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My name is Christopher Isherwood.

I'd like to think that I need say no more

But perhaps I'd better add I'm a novelist

comfortably off,set in my ways

A confirmed bachelor

Sentimental melodies have a profound and moving effect on me

They seem to go to my stomach

They make me feel that maybe I have missed something in life

Unfortunately I can't always miss

.the literary cocktail parties to which I'm invited by my publisher

They always stage these things...

when they are trying to promote the more dubious items on their list

A gaggle of female journalists was in evidence from which I gathered

Some ladies murky memoirs were being fostered on the public

The more worthless the book...

...the more they need noise and alcohol to launch it.

Higher though it is only civil on such occasions to know at least ..

the name of the unfortunate author

I could hardly believe my eyes

Sally Bowles!

"The lady goes on hoping" by SALLY BOWLES

It's impossible

What? Do you know her?

I knew her my boy,if anyone ever knew her

It is quite a story

And you needn't lick your lips

A story in which nothing happened and yet everything happened

To me even more than to her

I was struggling with my first book and losing every round

I was broke,my only asset was the knowledge of German

So I went to Berlin

It was 1931

New Year's Eve in fact

Money was short.....

...the book was getting nowhere...

...so I stayed at home and stared out of the window

Sign of celebration were few and far from glamorous

Berlin in those days was the dreary hopeless place

The Nazis not yet in power..

...were hanging about street corners...

...making themselves unpleasant

I was a foreigner

What could I do?

I knew in my heart at heart that I was ducking the issue

But I took refuge in a very convenient phrase

I said eye to myself:

"I am a camera".

Good title

"I am a camera".

Herr Isherwood.

-Hello, Fritz. - Hello.

-What did you say? -I said I am a camera.

A camera?

With its shutter open

Just watching it,quite detached

Taking pictures of it all to be developed sooner or later and printed

Now sit down here in big chair

-You will feel better then. - Mrs Schneider...

...I didn't mean I am a camera,I meant I'm like one.

Now I understand. You mean writing is photograph,ja?

-Yes - It would be good if..

...look after yourself a little more and eat a little more...

...not to work so hard all time.

All day he lies down to think.

All night I hear him walking up and down,up and down

Now if he would find himself a nice young lady...

...he wouldn't walk up and down so much - You and your young ladies

-You go and get Herr Wendel some beer - All right

I didn't expect you tonight,you old gigolo

I thought you were going out dancing with that

what's her name,the little widow?

That's a little question

The say she's got 300 000 marks,yes...

...but she also weights 160 pounds

I fear I shall never marry

The fortunes get smaller and the ladies get larger all the time

The inflation

Perhaps I'm too much an idealist

I telephoned Gerda tonight I was badly ill and cannot not dance...

...but she would not believe me

But this I find ultimately insulting

-So what are you up to now? - First and foremost my dear friend

...to take you out tonight.

Also you should not sit and brood over your "verdammte" manuscript

-Will you come? - Where?

Something very interesting

I promise you

Well my friend.....

...yesterday at this party I met a young lady

Now look if you think you are going to to involve me...

Zwei bier, bitte.

English my boy

So fresh so innocence...

...but underneath one could sense full of enthusiasm and possibilities

Her mother she told me where French you know,what that means.

I know what it means, but she, I think,does not yet know.

And now ladies and gentlemen our new star,the famous English

-Is that her? -Yes

Fraulein. Sally Bowles!

I saw him in a caf� in Berl�n.

Well?

And saw the place where love affairs begins

The lilac convey

The world was young then

A ukulele sounded gaily within

I only saw the lamplight on his head

He only picked his hat up from a chair

A minute later

...he paid the waiter.

-Good,uh? - And when I dare to...

...look again, he wasn't there.

One night was dark.....

What do you think? She's got talent

Personality -I don't know

...but I remember thinking him...

...the finest man I seen.

Never ask where I found for I cannot say

...but I know I love him now until my dying days

He left a minute after I came in

A funny way for lovers to begin

I can't forget him...

...I never met him.

I only saw him in a caf� in Berlin

Bravo! Bravo!

Bravo!

Bravo!

Bravo, bravo!

It seems to me sooner or later this lovely young girl will be seized

...lousy types here... - So what?

So I say to myself it is going to happen anyway,why not me?

Naturally I must marry sooner or later and then must live

But I dance with Gerda I think later

When I see this girl and get me the look of the eyes

She said something of going to Paris soon

Chris,I intend to go there too and live with her

What on?

In my idealistic mood I don't think of money

She said something about a film contract

Paris,my boy,Paris,with such a film star!

If you going to live on what she makes as a film star

I think you both better take sandwiches along

Shut up!

My dear Miss...

...allow my congratulations - Thanks

Oh,yes,at Rudy's yesterday

I remembered your eyes

If they were asking me to look at you and yet not see you

Allow me this is Mr Isherwood he is writing a very famous novel

-Chris,Miss Sally Bowles. - How do you do

-How do you do -You will join here,Miss?

Thank you,I just adore it, but I off to Paris tonight

Tonight!

