Without Reservations Page #2

...and let down their back fences.

Don't you think

it's getting a little crowded in here?

- Oh, I guess I talk too much.

- No, you're a good talker.

But doesn't all that yakking

make you a little thirsty?

Come on, we'll buy you a drink.

Thanks. I'll see you later. There are

things I wanna get out of my bag.

Good deal.

A beetle.

Yup.

A beetle.

Dear Mr. Baldwin:

After mature consideration...

...I subscribe to your plan of

having unknown play Mark Winston.

Stop.

But search is not necessary.

As I have met Mark Winston in the flesh.

Stop.

It's incredible...

...but it's true.

I instinctively feel this...

...dark-haired...

...deep-voiced Marine flyer is our man.

Stop.

I am thrilled.

Stop.

How shall I proceed?

Regards...

...Madden.

Oh, porter.

Porter, would you take care

of this wire for me?

- Yes, ma'am, at the next stop.

- Thank you.

Where are you going?

Hollywood.

Got a job?

You got a boyfriend in Hollywood?

Why do you wanna go to Hollywood

for? It's full of dames.

You want to come to San Diego

and get a job waiting tables.

Twenty-five bucks a week,

tips and two meals.

And the union takes care of you.

- Oh, are you a union member?

- Oh, certainly.

This fellow I go with is an organizer.

That's why I joined the union.

You know how it is.

You're interested in a guy...

...you gotta be sympathetic

with what he's doing.

That's where a lot of girls lose out.

Oh, you're so right.

You know, a relationship without

purpose or mental accord is sterile.

You bet.

How's that again?

I mean, so many girls choose a man

for the excitement...

...or social security it gives them.

Now, according to Professor Metcalf's

last book, a woman...

No, there's nothing in books

that will do you any good.

The way I see it, you give into a fellow

on the unimportant things...

...and you get what you want.

Now, does it hurt me if I encourage

him with his union work?

Does it cost me anything?

No. And it makes him feel good.

I can fix it for Joe to feel

so good that...

...when I say why doesn't he relax by

taking me to the Ritz Roof, he says:

"I don't like that place. It's full

of reactionaries. " But he takes me.

And Joe doesn't like reactionaries?

No, so I agree with him.

Sure, the Ritz Roof is expensive,

but does a fellow have respect...

...for a girl who's satisfied

with anything?

Will he thank the girl who lets him

hang around...

...because he brings cheap wine

and hamburger?

Will he praise the girl who lets him save

his money and burn holes in her sofa?

He's gonna do no such thing.

Instead, he's gonna find a blond.

And she's different?

Oh, you bet she's different.

What about the girl he jilted, the one

who let him burn the cigarette holes?

She's spending nickels calling him up.

Does he say he likes someone else

much better?

Someone's who's costing him

too much money? He does not.

He's saying he's too busy.

He's saying he's doing overtime.

And he's also worried about his mother

who hasn't been feeling so good.

And if she calls again,

he gives her the Ko.

You mean, hits her?

No, the brush-off.

That's when a fellow tells a girl

she's too good for him.

She's too high type a character.

She should try to find somebody

else who'll really appreciate her.

Honey, when a girl gets that routine,

she knows she's through.

She's washed up.

But completely.

Well, I'm sorry for her.

I am not. She's a dope.

A girl has to look into the future,

doesn't she?

Well, she's gotta keep an eye

on that pitching.

Oh, brother.

Will Joe get sore when he gets

a load of that.

Right away he'll start worrying

about who bought it.

Nothing like an orchid

to give a girl prestige.

Set me back five bucks...

...and I'm not gonna waste it on Gls.

I see what gives.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- Have a seat.

- Thank you.

- What will you have?

- Orange juice.

Beetle's at it.

- Who?

- The beetle.

What's a beetle?

They're cute to look at

but gotta keep your eye on them.

They make out that everything is

all right. They have no angles.

- They want a good time.

- That's them.

Then you find them crawling around.

They get in your hair, climb in

your pockets, give you mental fatigue.

You can't take up Uncle's planes.

You're grounded.

That's what the psychiatrist in

Jacksonville always said.

So beetles are out.

- Not exactly.

- Two bourbons and an orange juice.

Yes, sir.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.

That book sure gets around.

Are you familiar with it?

We picked it up in a bed in Jacksonville.

Yeah, it was in sickbay.

The fellow right next to Rusty

was sure giving that book a hard time.

He was handling it like he had

no respect for it. He was Army.

That's how we got these Jap medals.

Jap medals?

Lovely in a necklace.

Would you like some?

No, thanks.

Would someone mind telling me what

the book has to do with Jap medals?

Dink's getting this thing all fouled up.

I was reading Esquire and Joe

in the next bed wanted to trade.

And Rusty said, "No. "

He said no?

Well, Rusty kept right on reading

and the Army got desperate.

A dollar 35.

We were at the point

where the Army got desperate.

That's right.

Then he offered Rusty a genuine Afrika

Korps helmet with the Rommel insignia.

That's practically a collector's item.

So Rusty couldn't resist that.

I had to save the book from a fate

worse than the Army, didn't I?

Perhaps it would interest you to know

they're going to make a picture...

...out of that book

with Cary Grant and Lana Turner.

Cary Grant is gonna play the part

of that pilot?

For what reason would he do that?

He seemed like a pretty sharp fellow.

Well, they're probably giving him

a lot of bananas.

A fellow like Grant

already has a lot of bananas.

Then why shouldn't he play it?

- Why? Because it'd make him look silly.

- Silly?

Certainly.

But why?

Because Lana Turner keeps chasing him

for 400 pages and he keeps saying no.

- To Lana Turner?

- He does.

Was there something wrong

with this pilot guy?

There's nothing wrong with him...

...except he's busy fixing up

the world for everybody.

But can't he take care

of Lana Turner first?

He'd like to, Dink,

but this pilot is a Progressive.

And Lana Turner, according to

the book, is a reactionary.

That's it, exactly.

Oh, I know Rusty, but this reactionary

is not a fellow, he is Lana Turner.

What difference does it make?

- Well, that's what makes it so silly.

- I just don't understand.

Gentlemen,

you've missed the point entirely.

The characters that Lana Turner

and Cary Grant play are symbols.

He of the future and she of the past.

The clash between them

is purely ideological.

- Look, he's a man?

- Well, yes.

- She's a woman?

- Yes.

That's all.

I know what you're thinking,

both of you.

You're thinking

that I know nothing about men.

Well, don't let that worry you.

Neither did the character

that wrote that book.

Well, what would you do

if you were Mark Winston?

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