to what you're saying!
You know, Willie's the first man
who ever had faith in me.
And I'm all he's got
keeping him a human being.
I think he'd... he'd...
he'd die if I left him.
I think he would.
would die if you left him?
Charlie might cry
at my grave
and recite
some lousy poem he wrote.
But give him a day or two
and he'd be back in the market.
A day or two?
Charles would copulate
with a reasonably attractive
pallbearer.
What is it, baby?
I'm sorry.
No. Don't be sorry.
- It's just that...
- Talk to me.
- It's just what?
- Everything.
- I feel like it's all slipping away.
- What is?
Everything. Me.
a cripple in the picture business.
- That's a lousy thing to say.
- Do people see me as a cripple?
- No.
- Or a credit hog?
- No, honey.
- Oh God...
I used to be a force
in this town.
- You are a force.
- Not too long ago.
I used to make 40 pictures a year.
Now I'm lucky if I
can get one off the ground.
- God, I need him so badly.
- You'll get him.
- You think so?
- I know so.
- Do you?
- Yeah, I know it.
You're a force.
- I am, aren't I?
- You are.
Marion must think
you're a lousy kisser
or else she'd be back by now.
Hey, Charlie,
you look just like
Adolphe Menjou in this ad.
That's 'cause
it is Adolphe Menjou.
of the picture. Who wants to see
without Charlie Chaplin?
Type it up, will you?
Sh*t.
Just be strong
and keep telling him no.
- Understand?
- Yeah.
Four people on the bed
and Chaplin's the only one asleep.
That's something
you don't see every day.
WR?
A wire's come through
from the New York office.
It's an item
that will be published
in tomorrow's
New York Daily News.
- Grace Kingsley.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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