2:17:06
They did that.
2:17:09
I'm not angry,
but it's very discouraging.
2:17:11
Kid asked me my name, I said, "Cohan."
He asked me again, I said, "Cohan."
2:17:16
Never even heard of me.
16 years old, and I bet he can't read.
2:17:19
But you've been away from
the theater for years, George.
2:17:23
Nine or ten generations
have grown up since then.
2:17:26
Naturally they don't remember you.
Nobody's got that good a memory.
2:17:29
Why not? Many generations remembered my
father and mother in vaudeville.
2:17:34
That's because they were real troupers.
They stayed with it.
2:17:37
Your father could do a good buck
and wing when he was 60.
2:17:41
- What makes you think I can't?
- I'd hate to see you try it.
2:17:44
Your father never sat around an orchard,
listening to his arteries hardening.
2:17:48
Nothing wrong with my arteries.
2:17:50
No, not right now because
those kids got you all worked up.
2:17:55
You're picking on me for a reason, Mary.
2:17:57
You're trying to get a rise out of me.
Come on. Let's have it. What is it?
2:18:02
All right. Here it is.
2:18:05
I got a long-distance call
from Sam Harris this afternoon.
2:18:08
What about?
2:18:10
He's producing a new show
by Kaufman and Hart.
2:18:13
They're good writers.
Nothing I can do to improve their stuff.
2:18:17
Sam thinks you could,
if you played the lead.
2:18:21
Play the lead?
2:18:23
What is the matter with that man?
Hasn't he got any sense at all?
2:18:27
- What's he trying to do? Spoil all our fun?
- But are you having fun, George?
2:18:31
When we were in Europe,
you haunted every theater...
2:18:34
...not knowing a word
that was said on-stage.
2:18:37
Going back, congratulating the actors.
They didn't know what you were saying.
2:18:42
Just to smell the greasepaint again.
2:18:45
You think I'm stage-struck. I only go
to the theater to get out of the night air.
2:18:50
Fun? I'm having a wonderful time.
I'll have nothing to do with Broadway.
2:18:56
Sam says it's a great part. No other actor
in the world but you could do it.