Passed | 1h 22min | Drama, Romance | 15 March 1931 (USA)
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
Director: Melville W. Brown
Writers: Alan Schultz , Carey Wilson
Stars: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
Director: Melville W. Brown
Writers: Alan Schultz , Carey Wilson
Stars: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez
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00:04:39Who's the lucky man? The one you're in love with.
00:04:43He's a big paper man.
00:04:45All wrapped up on your boss, I know.
00:04:48You should see my boss.
00:04:50He's so old that short skirts came in 20 years too late for him to appreciate legs.
00:04:57Even yours?
00:05:00My turn now.
00:05:02Shoot.
00:05:03Name, color, present condition of servitude?
00:05:07Ronald Wales.
00:05:09White, poor, honest.
00:05:12Ambition?
00:05:14Not to have to work for a living,
00:05:16so I could go to the south of France and write a book.
00:05:20What do you do for a living besides kissing strange girls in hallways?
00:05:24I work in a broker's office.
00:05:27In love?
00:05:29I am not.
00:05:31Married, then?
00:05:33I don't believe in marriage.
00:05:35That's not a new line.
00:05:38Well, now it's my turn.
00:05:47Did you like my kissing you?
00:05:51The plain truth, you know.
00:05:56Yes.
00:05:58Yes.
00:06:01And yet you say you're in love with another man.
00:06:04A man who called you Miss Landy when your name is Lyndon
00:06:07obviously isn't on kissing terms.
00:06:10And I'm human, believe it or not.
00:06:15I believe it so completely that I'm going to stake you to another little kiss.
00:06:19Do I have to?
00:06:21You do.
00:06:24Well, far be it from me, dearie,
00:06:27but Fay's established illegal relations with the drugstore
00:06:30and the gin awaits without.
00:06:33Without us.
00:06:35He can finish telling you the story of his life in the kitchen.
00:06:39I'd be just as safe right here in the bedroom.
00:06:42Yes, but with you two in the kitchen, a girl can powder her nose.
00:06:47Come on.
00:06:58Good night.
00:07:07Good night, Ronnie.
00:07:12You must come to the races with us again sometime.
00:07:15Oh, I'd love to.
00:07:19Good night, Miss, uh, Landy.
00:07:22Lyndon, you fool. Her name is Lyndon.
00:07:25I know, but Mary likes men who forget her name.
00:07:30Good night, Dolores. Good night, Mary.
00:07:32Oh, Scraggs.
00:07:42You certainly fell for Ronnie like the breaking up of a hard winter.
00:07:47In the first place, I didn't.
00:07:50In the second place, what's it matter?
00:07:52He's a handsome young Romeo with literary ambitions
00:07:54that make him practically no use to a girl.
00:07:57Say that again.
00:07:59He's just a poor, harmless, charming young idiot
00:08:02who thinks that marriage would ruin him as an author.
00:08:05Ronnie Wales is worth $2 million.
00:08:09What?
00:08:10Nice, isn't it?
00:08:11But call your shots, Mary.
00:08:13I hear his wife's nice, too.
00:08:16His wife?
00:08:18The kids are grand.
00:08:20Twins. Boys.
00:08:22What a man.
00:08:24Well, what a sap I've been.
00:08:27But why did he want to give me a song and dance like that?
00:08:30Oh, some say their wives are invalids.
00:08:33Some say their wives don't understand them.
00:08:37And some just say they're not married.
00:08:48You.
00:09:04A rider in company.
00:09:06Yes, ma'am.
00:09:10A rider in company.
00:09:14Oh, Mary.
00:09:16I forgot to send that wire to the Wisconsin Mill.
00:09:18I sent it after lunch.
00:09:19Oh, that's fine.
00:09:22Say, you know I forgot all about that sales meeting tomorrow?
00:09:26The sales department's been notified.
00:09:28Better in company, doesn't it?
00:09:30My goodness, you never forget anything, do you?
00:09:32You do, though.
00:09:33What now, Mary?
00:09:36Oh, my medicine.
00:09:37Well, I forgot that purposely.
00:09:39You take it when you get home.
00:09:40Yeah, yeah, all right.
00:09:41Good night, Mr. Anderson.
00:09:46Good morning, Gloria.
00:09:48It's all straight down the corridor.
00:09:49I have to stay a few minutes anyway.
00:09:50Thanks, Mary.
00:09:51Good night, Gloria.
00:09:52Goodnight.
00:09:53There's only one chunk busy.
00:09:54That sheik in the sales department
00:09:56is trying to talk another blonde out of a date.
00:10:04Better in company.
00:10:05And listen, Ed, she's got one of the swollest
00:10:07figures you ever looked at.
00:10:10She's very pretty.
00:10:10Oh, I know.
00:10:12She's got one of the swellest figures you've ever looked at.
00:10:15I don't care anything about her swell figure.
00:10:17All I want to know is, has she got a friend?
00:10:28Do you pack a gun, girlie?
00:10:33Well, Mr. Duneen.
00:10:36Well, well, well, it's Mr. uh, uh.
00:10:39Linden.
00:10:40Sure, Linden.
00:10:41Would you mind waiting a few moments in the sales department?
00:10:43Always glad to oblige.
00:11:11Well, how are the old man's arteries?
00:11:13And when's the old duck going to pass out
00:11:15and give us young fellows a chance?
00:11:17Mr. Ritter's going to be on hand longer than some
00:11:18of the rest of us, perhaps.
00:11:20There's a dirty crack in that somewheres,
00:11:22but Duneen passes it by.
00:11:24The name is Mary, isn't it?
00:11:27Why don't we get the Crown Publishing Company's account?
00:11:29Office hours are from 9 to 5.30.
00:11:32Did you ever try wearing your hair a little fluffier?
00:11:35How close have you come to getting
00:11:36together with the Crown people?
00:11:39Say, listen, if I can't sell them, they can't be sold.
00:11:42Run your handsome blue eyes down that.
00:11:46Hmm, this seems to be a confidential memorandum
00:11:49of the Crown's yearly requirements.
00:11:52They'll take that order at 3.5% off list.
00:11:54Yeah, and I'll buy $20 gold pieces for $19.
00:11:58Mr. Ritter's going to offer the Crown people 3.5%
00:12:01off for that order tomorrow.
00:12:02Say, listen, Ritter wouldn't offer 3.5% off for.
00:12:09You know, that's a remarkable coincidence.
00:12:12That's my idea exactly.
00:12:15In fact, I was going to sound them out on a discount basis
00:12:17the first thing in the morning and see
00:12:18if Ritter would approve it.
00:12:20Then I've just been wasting your time.
00:12:21Not at all, girly, not at all.
00:12:25You meant well.
00:12:26I was just ahead of you, that's all.
00:12:29Mr. Bronson lives at 478 Park Avenue.
00:12:33He left his office about 10 minutes ago.
00:12:34You can catch him if you go right after him.
00:12:37Consider that Deneen is on his way.
00:12:39But why the night work, girly?
