1:52:03
Maybe something's wrong.
1:52:04
Got the reports on the minstrel show.
1:52:07
- What'd we lose this week?
- Oh, 10,000, more or less.
1:52:10
- What's the total loss so far?
- A few dollars under 200,000.
1:52:14
That include the cost of the red ink?
Popularity better be a hit.
1:52:18
A lot of dough sunk into that too.
Eddie, find out what's keeping them.
1:52:23
- What did the papers say about the show?
- Here they are. Rave notices again.
1:52:28
Rave notices. That's bad.
1:52:30
The better notices you get,
the more it costs you.
1:52:34
All except the last act.
1:52:35
- Alexson suggests a new finish.
- Oh, I see, a new finish.
1:52:40
How about Saturday night?
1:52:43
- Close it?
- Close it.
1:52:45
Saturday night.
1:52:47
- Give the company two weeks' salary.
- All right.
1:52:50
- Well, good evening.
- Good evening.
1:52:53
- Hello, dear.
- Hello, Mom. Darling.
1:52:57
Well, Dad, I was worried about you.
1:53:00
Sit down, sweets, right there.
You sit down.
1:53:03
That theater's awfully cold, George.
1:53:05
- Better have more heat put in.
- Take care of that.
1:53:08
Remember that skating act from Camden?
1:53:10
They were there.
I wonder where they got the money.
1:53:13
Fagan, Feeny and Riley.
I remember them well.
1:53:15
Well, come on. Tell me.
How'd it go?
1:53:18
The audience loved it.
Every minute of it.
1:53:22
The sets were beautiful, George.
1:53:31
- Why so quiet, Sam?
- The toughest house I've ever seen.
1:53:35
The critics walked out
at the end of the second act.
1:53:44
Come on, Dad. Come on.
Let's have it.
1:53:48
Well, there's no use
beating around the bush.
1:53:51
Pretty bad, George.
1:53:53
Could've been a lot better.
1:53:56
All right, you write a bad play.
The only thing to do is forget about it.