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00:02:16 >> Baby, want me to?
00:02:19 >> I don't care, I like it fine this way.
00:02:21 But Grandma says you're getting tougher and tougher to have around the house.
00:02:24 >> [LAUGH]
00:02:26 She does, doesn't she?
00:02:27 Any more complaints from Grandma?
00:02:29 >> She says you're too picky and choosy.
00:02:31 Where are we going?
00:02:34 >> Make Grandma upset.
00:02:36 [HORN HONKING]
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00:02:44 >> Hey, Pop, look at that.
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00:02:52 What's he supposed to be doing?
00:02:54 >> Well, that's a statue of Atlas, Tommy.
00:02:56 He's carrying the world on his shoulders.
00:02:58 >> No kidding.
00:02:59 That's what Grandma says you're doing.
00:03:01 And she wishes you'd leave the world alone a while.
00:03:03 >> Yeah?
00:03:04 Looks like I'm gonna have to slug Grandma.
00:03:08 >> Hey, we're late. Grandma's gonna slug us.
00:03:11 Come on.
00:03:12 >> I just love waiting for people.
00:03:22 I always say there's nothing as much fun as standing around waiting for people who are always late.
00:03:26 >> Well, we're late, Ma, because I've been carrying the world around on my shoulders.
00:03:29 It's kind of heavy. You can't walk too fast.
00:03:31 >> Now, put it down gently here and give me some money for your son's shoes.
00:03:34 Now, thank you, Tommy, to keep your mouth shut hereafter.
00:03:36 >> I told Papi he was getting tougher and tougher to have around the house, too.
00:03:39 >> How much are shoes in New York?
00:03:41 >> Better give her ten bucks.
00:03:42 >> Wish me luck, Ma. I'm going up to the magazine now.
00:03:45 >> Good luck, Joe. I hope it's something you want this time and not too far away.
00:03:48 >> It'll be right here. Otherwise, Minnify wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to get us the apartment.
00:03:51 >> Mr. Minnify always tends to want the right. Don't you ever think of what's right yourself?
00:03:55 >> Well, yeah, I think sometimes to myself.
00:03:57 Well, I'm late. Have fun.
00:03:59 >> Boy's shoes, fourth floor.
00:04:01 >> Yes, toy department, second floor.
00:04:03 >> Thank you.
00:04:05 [ Indistinct conversations ]
00:04:07 >> Blitz Weekly, please.
00:04:13 >> Reception room, sixth floor. Right in there.
00:04:15 >> Right now.
00:04:22 >> I can't wait to see you now.
00:04:23 >> Oh, yes, I did have an appointment.
00:04:25 >> I'm sorry. I have no record of it.
00:04:27 >> I spoke with the secretary the day before yesterday, and she said to come in this morning.
00:04:30 >> He'll be in himself in a half hour. If you don't mind waiting, I'll try again.
00:04:34 Yes, please.
00:04:35 >> I have an appointment with Mr. Minnify.
00:04:37 >> Name, please.
00:04:38 >> Skylar Green.
00:04:39 >> Skylar Green.
00:04:40 >> Telegram for Mr. Pendleton.
00:04:41 >> Through the door, second office to the right.
00:04:43 >> Thank you.
00:04:44 >> Skylar Green to see Mr. Minnify.
00:04:46 Thank you.
00:04:48 Mr. Minnify is expecting you.
00:04:50 >> Mr. Irwin will call for thee.
00:04:51 >> Janet, for Mr. Minnify.
00:04:53 >> Follow me, please.
00:04:55 >> Right.
00:04:56 >> Yes, please.
00:04:57 >> Miss Detres is expecting me.
00:04:58 >> Just a moment, please.
00:05:00 >> Yep.
00:05:01 [ Buzzer ]
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00:05:16 >> Mr. Green.
00:05:17 Oh, Mr. Green.
00:05:18 Mr. Minnify's on the long distance.
00:05:19 He'll be through in a moment.
00:05:20 Why don't you sit down?
00:05:21 >> Thank you.
00:05:22 >> Have you seen the last issue?
00:05:23 >> No, thank you.
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00:05:30 >> Is Mr. Green on there yet?
00:05:31 >> Yes, Mr. Green is here.
00:05:32 >> Good.
00:05:33 I'll be right out.
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00:05:37 >> Come in, come in.
00:05:38 Glad you're here, Green.
00:05:39 This is all right now, Miss Miller.
00:05:41 Get it off air mail special.
00:05:42 Glad to see you.
00:05:43 Come on in.
00:05:44 >> Thanks.
00:05:46 >> Sit down.
00:05:48 Finding your way around?
00:05:50 >> Almost.
00:05:51 >> Good.
00:05:52 Mother and kid like New York?
00:05:53 >> Oh, fine.
00:05:54 They like the apartment, too.
00:05:55 Thanks.
00:05:56 >> Had a bit of luck.
00:05:57 Probably the last apartment left in Manhattan.
00:05:58 Getting to know people here.
00:05:59 >> Well, not yet.
00:06:00 I'm always a little bit slow about that.
00:06:02 >> Fix that up right away.
00:06:03 How about tonight at my place?
00:06:04 Having some people.
00:06:05 A couple of girls and some people.
00:06:06 >> Well, thanks.
00:06:07 Some other time.
00:06:08 >> Nonsense.
00:06:09 I won't ask you another time.
00:06:10 Here's the address.
00:06:11 Miss Miller, don't disturb me until I call you for anything.
00:06:13 Tell Mrs. Minnify Mr. Green's coming to dinner.
00:06:16 Now, get good and comfortable.
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00:06:20 There.
00:06:22 Because I'm going to talk to you for about an hour.
00:06:28 Maybe two.
00:06:30 I've had an idea.
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00:06:50 >> You do go into the bar, won't you?
00:06:52 >> I'd love a martini.
00:06:53 >> Why don't we get you one?
00:06:54 >> Jesse!
00:06:55 [ Indistinct talking ]
00:06:59 >> Skylar Green I've been telling you about.
00:07:01 My wife.
00:07:02 >> Oh, don't be silly, Don.
00:07:03 I know Mr. Green.
00:07:04 I read everything he ever wrote.
00:07:05 You just never stop talking.
00:07:06 Get him a drink.
00:07:07 >> What'll you have?
00:07:08 A martini and a good?
00:07:09 >> Kathy, this is Mr. Green.
00:07:11 My niece, Miss Lacey, and Bill Lacey.
00:07:13 >> How do you do?
00:07:14 You better clear things up now, Jesse, or you'll never get straightened out.
00:07:16 >> Well, Mr. Green, Kathy and Bill --
00:07:18 Kathy's been divorced for a couple of years, Green.
00:07:20 Calls herself Miss Lacey and confuses everybody.
00:07:22 All very friendly, very civilized, and very done.
00:07:25 Likes your stuff, though.
00:07:26 >> Please sit down, Mr. Green.
00:07:27 >> Bill, would you get me a drink?
00:07:29 >> Sure.
00:07:30 The way it was before, all right?
00:07:31 >> Just right, thank you.
00:07:32 I haven't read everything you've written, Mr. Green, but what I have has been --
00:07:35 >> What do people call a guy whose first name is Skylar?
00:07:38 >> Phil.
00:07:39 >> Good.
00:07:40 Then I don't have to say "Green" all the time.
00:07:41 Too hardy, last names, and Skylar is impossible.
00:07:43 >> That bad.
00:07:44 >> I wouldn't call a dog Skylar.
00:07:46 >> My mother's name.
00:07:48 My middle one.
00:07:50 I started signing my stuff Skylar Green when I was on the college paper at Stanford.
00:07:55 Sounded better to me, I guess, than Philip.
00:07:58 Like Somerset Maugham instead of William, Sinclair Lewis instead of Harry.
00:08:03 >> Somerset, Sinclair, Skylar, all S's.
00:08:06 Maybe that means something.
00:08:07 >> Yes.
00:08:08 >> Do you mind telling people what you're writing now, Mr. Green?
00:08:11 >> Not at all.
00:08:14 Well, I'm not writing anything just now, but --
00:08:19 >> Let me tell them.
00:08:21 I've asked him to do a series on anti-Semitism.
00:08:23 Break it wide open.
00:08:24 Been wanting to do it for some time.
00:08:26 >> Do I get a credit line?
00:08:27 >> You?
00:08:28 >> Yes.
00:08:29 >> For what?
00:08:30 >> Well, don't you remember, oh, back around Christmas of last year, that Jewish schoolteacher resigning.
00:08:33 I was the one who --
00:08:34 >> Why, sure.
00:08:35 I knew somebody was after me, but I forgot who.
00:08:37 >> John, the Jacksons are here.
00:08:38 >> All right.
00:08:39 I'm always stealing ideas without knowing it, Phil.
00:08:41 >> That's what keeps the magazine original.
00:08:43 [ Laughter ]
00:08:49 >> Funny you're suggesting this series.
00:08:52 >> Is it?
00:08:53 Why?
00:08:57 >> Oh, uh, lots of reasons.
00:09:03 >> You make up your mind too quickly about people, Mr. Green.
00:09:05 Women, anyway.
00:09:07 I saw you do it when you sat down.
00:09:09 >> As apparent as all that.
00:09:11 >> You cross-filed and indexed me.
00:09:13 Um, a little too well-bred, self-confident, artificial, trifle absurd, typical New York.
00:09:21 >> No, I didn't have time for all that.
00:09:23 >> Oh, yes, you did.
00:09:24 I even left out a few things, faintly irritating, upper-class manner, over-bright voice.
00:09:28 >> All right, all right.
00:09:30 I give up.
00:09:31 You win.
00:09:32 >> I'm sorry.
00:09:33 I couldn't resist it.
00:09:35 Because it's only partly true.
00:09:37 Is this your first trip east?
00:09:39 >> No, it's not my first trip.
00:09:41 Every other time I've been here, though, I've had a plane or railroad or boat ticket for tomorrow.
00:09:47 >> Are you going to stay?
00:09:49 >> I think so.
00:09:53 You're getting a pretty complete story on me.
00:09:55 Now it's your turn.
00:09:56 >> Well, you know I'm divorced.
00:09:59 Um, I help run a nursery school.
00:10:01 I'm called Miss Lacey.
00:10:05 >> Do you want just anything?
00:10:10 >> Just anything.
00:10:11 >> Dinner.
00:10:14 >> Dinner?
00:10:22 >> No reading comics at the table, Tommy.
00:10:23 Put it away.
00:10:24 >> Oh, let me finish.
00:10:25 I'm right at the end.
00:10:27 >> No making mysteries at the table either, Phil.
00:10:29 >> Mysteries?
00:10:31 >> I haven't even mentioned your assignment.
00:10:32 >> Oh.
00:10:35 He wants me to do a series on anti-Semitism.
00:10:37 >> You don't sound very enthusiastic.
00:10:39 >> I'm not.
00:10:41 >> Will you insist on your doing it?
00:10:43 >> Oh, no, he's not that kind of man, is there?
00:10:46 Mama, what do you do to just eggs to make them taste this way?
00:10:50 >> Pray over them.
00:10:55 Have a good time last night?
00:10:57 >> Yeah.
00:10:59 >> You know, you need new people as much as you need new places.
00:11:02 I mean, everybody does, not just you.
00:11:04 >> Oh, it was a good bunch to start.
00:11:06 And the funny thing, there's a girl.
00:11:08 Menifee's niece suggested that series on anti-Semitism.
00:11:11 Funny.
00:11:13 >> Don't say.
00:11:14 Why, women will be thinking next, Phil.
00:11:16 >> What's anti-Semitism?
00:11:17 >> Hmm?
00:11:18 >> What's anti-Semitism?
00:11:21 >> Oh, that's where some people don't like other people just because they're Jews.
00:11:26 >> Oh.
00:11:27 Why?
00:11:28 Are they bad?
00:11:29 >> Some are, sure.
00:11:30 Some are.
00:11:31 It's like everybody else.
00:11:33 >> What are Jews, anyway?
00:11:34 I mean, exactly.
00:11:38 >> Well, you remember last week when you asked me about that big church?
00:11:41 >> Sure.
00:11:42 >> I told you there were lots of different churches?
00:11:44 >> Yeah.
00:11:45 >> Well, the people who go to that particular church are called Catholics, see?
00:11:49 And there are people who go to other churches, and they're called Protestants.
00:11:53 And there are others who go to still different ones, and they're called Jews.
00:11:57 Only they call their kind of churches synagogues or temples.
00:12:00 >> Now, why don't some people like those?
00:12:06 >> Well, that's a kind of a tough one to explain, Tom.
00:12:09 Some people hate Catholics, and some hate Jews.
00:12:12 >> And no one hates us because we're Americans.
00:12:17 >> Well, no, no.
00:12:18 That's another thing again.
00:12:21 You can be an American and a Catholic or an American and a Protestant or an American and a Jew.
00:12:27 Look, look, Tom.
00:12:28 It's like this.
00:12:30 One thing is your country, see, like America or France or Germany or Russia, all the countries.
00:12:35 The flag is different and the uniform is different and the language is different.
00:12:39 >> And the airplane and mark different?
00:12:40 >> Differently, that's right.
00:12:42 But the other thing is religion, like the Jewish or the Catholic or the Protestant religion, see?
00:12:46 That hasn't anything to do with the flag or the uniform or the airplanes.
00:12:50 >> Got it?
00:12:51 >> Yep.
00:12:52 >> Don't ever get mixed up on me.
00:12:53 >> I got it.
00:12:55 >> Some people are mixed up.
00:12:56 >> Why?
00:12:58 >> It's 830, Tommy.
00:12:59 You better get going.
00:13:00 >> Yeah, yeah.
00:13:01 You'll be late.
00:13:02 >> Finish your milk.
00:13:08 >> Thanks, Tommy.
00:13:09 Bye.
00:13:14 >> That's all right.
00:13:15 You're always good with him.
00:13:17 >> That kid is going to wreck me.
00:13:18 Yep.
00:13:19 >> Did you and Dad have to go through this sort of stuff with me?
00:13:21 >> Of course we did.
00:13:26 Are you very disappointed, Phil?
00:13:28 >> Yes, I am.
00:13:30 I was almost sure he'd hand me the Stassen story or Washington.
00:13:34 I wasn't looking for an easier one, Ma.
00:13:36 I did want something that I could really make good on.
00:13:40 I'd so like the first one here to be a natural, something I know they'd read.