00:12:42Well, Mr. Ritter, not being in your confidence,
00:12:44is going to personally telephone Mr. Bronson
00:12:46that discount at 8.30 AM.
00:12:49And you won't get credit for the order.
00:12:51Hey, let me know when I can do you a favor sometime.
00:12:57You can do me one right now.
00:12:59Name it, girly.
00:13:02Try and remember that my name is Lyndon.
00:13:04Well, of course it's Lyndon.
00:13:06Hey, plug me in on the switchboard, will you?
00:13:08I want to break a blonde's heart.
00:13:10You big businessmen are so brutal.
00:13:12Ha, ha.
00:13:13Ha, ha, ha.
00:13:14Ha.
00:13:17Ha, ha.
00:13:29I know I shouldn't have listened,
00:13:30but at the same time, little girls
00:13:32shouldn't give away confidential tips to cheap salesmen.
00:13:36Why not give an ambitious youngster a break?
00:13:38Jim Deneen is no good.
00:13:41Hold your job long enough, and you'll
00:13:42see Jim Deneen, the head of this company.
00:13:45Out of a city of six million people,
00:13:48why do you have to pick him?
00:13:51You weren't here when I first started two years ago.
00:13:55It was my first job.
00:13:57I was scared to death.
00:13:59I'd have run away if it hadn't been for Jim Deneen.
00:14:02What'd he do?
00:14:03Offer to show you the pictures in his flat?
00:14:07He found me crying in the hall, kidded me along,
00:14:11told me to keep up a bluff.
00:14:14But everybody in the world was bluffing.
00:14:18Oh, he don't look like no big brother to me.
00:14:21So I've just tried to pay him back for the way he helped me.
00:14:24You're goofy about him.
00:14:27Maybe.
00:14:28He don't even know you wear silk stockings.
00:14:31I'm protecting my job, too.
00:14:33Someday, Jim will be the boss here.
00:14:42Good night, Shelby.
00:14:52Ronnie called you five times today.
00:14:55Did he?
00:14:57When a girl's heart is broken, it's
00:15:00When a girl gets a sweet opening like Ronnie's,
00:15:02she ought to cut herself a piece of cake.
00:15:05How do you go about that sort of thing?
00:15:07Call him up and tell him you've picked out a swell apartment?
00:15:10You don't do anything.
00:15:12You just drift, smilingly.
00:15:15I'm no drifter.
00:15:17I swim.
00:15:19Upstream, if necessary.
00:15:21You darn fool.
00:15:30Hello, John.
00:15:32You need to take a trip to Europe now.
00:15:35Or in about a year from now, you'll
00:15:36take a ride on a hearse.
00:15:38Hi.
00:15:39Bad news, that?
00:15:40Mm-hmm.
00:15:41Yes.
00:15:43That man.
00:15:44It's Mr. Robinson.
00:15:45Tell him to come in, Mary.
00:15:46Now, look here, John.
00:15:47You can't see anybody else today.
00:15:49Oh, this is my banker.
00:15:51He won't get me excited.
00:15:52Well, all right.
00:15:54Now, remember, you get the money,
00:15:56and I'll get the money.
00:15:58Now, remember, you give up business immediately.
00:16:01Yeah.
00:16:02Yeah.
00:16:04Goodbye.
00:16:05Goodbye, now.
00:16:06Well, how are you?
00:16:08Why don't you sit down?
00:16:11Well, they tell me you haven't been downtown for a whole week.
00:16:14No.
00:16:16Doctor tells me I've got to retire.
00:16:19Well, I'm terribly sorry.
00:16:20Sell out my business and go away for a long race.
00:16:23Well, I'm very sorry indeed.
00:16:25Yeah.
00:16:27Well, find someone to buy the business.
00:16:30Well, that's not so easy.
00:16:32Times are hard.
00:16:34I read about a man who retired and sold
00:16:37his business to his employees.
00:16:39That's the modern method.
00:16:41Our banks might finance a deal like that
00:16:43if we were sold on the setup.
00:16:45And you could keep your name on the firm
00:16:47where it has been for 40 years.
00:16:49Well, who's the man to head it?
00:16:52Well, Spalding, your Chicago man.
00:16:55Yes, or Gault.
00:16:57Say, he's done very well with the timber and the mills.
00:17:00Well, there's that new sales manager, Mr. Dunneen.
00:17:02Oh, he's too young, too fresh.
00:17:07Young blood's not a bad idea in an old business.
00:17:10Right you are.
00:17:13Oh, well, suit yourself.
00:17:16If it's the lady, show her in.
00:17:25You certainly are anxious.
00:17:27The great Dunneen isn't dressed yet.
00:17:28But come on in, honey.
00:17:34I don't know why you're here.
00:17:36Hey, Mr. Dunneen, it's your lady.
00:17:38Mr. Dunneen, come on in.
00:17:41Well, well, well, if it isn't little old Mary Lyndon herself.
00:17:48I thought it was two other fellas from Detroit.
00:17:50Two other fellas named Honey.
00:17:52Sure, the famous Honey Twins.
00:17:54Make yourself at home.
00:17:55Donino will grab himself a shirt.
00:17:56OK.
00:18:12Well, it's a pleasure, girly.
00:18:14It's a pleasure.
00:18:16Like it?
00:18:17Yeah, it's all right.
00:18:18How do you like my new apartment?
00:18:20I suppose it's much smarter than your old one.
00:18:22Sure.
00:18:23New contract, new salary, new flat.
00:18:25It's got a progression, though.
00:18:27I think it's pretty swell, myself.
00:18:29Stunning.
00:18:32Oh, I've got to go.
00:18:33I've got to go.
00:18:34I've got to go.
00:18:35I've got to go.
00:18:36I've got to go.
00:18:37I've got to go.
00:18:38I've got to go.
00:18:39I've got to go.
00:18:41Oh, I forgot.
00:18:42You're the prudish type who likes women old-fashioned.
00:18:46You're pretty regular with that.
00:18:47I think you're swell.
00:18:49You don't know me.
00:18:50You only know my job.
00:18:52I smoke sometimes and wear an evening dress
00:18:55with absolutely no back to it.
00:18:57No.
00:18:58And have been known to drink a cocktail.
00:19:01That is, when urged.
00:19:03I urge you.
00:19:04I beseech you.
00:19:06Well, rather than have my clothes
00:19:07torn in a struggle, I will.
00:19:09It is a mess.
00:19:10It has orange juice in it.
00:19:11I'm sorry.
00:19:12It has.
00:19:13No, thanks.
00:19:14Well, I'm glad to know you, Mrs. West.
00:19:17And the next time you come, we'll have that sauerkraut
00:19:19you crave.
00:19:21I'll give you a sign.
00:19:23Let's you and me get together sometime, huh?
00:19:26Let's.
00:19:27Sometimes.
00:19:40Well, knowing that you don't love me for my body alone,
00:19:42I suppose you've come to make me president of the company,
00:19:45huh?
00:19:46Well, maybe vice president.
00:19:48Mr. Ritter's got to retire.
00:19:50He can't fire me.
00:19:51I've got a contract.
