Behind Office Doors (1931)

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00:11:55Mr. Ritter is going to offer the Crown people three and a half percent off for that order tomorrow.
00:11:59Say, listen. Ritter wouldn't offer three and a half percent off for...
00:12:06You know, that's a remarkable coincidence.
00:12:09That's my idea exactly.
00:12:11In fact, I was going to sound them out on a discount basis the first thing in the morning and see if Ritter would approve it.
00:12:16Then I've just been wasting your time.
00:12:18Not at all, girlie, not at all.
00:12:21You meant well.
00:12:23I was just ahead of you, that's all.
00:12:26Mr. Bronson lives at 478 Park Avenue.
00:12:29He left his office about ten minutes ago.
00:12:31You can catch him if you go right after him.
00:12:33Consider that Deneen is on his way.
00:12:35But why the night work, girlie?
00:12:38Well, Mr. Ritter, not being in your confidence,
00:12:40is going to personally telephone Mr. Bronson that discount at 8.30 a.m.
00:12:45And you won't get credit for the order.
00:12:48Hey!
00:12:51Let me know when I can do you a favor sometime.
00:12:54You can do me one right now.
00:12:56Name it, girlie.
00:12:59Try and remember that my name is Lyndon.
00:13:01Why, of course it's Lyndon.
00:13:03Hey, plug me in on the switchboard, will you?
00:13:05I want to break a blonde's heart.
00:13:07You big businessmen are so brutal.
00:13:21I know I shouldn't have listened,
00:13:23but at the same time,
00:13:24little girls shouldn't give away confidential tips to cheap salesmen.
00:13:29Why not give an ambitious youngster a break?
00:13:31Jim Deneen is no good.
00:13:33Hold your job long enough,
00:13:35and you'll see Jim Deneen the head of this company.
00:13:38Out of a city of six million people,
00:13:40why do you have to pick him?
00:13:44You weren't here when I first started, two years ago.
00:13:46It was my first job.
00:13:48I was scared to death.
00:13:50I'd have run away if it hadn't been for Jim Deneen.
00:13:53Why, they do.
00:13:54Offer to show you the pictures in his flat.
00:13:58He found me crying in the hall.
00:14:01Kidded me along.
00:14:03Told me to keep up a bluff.
00:14:05But everybody in the world was bluffing.
00:14:09I don't know.
00:14:11I don't know.
00:14:13He's bluffing.
00:14:16He don't look like no big brother to me.
00:14:20I've just tried to pay him back for the way he helped me.
00:14:22You're goofy about him.
00:14:25Maybe.
00:14:26He 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.
00:14:37Good night, Charlie.
00:14:48Ronnie called you five times today.
00:14:51Did he?
00:14:53When a girl gets a sweet opening like Ronnie,
00:14:55she ought to cut herself a piece of cake.
00:14:57How do you go about that sort of thing?
00:14:59Call him up and tell him you've picked out a swell apartment?
00:15:02You don't do anything.
00:15:04You just drift.
00:15:05Smilingly.
00:15:07I'm no drifter.
00:15:09I swim.
00:15:11Upstream, if necessary.
00:15:13You darn fool.
00:15:26Well, John,
00:15:28you need to take a trip to Europe now.
00:15:31Or in about a year from now, you'll take a ride on a hearse.
00:15:35Hi.
00:15:36Bad news, huh?
00:15:37Mm-hmm.
00:15:38Yes.
00:15:39That's Matt.
00:15:40It's Mr. Robinson.
00:15:41Tell him to come in, Mary.
00:15:42No, I can't, John.
00:15:43You can't see anybody else today.
00:15:45Oh, this is my banker.
00:15:47He won't get me excited.
00:15:48Well, all right.
00:15:50Now, remember, you give up business immediately.
00:15:53Uh, yes, sir.
00:15:56Goodbye.
00:15:57Goodbye, Doc.
00:15:58Well, how are you?
00:16:00Why don't you sit down?
00:16:01Thank you.
00:16:03Well, they tell me you haven't been downtown for a whole week.
00:16:06No.
00:16:08Doctor tells me I've got to retire.
00:16:11Well, I'm terribly sorry.
00:16:12Sell out my business and go away for a long rest.
00:16:16Well, I'm very sorry indeed.
00:16:18Yeah.
00:16:19Well, finally, I'm going to retire.
00:16:24Well, find someone to buy the business.
00:16:27Well, that's not so easy.
00:16:29Times are hard.
00:16:30Thanks.
00:16:31I read about a man who, uh, retired
00:16:33and, uh, sold his business to his employees.
00:16:36That's the modern method.
00:16:38Our banks might finance a deal like that
00:16:40if we were sold on the setup.
00:16:42And you could keep your name on the firm
00:16:44where it has been for 40 years.
00:16:46Well, who's the man to head it?
00:16:49Well, uh, Spalding, your Chicago man.
00:16:52Yes, or Gault.
00:16:53Say, he's done very well with the timber and the mills.
00:16:56Or there's that new sales manager, Mr. Duneen.
00:16:59Oh, he's too young, too fresh.
00:17:03Young blood's not a bad idea in an old business.
00:17:06Right you are.
00:17:09Oh, well, suit yourself.
00:17:13It's the lady showering.
00:17:25And you certainly were anxious.
00:17:32Too great that it isn't dressed yet.
00:17:36Well, come on in, honey.
00:17:38What is it, the matter?
00:17:41Well, well, well, if it isn't little old Mary Lyndon herself.
00:17:45I thought it was two other fellas from Detroit.
00:17:47Two other fellas named Honey.
00:17:48Yeah, sure, the famous Honey twins.
00:17:50Make yourself at home.
00:17:51Delaney will grab himself a shirt.
00:17:53OK.
00:18:11Well, it's a pleasure, girlie, it's a pleasure.
00:18:22Like it?
00:18:23Yeah, it's all right.
00:18:24How do you like my new apartment?
00:18:26I suppose it's much smarter than your old one.
00:18:28Sure.
00:18:29New contract, new salary, new flat.
00:18:31It's on a progression, though.
00:18:33I think it's pretty swell myself.
00:18:35Stunning.
00:18:38Oh, I forgot.
00:18:39You're the prudish type who likes women old fashioned.
00:18:42You're pretty regular with that.
00:18:44I think it's swell.
00:18:45You don't know me.
00:18:47You only know my job.
00:18:49I smoke sometimes and wear an evening dress with absolutely no back to it.
00:18:53No.
00:18:54And have been known to drink a cocktail.
00:18:57That is, when urged.
00:19:00I urge you?
00:19:01I beseech you.
00:19:02Well, rather than have my clothes torn in a struggle, I will.
00:19:05That is, unless it has orange juice in it.
00:19:07I'm sorry.
00:19:08It has.
00:19:09No, thanks.
00:19:10Well, I'm glad to know you, Mrs. West.
00:19:13And the next time you come, we'll have that sauerkraut you crave.
00:19:17I'll pay you fine.
00:19:19Let's you and Ernie get together sometime, huh?
00:19:23Let's.
00:19:24Sometimes.
00:19:38Well, knowing that you don't love me for my body alone,
00:19:41I suppose you've come to make me president of the company, huh?
00:19:44Well, maybe vice president.
00:19:46Mr. Ritter's got to retire.
00:19:48He can't fire me.
00:19:49I've got a contract.
00:19:51Iron clad, air tight, and tied up with pink string.
00:19:54Robinson of the city trust could be sold on a proposition to buy Ritter's stock for you
00:19:58and pay for it out of the profits.
00:20:08No, it isn't Hershey's.
00:20:10Listen to me, Jim Dunning.
00:20:12I know what I'm talking about.
00:20:14Robinson wants to keep the firm's business.
00:20:16I know.
00:20:17Oh, don't worry.
00:20:18He'd make something out of the deal himself.
00:20:19You have fine records.
00:20:21Robinson's wide open for young blood.
00:20:23I'm not having any pipe dream if you've got the stuff to sell the proposition to Robinson.
00:20:28No, I suppose you think I haven't, huh?
00:20:30What did you think I came here for?
00:20:33Find out there's more than one cough in a carload?
00:20:37Give me the lowdown.
00:20:48Now, here's the way I'd approach him.
00:20:52Mr. Robinson, you're a businessman.
00:20:54I'm a businessman.
00:20:56I feel sure that I can double the firm's business in the next three years.
00:21:00Naturally, my efforts would be increased if I were working for myself.
00:21:04My plan guarantees the continuance of the relations and profits you have made with us.
00:21:12It is not only a bank's privilege, but its duty to foster the development of the concern
00:21:17with whom its past, present, and future is allied.
00:21:21That's the speech that'll get Robinson.
00:21:23Mr. Robinson, you're a businessman.
00:21:27I'm a businessman.
00:21:30I feel sure that I can double the firm's business in the next...
00:21:35Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
00:21:37Gee, what's the idea?
00:21:39Oh, here.
00:21:40Blot it off.
00:21:41I'll see if I can find you another one.
00:21:43Fifteen bucks for that short woman.
00:21:46I'll see if I can find you another one.
00:21:48Blot it off.
00:21:49I'll see if I can find you another one.
00:21:51Fifteen bucks for that short woman.
00:21:59Here, wear this one.
00:22:02You see, I ain't going to a funeral.
00:22:04Don't you think a spot of color would sort of brighten up the spirits and show off the
00:22:07dummy personality?
00:22:09Bankers are very conservative.
00:22:12Well, maybe you're right.
00:22:15Well, I guess I'll be going now.
00:22:17Oh, hey, I didn't thank you yet.
00:22:19You're such a swell tip.
00:22:21But then I'm the only one that can carry out the scheme.
00:22:24You better change your shirt.
00:22:25Remember, you've got to be there at 915.
00:22:27I'll be on time.
00:22:28Don't worry.
00:22:29And thanks again.
00:22:30Oh, uh, Mr. Robinson's address is on that slip of paper.
00:22:33Leave it on the table.
00:22:38I'll put my own number here, too.
00:22:40Will you call me up as soon as you leave, Mr. Robinson, and tell me how it came out?
00:22:43From the nearest thrift store, baby.
00:22:47Thank you.
00:23:18Hello?
00:23:19Who is it?
00:23:20Mr. Duneen.
00:23:21Mr. Duneen?
00:23:22Oh, I'll come right up.
00:23:48Come on in.
00:23:49I'll be right up.
00:23:55I can hardly wait to hear the good news.
00:24:09Oh, I thought it was someone else.
00:24:12I intended you to.
00:24:14Why did you say you were Mr. Duneen?
00:24:16What do you know about Mr. Duneen?
00:24:20Oh, he's the one that calls you Landy when your name is Lyndon.
00:24:25How did you find out where I live?
00:24:28Oh, Dolores.
00:24:30If Mahomet won't come to the mountain, then the mountain must come to Mahomet.
00:24:35But this is the first time the mountain had to wear a false beard.
00:24:39Do sit down.
00:24:41Oh, thanks.
00:24:45And I was just going to bed.
00:24:51For Mr. Wales, you're just going to bed.
00:24:54For Mr. Duneen, oh, come right up.
00:24:57Come right up.
00:24:58I don't care to discuss Mr. Duneen.
00:25:03But I want to talk about Mr. Duneen.
00:25:06But I want to talk about Mr. Duneen.
00:25:09I want to talk about you.
00:25:11And I want to talk about me.
00:25:15Oh, I know all about you.
00:25:19Ronnie Wales.
00:25:20Poor.
00:25:21White.
00:25:22Honest.
00:25:24Ambition?
00:25:25Not to have to work for a living so that I could go to the south of France and write a book.
00:25:30And I don't believe in marriage.
00:25:32I don't believe in marriage.
00:25:38But I am married.
00:25:39You know that.
00:25:41We haven't lived together for three years.
00:25:43As a matter of fact, I haven't seen her for two.
00:25:46Where's the cane and your tin mug?
00:25:48And the little dog to lead you?
00:25:50And how are lead pencils selling these days?
00:25:56Hello?
00:25:57Yes.
00:25:58Hello, Mary.
00:25:59I put it over.
00:26:00Knocked him for a loop.
00:26:01And listen.
00:26:02I'm to be vice president.
00:26:05Oh, I'm so glad for you, Mr. Duneen.
00:26:08The bank retains 20%.
00:26:10The balance for me.
00:26:11And dividends credited on purchase.
00:26:13I'm to have ten years to pay it off.
00:26:14But I'll knock that for a row of ash games.
00:26:17Hey, shut off that music.
00:26:19All right, darling.
00:26:20Don't yell at me.
00:26:23Nice drugstore you're phoning from.
00:26:26Well, I, uh...
00:26:27I'm home.
00:26:28Some people dropped in.
00:26:32And don't let me keep you.
00:26:33I'm meditating myself.
00:26:35Go away, darling.
00:26:36How can I talk business with you mauling me so?
00:26:42Oh, but darling, I can't keep my hands off you.
00:26:47Excuse me.
00:26:49I'll see you at the office tomorrow.
00:26:52Can I play some jazz now?
00:26:55No, I got business to attend to.
00:26:57Finish your drink and I'll call you a cab.
00:27:00All right.
00:27:27Next time.
00:27:28Don't make me laugh.
00:27:57Good night, Mary.
00:27:58Good night.
00:28:27Good morning, Mr. Denae.
00:28:34Yes, all right.
00:28:39I'll tell him when to come in.
00:28:47Yes.
00:28:48Good morning, Mary.
00:28:49Good morning.
00:28:50All right.
00:28:51Bring her notebook.
00:28:52Good night.
00:28:53Take a cable to Erickson.
00:28:54I have gone to great lengths to convince you that it would be unwise to open an agency
00:29:20in this country.
00:29:21Use your signature.
00:29:22How's that sound?
00:29:23Why don't you say something about our overhead being so distributed that it cuts down costs?
00:29:24Oh.
00:29:25Now put that in.
00:29:26Make it short, you know.
00:29:27Anything else?
00:29:28Let me see.
00:29:29Oh.
00:29:30Excuse me.
00:29:31Went to a party with Mr. Robertson's last night.
00:29:32Left.
00:29:33I'm sorry.
00:29:34I'm sorry.
00:29:35I'm sorry.
00:29:36I'm sorry.
00:29:37I'm sorry.
00:29:38I'm sorry.
00:29:39I'm sorry.
00:29:40I'm sorry.
00:29:41I'm sorry.
00:29:42I'm sorry.
00:29:43I'm sorry.
00:29:44I'm sorry.
00:29:45I'm sorry.
00:29:46I'm sorry.
00:29:47I'm sorry.
00:29:48I'm sorry.
00:29:50By the way, his daughter's name is Helen, isn't it?
00:29:50Ellen I believe.
00:29:51Oh.
00:29:52Don't you think we oughta make one more try at the Rainmaker's business.
00:30:06I closed Mr. Robertson's house.
00:30:09For five years at $239.
00:30:11Oh, Jim, that's splendid.
00:30:13Not bad.
00:30:14What?
00:30:15It's more than splendid.
00:30:16It's the biggest thing you've done.
00:30:17I'm proud of you.
00:30:18you. I'd be proud of myself if I didn't have this awful head.
00:30:30It took a lot of champagne to warm up on when I got. My own man used to say I
00:30:37have from the dog that bit you. What a tough time my folks had.
00:30:43I wish I had my luck while they were still living
00:30:50we're very poor when you were
00:30:51a kid the greatest tragedy of my life was graduating from high school with
00:30:56a patch on the seat of my trousers and all the other young squirts and tuxedos
00:31:02you've done remarkably from
00:31:04a handicapped dog thanks Mary that's nice of you to say that
00:31:19yes just
00:31:21a minute the next day because they said she had
00:31:23an appointment so I get rid of her. No no
00:31:31wait a minute. I've
00:31:36a I've had
00:31:38an assistant for you but working too many nights this girl can take some of the
00:31:42dictation but I haven't complained I don't want you to wear yourself out you
00:31:49know I thought it was my job to engage the new girls this is this is
00:31:56different. I see. I'd rather not have
00:32:01an assistant I can attend to everything I'm not a bit overworked I know but I'm
00:32:06hired to go to start the morning I'm afraid I must decide on the advisability of
00:32:11these things very well.
00:32:19Well what else by the way I was right about tails in
00:32:24a white tie for the Robinson dinners wasn't I if there's one thing I find myself
00:32:29on it's knowing how to dress cool. I can't understand why this
00:32:36bill should be a hundred dollars higher than last month we haven't ordered more than
00:32:40usual and I'll check it over by the way send
00:32:45a dozen American beauty roses to Miss Ellen Robinson.
00:32:48They will.
00:33:01Oh by the way how much does Miss Daisy Presby go on the payroll for.
00:33:06Put it on for fifty a week. And see if no one disturbs me.
00:33:19This is James I mean secretary speaking I want you to send two dozen of your nicest
00:33:23roses to Miss Ellen Robinson Yes hold up on a moment I'll give you her address.
00:33:31Oh you have her address. Yes it's the same as Robinson.
00:33:38All right thank you.
00:33:39All right thank you.
00:33:45Miss Presby.
00:33:49Do not discard these your stuff in the morning you have
00:33:52a small desk over there.
00:34:08All done on these chairs.
00:34:14There goes my stocking.
00:34:24I picked up as well combination at Wimbledon I'm saving it for my hope check.
00:34:28That. I asked you.
00:34:38Isn't that the thing you love to touch. Lovely.
00:34:48But they robbed you I got the same thing for fourteen don't tell me you wear French
00:34:53lingerie beneath that flower sack. But I wear next to my lily white body
00:35:00is strange that may seem nobody's business.
00:35:06Not those Dempsey and shop he takes it on the chin. Well I think I'll just pop in
00:35:14and say hello to Jim. He doesn't wish to be disturbed you can't go in when the red
00:35:18light's burning. I go past all red lights without even slowing down.
00:35:41I think you'll find it with
00:35:42a minute. Expecting you Oh by the way you're after I don't want to do any bother
00:35:48with any of the household details I'll do the buying myself.
00:35:56Good morning. Good morning.
00:36:04Good morning. How do you feel terrible.
00:36:10And that Clyde and business has got to be settled today. I got another inside tip
00:36:17this mail for you.
00:36:23Anything else. That's all thanks. I know that
00:36:30a price of two thirty two was discussed we get the ordinary you'll get
00:36:35well new footed by. I'd rather have
00:36:39a raise. You're jealous because most probably got one. Hardly
00:36:47not the same situation you know different to your sorrow. She's just
00:36:52a diversion. She got her salary raised I'll say she's diverting.
00:36:58It's. You know I don't you certainly not she ruins the morale of the office
00:37:05and from the things she says you think he was one of the board of directors you'll
00:37:09get
00:37:09a swell footed bag never the less.
00:37:28But. You look tired Mary.
00:37:36Why don't you take
00:37:36a day off. The matter of fact I have an invitation to spend
00:37:44a weekend at Atlantic City. Take the weekend off. You think
00:37:51days you can do my work too. She's a little inexperienced but.
00:37:56You know I think she can.
00:38:04I don't think so. I can postpone my Atlantic City trip it's
00:38:08a standing invitation. Hope you feel better.
00:38:13Thanks.
00:38:25Don't do that. I thought the black killer of Bayswater got me.
00:38:32Yet I started with
00:38:33a theater ended up by driving on the post road sounds romantic who is
00:38:39a. How long has this been going on it hasn't gone on I've been out with him
00:38:46once or twice. Well you've a lot in common
00:38:53his neckties for instance that's not fair he's improved unbelievably the very
00:39:00remarkable young man. Like him pretty much.
00:39:05Pretty much. Then in the morning you'll see
00:39:10a doctor who don't be silly I'm all right no you're not no girls healthy who
00:39:17prefers
00:39:17a good sound businessman to a dancing fool but when I really stopped diddling
00:39:23even Jim Duneen was done well now don't you look forward to an existence of all
00:39:28afternoon at the horse show and all evening at contract with him he's not the type
00:39:34you know just wait till I get him in my clutches.
00:39:46I'm afraid there's another woman in his life. What.
00:39:52Lived through Johnny's handkerchief. They never do they.
00:40:04I'm going to leave no nonsense unless
00:40:12a contract is lived up to it is not
00:40:15a contract there is no reason why we cannot cooperate on an issue involving so
00:40:21much of our mutual welfare. Yours truly.
00:40:25Oh it's
00:40:29a matter. That is too strong Jim you've got to be tough with Buehler right as I
00:40:36dictated it. Very well. Now what have you got for me.
00:40:46Oh Martin says you need sure any particular choice of color. Do I ever wear
00:40:52anything but white shirts. What do you think I am
00:40:56a shipping clerk. I beg your pardon.
00:41:05Oh Mary Martin had
00:41:07a new sort of evening tie for me last night now very smart. Doesn't more.
00:41:16I bought it for you.
00:41:23When Mary. Chased another Buehler told it down that part about positively no
00:41:31nonsense. Leave that out entirely.
00:41:42And Mary. I don't want this to be to take any more of my dictation.
00:41:48What's the matter if you're beginning to get rich if I think.
00:42:05Yeah. The burden brothers. Oh I have to take them out tonight and make hope
00:42:11be with them if you want to come along.
00:42:19Oh. I asked you didn't die.
00:42:29Yeah sure I'm in.
00:42:30The.