00:13:43 >> Oh, you mean there's enough anti-Semitism in real life without people reading it?
00:13:46 >> No.
00:13:47 But this one's doomed before I start.
00:13:50 What could I possibly say that hasn't been said before?
00:13:54 >> I don't know.
00:13:57 Maybe it hasn't been said well enough.
00:13:59 If it had, you wouldn't have had to explain it to Tommy just now, your father and I to you.
00:14:04 It would be nice sometimes not to have to explain it to someone like Tommy.
00:14:09 Kids are so decent to start with.
00:14:14 Home for lunch?
00:14:15 >> No.
00:14:18 I'll take a walk.
00:14:23 You're quite a girl, Ma.
00:14:26 [kiss]
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00:14:43 >> You seem surprised.
00:15:02 >> Yes.
00:15:03 >> Why?
00:15:04 >> Well, I didn't think you were going to do it.
00:15:05 You have a bad poker face, Phil.
00:15:06 I saw you were disappointed in the assignment the minute I mentioned it.
00:15:09 That's why I didn't push it.
00:15:10 What changed your mind?
00:15:11 >> Oh, a couple of things.
00:15:12 >> Uh-huh.
00:15:13 I may put my niece on the contract, Inspiration Department.
00:15:15 >> No, it wasn't that.
00:15:17 It was my kid.
00:15:19 I had to explain it to him this morning.
00:15:20 It was kind of tough.
00:15:22 It's really each house, each family that decides it.
00:15:25 Anyway, I want to do it very much.
00:15:27 >> I couldn't be more pleased.
00:15:28 >> I'll have to get some facts and figures from your research department.
00:15:31 >> What?
00:15:32 >> I said I'll have to get facts, figures from your research people.
00:15:35 >> Now, wait a minute.
00:15:36 Hold on.
00:15:37 I've got 18 hacks on this magazine who can do this series with their left hands, Chuck,
00:15:40 full of facts, figures, and research.
00:15:42 I don't need you for that.
00:15:43 What do you think I brought you here for?
00:15:45 Facts and figures?
00:15:46 Use your head.
00:15:47 Go right to the source.
00:15:48 I want some angle, some compelling lead, some dramatic device to humanize it so that it gets red.
00:15:54 >> Oh, you don't want much.
00:15:55 You just want the moon.
00:15:56 >> With parsley.
00:15:57 Suggestion?
00:15:58 There's a bigger thing to do than to go after the crackpot story.
00:16:00 It's been done plenty.
00:16:01 It's the wider spread of it that I want to get at.
00:16:04 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:05 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:06 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:07 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:08 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:09 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:10 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:11 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:12 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:13 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:14 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:15 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:16 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:17 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:18 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:16:19 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
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00:17:02 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:17:08 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:17:28 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:17:51 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:18:20 >> I'm not going to let you do that.
00:18:22 >> Did you ask me to dance?
00:18:25 >> Did you ask me to dance?
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00:18:54 >> Bill, Miss Lacey.
00:19:12 >> Okay.
00:19:14 >> You'll be right here.
00:19:16 You're still at it.
00:19:18 >> Hi, hi.
00:19:21 How's the big outside world?
00:19:22 Still there, everybody having fun?
00:19:24 No, no, I'm fine.
00:19:26 Just wish I were dead, that's all.
00:19:29 Oh, thanks, Kathy.
00:19:30 I'm in my stubborn streak now.
00:19:31 If it won't budge, I won't.
00:19:33 >> That's great.
00:19:34 At the rate it's going now, do you think you'd like me with white hair?
00:19:37 >> Yeah, I think you'd look dandy with white hair.
00:19:39 I'll be right here.
00:19:40 Still trying.
00:19:43 No, please do.
00:19:44 If you don't call, I just keep wondering why you don't.
00:19:46 So it works out as an interruption either way.
00:19:48 >> Well, I'm a working girl myself.
00:19:50 How many interruptions a day do you want?
00:19:52 >> Oh, well, thank you to call me five or six times a day.
00:19:54 It's your fault I'm in this jam anyway.
00:19:57 Okay.
00:19:58 Bye.
00:19:59 >> Why don't you take some time off, Bill?
00:20:03 You've been out all day and night now for almost a week.
00:20:05 >> Oh, you know me, Mom.
00:20:06 And I'm like this.
00:20:07 I wouldn't be any fun for Kathy.
00:20:08 Or anybody else.
00:20:10 I'm certainly no fun for myself.
00:20:12 >> No ideas at all yet?
00:20:14 >> Sure, plenty of ideas.
00:20:15 But they all explode in my face after an hour or so.
00:20:18 They just don't stand up.
00:20:19 When you get the right one, there's a kind of a click that happens inside of you.
00:20:22 It hasn't happened yet, and it doesn't look like it's going to either.
00:20:25 I'm bored with the whole thing.
00:20:27 Bored with myself, as a matter of fact.
00:20:29 Hey, Mom, do you think I'm losing my grip?
00:20:31 You're right as do.
00:20:32 Maybe it's my turn.
00:20:34 >> You better not.
00:20:35 You wouldn't be able to make a nickel of anything else.
00:20:38 >> Oh, thanks.
00:20:39 You can go now.
00:20:40 That's a big help.
00:20:41 >> Bring those things in with you, will you?
00:20:43 Isn't it always tough at the start, Bill?
00:20:46 >> Never like this.
00:20:48 Never.
00:20:49 I've tried everything.
00:20:51 Anti-Semitism and business.
00:20:53 Labor professions.
00:20:54 It's all there, all right, but I can't make it give.
00:20:56 I've tried everything separately and together.
00:20:58 Every time I think I'm getting on the edge of something good, I go into it a little deeper,
00:21:02 and it turns into the same old drool of statistics and protest.
00:21:06 It's like beating your head against a concrete wall.
00:21:11 Gee, I wish Dave were here.
00:21:14 >> Dave Goldman.
00:21:15 >> Yeah.
00:21:16 He'd be the guy to talk it over with, wouldn't he?
00:21:18 >> Yes, I guess he would.
00:21:19 Still overseas.
00:21:20 >> Yeah, looks like he's stuck there, too.
00:21:22 He'd be just the one, though.
00:21:24 Hey, hey, Mom.
00:21:26 Maybe that's a new tack.
00:21:27 So far, I've been digging into facts and evidence.
00:21:30 I sort of ignored feelings.
00:21:32 How must a fellow like Dave feel about this thing?
00:21:35 >> That's good, Phil.
00:21:37 >> Over and above what we feel about it, what must a Jew feel about this thing?
00:21:41 Dave.
00:21:42 Can I think my way into Dave's mind?
00:21:44 He's the kind of fellow I'd be if I were a Jew, isn't he?
00:21:47 We grew up together.
00:21:48 We lived in the same kind of homes.
00:21:49 We were the gang.
00:21:50 We did everything together.
00:21:51 Whatever Dave feels now, indifference, outrage, contempt, would be the feelings of Dave not only as a Jew,
00:21:58 but the way I feel as a man, as an American, as a citizen.
00:22:01 Is that right, Ma?
00:22:02 >> Sit down and write him a letter now.
00:22:03 >> Hey, maybe I've broken this log jam, Ma.
00:22:05 Maybe this is it.
00:22:06 >> Put it down to me just like you said it to me.
00:22:16 >> Now, what do I say?
00:22:21 What do I say?
00:22:22 Dear Dave, give me the lowdown on your guts when you hear about rank and calling people kikes.
00:22:26 How do you feel when you hear about Jewish kids getting their teeth kicked out by Jew haters in New York City?
00:22:31 Could you write that kind of a letter, Ma?
00:22:34 No, that's no good, all of it.
00:22:36 Wouldn't be any good if I could write it.
00:22:38 There isn't any way you can tear open the secret heart of another human being, Ma.
00:22:42 You know that.
00:22:43 >> Yes, I guess you're right.
00:22:44 But there must be some way.
00:22:45 There must.
00:22:47 >> Hey, don't you get started.
00:22:48 I don't want to depress the whole family.
00:22:51 You look tired, Ma.
00:22:52 Why don't you go to bed?
00:22:53 One good thing came out of this anyway.
00:22:54 It reminded me I owe Dave a letter.
00:22:56 I'll write him anyway.
00:22:57 And I'd like a little more sympathy around here, and I'll let you see how tough it is.
00:23:01 >> Sympathy?
00:23:02 Oh, no.
00:23:03 But I think it's worth it, Phil, if that's any consolation.
00:23:06 >> Oh, it's mighty small, Ma, mighty small, but I'm in no position to -- good night, baby.
00:23:12 [ Music ]
00:23:38 >> Oh.
00:23:53 >> Tony?
00:24:02 Ma?
00:24:05 >> Is it your heart?
00:24:06 Does it seem like your heart?
00:24:07 >> Wait.
00:24:13 >> All right.
00:24:14 Does it seem any easier?
00:24:15 >> No.
00:24:19 Pass it.
00:24:21 >> I'll get a doctor.
00:24:22 I'll phone Kathy.
00:24:23 >> No.
00:24:24 >> She'll have the right one.
00:24:25 >> Wait.
00:24:33 I never realized pain could be so sharp.
00:24:38 >> Let me phone Kathy.
00:24:40 She'll know a heart man.
00:24:43 >> What time is it?
00:24:45 >> It doesn't matter.
00:24:46 It doesn't matter.
00:24:49 Come on.
00:24:54 >> Come back and hold my hand.
00:24:55 >> Sure.
00:24:56 [ Music ]
00:25:19 >> Will she die, Pop?
00:25:21 Will she?
00:25:22 >> She'll die someday, Tom.
00:25:24 Just like you or me or anybody.
00:25:27 Doctor said she might be fine for years if she's careful.
00:25:30 Your grandma's not young, Tom, and all that packing and unpacking tired her out too much.
00:25:35 I'll bet we can run this place between us.
00:25:37 >> Sure.
00:25:38 See, Pop?
00:25:40 >> It's scary, Tom, I know.
00:25:42 I was scared last night myself, buddy.
00:25:45 We'll take good care of her, and she might be fine until you're grown up and married and have kids.
00:25:50 [ Buzzer ]
00:25:51 >> I'll ask the doctor.
00:25:52 Will you make your own breakfast and get off to school?
00:25:54 >> Sure.
00:25:55 >> We'll run this place just fine.
00:25:56 You get going now.
00:26:16 >> I told your mother the truth.
00:26:18 People with hearts outlive everyone else if they take care.
00:26:22 This may prove to be what we call false angina instead of the true angina.
00:26:26 You keep her in bed for a few days, and then we'll get her to the office and really see.
00:26:31 No use getting too technical until we really know.
00:26:34 >> Oh, Doctor, I sure --
00:26:35 >> I never minimize at a time like this, Mr. Green.
00:26:37 I don't frighten, but I don't minimize.
00:26:40 Right now, it's nothing to worry about.
00:26:42 >> Phil?
00:26:43 >> Go ahead.
00:26:44 I know the way out.
00:26:45 I'll keep dropping in for the next few days.
00:26:47 >> Right.
00:26:52 Everything okay?
00:26:54 >> No need to look like Hamlet.
00:26:56 I feel wonderful.
00:26:57 >> Well, don't crowd things.
00:26:59 You like talking?
00:27:01 >> Ever know me when I didn't, except last night?
00:27:04 >> Now, I really believe the doctor for the first time.
00:27:07 >> Good.
00:27:08 So do I.
00:27:09 Tommy get off, all right?
00:27:10 >> Sure he did.
00:27:11 Fixed his own breakfast.
00:27:12 Did a good job of it, too.
00:27:14 >> I'll be up tomorrow.
00:27:15 >> Oh, no, you won't.
00:27:16 >> Yes, I will.
00:27:17 >> No, you won't.
00:27:18 >> Get any sleep?
00:27:19 >> Sure.
00:27:20 >> Eyes like poached eggs.
00:27:23 Get some sleep today, Phil.
00:27:24 Don't try to work, please.
00:27:26 >> Oh, you don't need to worry about that more.
00:27:28 I've decided.
00:27:29 I'm going to phone Menifee.
00:27:31 There's a certain virtue in knowing when you're late.
00:27:33 Well, I'm late, and I might as well accept it gracefully.
00:27:37 I decided last night.
00:27:38 >> When?
00:27:39 >> I was sitting here holding your hand, waiting for the doctor.
00:27:42 >> Why?
00:27:43 >> I was scared, Ma.
00:27:45 It's like I used to be when I get to wondering what I'd do if anything ever happened to you.
00:27:51 It all came back.
00:27:52 I was a kid again, and my Ma was sick.
00:27:54 >> Oh, Phil.
00:27:56 >> I wanted to ask, is it awful?
00:27:58 Are you afraid?
00:28:00 There's some questions nobody can ask, and they can't be answered.
00:28:04 I'll know the answer to those two only when I feel it myself, when I'm lying there.
00:28:08 And that's the way it is with the series, Ma.
00:28:11 I can't really write it.
00:28:14 >> But you did get the answers before, Phil.
00:28:16 Every article you ever wrote, the right answers got in somehow.
00:28:19 >> Yeah, but I didn't ask for them.
00:28:21 When I wanted to find out about a scared guy in a jalopy, I didn't stand out in Route 66 and stop him so I could ask a lot of questions.
00:28:29 I bought myself some old clothes and a broken-down car and took Route 66 myself.
00:28:34 I lived in their camps, ate what they ate.
00:28:37 I found the answers in my own guts, not somebody else's.
00:28:40 I didn't say, what does it feel like to be an Okie?
00:28:43 I was an Okie.
00:28:44 That's the difference, Ma.
00:28:46 On the coal mine series, I didn't sit in my bedroom and do a lot of research, did I?
00:28:50 I didn't go out and tap some poor, grimy guy on the shoulder and make him talk.
00:28:54 I got myself a job.
00:28:55 I went down in the dark.
00:28:56 I slept in a shack.
00:28:58 I didn't try to dig into a coal miner's heart.
00:29:00 I was a miner.
00:29:07 Oh.
00:29:10 Maybe.
00:29:12 Yeah, maybe.
00:29:16 I got it.
00:29:18 I'll lead.
00:29:19 The idea, the angle, this is the way.
00:29:20 It's the only way.
00:29:22 I'll be Jewish.
00:29:25 I'll-- well, all I got to do is say it.
00:29:28 Nobody knows me around here.