00:19:52Iron clad, air tight, and tied up with pink string.
00:19:56Robinson of the city trust could be sold on a proposition
00:19:59to buy Ritter's stock for you and pay for it out
00:20:01of the profits.
00:20:03No, it isn't hashish.
00:20:06Listen to me, Jim Dunnean.
00:20:07I know what I'm talking about.
00:20:09Robinson wants to keep the firm's business.
00:20:11I know.
00:20:12Oh, don't worry.
00:20:13He'd make something out of the deal himself.
00:20:15You have fine records.
00:20:16Robinson's wide open for young blood.
00:20:19I'm not having any pipe dream if you've got the stuff
00:20:21to sell the proposition to Robinson.
00:20:23I'm not having any pipe dream if you've got the stuff
00:20:25to sell the proposition to Robinson.
00:20:27I'm not having any pipe dream if you've got the stuff
00:20:29to sell the proposition to Robinson.
00:20:31I suppose you think I haven't, huh?
00:20:33I suppose you think I haven't, huh?
00:20:34What did you think I came here for?
00:20:36What did you think I came here for?
00:20:37Find out there's more than one cough in a carload?
00:20:39Find out there's more than one cough in a carload?
00:20:41Give me the lowdown.
00:20:42Give me the lowdown.
00:20:53Now, here's the way I'd approach him.
00:20:56Mr. Robinson, you're a businessman.
00:20:58I'm a businessman.
00:21:00I'm a businessman.
00:21:02I feel sure that I can double the firm's business
00:21:04in the next three years.
00:21:06Naturally, my efforts would be increased
00:21:08if I were working for myself.
00:21:11My plan guarantees the continuance
00:21:15of the relations and profits you have made with us.
00:21:19It is not only a bank's privilege, but its duty
00:21:22to foster the development of the concern with whom
00:21:24its past, present, and future is allied.
00:21:27That's the speech that'll get Robinson.
00:21:33Mr. Robinson, you're a businessman.
00:21:37I'm a businessman.
00:21:40I feel sure that I can double the firm's business
00:21:44in the next...
00:21:45Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
00:21:47Hey, what's the idea?
00:21:49Oh, here, blot it off.
00:21:51I'll see if I can find you another one.
00:21:53Fifteen bucks for that shirt, woman.
00:21:56Hmm.
00:22:00What the hell?
00:22:02Here, wear this one.
00:22:04You see, I ain't going to a funeral.
00:22:06Would you take a spot of color to sort of brighten up
00:22:08the spirits and show off the Dunning personality?
00:22:11Bankers are very conservative.
00:22:14Well, maybe you're right.
00:22:17Hmm.
00:22:18Well, I guess I'll be going now.
00:22:20Oh, hey, I didn't thank you yet.
00:22:22You're such a swell tip.
00:22:23But then I'm the only one that can carry out the scheme.
00:22:26You better change your shirt.
00:22:27Remember, you've got to be there at 915.
00:22:29I'll be on time.
00:22:30Don't worry.
00:22:31And thanks again.
00:22:33Oh, uh, Mr. Robinson's address is on that slip of paper.
00:22:36Leave it on the table.
00:22:40I'll put my own number here, too.
00:22:42Will you call me up as soon as you leave, Mr. Robinson,
00:22:44and tell me how it came out?
00:22:46From the nearest thrift store, baby.
00:22:53Oh.
00:23:23Hello?
00:23:24Who is this?
00:23:25Mr. Dunning.
00:23:26Mr. Dunning?
00:23:28Oh, I'll come right up.
00:23:54Come on in.
00:23:55I'll be right up.
00:24:01I can hardly wait to hear the good news.
00:24:13Oh, I thought it was someone else.
00:24:16I intended you to.
00:24:19Why did you say you were Mr. Dunning?
00:24:21Why did you say you were Mr. Dunning?
00:24:23What do you know about Mr. Dunning?
00:24:27Well, he's the one that calls you Landy
00:24:29when your name is Lyndon.
00:24:32How did you find out where I live?
00:24:35Oh, Dolores.
00:24:37If Mahomet won't come to the mountain,
00:24:40then the mountain must come to Mahomet.
00:24:42But this is the first time the mountain
00:24:44had to wear a false beard.
00:24:46You, sit down.
00:24:49Oh, thanks.
00:24:53And I was just going to bed.
00:24:59For Mr. Wales, you're just going to bed.
00:25:02For Mr. Dunning, oh, come right up.
00:25:04Come right up.
00:25:05I don't care to discuss Mr. Dunning.
00:25:10But I want to talk about Mr. Dunning.
00:25:14I want to talk about you.
00:25:15And I want to talk about me.
00:25:19Oh, I know all about you.
00:25:23Ronnie Wales, poor, white, honest.
00:25:28Ambition, not to have to work for a living
00:25:31so that I could go to the south of France and write a book.
00:25:34And I don't believe in marriage.
00:25:40But I am married.
00:25:41You know that.
00:25:43But we haven't lived together for three years.
00:25:45As a matter of fact, I haven't seen her for two.
00:25:49Where's your cane and your tin mug?
00:25:51And the little dog to lead you?
00:25:53And how are lead pencils selling these days?
00:25:59Hello?
00:26:00Yes?
00:26:01Hello, Mary.
00:26:02I put it over.
00:26:03Knocked him for a loop.
00:26:05And listen, I'm to be vice president.
00:26:08Oh, I'm so glad for you, Mr. Dunning.
00:26:11The bank retains 20%, the balance for me,
00:26:14and dividends credited on purchase.
00:26:16I'm to have 10 years to pay it off.
00:26:18But I'll knock that for a roll of ash can.
00:26:20Hey, shut off that music.
00:26:22All right, darling.
00:26:23Don't yell at me.
00:26:26Nice drugstore you're phoning from.
00:26:29Well, I, uh, I'm home.
00:26:32Some people dropped in.
00:26:36Then don't let me keep you.
00:26:37I'm entertaining myself.
00:26:39Go away, darling.
00:26:40How can I talk business with you mauling me so?
00:26:46Oh, but darling, I can't keep my hands off you.
00:26:51Excuse me.
00:26:53I'll see you at the office tomorrow.
00:26:56Can I play some jazz now?
00:26:59No, I got business to attend to.
00:27:01Finish your drink, and I'll call you a cab.
00:27:03All right.
00:27:16All right.
00:27:47Next time.
00:27:48Don't make me laugh.
00:27:51Good night, Mary.
00:27:52Good night.
00:28:17Good morning, madam!
00:28:22Good morning.
00:28:24All right.
00:28:25Second floor.
00:28:27Can I come in?
00:28:30Could I please take your card please.
00:28:34I can't move my arms.
00:28:37Yes, you can.
00:28:44Good morning, Ms. Loris.
00:28:46Good morning, Mr. Denny.
00:28:48Yes, all right.
00:28:49I'll turn things over here.
00:28:51Yes.
00:28:52Good morning, Mary.
00:28:53Good morning.
00:28:54All right.
00:28:55Bring your notebook.
00:28:56All right.
00:29:08Take a table to Erickson.
00:29:15I have gone to great lengths to convince you that it would be unwise to open an agency in this country.
00:29:25Here's your signature.
00:29:27How's that sound?
00:29:30Why don't you say something about our overhead being so distributed that it cuts down costs?
00:29:34Oh.
00:29:35Now put that in.
00:29:36Make it short.
00:29:37You'll know.
00:29:41Anything else?
00:29:43Let me see.
00:29:47Excuse me.
00:29:49Went to a party at Mr. Robinson's last night.
00:29:51Ray.
00:29:53Oh, by the way, his daughter's name is Helen, isn't it?
00:29:57Ellen, I believe.
00:29:58Oh.
00:30:05Don't you think we ought to make one more try for Ray Maker's business?
00:30:08I closed it the last time at Mr. Robinson's house.
00:30:10For five years at 239.
00:30:12Oh, Jim, that's splendid.
00:30:14Not bad.
00:30:15What?
00:30:16It's more than splendid.
00:30:17It's the biggest thing you've done.
00:30:18I'm proud of you.
00:30:19Hmm.
00:30:20Yeah.
00:30:22I'd be proud of myself if I didn't have this awful head.
00:30:31It took a lot of champagne to warm up on Ray Maker.
00:30:34As my old man used to say, a hair from the dog that bit you.
00:30:39Gee.
00:30:40What a tough time my folks had.
00:30:45I wish I'd had my luck while they were still living.
00:30:48Were you very poor when you were a kid?
00:30:51The greatest tragedy of my life was graduating from high school
00:30:54with a patch on the seat of my trousers
00:30:56and all the other young squirts and tuxedos.
00:30:59You've done remarkably.
00:31:01From a handicapped start.
00:31:04Thanks, Mary.
00:31:06That's nice of you to say that.
00:31:09Hmm.
00:31:16Yes?
00:31:18Just a minute.
00:31:19The Miss Daisy Presby says she has an appointment.
00:31:23Shall I get rid of her?
00:31:24No.
00:31:25No, wait a minute.
00:31:26Have Miss Presby wait.
00:31:30I've, uh...
00:31:31I've hired an assistant for you.
00:31:33You've been working too many nights.
00:31:35This girl can take some of the dictation.
00:31:37But I haven't complained.
00:31:42I don't want you to wear yourself out, you know.
00:31:46I thought it was my job to inform you.
00:31:48Well, it's not my job to inform you.
00:31:50It's your job to inform me.
00:31:53I thought it was my job to engage the new girls.
00:31:56This is, uh...
00:31:57This is different.
00:31:59I see.
00:32:02Jim, I'd rather not have an assistant.
00:32:04I can attend to everything.
00:32:06I'm not a bit overworked.
00:32:07I know, but I've hired the girl.
00:32:09She's to start in the morning.
00:32:11I'm afraid I must decide on the advisability of these things.
00:32:17Very well.
00:32:19Well, what else?
00:32:23By the way, uh...
00:32:24I was right about tails and a white tie for the Robinson dinners, wasn't I?
00:32:28If there's one thing I flatter myself on, it's knowing how to dress.
00:32:32Of course.
00:32:35I can't understand why this florist bill should be $100 higher than last month.
00:32:39We haven't ordered more than usual.
00:32:43I'll check it over.
00:32:44And I'll check it over.
00:32:46Oh, by the way, send a dozen American Beauty roses to Miss Ellen Robinson.
00:32:54Very well.
00:33:03Oh, by the way, how much does Miss Daisy Presby go on the payroll for?
00:33:08Put her down for $50 a week.
00:33:11And see that no one disturbs me.
00:33:15Very well.
00:33:23This is James Duneen's secretary speaking.
00:33:25I want you to send two dozen of your nicest roses to Miss Ellen Robinson.
00:33:30Yes. Hold the phone a moment. I'll give you her address.
00:33:33What?
00:33:35Oh, you have her address.
00:33:38Yes, it's the same Miss Robinson.
00:33:41All right, thank you.
00:33:45Miss Presby?
00:33:47Mm-hmm.
00:33:50Fill out this card, please. You ought to start in the morning.
00:33:52You may have the small desk over there.
00:34:09Oh, darn these chairs.
00:34:15There goes my stocking.
00:34:19Six bucks a pair.
00:34:25Oh, I picked up a swell combination at Wimble.
00:34:28I'm saving it for my Hope chest.
00:34:33Look.
00:34:37I ask you.
00:34:39Isn't that the spin you love to touch?
00:34:41Lovely.
00:34:48But they robbed you. I got the same thing for $14.
00:34:51Oh, don't tell me you wear French lingerie beneath that flower sack.
00:34:57What I wear next to my lily white body is, strange as it may seem, nobody's business.
00:35:06Sock goes Dempsey in shock. He takes it on the chin.
00:35:10Well, I think I'll just pop in and say hello to Jim.
00:35:14Wait just a minute. He doesn't wish to be disturbed.
00:35:16You can't go in when the red light's burning.
00:35:18Listen, sugar. I go past all red lights without even slowing down.
00:35:40How do you do, Prentiss?
00:35:41Miss Linden.
00:35:42Is Mr. Duneen ready for me?
00:35:43Expecting you.
00:35:44Oh, by the way.
00:35:45Hereafter, I don't want Mr. Duneen bothered with any of the household details.
00:35:48I'll do the buying myself.
00:35:49Yes, Miss Linden.
00:35:50Fresh flowers in there for you, Prentiss.
00:35:51Yes, Miss Linden.
00:35:55Good morning, Martin.
00:35:56Good morning, Miss Linden.
00:35:58Hello?
00:36:00Good morning.
00:36:02Good morning.
00:36:05I don't know what to say.
00:36:06Good morning.
00:36:09How do you feel?
00:36:10Terrible.
00:36:12And that Clydem business has got to be settled today.
00:36:17I got another inside tip.
00:36:19Here's some mail for you.
00:36:20Oh.
00:36:25Anything else, Mr. Duneen?
00:36:27That's all. Thanks, Martin.
00:36:31I know that a price of $2.32 was discussed.
00:36:34If we get the order, Mary, you'll get a swell new fitted bag.
00:36:40I'd rather have a raise.
00:36:44You're jealous because Miss Presby got one?
00:36:48Hardly.
00:36:49It's not the same situation.
00:36:51You're different.
00:36:52To your sorrows?
00:36:54She's just a diversion.
00:36:57She got her salary raised.
00:36:59I'll say she's diverting.
00:37:02You hate her, don't you?
00:37:04I do not.
00:37:05But she ruins the morale of the office.
00:37:07And from the things she says, you'd think she was one of the board of directors.
00:37:11You'll get a swell fitted bag nevertheless.
00:37:35You look tired, Mary.
00:37:37Why don't you take a day off?
00:37:43As a matter of fact, I have an invitation to spend a weekend at Atlantic City.
00:37:48Fine. Take the weekend off.
00:37:52You think Daisy can do my work, too?
