This Time for Keeps Page #3

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I would be very disappointed.

No, singing at the opera,

married to Frances, that`s what I want.

Well, we`re both tired.

Maybe we`d better go to bed.

You know, l`ve just about decided

never to have any children.

You say so.

It takes two to decide that. Why?.

Oh, children are such nitty disappointments

to their parents.

Not if they have sense enough

to do as they are told.

-Good night.

DlCK:
Good night.

RlCHARD:

Good night, Peter.

And don`t forget

to remember tomorrow...

...wake up in good voice,

ready for your audition.

DlCK:

If you say so, Dad.

RlCHARD:

I just did say so.

[SlNGlNG ""M`APPARl""]

Maestro, I would like you to--

So finally, you woke yourself up.

It was a struggle, but I made it.

I shook you.

I poured ice-cube water on you.

-You did all that?.

-No. I only wanted to.

Come. Come over here.

Almost immediately,

I will return with Norman.

Norman who?.

Norman Randall,

the director of the opera.

You will sing for him

and he will like your voice. Maybe.

Oh, but look, Dad, I don`t--

Sing. Try your voice.

I`ll be back in a minute.

MAN:

Do you wanna warm up, Mr. Johnson?.

Well, all right. Thank you.

MAN:

All right.

[ORCHESTRA PLAYlNG]

[SlNGlNG ""M`APPARl""]

[SlNGlNG] Marta

Ever-loving Marta

Mop, mop

You took away my heart-a

And then you took a part of me with you

I love you, Marta

I`d like to have a cart-a

Kisses

Because this is the missus

Whose kisses send me

Hey, Marta, baby

Won `t you listen?

Pet, leave the Met

Don `t regret

Forget about that opera jive

All these years, you`ve behaved

But you still can be saved

Hey, Marta, slip me five

Now, Marta, baby, welcome to the fold

You were cold, you were old

But now you got a beat that`s alive

Hey, Marta

Hey, Marta

Listen to the trumpets shout

The clarinets are giving out

Marta, sounds like you hail

From New Orleans

Marta, sakes alive

Hey, Marta, slip me five

Stop it. Stop it.

You know that kind of singing

gets on my goat.

Oh, l`m sorry, Dad.

Oh, Norman, this is my bad boy, Dick.

-Mr. Randall, Dick.

-Glad to know you.

How are you, Dick?.

We`re feeling a little gay, eh?.

Oh, I get taken that way sometimes.

-I was trying to tell my dad--

-I tell you. No more audition today.

Run off. Go and rest yourself

for a few months.

-And be back in time for dinner.

-Thanks, Dad.

-Goodbye, Mr. Randall.

-Goodbye, Dick.

Goodbye, Dad.

""Slip me five.""

He`s all mixed up.

He`s way up there or down in the dump.

Oh, give him a little time.

Yes, l`ll give him a little time.

And then l`ll give him something else.

I`ll give him a little of the old country.

Places, everybody. Places.

Hello, Duncan.

Hello. When do I go on?.

Someday soon.

Where`s your mother?.

I lost her again.

Old man,

you`re a victim of mass production.

Places.

-Come on, Duncan.

-Where were you hiding, underwater?.

Nora isn`t here yet.

Nora`s skipping the rehearsal.

Use the understudy.

-She`s not sick?.

-No, she`s fine.

What did you say yes to this time?.

Look, Ferdi, I know you think

l`m a doormat for Nora. Maybe I am.

Maybe I think

that`s the smartest thing to be.

A useful article, a doormat.

Yeah, well, just as many women

have married doormats as roller-skaters.

-Huh?.

-Nora went roller-skating.

Not with that bawling baritone?.

Now he wants to show her

he`s the athletic type.

Rehearsal dismissed.

Now I gotta go to the rescue on skates.

Duncan, don`t you dare go in there.

Don`t you dare go--

DUNCAN:

Come on. Catch me.

Please, don`t. Please don`t.

Ha, ha, ha.

FERDl:

When I get--!

[SlNGlNG] Every time they start off

With a water ballet

There`s the customary swimming pool

To swim in

But we don `t wanna do it

In the customary way

So we start off

Just with bathing suits and women

It`s mutiny, that`s what I calls it.

In swimming suits, you`re due.

A t least, I hope our lovely star

Won `t double-cross me too

What`s the idea?.

You`re going swimming, ain`t you?.

-That`s right.

-Well, where`s your bathing cap?.

Where`d she go?.

Hope Gene Kelly saved his money.

You bruised me. Be careful.

Look at the time

I wasted being a stamp collector.

FERDl [SlNGlNG] :

Just because you got furs on your backs

You let your ambition relax

-[SlNGlNG] But fur means money

-And money means income

And where there is income

There`s tax

And speaking of taxes

Be wise

Just do what the experts advise

Take 1 0 percent off for your agent

Take 1 0 percent off for the press

Then take another 1 0

For your publicity men

What`s another 1 0 more or less?

Then take off a few incidentals

It`s the little things that really count

Anyone with half a brain

Can show a capital gain

If you take off the proper

Listen to your papa

Take off the proper amount

So they took off a few incidentals

And they made each incidental count

It`s a certainty, my friend

That you`ll have more in the end

If you take off the proper

Listen to your papa

Take off the proper amount

Well?.

I just wanted to see how you looked

without Ferdi in the background.

-He is very devoted to my interests.

-And to you.

Of course.

Ferdi`s like one of the family.

He has been ever since

he used to troupe with my father.

Why, I can hardly remember

when Ferdi wasn`t around taking care of us.

Tell me about yourself, Nora.

About your family,

what you like, what you don`t like...

...or anything else I might find useful.

Well, my family.

Cambaretti sounds ltalian, but it isn`t.

It`s French.

And I would have been the fifth generation

of the family in the circus.

Except I took up swimming instead.

Did they understand

or did they want you to stay in the circus?.

Oh, no. No, it was all right...

...after I became a headliner.

The Cambarettis

have always been headliners.

Anyway, there`s a sixth generation now,

so perhaps--

You`re not married?.

Oh, no, no. Of course not.

It`s my niece, Deborah Cambaretti.

[LAUGHlNG]

FERDl [SlNGlNG] :

Let them say it with flowers

Let them say it with sweets

Let them say it with skating

Let them say it with eats

Let them say it with jewelry

Let them say it with mink

But you better be careful

Don `t let them say it with:

Ink a-dink-a-dee, a-dink-a-doo,

A-dink-a-dee

Maybe we` d better just give in

and adopt him.

I adopted him a long time ago

when I was just a little girl.

I guess I can learn to tell you your eyes

are beautiful while Ferdi`s glaring at me.

Your eyes are beautiful.

And I could go on from there, if--

If what?.

If we could sneak off

to a little place I know.

They serve hotcakes and little pig sausages

and they`re completely minus a piano.

Ink a-dink-a-dee, a-dink-a-doo,

A-dink-a-dee

Simply means:

Ink a-dink-a-dee, a-dink-a-doo

-Good night, Dick.

-Good night, Nora.

Thanks for a wonderful evening.

See you tomorrow.

[KNOCKlNG]

Hello, Ferdi.

Hello, Nora.

Come on in.

Ferdi, l`m sorry about tonight.

Sorry you ditched me?.

We didn`t ditch you. It--

Well, it`s just that Dick wanted

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