00:29:30 I can just say it.
00:29:31 I can live it myself for six weeks, eight weeks, nine months, no matter how long it takes.
00:29:35 Ma is right this time.
00:29:36 It must be, Phil.
00:29:37 It always is when you're this sure.
00:29:38 Listen, I even got the title.
00:29:40 I was Jewish for six months.
00:29:43 That's right, Phil.
00:29:45 Oh.
00:29:47 This is it.
00:29:49 That click just happened inside of me.
00:29:53 Well, it won't be the same.
00:29:54 Sure, it won't, but it ought to be close.
00:29:56 I can just tell them I am and see what happens.
00:29:59 It'll work.
00:30:00 It'll work fine, Phil.
00:30:01 Dark hair, dark eyes, sure, so's Dave.
00:30:04 So's a lot of guys who aren't Jewish.
00:30:06 No accent, no mannerisms, neither is Dave.
00:30:11 Name?
00:30:12 Phil Green.
00:30:13 Skip the Skyline.
00:30:14 Might be anything.
00:30:16 Phil Green.
00:30:18 Boy, it's a cinch.
00:30:20 Oh, Phil, this is the best medicine I could have had.
00:30:23 Look, will you keep my secret if you're meeting new people?
00:30:25 It has to be without exceptions if it works at all.
00:30:27 If you're Jewish, I am too, I guess.
00:30:29 Take it easy.
00:30:30 Don't get excited.
00:30:31 I got a phone right away.
00:30:35 Why didn't you have Kathy come over here?
00:30:38 How'd you know I wasn't going to phone Minnify?
00:30:40 Dope.
00:30:41 Nobody phones a magazine editor with that look on his face.
00:30:48 Oh, Phil, it's nice.
00:30:50 It's a track.
00:30:51 Well, it's not done yet.
00:30:52 Those packages of pictures, the last of our books just came.
00:30:54 We have a fireplace.
00:30:55 It works, too.
00:30:56 Mine's only fake.
00:30:57 How's your mother?
00:30:58 I spoke to Dr. Craig and he said she'd be fine.
00:31:00 She's all right.
00:31:02 What's the angle?
00:31:03 Tell me fast.
00:31:04 Oh, I will.
00:31:05 Just a minute.
00:31:06 I want to check up on Mark.
00:31:07 Good.
00:31:08 Give him my love.
00:31:29 You're looking like a baby.
00:31:30 Good.
00:31:31 Don't worry about it.
00:31:32 Let's have a drink.
00:31:33 No, thanks.
00:31:34 Just some sherry.
00:31:35 All right.
00:31:36 You're still not telling me.
00:31:37 I know.
00:31:38 It's funny.
00:31:39 I thought I'd spill it out the minute you got inside the door.
00:31:40 You sound as though excited.
00:31:41 I am.
00:31:42 Must have been really something to get you right there.
00:31:43 Oh, there'll be stumbling blocks and holes, but I don't care.
00:31:44 I'll lick...
00:31:45 I'll lick them when I get to them.
00:31:46 Kathy.
00:32:10 You're right now.
00:32:29 You go over there and let me sit here for a minute.
00:32:30 What is it, Kathy?
00:32:31 Nothing.
00:32:32 I was just thinking.
00:32:33 Marriage can be such a great thing.
00:32:34 Marriage can be such a good way to live, Kathy.
00:32:41 All these years, I've kept hoping.
00:32:44 I've kept hoping, too.
00:32:47 But when you've made a mistake once, you're afraid.
00:32:52 You're not afraid now.
00:32:54 No, Phil.
00:32:57 Oh, darling.
00:32:59 What are you smiling at?
00:33:03 Nothing.
00:33:04 Come on, no secrets.
00:33:05 I was just thinking.
00:33:06 I was just playing that old game all women do, and trying out the name.
00:33:12 Say it out loud.
00:33:17 Mrs. Scarlett Green.
00:33:22 How does it sound?
00:33:27 It sounds just fine.
00:33:31 How does it look on me?
00:33:33 I like it.
00:33:36 Kathy, you're not sorry about Tom?
00:33:41 Oh, Phil, I'm glad.
00:33:43 It's almost as if my marriage hadn't been wasted.
00:33:45 As if I'd had a son growing up for me.
00:33:48 I knew you'd get her.
00:33:50 But who'd ever think that?
00:33:51 Can you get away with it?
00:33:52 Yeah, sure.
00:33:53 If you and Kathy and Mrs. Minifee won't give me away, I haven't told Kathy yet.
00:33:56 I'll take care of Mrs. Minifee.
00:33:57 When do you start?
00:33:58 Oh, what's the matter with right now?
00:33:59 Fine.
00:34:00 I'll get you an office and a secretary right away.
00:34:01 But what about the secretary?
00:34:02 She'd have to know, wouldn't she?
00:34:03 Yeah.
00:34:04 I'll get you an office and a secretary right away.
00:34:05 But what about the secretary?
00:34:06 She'd have to know, wouldn't she?
00:34:07 Yeah.
00:34:08 I'll get you an office and a secretary right away.
00:34:09 But what about the secretary?
00:34:10 She'd have to know, wouldn't she?
00:34:11 Yeah.
00:34:12 Well, why?
00:34:13 Supposing I were really Jewish and you gave me this assignment, what difference would it make to her or anybody?
00:34:14 You're right, Phil.
00:34:15 I'm excited about this.
00:34:16 They'll read this all right.
00:34:17 Mr. Minifee, Mr. Weissman is waiting in the dining room.
00:34:18 Yes.
00:34:19 What about lunch?
00:34:20 Chance to meet the whole staff in one clip.
00:34:21 Knowing Weissman is lunching with us, might be wise for you to know.
00:34:22 Oh, yeah.
00:34:23 He's the big industrialist, isn't he?
00:34:24 Yes.
00:34:25 Come on.
00:34:26 He's a colorful fellow.
00:34:27 Old friend of mine.
00:34:28 I know you'll like him.
00:34:29 Sit here with the picture of the unpacked goods.
00:34:30 I'll get you a picture of the unpacked goods.
00:34:31 I'll get you a picture of the unpacked goods.
00:34:32 I know, but it was over here.
00:34:33 Over to the left.
00:34:34 That's what I'm talking about.
00:34:35 I know.
00:34:36 Sorry, well then.
00:34:37 Very sorry, Irving.
00:34:38 Mr. Phil Green.
00:34:39 It's Irving Weissman.
00:34:40 Mr. Weissman.
00:34:41 How do you do?
00:34:42 Lou Jordan, our personnel manager.
00:34:43 How are you, Mr. Green?
00:34:44 Joe Tingler, demon photographer.
00:34:45 Hi.
00:34:46 Bruce Mason, art editor.
00:34:47 Bruce McCanney, the best layout man this side of the Mexican border.
00:34:48 And last is a kind of dessert, Phil.
00:35:03 Ann Detre, our fashion editor.
00:35:04 Clever, beautiful, and dangerous.
00:35:05 Eats men alive.
00:35:06 Thank you, Mr. Green.
00:35:07 Sit down beside her.
00:35:08 Thank you very much.
00:35:09 I thought it was Scarlett Green.
00:35:10 No, that's my writing name.
00:35:11 Mr. Green is going to do a series on anti-Semitism for us.
00:35:12 Really?
00:35:13 Again.
00:35:14 I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do it.
00:35:15 I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:35:16 I'm afraid I'll have to.
00:35:17 Again.
00:35:18 Not again.
00:35:19 For the first time.
00:35:20 We're going to split it wide open.
00:35:21 Do you mind my saying as an old friend I think it a very bad idea, John?
00:35:22 The worst, the most harmful thing you can possibly do now.
00:35:23 Not at all.
00:35:24 Why is it a harmful idea?
00:35:25 Because it'll only stir it up more.
00:35:26 That's why let it alone.
00:35:27 We'll handle it in our own way.
00:35:28 The hush-hush way?
00:35:29 Oh, I don't care what you call it.
00:35:30 Let it alone.
00:35:31 You can't write it out of existence.
00:35:32 We've been fighting it for years, and we know from experience the less time you spend
00:35:33 on it, the more it's going to be a disaster.
00:35:34 I'm not going to let it go.
00:35:35 I'm going to let it go.
00:35:36 I'm going to let it go.
00:35:37 I'm going to let it go.
00:35:58 I'm going to let it go.
00:36:22 I'm going to let it go.
00:36:50 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:19 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:20 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:21 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:22 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:23 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:24 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:25 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:26 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:27 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:28 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:29 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:30 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:31 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:32 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:33 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:34 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:35 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:36 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:37 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:38 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:39 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:40 I'm going to let it go.
00:37:42 Now, if your name was Saul Green or Irving or something like that,
00:37:45 you wouldn't have to go to all this bother.
00:37:47 I changed mine, did you?
00:37:49 Wales?
00:37:50 Well, Green's always been my name.
00:37:52 What's yours?
00:37:53 Wielowski.
00:37:54 Estelle Wielowski.
00:37:55 And I just couldn't take it.
00:37:56 About applications, I mean.
00:37:58 So, one day, I wrote the same firm two letters.
00:38:02 Same as you're doing now.
00:38:03 I sent the Elaine Wales one after they'd said there were no openings to my first one.
00:38:08 I got the job all right.
00:38:10 Do you know what firm that was?
00:38:13 Smith's Weekly.
00:38:16 No.
00:38:18 Yes, Mr. Green.
00:38:20 The great liberal magazine that fights injustice on all sides.
00:38:25 Slays me. I love it.
00:38:28 Mr. Miniff, you know about that?
00:38:30 Oh, he can't be bothered thinking about small fry.
00:38:32 That's Mr. Jordan's department, hiring and firing.
00:38:35 But if anybody snitched, you know there'd be some excuse for throwing them out.
00:38:42 So, anyway, I thought maybe you had changed yours sometime.
00:38:47 I mean, when I heard you were Jewish.
00:38:50 You heard it?
00:38:53 Why, sure.
00:38:57 Is this the list?
00:38:58 Yeah.
00:39:00 When?
00:39:03 Well, when you finished lunch and went back to Mr. Miniffy's office,
00:39:10 it kind of got around.
00:39:22 She'll be up and about and fit as a fiddle day after tomorrow.
00:39:24 You wouldn't mind if I had her see a good internist just to be on the safe side?
00:39:27 Not at all. Good idea. I'll make an appointment if you wish.
00:39:30 You always use Mason Van Dyck or James Kent, or if you, some good man you'd like.
00:39:34 Well, one of the editors of the magazine recommended someone.
00:39:37 Dr. Abrams.
00:39:39 Abrams?
00:39:41 Yes, J.E. Abrams. Mount Sinai Hospital, Beth Israel, or both.
00:39:44 Yes, yes, of course.
00:39:46 Well, if you should decide to have your mother see Van Dyck or Kent, I'll arrange it.
00:39:50 Why? Isn't this Abrams fellow any good?
00:39:52 No, nothing like that. Good man, completely reliable.
00:39:56 Not given to overcharging and stringing visits out.
00:39:59 The way some do.
00:40:02 You mean the way some doctors do, or do you mean the way some Jewish doctors do?
00:40:08 I suppose you're right. I suppose some of us do it too.
00:40:12 Not just the chosen people.
00:40:15 Well, if Abrams doesn't impress me, I'll try Van Dyck or Kent.
00:40:18 I've no special loyalty to Jewish doctors, simply because I'm Jewish myself.
00:40:24 No, of course not. Good man's a good man.
00:40:28 I don't believe in prejudice.
00:40:30 I see.
00:40:32 Well, good evening.
00:40:35 Senior Mr. Green.
00:40:48 Evening, Mr. Tolson.
00:40:50 [clattering]
00:41:15 Say, Mr. Green, why don't you fill out one of them cards at the post office,
00:41:19 better watch for the mailman and tell him.
00:41:22 What's the matter with this one?
00:41:24 It's the rules.
00:41:26 Leave it alone.
00:41:28 It's nothing I can help, Mr. Green. It's the rules.
00:41:31 The Renton agent should have explained. That is, excuse me, if you are.
00:41:35 Excuse me, nothing. This is my place for two years, and don't touch that card.
00:41:41 [whistling]
00:41:44 You don't mean that we're going to have dinner here.
00:41:56 I do indeed.
00:41:58 So we can talk.
00:42:00 Talk?
00:42:01 You sit there. I'm not going to let you get going on another thing.
00:42:04 You don't even get dinner until you tell me the angle.
00:42:07 I've been trying to guess what it is all day long.
00:42:09 - Have you, Marie? - Yes, I have.
00:42:11 I kept thinking, suppose I were he and I had to find an angle, what would I do?
00:42:15 Well, what would you do?
00:42:17 Well, I've got just no place.
00:42:19 Some of the ideas you told me I thought were excellent, but you threw them out and kept hunting.
00:42:23 Well, you'll see why. Just as soon as I tell you.
00:42:26 Phil, tell me.
00:42:28 All right. Here it is.
00:42:31 I'm just going to let everybody know that I'm Jewish, that's all.
00:42:34 Jewish?
00:42:36 But you're not, Phil, are you?
00:42:38 Not that it would make any difference to me,
00:42:40 but you said, "I'm going to let everybody know as if you hadn't before and would now."
00:42:44 So I just wondered.
00:42:46 Not that it would matter to me one way or the other.
00:42:48 Phil, you're annoyed.
00:42:50 No, I'm just thinking...
00:42:52 Oh, don't be so serious about it. You must know where I stand.
00:42:55 Oh, I do.
00:42:56 It's just that you caught me off guard.
00:42:59 You know, not knowing too much about you,
00:43:02 because you always make me talk about myself all the time,
00:43:05 and every minute there, I wasn't very bright in the uptake.
00:43:08 Well, anyway, you don't think much of my angle.
00:43:11 Oh, I do. It's...
00:43:14 It's what?
00:43:15 It's just that I...
00:43:17 I think it'll mix everybody up.
00:43:19 People won't know what you are.
00:43:23 Of course, after the series is finished, they'll know,
00:43:25 but even so, it'll keep cropping up, won't it?
00:43:27 All right.
00:43:30 Let it.
00:43:32 I must be out of my head. Let it, it's right. Who cares?
00:43:36 I was just being too practical about things.
00:43:40 That's what comes from being a schoolteacher.
00:43:43 Now, tell me more.
00:43:46 Well...