With two something train with Pierre

-Pierre? -Yes,he is my fianc�e.

He's wonderful,aren't you darling

-So the lousy type got that first - You sneer at everything

I must be losing my judgement, my sixth sense

Perhaps I have better get married to Gerda while I can

You see anyway I was too frank with her..

I didn't listen to Fritz's moan

His innocent little English girl...

...seemed to be having trouble with her unpleasant fianc�e

I observed it with the correct camera like detachment

But I couldn't help feeling sorry for her all the same

-Please -Don't argue.Give me the money.

Come on,you won't wait forever

Skol

Give me the money I said!

-Don't you trust me? -Darling.

Now listen . Do you want trouble?

All right...All right

All right.

Darling!

Darling!

You will come back?

That's an interesting situation

To me no more

Lets go and talk to her

If you'll excuse me I think I'll go ultimately to Gerda

Maybe at home,lonely,worrying about me

After all I have got a heart

-May I? -Do

But at least till Pierre comes back He is terribly jealous,you know

At least I think he is

Poor little thing,trying so hard to appear sophisticated

Naive as a school girl trustful as a child

...defenseless in the night world of Berlin

She had changed her clothes for the train

The hour came and passed

She bravely tried to pretend the man would still come back for her

At last I had to say it

He won't come.

I suppose he won't

Shall I see you home?

Well...

Only to the front door

Which way?

Just any way I mean I thought I was going to Paris so I gave up my room

Well I suppose we'd better find you a hotel.

Well,yes but...

You see,Pierre took all my money

To turn it into a terrific lot of Francs on the black exchange he said

The trouble is I almost none left my self

Well there is only one thing for it, you'd better come home with me

Well,all right

There is an empty room at my place, in fact I'm moving it in tomorrow

-There it is -Oh,so I said

Yes?

Awfully nice to put me up, you see tonight...

...when Pierre didn't come back I made an absolute vow,never

You needn't be afraid of me

There is no room for that sort of thing in my life

you see I've work to do,very important work

Must he?

I'm sorry the other room is locked

The land lady is always locking everything up all the time

But you can have the bed over there,I'll sleep here on the sofa

Is this your bed?

Perfectly pure

This is rather like somebody or other's isn't it?

You know I rather like this room

You can take it if you like, as I said,I'm giving it up

That'll be fine

This is rather mouldy and sinister,isn't it?

Just right for me if I'm going to be sort of a nun

I'm moving across the passage so I can keep an eye on you

You mean because of men like Pierre?

I admit I do fall for them rather

Pierre is such a thrill

When he walked up

When was it?

Was it Wednesday,two three nights ago

Walked so divinely sinister

But you said he was your fianc�e!

He was more of a faun really

Last night he made me feel as I was some marvellous kind of nymph

...miles away from anywhere in the middle of the forest

Then the landlady came in and made the most boring remarks

I may not be absolutely exactly what some people call a virgin.

...that's no reason for her to call me was she called me,is it?

So what if Pierre did happen to be there?

Any way I meant to be terribly faithful to him

That's pretty well makes him my fianc�e,doesn't it?

I suppose it is a point of resemblance

Well,we just go to bed or do we have a drink first?

I've got a pupil in the morning, I give English lessons

I think we better go to bed

All right

You can undress in there,behind the curtain

I bet you're afraid of me

Of course I did make a vow

Now look here Sally

-Yes -If you're going to live here...

Well,we'll talk about it in the morning

Good Night,Chris

Good Night, Sally

Good Night

Good Night

I wondered what on earth I let myself in for

I thought of my quiet life and my program of work

"Well", I thought, "I can deal with all this in the morning".

Mr. Isherwood! Mr. Isherwood!

Mr. Isherwood,half eleven.

...and Fraulein Landauer will be here half past for her lesson

It's time to wake up lazy boor

Oh..what

Where is Herr Isherwood?

Here I am Fraulein Schneider

But Herr Isherwood when I said

...a young lady - I've been most divinely chaste

Chaste?

This much I see

Now look here, Schneiderchen, to be chaste is to be pure

...to be virgin. - Chaste maybe,Herr Isherwood..

...but when you are caught.. - Look here,Fraulein Schneider...

...this is Miss Bowles a very respectable young English lady

-Practically a nun. You see I made a vow - She wanted a room exactly like this one

...so I brought her here - I wouldn't be bad as a lodger

-I'm awfully quiet -Quiet ? Yes, not a sound did I hear

So light,so slim

Should I be chased,so help me God,the neighbours below..

...they would go bang bang on the ceiling

I bet you've been chased all over the place in your time

When Fraulein Landauer come here Isherwood

...what shall I do? - God,I've forgotten!

Sally, get some clothes on as quickly as you can

-Is the little room open? -Already I cleaned it

Good,I'm washing,Sally have it please

The Fraulein studying in Berlin or perhaps a profession?

Well, I was a future film star

A film star!

But present I'm singing in a night club

-At least I was - So

Herr Isherwood have told Fraulein

that this room with breakfast is fifty marks?