00:42:45And then father lost money of course the managers were very glad to have
00:42:50a society girl to go on the stage but sometimes I feel it's very degrading for
00:42:55a girl from an old Virginia family. And you had to give up that big white
00:43:02colonial mansion. No my lives there I send a part of my salary every
00:43:09week. But of course that doesn't leave me very much.
00:43:15There there is. Mr.
00:43:17Burden but I only just met you tonight. Well let's have another drink and then
00:43:23you'll know me better. This little girl said well I was had
00:43:26a heap of trouble Jim. I think she needs something to brace her up trouble.
00:43:34Oh I remember that word that's what poor people have when the rents do. That's
00:43:41a good joke troubles only something poor people have when the rents do.
00:43:47All men. Are you really going to pay my rent.
00:43:58Who's going to pay my rent what you do know the right on that front with
00:44:03a strong absolutely nothing looks like it's been poured in it and forgot to say
00:44:08when I thought you'd like me to wear this around the paper and pulp business well
00:44:12you don't have to dress the way you do the other girls don't know you know that
00:44:16they make you notice it and they can't all crave me know they just crave raises
00:44:22in salary. How much do you get. Seven days.
00:44:30You should have more.
00:44:37Even better than I take dictation let's.
00:44:46Say.
00:45:10I never know you had
00:45:11a place like this Mary. I'd love to.
00:45:31Sit down.
00:45:40You know it's funny I never
00:45:41figured out what your private life must be I just thought it was
00:45:45a perfect machine in
00:45:47an office I gathered that Mary
00:45:53. You know
00:46:10Mary I'm very happy that you and I got together tonight the way we did I am
00:46:17I'm terribly fond of you but how could I help it eight ten twelve hours a day to
00:46:23get mostly behind closed doors proving that
00:46:29a working girl can be safe in the advances of her employer well I always figured
00:46:35that business and pleasure don't mix. You've looked at me
00:46:40a thousand times I never saw me until tonight I see you now
00:46:46. And you look pretty good to me.
00:46:55I wonder if it isn't the dress. Or perhaps the liquor. Have another drink.
00:47:04Oh would you have liked it if I kissed you in the office when you first came to
00:47:07work for me. I guess depends on who's doing it and how it's done.
00:47:12I was good.
00:47:31You don't need that.
00:47:32You.
00:47:39I know all you've done for me. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for
00:47:44you. I've been blinded by my own success. But from now on things are going to be
00:47:52different.
00:48:02For him. Jimmy
00:48:10I've got to be
00:48:10a machine again. Three o'clock one of us has to be on hand at ten in the
00:48:17morning while it will be there. Hang Wilder.
00:48:23Hang all the pulp and paper in the world.
00:48:27I'm.
00:48:31Going to be.
00:48:39Give me
00:48:40a drink and I want to. Drink a lot lately. Let me be foolish tonight.
00:48:48It's
00:48:48a night a night isn't it.
00:49:11One. Straight.
00:49:19Well.
00:49:19Well.
00:49:46Good night.
00:50:19Good night.
00:50:41Bring your notebook.
00:50:49To.
00:51:04Good morning Jim Oh good morning. Take a look at the Burman.
00:51:09A.
00:51:19I can't understand the change in your attitude.
00:51:28I guess I had a little too much to drink last night didn't I did you didn't you
00:51:32notice it. That's good I was afraid I might have. I mean
00:51:39did I get fresh or make
00:51:41a pass at you or anything like that why no that's a relief you know Mary I don't
00:51:47remember a darn thing that happened after about ten o'clock last night.
00:51:51I.
00:52:06Cannot understand the change in your attitude.
00:52:13You were dictating. Oh. I can't understand
00:52:19the change in your attitude. I can't understand.
00:52:26As the weeks roll by.
00:52:28And.
00:52:42Good evening.
00:52:59Is this all. Ready and waiting.
00:53:12I'll start with.
00:53:20But the monthly bills all right yes they were nicely checked and everything's
00:53:24under control. I mean not since this morning.
00:53:32Well that's understandable.
00:53:38Hope you don't mind my stepping into your province fixing these flowers not at all
00:53:41Miss Linden.
00:53:45With the party for.
00:53:54I thought perhaps you'd like to arrange these also.
00:54:54You.
00:54:56You finished the flowers. Yes Miss Linden.
00:55:24You.
00:55:41Oh Mary that lump but he stood me up so I came over here.
00:55:48Thank you and that's why I know.
00:55:55What's the matter.
00:56:10What are you crying for.
00:56:17The side of the girl when big paper man. What.
00:56:24Robinson took Jim will cut my throat.
00:56:32Wait a minute.
00:56:33For.
00:56:51Him Mary take a drink of this.
00:57:03Time for the speeches.
00:57:06A toast to the bride long may she wait.
00:57:09Long may she wait.
00:57:30Yeah I try to help you Mary but I guess it's better to get it out of your system.
00:57:39And.
00:57:46I know. I know. Don't let me but again I don't care who it is.
00:58:09Who.
00:58:34What's the matter Mary. Come on now tell Ronnie everything.
00:58:39To. All right.
00:58:46I'll tell you. I'm going to try to lift.
00:58:52The engagement is announced. Of Miss Ellen Robinson to Mr James Dunnean.
00:59:02I'm going to let Ronnie.
00:59:04I'm going to look like
00:59:04a gentleman I've taught him to speak the king's English. I've shared his troubles
00:59:11and worries. I've lifted him above the president. I've stood between him and
00:59:18a dozen cheap designing women.
00:59:24But it comes to a girl with beauty. Money.
00:59:29And the glamour of position. I can't do a thing.
00:59:37A girl of his own class. The class I gave him.
00:59:41Now now Mary take it. It isn't that bad.
00:59:47Oh all right let's have a drink.
00:59:51Please don't Mary. That isn't very nice.
00:59:53Well Ronnie. The next time. The next time.
01:00:00Do you get me.
01:00:06We won't talk about that now.
01:00:10I'm sorry.
01:00:13I'm sorry.
01:00:16I'm sorry.
01:00:19I'm sorry.
01:00:21We won't talk about that now.
01:00:23Oh so you're going to burn me too are you?
01:00:32After a while we'll talk about that.
01:00:42Yes.
01:00:44Oh send her in.
01:00:51Miss Ellen Robinson to see you.
01:00:54Yes I will.
01:01:05I'm Ellen Robinson.
01:01:07Yes I know.
01:01:09You came to see Mr. Duneen?
01:01:10No. You.
01:01:12Oh. Won't you sit down.
01:01:19Thank you.
01:01:21Miss Linden. When I first decided I wanted to marry Jim Duneen.
01:01:26My father and I naturally talked it over.
01:01:29I'm sure your father approved.
01:01:31My father has known you for a long time.
01:01:34Only in a business way.
01:01:36So that's how I happen to know you're in love with Jim Duneen.
01:01:42That's not true.
01:01:44That proves it.
01:01:46Could I work alongside of Jim Duneen for years without falling in love with him?
01:01:50Certainly not.
01:01:52Get to the point.
01:01:53Your admission that you're in love with him hardly qualifies you from a fiancé viewpoint for further employment.
01:02:01You want me to quit?
01:02:04At once.
01:02:05And if I refuse?
01:02:07I should tell him you're desperately in love with him.
01:02:09And that it would be charitable to ask you to leave.
01:02:13Yes.
01:02:15You wouldn't do that.
01:02:18Oh. Wouldn't I?
01:02:33When Greek meets Greek.
01:02:37What do you mean calling me a Greek?
01:02:45Pardon my intrusion.
01:02:48Well, what do you want?
01:02:52Mr. Duneen, I think I've been here long enough.
01:02:55Why, Mary, what are you talking about?
01:02:57I've got a better job. Shorter hours. More money.
01:03:00Now, Mary, don't do anything foolish. We'll talk this over later.
01:03:03There's nothing to talk over. I've had it in mind for some time.
01:03:07And it was just settled today.
01:03:09I'm leaving immediately.
01:03:11It won't inconvenience you any.
01:03:13Remember, you still have Daisy.
01:03:15Goodbye.
01:03:16Mary!
01:03:17Jim!
01:03:34What are you doing? Going to quit?
01:03:36Get out of here. I want to be alone.
01:03:39What's this Presby tells me? You've quit?
01:03:43You know what I've done for Jim Duneen, don't you?
01:03:45Sure, but Mary...
01:03:46And you know that because I've loved him, I've played straight as a string.
01:03:49But you've known for some time that he was going to...
01:03:51And you know that I've met a dozen men.
01:03:53Nice men. That wanted me.
01:03:55And what did they want?
01:03:57They wanted to kill me.
01:03:59And you know that.
01:04:01And you know that.
01:04:03And you know that.
01:04:05And you know that.
01:04:07And what did I tell them?
01:04:09Like a fool, I'd say to them,
01:04:11No, no, no, you can't have Mary Lyndon.
01:04:13She's a good girl.
01:04:15And what did I say to myself?
01:04:17Like a fool, I said, Mary, you just keep yourself a nice, fine little girl.
01:04:21And one of these days, Jim Duneen will realize how good and worthy you are.
01:04:24Baloney!
01:04:26But I thought that was all over.
01:04:28Last night, Ronnie told me...
01:04:29Yes, that's Ronnie. And I like Ronnie.
01:04:31And we've had a lot of good times together.
01:04:33But when Ronnie offered me everything in the world a girl could wish for,
01:04:36what do I do? I turn him down.
01:04:38Like a nice, fat-headed, virtuous little moron that I am.
01:04:42Well, that's all over, my fine girl.
01:04:44Mary, quiet. Somebody will hear you.
01:04:46Let them hear me.
01:04:48Where are you going?
01:04:49I'm going to Atlantic City.
01:05:07LAUGHTER
01:05:32I'll see you later.
01:05:36Bye.
01:06:06Bye-bye.
01:06:36DOOR CLOSES
01:07:06MUSIC FADES
01:07:36MUSIC FADES
01:08:06MUSIC FADES
01:08:20I can't make the grade, Ronnie.
01:08:25Aren't you just asking for a lot of trouble and unhappiness?
01:08:28Can't you put him out of your mind?
01:08:31He's out of my life. I'm reconciled to that.
01:08:36But see this.
01:08:38Price tag off my nightgown.
01:08:41I found one of these on the floor of Jim's bedroom once.
01:08:45I knew the girl, and I despised her for being cheap and trivial.
01:08:51I just don't want to be that cheap myself.
01:08:57The funny part about it is
01:08:59that I'm priced at exactly $8 less
01:09:02than one of the most obvious young women I've ever met.
01:09:07Mary dear,
01:09:09if my wife didn't have all the money in the family,
01:09:12I swear I'd get a divorce and marry you.
01:09:19I didn't ask you to buy my violets.