00:43:48 To begin with, you and the Minofys will have to promise not to give me away, but really,
00:43:52 no exceptions for anything, okay?
00:43:54 Okay.
00:43:55 What about the people at Smith's? Won't they talk?
00:43:57 Well, they're not in on it. Only Minofy.
00:44:00 Do they think you're Jewish?
00:44:02 Look, Kathy, I don't think you understand.
00:44:04 If this thing is going to work, the only chance is to go whole hog at it.
00:44:07 It's got to go right through everything.
00:44:14 Of course.
00:44:16 I hadn't really seen it before.
00:44:21 I didn't mean to be so sharp. I'm...
00:44:23 I'm sorry.
00:44:29 You're sorry?
00:44:31 I'm sorry.
00:44:33 You sit there. I'm doing the serving myself.
00:44:55 More coffee?
00:45:01 Only take a minute, don't you think?
00:45:02 No, thanks.
00:45:12 No, I...
00:45:13 I think I'd better be getting along.
00:45:18 So soon?
00:45:20 I should look in at Mar before she gets to sleep.
00:45:24 Of course.
00:45:29 You have to get to the school pretty early, don't you?
00:45:34 Yes.
00:45:37 I...
00:45:39 pretty full day at the magazine, too.
00:45:42 Yes.
00:45:49 It was a mighty fine dinner.
00:45:51 I'm glad you liked it.
00:45:53 My car's downstairs. Let me run you home.
00:45:55 No, thanks.
00:45:57 I think I'm warm.
00:45:59 It's a lovely night.
00:46:05 Yes, it is.
00:46:08 It's lovely.
00:46:15 I'd better be getting on.
00:46:18 Don't bother. I know what my head is.
00:46:34 I'll call you sometime tomorrow.
00:46:36 All right.
00:46:39 Good night.
00:46:40 Good night, dear.
00:46:58 Mary said to come right over.
00:47:00 It'd be perfectly all right to bring you.
00:47:02 She's cooked a big dinner, so there's plenty...
00:47:22 I forgot something.
00:47:31 I'm so glad you came.
00:47:33 What am I doing to her? It's my fault.
00:47:35 I'm always weighing and judging. I'm such a solemn fool.
00:47:37 I should have said the anger was fine right away, and it is.
00:47:40 It's wonderful.
00:47:41 I don't know what happened.
00:47:43 The minute you spoke, I felt insulted.
00:47:45 If I were Jewish, that's the way I'd have felt.
00:47:47 I couldn't let you off. I couldn't make it any easier for you.
00:47:49 All through dinner, I tried to reach you, tell you I was sorry, and I couldn't.
00:47:53 I don't know what happened to me when you told me,
00:47:55 except that a whole beautiful evening was spoiled.
00:47:58 I wanted you to come back.
00:48:04 But really, Mr. Minifee, I never make it a policy just to hire it.
00:48:08 Well, it's a question of personality.
00:48:10 Please understand, Mr. Minifee, if a girl's personality is the type that fits in, I never...
00:48:15 It's just by chance, you mean, that we haven't one secretary named Finkelstein or Cohn in the city of New York.
00:48:21 Come off it, Jordan.
00:48:23 Miss Miller, take a help wanted ad.
00:48:26 Expert secretary for editorial department, National Magazine.
00:48:29 Exacting work, good pay, religion is a matter of indifference to this office.
00:48:33 Got that? Yes, Mr. Minifee.
00:48:35 In any other ad you run, be sure to use that last line.
00:48:37 That's all, Miss Miller. Good afternoon, Jordan.
00:48:42 By the way, if you should have to fire Miss Wales for any reason whatever at any time,
00:48:47 remember, I'd like to review the case myself first.
00:48:50 Good afternoon, Mr. Minifee.
00:48:56 I'm ashamed of myself and this magazine, too.
00:48:59 The sloppy, slovenly notion that everybody's busy doing bigger things.
00:49:02 Well, there just isn't anything bigger than beating down the complacence of essentially decent people about prejudice.
00:49:07 Yes, I'm ashamed of myself. Go on back to work.
00:49:17 I believe that I've given a clear and accurate picture of my qualifications,
00:49:21 and I would very much appreciate your immediate consideration and replies, sincerely yours.
00:49:28 Better ask for an immediate reply on all of them.
00:49:31 Don't bother to do it today, though. It's too late. Tomorrow will be all right.
00:49:35 Mr. Green, have you any idea when you'll start dictating the series itself?
00:49:38 I would like to get the decks cleared.
00:49:40 Well, I think I'll type it out myself to start with.
00:49:42 I'm not much good on dictating actual copy.
00:49:46 That'll be all, Miss Wales. You'd better get along home.
00:49:49 All right.
00:49:52 Mr. Green, is it true about Mr. Jordan?
00:49:56 What true about Mr. Jordan?
00:49:58 Well, he's telling everybody about Mr. Minifee's ad.
00:50:01 He thinks it's a wonderful thing, he says.
00:50:04 He does, huh?
00:50:06 And I thought I'd ask you if it's really true that the ad says right out that you...
00:50:09 Right straight out, Miss Wales. It's got to be in all the papers tomorrow.
00:50:14 I'm practically inviting any type at all to apply.
00:50:17 Any type? What do you mean?
00:50:20 Mr. Green, you don't want things changed around here, do you?
00:50:24 Even though you are a writer, and it's different for writers.
00:50:27 Different for writers how?
00:50:29 Well, I mean, just let them get one wrong one in here, and it'll come out of us.
00:50:34 It's no fun being the fall guy for the kikey ones.
00:50:38 Now, look, Miss Wales.
00:50:41 We've got to be frank with each other.
00:50:43 It's all right to know right now that words like "yid" and "kike" and "kikey" and "nigger" and "coon"
00:50:49 make me kind of sick no matter who says them.
00:50:51 But I only said it for a type.
00:50:53 Yeah, but we're talking about a word first.
00:50:57 But, Mr. Green, that doesn't mean a thing.
00:51:00 Why, sometimes I even say it to myself, about me, I mean.
00:51:03 Like if I'm about to do something and I know I shouldn't, I say,
00:51:06 "Oh, don't be such a little kike." That's all.
00:51:10 But just let one objectionable one get in here.
00:51:12 Now, just a minute. What do you mean by "objectionable"?
00:51:14 Loud and too much ruse.
00:51:16 You can't hire any loud, vulgar girls here.
00:51:18 What makes you think they're going to suddenly start?
00:51:20 It's not only that.
00:51:22 Mr. Green, you're sort of heckling me.
00:51:24 You know as well as I do the sort that starts trouble in a place like this
00:51:27 and the sort that doesn't, like you or me.
00:51:29 So what's the sense of pinning me down?
00:51:31 You mean because we don't look especially Jewish, because we're okay Jews,
00:51:34 because with us it can be kept nice and comfortable and quiet.
00:51:37 I didn't say any...
00:51:38 Now, listen, Miss Wales, I hate anti-Semitism.
00:51:41 And I hate it when it comes from you or anybody who's Jewish
00:51:43 just as much as I hate it when it comes from a Gentile.
00:51:46 Me? Why, Mr. Green...
00:51:48 See you tomorrow, Miss Wales.
00:51:51 Good night.
00:52:06 Why don't you go home?
00:52:08 Slowly, don't craze.
00:52:10 Hi there.
00:52:12 Hello, Miss Diffrey.
00:52:13 How can you stride down the hall with such energy and vitality at the end of the day?
00:52:17 I'm bushed.
00:52:18 Getting the book to bed gets worse every issue.
00:52:20 I didn't know you called it the book around here.
00:52:22 Oh, we do, we do. We're sophisticated New Yorkers, Mr. Green.
00:52:25 By the way, do you happen to be thirsty?
00:52:27 I do, and I'm just in the mood to hear the story of your life.
00:52:30 Why, Mr. Green.
00:52:32 I think this can be arranged.
00:52:34 You know where Max Bauer can go to?
00:52:36 This couldn't happen to a nicer girl.
00:52:39 And he liked it, and that's how I got to be fashion editor in the first place.
00:52:42 Hello, Jim Hoy.
00:52:44 Oh, fine.
00:52:45 Don't look now, but I think we've got visitors.
00:52:46 Just when I was getting to the really tender part of my life, too.
00:52:48 Mind if I sit with you charming people?
00:52:50 No, sit down, Bert. Sit down.
00:52:51 Only got a minute, may I?
00:52:52 Certainly.
00:52:53 You two seem to be having such fun over here, I couldn't resist it.
00:52:56 Oh, we just love to spread merriment.
00:52:58 Our hearts are God's little garden, just an occasional weed here and there.
00:53:01 Well, Ann, another issue gone to press.
00:53:03 I swear, I don't see how we do it every week.
00:53:05 Why, we're just brilliant, Bert.
00:53:06 Every morning I get up and I say to the mirror,
00:53:08 "Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me who's the most brilliant of them all."
00:53:11 What does the mirror say?
00:53:12 That mirror ain't no gentleman, Mr. Green.
00:53:15 Well, Green, how's the series coming?
00:53:17 Well, I'm still just getting stuff together.
00:53:19 There's plenty of it around.
00:53:20 You know, when I was stationed at Guam, our CO used to talk to us about it.
00:53:24 Quite a liberal, that fellow.
00:53:26 You were in public relations, weren't you?
00:53:30 What makes you say that?
00:53:32 I don't know.
00:53:34 You just seem like a clever sort of a guy.
00:53:39 What makes you think I wasn't a GI?
00:53:41 Huh?
00:53:44 Now, for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong.
00:53:47 Why, some of my best friends--
00:53:48 I know, dear, and some of your other best friends are Methodists,
00:53:51 but you never bother to say it.
00:53:52 Now, look, Ann.
00:53:53 Skip it.
00:53:55 Plug away, Phil, and be a dear.
00:53:59 Well, if you'll excuse me, I've got to run.
00:54:02 I'll be seeing you.
00:54:08 Little drip.
00:54:11 Now, for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong.
00:54:14 Really believes it, too.
00:54:16 Disapproves of the poll tax and Bilbo.
00:54:18 Comes right out and says so, brave as anything.
00:54:22 He's just a drip, let's face it.
00:54:24 That imitation was wonderful.
00:54:26 Got a million of them.
00:54:27 We'll bring back the labs anyway.
00:54:29 Say, I'm having a flock of people up tomorrow night.
00:54:31 What about pressing a black tide coming up?
00:54:33 Sure, I'd like it fine.
00:54:34 Can I bring my girl?
00:54:35 Of course.
00:54:38 What do you have, sir?
00:54:39 More of the same.
00:54:40 Thank you, sir.
00:54:50 Right here, will you?
00:54:51 I'll be right back.
00:55:07 Surprise.
00:55:08 Now, that's what I call timing.
00:55:10 I saw your cat, Lila.
00:55:12 I just couldn't wait.
00:55:16 Oh, brother.
00:55:18 Oh, it's nothing.
00:55:19 Little lady comes in twice a week and flips them up for me.
00:55:22 Been with the family for generations.
00:55:24 Look at you.
00:55:25 First time I've seen you in dinner clothes.
00:55:27 Enough to eat for the spring.
00:55:29 Come on, dear, let's go.
00:55:30 Oh, I told Ma today all about us.
00:55:33 Theo, was she pleased?
00:55:34 Was she?
00:55:35 She was delighted.
00:55:36 She got very emotional for Ma.
00:55:37 Anyway, she dropped one of her best dishes and broke it and blamed it all on Tom.
00:55:40 I called my sister Jane this morning.
00:55:42 I sort of blurted it out on the telephone and she squealed, "Cathy."
00:55:45 As if she'd given up all hope that anyone would ever ask me again.
00:55:48 Oh, darling, she's aching to meet you.
00:55:50 In fact, they're giving a big party for us next Saturday.
00:55:53 Won't we have to let Jane in on it?
00:55:55 I don't know.
00:55:56 I haven't thought.
00:55:57 I hadn't either until now, but won't we, my own sister?
00:55:59 Your mother knows.
00:56:00 Well, I know, dear, she had to, but Jane and her husband don't.
00:56:02 You know, if you want to keep a secret here--
00:56:04 But wouldn't it be sort of exaggerated of my own sister?
00:56:07 Your sister-in-law, almost.
00:56:10 Darling, I do think it would be inflexible of you.
00:56:14 I suppose it would, inside the family.
00:56:17 They won't tell anybody else, will they?
00:56:19 Oh, they'd never breathe it.
00:56:21 They want to fight this awful thing as much as you and I do.
00:56:25 Darling, I'm going to be the cowardest girl in the park.
00:56:28 I'm going to have to kiss you in public.
00:56:30 I've got a nice dark taxi outside.
00:56:32 Well, what are we waiting for?
00:56:34 Come on.
00:56:36 Don't dress so badly.
00:56:38 [chatter]
00:56:42 [chatter]
00:56:45 She is awfully attractive, isn't she?
00:56:58 Yeah, she looks really beautiful.
00:56:59 She certainly does.
00:57:00 She likes you a lot.
00:57:04 I'll scratch her eyes out if she makes a play for me.
00:57:06 That's the worst.
00:57:08 I haven't got a thing to worry about.
00:57:11 Hello, Ann.
00:57:12 Hello, Alex.
00:57:13 Can I get you something?
00:57:14 Food, drinks, some certified checks, spending money, an emerald?
00:57:17 It's a lovely party, Ann.
00:57:18 We'll be better when it thins out a bit.
00:57:20 I think I can get Sasha to play an effortless thing.
00:57:22 Stick around.
00:57:23 Say, Phil, Professor Lieberman just came in.
00:57:26 Would you and Kathy like to meet him?
00:57:27 Lieberman?
00:57:28 I should say so.
00:57:29 Hey, I'm scared.
00:57:30 What does one say to a world-renowned physicist?
00:57:32 Just hello to him.
00:57:33 Come on, he's a wonderful guy.
00:57:35 [chatter]
00:57:38 I'm not happy till I'm out of my boat.
00:57:40 I love that.
00:57:41 I bought myself a new one.
00:57:42 You ought to join me one evening.
00:57:44 You look tired and drawn.
00:57:45 It'll be good.
00:57:46 Well, let's say so.
00:57:48 Two people want to meet you but are scared.
00:57:50 They'll introduce themselves.
00:57:51 That'll make them open their mouths.
00:57:52 I'll tell you, Ann, you're on your own, kid.
00:57:54 Five friends.
