#Hello, Frisco #
#Hello #
#San Francisco
Open your Golden Gate #
# You've got a stranger
waiting outside your door #
#San Francisco
Here is your wandering one #
#Saying I'll wander no more #
# Oh, for he's a jolly good fellow #
#Which nobody can deny #
- #Which nobody can deny ##
- Inside, inside! The biggest show on Pacific Street...
and the biggest glass of beer
for a nickel.
See Little Egypt,
that sensational dancer from the-
# Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay, I-Ay #
#Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay #
# I don't care what
becomes of me #
#When you play me
that sweet melody #
#Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay, I-Ay ##
# First we dated
by the Golden Gate #
#Way down in
San Francisco Bay #
# By the golden strand #
# I won her hand #
# On San Francisco
Home to Frisco #
# San Francisco Bay ##
#And her beauty was sold #
# For an old man's gold #
# She's the bird
in a gilded cage ##
- Girls! Girls!
- #Hello, hello, hello #
# Hello, my baby
Hello, my honey #
# Hello, my ragtime gal #
- # Send me a kiss by wire ##
- Stay away from those dens of iniquity!
Stay away from those dives
of corruption.
Don't swill beer
in the gutter with the hogs!
# Lindy, Lindy #
# Sweet as the sugarcane #
# Lindy, Lindy #
# Say you'll be mine #
#When the moon am a-shinin' #
#Then my heart am a-pinin' #
# Meet me, pretty Lindy
by the watermelon vine #
# Lindy, Lindy #
# Sweet as the sugarcane #
# Lindy, Lindy #
# Say you'll be mine #
Hey, Dan. If we get a hand,
we do the new act.
- You cuckoo? Sharkey wouldn't stand for it.
- I'll take care of him.
Considine's out front.
He might book us on his circuit.
#Meet me, pretty Lindy #
#By the watermelon vine #
- He wants to do the new act.
- Tell him to go fly a kite.
- That's what I'm gonna tell him.
- # Lindy #
- # Sweet as the sugarcane #
- He wants to do the new act.
#Lindy
My little Lindy #
# Say you'll be mine #
#When the moon am a-shinin' #
#Then my heart am a-pinin' #
# Meet me, pretty Lindy #
# By the watermelon vine ##
Ladies and gentlemen, in appreciation
of your generous applause...
we offer as an encore
our latest musical novelty.
Thank you. Professor, please.
I think this is the sweetest piece
of two-timing I ever saw.
You want to end up playing
in honky-tonks all your life?
Trudy, get into position, will ya?
Hey, Dan. Give me a hand
with the scenery. Come on.
# Hello, Central, Hello, Central
Can't you see #
# Kindly hurry, Kindly hurry
just for me #
# Please do get me
San Francisco #
# Someone's waiting
all alone #
# Frisco is her name
She's at the Golden Gate #
# Central, it's a shame for her
to have to wait #
# Please, long distance
do connect me #
# Get her on the telephone #
- #Hello, Frisco #
- # Hello #
#How do you, my dear
I only wish that you were here #
- # Hello #
- #Frisco #
- # Hello #
- # How is the fair out there #
- #They tell me that it is a bear #
- # Don't keep me waiting #
# It's aggravating #
# Why can't you hurry, Central
You're so slow #
- #I can hear you now #
- # I can hear you now #
# Hello
Now can you hear #
# Deary, I bought the ring
and I've arranged for everything #
#You know
I love you, dear #
#We'll be together soon
and then we'll have a honeymoon #
#Your voice is like music
to my ear #
#When I close my eyes
you seem so near #
# Frisco, I called you up
to say hello ##
# Oh, darling
I'm so blue without you #
# I think about you
the livelong day #
#When you ask me
if I'm lonely #
#Then I have only this #
#To say #
#You'll never know
just how much #
# I miss you #
#You'll never know
just how much #
# I care #
#And if I tried
I still couldn't hide #
# My love for you #
#You ought to know #
# For haven't I told you so #
#A million or more times #
#You went away #
#And my heart
went with you #
# I speak your name #
# In my every breath #
# If there is some other way #
#To prove that I love you #
# I swear I don't know how #
#You'll never know #
# If you don't know #
# Now #
# If there is some other way #
#To prove that I love you #
# I swear I don't know how #
#You'll never know #
# If you don't know #
# Now ##
Come on! Come on!
Get back to your jobs!
What do you think I'm paying you for, to work
here or enjoy yourself? Get at that bar!
You three come with me.
Trudy, honey, you were wonderful.
Listen to 'em yell.
- Come on! Let's go out for another bow.
- Wait a minute, you pinheads.
- What do you think you're doing?
- We're just trying something different, Mr. Sharkey.
Oh, you were? Well, you pulled
a hundred people away from my bar.
- It's empty out there.
- Well, it just shows ya.
You bet it does! If it happens six times a night,
I'm out of business. Get out. You're fired!
- Now wait-
- Come on, Johnny. Don't argue.
All right. If that's all the appreciation
you've got of what your customers want...
- it's jake with me.
- Get out, or I'll have you thrown out!
- We've been thrown out of and back into better joints!
- Go on, throw 'em out!
Sharkey did us a favor.
We're through working
in honky-tonks.
Something'll turn up.
- And stay out!
- Johnny!
Johnny, I was looking for you while you was
acting over at Sharkey's, but I couldn't wait.
- My boy, you was great!
- You all know Sam Weaver.
Know him? I've been bitten
by him. How are ya? Scat!
Johnny, I got news for ya.
Great news, Johnny!
- Did you hit it?
- There's millions there.
Why, there's so much gold
you can shovel it up like coal in a bin.
I knew something would turn up.
Did you hear that? Sam hit it.
And you were worrying about us getting kicked
out of Sharkey's. Why don't you grow up?
Well, Johnny, I was just trying to tell you
about a new lead I got up in Sonora.
But this time I can't miss!
All I need is another little grubstake.
- Oh.
- Well, Johnny, it's an investment.
Safe as Ralston's bank.
- But it's after banking hours.
- Uh, thank you, Johnny. You'll never be sorry.
Why, one of these days we'll be riding
down Market Street in our own carriages...
with harness buckles
made of solid gold!
So long, Johnny. God bless you, my boy.
God bless you.
Bighearted John. We ain't got a job...
don't know where
the next one's coming from.
I know where my next one's coming from.
I'm going right back to my own little single.
Oh, don't talk like that, Beulah.
We have to stick together.
Johnny'll get us another booking.
Sure, he'll get us another booking.
And then what happens?
He's gotta try out a new act, and boom,
we're out in the alley again.
Well, that's the only way
we'll ever get anywhere.
Mr. Cornell, I wish to wish you
all the luck in the world.
But you can include me out.
I am through.
Listen. That goes for me too.
When I'm walking around, I want my
stomach smiling. I want soles on my shoes.
- Break up the act- is that what you want?
- No, they don't.
Never mind, Trudy.
If they want to quit, let 'em.
- I never begged anybody to stick with me if they didn't want to.
- They didn't mean it.
Gee, you were happy to be with him
when everything was going all right.
- But as soon as we hit thebumps,
you talk about walking out.
# Some other to win #
# Fight manfully onward ##
Why, Johnny's smarter
than Sharkey or any of'em.
And someday he'll be right up on top,
and he'll take us along with him.
This is no time to throw cold water on him.
He needs us as much as we need him.
What we ought to do now is
give him a pat on the back.
That's all you've been doing is
giving him a pat on the back.
- What do you get from him? The cold shoulder.
- No, it isn't.
I understand Johnny. He's trying to get
ahead. He has his mind on other things.
That's right. It sure isn't on you.
If he didn't need you for his act...
you may as well be
painted on the backdrop.
Honey, she's absolutely right.
You don't need the guy.
You can get your old job back
at the Tivoli in a minute.
Well, I don't want it. I'd rather stick
with him. And you two are all wrong.
It isn't me. It's Johnny's showmanship
that puts us over.
And if I'm willing and satisfied
to believe in him, why can't you?
Oh, gee. Okay, honey. If that's
the way you feel about it, we'll stick.
But remember, I'm doing it just for you.