00:37:56She's a little inexperienced, but...
00:37:58Yeah, I think she can.
00:38:05I don't think so.
00:38:07I can postpone my Atlantic City trip.
00:38:10It's a standing invitation.
00:38:13Hope you feel better.
00:38:14Thanks, Mary.
00:38:27Don't do that.
00:38:29I thought the black killer of Bayswater had got me.
00:38:32Theater, eh?
00:38:33Started for the theater.
00:38:35Ended up by driving on the post road.
00:38:37Oh, sounds romantic.
00:38:39Who is he?
00:38:41Jim Duneen.
00:38:43How long has this been going on?
00:38:45It hasn't gone on.
00:38:47I've been out with him once or twice.
00:38:49He sends me flowers.
00:38:51Well, you've a lot in common.
00:38:54His neckties, for instance.
00:38:57That's not fair.
00:38:59He's improved unbelievably.
00:39:00He's a very remarkable young man.
00:39:03Oh.
00:39:05Like him pretty much?
00:39:07Pretty much.
00:39:10Then in the morning, you'll see a doctor.
00:39:13Oh, don't be silly. I'm all right.
00:39:15No, you're not.
00:39:17No girl's healthy who prefers a good, sound businessman
00:39:20to a dancing fool.
00:39:22But when I really start siddling,
00:39:24even Jim Duneen will dance.
00:39:26Well, now, don't you look forward to an existence
00:39:28of all afternoon at the horse show
00:39:30and all evening at contract with him.
00:39:33He's not the type.
00:39:35No?
00:39:37Just wait till I get him in my clutches.
00:39:39Oh.
00:39:46I'm afraid there's another woman in his life.
00:39:49What?
00:39:52Lip rouge on his handkerchief.
00:39:55They never learn.
00:39:56They never learn, do they?
00:40:11Positively, no nonsense.
00:40:13Unless a contract is lived up to,
00:40:15it is not a contract.
00:40:17There is no reason why we cannot cooperate
00:40:20on an issue involving so much of our mutual welfare.
00:40:23Yours truly.
00:40:27Oh, what's the matter?
00:40:31The letter's too strong, Jim.
00:40:33You've got to be tough with Bueller.
00:40:35Write it as I dictated it.
00:40:37Very well.
00:40:40Well, now what have you got for me?
00:40:46Oh, Martin says you need shirts.
00:40:48Any particular choice of color?
00:40:49Do I ever wear anything but white shirts?
00:40:53What do you think I am, a shipping clerk?
00:40:57I beg your pardon.
00:41:03Oh, Mary, Martin had a new sort of evening tie
00:41:06for me last night.
00:41:08Narrow.
00:41:10Very smart.
00:41:12Tell him to order a dozen more.
00:41:15I bought it for you.
00:41:17I bought it for you.
00:41:25Oh, and Mary, uh,
00:41:27chase another Bueller.
00:41:29Tone it down.
00:41:31That part about positively no nonsense.
00:41:35Leave that out entirely.
00:41:44And Mary,
00:41:47I don't want Miss Presby
00:41:49to take any more of my dictation.
00:41:52What's the matter?
00:41:54Is she beginning to get breach of prophecy?
00:42:07Yeah?
00:42:09The Burden brothers are here.
00:42:11The Burden brothers?
00:42:13Oh, I have to take them out tonight
00:42:14Do you want to come along?
00:42:16Do you think it's decent of me
00:42:18to take the place of the dear departed so soon?
00:42:20Huh?
00:42:22Are you sure you wouldn't rather have Miss Presby?
00:42:25I asked you, didn't I?
00:42:27I'd love to go.
00:42:29Shall I show the Burdens in?
00:42:31Yeah, show them in.
00:42:45And then Father lost money.
00:42:47Of course, the managers were very glad
00:42:49to have a society girl to go on the stage.
00:42:52But sometimes I feel it's very degrading
00:42:54for a girl from an old Virginia family.
00:42:58And you've had to give up
00:43:00that big, white, colonial mansion.
00:43:03Oh, no.
00:43:05Mama lives there.
00:43:07I send her part of my salary every week.
00:43:10But of course, that doesn't mean
00:43:11very much for myself.
00:43:13There, there, Sybil.
00:43:15Oh, Mr. Burden,
00:43:17but I only just met you tonight.
00:43:19Oh, well, let's have another drink
00:43:21and then you'll know me better.
00:43:23This little girl Sybil
00:43:25has had a heap of trouble, Jim.
00:43:27I think she needs something
00:43:29to brush her up.
00:43:31Trouble?
00:43:33Trouble?
00:43:35Oh, I remember that word.
00:43:37That's what poor people have
00:43:39when the rent's due.
00:43:41Ha, ha, that's a good joke.
00:43:43Trouble's only something
00:43:45poor people have when the rent's due.
00:43:49Oh, Mr. Burden,
00:43:51are you really going to pay my rent?
00:43:58Oh, Mr. Duneen,
00:44:00who's going to pay my rent?
00:44:02What'd you do?
00:44:04Blow the rent on that frog?
00:44:06What's the matter with this frog?
00:44:08Absolutely nothing.
00:44:09I put in it and forgot to say when.
00:44:11I suppose you'd like me to wear this
00:44:13around the paper and pulp business.
00:44:15Well, you don't have to dress the way you do.
00:44:17The other girls don't.
00:44:19Oh, you notice that, do you?
00:44:21They make you notice it.
00:44:23And they can't all crave me.
00:44:25No, they just crave raises in salaries.
00:44:27How much do you get?
00:44:29Seventy.
00:44:32You should have more.
00:44:34That's sweet, Jim.
00:44:36Do you dance?
00:44:38Even better than I take dictation.
00:44:40Let's go.
00:45:06I never knew you had a place like this, Mary.
00:45:09Won't you come in a minute?
00:45:11I'd love to.
00:45:19Come in.
00:45:25Sit down, won't you?
00:45:27Thanks.
00:45:29I'm sorry, Mary.
00:45:31It's all right.
00:45:32Sit down, won't you?
00:45:34Thanks.
00:45:41You know, it's funny.
00:45:43I never figured out what your private life must be.
00:45:46I just thought of you as a perfect machine in an office.
00:45:51I gathered that.
00:45:54Mary.
00:46:02Sit down.
00:46:12You know, Mary.
00:46:14I'm very happy that you and I got together tonight the way we did.
00:46:17Are you?
00:46:19I'm terribly fond of you.
00:46:21But how could I help it?
00:46:23Eight, ten, twelve hours a day together?
00:46:26Mostly behind closed doors?
00:46:28Proving that a working girl can be safe from the advances of her employer.
00:46:32Well, I always figured that business and pleasure don't mix.
00:46:37That's not it.
00:46:39You've looked at me a thousand times.
00:46:42And never saw me until tonight.
00:46:45I see you now.
00:46:50And you look pretty good to me.
00:46:53I wonder if it isn't the dress.
00:46:56Or perhaps the liquor.
00:46:59Have another drink.
00:47:02Oh, would you have liked it if I'd kissed you in the office when you first came to work for me?
00:47:07A kiss depends upon who's doing it.
00:47:10And how it's done.
00:47:14How's this?
00:47:16How's this?
00:47:32You don't need that drink.
00:47:40I know all you've done for me.
00:47:42I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for you.
00:47:46I've been blinded by my own success.
00:47:50But from now on, things are going to be different.
00:48:07Sweet.
00:48:09Jimmy, I've got to go.
00:48:11Jimmy, I've got to be a machine again.
00:48:16It's past three o'clock.
00:48:18One of us has to be on hand at ten in the morning.
00:48:20Wyler will be there.
00:48:23Hang Wyler.
00:48:25Hang all the pulp and paper in the world.
00:48:33Jimmy.
00:48:35Jimmy.
00:48:36Jimmy.
00:48:40All right.
00:48:42Give me a drink and I'll run along.
00:48:45You're drinking a lot lately.
00:48:47Foolish.
00:48:49Let me be foolish tonight.
00:48:51It's a night of nights, isn't it?
00:49:07Water?
00:49:09No, straight.
00:49:18Well, here's how.
00:49:29Sit down.
00:49:37Good night, Mary.
00:49:39Good night, Jim.
00:50:06Good night.
00:50:37Hello?
00:50:39Bring me a notebook.
00:51:06Good morning, Jim.
00:51:08Oh, good morning.
00:51:10Take a letter to Berman.
00:51:17Dear Jake.
00:51:21I cannot understand the change in your attitude.
00:51:30I guess I had a little too much to drink last night, didn't I?
00:51:33Did you?
00:51:34Didn't you notice it?
00:51:36No.
00:51:37That's good.
00:51:38I was afraid I might have...
00:51:40Well, I mean, did I get fresh or make a pass at you or anything like that?
00:51:45Why, no.
00:51:47That's a relief.
00:51:48You know, Mary, I don't remember a darn thing that happened after about 10 o'clock last night.
00:52:07I cannot understand the change in your attitude.
00:52:13Huh?
00:52:15You were dictating?
00:52:17Oh, yes, yes.
00:52:19I cannot understand the change in your attitude.
00:52:24I cannot understand the change in your attitude.
00:52:28As the weeks roll by...
00:52:37Good evening, Miss Linden.
00:52:38Good evening, President.
00:52:52Did the bar go?
00:52:54Ready and waiting, Miss.
00:52:58Good evening, President.
00:53:00Good evening, Miss Linden.
00:53:02Good evening, President.
00:53:03Waiting, Miss.
00:53:07Oh, there they are.
00:53:11Oh, aren't they lovely?
00:53:14I'll start with these, President.
00:53:15With those?
00:53:16Yes.
00:53:22Were the monthly bills all right?
00:53:24Yes, they were nicely checked and everything's under control.
00:53:28Is Mr. Duneen home?
00:53:29Not since this morning.
00:53:30He hasn't been at the office all day either.
00:53:32Well, that's understandable.
00:53:38I hope you don't mind my stepping into your province fixing these flowers.
00:53:41Not at all, Miss Linden.
00:53:45Who's the party for?
00:54:01Prentiss, I asked, who's the party for?
00:54:04I thought perhaps you'd like to arrange these also.
00:54:08Why, what's that?
00:54:30I don't know.
00:54:32Mrs. Duneen, Mrs. Duneen, Mrs. Duneen.
00:54:58You finished the flowers, Prentiss?
00:55:00Yes, Miss Linden.
00:55:31Hello, Mary.
00:55:33That lung Freddy stood me up, so I came over here.
00:55:38Ain't men the swine, though?
00:55:44What's the matter?
00:55:48I'm not feeling well.
00:55:50You're not feeling well?
00:55:51No, I'm not feeling well.
00:55:53You're not feeling well?
00:55:54No, I'm not feeling well.
00:55:56You're not feeling well?
00:55:57No, I'm not feeling well.
00:55:59You're not feeling well?
00:56:20What are you crying for?
00:56:25Society girl wins Big Paper Man.
00:56:28You will cut my throat.
00:56:34Wait a minute.
00:56:53Here Mary, take a drink of this.
00:57:13Time for the speeches.
00:57:15A toast to the bride. Long may she wave.
00:57:28Gee, I try to help you, Mary, but I guess it's better to get it out of your system.
00:57:38If it hadn't been for me.
00:57:48I know.
00:57:50I know.
00:57:51Oh, don't let anybody in.
00:57:53I don't care who it is.
00:58:23What's the matter, Mary?
00:58:37Oh, nothing.
00:58:38Come on, now.
00:58:39Tell Ronnie everything.
00:58:40All right.
00:58:41I'll tell you.
00:58:42I haven't got any pride left.
00:58:43The engagement is announced of Miss Ellen Robinson to Mr. James Dunneen.
00:59:05I'm so eloquent, Ronnie.
00:59:11I've made him look like a gentleman.
00:59:13I've taught him to speak the king's English.
00:59:17I've shared his troubles and worries.
00:59:21I've lifted him above the presbys.
00:59:24I've stood between him and a dozen cheap designing women.
00:59:28But when it comes to a girl with beauty and money and a glamorous position, I can't do
00:59:41a thing.
00:59:42A girl of his own class, the class I gave him.
00:59:49Now, now, Mary.
00:59:50Take it easy.
00:59:51It isn't that bad.
00:59:52Now, take it easy.
00:59:53Come on.
00:59:54Come on.
00:59:55Oh, all right.
00:59:56Let's have a drink.
00:59:57Please don't, Mary.
00:59:58That isn't going to help you.
00:59:59Well, Ronnie, it's the next time.
01:00:13The next time, do you get me?
01:00:22We won't talk about that now.
01:00:24Oh, so you're going to burn me, too, are you?
01:00:27Who are you?
01:00:34After a while, we'll talk about that.
01:00:44Yes?
01:00:46Send her in.
01:00:53Miss Ellen Robinson to see you.
01:00:56Yes, I will.
01:01:07I'm Ellen Robinson.
01:01:09Yes, I know.
01:01:11You came to see Mr. Duneen?
01:01:12No, you.
01:01:14Oh, won't you sit down?
01:01:24Miss Linden.
01:01:25When I decided that I wanted to marry Jim Duneen,
01:01:28my father and I talked it over.
01:01:31I'm sure your father approved.
01:01:33My father has known you for a long time.
01:01:37Only in business.
01:01:38That's how I found out that you were in love with Jim Duneen.
01:01:44That's not true.
01:01:46This proves it.
01:01:51Can I work with Jim Duneen for years without falling in love with him?
01:01:54Certainly not.
01:01:57Get to the point.
01:01:58Your admission that you're in love with him hardly qualifies you
01:02:01from a fiancé's viewpoint for further employment.
01:02:06You want me to quit?
01:02:08At once.
01:02:10And if I refuse?
01:02:11I should tell him you're desperately in love with him
01:02:14and that it would be charitable to ask you to leave.
01:02:18You wouldn't do that.
01:02:20Oh, wouldn't I?