00:57:55 Come on, friends.
00:57:56 I want them to be alone.
00:57:57 Professor, this is my fiancee, Kathy Lacy.
00:57:59 How do you do, Professor?
00:58:00 I'm Phil Green.
00:58:01 As a matter of fact, John, I'm Phil Green.
00:58:03 As a matter of fact, John Minnify has been
00:58:05 wanting to get us together.
00:58:06 Oh, yes, yes.
00:58:07 Yes, he told me he did.
00:58:09 How do you do?
00:58:10 I'm doing a serious poem on antisemitism.
00:58:12 For or against?
00:58:14 Well, he thought that we might hatch over some ideas.
00:58:17 What sort of ideas?
00:58:18 Palestine, for instance, Zionism.
00:58:20 Which?
00:58:21 Palestine as a refuge or Zionism as a movement
00:58:24 for a Jewish state?
00:58:25 The confusion between the two, more than anything.
00:58:27 Yes, if we agree there's confusion, we could talk.
00:58:30 We scientists love confusion.
00:58:32 But right now, I'm starting on a new crusade of my own.
00:58:35 You see, my own friends, I have no religion,
00:58:37 so I'm not Jewish by religion.
00:58:39 Further, I'm a scientist, so I must rely on science,
00:58:42 which shows me I'm not Jewish by race,
00:58:44 since there's no such thing as a distinct Jewish race.
00:58:47 There's not even such a thing as a Jewish type.
00:58:49 Well, my crusade will have a certain charm.
00:58:52 I will simply go forth and state frankly, I'm not a Jew.
00:58:55 Oh, with my face, that becomes not an evasion,
00:58:58 but a new principle.
00:58:59 A scientific principle.
00:59:00 For a scientific age.
00:59:02 Precisely.
00:59:03 There must be millions of people nowadays
00:59:05 who are religious only in the vaguest sense.
00:59:07 I've often wondered why the Jewish ones among them
00:59:10 still go on calling themselves Jews.
00:59:13 Can you guess why, Mr. Green?
00:59:15 I know, but I'd like to know.
00:59:17 Because the world still makes it an advantage not to be one.
00:59:21 Thus, for many of us, it becomes a matter of pride
00:59:24 to go on calling ourselves Jews.
00:59:26 So you see, I will have to abandon my religion
00:59:29 and I will have to abandon my crusade before it begins.
00:59:32 Only if there were no antisemites could I go on with it.
00:59:36 And now, I would like to try another little scientific experiment.
00:59:40 I wonder whether you would leave me alone
00:59:42 with your very beautiful fiancée
00:59:44 while you went and got me a plate of food.
00:59:46 Well...
00:59:47 Postally interesting science.
00:59:48 Oh, anything for science, Professor.
00:59:51 I'm John Minifee's niece.
00:59:52 Copy, Lacey?
00:59:53 And a little onion.
00:59:55 - Thank you. - There.
00:59:57 Now go play with that, Fred.
00:59:58 This is not my third trip around, Miss Tetris, but Professor...
01:00:01 Who's copying?
01:00:02 - Shall I fix him some caviar? - Yeah.
01:00:05 It's all deductible from my income tax, dear.
01:00:07 I have to give parties to see what the women are wearing.
01:00:10 - Get it? - You're a crook.
01:00:11 Young crook, please.
01:00:13 Okay. How do you like my girl, eh?
01:00:15 She's lovely.
01:00:17 Is it serious or just the first fine careless rapture?
01:00:20 It's serious, all right. We're going to be married any minute.
01:00:22 My congratulations, you willful, headstrong fellow.
01:00:25 When did all this happen?
01:00:26 First time we looked at each other, I guess.
01:00:28 Third day I came to New York.
01:00:30 Tall buildings and subways and traffic didn't scare you at all?
01:00:32 No, it didn't.
01:00:33 Brushed the hay and straw out of my hair and fell right in love with a city girl.
01:00:37 You could crawl right into the Saturday evening photo, couldn't you?
01:00:41 Have you met her family yet? Her sister and the rest?
01:00:43 No, not yet. Do you know them?
01:00:44 Slightly.
01:00:45 You going to meet them soon?
01:00:47 Next week, I think, why?
01:00:48 Oh, I'd just like to know this is real right, that's all.
01:00:51 Well, what do you mean? What's the matter with them?
01:00:53 Nothing.
01:00:54 I just think it's a fine idea to meet the family first, don't you?
01:00:57 It saves wear and tear afterwards.
01:00:59 Nice party.
01:01:17 Even nicer, yes.
01:01:19 Now, I've been thinking, maybe it would be better if you didn't tell your sister after all.
01:01:25 Not tell her why?
01:01:26 Well, the whole business depends on my not making loopholes whenever it's convenient.
01:01:32 I've already told her.
01:01:34 You did? When?
01:01:36 Tonight. I called her from Anne's.
01:01:37 Jane maybe promised to let me know the minute you said you'd be free for Saturday.
01:01:40 You know, it takes time to make arrangements for a birthday party.
01:01:43 I'm sure you'll be happy to see her.
01:01:45 I'm sure you'll be happy to see her.
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01:03:14 Now, Phil, I'm not asking you to make loopholes where it counts.
01:03:18 At the office, meeting people like at Ann's tonight,
01:03:20 but to go up to Connecticut to a party,
01:03:22 and if we were to use my house next summer,
01:03:24 and besides, Jane and Harry--
01:03:25 Now, what you said, they were so grand.
01:03:27 They are, but they can't help it if some of their friends are--
01:03:30 and besides, it would just make a--
01:03:32 A thing, a mess, an inconvenience.
01:03:34 Well, it would.
01:03:35 Just for Jane and Harry or for you two.
01:03:37 I'd be so tensed up all the time,
01:03:38 I wouldn't have any fun either.
01:03:40 Oh, Phil, if everything's going to be so tensed up and solemn,
01:03:42 I--
01:03:47 I think I better go now.
01:04:09 Wake him up no matter what he says.
01:04:11 I'm going to hurry.
01:04:12 Don't worry, I'll get him.
01:04:17 Pop!
01:04:19 Pop, get up.
01:04:20 It's for you.
01:04:24 Grandma said to wake you.
01:04:26 Hello.
01:04:27 It's for you.
01:04:29 California.
01:04:31 OK.
01:04:34 Get up.
01:04:37 Well, ain't it nice?
01:04:38 Mm-hmm.
01:04:39 Here's your bathroom.
01:04:41 I don't want it.
01:04:42 I said put it on.
01:04:46 Hey, Pop, here are your slippers.
01:04:49 Finally roused him.
01:04:55 Hello.
01:04:58 Dave?
01:04:59 Dave!
01:05:00 Where are you?
01:05:01 When did you get in?
01:05:02 It's Dave.
01:05:03 Hey, this is wonderful.
01:05:04 Where are you?
01:05:06 LaGuardia.
01:05:07 Just now.
01:05:09 I had a break and got assigned to a plane with my CEO.
01:05:11 And I haven't had breakfast.
01:05:13 Get it?
01:05:14 Well, grab yourself a cab and get right over here, will you?
01:05:17 OK, so long.
01:05:18 Hey, Bob.
01:05:19 Can you show me some of your famous hot cakes?
01:05:21 We used to eat a stack apiece in the old days.
01:05:23 I guess the old magic still works.
01:05:25 Can I have some too, Grandma?
01:05:27 How many breakfasts can you eat in one day?
01:05:29 OK, I never have any fun.
01:05:31 You're going to be late for school if you don't hurry.
01:05:33 I know what time school starts.
01:05:34 And besides, I don't like fruit.
01:05:36 You like bananas, don't you?
01:05:38 Oh, well, bananas are different.
01:05:40 Say, Pop.
01:05:45 Hello.
01:05:46 Are we Jewish?
01:05:48 Jimmy Kelly said we were.
01:05:49 Our janitor told him his Janitor.
01:05:51 Well, what did you say to Jimmy Kelly?
01:05:53 I told him I'd ask you.
01:05:57 You remember that movie that Kathy and I took you to?
01:05:59 Sure.
01:06:00 And how you asked if things like that really happened?
01:06:03 Kathy said they were pretending.
01:06:04 Yeah, well, I'm pretending that I'm Jewish for the stuff
01:06:06 that I'm writing now.
01:06:07 Oh, you mean like a movie or a game?
01:06:09 Yeah, something like that.
01:06:11 Look, Tom, I'd like it if you'd promise not to tell anybody
01:06:13 it's a game.
01:06:14 Would you promise that?
01:06:15 OK, sure.
01:06:16 Right.
01:06:17 What did you tell Jimmy, Tom?
01:06:18 Well, I'll say I haven't any information.
01:06:20 Well, wait a minute.
01:06:21 Wait a minute.
01:06:22 Maybe that's not such a good idea to say you
01:06:24 haven't any information.
01:06:26 Maybe you better say that you asked me and I said
01:06:28 I was partly Jewish, OK?
01:06:30 OK.
01:06:31 OK.
01:06:32 Well, I'll tell him it's the movie part.
01:06:34 Have some more, Dave?
01:06:47 Got to.
01:06:48 Doctor, please, you're hitting a nerve.
01:06:50 Good.
01:06:51 Then I can go do my marketing, and I'll
01:06:52 thank you two hulks to a leaf pile of dishes
01:06:54 in the sink while I'm gone.
01:06:56 Oh, Dave, it's wonderful.
01:06:58 You really think you'll bring Carol and the kids
01:06:59 east and live in New York?
01:07:00 We could all be together.
01:07:01 That's the plan.
01:07:02 You know, I can be east and representative
01:07:04 of the front.
01:07:05 Big job.
01:07:06 Best break I ever had.
01:07:07 All depends, of course, if I can find a place to live.
01:07:09 I'm going to spend my terminal leave just to look
01:07:10 and look and look and try to find a place big enough
01:07:12 for Carol and the kids.
01:07:13 We'll find you something if we have to dynamite.
01:07:15 In the meantime, you'll stay here.
01:07:17 Sure, Tom.
01:07:18 You can sleep on the sofa in the living room.
01:07:19 Wait a minute.
01:07:20 No arguments, please.
01:07:21 You're talking to a civilian, Captain.
01:07:22 You wouldn't.
01:07:23 You know, my CEO had to move in with an uncle he
01:07:25 hasn't seen since the First World War.
01:07:27 I'll help with the cooking.
01:07:28 Not while I'm conscious you won't.
01:07:30 Good-bye, boys.
01:07:31 Don't settle all the problems today.
01:07:33 Save some for tomorrow.
01:07:34 Boy, I'm loaded.
01:07:40 You know, I used to dream about doing this, Phil.
01:07:43 What about this series you're doing?
01:07:45 I've talked about myself enough.
01:07:47 Come on.
01:07:48 Give.
01:07:49 I won't get to the later.
01:07:50 What's eating you, Phil?
01:07:55 Me?
01:07:57 You expecting a call?
01:07:59 Keep looking out toward the phone every few minutes.
01:08:01 Is that obvious?
01:08:06 Oh.
01:08:08 I had a scrap with my girl.
01:08:11 I guess I wanted her to be the one to phone.
01:08:14 I'll send her to the department.
01:08:16 I'm doing a series on anti-Semitism
01:08:18 with a special angle.
01:08:21 That's interesting.
01:08:22 Interesting?
01:08:23 Well, don't you want a good, stiff series
01:08:25 in a big national magazine?
01:08:26 Me?
01:08:27 Sure.
01:08:28 You sound bored.
01:08:31 I'm anything but.
01:08:33 It's just that-- well, I'm on the sidelines of anti-Semitism.
01:08:37 It's your fight, brother.
01:08:39 OK, I get it.
01:08:41 Listen, I don't care about the Jews as Jews.
01:08:43 It's the whole thing, not the poor, poor Jews.
01:08:47 Well, you know what I mean.
01:08:48 Don't force me to make with the big words.
01:08:50 Anyway, what's this special angle you've got?
01:08:55 I've been doing it for a while.
01:08:58 I'm saying I'm Jewish, and it works.
01:09:03 Well, you fool.
01:09:05 You crazy fool.
01:09:09 And it's working?
01:09:10 It works.
01:09:11 It works too well.
01:09:12 I've been having my nose rubbed in it,
01:09:14 and I don't like the smell.
01:09:16 Yeah.
01:09:17 I can guess.
01:09:19 You're not insulated yet, Phil.
01:09:21 It's new every time, so the impact
01:09:23 must be quite a business on you.
01:09:26 You mean to get indifferent to it in time?
01:09:28 No, but you're concentrating a lifetime thing
01:09:30 into a few weeks.
01:09:31 You're making the thing happen every day,
01:09:33 going out to meet it.
01:09:34 The facts are no different, Phil.
01:09:36 It just telescopes it.
01:09:38 It makes it hurt more.
01:09:40 [phone ringing]
01:09:44 Hello?
01:09:45 No, sorry.
01:09:50 [phone clicking]
01:09:52 Wrong number.
01:09:59 You want to talk about it?
01:10:01 No, it's just one of those things.
01:10:03 I'm probably wiser staying on my own.
01:10:06 After seven years alone, you lose the instinct for marriage.
01:10:09 Bologna.
01:10:12 You and Carol ever get off on tangents much?
01:10:15 Who doesn't?
01:10:16 Go on and call her, you big dope.
01:10:19 So you're right and she's wrong.
01:10:20 So what?
01:10:21 So she has to telephone you first?
01:10:23 Who makes such rules?
01:10:24 The Supreme Court?
01:10:25 Go on and call her and stop licking your wounds.
01:10:29 Listen, meet me at the office between 5:30 and 6.
01:10:32 I'll phone her.
01:10:33 I'll get Ann Depley.
01:10:34 She's a girl who works at the office.
01:10:35 We'll have a big celebration.
01:10:36 OK.
01:10:37 Can you imagine what it's going to be like?
01:10:39 Me married again, you and Carol here, all of us together.
01:10:41 How about that?
01:10:42 Well, first I've got to imagine the roof over Carol's head.
01:10:44 Go on, get going.
01:10:46 I'm going to start looking right away.
01:10:54 How long do we have to wait?
01:10:56 I'll take the videotape as soon as it's ready, sir.
01:10:58 How about these other people?
01:10:59 They're getting in without waiting.
01:11:00 They had reservations, sir.
01:11:01 We have to know to get a reservation.
01:11:03 Me, madam.