01:09:23I didn't ask you to buy my violets.
01:09:36No.
01:09:38No.
01:09:40Well, now, Miss Robinson,
01:09:42the Chicago train arrived a half hour ago,
01:09:44and I'm sure he'll come direct to the office.
01:09:46I'll tell him.
01:09:53Did you have a nice trip?
01:09:55Horrible.
01:10:04Oh, well, I can still take off my own coat.
01:10:07The last 14 nights, I spent nine of them in Poland.
01:10:11Well, how are things running?
01:10:13Oh, everything's perfect.
01:10:15That, uh, that order go out I wired in Saturday?
01:10:18Oh, well, no.
01:10:20Well, why wasn't it shipped?
01:10:22Oh, it wasn't marked right.
01:10:25The other orders I wired in, have they been sent?
01:10:27No, I thought I'd better hold them till you got back.
01:10:30Go out and get all that stuff and get it off right away.
01:10:34Oh, I can't.
01:10:36You can't? Why not?
01:10:38Well, I put them all in a folder and took them up to your house.
01:10:42Telephone my house and have Mark and my valet
01:10:44bring the folder down here right away.
01:10:46Well, I'm afraid they got lost last night in the confusion.
01:10:50Confusion? What confusion?
01:10:53In the fire.
01:10:55Fire? What fire?
01:10:58Well, the fire in your library.
01:11:03Fire in my library?
01:11:05And in your bedroom, too.
01:11:07But, uh, some of your clothes can be salvaged.
01:11:11What are you talking about?
01:11:14Well, Martin thinks he can fix some of your clothes
01:11:16as soon as he gets out of the hospital.
01:11:18Oh.
01:11:23How did this fire start?
01:11:26Well, the firemen were very nasty.
01:11:29They said it started from my cigarette.
01:11:31Your cigarette? What were you doing smoking in my house?
01:11:34Well, I just sat down to smoke a cigarette.
01:11:37And don't you believe it, Jim, I didn't fall asleep.
01:11:40I was just thinking with my eyes closed.
01:11:44Are you sure you've told me everything?
01:11:47Think carefully now.
01:11:49Has the firm gone into bankruptcy?
01:11:50Or is my fiancée dead?
01:11:52Oh, no, Miss Robinson's not dead.
01:11:55She's been calling you for the last week
01:11:57wondering why she hasn't heard from you.
01:12:00Get her on the phone.
01:12:07Now, if you don't believe me,
01:12:10now, isn't that a coincidence?
01:12:12Speak of the devil and here she is.
01:12:18Get out.
01:12:27Hello, darling.
01:12:28Well, what's the matter? You look a bit wild-eyed.
01:12:31Nothing, nothing at all, dear.
01:12:34You must have been busy.
01:12:36I had no letters for you.
01:12:38I had no letters from you.
01:12:39Only three little telegrams.
01:12:41And not a word for the past five days.
01:12:44Look, Ellen, for the past 14 days
01:12:46I've been leaping in and out of Pullman's
01:12:47and living in lumber camps.
01:12:48And I simply didn't have the time.
01:12:50Well, I'm glad you don't have to travel often.
01:12:52I don't fancy myself as a neglected wife.
01:12:54I've got to do a lot of traveling.
01:12:56The paper business is in a critical state.
01:12:58Newspapers are buying up their own mills.
01:13:00Syndicates are being formed.
01:13:01For the next year, I'm going to be a leaping tuner
01:13:03all over these United States.
01:13:05But you don't have to do all the dirty work.
01:13:07But I do.
01:13:08No one else can do it as well.
01:13:09I'm not blowing my own horn.
01:13:10It's simply the truth.
01:13:11And we might as well face it.
01:13:13It's much better to face things in advance.
01:13:17Isn't it?
01:13:18Yes, dear.
01:13:19And now, Ellen, dear, please run along.
01:13:21I'm up to my neck in trouble.
01:13:27Why I ever let Mary Linden get away from me, I...
01:13:30I ought to have my head examined, that's all.
01:13:32If I could find her now,
01:13:33I'd give her half the company to come back.
01:13:38I think not.
01:13:40Huh?
01:13:41Do you think I want a woman around here
01:13:42who's madly in love with you?
01:13:44Mary?
01:13:45In love with me?
01:13:46Rot.
01:13:47You did a lot of night work together, you two.
01:13:50Say, listen, darling, you're a little mad.
01:13:53I'm no saint.
01:13:54I had my moments.
01:13:55But Mary Linden simply isn't that...
01:13:57that kind of a girl, that's all.
01:14:00Jim.
01:14:02There's a cop out here, and he wants to arrest me.
01:14:06The arson squad wants you at headquarters
01:14:08for a statement about the connection
01:14:10between her cigarette and the fire in your home last night.
01:14:13I have no suspicions of you, Daisy.
01:14:15Run along.
01:14:16You see?
01:14:17Nobody has any suspicion of me.
01:14:20Come on.
01:14:26Oh, no.
01:14:28Nobody has any suspicions of you.
01:14:36I'm disgusted and humiliated.
01:14:39All the time it's been that cheap little talk,
01:14:42and I thought it was Mary Linden.
01:14:49Did you do anything to get Mary Linden to leave here?
01:14:52Certainly.
01:14:53And how dare you interfere in my business affairs?
01:14:55Business?
01:14:56That's good.
01:14:57A woman like Mary Linden.
01:14:58With Mary Linden the woman,
01:14:59you may have had a feminine right to be involved.