And that goes for her too.
- Not a very big night tonight, is it, pop?
- Heaven will provide.
You think heaven would mind
if I helped out a little bit?
We need everyone's help, brother.
Have you got a city license to use
the streets and take up collections?
Oh, sure.
They'd have run me out of town
long before now if it hadn't been for that.
Heaven's gonna provide
for both of us, pop.
# He always sings raggy music
to the cattle as he swings #
# Back and forward in the saddle
on a horse #
#That is syncopated gaited #
#And there's such a funny meter to
the roar of his repeater How they run #
#When they hear that fella's gun
because the western folks all know #
# He's a highfalutin, scootin', shootin'
son of a gun from Arizona #
# Ragtime CowboyJoe #
# He always sings
raggy music to the cattle #
- We gotta stop this.
- # Back and forward in the saddle #
# On a horse
that is syncopated gaited #
# Such a funny meter to the roar of his repeater
How they run #
- # When they hear that fella's gun #
- Hey, O'Riley.
# He's a highfalutin, scootin', shootin'
son of a gun from Arizona #
# Ragtime Cowboy #
- # Oh, you cowboy #
- # Captivatin' #
- # Fascinatin' #
- # Syncopatin' cowboy #
# Ragtime CowboyJoe ##
Come on.
Come on. We want more.
Here, here. Break this up.
What do you think you're doin'?
What do you mean by putting on
a public show on the streets?
- Come down off that wagon.
- Take 'em in, O'Riley. Pinch 'em.
If you do, O'Riley,
you're as good as broke.
Every cent we collect here
goes to the O'Farrell Street Mission.
Go on. Tell him, pop.
Show him our license.
There it is. Would you interfere
with a work of charity?
Would you bring righteous
wrath down on your head?
Brother, remember, you're doing it
in the sight of heaven.
I ask your pardon, sir. I didn't have a right
understanding of what was going on.
- What do you mean, Sharkey, by
bothering these good people? - Well, I-
Have you no respect for religion?
Get back to your gin mill.
Get along.
I got everyone but you and Sharkey.
You better kick in.
Okay. 500, if you'll
stay away from my place.
- You got a deal.
- This ain't decent, it ain't. It ain't decent.
# By the mill #
#Where they made
sweet cider #
# I made sweet love to you #
# Mill wheel was turning #
#As I sat there yearning #
# For one kiss #
#The sweetest I knew #
# On the hill #
# From the old town chapel #
#Those evening bells #
#Would chime #
# I'll always remember #
#That golden November #
# Sweet cider time #
#When you were mine ##
- Come on. Everybody sing!
You're the last holdout on Pacific Street.
We all had to kick through.
- Give him his 500 bucks, Lou.
- Hey, Sharkey.
I'm gonna make you
a very special offer.
To the other boys it was 500,
but to you it's a thousand.
- Get out of here. Get out of here!
- Take it easy.
Okay. It's jake with me.
I'll see you in the poorhouse.
Wait a minute, Johnny.
He'll kick in. Listen.
He's got you licked sure
as my name's Foghorn Ryan.
Hey, Lou.
Get the thousand.
"John Cornell, proprietor. " Now,
that doesn't sound like the Barbary Coast.
Aren't they usually Mulligans or Hooligans
or Sweeneys that run these places?
That's his name,
and he's a remarkable fellow in a way.
- In a way?
- Pulled himself up by his own banjo strings.
That's right. Started out playing his banjo...
doing a song and dance
on an Oakland ferry...
- for whatever the passengers tossed in his cap.
- Really?
Well, quite a place.
Three cheers for Mr. Cornell. From ragtime
to riches by way of the Oakland ferry.
Just a starter.
His real ambition is to climb Nob Hill.
Oh, don't tell me. From the Barbary Coast
to Nob Hill isn't a climb. It's a career.
Not forJohnny Cornell.
It wouldn't even faze him.
He has plenty of ambition
and brains to back him up.
And if nerve helps,
he'll get there with bells on.
Oh, Ned, come on.
That's too much.
Good evening.
#You've just seen the Texas Tommy
but that dance is through #
# Now we're gonna show you one
that's absolutely new #
# Now out in San Francisco
where the weather's fair #
#They have a dance out there
they call the Grizzly Bear #
#All your other lovin' dances
don't compare #
# Not so coony
but a little more than spoony #
#Talk about your bears
that Teddy Roosevelt shot #
#They couldn't class with what
old San Francisco's got #
# Listen, my honey, do
and I will show to you #
#The dance
of the Grizzly Bear #
# Hug up close to your baby #
#Throw your shoulders
toward the ceiling #
# Lordy, Lordy
What a feeling #
# Snug up close to your baby #
# Close your eyes
and do some nappin' #
# Something nice
is going to happen #
# Hug up close
to your baby #
# Sway me everywhere #
# Show your darling beau
just how you go to Buffalo #
- # Doing the Grizzly Bear #
- # Oh #
# Hug up close to your baby #
#Throw your shoulders
toward the ceiling #
# Lordy, Lordy
What a feeling #
# Snug up close to your baby #
# Close your eyes
and do some nappin' #
- # Something nice is going to happen #
- # Hug up close to your baby #
# Sway me everywhere #
# Show your darling beau
just how you go to Buffalo #
# Doin' the Grizzly Bear #
# So, hug up close
to your baby #
# Sway me everywhere #
# Show your darling beau
just how you go to Buffalo #
- # Doing the Grizzly #
- # Doing the Grizzly #
# Do, do, do, do
Doing the Grizzly Bear #
# The Grizzly Bear
The Grizzly Bear, The Grizzly Bear #
# I said the Grizzly Bear ##
- Honey, you were wonderful.
- Oh, thanks.
- Listen to 'em out there.
- Looks like we did it.
- You were all great.
- Oh, the place is packed.
They're standing
three deep in the bar.
If this is capacity tonight, can you imagine what's
gonna happen when we really get started?
We're playing to the best people in town. You
see who was out there? A bunch from Nob Hill.
You oughta be more careful
who you let in the place.
That's all right.
That's the crowd I'm after, the carriage trade.
They're the kind of people
I want to patronize us.
That's about all it amounts to, Johnny.
They're patronizing us.
Brother, your social register's the Police Gazette.
They won't give you a tumble.
No?
Well, Bernice, don't you think we've had
about enough slumming?
There won't be another show for an hour.
You've seen everything.
- I've seen everything except, uh-
- Except what?
What I really came to see-
the remarkableJohn Cornell.
Uh-oh. Get the check.
She's off again.
- What's this?
- White Seal.
'87. Compliments of Mr. Cornell.
Well! Now I know
I'll have to meet him.
Waiter, would you ask Mr. Cornell
to come to our table, please?
Yeah, sure. Uh, yes, ma'am.
Here, bub.
You pour it.
"Here, bub. You pour it. "
That'll give you an example
of what to expect from the proprietor.
He'll probably draw up a chair
and offer you a cigar.
Good evening. I'm John Cornell.
Is everything all right?
Oh, uh, please let me thank you
for the wine, Mr. Cornell.
My pleasure, Miss Croft.
Oh? Am I discovered?
Why, everyone knows
Miss Bernice Croft...
especially if they've seen her drive
her carriage through Golden Gate Park.
Thank you.
Won't you join us?
I'd- I'd like you to meet Ned Clark,
Phil MacRae and Dick Greenwood.
Uh, don't get up, gentlemen.
I only have a moment.
I have to see that things
are kept going.
I think your
entertainment's marvelous.
I'll probably spend the next week...
snapping whalebone in my corsets
trying to do the Grizzly Bear.
Well, I'm sure if you watched the entertainers
you'd pick it up in no time.
Oh, but you don't know
how frightfully dense I can be.
Oh, and persistent.
Yes, I am, when I want to
learn something.
- Well, I could have Miss Beulah Clancy-
- Oh, dear, no.
Dancing with another girl
would remind me of boarding school.
I prefer the headmaster.
Well, I could-
I'm giving a party at my home
next Sunday night.
Won't you come
and bring your friends?
Well, thanks. I'd like to.
Now, if you'll excuse me, please.
Bernice, I washed
my hands of you entirely.
- What are we waiting for? Let's dance.
- Well, hello.
- I'm so glad you came, Mr. Cornell.
- Good evening, Miss Croft.
- I want you to meet Miss Evans-
- How do you do?
- Miss Clancy-
- How do you do?
- Mr. Daley.
- How do you do? Miss Croft, this is a highlight in my career.
And when you really want to get
this party rolling, just give us the high sign.
Would you let me present you
to some of my friends first?
My Aunt Harriet and Colonel Weatherby.
Miss Evans and Mr. Cornell.
- How do you do?
- Miss Clancy and Mr. Daley.
Why, Colonel, what beautiful medals.
- Thank you. Civil War, my dear.
- Oh, that's a long story.
Well, I'd love to hear all about it.
Well, I'd be very glad
to tell you...
but I'm afraid that Harriet
has heard it so often that, uh-
Well, that's exactly what I figured.
You will excuse us, won't you?
Come along, Colonel.
Some of the more conservative ones
leave early. Then we'll have some fun.
- My encore, Bernice.
- Oh, Ned.
Ned, I'll give you the best of a bargain.
You recall Miss Evans?
- How do you do?
- Hello.
- And Mr. Cornell?
- Hello.
- Nice to see you.
- Ned's a marvelous dancer. You don't know what I'm giving up.
I think I do. But I'll try
to be as unselfish as you are.
I did a bit of pirating, didn't I?
Now don't tell me getting you in here
all to myself has been wasted.
Oh, I appreciate it.
I'd like to see everything
in your house.
This is the kind of room
I'd like to have myself someday.
It was my father's study.
He was something of an art patron.
Yes, I know.
Edouard de Reske, Nellie Melba,
Adelina Patti.
All autographed to your father.
You know, he must have been a big man...
building that opera house, bringing all those
great artists to San Francisco.
Oh, exhibitionism, I expect,
to prove how little he thought of money.
I see. And is that why
you carry on?
No. It eases my social conscience...
makes up for
the shocking things I do.
I still think it's pretty fine. I don't know
of a better way you could spend your money.
Well, I'm- I'm glad that you approve
of something about me.
Aida. Original manuscript.
"Produced at the San Francisco
Opera House, 1882."
You never gamble, do you?
- Not with women.
- Not very flattering.
Why?
I'll tell you why.
It's only a 50-cent hack ride
from here to the Barbary Coast...
but it takes a million dollars
to come back up...
if you want to stay.
Well, it would be nice
having you for a neighbor.
Oh. Just a minute.
You wanted me to kiss you,
didn't you?
Mr. Cornell, you're priceless.
- For worlds, I wouldn't have missed knowing you.
-
Hey, Johnny. Oh, excuse me.
The folks are waiting for Trudy to sing,
and you'll have to do her music.
- That is, if you can spare him.
- To Miss Evans? Why, of course.
For a song.
Thank you- too much.
Perhaps that was
a fortunate interruption.
We might have become
much too well acquainted.
Maybe we will- the next time
we see each other.
You all set?
I'll give Trudy an introduction.
Never mind. We're leaving.
Come on, honey.
- Hello.
- Be right with you.
- They just brought in the take,
and I'm checking it over.
I don't know how you
keep your mind on it.
Every time I come into this room,
since you've had it fixed over...
well, I kind of feel that the butler
should bring in my card.
- Yeah.
- And if I didn't know that we was on Pacific Street...
I would swear
that we was up on Nob Hill.
Why don't you pipe down
and let me work?
What's this? "Dance Land: $1,846.35."
Whoo! That ain't bad.
- It'll do.
- That'll do?
Brother, you sure got chummy
with money in a hurry, didn't ya?
I can remember the time
when you retired on that kind of dough.
Yeah. So can I.
"Silver Palm Ballroom: $2,100.50."
Johnny! How are you, my boy?
Uh-oh! Here he comes!
Lock up the dough, quick.
Johnny!
You struck it rich.
- Hey, you. Come on. Get out of here, or I'll call a cop.
- How are you, Sam?
Oh, that's what I came to tell you, Johnny.
This time I got it. Gold!
We'll be rolling in it!
Why, it'll be raining down like a cloudburst.
- I got my hands right on it.
- No, you ain't.
Johnny, I found a new bonanza-
an El Dorado, a Comstock-
and no one knows about it but me.
- All I need-
- Is another little grubstake.
Well, Johnny, I was gonna
work up to that gradual.
Just take your time.
The answer's no anyway.
What happened to the last one?
Johnny, I swear I never
could figure that out.
It just wasn't there.
Oh, this one's different.
Why, I wouldn't even need a pick.
There's nuggets laying there like rocks on a creek
bottom just waiting to be shoveled up.
- Give him $200, Dan.
- Yeah, come on. Get out of-What?
You heard me. Give him $200.
He's got a new mine.
You're telling me. And he don't need
no pick for this one either.
Oh, Johnny, you'll never
regret it, boy!
Why, one of these days we'll be pitching
gold watches down Market Street...
just to see how far
we can throw 'em.
- Why, we'll be riding in carriages.
- Oh, sure.
On your way out, have a drink- the bottle
with the skull and crossbones on it.
So long, Johnny. I'll be seeing ya.
God bless ya, my boy.
God bless ya!
That guy keeps bucking in to you,
you'll be the best-dressed man on the breadline.
- Never can tell. He might hit it sometime.
- Ah, what are you talking about?
Green Mill Rollerdrome, only $428?
That won't even pay for
the band and the waiters.
- It needs publicity. It hasn't caught on yet.
- And it never will.
People ain't gonna spend their money
putting wheels on their shoes...
and splitting their pants
bouncing off the floor.
It's gonna be the biggest attraction in town,
and you're gonna see it go over tonight.
- I know just what it takes. - Mm-hmm. So do
I. Andrew Carnegie and Hetty Green's bankroll.
Get out of that thing
and put on some street clothes.
- Where we going?
- To the Rollerdrome.
Oh, them roller skaters
make me dizzy.
Come in.
- It's me, honey.
- I'll be right there.
Ooh, don't whistle in the dressing room,
Johnny. It's bad luck.
You should know that.
You going someplace after the show?
No. It was so warm, I decided
to freshen up and change my makeup.
Well, never mind the makeup.
We're going out.
Going out? Why?
Well, do you have to ask why when
a fella tells you he's taking you out?
Well, when you ask me I do.
I'll have to ask you out more often then-
so you'll get used to it.
But what about the midnight show?
Ah, skip it. The place isn't big enough
to hold the crowd anyway...
so if they don't like it,
they can leave.
What's the matter?
Don't you feel like going out?
I never felt more like
doing anything in my life.
A night off and no work.
Oh, Johnny, I can't believe it.
It sounds wonderful.
All right. Then get all dolled up
and make it extra beautiful.
- Where you been?
- We were delayed.
Oh.
What do you think of that? They know us.
I should say so. As soon
as it was known that Miss Evans-
- Paul, get us a bottle of wine, will ya?
- Yes, sir.
Wine, Johnny? What for? Whose birthday is it?
Will you stop asking why and what for?
It's our night out.
- Then what am I doing here?
- You're the master of ceremonies.
Go up in the bandstand.
The leader will tell you what to do.
Oh, now I know what I'm doing here.
Oh, I think this place is doing fine.
It's almost packed.
It's building up. A few more guest nights
and it'll catch on.
What you need is some special attraction
to get the customers started coming in.
Funny, isn't it, how different it looks
from where you sit.
- How?
- Oh, it's such a relief to be just a customer once in a while.
You'll never know how much
I appreciate it.
Well, we're gonna have lots of
nights out together from now on.
Thank you, thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
And now, before I introduce
our guest star of the evening...
I give you Johnny Cornell's
famous troupe of skating stars...
that hit show, anyplace they land...
those babes and boys on rollers,
the Continental Cadets!
Thank you.
# It's tulip time in Holland #
#Two lips I know are lonely #
#The sweetest lips
in Holland #
#Are blooming for me only #
# I'd give the world #
# If I could be #
# Back there beside her #
# By the Zuider Zee #
# It's tulip time in Holland #
#Two lips are calling me #
# It's tulip time in Holland #
#Two lips I know are lonely #
#The sweetest lips in Holland #
#Are waiting for me only #
# La, la, la, la
la, la, la, la #
# La, la, la, la, la
By the Zuider Zee #
#Tulip time in Holland #
#Two lips are calling me #
#Two lips are calling me #
# It's tulip time in Holland #
#Two lips are calling me ##
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the big
moment of the evening's entertainment.
The pice de rsistance-
which means she's swell-
the one you've all
been waiting for...
that lovely little lady, our guest,
with the golden pipes of Pan...
San Francisco's own,
Miss Trudy Evans!
- Go on, honey. They're waitin' for ya.
- "Our night out. "
"Pick on Me. "
It's all fixed.
#When I was born
my pa and ma #
#They looked at me and said #
# Oh, pshaw #
#The doctor said
It's a girl, I think #
#And Pa went out
and got a drink #
#Then Ma said I looked
just like Pa #
#And Pa said I took after Ma #
#AuntJane said
I looked like a quince #
#And I've been a stepchild
ever since #
# Oh #
#They always, always #
# Pick on me #
#They never, never
let me be #
# I'm so very lonesome
Awfully sad #
# It's a long time
since I've been glad #
# But I know what I'll do
by and by #
# I'll eat some worms #
#And then I'll die #
#And when I'm gone
you wait and see #
#They'll all be sorry
that they picked on me #
# Now, why do they always, always
have to pick on me #
#Why do they never, never
never let me be #
# I'm so very lonesome #
#Awfully sad #
# It's a long, long time #
# Since I've been glad #
# But I know what I'll do
Mmm #
# By and by #
# I'm gonna eat me some worms #
#And then I'll die #
#And when I'm gone #
#Just you wait and see #
#They'll all be sorry #
#Terribly, terribly sorry #
# Gee, they're really gonna be
sorry that they picked #
# On #
# Me #
It's too bad I haven't got someone like you
to entertain at all my places.
Then they'd all go over
like the Rollerdrome did tonight.
You didn't mind going on,
did you, honey?
No, but you could have told me.
I'd have been glad to do it anyway.
I'm glad to be a part
of anything you do.
You are. That's half the fun of doing
things- having you in on it.
- Is it?
- Sure.
It's wonderful the way
you've made it all come true.
- Proud of me?
- Mm-hmm.
You've got about everything
you started out for...
except the house on Nob Hill.
Oh, I've forgotten all about that.
I know where I belong-
doing what I'm doing.
They haven't got anything
up there I want.
Too bad about Bernice Croft,
isn't it?
- What about her?
- Ned Clark told me her gold mine was playing out.
She began speculating pretty heavily,
and he tried to stop her, but-
Anyway, she's lost everything.
They're even going to
auction off her things.
Well, I guess she had fun
with it while she had it.
I wonder what a girl
like her will do now.
She can't support herself.
That's the trouble with
inheriting those big family bankrolls.
You're better off where you are,
in show business.
Show business.
That's all that makes your life
worthwhile, isn't it, Johnny?
I'm satisfied. You can't always
have everything.
No.
I guess you're right.
Lady bid $200. Ladies and gentlemen,
who'll make it 25? Who'll give me the 25?
- Twenty-five.
- 225.
- 230.
- $230. Bid 30, gentlemen. $230. Make it 35.
- Thirty-five.
- 235 and going at 40, 40, 40, 40.
- 240.
- $240. Who'll say 250?
- 250.
- $250. $250, ladies and gentlemen...
for this beautiful, original
Sbastian rard concert harp.
- Who'll say 300?
- 255.
Come, come, come, ladies and gentlemen.
This bidding is ridiculous.
There isn't another Sbastian rard instrument
to be had this side of New York or Europe.
- Who'll make it-
- 350.
- 350.
- Are you loco?
What do you want that harp for?
Why, you'll break off all your fingernails.
So, I want it. There's a lot of other things
around here I want too.
$350.
Is that all I'm bid for
a beautiful instrument like this?
All right.
350 once, 350 twice.
Sold to Mr. John Cornell.
You're hooked. When you die, where
you're going, you won't need that thing.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, an exclusive
item from the Croft musical offering.
A collection of opera scores
as produced at the Croft Opera House...
and I'm sure they require
no further recommendations.
- Now what am I offered?
- $3,000.
Thank you, Mr. Cornell.
$3,000.
Who'll make it 3,500?
3,500. 3,500.
- 3,500?
- Just a moment.
There must be some mistake.
The opera scores are not for sale.
But, Miss Croft,
they're offered in the inventory.
I said they were not for sale.
Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Cornell. I shall
have to ask you to withdraw your bid.
Boy, are you lucky.
Stay here and bid on
the paintings and bric-a-brac for me.
Bric-a-what?
Well, that's a little more like it...
coming from a guy whose
old man used to be a hod carrier.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, what am I
offered for this fine Theobald Boehm instrument?
- Fifty bucks.
- Fifty dollars...
from the stout gentleman with the diamond
stickpin for this fine Bavarian flute.
Flute? Me?
I'm bidding on a flute?
- Why did you do that?
- The scores are not for sale.
Meaning they're not
for sale to me...
because I'm from the other side of the tracks
and wouldn't appreciate them.
No. On the contrary,
I think you're one of the very few people...
who would appreciate them and understand
what they meant to my father.
Then why did you stop my bid?
Because some things are beyond
mere monetary value.
But I'll make you a present of them.
They'll be delivered with
the other things you've purchased.
But you can't afford to do that.
I'll give you 5,000 for 'em- 10,000.
You said once it was only a 50-cent hack fare
up here from the Barbary Coast...
but it took
a million dollars to stay.
Well, you've just about
made your million.
- I haven't made that much.
- You will someday.
But there's one thing
you must learn...
and that's to accept a gift
with merely a simple "thank you. "
The scores are yours.
- Thank you.
- You're quite welcome.
And now, perhaps that I'll no longer be able
to be patron to the San Francisco Opera...
they may find a new impresario
in Mr. John Cornell.
I'm afraid that would be
a little bit over my head.
Oh, I'm sure nothing would be over
your head that you set your mind to.
You have a way of saying
things that-
That what?
I'll have to say this my way.
Suppose I set my mind on you.
I'd be flattered,
but for the present I have other plans.
I'm taking whatever I have left...
and shaking the dust of San Francisco
from my worn-out sandals.
You see, John?
In some ways we're very much alike.
We both have an inordinate
amount of pride, and I-
Well, I just couldn't remain here
and have my friends feeling sorry for me.
Those are the kind of friends
you'd be better off without.
I'm not that kind.
Well, I'm glad of that.
I might be glad to
take advantage of it sometime.
But if I do come back to San Francisco,
it'll be to everything I've always had.
So once again, John...
for worlds, I wouldn't have
missed knowing you.
Good-bye.
Don't say that.
Then au revoir.
That's better.
That harp is driving me bugs!
I thought she was out shoppin'.
What did Johnny want with
that disappointed zither?
He was gonna build a number around it,
but he hasn't gotten to it yet.
A number, eh?
And I know the number.
It's that enamel-puss
society wench up on Nob Hill.
And if I didn't hit it
right in the nose...
why did he buy up
nearly everything she auctioned off?
And now he's trying to
buy the house too.
- Well, that's Johnny's affair.
- You said it.
Aw, honey, you ain't kiddin' nobody.
You're dead gone on Johnny,
but you don't do nothin' about it.
Well, I can't very well
throw myself at him.
Well, you could throw
something at him.
I know if he was my man and I wanted him,
I'd go after him hallelujah and high water.
- Trudy, better get dressed. You got five minutes.
- Mm-hmm.
Well, I'm your man, babe.
You want me, don't ya?
Ha! I know you love me.
#Why, Bedelia, what do you mean
by putting in this false alarm #
# False alarms, me foot
That scallywag tried to take me in his arms #
#Well, why not #
# Bedelia, I want to steal ya #
# Bedelia, I love you so #
# I'll be your Chauncey Olcott #
# If you'll be me Molly O' #
# Say something
sweet Bedelia #
#Your voice
I like to hear #
# Oh, Bedelia, delia, delia
I've made up me mind #
#To steal ya
steal ya, steal ya #
# Bedelia dear #
# Sure, I thank you Clancy, Pat
and Michael Hooligan and Joe #
# Oh, you're mighty kind
but if you don't mind #
#There's one thing
I'd like to know #
- # Has anybody here seen Kelly #
- #Who #
# K-E-double-L-Y#
- # Has anybody here seen Kelly #
- # Kelly #
# Have you seen him smile #
# Sure, his hair is red
and his eyes are blue #
#And he's Irish
through and through #
- # Has anybody here seen Kelly #
- #Who #
# Kelly from the Emerald Isle #
# Is anyone looking for me
I'm Kelly, as you can see #
# Me hair is red
and me eyes are blue #
#And begorry, I'm Irish
through and through #
# Has anybody here seen Kelly #
Help! Murder! Police!
# Oh, Bedelia, delia, delia
I've made up me mind #
#To steal ya
steal ya, steal ya #
# Bedelia dear ##
K- E-L-L-Y!
What a guy!
- Great show, Mr. Cornell.
- Thank you.
There's a gentleman waiting
in your office, Mr. Cornell.
Thanks. Take a bottle of White Seal to
Mr. Dawson's table with my compliments.
- Who, sir?
- Douglas Dawson, the biggest producer in London.
- Table number 9.
- Yes, sir.
After the way I've been raving about Miss Evans,
I hope you're not too disappointed.
Not at all. You're quite right.
She's wasted here.
I'd like to drop backstage
and have a chat with her.
Fine.
I think she'd be delighted.
- Evening, Burkham.
- How do you do, Mr. Cornell?
I received your message, and while
I don't generally transact business...
- after office hours-
- I was wondering why I hadn't heard from you.
I haven't been able to contact the lady since
I last saw you. I presume she's traveling.
Yeah, she was in Newport last week as a guest
on Count somebody-or-other's yacht.
Yes. That's where I addressed your last offer.
The letter was returned.
I must say, Mr. Cornell,
she doesn't seem to be much interested...
in your desire
to purchase her home...
even though you keep increasing
the amount you're willing to offer.
If you find out where she is,
raise it again.
The newspapers say
she's going to Europe.
- On that yacht?
- I really couldn't say.
- Say, Johnny, I just- Oh.
- It's all right, Dan. Come on in.
This is Mr. Burkham of
Burkham & Burkham Real Estate Brokers.
- Mr. Daley.
- How do you do, Mr. Daley?
Hello. Buying another honky-tonk, huh?
Say, what you peddling, bub?
Mr. Daley, Burkham & Burkham
do not peddle honky-tonks.
Burkham & Burkham deal in
high-class properties exclusively.
- He'd make a good straight man.
- Good night, Mr. Cornell.
If I have any further word from Miss Croft,
I shall contact you immediately.
Good night.
Listen, Johnny.
It ain't none of my business, but-
- Then don't say it.
- I won't.
But for a smart guy, you're making
a champion chump of the world out of yourself.
You don't want to buy that house.
You're just trying to make a hit with her.
- I thought we agreed it's none of your business.
- I won't say a word.
But just listen to this, mister.
Nob Hill and the Barbary Coast don't mix
no more than champagne and beer.
If it'll shut you up, she's on her way to Europe.
Some count's taking her.
Oh! Well, then let me be
the first to congratulate you.
- Say, Dan, go down and check the bar, will you?
- I certainly will.
And I'll pour myself a big one
just to celebrate your great victory.
Very well, Miss Evans.
We'll leave it that way.
When you make your decision,
I'll expect a cable from you.
Thanks.
And I really appreciate it.
And thank you, Ned.
You're still my most loyal audience.
- And always will be, Trudy. Good night.
- Good night.
- Good night.
- Good night.
Say, it was nice of Dawson
to come backstage to meet you.
- He like the show?
- He must have thought it was pretty good.
He made me an offer to go to London.
You're not thinking of taking it?
Yes, I am.
Trudy, you can't.
I can't let you go.
Why, losing you would be like
losing part of myself.
I used to feel
like that too, Johnny.
But, well, you have other plans,
and...
I have to think of getting ahead,
the same as you have.
But what's Dawson got to offer you
that I can't give you?
London? You're a star over here.
You don't know how you'd go over there.
- Don't you think I could make good?
- Of course you would.
But I don't want you to
make good for anybody else.
If you want to do a musical, I'll get
a theater uptown. I'll buy the Majestic.
I'll get you the West Coast
rights to any show you want...
and I'll put you over bigger and better
than Dawson ever could.
I always told you when I went up
I wanted you there with me.
I know, Johnny, but I wouldn't fit in
up where you're going.
Oh, so Dan's been giving you that.
Well, for your information,
I'm not going up there.
Beside, Trudy, there's no place
I'd ever go that you wouldn't fit in.
Do you really mean that?
Have I ever lied to you?
Oh, I should have thrown
that Dawson out...
instead of blowing him
to a bottle of wine.
Johnny, I didn't accept
Mr. Dawson's offer.
Well, what did you want to
scare me like that for?
You almost had me believing it.
Take off your makeup, and don't give me
that stuff about the midnight show.
- We're going out.
- Oh, the last time you asked me out-
Yeah, yeah. I know.
But this time, no entertainment.
Just dinner for two at the Palace.
Yeah?
Telegram, Mr. Cornell.
Get dressed, honey.
Thank you, Sam.
- Well, hello.
- Hello.
It was nice of you to respond
so quickly when I sent for you.
I knew you were the one friend
I could depend on.
At least you were the only one
who seemed to care what had become of me.
I thought you were on your way to Europe
on Count "Somebody's" yacht.
Oh, Count Faroni lost all interest
in Bernice Croft when he found out...
she wouldn't be able to support him
in the manner to which he was accustomed.
He replaced me with a steel heiress
from Pittsburgh.
- Well-
- Well, does that bring us back to business?
If you've decided to sell.
John, you're as easy to read
as an open book.
The reason you've made me
so many generous offers on my house...
was your way of showing
that you wanted to help me.
- Well- - You knew the money I got
from the auction wouldn't last long.
Well, it hasn't.
I'm flat.
If you sell the house,
it'll give you a new stack of chips.
That won't last long either.
And then what?
You see, like Count Faroni...
I have to be supported in a manner
to which I'm accustomed.
But I thought that-
I know. I said you
were an open book.
You'd not only offer
to buy my house...
but you'd offer me yourself
and everything you had with it.
Well, I appreciate it, and I'd be an asset
to anyone with a house on Nob Hill.
I didn't mean that.
I don't need anyone to make them accept me.
It's like you to say that.
I once told you we were both proud.
I wouldn't sell on those terms, and you
wouldn't buy under those conditions.
Well-
Heavens, Johnny. If this is a proposal,
don't stand there saying "well. "
Use a little imagination.
- Hello, Dan.
- Fine time to be showing up.
It's almost 1:00.
You know that?
There's been
three wine agents here...
and that real estate guy
was here asking about buying the Majestic.
All right. I'll close
the deal in the morning.
Listen, Johnny. It's none of my business,
but a theater's a gamble.
You've been doing all right
with the music halls and a Rollerdrome.
Didn't I promise you that I'd put
you all up on top sometime?
Yeah. It was nice talk, too,
when we didn't have a dime.
I know you're doing this
mostly for Trudy, but, Johnny...
if she knew what she was getting in for,
she wouldn't want no part of it.
She'd be satisfied
to stay right here.
Well, I wouldn't be. I'm through
with honky-tonks and Barbary Coast.
- I'm gonna be respectable.
- What for?
Because my fiance
would like it that way.
Ah, your- Oh, my hearing.
You know, for a minute I thought you says
your fiance. Now, look, Johnny-
- I did.
- You what?
I said "my fiance. "
For your information, Mr. Daley, champagne
and beer and Barbary Coast and Nob Hill do mix.
I'm marrying Bernice Croft.
- Well-
- Well what?
Well, it's too late now.