01:11:04 Oh, Captain, I'm expecting a call.
01:11:06 I'd like to worry that I'm here.
01:11:07 Will you call me when it comes?
01:11:08 Out the end.
01:11:09 Your name, sir?
01:11:10 Phil Green.
01:11:11 Yes, sir.
01:11:12 Thanks.
01:11:13 I'm glad to see you.
01:11:14 Thank you very much.
01:11:15 Have you ever been to Paris?
01:11:16 Yes, I have.
01:11:17 Well, there's a lovely restaurant on the Boulevard Montparnasse.
01:11:20 Yes.
01:11:21 And we had delicious prepped stuff.
01:11:22 Anyone we know?
01:11:23 No.
01:11:24 You know what I'm having, gentlemen?
01:11:26 What?
01:11:27 More fun than you can shake a stick at.
01:11:28 You want me to send the waiter out to get a stick just for a test?
01:11:31 No, thanks.
01:11:32 None of those things work for me.
01:11:34 Once I tried to let a smile be my umbrella.
01:11:36 I got awful wet.
01:11:37 Another time I kept a stiff upper lip for about a week.
01:11:40 People just thought I was having my face lifted.
01:11:42 Gentlemen, tell me why it is that every man who seems attractive these days
01:11:45 is either married or fired on a technicality.
01:11:48 Your timing is rotten, but your instincts are just great.
01:11:51 [laughter]
01:11:53 Here's to my instincts.
01:11:55 Pardon me.
01:11:56 Don't pardon me.
01:11:59 You know, I don't like officers.
01:12:03 Well, neither do I.
01:12:05 I don't blame you.
01:12:06 [laughter]
01:12:08 What's your name, bud?
01:12:10 Dave.
01:12:11 Dave Goldman.
01:12:12 What's yours?
01:12:13 Don't mind what my name is.
01:12:14 I told you I don't like officers.
01:12:16 I especially don't like them if they're the eggs.
01:12:19 [glass shattering]
01:12:25 Sorry, sir.
01:12:27 He's terrible when he gets all tanked up.
01:12:29 Sorry.
01:12:30 What's the matter with you anyway?
01:12:32 Come on, hit him along.
01:12:33 Let's take a walk.
01:12:35 Come on, sit down.
01:12:38 Take it easy, boy.
01:12:39 I'm terribly sorry this happened, sir.
01:12:41 He won't bother you again.
01:12:42 I was just coming over to tell you there's a call for you.
01:12:45 Telephone, Mr. Green.
01:12:46 A lady.
01:12:47 Oh.
01:12:48 Right.
01:12:51 Come on.
01:12:52 Let's eat, Ann.
01:12:56 [music playing]
01:12:59 [door opening]
01:13:02 You ever call her for Mr. Green?
01:13:04 Yeah.
01:13:07 Hello, Kathy.
01:13:09 Where are you?
01:13:10 I'm up at Jane's.
01:13:12 I came up to have it out with her.
01:13:14 I couldn't call you until I'd fixed everything up.
01:13:16 And darling, I was wonderful.
01:13:18 I said all the things you would have wanted me to say.
01:13:20 You would have been proud of me.
01:13:22 Why can't I make myself clear to Jane?
01:13:24 I'm sure she'll understand.
01:13:26 I told you, baby, sometimes I can be such a solemn fool
01:13:29 I'm hard to get along with.
01:13:31 The party's tomorrow.
01:13:32 Will you take the 3 o'clock train?
01:13:35 And I'll be waiting for you at the station.
01:13:38 Oh, darling, I can breathe again now that I've talked with you.
01:13:41 And I can scarcely wait until tomorrow.
01:13:44 Good night, baby.
01:13:45 Oh, uh, Kathy.
01:13:47 I love you, darling.
01:13:49 And I love you more than ever.
01:13:51 I love you, too.
01:13:53 And I love you more than ever.
01:13:56 Goodbye.
01:13:58 How nice to see you.
01:14:19 How are you?
01:14:22 [school bell rings]
01:14:24 Oh, how do you have it, sweetheart?
01:14:32 Your mother must be so proud of you, Mr. Green.
01:14:36 Oh, yes, I hope so.
01:14:37 Are you enjoying yourself, Bill?
01:14:39 Oh, having a fine time.
01:14:40 Uh, Jane, uh...
01:14:41 Does your mother just adore everything you write?
01:14:44 Not everything.
01:14:45 No, not exactly.
01:14:47 See, Mark, some people have all the money.
01:14:50 Oh, I see.
01:14:51 This is kind of nice.
01:14:52 Nice?
01:14:53 If I thought there were any more around like that,
01:14:54 I'd go up into the hills myself and catch 'em with my bare hands.
01:14:57 Yes, I would.
01:14:58 My dear, he's divine.
01:14:59 How long has he been around, Lou?
01:15:01 Oh, about three days.
01:15:02 Mind if I steal Kathy away?
01:15:03 Jane, you look beautiful.
01:15:04 Oh, so do you.
01:15:05 It's a wonderful party, isn't it, dear?
01:15:07 It's going beautifully, my dear.
01:15:08 I haven't seen the Baskins.
01:15:09 Oh, didn't I tell you?
01:15:10 Joe called and said he had that dreadful heart fright that he's always getting,
01:15:13 and they said they were so sorry.
01:15:15 And where are the Howarts and the Burlits,
01:15:17 or are they coming later for dinner?
01:15:18 Um, no.
01:15:19 They all decided to go to Hot Springs at the last moment.
01:15:21 I thought I mentioned it.
01:15:22 Jane, dear, I'm in this just as deeply as fear.
01:15:24 I feel just as strongly about it as he does.
01:15:26 But darling, what do you mean?
01:15:28 You know what I mean.
01:15:29 Just a little careful screening.
01:15:31 Just the safe ones.
01:15:32 Oh, darling, you're mad.
01:15:34 You're getting a little hip in this series, too.
01:15:35 Mr. Green, tell me, do you get your ideas first and then write?
01:15:39 Or do you write first and then get your ideas?
01:15:42 Well, I--
01:15:44 I'm afraid I don't think I quite understand what you mean.
01:15:47 Excuse me.
01:15:48 Darling, I'm afraid I'm going to have to spirit you away from me.
01:15:50 Oh.
01:15:51 Will you excuse us?
01:15:52 Why, certainly, my dear.
01:15:53 You make such a charming couple, and we all wish you great happiness.
01:15:57 Thank you.
01:15:58 We'll be right back.
01:16:00 Oh, no, no, no.
01:16:02 She didn't get to--
01:16:03 Kathy!
01:16:04 Jane!
01:16:05 Kathy, wait a minute.
01:16:06 Where are you going?
01:16:07 Phil and I are going to disappear for a minute.
01:16:09 I want to show him the house before it gets dark.
01:16:11 And we both need a breather.
01:16:12 Of course.
01:16:13 Give us all a chance to talk about Phil without whispering.
01:16:16 I just want everybody.
01:16:18 Has it been awful, Phil?
01:16:19 No, I'm coming back for more.
01:16:21 Good boy.
01:16:22 Harry said this sort of thing is a kind of mental bankruptcy.
01:16:24 But we women love it, don't we, Kathy?
01:16:27 Come on, darling.
01:16:28 See you later.
01:16:29 Bye.
01:16:30 I feel pretty much a fool over the fuss I kicked up beforehand.
01:16:40 I can't imagine why Jane even bothered to ask if I'd lay off for the party.
01:16:43 They all asked about this series.
01:16:44 Thought it was fine.
01:16:46 Not one lifted eyebrow in the bunch.
01:16:48 Hey, Miss Lacey, you're not even listening.
01:16:53 That's right.
01:16:54 I was thinking about you.
01:16:56 How wonderful you are.
01:16:57 Darling, there it is.
01:16:58 There it is.
01:16:59 Aren't you supposed to carry me across the threshold or something?
01:17:22 That's only if you refuse to marry me.
01:17:24 In which case, I take you and throw you in.
01:17:27 [thud]
01:17:29 [thud]
01:17:31 [thud]
01:17:32 [thud]
01:17:38 [thud]
01:17:58 [thud]
01:17:59 [thud]
01:18:02 [thud]
01:18:03 [thud]
01:18:05 [thud]
01:18:07 [footsteps]
01:18:08 [footsteps]
01:18:10 [footsteps]
01:18:11 [footsteps]
01:18:26 [footsteps]
01:18:34 [footsteps]
01:18:35 It's lovely.
01:18:41 Has a kind of quiet all its own.
01:18:45 Did you do it all yourself?
01:18:48 Every bit of it.
01:18:49 We can redo the nursery.
01:19:02 That was when Bill and I hoped we'd have a child.
01:19:05 Could be Tom's room.
01:19:07 Would he like to come in here?
01:19:10 Oh, he'd be crazy about it.
01:19:12 You and Bill lived here long?
01:19:15 Bill and I have never lived here.
01:19:17 Never when?
01:19:20 Well, it's hard to explain.
01:19:23 I love this house, deeply.
01:19:26 And I started to build it when things first began to go wrong between Bill and me.
01:19:32 And somehow it became a symbol to me of many things.
01:19:37 Sometimes when you're troubled and hurt, you pour yourself into things that can't hurt back.
01:19:44 Can you understand that?
01:19:47 Sure.
01:19:48 I've done it myself with work.
01:19:51 Well, I poured all my hopes into this place.
01:19:54 And when it was finished, I somehow knew that Bill and I were finished.
01:20:01 I knew I couldn't live here with someone I didn't really love.
01:20:04 It was always more than just a house to me, a place I owned.
01:20:09 It meant everything I hoped for.
01:20:12 Marriage, children, good life.
01:20:17 I knew I couldn't live here alone. I knew that for sure.
01:20:21 And you never lived here at all?
01:20:24 No, never. No one has.
01:20:26 I stay up at James and I come down here and walk through the house.
01:20:29 Poke where the curtains are dead.
01:20:31 Sit out here.
01:20:33 And for a long while I hated it.
01:20:35 Really hated it.
01:20:37 But I could never let it go.
01:20:41 And now I know why.
01:20:46 I was right not to settle for second best.
01:20:49 I was right to keep hoping because it's all come true.
01:20:52 Darling, you and I are going to be so happy here.
01:20:59 This house and I, we were waiting for you.
01:21:03 I was always waiting for you, I think.
01:21:07 Coffee, coffee, coffee.
01:21:14 Anne, will you bring the cream?
01:21:16 And the mint?
01:21:17 Mint? Where?
01:21:18 Right there.
01:21:19 How do you want your coffee, Dave Black?
01:21:21 Fine.
01:21:22 Why don't you play that piece that you know, dear, and make it a perfect evening?
01:21:25 You know, she plays beautifully.
01:21:27 Darling, you keep on thinking I'll play.
01:21:29 Well, you do.
01:21:30 Anne, would you put the radio on?
01:21:31 Sure.
01:21:32 You know something, Anne? These two act like an old married couple.
01:21:35 And two days before the wedding, it's kind of indecent.
01:21:37 And depressing.
01:21:38 At least give a little nervous flutter once in a while, can't you?
01:21:41 The bellboys won't make jokes to each other if they carry up your bag.
01:21:44 Well, is the honeymoon place a secret?
01:21:45 Big dark secret. We're going to the White Rocks.
01:21:47 Don't tell him where. He's nosy.
01:21:49 I'll be able to turn up at odd hours, pretending he's a house detective.
01:21:53 Oh, I'd love that. I've always wanted to tell a house detective what for, haven't you?
01:21:57 We're going to Flew Mim, do you know it?
01:21:59 What?
01:22:00 Flew Mim?
01:22:01 On your honeymoon?
01:22:03 Oh, no, you wouldn't. You're kidding.
01:22:05 No, we're not.
01:22:06 Well, what's the matter with Flew Mim?
01:22:07 Well, it's restricted, that's all.
01:22:09 Restricted?
01:22:12 Darling, I'm sorry. I didn't realize when I said the word.
01:22:15 Oh, that's all right, baby. It's not your fault.
01:22:17 So that's how it is. Restricted.
01:22:22 Are you sure, Ann? Have you been there recently?
01:22:24 No, and I'm sure.
01:22:25 If they confirm the reservation, I'm not going to let them off the hook.
01:22:28 Darling, we can open the cottage. We won't even have to tell Janey.
01:22:30 Oh, sure, sure. You can always go somewhere.
01:22:32 Those nasty little snobs aren't worth fretting over.
01:22:35 There must be something to do besides accepting this.
01:22:37 You can't pin him down, Phil.
01:22:39 They never set straight out or put it in writing.
01:22:42 They'll worry him out of it one way or another. They usually do.
01:22:45 Phil!
01:22:46 It's Tom. He wants you. He sounds frightened.
01:22:49 Oh, Tom, what's up?
01:22:51 What?
01:22:53 Tom, listen. There's a bottle of medicine in the cabinet.
01:22:56 Get it and give it to Grandma right away.
01:22:58 Yeah, I'll be there in five minutes.
01:23:00 - What's happening? - Sounds like a stroke.
01:23:02 - I'll get care. - Yeah, but find Dr. Abrams' name and his directory
01:23:04 and ask him to get down there right away. J.E. Abrams.
01:23:07 I'm going with you.
01:23:10 Hmm?
01:23:12 Oh.
01:23:15 She is magnificent.
01:23:17 Never complains, just keeps worrying about my school if I'm down here all day.
01:23:20 Maybe we ought to hire a part-time maid.
01:23:22 Every time time she isn't keeping her mouth shut, it goes much faster.
01:23:25 Sure, darling, postponing a wedding isn't the worst thing in the world.
01:23:28 - I suppose it isn't. - Just a week to it, the most, Abrams said.
01:23:31 Might as well break the news to the world.
01:23:33 I'm sure it's not a good idea.
01:23:35 I'm sure it's not a good idea.
01:23:37 - I'm sure it's not a good idea. - I'm sure it's not a good idea.
01:23:39 - I'm sure it's not a good idea. - I'm sure it's not a good idea.
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01:24:01 - I'm sure it's not a good idea. - I'm sure it's not a good idea.
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01:24:27 - I'm sure it's not a good idea. - I'm sure it's not a good idea.
01:24:29 - I'm sure it's not a good idea. - I'm sure it's not a good idea.
01:24:31 - I'm going out. I'm going out to flume in. - What?
01:24:33 - I'm going out. I'm going out to flume in. - What?
