The Saxon Charm Page #8

with Vivian would be disastrous.

Don't worry about our financial backing.

I've .. decided to get it in

a less hazardous manner.

Get your things.

Your special orchid, Seor Saxon.

With the help of

many friends, I find it.

Oh, thank you very much.

I asked you to get this orchid for

the most beautiful lady in the world.

And who do you think that lady is?

I do not know, Seor.

I give you this token of my esteem

with my fondest compliments.

Oh gracias, Seor.

I don't know what Matt's going to say

about you being here to meet him.

Why shouldn't I be, you

frightened little watchdog?

Oh, there they are.

Hello, Matt.

Oh Matt, you old fly-by-night.

It was just luck that I found out from

Hermy that you were coming home.

Oh?

Well, I can only be here a few minutes.

I'm on my way to Hollywood.

Hollywood? What for, Boss?

My friends, Eric has written the most

amazing play in the history of theater.

Only one person in the world can play it

and I'm going to Hollywood to get him.

If he can act, why's he out there?

Collecting a tidy fortune, you idiot.

I'm referring to Peter Stanhope.

Think you can get him? Every producer

on Broadway has tried to lure him back.

I haven't. Hermy, get me a reservation

on the first west-bound plane.

Yeah. What do we use for money?

Oh, uh ..

Eric, you can write a check can't you?

I need a little travel money.

Sure .. how much?

Oh fifteen hundred. Two thousand

to be on the safe side.

Matt, I hope you'll be in

Hollywood for at least a week.

So that's why you met

me at the airport, eh?

Hiding someone in your apartment.

I'm going to Hollywood myself next week.

For a picture?

I'm playing the lead.

Naturally. For whom?

Dave Ebbs.

The contract been signed yet?

It's being drawn up now.

I'll sign it before I leave.

Matt, I waited so long for a break and

to think I got this without your help.

Bound to happen sooner or later.

That's the end of the future Mrs Saxon.

Are you kidding?

You know I'm ready at the drop of a hat.

Matt, I made one for 500

and one for 1,500.

I didn't think you'd

get the full amount.

Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.

We'll have coffee while I'm waiting.

Run along, Hermy.

I guess you'll clam up if I ask what you

black sheep are doing in Mexico City.

But Janet will find out tonight.

Is she back from the island?

Since yesterday. She called me.

Does she know where I've been?

Of course .. didn't you tell her?

I didn't have a chance.

Janet's a very broadminded young lady.

As a matter of fact, we've

both been working very hard.

You'll stay for coffee?

I'd better go to the apartment. I'll see

you when you get back from Hollywood.

Good luck.

Oh well, say hello to Janet for me.

Tell her I'll be over later.

When will that young man

stop behaving like a husband?

Never .. I hope.

Ah, the genius is back.

Hiya, genius.

Hello, dear.

It's past midnight, Janet.

We'd better be going.

Oh no. You can't go yet.

The class prophesy said I was

going to marry a famous man.

And here he is. And you

haven't even met him.

These are my friends from St Louis.

Visiting New York for the first time.

And we went to five nightclubs.

Revolting, isn't it?

Janet, your friends are

trying to say goodnight.

Listen, famous author.

I have guests.

Why don't you get off your high

horse and act like a gentleman?

You'd better excuse

yourself to your friends.

They may not understand

that you're drunk.

Well .. tell her goodbye

for us, Mr Busch and ..

We'll phone before we leave town.

I'm sure she'll be

okay in the morning.

Nice knowing you, Busch.

Where are you going?

I don't know.

It doesn't matter to you,

and it doesn't matter to me.

What's bothering you?

Is it the fact that I went to

Mexico without telling you?

That's your business.

You closed me out of your life long ago.

That's unfair, Janet.

You know how busy I've been on the play.

All I know is that ..

You've become so tangled with Mr Saxon,

I can't tell one of you from the other.

You've turned into an intellectual snob

who has nothing in common with his wife.

You sent me away, so I wouldn't

interfere with your writing.

And then you went to Mexico.

I don't understand you anymore.

And I'm fed up with the

way you're treating me.

Look, Janet. We've both been

under a strain, but it's over now.

I've finished the play.

Give me a chance to snap out

of this nightmare, will you.

I've given up hope that

you'll ever be yourself again.

I've lost faith in you.

Why can't you be honest and state the

truth? That you don't love me anymore.

Don't blame everything on the change

in me. I'm the same man I always was.

Oh, I wish you were.

I wish you were.

You poor, long-suffering wife.

What are you after? A divorce?

Answer me .. do you want

a divorce? Yes or no?

You wouldn't have thought of such a

thing unless you wanted one yourself.

I'm not going to answer you.

That's a fine way to leave things.

If you should just happen to change

your mind about leaving, I'd ..

I won't.

You've been wonderful to me Alma, but ..

I just don't belong in New York anymore.

You are going to have company tonight

on that plane as far as St Louis.

At least you'll be here, not go to the

apartment to bury your head in a pillow.

Please don't worry about me.

I'll finish packing and be back to

pick you up after your last show.

You know, if I were the sensitive type,

I'd say I should mind my own business.

Hey, am I seeing things?

Where?

It is! It's Peter Stanhope. He's the

one Matt went out to Hollywood to see.

Peter, you've come East to

do the play? Where's Matt?

He's back in New York as far as I know.

And if you're talking about that

stinker called "The Comic Spirit".

I wouldn't open dead in it.

Even with Matt directing.

May we join you?

Yes, of course. Certainly.

I would like to present Abel Richman.

Alma Wragge.

How do you do?

Janet Busch.

How do you do?

How do you do?

Mrs Eric Busch.

I'm sorry, Mrs Busch.

I agree with you.

The Comic Spirit is a stinker.

I will say one thing for Saxon.

He got me so interested in theater again,

I've come to New York to look for a play.

But under the unspectacular

direction of Abel Richman.

Telephone, Miss Wragge.

It's Miss Bernard in Chris's office.

Thank you very much. My agent.

When an agent calls at this hour,

he doesn't want to know how you feel.

Excuse me.

Your husband has

great talent, Mrs Busch.

I admire is novels tremendously, and I

still think he can write a good play.

He did write a good play.

When I read the first version of The

Comic Spirit, I thought it wonderful.

Hello, Jack. What's up?

Don't tell me my plane reservations

have been cancelled.

Plane reservation?

Your contract has been cancelled.

Dave Ebbs won't sign.

Well, that's impossible.

It wasn't my idea to work in pictures.

He offered the contract.

Look, Alma.

I spent five hours getting hold of Ebbs

in Hollywood and I just hung up.

The deal is positively cold.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes