:44:00
For the love of.... Come out with it.
:44:03
l'm telling you.
:44:04
l go in to see Baumann this afternoon.
:44:07
He's sitting there, a face down to here.
:44:10
l start talking about the play.
What does he do?
:44:14
He tells me he's got to go south
for a month. He's sick.
:44:18
What does that mean?
:44:20
There you are.
:44:22
He's got to go south.
:44:24
You can't do a play when you're south.
:44:26
But he's got to do it. lt was all settled.
:44:30
lt was talked over, but it wasn't really....
:44:34
You know. Unless you get it down
in that old black and white....
:44:39
Even then sometimes it's no good.
:44:41
We'll take it away from him.
There are other producers.
:44:45
The cheap crook.
:44:49
Sure. Baumann's no good.
:44:54
That's how he got where he is.
:44:58
But that's not the point. What does he do?
:45:02
He goes and he turns the play over
to this Joe Stengel.
:45:12
l rather like the idea of going with Stengel.
:45:15
They tell me he does
those highbrow plays. lbsen.
:45:21
- ''l want the moon, Mother.''
- Yeah. Now, look Larry.
:45:23
He understands
l'm to be starred, of course.
:45:27
- That's just it.
- What?
:45:30
Now, look, Larry. Don't blame me.
l've been plugging for you for months.
:45:34
What are you trying to tell me?
:45:36
Don't go up in the air about it.
:45:38
There's sure to be something else.
:45:41
You mean l'm out?
:45:43
You dirty double-crosser.
Do you mean l'm out?
:45:46
Larry, l'm telling you,
nobody knew about this. Nobody.
:45:52
Who's going to play the part?
:45:54
This Cecil Bellamy.
:45:56
That piffling little....
He's English in the first place.