I think it is an absolute dream

-Sally! -Coming

No!

Which I slipped a bit

Not dressed? But I asked you to get dressed

-But darling,I had to do my nails -Get that off

No,no,put something on

-Darling I can't! -Get in there

-Draw the curtains -So!

Fraulein Schneider she says you should give English lessons.

"Here is the foot and here is the knee"

Ha,ha.

Stop all this nonsense and let Sally get dressed

My pupil will be here any minute a very proper innocent young girl

If you turn your back a minute

I have a pain in my back,dear Miss, with all this that got behind it

He is jealous,he had his eye on you last night

Chris!

Don't worry were just like two little white rabbits something

When I was young,dear Miss, I also kept those pets

Now listen,Fritz,it's nothing between Sally and me!

Strange but true

Well,in that case,dear Miss

Yes she is now! My pupil,my only pupil.

Sally,get something on quick!

Fritz, help me,stop her!

Guten Morgen,Frohe Neu Jahre, schoenes Wetter haben

-Hello Chris! -Good Morning,Natalia

-I'm not too late? Have I kept you waiting? -No,no.Not a bit

I come to say to you unfortunately I cannot have my lesson today.

-Do you mind? -Not in the very least,I assure you

May I present Fritz Wendel?

-Miss Natalia Landauer. -How do you do

But we stand here in the hall?

I have eight minutes

Chris, I wish you a Happy New Year

I hope it will calm and peaceful

I hope so too

I mean I hope you continue to take your lesson

But certainly,yes

Only today there is a great meeting on the unemployment..

...to get help for poor people who have no work

This winter there are many who do not have clothes to cover them

-Yes,I know -And I am one of them!

One of the unemployed I mean,they'll never take me back to Windermere.

I mean they got so petty last night because I told them I was leaving...

..without giving them a year of notice

Can't find my shoes

This is Miss Sally Bowles Miss Natalia Landauer.

-How do you do -How do you do

-You have been taking lessons? -No, I'm English

-I just dropped in -Dear Miss,your shoe

Thank you

Thank you for lunch,Schneider, here on the table,please

You permit that I get you a little coffee?

-How do you take it?? -Black

I too,black like Othello

Will you have a little roll,dear Miss?

Thanks

I'm dying for breakfast

Natalia,is your father better?

From his cold,yes.But now he has much trouble with the store

The Nazis now start to campaign that all department stores

...are owned by Jews

- Landauer? -It is a very bad thing.

But they have the most beautiful store in all Berlin

-Coffee my dear? -Thank you

-Please sugar for your coffee -No,no,I never take it

I could make a compliment,that you are sweet enough already

...that would be old happening. .

-And scientifically not kind -You like science,I too

Well if I did make a vow

Unmarried people stay always young

-Like you -Thank you

Come on Fritz I'll make you a prairie oyster

it will do you all the good in the world

I saw some eggs over here and Worcester sauce

You often feel paralysed and dead.

after a terrific and insane sort of a night

absolutely nothing in the world .

good for you as a prairie oyster

I think we live on them

I think Sally rather likes to chock people

Chris,it's obvious an evil thing to say

Why do say that I am out to shock people?

Why do you paint your finger nails green for example?

To attract men,that's why

You know to feel their eyes..

...running up like mice.

What absolutely foolish rubbish

No,that is good to attract men

A girl when she is healthy that is what she most wishes,no?

And I will tell you,if you will not be shocked

...if I were in love with a man,really in love...

and we couldn't get married, I would not hesitate to live with him,

By me it is good to meet a young lady who is strong and free

...and above these conventions...

...which are in these days gaga

-I'll make you an oyster -Thank you

Despise conventions,dear Miss,I too

Look here Natalia, I hope you don't think that Sally and I

Yes,because of this

Really, Schneider, leaving her...

Chris! Schneider!

Good!

-I hope we meet again,Miss Bowles -I hope

must go to the unemployment meeting

Dear Miss,may I come with you?

Fritz darling

Would you take me to the Windermere?

I left my bag there I'd better collect it

I am most sorry,this meeting for the unemployed ,it is a duty

May I have the pleasure?

If you are really going,yes

Good Bye, Chris.

You are interested in social problems,dear Miss,I too

I must say I think he is a rather bogus character.

I suppose he is in a way,perhaps as he rather fancy himself as a gigolo

But I don't know there is something rather sad about Fritz

He'll be quite a bit sadder if he thinks he is going to make a hit with that girl

...I told him this.

She'll never fall for that

I'll be off I think

Should I'd better get my things cleared up.

-Bye Chris. -Bye, Sally.

Sally certainly seemed to grow on people,but I was determined

she wasn't to interfere with my work

And I made up my mind to tell her so in no uncertain term

-Back again? -Yes

I'm just finishing

-What did they say at the Windermere? -There was nobody there but the doorman

I say

You don't absolutely hate me throwing you out of your room like this

Poor mangy old thing

-Me? -No, this

-Cripes Is this your hairbrush? -I've been meaning to wash it

-You're losing your hair? -I don't know,do you think so?

You tell me you take all those!

Only when I need them

What are there?Things to restore your strength or something?

No,just vitamins and things. Do you want some?

No thanks,I've rather too much vitality already

Me in my innocent youth.

Where is the other?

My very best pair,Kurt brought me those I scarcely worn them

That old pig will never give me the other one if I left it in my old room

Glad I took a few towels

Knew it would serve the right for something or other,half a 60 marks pair

I hope it hit somebody

No.It is lying there looking rather,you know

There is a little boy,he is just pouncing on

He is running around corner with it

Perhaps he has got a one legged sister

Are you really writing the famous novel?

Well.I'm sort of working on the general idea

It's hard work,I can tell you

Which reminds me, ever since last night I've been meaning to tell you

I tell you lots of thin to put in it

You know secrets of of a woman's life

Moments of passion

Yes I expect you can, but no cry as I was about to say

Christ

There's my shoe

-Sally I'm trying to tell you something -This time it did hit somebody

Chris...

...I'm awfully glad we are going to be friends

I don't think I ever had a real friend before

One or two girls maybe. Girls are like feminine

Can you cook?

Eggs and things

Have you ever read "Trilby"?

I would be rather like that

I'll get jobs and become a terrific well known night club singer

Maybe a film star!

In between I inspire you and we'll have meals together

Bet you wear belts as well as braces

-Mentally maybe I do -I wish I could be a pupil for you.

But I couldn't pay you until I got a job

And of course I speak English already.

But I'll darn your socks and things and cook for you

...and wash up and do the cleaning

Sally was going to be the little house wife

She spent her time going around agents

Whatever she may have got from them,it certainly was not the job

Pupils were scarcer than ever

The rent was unpaid

And Schneider no longer cleaned up for us

As for my famous novel

The less said about that the better

Before long I was forced to pay a visit to my brokers

...to negotiate a loan

I was mortified to find...

..that cameras was not highly rated in the financial circles of the Hauptstrasse

I find so

-Chris! -Hello, Chris.

-Hello -Hello, Fritz. Hello, Natalia.

-Hello! -How is the work,Chris?

-Not so bad -Writing hard?

It goes well enough.. Fine.

As Mr Landauer was saying to me the other day

-...to work is good. -But my lieber Fritz...

...it was not of Chris he said that.

How is Sally? She is always out when I come

Well,she is looking for a job,you know

We put a note on the door

This week and next I can no more take my lessons

You see my father send us to the mountains

I've been invited for the week end

At least I'll go and stay at the inn

Well,that'll be all right,of course

-Good Bye, Chris. -Bye, Chris.

Komm fort schnell we'll be late

I don't know,other people seemed to be having fun

..but I reminded myself that it wasn't my business to have fun

I had to get back to my little room and my work

I began to feel that my program was a lot of rot

That everything I ever written was spiritedly

...cold and dead

That I never should be a writer.

Hello,are you asleep?

-No. -I thought you might be working

-I just washed my hair -You are always washing your hair

Food is ready what there is of it

Agent have anything?

He said maybe next week

He took me out for a drink afterwards that's why I was late

Somehow,however,he got the impression..

...that today was my birthday

-Not with it -Yes with

Is it the writing?

You see I put down what I do, I put down what they say

Lord knows,they are all terribly unhappy

It adds up to nothing

Why not have someone leave them a terrific lot of money?

Talk of something you understand

A most strictly understanding let a terrific lot of money

I thought about it a great deal

Many books were people are left with lot of money where actually fine.

They are not even people

I've read over what I had done

They seem to have no faces,nothing

Well if you put in,say,that a girl got

violet eyes with some sort of beautiful sensuous mouth

-That's a face,isn't it? -No.

-Or if a man got terrific.. -Don't be stupid.

No faces?

Well,bottoms up,I say

What's the good to trying to explain?

What's the good of trying to write?

What's the good of anything?

Oh, Chris...

It'll get better

You write a book and it will be terribly good

Everybody knows that you are a genius

Yes.I told them so myself

-No -What then

No!

A puritan all of a sudden

If you like

Just where I'm concerned

You're the puritan

You hate me,Chris.That's why it was ugly

We don't be able to talk to each other again

I know that I talk like a fool very often

But...

All right, Sally.

I'll go to bed

Chris...

It'll get better

After this horrible winter we all feel different

Truly

Sally was right. Spring came at last.

And all the starved capped in the neighbourhood,ourselves included

...began to feel life was worth living

The bookshops blossomed with new editions

Unfortunately all by other authors

We were still as hard up as ever

...but we could have drifted along quite happily...

...but for that memorable day which began

...with a visit to the Landauer.

mothballs and old England

Respectable enough?

Then my fox you see I haven't the necklace

They'll see my fox

Perhaps I should brush it with some hairs on it

-Oh,make up your mind,it's getting late. -I am ready.

I bet they give us a terrific lunch.

Now over your sudden glum

Well it's no that.It's.