I always knew you was a sucker
for gold mines, but this time, brother...
you're gonna need one!
- What's the matter?
- Oh, nothin'.
Did Johnny close the deal
for the Majestic Theater?
Mm-hmm.
Tomorrow morning.
By the way, he don't want to be
connected with honky-tonks anymore.
- He's gonna be respectable.
- Is it as bad as all that?
It's worse. You know why
he's doing it too, don't you?
- I know why he's buying the Majestic.
- That's what you think.
That's what I thought too. I thought it was
gonna be for you, Beulah and myself.
But that ain't the half of it.
Well, I guess he's doing it
for himself too.
After all, Johnny's outgrown Pacific Street.
He's an important person now.
Oh, no.
I've heard everything.
I thought that Croft dame was the only one
filling him with that stuff, but if you're-
- Miss Croft hasn't anything to do with it.
- No, no, no, no.
She's just gonna sit out front and tell him
how you and me should be doing our stuff.
Maybe you can like it, but not me.
I can take orders from the headman, but when
the headman's wife starts running the show-
- Wife?
- Wife. That's what I said. Wife.
From now on he's gonna be known
as Miss Croft's husband.
She's got the Indian sign
on him already.
She's the one that made him
quit the coast for that society stuff.
If that's the way he wants it,
it's his wedding...
and that's gonna be his funeral too.
Overture!
Beulah!
Hey, Beulah!
- Where have you been? Where's Trudy? You hear that overture?
- She's gone.
Look at yourself. You look like
the last half of Finnegans Wake.
- Get in there and put some powder on your face.
- She's gone to London!
Oh, she's gone to London. That's very funny.
The overture's on, she's-
- She's what?
- Trudy's gone to London!
- Gone to London?
- Yeah!
What are you talkin' about? This time of night
you couldn't get a ferry boat to Oakland.
Gone to London?
# By the light #
# Of the silvery moon #
# I want to spoon #
#To my honey I'll croon #
# Love's tune #
# Honeymoon #
# Keep a-shining in June #
#Your silvery beams
will bring love dreams #
#We'll be cuddling soon #
# By the silvery moon #
# Place: Park
Scene: Dark #
# Silvery moon is shining
through the trees #
# Cast: Two
Me, you #
# Sound of kisses
floating on the breeze #
#Act one begun #
# Dialogue: Where would you
like to spoon #
# My cue with you #
# Underneath
the silvery moon #
- # By the light #
- #By the light #
# Of the silvery moon #
#Silvery moon, silvery moon #
# I want to spoon #
# Want to spoon, want to spoon #
#To my honey I'll croon #
- # Love's old sweet tune #
- #In the moonlight #
# Honeymoon #
# Keep a-shining
in June #
# Time for lovers to spoon #
#Your silvery beams #
#Will bring love dreams #
- # We'll be cuddling soon #
- #We'll be cuddling soon #
# By the silvery moon #
#Your silvery beams #
#Will bring love dreams #
#We'll be cuddling soon #
# By the silvery moon ##
Bravo!
Oh, Ellie! More flowers
than I've ever seen before.
- And they brought me out for a dozen curtain calls.
- Heavens, miss!
And why shouldn't they?
Here, let me take these. I'll put them in water.
All right.
I can't believe it's true.
I've had opening nights
before- lots of'em.
There was always someone there
to sort of help you over the bumps...
someone you knew would back you up.
It's funny, isn't it?
How scared you can be when you think
you're all alone in a strange country...
without-
Johnny!
Oh, Johnny.
I oughta punch you right in the nose
for running out on me...
but I feel just as proud of you
as if I did it myself.
- You had that audience right in your pocket.
- Were you out front?
Sure. I cabled
for tickets from Paris.
You didn't think I'd be within a thousand miles
of you on your opening night and not be here.
I thought you were a thousand miles away.
I read you were in Italy.
Sure, I saw the works,
from soup to Switzerland.
And what those babies don't know about show
business over there would fill Carnegie Hall.
Show business.
That's still your first love, isn't it?
- Oh, I didn't mean that, Johnny.
- I know.
Bernice is in Paris-
dressmakers and all that stuff.
She's sailing tomorrow,
and I'm boarding the boat at Southampton.
- It's about time I was getting home.
- Yes, of course.
I guess you're itching to get back.
- And how are Dan and Beulah and the Grizzly?
- Fine. Dan's running the place.
I don't expect
I'll be seeing much of it from now on.
- Did you buy the Majestic?
- No.
It wouldn't have been any fun
without you there.
I'm going high-hat in a big way.
- I'm taking over the opera house.
- Oh, that's wonderful.
Sure. I went into opera stuff while I was in Italy-
and take La Scala, for instance.
It's only a high-class concert hall.
The only difference is you
play to the carriage trade...
and the people in the audience don't know
what the performers are yelling about.
But I think I can show 'em back home
how it should be done.
If you say you can, Johnny,
I know you will.
Gee, Trudy, it's like old times...
having you give me a pat on the back
and telling me to go after things.
That's someone else's privilege now.
Oh, she's all for it.
Keep opera in the Croft family
and all that stuff.
Funny, isn't it?
Wonder where we'd all be now
if we'd been satisfied just plugging along...
on that old act we tried out
at Sharkey's that night.
I wonder.
Well, we can all take a bow.
We were tops, and we proved it.
We've got everything
we started out for.
I guess you've got everything
you started out for.
We're from the newspapers.
- Can we see Miss Evans?
- London Times.
- Just a moment, gentlemen.
- Thank you, miss.
Well, I, uh- I'd better go now.
Keep in touch with me, Trudy. I might
want you for a big show myself sometime.
You bet I will, Johnny.
- Good-bye.
- Good-bye.
- Will you grant us an interview?
- That was an extraordinary performance.
Was that your husband?
Tosca, 1,750.
Il Trovatore, 1,600.
Aida, less than 1,500.
Why, there were more people on the stage
than there were in the audience.
This free list looks like
the entire social register.
Is there a law against people
paying money to hear opera?
Mrs. Cornell's friends. But when you sponsor
opera, you don't expect to make money.
Who doesn't? A sponsor is an angel,
an angel is a sucker, and a sucker's a sap.
If business doesn't pick up at the end
of the week, put out the closing sign.
- But, Mr. Cornell-
- And cut out the free list!
I've been trying to tell you for over a month
that the place was on the skids...
but no, you were too busy up there with that
spaghetti carnival at the opera house.
- I'm trying to get that out of the red too.
- It don't pay off, brother.
You understand?
What do you do?
You go and sell the Rollerdrome, then you sell
Dance Land, and now the Silver Palms, and why?
To supply them imported
canaries with birdseed.
If you don't mind a suggestion, you'd better
do something about pulling the Grizzly Bear out.
The sheriff's gonna be breathing
right down the back of your neck.
She ain't kidding either, brother.
We ain't even got half a stock down in that bar.
Our old customers have to go someplace else
because we can't supply their favorite brands.
Sure, all the good chorus girls
have quit for live jobs.
Why, the ones we got left look like something
that came across with the covered wagons-
pullin' 'em.
Listen, you still got
a chance to get out...
if you'd bring Trudy back.
That's a swell suggestion.
I take Trudy out of a hit show in London to
bring her back to work on the Barbary Coast.
She wouldn't think about that. She'd be on
the next boat if you'd send her an S.O.S.
Forget it. I got myself on the skids,
I'll get myself off of it.
I'll get another singer.
I made a star attraction out ofTrudy.
I can do the same with another girl.
All right, if you don't know
who your real friends are.
But you're playing a chump, and you have been
since the night you fell for that society stuff.
I'll say you have. As long as you stuck to
Pacific Street, nobody could outsmart you.
And you'd still be smart
if you'd-
If I'd what?
I'll tell ya.
If you'd shake that dame there before she
breaks you, and come back to the Grizzly Bear.
- Who are you talking about?
- I told you it wouldn't do any good, Dan.
When a guy's being made a monkey of
and likes it...
he don't want to hear
the truth. Come on.
Maybe you're right. And since we're being
so frank, I've got something to tell you.
There you are. I knew you'd
see we were just thinking about you.
