:31:03
- This just came, Mrs. Jordan.
- Thank you, Dora.
:31:06
l can still remember
when a telegram always meant bad news.
:31:11
- Good heavens!
- You see?
:31:13
Freddy Hope, my extra man,
he's got pneumonia.
:31:16
Of all the thoughtless, selfish....
On the day of my dinner, too.
:31:20
What am l going to do?
:31:21
Why do anything?
:31:23
l never could understand why
it has to be just even, male and female.
:31:27
They're invited for dinner, not for mating.
:31:30
l don't know where to find someone
who'll fit in with the Ferncliffes.
:31:34
Nothing but a rubber plant would fit in
with the Ferncliffes.
:31:36
Why don't you get an actor for Carlotta?
:31:38
- An actor?
- A movie star.
:31:40
Aren't there any movie stars around?
:31:42
l've got it. Larry Renault.
He'd be too marvelous.
:31:45
- l wonder if he's still in town.
- He was in town yesterday.
:31:48
Ed, the movie hound, read me an interview
with him in last night's Telegram.
:31:52
He's leaving pictures and going into a play.
:31:54
And he knows Carlotta.
:31:55
We met him at her place in Antibes
three years ago. He was a sensation.
:31:59
The girls fighting to get into his car.
And on the beach...
:32:02
well, my dear, he wore
even less than the girls.
:32:05
Ed says he isn't so hot since the talkies.
:32:07
You can't fool Ed about the pictures.
:32:09
He remembers John Bunny and
Francis X. Bushman, Henry B. Walthall.
:32:13
l don't suppose he'd even remember me.
l wonder where he's stopping.
:32:17
- The Versailles, that's where he is.
- That's where Carlotta's staying.
:32:21
- Are you sure?
- Yes. l remember the whole interview.
:32:24
He was wearing a two-piece
dark-blue flannel lounging suit...
:32:27
with a cunning white monogram
on his upper pocket.
:32:30
Let's see, l'll put him
between Carlotta and the Packard woman.
:32:34
See if you can get him first,
and let nature take its course.
:32:39
l do hope he's free for tonight.
:32:41
''Free, white, and 45,'' Ed says.
:32:44
l'll say this for him.
:32:45
ln his photographs,
he has the most heavenly profile.
:32:49
- Hello. Mr. Renault, please.
- Good luck, dear.
:32:53
Hello, Mr. Renault?
This is Millicent Jordan.
:32:57
l don't suppose you'd remember me.