You Can't Take It with You Page #2

Say, that's a bad twitch in your eye.

You've been working too hard.

You ought to take a vacation.

If it's all the same to you, Mr. Vanderhof,

let's quit playing games.

I'm a very busy man.

A couple of weeks fishing

will fix up that twitch, Mr. Blakely.

I've got to go to the graduation exercises

over at the university.

Look, I have a check here for $100,000.

If you're interested...

- Have you been to one lately?

- No.

They're a truckload of fun.

You ought to hear the speeches.

I'd better be going. I'll be late.

Lookout for that twitch, Mr. Blakely.

Coming, Poppins?

I'd like to, but I don't think... I'd better not.

- Yes, sir.

- This is all your fault. You and your toys.

You...

Wait a minute, please.

If you leave, Poppins,

you needn't come back.

Wait, wait.

The die is cast.

I'm a lily.

Have some popcorn.

Did your grandpa go

to the graduation exercises, Miss Essie?

Guess so.

I wonder how many folks

Grandpa will bring home for dinner tonight.

I don't know. It all depends on

whether he goes walking in the park.

Well, let him bring them.

I'll be ready for them.

- Mother, will you taste a Love Dream for me?

- Not now. I'm busy.

Do you have to make candy today, Essie?

It's so hot.

Well, Ed went out

and got a bunch of new orders.

- How did it taste to you?

- lf this keeps up, you'll be opening a store.

That's what Ed was saying last night,

but I said no.

No. I want to be a dancer.

Finish your second act yet, Mrs. Sycamore?

No, I've got Cynthia

just entering the monastery.

I'll be right down, Mr. DePinna.

I just want to show my wife

these new firecrackers we made.

Penny, we can make up a lot of these

before the Fourth of July...

...and sell them for 10 cents a string. Watch.

Watch, Penny.

Nice, huh?

- Yes, Paul.

- Kids will go for those like hotcakes.

Mr. Sycamore, I'm afraid we've got

the powder chamber too near the balloon.

- Let's go down to the cellar and try it.

- Where's Grandpa? Let's ask Grandpa.

I ain't done nothing, but I'm sure tired.

You're always tired. From what?

You was born tired.

Here, you're just in time to set the table.

I don't see why I got to do your work

just because we're engaged.

- Donald, were you ever in a monastery?

- No, I don't go no place much.

I'm on relief.

Hello, Momma.

What do you say, Donald boy?

Well, I delivered all the candy.

Where's my beautiful wife?

Oh, lordy!

Here's a new one, Ed. Taste it.

- I'm calling it Love Dreams.

- Boy, you're a whiz.

Listen to this tune.

It's been ringing in my ears all day.

- Come on back a minute, Essie.

- What tune?

This is a beauty. You'll like this.

Let me turn the little do-jigger on.

I like that, Ed. Yours?

No, Chopin.

Well, it's got a lot of you in it.

What do you say there, Donald?

Well, you should have been there.

Everybody should have been there.

- Hello, Grandpa. How's your foot?

- How's my foot? Is that all I get?

Big class this year, Grandpa?

- How many were there?

- There must have been two acres.

Everybody graduated.

The speeches were funnier this year, too.

If you want to hear a good speech,

you ought to hear Father Divine.

Don't you worry. They'll have him there yet.

See if this sounds any better to you,

Mr. DePinna.

Mr. Poppins, excuse me.

This is my granddaughter, Essie,

and this is her husband, Mr. Carmichael.

Hello.

- What do you say, Mr. Poppins?

- How do you do?

Help yourself to a Love Dream.

They're on the table.

And this is my daughter, Mrs. Sycamore.

- This is Mr. Poppins, dear.

- How do you do?

Have a chair, Mr. Poppins.

Were you ever in a monastery?

In a monastery? Well, I...

What's the matter, Penny? Stuck?

Yes, I sort of got myself in a monastery

and I can't get out.

It'll come to you.

Remember how you got out of that jail?

Oh, that's fine, Ed.

- Is Alice coming home to dinner?

- She didn't say.

I think she should stop working

in that millinery shop.

They make her stay so late.

Penny, she hasn't been there

for five months.

She hasn't?

Isn't that a shame?

She was going to get me a hat I liked.

- She works for bankers now.

- Bankers? That's wonderful.

Essie's dancing teacher

wants to borrow $100 on his car.

Do you think she could fix it?

Sure, Kirby and Company

just loaned somebody $80 million.

I must speak to Alice about it.

Mr. DePinna was right.

The powder chamber

was too close to the balloon.

- Have a Love Dream, Father.

- No, thanks.

Mr. Poppins, this is Mr. Sycamore,

my son-in-law.

How do you do?

We're testing a new skyrocket

and Mr. DePinna was saying...

Knew it all the time.

You can't have that powder chamber close.

Mr. Poppins, Mr. DePinna.

How do you do?

- Mr. Poppins is going to stay with us.

- Oh, really? How wonderful!

Just for a short time. You see...

That's what I thought, that day

nine years ago when I delivered the ice.

Nine years ago?

You were the ice man.

- Mr. Poppins makes up things.

- Really?

You do?

Say, that's wonderful!

- Did you make that all by yourself?

- Yes.

That beats all.

- I have other ideas, too. Better ones.

- You have?

- Let's go down to the shop.

- You have a shop? That's marvelous.

Mrs. Penny...

Mrs. Penny...

...why don't you write a play

about "ism" mania?

- "Ism" mania?

- Yes, sure.

You know, communism, fascism...

...voodooism,

everybody's got an "ism" these days.

- I thought it was an itch or something.

- Well, it's just as catching.

When things go a little bad nowadays,

you go out and get yourself an "ism"...

...and you're in business.

I got it.

It might help Cynthia to have an "ism"

in the monastery.

Yes, it might at that.

Only give her Americanism.

Let her know something about Americans.

John Paul Jones, Patrick Henry,

Samuel Adams.

Washington, Jefferson, Monroe.

Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Edison and Mark Twain.

When things got tough with those boys,

they didn't run around looking for "isms."

Lincoln said, "With malice toward none,

with charity for all."

Nowadays they say, "Think the way I do

or I'll bomb the daylights out of you."

Why don't you go back

to your war play, Mrs. Sycamore?

- I like that one best.

- Really, Rheba? Well, maybe I will.

Hello. Miss Alice Sycamore, please.

You know, every once in a while

I get a very strange sensation.

I seem to hear a ringing in my ears.

Me, too. I thought for a moment

it was the telephone.

Yeah.

I hear voices, too.

Voices that say, "If you don't kiss her soon,

you're a chump."

If I were really clever, I could answer

the phone without the use of my hands.

I saw it done in a circus once.

Good.

That's wonderful.

I bet you'd be a sensation on a trapeze.

- Mr. Anthony Kirby Junior's office.

- Now, that's clever the way you say that.

Hello, Rheba.

No, Rheba.

Were you ever in a monastery?

No, but I'm the fellow

that got caught in a cave once.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Whatever happened to you?

Well, the cave caved in

and I haven't been heard from since.

Mrs. Kirby.

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