Three Little Words Page #7

- What do you expect me to do?

- All right, I was wrong.

I just didn't want you to get hurt.

That's very touching.

Well, why else would I do it?

Whatever the reason,

you had a sweet nerve.

What do you mean,

"whatever the reason"?

All I know is I wanted something

very much.

And now I find out

my partner did me out of it.

Well, I told you why, I was worried.

About me or yourself?

Oh, sure. Now I get it.

You think I didn't want you

to have that play.

I was scared the play might click

and bust up our partnership...

...and I couldn't lean on you anymore.

Is that what you meant?

If I believed that,

I couldn't be any sorer than I am now.

But you do believe it.

You must think I needed you

pretty badly.

You must have thought so.

Not that badly.

Look, I'm not forgetting anything.

I know what I was

when I ran into you:

A song-plugger.

But even without you,

I might have gotten somewhere.

It's just possible.

All by myself.

It's not too late to try.

Harry. Bert. Come on,

it's time to cut the cake.

Come on. Everybody's waiting.

Harry. Bert.

- Come on.

- Make a wish.

- Make a wish.

- Make a wish, come on.

Hello, hello. Bert? Marty.

Say, some of the boys down here

got ahold of a screwy item...

...for tomorrow's issue. Listen:

"Kalmar and Ruby split.

Songwriting team are calling it quits

after a long and successful partnership.

Understood Kalmar will devote his time

to stories and screenplay writing."

Say, will you tell the boys

they're crazy?

Okay, Bert.

Sorry.

Print it.

Nice tune.

- Have you got any lyrics for it?

- No.

No words.

Ever hear from Bert?

No. He's writing those scripts.

Doing real well, they tell me.

You know,

Bert's really a smart fella.

Oh, that's nice too.

That's one of the nicest

melodies you've ever written, Harry.

It's always been my favorite.

It seems

You just tiptoe

Into all my dreams

So I

Think of no other one

Ever since I've begun

Thinking of you

It's different from the rest.

You must've been very much in love

when you wrote this one.

Well...

You wanna know something?

I think I wrote it too soon.

- Morning.

- Morning, Jess.

- Been working all night?

- Most of it.

There's a review

of your picture in here.

- Oh, what did they say?

- You're a big man this morning.

"The story by Bert Kalmar

is thoroughly enjoyable.

The dialogue neat and deftly turned."

- How's that?

- Let me see it. I love good notices.

Hey, did you see this?

They flew to Yuma last night.

She's a very nice girl, Bert.

Yeah.

Well, we didn't have to wire

Al Schacht this time, did we?

You didn't eat a thing.

I wasn't hungry.

- Just tired, huh?

- Oh, a little bit.

You are my lucky star

I saw you from afar

And so, ladies and gentlemen...

...we bring to a close another issue

of The Songwriters' Parade.

Tonight's honored guests were

Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown.

We'll be back again next week

to pay tribute once again...

... to the men

who write America's songs.

At that time we'll be happy to present

as our guests...

... Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

Is that Phil Regan out of his mind

or something?

I don't know.

Whoever told him

to announce a thing like that?

A personal appearance.

- There's nothing so terrible about it.

- Nothing so terrible?

A radio show with two people

who don't talk to each other?

- I wanna get that Regan on the phone.

- No. You can't do that.

- Why not?

- Because...

If Phil Regan was nice enough

to think of you...

...the least you can do is to be there.

I'll take that.

He ought to know better...

...than to announce a thing like that

without checking first.

What kind of a business is this?

- Kalmar and Ruby, he said.

- Hello?

- Kalmar and Ruby.

- Oh, hello, Eileen.

Like we were brothers or something.

- Well, I don't know.

- That doesn't mean I have to go.

- He ought to stop thinking...

- How's it going at your house?

- Well, hold on.

- This will be a great show. Great.

How can they do a thing like this?

I didn't okay it.

Tell him to get another voice

because I'm not gonna be there.

Bert won't be there either.

What do they expect me to do...

...play the piano while Bert makes

a microphone disappear?

It's a little early to tell yet, Jessie.

I know what you mean.

Keep your fingers crossed.

Who told them to do it?

Who put them up to it?

- lf they ever find out that we did this...

- What kind of routine are we supposed to do?

An argument for the benefit

of our audience?

Look, Eileen, I'll call you back later.

We're on the air, boys, shake hands.

Come out fighting.

Oh, come on, Harry.

Ah, this whole thing's silly.

I don't like it, Eileen.

Oh, I know.

In a way it is embarrassing.

But after all, Regan

was nice enough to think of you.

The very least you can do

is be there.

- Eileen, Harry!

- Jessie, how are you?

How are you, Eileen?

You look wonderful. I'll take your hat.

- Hello, Bert.

- Hello, Eileen.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Pull up a stool.

- Oh, thanks.

Well, it looks like

we're stuck with this thing.

I guess so.

Got any ideas what we might do?

I found one of the old routines.

It might be okay.

That thing we did

at the Friars, remember?

Sure.

Oh, sure. Sure. This is okay.

Want to rehearse?

Oh, I know the music.

You know the words?

Yeah, I know the words.

Well, I guess

we don't have to rehearse.

I guess not.

Well, I'll see you tomorrow night,

I guess.

I guess so.

Oh, say...

I caught your picture the other night.

Nice job.

It's all right, I guess.

I hear you've been knocking out

good tunes lately.

Oh, I've been kicking it

around a little.

You got anything?

Sure. Sure, I've got one little tune

I've been working on.

Of course, you won't like it.

- What won't I like?

- What I got.

- I haven't heard it yet.

- Okay.

- Sounds vaguely familiar.

- Well, I told you you wouldn't like it.

I never said that. It's a nice tune,

a very nice tune.

You never got a title for it, huh?

No, in fact, never did.

There was "La-Da-Dee-Da"

and "Beep-Beep-A-Deep."

That's about all we got.

Let's see. We ought to get something

for a tune like that.

Play that first part, will you?

Oh me, oh my

No. That's no good.

You know, that's not a bad tune.

- I could've been wrong about it.

- Well, you usually weren't.

Well, let me see.

I love you so

No, that's that thing we had before.

We'll get it. We'll get something.

Yeah, we'll get it.

Do you want to work on it?

We could knock it off this afternoon.

- Okay. Let's knock it off.

- All right.

I can't this afternoon. I just remembered

there's a double-header at Wrigley Field.

It's not that I wanna go.

You see, I promised a fella...

- I see. Baseball is more important.

- No. No, I'll work with you tonight.

All night if you want to.

All right, if you want to.

No, wait a minute, I can't.

I've got a meeting tonight.

The magician's club.

The magician's club?

- Yeah.

- You've gotta do tricks, huh?

- No, I don't gotta do tricks.

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