01:24:35 - I'm going to use those plane tickets we had for this afternoon and I'll be back later.
01:24:37 - I'm going to use those plane tickets we had for this afternoon and I'll be back later.
01:24:39 - Phil, what for? - You're wasting your time.
01:24:41 - Sure, but there must be a time once when you fight back, Dave.
01:24:43 - Sure, but there must be a time once when you fight back, Dave.
01:24:45 - I want to make them look me in the eye and do it.
01:24:47 - I want the satisfaction. I can't explain it, but I want to do it for myself.
01:24:49 - Phil, there's nothing more than... - Let him do it, Kathy.
01:24:51 - You have to face them once.
01:24:53 - I did it once at Monterey.
01:24:55 - They are more than nasty little snobs, Kathy.
01:24:57 - You call them that and you can dismiss them. It's too easy.
01:24:59 - They're persistent little traitors to everything that this country stands for and stands on.
01:25:01 - You have to fight them.
01:25:03 - Not just for the poor, poor Jews, as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.
01:25:05 - Not just for the poor, poor Jews, as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.
01:25:07 - Not just for the poor, poor Jews, as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.
01:25:09 - Not just for the poor, poor Jews, as Dave says, but for everything this country stands for.
01:25:11 - Anyway, I'm going.
01:25:15 - See you later.
01:25:21 - See you later.
01:25:23 - See you later.
01:25:51 - I think you'll find this room more comfortable, Mr. Hester.
01:25:53 - Thank you.
01:25:55 - I have a reservation, double room and bath, today through Thursday.
01:25:57 - In what name, please?
01:25:59 - Green, full of green.
01:26:01 - Yes, Mr. Green.
01:26:03 - My wife will be here tomorrow.
01:26:05 - Oh, yes.
01:26:07 - One more thing.
01:26:09 - Yes?
01:26:11 - Is your hotel restricted?
01:26:13 - Well, I'd hardly say if it's restricted.
01:26:17 - Then it's not restricted.
01:26:19 - Would you excuse me a moment, please?
01:26:21 - How do you do, Mr. Green?
01:26:41 - How do you do?
01:26:43 - In answer to your question, may I inquire, are you...
01:26:45 - That is, do you follow the law?
01:26:47 - That is, do you follow the Hebrew religion yourself?
01:26:49 - Or is it that you just want to make sure?
01:26:51 - I've asked a simple question.
01:26:55 - I'd like to have a simple answer.
01:26:57 - Well, you see, we do have a very high-class clientele.
01:26:59 - And, well, naturally.
01:27:01 - Then you do restrict your guests to gentiles?
01:27:03 - Well, I wouldn't say that, Mr. Green.
01:27:07 - But in any event, there seems to be some mistake.
01:27:11 - Because we don't have a free room in the entire hotel.
01:27:13 - But if you'd like, perhaps I can fix you up a dinner.
01:27:15 - But if you'd like, perhaps I can fix you up at the Brewster Hotel, down near the station.
01:27:17 - I'm not staying at the Brewster.
01:27:19 - Look, I'm Jewish, and you don't take Jews.
01:27:21 - That's it, isn't it?
01:27:23 - I never said that.
01:27:25 - If you don't accept Jews, say so.
01:27:27 - Don't raise your voice to me, Mr. Green.
01:27:29 - Speak a little more quietly, please.
01:27:31 - Do you or don't you?
01:27:33 - Mr. Green, I'm a very busy man.
01:27:35 - Now, if you want me to phone for a cab or room at the Brewster, I'll do so.
01:27:37 - Otherwise...
01:27:39 - Otherwise what?
01:27:43 - Otherwise what?
01:27:45 (doorbell rings)
01:27:47 (doorbell rings)
01:27:49 (door slams)
01:27:51 (footsteps)
01:27:53 (footsteps)
01:27:55 (footsteps)
01:28:07 (footsteps)
01:28:19 (footsteps)
01:28:21 - Tommy?
01:28:31 - Oh, Phil.
01:28:33 - Hello.
01:28:35 - It was bad, I can tell by your face.
01:28:41 - Dave was right, it was a waste of time.
01:28:47 - Is Ma? - She's fine, she's asleep.
01:28:49 - Tom's out playing.
01:28:51 - Where's Dave? - He's gone out with Ann.
01:28:53 - He packed all afternoon, they decided to have a last night in the town.
01:28:55 - They'll wind up here later.
01:28:57 - How about some coffee?
01:28:59 - No, thanks.
01:29:01 - Tommy, darling.
01:29:07 - Oh...
01:29:11 - I'm just thinking about Dave.
01:29:15 - I suppose you're thinking about the cottage, Phil.
01:29:17 - Yes, I did think about that.
01:29:19 - So have I, you must know that.
01:29:21 - And it wouldn't work, Phil.
01:29:23 - It would just be too uncomfortable for Dave,
01:29:25 - knowing he'd moved into one of those neighborhoods.
01:29:27 - Darling, don't you see that?
01:29:29 - It's detestable, but that's the way it is.
01:29:31 - It's even worse in New Canaan.
01:29:33 - There, nobody can sell or rent to a Jew.
01:29:35 - And even in Darien, where Jane's house is and my house is,
01:29:37 - there's sort of a...
01:29:39 - gentleman's agreement when you get married.
01:29:41 - Gentleman's?
01:29:43 - Kathy, you can't...
01:29:45 - You're not going to fight it, Kathy.
01:29:51 - You're just going to give in,
01:29:53 - play along,
01:29:55 - let their idiotic rules stand.
01:29:57 - I don't play along.
01:29:59 - But what can one person do?
01:30:01 - You can tell them to go jump in the lake.
01:30:03 - What can they do?
01:30:05 - Plenty. Ostracize him.
01:30:07 - Some of the markets not deliver food,
01:30:09 - not even wait on him.
01:30:11 - The series will be over by the time we get there.
01:30:13 - They'll face facts.
01:30:15 - You expect us to live in that cottage once I know all this?
01:30:17 - You can't make over the whole world.
01:30:19 - You know I'm on Dave's side.
01:30:21 - Well, I'm not on Dave's side or any side,
01:30:23 - except against their side.
01:30:25 - Kathy, do you or don't you believe in this?
01:30:27 - Because if you do, how can you talk about...
01:30:29 - Tom, will you please? Kathy and I are talking.
01:30:33 - But, Pop, I...
01:30:39 - Tom, what is it?
01:30:41 - What's the matter?
01:30:43 - Do you have a fight?
01:30:45 - Argument with one of the guys?
01:30:47 - They call me a dirty Jew.
01:30:51 - And a stinking guy.
01:30:53 - And they all ran off and...
01:30:55 - Oh, darling, it's not true.
01:30:57 - It's not true.
01:30:59 - You're no more Jewish than I am.
01:31:01 - It's just a horrible mistake.
01:31:03 - Kathy!
01:31:05 - Come with me, Tom. We'll talk about it.
01:31:07 - I'm sorry.
01:31:09 - Come on. I'll take it easy.
01:31:35 - Some water?
01:31:37 - Where did it happen?
01:31:43 - Jimmy, did somebody sock somebody?
01:31:45 - No, they just yelled.
01:31:47 - It was at our corner.
01:31:49 - I was a kid from school.
01:31:51 - They were playing hardball.
01:31:53 - I asked, "Could I play too?"
01:31:55 - And the school said, "No, dirty little Jew.
01:31:57 - Good play with them."
01:31:59 - And they all yelled those other things.
01:32:01 - I started to speak,
01:32:03 - and they all yelled,
01:32:05 - "Your father has a long, dirty beard."
01:32:07 - And turned and ran.
01:32:09 - Why did they pop?
01:32:11 - Why?
01:32:13 - Come on, drink some of this.
01:32:19 - Do you want to tell them that you weren't really Jewish?
01:32:25 - No.
01:32:27 - That's good.
01:32:29 - See, there's a lot of kids just like you, Tommy, who are Jewish,
01:32:31 - and if you said it, it would be sort of admitting that there was something bad in being Jewish,
01:32:35 - and something swell in not.
01:32:37 - They wouldn't fight.
01:32:39 - They just ran.
01:32:41 - Yeah, I know.
01:32:43 - There's a lot of grown-ups just like that too, Tom.
01:32:45 - Only they do it with wisecracks instead of yelling.
01:32:59 - Okay.
01:33:01 - Sure.
01:33:03 - Oh, boy.
01:33:05 - Want to go and read or something while I talk to Kevvie?
01:33:07 - Okay.
01:33:09 - Oh, uh,
01:33:11 - let's keep this to ourselves until Grandma's well, huh?
01:33:13 - Okay.
01:33:15 - Okay.
01:33:17 - Phil, I've got something to tell you.
01:33:43 - I'm pretty tired of feeling wrong.
01:33:45 - Everything I do or say is wrong about anything Jewish.
01:33:49 - All I did just now was to face facts about Dave and Darian,
01:33:53 - and to tell Tom just what you told him--
01:33:55 - Not just what.
01:33:57 - You've only assured him that he's the most wonderful of all creatures, a white Christian American.
01:34:00 - You instantly gave him that lovely taste of superiority,
01:34:02 - the poison that millions of parents drop into the minds of millions of children.
01:34:05 - You really do think I'm an anti-Semite.
01:34:07 - No, I don't, Kevvie.
01:34:09 - You do. You've thought it secretly for a long time.
01:34:11 - No, it's just that I've come to see that lots of nice people who aren't,
01:34:14 - people who despise it and detest it and deplore it and protest their own innocence,
01:34:18 - help it along and then wonder why it grows.
01:34:20 - People who never beat up a Jew or your kinketed child.
01:34:23 - People who think that anti-Semitism is something way off in some dark crackpot place with low-class morons.
01:34:29 - That's the biggest discovery I've made about this whole business, Kevvie.
01:34:33 - The good people. The nice people.
01:34:36 - You mean you're not going to Darian this summer, even though you're finished with him?
01:34:40 - Let's save that for another time.
01:34:42 - Oh, I hate it. I hate it. I hate everything about this horrible thing.
01:34:45 - They always make trouble for everybody, even their friends.
01:34:48 - They force people to take sides against them.
01:34:50 - Quit it. Quit that.
01:34:51 - They didn't suggest this series. They didn't give me the angle.
01:34:53 - They haven't got a single thing to do with what's happened between you and me.
01:34:56 - Then shout at me. I know what you're thinking about, marrying me.
01:34:59 - I saw it on your face when I said that to Tom.
01:35:02 - And don't treat me to any more lessons of tolerance. I'm sick of it.
01:35:05 - I'm not going to marry into hothead shoutings and nerves.
01:35:09 - And you might as well know it now.
01:35:12 - Kevvie.
01:35:19 - I'm sorry I shouted. I hate it when I do it.
01:35:23 - It's not just the shouting, Phil. It's everything.
01:35:26 - You've changed since that first night I met you at Uncle John's.
01:35:29 - It's no use, Phil.
01:35:32 - Now I know why I drew back when you told me the angle.
01:35:36 - You're doing an impossible thing.
01:35:38 - You are what you are for the one life you have.
01:35:42 - You can't help it if you were born Christian instead of Jewish.
01:35:45 - It doesn't mean you're glad you were.
01:35:47 - But I am glad. There, I've said it.
01:35:51 - It'd be terrible. I'm glad I'm not.
01:35:54 - I could never make you understand that.
01:35:57 - You could never understand that it's a fact, like being glad you're good-looking instead of ugly, rich instead of poor,
01:36:03 - young instead of old, healthy instead of sick,
01:36:06 - you could never understand that.
01:36:08 - It's just a practical fact, not a judgment that I'm superior.
01:36:13 - I could never make you see that. You've twisted into something horrible.
01:36:16 - A conniving, an aiding, an abetting a thing that I loathe as much as you do.
01:36:20 - It's better to finish it now. Get it over with right now.
01:36:25 - I...
01:36:27 - I hate you for doing this.
01:36:31 - I hate you.
01:36:36 - We could have been so happy. We had so much to enjoy and so much to share.
01:36:40 - And I hate you for taking it away from both of us.
01:36:44 - I hate you for that.
01:36:46 - Well, what do you know? He's asleep. This early.
01:37:02 - On your last night? Nonsense. Come on, let's wake him up.
01:37:05 - Let the poor guy alone. - It's against my deepest principles.
01:37:08 - Hey, Phil, come on, wake up. It's us.
01:37:11 - Let the poor lug alone. - I told you, I never let any man alone.
01:37:15 - Hey, I thought we were expected, sleepyhead. Where's Kathy?
01:37:21 - She left early.
01:37:23 - Why, you look nice in pajamas. Get on a dressing gown. I'll close my eyes if you're modest.
01:37:27 - You go get the ice tubes so he can get dressed. He wouldn't let any dame see his ratty bathrobe.
01:37:32 - And he's right. Go on. Don't trifle with your luck.
01:37:35 - I don't think any man should ever wear coats and ties.
01:37:37 - They look just wonderful in shirts and pants and infant pajamas.
01:37:41 - What's wrong, Phil?
01:37:48 - Skip.
01:37:51 - Flu, men?
01:37:56 - Tommy got called "dirty Jew" and "kite" by some kids down the street.
01:38:01 - Came home pretty badly shaken up.
01:38:05 - Now you know it all. That's the place they really get at you.
01:38:10 - Your kids. Now you even know that.
01:38:14 - Well, you can quit being Jewish now. There's nothing else.
01:38:23 - My own kids got it without the names, Phil.
01:38:27 - Just setting their hearts on a summer camp that bunch were going to and being kept out.
01:38:35 - It wrecked them for a while.
01:38:40 - The only other thing that makes you want to murder is...
01:38:44 - There was a boy in our outfit.
01:38:47 - Abe Schlusman.
01:38:49 - Good soldier.
01:38:52 - Good engineer.
01:38:54 - One night we got bombed and he caught it.
01:38:59 - I was ten yards off.
01:39:02 - Somebody said, "Give me a hand with this shaney."
01:39:07 - Those were the last words he ever heard.
01:39:12 - Good morning.
01:39:14 - Good morning.
01:39:41 - Miss Wales.
01:39:43 - Here it is. The first three installments. Edited and ready to go.
01:39:46 - Send every ten pages downstairs. Have it set up and galley immediately.
01:39:49 - And tell them I'm in a hurry. A big hurry.
01:39:51 - How long is that much going to take you?
