The Jazz Singer Page #6

TITLE 34:
"Well, I'm going to tell Berg about him -- with

a voice like that --"

Buster comes up as she is talking. He shakes hands with Mary and

Estelle, and Thorpe is introduced. As they shake hands, Estelle spots

Jack and tells Buster to ask Jack over. Buster waves his hand and sits

down.

132.CLOSE-UP JACK

He sees the signal and jumps up eagerly. Then with an effort to slow

down in order to hide his eagerness to meet Mary, he walks slowly over

to the table.

133.CLOSE SHOT MARY'S TABLE

Buster is telling them about Jack, when the latter appears. Buster

presents him, and Mary asks him to sit down in the chair next to her. He

does so. Mary turns to him and asks him something about himself, first

congratulating him on his singing.

134.FULL SHOT ROOM

Frank goes to the piano and starts a dance number. The couples flock out

to the little dancing space. Thorpe asks Estelle to dance and she gets

up. Mary and Jack are deep in conversation.

135.CLOSE SHOT MARY'S TABLE

As Estelle and her escort move away in the dance, Buster looks at Jack

and starts to say something. Neither pays any attention to him. He makes

a facetious excuse, then gets up. They never notice him leave.

136.FULL SHOT ROOM

Buster threads his way through the dancers and climbs up on the

platform. He goes over to Frank and sits down on the stool alongside of

him. Frank starts to talk to him while he is playing.

137.CLOSE-UP JACK AND MARY

Jack thanks her for her approval of his song. Then, after a moment of

embarrassment, Jack tells her that he has seen her act on the Orpheum.

He says:

TITLE 35:
"I caught your act in the Orpheum at Salt Lake

-- I think you're great!"

He leans over toward her in a gesture of boyish enthusiasm rather than

one of forwardness. Mary smilingly acknowledges the compliment. She asks

him where he played in that city. Jack replies:

TITLE 36:
"Oh, I sang in a movie house there -- and I've

been two weeks getting here."

He pauses and looks at her in a sidelong glance to see if, knowing the

truth about him, she would regard him any differently. She gives him a

quick look of sympathy, then says:

TITLE 37:
"If you come over to the Orpheum tomorrow at

2:
00, I'd like to introduce you to the

manager."

Jack looks at her wonderingly. He has been buffeted about so much that

he has long since lost confidence in his own ability. He asks Mary

eagerly if she thinks he can make the grade there. The girl nods and

says:

TITLE 38:
"I think your voice would get you a long ways

on the big time -- you sing jazz, but it's

different -- there's a tear in it."

Jack looks at her gratefully. He is close to a tear now himself. The

girl smiles at him in a purely impersonal manner as he reaches out his

hand toward hers in an impulsive gesture. Then he slowly withdraws it

without touching hers.

FADE OUT:

FADE IN:

138.INT. RABINOWITZ HOME

The cantor, much older and more feeble than when we last saw him, is

seated at the table in the living room. His beard is almost white and

the hair about his temples is white and thin. There are deep lines in

his face, but a look of resignation has taken the place of the

indomitable sternness that marked his appearance ten years before. At

his side is standing a little Jewish boy, Moey -- a youngster of about

ten -- a typical ghetto child of the underfed, frail build. He is

singing and the old man is nodding his head in time as he does so.

139.CLOSE SHOT BOTH

The cantor suddenly stops the boy. He tells him that he is singing it

wrong. He adds:

TITLE 39:
"You must sing it with a sigh -- like you are

crying out to your God."

He motions to him to sing it again. The boy tries it and is again

stopped, this time more impatiently by the cantor.

140.CLOSE-UP CANTOR

He looks at the boy and his mind seems to wander. There is a misty look

in his eyes as he says:

TITLE 40:
"I wish I had my Jakie here -- he could show

you how to sing it -- he had a voice like a

angel."

141.CLOSE SHOT BOTH

Moey looks up at him curiously. The old man has turned his eyes back

into the past and is oblivious to the boy's presence until Moey looks up

and says:

TITLE 41:
"He ran away from home, didn't he, your boy?"

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