- What is it?
- You're fired, both of you!
And I'm selling the Grizzly Bear.
- Madame chrie!
There must be some misunderstanding.
But it is already announced in the paper-
closed, finished!
I, Chambinni!
What about my reputation?
He's treating us like common actors.
We are artists!
But I'm sure Mr. Cornell would have
consulted me before he did such a thing.
Impossible. Impossible!
Why, we haven't sing
Rigoletto, Traviata, Nibelungen!
Shh!
If you are not an American
multimillionaire...
why did you want opera?
You're cheap!
- Shut up!
- You needn't shout.
I'll shout all I want to.
You guys are pretty hard
to convince.
If I weren't in my own home,
I'd throw you out...
and maybe you'd get it through your
thick skulls that you're canned, through!
- John, please.
- I know, and I'm sorry.
But there's no more money.
Even you can understand that.
You guys are just a bunch
of second-rate hams.
I didn't know that when I first got into your
game because I was out of my own neighborhood.
Well, I learned. All right. I backed a turkey,
a flop, and I'm through.
- So get out!
- He can't talk to me like that! I'm Chambinni!
Get out!
Listen to me.
That was a pretty exhibition.
All you needed was the proper atmosphere-
sawdust on the floor.
That's right, and if
I'd had sense enough...
to stick by the Barbary Coast
where I belong, I'd be a lot better off.
I thought I could
raise you above it.
- I thought my father's prestige might-
- Your father!
I'm sick and tired of hearing about
what your father did.
I'm fed up with his opera house...
and the art museum
he gave the city...
and the big blowouts he used to
throw for the Crockers and the Floods.
He had a gold mine.
I haven't.
But you've dug me for one
ever since you married me.
Whatever made you think
I married you for any other reason?
I never told you I loved you.
I needed money,
and you needed social position.
Well, I gave it to you.
I'll send the deed for the house
over tomorrow.
That's all there is left.
And for worlds,
I wouldn't have missed knowing you.
All right.
You can drive on.
# Then my heart am a-pinin'#
#Meet me, pretty little Lindy
by the watermelon vine #
- Driver, pull up.
- #Lindy, honey Can't you hear me #
#Lindy, little Lindy #
#Say you'll be mine #
# When the moon am a-sh-sh-shinin'#
# Why, then my heart am a-pi-pi-pining #
#Meet me, pretty little Lindy #
#By the watermelon vine #
# Gee, but it's great
to meet a friend #
# From your hometown #
#What difference
does it make #
# If she is up or down #
#When she takes you
by the hand #
#There's a feeling
you can understand #
# Oh, gee, but it's great
to meet a friend #
#From your hometown #
# Now, friends, have you
ever stopped to think #
#While you've been traveling
here and there #
#What a great, big
lonesome world #
#This seems to be #
#And how hard it is
to find a pal #
# Say, who's really
on the square #
# But now my world
has changed #
#As you can see #
# Gee, but it's great
to meet a friend #
# From your hometown #
# What difference does it make
if she is up or down #
#When she takes you
by the hand #
#There's a feeling
you can understand #
# Oh, gee, but it's great
to meet a friend #
# From your hometown #
- # Gee, but it's great to meet #
- #To meet a friend #
- #A friend from your hometown #
- # Isn't it wonderful #
#A-what a-difference
does it make #
- # If he is up #
- # If she is up #
# Or down #
Oh!
What makes you so clumsy?
- Trudy! Oh, honey!
- Oh, Dan! How are you?
- I'm so glad to see you.
- Beulah!
Oh, you look wonderful!
Listen, sit down here,
tell us all about it.
- Gee, I never was so happy in all my life!
- Oh!
Look at her.
Well, this is something, ain't it?
Here we all are,
back at Sharkey's again.
- This is the last place I ever expected to find you.
- I don't blame you.
It's the only place we could get a job,
and Sharkey only hires us...
'cause every time he gets cockeyed,
he enjoys throwing us out again.
Yeah, all the fun's on his side.
But he hires us because he figures
he can kick us out again...
whenever he feels like
putting on another brannigan.
Well, he's bounced you out
for the last time. I'll take care of that.
Aw, thank you, honey. Gee, you know,
we've been reading all about you.
We think it's swell.
I'm so happy for you, Trudy.
Mr. Cornell certainly did you a favor
when he gave you the bounce...
for a ride on
that Croft merry-go-round.
Yeah. After she took him for the gold ring,
she even made him pay for the divorce.
Yeah. I heard about it.
He's down at the beach now,
spieling for a hula concession...
and you're sittin'
on top of the world.
Well, he still knows more about show business
than anyone in San Francisco.
Oh, you're right, honey,
but you can't do anything for the guy...
because he won't let anybody
do anything for him.
He figures that you're
doing him a favor.
Aw, but come on.
Let's talk about you, Trudy.
Gee, but you look pretty, honey.
Hurry, hurry, hurry,
ladies and gentlemen.
Step right up and buy your ticket.
The big show is about to commence.
Remember, gents, this is
only the free exhibit on the outside.
Inside we have a show
full of snappy dancing...
hula girls straight from the coral strands
of their South Sea island home.
Remember? It's the biggest show on the midway,
and it's about to commence immediately.
Don't stand too close there, brother.
You'll bother the ladies.
See Princess Halikalani,
her grass skirts waving in the breeze...
like tropical palm trees.
Why, she alone is worth the price
of admission, which is 10 cents.
The 10th part of a dollar. A two-dollar show
for a dime. All right, girls.
And now, ladies and gentlemen,
after you've blown your eyes to this show...
if you don't admit it's the finest show
on the midway, we will refund your money.
- Johnny, my boy!
- Sam!
Look, Johnny!
Gold watches.
Here. See how far you can throw it.
Are you loco?
Come over here.
Johnny, you're spoiling all the fun.
There's plenty more where these come from.
- Say, wait a minute. Did you hit it?
- Did I hit it?
Why, Johnny, there's some folks
calls me Sam the Millionaire.
Why, ifJay Gould was to
come up to San Francisco...
he'd have to look me up if he wanted
to buy a couple of gold mines.
If Alf Vanderbilt was looking for
a partner to buy a railroad, he'd have to-
Wait a minute.
Was it on the grubstake I gave you?
Johnny, your grubstake had kittens.
Why, I got more gold than they got
rice in China. Yes, sir. It's a Comstock.
Why, there's nuggets there you can
pick up in your bare feet with your toes!
Yes, sir. Now here's
a little chicken feed.
And if you want some real money...
we can go down to Ralston's bank
with a wheelbarrow.
- Just a moment. I gotta let this sink in.
- Take all the time you want.
Time and money's
all we're gonna spend from now on.
No, there's something
I gotta take up where I left off.
Oh, if that's what you want, we can build
our own house up on Nob Hill...
with solid-gold fittings
in the bathroom.
No, we won't. I was talking about
the Barbary Coast.
Say, meet me at the Palace Hotel
in an hour.
- This joint owes me 12 bucks. I wanna get it.
- You livin' at the Palace?
I will be by the time you get there.
#Hello, my baby
Hello, my honey #
# Hello, my ragtime gal Send me a
kiss by wire Baby, my heart's on fire #
# If you refuse me
honey, you'll lose me #
#Then you'll be left alone
Oh, baby, telephone #
#And tell me I's your own
Hello, hello, hello #
# Hello, my baby
Hello, my honey #
# Hello, my ragtime gal #
# Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, my heart's on fire #
- #If you refuse me, honey, you'll lose me #
- What is this, a gag?
Listen, Johnny, so help me. I've dug up
every singer in this town that ain't working.
- And that's about the last one.
- ##
I'm sorry, miss, but you haven't got
what it takes to sell a song in a concert hall.
- It wouldn't do either one of us any good. Thanks anyway.
- Who do you expect, Jenny Lind?
I put in a call for two other gals.
They might show up.
- Mr. Cornell, the foreman would like to see you.
- I'll be right with him.
If they're not any better than the ones
you've shown me, forget them.
Listen, ifJohnny catches on, he's gonna
hit the ceiling, and you're gonna hit the floor.
