A Letter to Three Wives
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:36:00
Oh, now, you check the cigarette boxes
while I put the liquor away.

:36:04
Why does everything have to be full
when guests arrive?

:36:07
Full cigarette boxes, candy dishes.
Fresh cakes of soap.

:36:11
Aren't we supposed to eat,
smoke or wash when we're alone?

:36:14
- Where's the scotch?
- I didn't buy any.

:36:16
- Why not?
- Too expensive. Bourbon's a better drink anyway.

:36:20
But the Manleighs
are a cinch to want scotch.

:36:23
People in show business, you know what I mean.
Those kind always drink scotch.

:36:27
Well, I know what you mean, but I wish
you wouldn't say it in radio English.

:36:30
"That kind," not "those kind."
:36:32
There are men who say "those kind"
who earn $100,000 a year.

:36:36
There are men who say, "Stick 'em up,"
who earn more. I don't expect to do either.

:36:39
Nor are you expected
to pay for the scotch.

:36:44
You're quite right.
Funny how it slips my mind...

:36:47
that in certain respects,
I'm only the titular head of this house.

:36:50
Oh. Don't be silly, darling.
:36:56
I thought it very amusing
to begin with.

:36:59
Very, uh, modern and enlightened.
:37:03
My tuxedo, for instance.
:37:05
The same tuxedo that for some strange reason
you want me to wear tonight.

:37:08
Well, what's so wrong about getting
dressed up once in a while?

:37:11
Nothing at all, unless it's obviously
an attempt at pretense.

:37:17
And just what is
so pretentious about tonight?

:37:19
Tonight we'll sit down
to one of Sadie's duck dinners.

:37:22
Present will be Porter and Lora Mae,
with whom we've had many such dinners...

:37:25
when you wore slacks
and I didn't bother to shave.

:37:28
But this time, also present will be two
advertising moguls who happen to employ you.

:37:32
Their presence means
a new uniform for Sadie...

:37:34
my children prisoners in their room...
:37:36
and all the pomp and hysteria
usually reserved for coronations.

:37:39
I call that pretense.
:37:41
All right. So I'm out
to impress the boss.

:37:44
What do I get for that, 30 years?
:37:46
Tonight's important to me.
I've planned and worked, shopped...

:37:49
taken the twins off Sadie's hands,
written my program...

:37:51
and I'll be up all night tonight
and it's worth it to me.

:37:53
And as far as
dressing's concerned...

:37:56
you can come in a cowboy suit
for all I care.

:37:58
Ohhh.

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