The Five Pennies Page #3

- Now, isn't that true?

- Hello. Well, what if it is?

Bobbie, listen. I...

If you don't even think of me

on our wedding night...

what chance have I got

on our anniversary?

- Hello?

- I forgot to give you the toothpaste.

Well, squeeze it under the door.

Bobbie... Willa.

- Oh, Loring.

- I'm sorry.

I'll apologize to the toothpaste.

I'll apologize to anybody.

Go on.

- Loring?

- What?

- Good night.

- Good night.

Sleep tight.

Loring,

I've never slept in a bridal suite before.

Well, let me know what it's like.

How much did this suite cost you

for the night?

- Will you stop that?

- Yes, but I want to know.

$50, but it's all right.

We're using both rooms.

$50? What a crazy thing to do.

Well, I wanted you to have the best.

After all, a wedding night is something...

you wanna remember

for the rest of your life.

I'll remember this one after I'm dead.

- Well, where did you get the money?

- What difference does it make?

But the money...

I hocked my horn after I got fired.

You what?

There's an all-night hock shop

open on Sixth Avenue.

It's a public necessity,

like the fire department.

Oh, Loring.

That's not so terrible.

All the fellows do it when they run short.

But you once told me that there wasn't

another horn like it in the whole world...

- and you wouldn't let it go for anything.

- Well, I'm crazy. Ask your mother.

It's a lovely suite.

Here. Have an apple.

The manager sent it up. Free.

Thanks.

You know,

you're gonna make a terrible husband.

I'll never know from one minute

to the next what you're gonna do.

That's all right. Neither will I.

Isn't it wonderful to be rich?

The Clicquot Club Eskimos

are on the air...

with a dogsled full of beverages

for your local grocer.

And to start the show off tonight...

here's that sensational hit...

Back home in Indiana.

Back home again

in Indiana

In the fields I used to roam

When I dream

About the moonlight on the Wabash

Then I long for my Indiana home

The Sunflow pineapple company

presents...

the authentic Hawaiian music...

of Sam Weiskopf

and his romantic islanders.

Indiana Home

Presenting to you...

the Samovar Tea Cossacks.

The Canada Dry Mounties

are on the air.

Back home again

in Indiana

In the fields of new mown hay

Help!

They warned me against this guy,

Nichols. He'll never work again.

What about the horse?

Murray, bring me

a cup of coffee and some cheesecake.

Remember, no more credit.

Your husband promised to pay the bill

when he got another job.

Salami could be out of style by then.

- Hey, Bobbie, come on over and join us.

- All right.

You know all the boys?

Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller,

Artie Shaw, and Dave Tough.

- Hello.

- Hi. Please sit down.

Oh, I'm beat.

I've been job hunting all day.

Nobody seems to be hiring

society chanteuses.

You picked a great day for it.

You know, I tried calling Red

at the hotel the other day.

You're not registered.

Well, we've been living with my mother.

She loves him.

Incidentally, Bobbie, would you give

these arrangements back to Red?

He wanted us to

cut some sides with him.

But he was a little vague

about the salary.

He didn't even mention it.

- I think he's gonna float a bond issue.

- Or toss us for it.

Me, I can't stand cheesecake.

Lays on my stomach like a lump. Enjoy.

Red hasn't decided

where he was gonna record, either.

Well, I think it was a tossup between

the Yankee Stadium and Carnegie Hall.

Any of you bother

to look at his arrangements?

Honey, come on. It's that Dixieland.

You can't see the notes...

- through the tall cotton.

- The tall corn.

Let me tell you stupid idiots something.

If Loring says that he's gonna play

in Carnegie Hall, don't bet against it.

And if he has a new idea about music,

he'll bring it off...

while the rest of you sit around

in your rented tuxedos...

- blowing syrup out of your horns.

- Bobbie, we were just...

- Oh, be quiet! My name's Willa.

- I thought it was Bobbie.

You ought to be flattered he asked you

to play, because he only wants the best.

And so do I. That's why I married him

instead of you or you or you.

- I'm married.

- Keep quiet!

- Where's my check?

- I'll take it.

No, you won't.

- Put it on the bill.

- Let him take it.

- You didn't eat your cheesecake.

- No, I can't. I don't feel well.

I told you, it lays on your stomach.

I'm a little dizzy.

Where can I get some cold water?

Back here. Ladies' lounge.

You feel all right, Bobbie?

Listen, please,

don't say anything to Loring, huh?

I wouldn't want to worry him.

Sure, let him be the only one

who ain't worried.

- Glenn, what's with her?

- You've been living on the moon?

- I'll bet you she's in her second month.

- No, it's her first.

- I didn't know that.

- You guys are all wrong.

$5 says it's the third.

- I'll take the fourth.

- This is becoming interesting now.

- Covered.

- Wanna get in?

No, not me.

There aren't any good months left.

- I got change.

- That poor kid.

Living with her mother, too.

Living with Red. That's worse.

Fellows, here. Take a look at this.

Hi, Murray.

Could you get me a half corned beef

sandwich on a seeded roll?

And trim all the fat off this time,

will you?

Why don't you eat

your wife's cheesecake?

Why don't you get some new pickles?

That's not bad. It's kind of like...

No, it's not bad. It's fine. It's...

The notes are all great, boys...

- but the tempo is just deadly.

- It's the first time.

I know it's the first time

but it's still too beat, you know?

You gotta move it.

Sure, here. Do it.

Let me do it with you once.

Next week, Carnegie Hall.

Everybody, grab a partner

And just let yourself go

Follow that leader

Just follow that Joe

He can teach you

He can reach you

Like nobody else can

Follow that leader

Just follow that man

If you do what he do

What he do, what he do, what he does

You'll be really dancing

Come on and take a chance in

Razzmatazz

Jazz

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker

Are all joining the clan

So, pleedge, colleege, or flappa

Or Phi Beta Kappa

Just follow that, follow that

Follow that leader

Follow that, follow that

Follow that leader

man

He better take it easy with her,

or you'll lose the pool.

- I don't think she's told him, yet.

- She hasn't told him yet?

Everybody, follow the leader

Everybody, follow the leader

Everybody, follow the leader man

Easy! She's out of her mind.

Everybody, Peabody!

Change partners, and Charleston!

Everybody, change partners!

You know something?

You know you're the prettiest girl

at this prom?

- Me?

- Yeah.

I'm an old married lady.

Never. Never happened.

We've got it beat, honey.

What do they call it?

Companionate marriage, huh?

Carefree, gay, legal.

- It's been wonderful.

- And you know something?

If the band keeps going

the way it has been...

in a couple of years,

we can settle down...

stop traveling, and we can have

a real corny, old-fashioned family.

- You mean it?

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