- Will you let me handle this my way?
- All right. Go ahead.
But pretending
you can't find any girl singers...
and havin' that phony gold miner
throw brass watches away.
Well, it's my idea of playing with matches.
So that's your cue
to do all the worrying.
- Go on back up there and leave me alone.
- All right, mallet head.
Mallet head?
Hello, Johnny my boy!
How's it going?
Looks like it's going pretty fast.
You opened the bar
a little early, didn't you?
I thought it'd look better
if the bottles weren't all full.
They're not gonna look
so good all empty either.
- What's the trouble, Joe?
- About the cabinet, Mr. Cornell.
- How do you want these doors hung?
- Let me see the layout.
You better put 'em on slides so they don't
interfere with the bar fixture here.
Now, Johnny, that ain't nice.
I'm sober as a jaybird.
Nothing interferes with me.
Just pass you out all the money
you want. Them's my orders.
- What are you talking about?
- Where the gold's coming from, son.
But I know a place in the Sierras...
where there's nuggets
like fleas on a dog's back...
just itchin' to be scratched.
- And all for me and you, Johnny.
- You can have it.
I told you, I'm only using your money
till I get started. Then you'll get it back.
You don't have to pay me back, son.
It ain't my gold dust.
- It doesn't belong-
- Sure. What are you talkin' about payin' him back?
You grubstaked him. Go on. Suck on
that bottle and plug up your mouth.
Nobody gets anything out of me.
I'm tight as an oyster.
- Guy's bleary as a hoot owl. He's talkin' through his hat.
- Where were we, Joe?
Oh, by the way, Johnny. A new singer
just came in. I'd like for you to hear her.
- Sure. Put her on.
- Don't you want to see her?
All I have to do is listen to her,
and I can do that from here.
- But all this noise!
- I said I can hear her. Put her on.
All right.
You'd better put a partition here
so it'll support the shelves.
- Yes, sir.
- There's something else I want to check while you're here.
# You'll never know #
#Just how much #
#I miss you #
# You'll never know #
#Just how much #
#I care #
#And if I tried #
# I still couldn't hide #
# My love for you #
#You ought to know #
# For haven't I told you so #
#A million
or more times #
# You went away #
#And my heart #
# Went with you #
#I speak your name #
#In my every prayer #
#If there is some other way #
# To prove that I love you #
#I swear I don't know how #
#You'll never know #
# If you don't #
# Know now #
# How I miss you #
#I speak your name #
#In my every prayer #
# If there is
some other way #
#To prove
that I love you #
# I swear #
# I don't know how #
#You'll never know #
# If you don't #
# Know #
# Now ##
Say, that girl's got a voice
that really gets you.
Yeah. She's all right.
You better put some extra men on these doors.
We haven't got much time.
- Yes, sir.
- Johnny, what do you say? Can you use her?
- Hello, Johnny.
- Hello.
Are you lucky. Not a gal in this town that
can sing without tripping over her tonsils...
and in walks Trudy
looking for a job.
It's quite a coincidence, isn't it?
Yeah. You can have her
for $200 a week.
That's a pretty big drop from 2,000.
I'm afraid she's a little out of my class.
No, I'm not. I'm laying off for the summer
anyway, and I wouldn't mind taking a cut.
I'm sorry, Trudy,
but I couldn't ask you to.
Oh, what are you
talking about, Johnny?
The Grizzly Bear wouldn't be the same
without Trudy with us.
- We'll get along.
- Oh, John, you-
Johnny, I know you can
get along without me...
but I don't want you to.
I want to help. You and Dan and Beulah
mean more to me than anything-
Sorry, Trudy, but it still goes.
I can't use you.
I couldn't let you come back and work for beer
and pretzels when that's all I had to offer you.
I'm on my own now.
I don't need anything from anybody.
What are you gonna do
with a guy like that?
He'd give his right eye to get you back,
but he won't give in to himself.
Stubborn.
# Strike up the band
Here comes a sailor #
# Cash in his hand
Just off a whaler #
# Stand in the row
Don't let him go #
#Jack's a cinch
but every inch a sailor #
# Oh, I've got a gal
in every port #
# I've got a gal
in every port #
#All the other sailors
call me sport #
# 'Cause I've got a gal
in every port #
# Now, didn't we meet in Panama
or was it Baltimore #
# It was destiny
Remember me #
# Say, I never saw
that face before #
# Oh, I've got a gal
in every port #
# Da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da #
# Didn't we meet in Zanzibar
or was it in Calcutta #
# My sweet patoota
You look so cute-a #
#And you are off
of your nut-a #
# Oh, I've got a gal
in every boat #
# Didn't we meet
in old Brazil #
# Or Pottstown
Pennsylvania #
# Baby, you were shy
and so was I #
# Get out of here, mutt
or I'll brain ya #
# Oh, I've got a gal
in every-#
# Didn't we meet in Saskatoon
or S-Schenectady #
- # I remember your shape #
- #You should, you ape #
#You big baboon
you married me #
# Oh, I've got a gal in-#
- # Married you #
- # Mm-hmm, You married me #
- # I married you #
- #Your family #
Uh-oh.
Oh.
# He's got a gal
in every port #
#Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha #
#Jack's a cinch
but every inch #
#A sai-#
Whoa!
#... lor ##
- Great show, Johnny. Best on the coast.
- Thank you, Frank.
- Congratulations. You sure put it over.
- Much obliged.
- You certainly do know how to put on a show, Johnny.
- Thanks a lot.
- Comin' back to the Grizzly. Like old times again.
- Congratulations, Johnny.
- Good work. Thank you, fellas.
- Johnny!
Come on. Have a drink
with your old card Sam.
- You've had about enough, haven't you?
- Me?
Why, Johnny, I could drink prussic acid
out of my own boat.
Wouldn't have no more effect on me
than bird meal.
- What are you gonna have, Johnny?
- Seltzer, please.
Straight bourbon.
Johnny, you're lookin' at the man...
who's got the greatest gold strike
in the Sierras...
all lined up.
You've cracked about that
once before.
- You have all you need now, haven't you?
- Johnny, that's nothin'.
All the ones you and me didn't get ain't nothin'
because this time we can't miss.
Why, I'll get you back every little
grubstake you ever give me.
- And all I need is-
- What are you getting at?
Gold, son!
This time we'll hit it!
Where'd you get all that money
you've been giving me?
Come on, answer me!
Where did you get it!
- L-
- Where'd you get it?
Oh, now, don't get mad, son.
What's the difference
if that little gal of yours stakes you?
Why, we'll pay her back.
We'll get nuggets by the buckets.
- So it was Trudy. Why didn't you tell me?
- Johnny, don't take it so-
Get out!
Go on! Get out ofhere!
Stay out ofhere!
Give me a chord there, Professor.
Thank you, thank you, thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
I just wanna tell you how wonderful
it is to be back at the Grizzly...
and how swell it is to have you
back here with us.
But there was someone missing
in the show tonight-
the little lady that used to
give you her heart with every song.
She's in the audience. Let her know you want her,
she'll be up here like she used to be.
I refer to San Francisco's own,
the one and only Trudy Evans!
And now, folks, there's someone else
we can't forget on this reopening night.
The one who gave you
the Grizzly Bear.
The one who, when he gets up here,
will bring us all back together again...
the impresario of the Barbary Coast,
Johnny Cornell!
Hit it!
Curtain!
# Hello, Frisco, hello #
# Hello, Frisco, hello #
#Don't keep me waiting #
#It's aggravating #
#Why can't you hurry, Central
You're so slow #
# I can hear you now
I can hear you now #
# Hello
Now can you hear #
# Deary, I've bought the ring
and I've arranged for everything #
#You know I love you, dear #
#We'll be together soon
and then we'll have a honeymoon #
# Your voice is like
music to my ear #
#When I close my eyes
you seem so near #
# Frisco, I called you up #
#To say hello #
# For you'll never know #
#Just how much #
# I miss you #
# I speak your name #
# In my every prayer #
# If there is
some other way #
#To prove that I love you #
- # I swear #
- # I swear I don't know how #
#You'll never know #
# If you don't know #
# Now ##