...it's that I may have contracted a rather fatal disease

Why do you always choose a day when we are going somewhere?

What is for heavens sent

Locomotor ataxia

-What? -It's a form of paralysis.

Look here

It's pretty final

Let me try

Well,it's probably just a bit of house maid's knee

Good Morning ,my humble friends

-Are you ready? -Almost

-Chris got a touch of locomotor -What

Locomotor ataxia.Look here

You? Impossible. Let me...

See? You are hitting high up. You will live I think

Extraordinary

Come along.I've been out here and ready

...Natalia's parents has lent me a car to pick you up

Do you mean to say that let you drive their car?

Why not?

But this one happens to be the limousine so ultimately the chauffeur drives

Well,if we are going to be driven by a chauffeur I am going to wear my hat

Penniless people should avoid contact with the rich

Already poor Fritz was acting like a son in law

Though we all knew he was getting nowhere with Natalia

As for Sally...

...it might have been the chauffeur...

...it might have been the car...

...but something transformed her.

She looked at the Landauer house.

...as she had not seen glass or concrete before

Or flowers,or silver or servants

It all went to her head like wine

So did the wine.

By the afternoon she was treading on air

-That is stirring -You remember the Charleston?

Perfectly.

Fritz,get the record, it's on the left side,please

Chris.

I just adore old fashioned dancing

Chris...

If you were rich would you buy me a fur coat?

No.

You know sometimes I think Chris has no heart at all

I wish I had none

Poor old Fritz you've got it badly,haven't you?

You know?

It's for money

Sally, I tell you it isn't. I swear to you

I don't see you after it any longer besides this

...prevents you treating her like other girls

You have to admit you are a bit respectful To Natalia,how not?

Vowing is not going to do you any good

If I were a girl like Natalia

...I'd be rather impressed by a pounce

A pounce?

Well,you know.

It is impossible How can anyone pounce on Natalia?

Anybody can pounce on anybody

and generally they do

-This was funny music -You've splendid, Natalia.

-Another record? -It's after five..

..we have to fly - Oh, no. You do not stay for the evening?

It's going to be a party, more people are coming.

We'd love to..

we'd got a friend and he is feeling awfully bad.

I'm so sorry..

...but my mother and father went out in the car.

That's all right,we'll take the train.

Well,it's a great pity but if you must

We left Fritz to his fate

..and caught up with our own only too quickly.

Step by step as we made our way home

...Sally's fever was mounting

Look!

Diamonds!

-Oh, Chris,I feel such a hunger. -Want a sausage?

-I mean a spiritual hunger -Come on

I've serious thought of becoming a femme fatale

You know the kind of bankers, princes,and people fall in love.

...and absolutely ruin themselves. - First catch your prince

If I could hire a horse and go riding in the Tiergarten

...and it could run away with me and all of a sudden dashing..

All right

Never get married, Chris.

That is the sort of man who kills the soul of a woman

...who bring her down to earth..

..and you make it to desert..

...or horrible dead and dry.

Look at this old thing

Chris, I'm so thirsty it's all your fault

When we get back to Hauptstarsse I'll buy you a beer

Beer! The sort of thirst you don't know anything about.

Chris!

I need a champagne cocktail

I've been in a limousine in a wonderful house

Chris, if only you could understand... I know you got money

70 marks is for our rent tomorrow

-I've been guarding them for days -I know

-What will Frau Schneider say? -Look

Three marks each for the drink and one for the tip that's only seven marks

Give it a rest it will keep her quiet come on

It's all very well for bankers and princes

...but I can't afford to be ruined

Well,just one you understand

I'm sure you would appreciate the service here

We have the best cocktails in Berlin,what do you want?

Champagne cocktails

Which type of champagne,Madam?

Pure champagne of course.

I suppose I didn't ask for a drop of absinthe in it

I suppose you have been done for better not.

Anyway I think you are rather intimidated by a place like this

To me it seems the most natural thing in the world

More than Frau Schneiders lousy dump anyway

...where I expect every single night to be simply crawled on by bedbugs

Chris,why don't we be able to go to the races every day in the spring

-...unles we do a lot of sailing. -Thanks

You do look like an utter fool like grinning like that

The trouble with you Chris is that you are probably the most insensitive man I ever met

One thing you don't understand women

I hate to say this,Chris

but I don't think you are a real writer and I don't think really you have a talent

Chris! I drunk it all up and I didn't really noticed

Dear,have mine

Encores de champagne cocktails

I have to admit the service is awfully good here,I like that

I'd like to come to this place often

Chris, you do look so glum

Well,it we going to spend a bit of the rent money on champagne

we might as well enjoy it

Here is to poor old Schneider

Chris, I'm feeling so much better

Caviare pour Madam?

Well,yes Oui Merci.

Beluga or Astrakhan caviare,Madam?

Some of the big ones,la grande La!

Sally!

-Pour Vous Monsieur? -Thank you no.

I realize I was so hungry

Nor did I

Have ever Madame tried the Caspian caviare?

Practically jamais. Just a little.

Chris, got to try it

Only a bit salty it makes me thirsty.

Encore un cocktail de champagne

This servuga caviare has almost no salt at all.

I think I should like that,oui

Sally!

Sally!

Darling, have you got a cigarette?

Cigarette

Look, Chris!

Yellowish cigarette with tubes

Oh,it's lovely I got to have this bear I feel so Russian tonight

Five marks for cigarette,Monsieur and 20 marks for the bear

Spasiba

Sally,you have gone absolutely stark staring raving mad

Enjoy,you can't keep counting pennies all the time

I think I must have a good deal Russian blood in me

My grand mother was Russian

She escaped from Russia in the middle of the winter on a sledge

Pursued by wolves and she threw a serf to them

Only 45 marks left and the bill is going to cost hundreds

-For 5 champagne cocktails... -And the caviare

I thought that was free,I mean with the drinks like peanuts

-Chris,what will they do to you -We should probably end up in jail.

No,lets have another drink and talk it over -No,no

-Encore un champagne cocktail,Madame -Oui.

Now look here Sally there is only one thing to do

You finish this course and drink just water

and walk out I'll stay and talk with him

Oh, Chris,you would only make an awful mess.

Merci

-I could do it better. -Oh,shut up

That's not very nice, I'm trying to be helpful

Any mess you get into,you are trying to get out by using

...your extremely inadequate sex appeal

My sex appeal is adequate?

It's adequate

Inadequate

Adequate...

Chris, you are so upset you wouldn't say a thing like that

One Martini.

There is always a way out, Chris.

Lady,how do you like to tilt that glass a little bit further?

I'm sorry really

Don't worry I like the flavour

In that case please

I never say no to a drink but the next one is on me

We couldn't think of it unless you insist

I'm coming up just to do that

-Sally! -Chris,stop being an idiot

Say,hello.

Mortimer is the name,Clive Mortimer

This is my brother Mr Isherwood,the Mr Isherwood

-My name Sally Bowles -Glad to know you,Mrs Bowles.

Miss

But he is your brother? Adopted,just adopted

Just adopted,as a matter of fact

If you find it confusing his name is Chris and mine is Sally

Chris, old boy,I wanna tell you right now you got a mighty pretty sister

-Hey,what do you care for drinking? -We call them "same again"

The best drink in the world

Hi,come,let's have the same again all around

Encore trois champagne cocktails

Chris, Sally, I got an idea

A fellow was telling me that for dinner and a floor show there is

...nothing like the Alhambra Palace Garden.

-Know anything about the joint? -Yes

-What? -We can't afford to go there

That sounds good! -Is it the pops,the real pops?

-Oh,definitely -Can we have a real good time there?

I simply adore The Alhambra wherever it is

That's where we are going tonight,kids The Alhambra Palace Gardens

Hi,come,let's have the cheque, but the cheque is on me!

And afterwards the Femina

Hello,and eldorado!

And now to the Resi.

And now to bed

Hey!

You are a great guy,Chris a real great guy

But Sally...

Some people would have called it an ordinary hang over

But I was furious of Sally and felt I was on the brink of the grave

Sally had brought me to this, I could hardly wait for her return

...to tell her that our relationship was finished

But low be hope but she blew in bubbling with life

...and had the impudence to imply that I was jealous

I do think people are so ridiculous about love

Why shouldn't they take it as a part of the spring?

You know lambs hopping cocks popping and all that sort of thing

What are you doing in bed?

Darling

Are you really ill? Oh,Chris Is it because I..?

Leave me in peace

Chris,I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing

Clive!

Ya,baby!What is it?

Come up quickly! It's Chris he's got

What?

-Rheumatic fever,I think. -Rheumatic fever

Chris, I feel terrible -So do I

You might be crippled for life

-Oh,Chris could I rub you? -Oh,no

Where is he?

Show me the old horse!

Who says he is sick?

-I do -Brother,you ought to know

You don't look so good Rheumatic fever...

Oh,look,kids, this is not a sort of doublet,let's him get him around in a hotel

There is another bedroom in the suite

on the other side of the living room

We'll get him there,stick him in the back of the car

Covering him up and get him down come on honey give us a hand will you

-Give us a shot. -Leave me alone

I don't think we should add any more hot water bottles,Clive

No?

I think we really should have ice bags to prevent the fluid mounting to the brain.

What fluid?

It is nothing,darling This is a silly old book

You see when it gets there

I read about a scientific doctor

...put a guy's brain right out and put in a chimp's brain

No time at all he was up around and carrying some blonde up a tree.

But Chris wants to write a book

He had his chance in bed,won't he? Look,once he turned the corner...

They say champagne is awfully good for sick people

That's my apartment,sister I told them as I came in

Fine, fellows, put it down

Clive, darling,perhaps we should have some brandy to dampen his heart

This guy is going to get Napoleon Brandy.

Clive, you are wonderful

It will give you the will to live, won't it darling?

It didn't do much for Napoleon

-Hello -Guten Tag.

-Guten Tag -Guten Tag, Herr doctor.

