1:11:19
Hello, toots.
1:11:21
What are you doing here?
This is Mr. Gottlieb's box.
1:11:24
He couldn't come,
so he gave me his ticket.
1:11:26
And he couldn't get dressed,
so he gave me his clothes.
1:11:30
Shorty, will you toss up that kelly?
1:11:36
Attaboy. Here.
1:11:39
Get yourself a stogy.
1:11:43
Who's ahead?
1:11:45
Open the door.
1:11:54
Get me police headquarters.
1:11:57
Mrs. Claypool,
have you seen Mr. Gottlieb?
1:11:59
No. Isn't he backstage?
1:12:01
He's disappeared.
We can't find him anywhere.
1:12:03
You didn't look in the right place.
1:12:05
He was to make a speech
before the curtain went up.
1:12:09
That's the cue.
You'd better say something.
1:12:11
But I never made a speech in my life.
1:12:13
- All right, I'll take care of it.
- You?
1:12:17
Ladies and gentlemen...
1:12:18
I guess that takes in most of you.
1:12:20
This is the opening of a new opera season.
1:12:23
A season made possible
by the generous checks of Mrs. Claypool.
1:12:32
I'm sure the familiar strains of Verdi's
music will come back to you tonight...
1:12:36
and Mrs. Claypool's checks
will probably come back in the morning.
1:12:41
Tonight marks the American debut
of Rodolfo Lassparri.
1:12:47
Signor Lassparri comes
from a very famous family.
1:12:50
His mother was a well-known bass singer.
1:12:52
His father was the first man to stuff
spaghetti with bicarbonate of soda...
1:12:56
thus causing and curing indigestion
at the same time.