01:02:25When Greek meets Greek.
01:02:29What do you mean, calling me a Greek?
01:02:39Excuse my intrusion.
01:02:42What do you want?
01:02:45I want to talk to you.
01:02:47I'm not interested in your business.
01:02:49I'm not interested in your business.
01:02:51I'm not interested in your business.
01:02:53Come on.
01:02:56Mr. Duneen, I think I've been here long enough.
01:02:59Mary, what are you talking about?
01:03:02I've got a better job.
01:03:03Shorter hours, more money.
01:03:05Mary, don't do anything foolish.
01:03:06We'll talk this over later.
01:03:08There's nothing to talk over.
01:03:09I've had it in mind for some time.
01:03:11And it was just settled today.
01:03:14I'm leaving immediately.
01:03:16It won't inconvenience you any.
01:03:18Remember, you still have Daisy.
01:03:20Goodbye.
01:03:21Mary!
01:03:22Come here.
01:03:38What are you doing? Are you quitting?
01:03:40Get out of here. I want to be alone.
01:03:53What are you doing? Are you quitting?
01:03:57You know what I've done for Jim Duneen, don't you?
01:03:59Sure, but Mary...
01:04:00And you know that because I've loved him, I've played straight as a string.
01:04:03But you've known for some time that he was going to...
01:04:05And you know that I've met a dozen men,
01:04:06nice men,
01:04:08that wanted me.
01:04:09And what did I tell them?
01:04:10Like a fool, I'd say to them,
01:04:12no, no, no, you can't have Mary Linden.
01:04:15She's a good girl.
01:04:16And what did I say to myself?
01:04:18Like a fool, I said, Mary,
01:04:19you just keep yourself a nice,
01:04:21fine little girl,
01:04:22and one of these days, Jim Duneen will realize
01:04:24how good and worthy you are.
01:04:26Bologna!
01:04:27But I thought that was all over.
01:04:29Last night, Ronnie told me,
01:04:30yes, there's Ronnie, and I like Ronnie.
01:04:32And we've had a lot of good times together.
01:04:34But when Ronnie offered me everything in the world
01:04:36a girl could wish for,
01:04:37what do I do?
01:04:38I turn him down.
01:04:40Like a nice, fat-headed,
01:04:41virtuous little moron that I am.
01:04:43Well, that's all over, my fine girl.
01:04:45Mary, quiet, somebody will hear you.
01:04:48Let him hear me.
01:04:49Where are you going?
01:04:50Where are you going?
01:04:52I'm going to Atlantic City.
01:05:20I'll see you later.
01:05:50I'll see you later.
01:06:20I'll see you later.
01:06:50I'll see you later.
01:07:20I'll see you later.
01:07:50I'll see you later.
01:08:21I can't make the grade, Ronnie.
01:08:26Aren't you just asking
01:08:27for a lot of trouble and unhappiness?
01:08:29Can't you put him out of your mind?
01:08:32He's out of my life.
01:08:33I'm reconciled to that.
01:08:37But see this.
01:08:39Price tag off my nightgown.
01:08:42I found one of these
01:08:44on the floor of Jim's bedroom once.
01:08:46I knew the girl,
01:08:48and I despised her for being a whore.
01:08:50I despised her for being cheap and trivial.
01:08:54I just don't want to be that cheap myself.
01:09:00The funny part about it is
01:09:02that I'm priced at exactly $8 less
01:09:05than one of the most obvious young women I've ever met.
01:09:14Mary, dear,
01:09:16if my wife didn't have all the money in the family,
01:09:18I swear I'd get a divorce and marry you.
01:09:25I didn't ask you to buy my violets.
01:09:38No.
01:09:40No.
01:09:42Well, now, Miss Robinson,
01:09:44the Chicago train arrived a half hour ago,
01:09:46and I'm sure you'll come direct to the office.
01:09:48I'll tell him.
01:09:55Did you have a nice trip?
01:09:56Horrible.
01:10:06Yeah, well, I can still take off my own coat.
01:10:09The last 14 nights, I spent nine of them in Poland.
01:10:12Well, how are things running?
01:10:15Oh, everything's perfect.
01:10:16That, uh...
01:10:17Did that order go on I wired in Saturday?
01:10:20Oh, well, no.
01:10:22Well, why wasn't it shipped?
01:10:23Oh, it wasn't Mark Vash.
01:10:26The other orders I wired in, have they been sent?
01:10:29No, I thought I'd better hold them till you got back.
01:10:32Go out and get all that stuff and get it off right away.
01:10:35Oh, well, I can't.
01:10:37You can't? Why not?
01:10:39Well, I put them all in a folder and took them up to your house.
01:10:43Telephone my house and have Mark and my violets
01:10:45bring the folder down here right away.
01:10:47Well, I'm afraid they got lost last night in the confusion.
01:10:51Confusion? What confusion?
01:10:55In the fire.
01:10:57Fire?
01:10:58What fire?
01:11:00Well, the fire in your library.
01:11:04Fire in my library?
01:11:07And in your bedroom, too.
01:11:09But some of your clothes can be salvaged.
01:11:13What are you talking about?
01:11:15Well, Martin thinks he can fix some of your clothes
01:11:18as soon as he gets out of the hospital.
01:11:19Hospital?
01:11:26How did this fire start?
01:11:30Well, the firemen were very nasty.
01:11:32They said it started from my cigarette.
01:11:34Your cigarette? What were you doing smoking in my house?
01:11:37Well, I just sat down to smoke a cigarette.
01:11:41And don't you believe it, Jim, I didn't fall asleep.
01:11:43I was just thinking with my eyes closed.
01:11:51Are you sure you've told me everything?
01:11:54Think carefully now.
01:11:55Has the firm gone into bankruptcy?
01:11:57Or is my fiancée dead?
01:11:59Oh, no, Miss Robinson's not dead.
01:12:01She's been calling you for the last week
01:12:03wondering why she hasn't heard from you.
01:12:07Get her on the phone.
01:12:14Now, isn't that a coincidence?
01:12:16Speak of the devil and here she is.
01:12:22Get out.
01:12:31Hello, darling.
01:12:33What's the matter? You look a bit wild-eyed.
01:12:35Nothing, nothing at all, dear.
01:12:38You must have been busy.
01:12:40I had no letters from you.
01:12:41Only three little telegrams.
01:12:43And not a word for the past five days.
01:12:46Look, Ellen, for the past 14 days
01:12:48I've been leaping in and out of Pullman's
01:12:49and living in lumber camps.
01:12:50And I simply didn't have the time.
01:12:52Well, I'm glad you don't have to travel often.
01:12:54I don't fancy myself as a neglected wife.
01:12:56I've got to do a lot of traveling.
01:12:58The paper business is in a critical state.
01:13:00Newspapers are buying up their own mills.
01:13:02Syndicates are being formed.
01:13:03For the next year I'm going to be a leaping tuner
01:13:05all over these United States.
01:13:07But you don't have to do all the dirty work.
01:13:09But I do. No one else can do it as well.