Here is your patient

We thought it was first rheumatic fever

But now we are rather inclined to fear meningitis

Perhaps I better make the examination

Guten Tag

Don't you think he seems rather cold and brutal?

I told them to get the best doctor in all Berlin

-But what is he going to do to him? -He'll give him the works,honey.

When these Germans examine the guy, they examine him...

... penthouse to basement

Do you see what I mean?

I hope he makes him well and then we should take him for a drive in Tiergarten

Hire a wheel chair, if you like,baby and we'll take him around the night spots

Clive...

Don't you think we should let people know?

Just a few close friends I mean

Call them up get them around here I got to like to see these guys

No alcohol, a light supper a good night sleep...

...and tomorrow morning you'll be perfectly well

Guten Tag

"An idiot", I decided, "but at least a harmless one".

What followed was an absolute night mare

Guten Tag

Clive and Sally were not satisfied in turning the place into..

...into a night club. The day one into a hospital as well.

Did your doctor examine your sympathetic nervous system?

-Of course he did,ulcers? -Or hardening of the arteries

Or softening of the brain

I'm going to get this fellow to work on your spine

Sally!Come here! Look at this.What does it say?

"Disorders of the blood,brain,nerves..

...skin, lungs and bowels. The water cure".

Pretty well covers the field,yah unless the poor guy got bunions

And look at this,a guy with sparks coming out of him

Electrotherapy

I'm going to get these,birds,I'm going to get them up here right away

There

What are you going to do?

Oh, no!

I'm perfectly all right!

No,I mean!

No!

Sally, there are two people outside to see you

Hello

Fraulein,if you please, where is the bath room?

There is one through there

-For me is necessary two bath rooms -Well

One bath very hot one bath very cold

Because it is hydrotherapy

In that case there is another one through there

Thank you

Please

No, no...!

Sally!

Hey,that masseur,sure gives him a go

Poor Chris!

No, no, no!

Fraulein,is there more ice cubs?

Absolutely,anything you want

Thank you

Hello

Oh,yeah,do come in, the patient is having a massage

He says he needs a chair

Clive,darling,the most divine and sinister little doctor do give him a drink

No, please don't!

Clive!

Sally! Sally! Clive! No!

Keep up the singing kids,or we have the manager in

Sally, give him a guitar!

Very good,girl.

Sally! Sally, please!

Clive! Ah, no!

Clive, pleaser!

Sally!

Sally, Clive!

Clive,all this is doing Chris so much good

Clive,couldn't it be wonderful to spend the rest of our life helping sick people

...have a sort of a hospital - Yes,baby!

I must need some medicine

You are healing

Couldn't be all right?

Sally!

Everything is going to be wonderful

Darling,it will be all right,I promise you

Absolutely wonderful

Clive!Sally!

You're all right,darling

Sally!

Absolutely fine!

When I woke,feeling a new man..

...I was rested,relaxed,my muscles toned up beyond belief

I borrowed a pair of pants and went back home

I was inspired my style seemed to have crackled with electricity

No doubt I could have written a master piece..

..but my dear friends turned up and dragged me out again

Come on,let's get him out of here,quick

Now and then I was ashamed about sponging

..but was Sally's childish enjoyment and her winning ways

...Clive being so warm giving and my own lack of system

...I was content to play along

Until one afternoon that madness reached its climax

And Clive insisted we should all go

Honolulu and then places!

Baby, we are off to Honolulu

-Now look at these folders -No,there is a limit to everything

Look pal,Tahit�.

Where Cezanne cut his ear off?

What's that?

Some guy's funeral,they, they giving him a work

Stressberg probably, it were in the papers today

An old guy the Nazis bumped off? This is the time to get out off

Look, Japan, Singapore...

Is there a bar there The Long Bar they call it.

But I can't travel with you and Sally.

Chris,why not? It will be sheer absolute heaven

Well for one thing I don't have any money.

Don't worry about money,look India

Some marvellous maharajah they offer my weight in diamonds

...to spend one night in his harem

Egypt!

Cruising down the Nile with the desert all around us and moonlight

...and those sinister sensual harem.

...watching us on the top of the pyramids

Chris, pal come on...

-Well I don't know.

Good,that's a stop,that's what I like to hear

Now listen you need some tropical kits

I got to go to Paris for a couple of days

but while I am gone get your assets,all you need.

I'll be back Thursday we'll leave Friday

Next stop, Honolulu!

-We shall never come back,you know -Who wants to come back?

I can see us ten years from now you married to Clive

...and I'll be a sort of private secretary

A bit glassy in the eye a bit heavier around the jaw

Not if you make plenty of exercise

Here is your tropical kit, do try it on again

Anyway you write your book in the next few months

Would have been one of these round the world book

They are always a success.

They are shapeless bestsellers

Tahit�, Honolulu...! Ten days that didn't shake the world

I didn't know if people felt like this in the middle ages

...when they sold their souls to the devil

Chris, you look marvellous

You look absolutely irresistible

You say the craziest things

There is always a moment when it is not too late,Sally

When you have your last chance

...and no one ever seems to take it

Come in

Hello, Fritz.

