1:54:00
Everybody's entitled to one failure.
1:54:03
Let's go to Delmonico's, have the party.
Just as if the show was a hit.
1:54:07
You take the girls on over there,
and I'll see you in about a half-hour.
1:54:11
I got some things
I want to talk over with Sam.
1:54:22
Those critics have been after me for years.
They'll gang up on me and do a good job.
1:54:27
But I'll beat them to it. I'll take an ad
in every paper alongside their reviews...
1:54:31
...telling the public we got the greatest show
in town, sold out for 10 weeks in advance.
1:54:38
It'll be my word against theirs.
1:54:40
- Georgie, you can't do that.
- Why not?
1:54:43
You got too big a reputation.
Listen, you can't disappoint the public.
1:54:48
We stuck our necks out,
we got clipped.
1:54:52
Georgie.
1:54:55
You can't do this.
You'll always regret it.
1:54:57
- Sit down and take this.
- We'll be sorry.
1:55:01
- To the theatergoing public.
- George...
1:55:03
To the theatergoing public.
1:55:06
I wrote a play called Popularity.
1:55:09
Mr. Harris and I produced that play.
1:55:13
In the opinion of people we respect,
it is a bad play.
1:55:17
In this, we heartily concur.
It is a very bad play.
1:55:23
I do humbly apologize and ask forgiveness...
1:55:26
...for having presented anything
of which you couldn't possibly approve.
1:55:30
There will be five more performances.
1:55:32
Please miss them.
1:55:34
Signed...
1:55:37
Happy?
1:55:41
It's a wonderful second-act curtain.
1:55:44
Send copies of this
to all the New York papers.
1:55:47
Extra! Lusitania torpedoed
by German sub! Extra!