01:15:01But with Mary Linden my private secretary,
01:15:03you've had absolutely no right to interfere.
01:15:05I believe you're in love with her.
01:15:07Listen.
01:15:08I'd fall madly in love with any woman
01:15:09who displayed the least bit of common sense.
01:15:11And now, I'm forgiven if I'm rude,
01:15:13but I'm terribly busy.
01:15:14Too busy, I'm afraid.
01:15:16Well, suppose we let it go at that.
01:15:23Get me Mary Linden's apartment on the wire.
01:15:26Why, Mr. Deneen, Mary Linden is moved.
01:15:35I'm sorry I haven't the slightest idea where to reach her.
01:16:03Hello?
01:16:04Who is it?
01:16:08Yes, I'm awake, you idiot.
01:16:10Come on up.
01:16:12Hi.
01:16:13How's tricks?
01:16:14OK, by me.
01:16:15What gets you up so early?
01:16:17Oh, Freddy got jealous last night and broke up with me.
01:16:21What?
01:16:22Oh, I'm sorry.
01:16:23I'm sorry.
01:16:24I'm sorry.
01:16:25Why?
01:16:26Because I'm a fool.
01:16:27I'm sorry.
01:16:28I'm sorry.
01:16:29I'm sorry.
01:16:30I'm sorry.
01:16:31I'm sorry.
01:16:32I'm sorry.
01:16:33I'm sorry.
01:16:34I'm sorry.
01:16:35I'm sorry.
01:16:36I'm sorry.
01:16:37I'm sorry.
01:16:38I'm sorry.
01:16:39Oh, Freddy got jealous last night and broke all my Rudy Valley records.
01:16:44So I threw him out and went to bed early.
01:16:49Got a job yet?
01:16:51Nope.
01:16:53Well, ain't it about time you went to work?
01:16:56No hurry.
01:16:57I don't care if I don't work for months yet.
01:17:01Jim Deneen tried to get in touch with you last week.
01:17:04He did?
01:17:06What did you tell him?
01:17:08Exactly what you told me to.
01:17:16I wonder what he wanted.
01:17:19How should I know?
01:17:22Say, did I tell you Daisy got canned?
01:17:24No.
01:17:25Uh-huh.
01:17:31Nope.
01:17:33Nothing there.
01:17:35The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
01:17:42Well, listen to this.
01:17:44The forthcoming marriage of Miss Ellen Robinson to Mr. James Deneen
01:17:49has been called off by mutual consent.
01:17:53Where, Delores?
01:17:54Let me see.
01:17:55Where?
01:17:56Oh, it isn't in the paper.
01:17:57But it's liable to be any minute now.
01:17:59Or I've been listening in over that switchboard in vain.
01:18:02Delores!
01:18:03Mary!
01:18:04Ain't that sweet?
01:18:15Mr. Deneen, are we going to work again tonight?
01:18:18These late hours are just ruining my boyfriend's evening.
01:18:21Yes, tonight and every night until I find the secretary who's satisfactory.
01:18:25You got the answers to those warrant ads?
01:18:27Yes, here they are.
01:18:28Oh.
01:18:33Ah, this sounds possible.
01:18:36The three years secretary to the president of a pulp and paper concern.
01:18:40Best of references.
01:18:42Have this with Helen Clark when I see her this afternoon.
01:18:45Yes, sir.
01:19:03Yeah?
01:19:04Helen Clark, my appointment.
01:19:06Send her in.
01:19:20Mr. Deneen?
01:19:26I'm Helen Clark.
01:19:30Oh, yes, Miss Clark.
01:19:32Won't you sit down?
01:19:37Thank you.
01:19:48I, uh...
01:19:50I see you've had office experience.
01:19:54Yes, I left my last employer because he got engaged.
01:20:01Mary Lynn, take off those clothes and be yourself.
01:20:03Oh, Mr. Deneen, do you always ask girls to disrobe in your office?
01:20:06I didn't mean that, you know I didn't.
01:20:08I mean, take off your coat, we've got work to do.
01:20:10But I get $100 a week now.
01:20:12All right, Mary, of course $100 is all right.
01:20:14Stop joking.
01:20:15I've got just three days to get affairs in shape
01:20:17so I can beat it up north and cover next year's supply.
01:20:21What are you standing there like that for?
01:20:24Oh, Mary, please, I need you.
01:20:26Don't turn me down now.
01:20:27Grab a notebook and get to work.
01:20:32Colvin.
01:20:34Don't bring me no matter who it is.
01:20:36You stay at that switchboard
01:20:37while you take any calls at Clemental.
01:20:38I tell you, you can go.
01:20:39I'm going to do a day's work.
01:20:45Come on, Jim.
01:20:47Take a letter to the Stockholm crowd.
01:20:51Uh...
01:20:53After due consideration of your proposition,
01:20:56After due consideration of your proposition,
01:21:00I have decided to...
01:21:12Ready and company.
01:21:15Oh, Freddy.
01:21:18I've been waiting for hours
01:21:19for that big stit to let me go home.
01:21:21He's still dictating.
01:21:23He's still dictating.
01:21:27Shut up, Freddy.
01:21:29Freddy, will you please shut up?
01:21:35Shut up till I get my heart beating properly.
01:21:38What do you think?
01:21:40He ain't dictating.
01:21:41He's still dictating.
01:21:43He's gone over to Jersey City to marry Mary Lyndon.
01:21:47Oh, ain't that grand?
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