:31:02
We'd be honored if you and the composer
would join us later for a glass of champagne
:31:08
With pleasure
:31:09
The fact remains: The composer and
the composition are unknown
:31:14
We'll have to give the radio directors
something so the record gets played
:31:18
That could be interpreted as bribery
:31:20
It's only bribery if it's not enough
One could slip something
:31:23
to someone at the radio station
:31:26
But it would have to be deducted
from the composer's royalties
:31:32
Half of it
:31:34
Pardon?
:31:36
Half from him
:31:37
It's an investment, and investments
should be split honestly
:31:41
Fair enough, that's do-able
Royalties are 6%% %
:31:47
I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear you
You said... 12%% %?
:31:51
Twelve percent!?
:31:53
Franz Lehar earns that much!
:31:56
But with an operetta, you have to
pay singers, and the orchestra
:32:00
If one of those 70 people gets a toothache,
you'd have to postpone the recording
:32:04
Enough already... eight
:32:10
Ten
:32:15
Nine
:32:20
And it has to say on the label that
"Gloomy Sunday" originated here
:32:24
- That can be done
- If it fits!
:32:26
Mr. Schwitz!
:32:28
So we're agreed
:32:31
Allow me to go get a very special bottle
of champagne vintage 1928
:32:36
Permission granted
:32:45
Mr. Torresz left his portfolio,
with a note
:32:49
"The song was lovely
Thanks very much, I must go now"
:32:53
Thanks are fine, paying is better
:32:56
He was acting so oddly this evening