Young People Page #7

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I used to stand in the wings-

Oh, this'll be swell here.

This is a good stage. Now listen.

Do your specialty.

I probably forgot my part.

# Come on along

and let me show you #

#The grandest thoroughfare #

# Hop a bus

Take a car #

# Hail a cab and there you are #

# On Fifth Avenue #

# EveryJoe

EveryJane #

#Walks along that dreamers' lane #

# On Fifth Avenue #

#That's Fifth Avenue #

#Where they stop, window shop #

#And their hopes are so high #

- # Pricing rings #

- # Pretty things #

#That they can't afford to buy #

# But they smile, they don't care #

# Everyone's a millionaire #

#When you're strolling

on Fifth Avenue ##

Okay, that's enough, Wendy.

Gee, it'll be great to get back

into the old routine again, won't it?

- I can't wait.

- Neither can I.

I'm gonna start packing right now.

Aw, gee, Kit. Honey, don't, please.

What do we care if a bunch

of hayseeds don't go for us?

It's not for us I mind. It's for her.

- After all we planned.

- Oh, don't worry about her.

That kid's a trouper.

She'll get along all right.

Anyway, we had no right

to keep her away from a career.

She'll end up a star on Broadway.

That's right, Joe.

Broadway, bright lights-A big star.

That's for her.

"Ballantines Quit Stonefield."

- Well, what do you think of it, Eddie?

- It's a classic.

And this stuff about- "With

the Ballantines goes the spirit of youth"...

hits it right on the nose.

There they are now.

- Hello, Kit.

- Hello, boys. Hello.

- Hello, Joe.

- Mike, Eddie, how are ya?

We just stopped in to say good-bye.

- Look at this, Joe.

- What?

- Oh.

- You should feel highly honored.

Only two extras have ever been

gotten out by the Democrat.

One was when McKinley was shot,

and that's the other.

- That's a great spread, Mike, even if it is for our exit.

- Thanks, Mike.

This'll do a lot of explaining to the old gang

when they start ribbing us about coming back.

That's just what Wendy said

when she came in to say good-bye.

Tell me, Mike, how did she seem to feel?

You know, about going away.

Wendy? Why, she was tickled pink.

She-

Better take it easy, Wendy.

This'll be your fourth.

You sure are looking bluer

than a whetstone.

Oh, it's just the rain, Otis.

It certainly is beating down.

Huh. You can always count

on these contraptions...

to go blooey just as you need them.

"Hurricane."

Well, I know they're leaving today.

Eddie said thatJeb's bringing

their trunks over to the station...

and they're going on the 4:18.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Well, I don't like

to cast the first stone...

but I must say,

a body can stand just so much.

Mary Ann.

The idea of those cheap, big-mouth

know-it-alls comin'here...

trying to run us, stirrin'up

the young people and everything.

- Well, Hattie, they didn't really hurt anybody.

- Oh, didn't they?

Why, if it hadn't been

for Hester Appleby-

Yes, if it hadn't been for her,

and people like you...

everybody here would be a lot happier.

Maybe you're glad to see us go...

but you're not half as glad as we are.

You're mean and skimpy-minded.

And besides, my mother and father...

are five million times better

than all of you put together.

Your mother and father-

That's funny, isn't it, Ma?

- Mary Ann.

- Those Ballantines aren't your real folks at all.

You're just adopted. My pa's town clerk,

and he told Ma. Didn't he, Ma?

That your pa died a long time ago

and left you the farm.

And do you know what your real name is?

Wendy O'Hara.

Mary Ann, you shouldn't have.

Let her alone, Bertha. I always said

the child should know anyway.

Hmph. I knew about it all the time.

It's just too bad, Mary Ann...

that your mother didn't

bring you up to be a nicer girl.

You didn't know all the time,

did you?

All they've ever done was for me.

Oh. There they are now.

- Here's my handkerchief.

- Thank you.

- Do I look all right?

- You look fine.

- Good-bye, Judy.

- Good-bye, Wendy.

- You all set, honey?

- Yep.

- Have you been crying again, baby?

- 'Course not, Mom.

We better hurry, Dad,

or we'll have to swim to the station.

Well, take your last look, girls.

I still say it's a sweet little town.

- Dad?

- What?

Did you ever hear

of a man named O'Hara?

O'Hara? What-

- Did you ever hear of a man named O'Hara, Kit?

- Who?

- O'Hara, Mom.

- Oh, O'Hara. Well, who said-

- I mean, why?

- Oh-Oh, nothing.

Sure is rainin'.

Certainly is.

What were you saying

about that man Mr. O'Hara?

Well, I saw Mary Ann in the drug store...

and-and she said he was my father.

I was afraid of this.

Well, you see, honey, we were

gonna tell you all the time...

- onlyJoe thought that-

- Me? I wanted to tell you all the time, honey.

Your mother here-Well, Kit,

she thought it would be better if-

Now, Joe, don't say that.

I mean, we didn't want to spoil anything.

That's right, honey.

We just didn't want to spoil anything.

We were playin' in vaudeville.

We were in Springfield when we-

- Let me tell her, Joe.

- All right.

You see, Wendy, your mother and father

were our best friends.

Real troupers and fine people.

God doesn't make them any better

than Barney and Florence O'Hara.

When your mother died,

it broke your father's heart.

When your father went to join her,

he left you with us.

We couldn't have loved you any more

if you'd been our own baby.

We realized that the time would come

when we would have to tell you the truth.

At first you were too young

to understand...

and later we were afraid

of the way you might take it.

We didn't want to hurt you.

So you see...

you had to find it out like this.

Well, it-it was something of a shock.

Naturally, you can't expect me to-

No, no, honey, we understand.

Mom, Dad,

I love you both more than ever.

# I wouldn't take a million #

# For a mom and dad like you #

# I wouldn't take a million #

# For the little things you do #

# If they offered me a mansion #

# In the finest part of town #

# If you're not in that mansion #

#Then I would turn it down #

# I wouldn't take a million #

# For the moments we have known #

# I'd rather sit upon your knee #

#Than on a royal throne #

# If I could rub Aladdin's lamp #

#To make a wish come true #

# I'd wish that every kid could have #

#A mom and dad #

# Like you ##

Blew it away.

Yeah, that's what you get

for trying to sing a ballad.

Daddy! Daddy!

- Well, now what is it?

- Come on, let's get out, gals.

We gotta hoof it.

Come on, darlin'.

Look!

Floyd Jenkins,

what are you doing here?

- Picking berries.

- We were coming back from picking berries...

- and got lost in the storm.

- There's a house on the hill.

We better take 'em up there.

Hold on to me. We'll go together.

Over here. Keep going.

Come on! Hold on tight!

Wendy and Kit, I thought you were-

We couldn't get to the station.

Sorry to bust in, but we had to

bring the kids in someplace.

If it wasn't for Mr. Ballantine,

we wouldn't have got here at all.

They'll have to stay here tonight.

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