01:13:11I'm not blowing my own horn. It's simply the truth.
01:13:13And we might as well face it.
01:13:15It's much better to face things in advance.
01:13:19Isn't it?
01:13:20Yes, dear.
01:13:21And now, Ellen, dear, please run along.
01:13:23I'm up to my neck in trouble.
01:13:29Why I ever let Mary Lyndon get away from me, I...
01:13:32I ought to have my head examined, that's all.
01:13:34If I could find her now, I'd give her half the company to come back.
01:13:40I think not.
01:13:43Do you think I want a woman around here
01:13:45who's madly in love with you?
01:13:46Mary? In love with me? Rot!
01:13:50You did a lot of night work together, you two.
01:13:52Say, listen, darling, you're a little mad.
01:13:55I'm no saint. I had my moments.
01:13:58But Mary Lyndon simply isn't that kind of a girl, that's all.
01:14:02Jim!
01:14:05There's a cop out here and he wants to arrest me.
01:14:09The arson squad wants you at headquarters for a statement
01:14:11about the connection between her cigarette and the fire in your home last night.
01:14:15I have no suspicions of you, Daisy. Run along.
01:14:19You see? Nobody has any suspicion of me.
01:14:23Come on.
01:14:28Oh, no.
01:14:30Nobody has any suspicions of you.
01:14:33I'm disgusted and humiliated.
01:14:36All the time it's been that cheap little trollop
01:14:39and I thought it was Mary Lyndon.
01:14:47Did you do anything to get Mary Lyndon to leave here?
01:14:49Certainly.
01:14:50But how dare you interfere in my business affairs?
01:14:52Business? That's good. A woman like Mary Lyndon.
01:14:55With Mary Lyndon the woman,
01:14:56you may have had a feminine life to be involved.
01:14:58But with Mary Lyndon the woman,
01:15:00you may have had a feminine life to be involved.
01:15:02But with Mary Lyndon, my private secretary,
01:15:04you had absolutely no right to interfere.
01:15:06I believe you're in love with her.
01:15:08Listen, I'd fall madly in love with any woman
01:15:10who displayed the least bit of common sense.
01:15:12Now, I'm sorry if I'm rude, but I'm terribly busy.
01:15:15Too busy, I'm afraid.
01:15:16Well, suppose we let it go at that.
01:15:24Get me Mary Lyndon's apartment on the wire.
01:15:27Why, Mr. Deneen, Mary Lyndon has moved.
01:15:32I'm sorry, I haven't the slightest idea where to reach her.
01:16:03Hello? Who is it?
01:16:05It's me. Are you awake?
01:16:08Yes, I'm awake, you idiot. Come on up.
01:16:33Hi. How's tricks?
01:16:35Oh, quite by me. What gets you up so early?
01:16:38Oh, Freddy got jealous last night
01:16:40and broke all my Rudy Valley records.
01:16:42Ha ha.
01:16:44So I threw him out and went to bed early.
01:16:49Got a job yet?
01:16:50Nope.
01:16:53Well, ain't it about time you went to work?
01:16:55No hurry.
01:16:56I don't care if I don't work for months yet.
01:16:58Jim Deneen tried to get in touch with you last week.
01:17:01He did?
01:17:03What did you tell him?
01:17:05Exactly what you told me to.
01:17:13I wonder what he wanted.
01:17:16How should I know?
01:17:19Say, did I tell you Daisy got canned?
01:17:21No.
01:17:22Uh-huh.
01:17:24I don't know.
01:17:25I don't know.
01:17:26No.
01:17:27Uh-huh.
01:17:33Nope.
01:17:34Nothing there.
01:17:36The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
01:17:43Well, listen to this.
01:17:45The forthcoming marriage of Miss Ellen Robinson
01:17:49to Mr. James Deneen
01:17:51has been called off by mutual consent.
01:17:54Where, Delores?
01:17:55Let me see.
01:17:57Where?
01:17:58Oh, it isn't in the paper.
01:17:59But it's liable to be any minute now.
01:18:01Or I've been listening in over that switchboard in vain.
01:18:04Delores!
01:18:06Mary!
01:18:07Ain't that sweet?
01:18:08Oh!
01:18:17Mr. Deneen, are we going to work again tonight?
01:18:19These late hours are just ruining my boyfriend's evening.
01:18:23Yes, tonight and every night
01:18:24until I find a secretary who's satisfactory.
01:18:27Have you got the answers to those warrant ads?
01:18:28Yes, here they are.
01:18:30Oh.
01:18:35Well, this sounds possible.
01:18:38For three years,
01:18:39secretary to the president of a pulp and paper concern.
01:18:42Best of references.
01:18:44How's this, Miss Helen Clark?
01:18:45I'm going to see you this afternoon.
01:18:47Yes, sir.
01:18:53Yeah?
01:18:54Helen Clark, my appointment.
01:18:56Send her in.
01:19:10Mr. Deneen,
01:19:11I'm sorry, but I can't.
01:19:12I've got to go.
01:19:14I've got to go.
01:19:15I've got to go.
01:19:16I've got to go.
01:19:17I've got to go.
01:19:18I've got to go.
01:19:20I've got to go.
01:19:21I've got to go.
01:19:22Mr. Deneen?
01:19:28I'm Helen Clark.
01:19:32Oh, yes, Miss Clark.
01:19:34Won't you sit down?
01:19:50I, uh...
01:19:52I see you've had office experience.
01:19:56Yes, I left my last employer because he got engaged.
01:20:03Mary, will you take off those clothes and be yourself?
01:20:05Oh, Mr. Deneen,
01:20:06do you always ask girls to disrobe in your office?
01:20:08I didn't mean that. You know I didn't.
01:20:10I mean, take off your coat. We've got work to do.
01:20:12But I get $100 a week now.
01:20:14All right, Mary, of course $100 is all right.
01:20:16Stop joking.
01:20:17I've got just three days to get affairs in shape
01:20:19so I can beat it up north and cover next year's supply.
01:20:23Well, what are you standing there like that for?
01:20:26Oh, Mary, please, I need you. Don't turn me down now.
01:20:29Grab a notebook and get to work.
01:20:38Colvin!
01:20:40Don't bring me no matter who it is.
01:20:42You stay at that switchboard
01:20:43while you take any calls that come in
01:20:44till I tell you you can go.
01:20:45I'm going to do a day's work.
01:20:52Come on, Jim.
01:20:53Take a letter to the Stockholm crowd.
01:20:59After due consideration of your proposition,
01:21:03I have decided to...
01:21:15Ready and company.
01:21:18Oh, Freddy.
01:21:21I've been waiting for hours
01:21:22for that big stiff to let me go home.
01:21:24He's still dictating.
01:21:28Shut up, Freddy.
01:21:30Freddy, will you please shut up?
01:21:36Shut up till I get my heart beating properly.
01:21:40What do you think?
01:21:41He ain't dictating.
01:21:43He's still dictating.
01:21:45He's gone over to Jersey City to marry Mary Lyndon.
01:21:48Oh, ain't that grand?