:10:08
- Here you are.
- Thanks.
:10:13
How did you happen
to get sent to St. Francis?
:10:16
Well, age and money
were on my parents' side. How about you?
:10:20
Uncle George said he'd lay odds
the nuns could straighten me out.
:10:23
And what did you say?
:10:24
- And I asked him, "What odds?"
- Good thinking.
:10:29
Boy, I hated to leave New Trends.
It was a blast.
:10:33
- What kind of school was it?
- Progressive.
:10:35
Mr. Petrie's the headmaster, and he's a doll.
:10:38
Sort of like Jack Lemmon, only younger.
:10:41
- I love Jack Lemmon.
- Naturally.
:10:46
Then why did your parents take you out?
:10:48
My father said growing sweet potato plants
and playing the silent piano...
:10:52
wasn't much preparation for life.
:10:54
- Besides, I was ghastly in spelling.
- That makes two of us.
:10:58
You know,
maybe it won't be so bad here, after all.
:11:01
I mean, you and I are certainly simpatico.
:11:04
True.
:11:07
What's the silent piano?
:11:10
It's a long piece of cardboard
with the keyboard printed on it.
:11:14
And even if you had a real piano,
you weren't supposed to play it.
:11:17
One time, my father asked me
how come I didn't play the real piano?
:11:21
So I told him I wasn't allowed to.
:11:23
And he said, "Why the hell not?
It's costing me $40 a month for the lessons."
:11:27
And so I told him:
:11:29
Mr. Petrie said that I was still crystallized...
:11:32
and that it wasn't time for me
to come out of my cocoon yet.
:11:36
Well, it's time now.
:11:40
It may come as
something of a surprise to you...
:11:43
but smoking, drinking,
and similar extracurricular activities...
:11:47
are not permitted at St. Francis.
:11:49
Get rid of those things.