01:39:53 - Well, if it's no more than ten thousand words, I guess I can have it finished by tonight.
01:39:57 - I am pretty jealous.
01:39:59 - I was Jewish for eight weeks.
01:40:04 - Why, Mr. Green, you're a Christian.
01:40:09 - But I never...
01:40:11 - But I've been around you more than anybody else and I never once...
01:40:15 - What's so upsetting about that, Miss Wales?
01:40:18 - You mean there is some difference between Jews and Christians?
01:40:22 - Look at me. Look at me hard. I'm the same man I was yesterday. That's true, isn't it?
01:40:26 - Why should you be so astonished, Miss Wales?
01:40:29 - You still can't believe that anybody would give up the glory of being a Christian for even eight weeks, can you?
01:40:34 - That's what's eating you, isn't it?
01:40:36 - Now, if I tell you that that's anti-Semitism,
01:40:39 - your feeling of being Christian is better than being Jewish,
01:40:42 - you're going to tell me that I'm heckling you again, that I'm twisting your words around,
01:40:45 - or that it's just facing facts, as someone else said to me yesterday.
01:40:50 - Face me now, Miss Wales. Come on, look at me.
01:40:52 - Same face, same eyes, same nose, same suit, same everything. Here, take my hand. Feel it.
01:40:57 - Same flesh as yours, isn't it? No different today than it was yesterday, Miss Wales.
01:41:01 - The only thing that's different is the word "Christian."
01:41:06 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:08 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:10 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:12 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:14 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:16 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:18 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:20 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:22 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:24 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:26 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:28 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:30 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:32 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:34 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:36 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:38 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:40 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:42 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:44 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:46 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:48 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:50 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:52 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:54 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:56 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:41:58 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:00 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:02 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:04 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:06 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:08 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:10 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:12 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:14 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:16 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:18 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:20 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:22 - I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do it.
01:42:24 - Hey, I'm looking for you.
01:42:26 - It's the gall darnedest idea for a series this magazine has ever run.
01:42:29 - No kidding, Green, I couldn't put these ten pages down.
01:42:32 - The whole place is buzzing with it.
01:42:34 - Now, about artwork, uh, photographic treatment is my hunch.
01:42:36 - What do you think?
01:42:38 - Okay. No pictures of my kid or me or my mother, understand?
01:42:41 - Hey, now stop pushing me around.
01:42:43 - That's the trouble with you Christians.
01:42:45 - You know, too aggressive, loud, pushing.
01:42:47 - Everybody's got a copy but me. When's my turn to see it, Phil?
01:42:50 - The place is in a frenzy over the wonderful plot.
01:42:52 - Though what plot there can be to a series on anti-Semitism escapes me.
01:42:56 - This is something.
01:43:06 - It's hot, aren't they?
01:43:08 - You fooled me, Phil, completely.
01:43:11 - Though I did want to say a couple of times,
01:43:13 - How have you lived this long spending this much juice on it all the time?
01:43:16 - I get it now.
01:43:19 - Everything.
01:43:21 - This is dynamite, Phil.
01:43:23 - Wait till you read the rest of it.
01:43:25 - Boy, if everybody'd acted out just one day of the year,
01:43:27 - There'd be curtains on the thing overnight.
01:43:29 - Well, I gotta go. A minute if you want and everything stops for this.
01:43:31 - See you later.
01:43:33 - That's a wonderful notion, Phil.
01:43:35 - Congratulations.
01:43:37 - Hey.
01:43:39 - You look kind of beat. I worry about you.
01:43:41 - I'm fine.
01:43:43 - Uh-huh. It's over with you and Kathy, isn't it?
01:43:46 - Phil?
01:43:49 - I tried to tell you tonight, but I wasn't sure.
01:43:51 - It is over, isn't it?
01:43:53 - Everything's so rotten, Phil.
01:43:55 - Me too.
01:43:57 - Look, if you're free tonight, come on down to my place and listen to my troubles.
01:44:01 - How about it?
01:44:03 - Okay. Thanks.
01:44:05 - We'll have dinner.
01:44:07 - Okay.
01:44:09 - Getting better?
01:44:27 - Yeah.
01:44:29 - Good.
01:44:31 - You almost smiled a minute ago.
01:44:33 - You take your coffee black, don't you?
01:44:35 - In one lump.
01:44:37 - I remember from the party.
01:44:39 - You do?
01:44:41 - You're quite a girl, Ann. I don't think I told you that before.
01:44:47 - Me? Sure. Everybody loves Ann.
01:44:49 - You said you weren't very happy. Do you want to talk about it?
01:44:54 - Nothing bores any man so much as an unhappy female.
01:44:57 - Oh, look, Ann.
01:44:59 - We're good friends.
01:45:01 - Somehow, even in this short a time, we've been through quite a bit together.
01:45:05 - It's been good for me to be able to be with you tonight. I wish you would talk to me.
01:45:09 - All right, I'll talk.
01:45:14 - We've been skirting it all evening.
01:45:18 - Let's bring it out and clear the air.
01:45:20 - Do you mind if I say something about you and Kathy?
01:45:29 - Let's not.
01:45:31 - All right, Phil. Mind your manners.
01:45:34 - Be a little gentleman. Don't let the flag touch the ground.
01:45:37 - This sort of honorableness gets me sick, Phil.
01:45:40 - It's just that I think you're pretty straight and she's...
01:45:44 - Ann, drop.
01:45:46 - Okay.
01:45:53 - I'm a cat.
01:45:55 - And this is dirty pool.
01:45:58 - But I'm intolerant of hypocrites.
01:46:00 - That's what I said, Phil. Hypocrites.
01:46:02 - She'd rather let Dave lose that job than risk up us out there.
01:46:06 - That's it, isn't it?
01:46:09 - She's afraid.
01:46:10 - The Kathys everywhere are afraid of getting the gate from their little groups of nice people.
01:46:14 - They make little clucking sounds of disapproval.
01:46:16 - But they want you and Uncle John to stand up and yell and take sides and fight.
01:46:21 - But do they fight? Oh, no.
01:46:23 - Kathy and Harry and Jane and all of them.
01:46:26 - They scold Bilbo twice a year and think they fought the good fight for democracy in this country.
01:46:30 - They haven't got the guts to take the step from talking to action.
01:46:36 - One little action on one little front.
01:46:39 - Sure, I know it's not the whole answer, but it's got to start somewhere.
01:46:42 - And it's got to be with action.
01:46:44 - Not pamphlets. Not even with your series.
01:46:47 - It's got to be with people. Nice people. Rich people. Poor people. Big and little people.
01:46:53 - And it's got to be quick.
01:46:56 - Not Kathy. She can't. She never will.
01:47:00 - She doesn't rate you, Phil.
01:47:02 - Phil, do you hate me for saying this?
01:47:20 - No.
01:47:21 - I'd like to say one thing more.
01:47:24 - There's time.
01:47:26 - If two people are right for each other, they usually discover it in time.
01:47:30 - If I had a kid I loved, I'd want him to be brought up with people who felt the way I did about the basic things.
01:47:39 - Are you proposing yet?
01:47:42 - Maybe.
01:47:46 - Maybe I am.
01:47:50 (footsteps)
01:47:52 - Hello.
01:48:03 - Oh, Dave. Hello.
01:48:06 - Thank you for coming.
01:48:10 - It was good of you.
01:48:12 - You know about Phil and me.
01:48:15 - Yes.
01:48:18 - I want to ask you something.
01:48:20 - And I want you to answer me honestly.
01:48:23 - Go ahead.
01:48:24 - Do you think I'm anti-Semitic?
01:48:27 - No, Kathy, I don't.
01:48:31 - Phil does.
01:48:32 - Does he?
01:48:33 - You know I'm not anti-Semitic. You're a Jew and you know it.
01:48:36 - Why can't I make it clear to everybody but Phil?
01:48:39 - I was the one who suggested the series. Did you know that?
01:48:42 - No, I didn't.
01:48:43 - I hate this thing just as much as he does. Why can't he see it? Why?
01:48:47 - That night at dinner a man told a vicious little story and I was ill.
01:48:50 - I was sick with rage and shame. But Phil actually...
01:48:53 - What kind of story, Kathy?
01:48:55 - Oh, it was just a story. It had nothing to do with...
01:48:57 - Well, suppose you tell me anyway.
01:48:59 - Well, it was just a vulgar little joke that a man told at dinner.
01:49:02 - It has nothing to do with this.
01:49:03 - Well, take it easy, Kathy. Maybe it has.
01:49:05 - What kind of a joke? I can take naughty words, you know.
01:49:08 - But why?
01:49:10 - Oh, all right. It was a...
01:49:12 - A man named Lockhart and he tried to get laughs with words like "pike" and "coon" and...
01:49:18 - I despised him and everybody else at the table...
01:49:20 - What did you do, Kathy, when he told the joke?
01:49:23 - What do you mean?
01:49:25 - I mean, what did you say when he finished?
01:49:28 - I wanted to yell at him. I wanted to get up and leave.
01:49:31 - I wanted to say to everyone at that table, "Why do we sit here and take it...
01:49:35 - ...when he's attacking everything that we believe in? Why don't we call him on it?"
01:49:39 - And what did you do?
01:49:41 - I just sat there. I felt ashamed.
01:49:44 - We all just sat there.
01:49:47 - Yeah.
01:49:49 - And then you left and got me on the phone.
01:49:53 - Later, after dinner was over, I said, "I was ill and I am. I'm sick through."
01:49:58 - I wonder if you'd feel so sick now, Kathy, if you had nailed him.
01:50:03 - There's a funny kind of elation about socking back.
01:50:08 - I learned that a long time ago.
01:50:11 - Phil's learned it.
01:50:13 - And I haven't?
01:50:15 - Lots of things are pretty rough, Kathy.
01:50:18 - This is just a different kind of a war.
01:50:22 - And anybody who crawls away is a quitter just as much as...
01:50:26 - I didn't say that. You did.
01:50:30 - Somebody told a story.
01:50:32 - Sure, a man at a dinner table told a story and the nice people didn't laugh.
01:50:36 - They even despised him for it, sure.
01:50:39 - But they let it pass.
01:50:41 - And behind that joke is Flumine and Darian and Tommy and those kids.
01:50:45 - If you don't stop with that joke, where do you stop?
01:50:51 - Is that what you mean?
01:50:52 - That's right.
01:50:54 - Where do you call the halt?
01:50:58 - I've been getting mad at Phil because he expected me to fight this
01:51:01 - instead of getting mad at the people who help it along.
01:51:04 - Like Lockhart, didn't he?
01:51:06 - Not just old Lockhart. At least he's out in the open.
01:51:09 - But what about the rest of the dinner guests?
01:51:11 - They're supposed to be on your side.
01:51:13 - And they didn't have to...
01:51:14 - No, they didn't. And I didn't.
01:51:17 - That's the trouble. We never do.
01:51:24 - It all links up to Ava.
01:51:28 - Phil will fight. He can fight. He always will fight.
01:51:33 - And if I just sit by and feel sick, then I'm not a fit wife for him.
01:51:44 - It was always on those deeper issues that we had our quarrels. Always.
01:51:50 - You know, I never knew it until now.
01:51:53 - Sure.
01:51:57 - A man wants his wife to be more than just a companion, Kathy.
01:52:04 - More than his beloved girl.
01:52:07 - More than even the mother of his children.
01:52:10 - He wants a sidekick, a buddy, to go through the rough spots with.
01:52:15 - And she has to feel that the same things are the rough spots.
01:52:21 - Or they're always out of line with each other.
01:52:25 - You're not cast in bronze, sweetie.
01:52:28 - You're nice and soft and pliable.
01:52:32 - And you can do anything you have to do. Or want to do. With yourself.
01:52:41 - Can I?
01:52:45 - Can I?
01:52:52 - There's got to be more than talk.
01:53:13 - Now don't scold, Phil. I couldn't sleep, so I sneaked into your room and stole the first two installments.
01:53:21 - Thank you.
01:53:45 - Thanks, Mark. I think maybe I'd rather have that than almost anything.
01:53:50 - I wish your father could have read this, Phil. He'd have liked it.
01:53:56 - He'd have liked this.
01:54:00 - "Driving away from the inn, I knew all about every man or woman who'd been told the job was filled when it wasn't.
01:54:07 - Every youngster who'd ever been turned down by a college or a summer camp.
01:54:12 - I knew the rage that pitches through you when you see your own child shaken and dazed.
01:54:17 - From that moment, I saw an unending attack by adults on kids of seven and eight and ten and twelve.
01:54:24 - On adolescent boys and girls trying to get a job or an education or into medical school.
01:54:30 - And I knew that they had somehow known it, too.
01:54:33 - They. Those patient, stubborn men who argued and wrote and fought and came up with a constitution and a bill of rights.
01:54:42 - They knew that the tree is known by its fruit and that injustice corrupts a tree.
01:54:47 - That its fruit withers and shrivels and falls at last to that dark ground of history where other great hopes have rotted and died.
01:54:55 - For equality and freedom remain still the only choice for wholeness and soundness in a man or in a nation."
01:55:07 - Your father would have liked to have you say that, Phil.
01:55:10 - Not enough of us realize it, Ma. Time's getting short.
01:55:15 - Not enough people and time's running out.
01:55:19 - You mean Cathy?
01:55:21 - Not just Cathy. All the Cathys. Everywhere.
01:55:29 - You know something, Phil? I suddenly want to live to be very old. Very.
01:55:36 - I want to be around to see what happens.
01:55:39 - The world is stirring in very strange ways. Maybe this is the century for it. Maybe that's why it's so troubled.
01:55:44 - Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back through it one day?
01:55:51 - Maybe it won't be the American century after all or the Russian century or the atomic century.
01:55:57 - Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century?
01:56:01 - When people all over the world, free people, found a way to live together.
01:56:06 - I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.
01:56:12 - I may stick around for quite a while.
01:56:16 - I do.
01:56:34 - Hello? Mr. Case. Dave Goldman calling.
01:56:38 - I'm sorry to call you at this late hour, but I can take that job.
01:56:42 - I'm bringing my family from California immediately.
01:56:46 - I've got a house. Thanks. It's all mine.
01:56:53 - She's going to live up there all summer at her sister's.
01:56:58 - And if anybody dishes anything out, she'll be right there to dish it back.
01:57:04 - Yes, sir. I think I'll stick around for a long time.
01:57:25 - Thanks, Dave.
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