Torch Singer Page #2

I only know

That I can't go on, darling

And here lies love

Well, Miss Benton...

You don't have to say it.

I was terrible.

No, no, no.

Your voice is okay.

What you need is experience.

What kind of experience?

Well, you know, see something

of life, learn how to suffer.

A woman must suffer much

before she can sing a little.

I see.

Come back to me

in about a year.

All right.

In the meantime,

watch me suffer.

It's a long dark night

Come on home, Daddy

'Cause I'm lonely and blue

You know I worry, Daddy

Won't you hurry?

Mama's waiting for you

Now you know it ain't right

To fool me, baby

'Cause I'm faithful and true

And I won't struggle

If you want to snuggle

Dear, I'm waiting for you

Although you've

kept me yearning

I hope my yearning is through

I've kept those

home fires burning

So give your devil her due

Come and hold me tight

You great big baddie

And do, do like you do

It's, oh, so cold out

I can hardly hold out

Still I'm waiting for you

Miss Benton,

you are marvelous!

So you think I've

suffered enough, do you?

Waiter, bring me

a telephone, please.

I want you to be

hostess in my night club.

Are you tied up

here with a contract?

I'm not tied up anywhere.

I'm as free as

a bird on the wing.

CARLOTTl:
Splendid!

Lend me your

pencil, please.

Thanks.

This is

Tony Cummings speaking.

Cummings, of the

American Radio Corporation.

I wonder if you'd care to

take luncheon with me tomorrow.

No, no, I'll stop by for you.

Why don't you ring me

at noon and verify this?

My number is

Vanderbilt 39970.

I look forward to it.

And now about terms.

Yes, terms.

But I warn you, I'm going

to cost you a lot of money.

That'll be okay.

I'm a slave to you

Don't you want

the heart I gave to you?

You can have me if you want me

But you must be mine alone

Give me liberty

or give me love

You're so dear to me

I wish I was like that.

I'm in heaven

If you were,

I'd smack you down.

When you're near to me

You can have me

if you want me

Carlotti, she is superb.

Yes.

But you must be mine alone

I give her her chance.

Give me liberty

or give me love

I'm only a slave to you

Now you can have me

if you really want me

Give me liberty or love

You're so dear to me

When you are near to me

You can have me

But you must be mine alone

Give me liberty

or give me love

You've been kind of strange

Why the sudden change?

Do you want somebody new?

I'd be glad to share...

How do you like her?

I don't care for any woman

as notorious as Mimi Benton.

What has her private

life got to do with it?

It isn't private.

It's a public scandal.

Well, Mrs. Judson, those stories

are very much exaggerated.

I want you both to meet her.

Yours to have and hold

and call your own, dear

You can have me if you want me

But you must be mine alone

Give me liberty

or give me love

Give me liberty or love

Of course you don't want

to dance with me, my dear.

Not with you, Andrew. You

have no rhythm in your soul.

However, if Tony

would care to join me...

Care? Why, Mrs. Judson, this is

one of the big moments of my life.

I'm Mimi Benton.

How do you do?

Miss Benton,

I'm afraid I'm all right.

I'm Andrew Judson of the

Judson Pure Food Corporation.

No!

Yes.

That's marvelous!

I've heard Tony

speak of you 100 times.

Yes?

Where is Tony?

He's fighting... I mean,

he's dancing with my wife.

Tony's very fascinating. Aren't

you afraid you'll lose her?

I don't think

there's a chance.

I've been asking Tony for weeks

to bring you up some evening.

Yeah? Well,

that's funny.

He never said

a word to me about it.

No? Poor Tony!

He's such a jealous boy.

Jealous of me?

That's nonsense.

Look here, I'm giving a little

party tonight. Tony'll be there.

Don't you want

to come over?

I'd love to, but...

Bring Mrs. Judson, of course,

yes, if you think she'll be amused.

She wouldn't. No, she

wouldn't. I'm sure she wouldn't.

You come up anyhow.

I've so wanted to meet you.

Say yes.

Say yes?

Yes.

I want you to tell me all about

Pure Foods. We'll talk until dawn.

I don't stay up that late

on account of my lumbago.

Lumbago?

I have something

grand for lumbago.

Yes?

Yes.

I'll fix you up.

I am Edwardo Pasquale of

the Baltimore Opera Company.

I must see the big man from

the radio, Mr. Cummings.

Good afternoon, Miss Benton.

Hello, Helen.

I'm sorry, but Mr.

Cummings is busy.

Hello, Dorothy. Mr. Cummings

is busy, Miss Benton.

All right. Well, you

just tell him I'm here,

and I'll wander around.

All right.

I don't think he's

telling me the truth.

Excuse me.

Yes? Who?

My apologies to Miss...

Tell the young lady I'll see

her in just a moment. Thank you.

I want to know

everything that happened.

Well, Mrs. Judson,

Mimi spent the entire evening

treating your husband's lumbago.

I hope I never

have the misfortune

to encounter that

wretched creature!

Forget it, Julia.

We came here to listen to our

first Pure Foods' broadcast,

not to talk

about Miss Benton.

Will you pardon me just

a moment? Why, certainly.

Thank you.

Tony, darling!

What's the matter?

What brings you

down here so early?

The Judson

Pure Food broadcast.

Juddy told me all

about it last night.

You know me,

anything for a laugh.

He didn't ask you

down here, did he?

Well, yes and no.

Is that so?

Well, you'd better make

yourself scarce around here.

Mrs. Judson's

in there with him.

Oh, goodie!

I want to meet her.

No, you don't, Mimi.

Come on now.

Yes, I do.

Hello, Miss Benton.

Hello.

What goes on here,

a marathon race?

She's an expert in

child psychology.

In a few seconds, she's facing

the mike for the first time.

It looks as if she's

facing a firing squad.

Hello. Miss Spaulding, time to go on.

Now, now...

That's not going to bite you.

You go in there

and knock them cold!

If only I could knock them

as cold as I am right now.

Go on.

Little boys and girls

of Radioland,

you are going to hear

the first program

we are sending

you by Aunt Jenny.

Now, Aunt Jenny is going to

tell you all about lovely Oatina,

made by the Judson

Pure Foods Company.

Aunt Jenny will

sing you songs,

tell you stories and

play games with you,

just like your own auntie.

Here she is, kiddies.

Good evening...

little children.

This is your Aunt...

No, no.

Here I am, darlings,

your Aunt Jenny.

You know what

interrupted me just now?

A big dragon sneaked up behind

me and grabbed me by the shoulder.

"Listen here,

Aunt Jenny," he said,

"you can't talk to

all those boys and girls

"because maybe

some of them have been bad,

"and the bad ones

belong to me. "

So I said to him,

"What do you mean, bad?

"Maybe some of them are naughty

once in a while, but who isn't?"

When I was a little girl,

I was pretty naughty myself,

but no bad dragon ever got me.

And do you know why?

Because I always ate Oatina,

so you see...

It makes everybody

feel like singing,

and there's nothing dragons

hate so much as a song.

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