The Gang's All Here Page #7

You mean to say that she's over there | with Vivian right in the same house?

Sure.

See here, Son.

Was this Eadie Allen the unfiinished business | you had to attend to...

that night at the Club New Yorker | just before you sailed?

Mm-hmm.

Well, you've certainly got | a nice fiinishing job on your hands.

- Yeah, I sure have. | - You're gonna need a bracer before you face those girls.

Come on. | How about a nice mint jalopy?

Oh, darn it. | She's got me saying it now.

- Dorita, what have you done | with Sergeant Mason's picture?

- Sergeant who? - Sergeant Mason- | the picture that was in this frame.

And Casey's picture, it's gone too. | What have you done with it?

Dorita. Dorita, | what are you up to?

Okay, I guess the jig is down. | I might as well make a clean chest of it.

Your picture and Vivian's picture | is the same picture.

- What are you talking about? - Sergeant | Mason is Sergeant Crazy and vice-a-vice-a.

You and Vivian both got same sweetheart | between you.

- Dorita, you know, I think you're a little- | - No, no, I'm not little.

I'll show you. Give me this picture. | You don't believe me, huh?

I'll show you. Look. | There's your Sergeant Crazy.

And I wash my face | of the whole business.

Find it, Eadie?

Andy's picture. | Then she did have it.

- Are you, uh-Are you sure it's Andy? | - Huh?

- Well, I mean- | - Well, of course it's Andy.

Isn't he handsome?

I wonder what made her | do a thing like that?

I don't know. | I guess it was just one of her tricks.

Oh, clowning, huh?

Yeah...

clowning.

Dorita! Where's Eadie?

Oh, it's you. Shame on you, | you Dr. Jekylls and Mr. Hydes.

- Then Eadie knows. And Vivian? | - I just spilled the cat out of the beans myself.

- You did. Gee, what'll I do? | - I don't care what you do.

I know what I'd do if girl | take my man away from me.

- What do you mean? | - I break her into little hunks...

and then I break him | into little hunks.

And then I take | all the little hunks and, uh-

Well, good-bye. | I must do some rehearsalings.

Vivian!

Andy, darling!

Oh, let me look at you, you wonderful guy | with decorations and everything.

Hug me again. Closer.

It's good to have you home again after all | these months. I bet you didn't miss me.

Or did you? | Well, come on. Tell me.

Andy, darling, | what's the mat-

Oh, Eadie, don't go. | Come here.

This is my Sergeant Mason | I've been talking so much about.

How do you do, | Sergeant... Mason?

How do you do?

- Well, aren't you going to introduce us? | - Huh?

Oh, uh, this is | Sergeant Pat Casey.

- Miss Potter and Miss Allen. | - Pleased to meet you, I'm sure.

Sergeant Casey has been helping me | with my correspondence.

Receiving certain letters for me | and handing them over.

- Certain letters? | - Yes, you see, well, it's-

That's right, Vivian. | You might as well know now.

This is my Sergeant Casey. We were gonna | keep it a secret, weren't we, Pat?

- Were we? | - Why, Eadie, they did know each other in Australia.

- Uh-huh. | - Isn't it a small world?

- Yeah. | - Oh, Andy, listen.

I have to run now. | I'm in the show and I have a rehearsal.

So you'll excuse me, won't you?

Oh, uh, why don't you all take a walk or something. | You and Eadie can get acquainted.

Pat and I have so much to talk about. | Haven't we, Pat?

- Have we? | - Oh, that's all right.

Andy won't mind. | See you later, kids.

Eadie-

Pat, why don't you go watch the rehearsals. | Maybe some of the girls need hooking up.

Eadie, where are you going?

- What difference does it make? | - A lot.

I'm sorry, Eadie. | Desperately sorry.

- I was going to tell you, honest I was. | - Tell me what?

About this whole thing, Vivian and me. | It doesn't mean anything.

Just childhood sweethearts, that's all. | The families, you know.

- I bet if you even ask Vivian, she'd tell you- | - She has told me.

How much?

Plenty.

- Do you remember that night in the canteen? | - Uh-huh.

I told you you were sweet.

I meant it. | You were sweet.

And you still are, Andy.

But just because you guys | over there go through a lot of-

Well, never mind.

But what do you suppose the girls you | leave behind think of after you've gone?

- Their man. | - Yeah, I guess they do.

I don't have to guess. | I know.

- I wrote you every day, didn't I? | - Yeah.

At night I couldn't wait to get through | at the club so I could get home to write.

I know you did.

- How do you know? | - I just know, that's all.

Yeah, you know.

You men know everything.

You can tear a girl's heart right out | of her and cut it up into little pieces.

A girl knows that. | Every girl knows it.

And that's why I'm gonna let | Vivian go right on through...

even though | the stop signal's against her.

- But, darling, you- | - I'm doing it because she- she believes in you.

She loves you, Andy.

No girl with understanding | would ever let another girl down.

But you can't do this, Eadie. | I- I love-

You love yourself, Andrew Mason.

Why don't you try sitting | back among the crowd for a change...

instead of up close | at the ringside.

Oh, that's wonderful, Tony. | Do you really mean it?

- Certainly. | - Then I'll go.

- But what about your engagement to Andy? | - You leave that to me.

- Splendid. | - See you after the show.

- Okay. | - Oh, Eadie, isn't it wonderful?

I'm on my way to Broadway. | I'm going to New York with Tony De Marco.

- I'm his new dancing partner! | - What?

I don't know what the folks | will say, about Andy, I mean.

Of course, it's only a family affair. | We never really loved each other.

- You mean that- | - Well, even Andy knows that.

Anyway, the folks started it. | Let them work it out.

- Eadie, come on. They're waiting. | - There's something I have to do.

I know- the fiinale. You can't keep | those children waiting all night.

But you don't understand. It's your son. | I have to tell him something he doesn't know.

Then he's the only one who doesn't. | But just in case, I'll tell him.

You will?

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