-You are ultimately off then? -Yes they too,both going away

My other room is empty.What am I to do?

Schneider, darling,you get other tenants

-They don't match after all -Other tenants?

In these times when the banks close down.

...and the knackwurst is 1 mark and 50...

And even the potatoes will get up everything goes wrong

It is the Jews,believe me,are up to bring the country down

You know that is absolutely rubbish

You should listen to the radio,to the speeches,Herr Isherwood.

But you don't care you're going away

How are you, Fritz?

Not good,not good at all

Chris, not more of your things. We'll be here to Christmas

How is Natalia?

You remember the advice you gave me?

I attempted but it put her against me

She sent me a note that she will not see me,she will never see me again

-You must have made an awful mess of it -Quite possible,but I love her

Also she is worried about all the attacks on the Jews.

It's not my fault that her father get threatening letters all the time

From some lousy Nazi,I suppose

Every day they get something, I tried to comfort her,she screamed at me

...her father is worried sick and her mother is falling down fainting

...and now will I go please,please

So I go

Maybe if you went back in a day or two?

Chris...

Can I tell you something? Sally too

Yes of course Sally,these are yours.

Telegram

It is something so bad, so disgusting,I don't know how to

-It can't be! -What is it?

It's nothing

Look, Fritz,we got terrible lot to do

Oh,Sally, no

Yes we have. Look,Fritz, I'm not trying to get rid of you

Of course

I understand

Good Bye.Good Bye, Chris.

-Fritz, wait a minute! -It doesn't matter,I go

Sally, that was cruel.There is something wrong,Fritz is in trouble

Yes and so are we.Real trouble Listen to this.

"Sally dear: Sorry must postpone our jaunt.

Crazy people here insist a trip up the Amazon

Let's hope for next year or some time

Love to both, Clive".

-Well -Well...

I mean it is an outrage.What does he think we are brushing us off like this?

What we are suppose,something rather cheap.

Don't start moralizing

I'd wish I'd started sooner

At least he could let us know before we spent all our money

All whose money?

All right,make yourself out as a saint, you can't do anything else

Pretend you are glad of it!

-Yes I am,I most certainly am! -We were well off before I suppose.

Shut in this home not been able to go out to a caf�

You moaning all the time and sucking my blood

...like some dreary clammy,vampire

...just because you have someone to talk to about arts

You,your precious book,you can't even write

...just because you want to be known as the most wonderful writer in the world

And along comes Clive and you're jealous of of him

-You believe that! -Yes

-Because he was a man -Not a very fastidious one

What do you mean by that? I dare you to tell me what you mean by that

I mean.When you're leaving this room

You can take your things,take everything if you like and move out of here

I will not stay here even if you begged me on your knees to be nagging

-Preached by you -Good

You can finish your packing I'm going out when I come back

Don't worry,I'll be gone

Hello, Fritz.

-Not gone yet? -Not going.

Everything is off

Fritz,what was you trying to say?

Nothing

It didn't sound like nothing

What is not said,what else can it sound like?

Now,look Fritz...

Better I keep it to myself

A drink?

No, thank you

Fritz, I came to apologize,I've been

It's not easy to say one is ashamed of one self

No?

Supposing you were a Jew?

What do you mean?

And had denied it,lied about it

That's what I had to say

That I was a cheat,a coward,a liar

-Oh,come now, Fritz. -Now you know

When did you start being that particular sort of idiot?

Years ago.When I left school

Thins that happened there?

When I came to Berlin I thought: "No more of that".

But I suppose of having given people the wrong impression

...you find it hard to take it back

I did not want to take it back, I wanted to be smart, set and popular

...make a rich marriage

Here in Germany even before Hitler.

...people made it miserable to be a Jew.

They made it uncomfortable, you made it miserable

Free English lessons

All right,from now on I won't be miserable anymore

Everyone shall know

Have you told Natalia?

It is because of her that I...

I can no longer,I will no longer

If she and her family are to be threatened by insults than I too

Have you told her?

She will have it

Not from you?

Let my face part in two?

She already hates me,that's not enough?

Do you think it would hurt her less if I went there?Told her myself?

I told you I'm a coward

Was,past tense,another free lesson

When I left Fritz...

...it seemed I was back in real life again after a long crazy dream

It's amazing how little of the world one can see

...from the back seat of someone's car

They have destroyed everything I had.I have to leave everything

But now I was walking...

...and on my own two feet

And therefore must we Germans live since 1O years

...without dignity under the ignominy...

...beause of the Jewish subordinates...

...and parasites has sold us out!!

The liberation is soon here

Unser F�hrer...

...Adolf Hitler...

...has risen

Germany wake up!

We,the national socialists

...are Germans!

When I now think of all that happened in the world since then

...that little scuffle seemed nothing to write home about

But it got me out of my wretched protective shell

Now with Sally off my neck

...I was ready to start a new chapter

Herr Isherwood! Never would I thought it of him

What's that?

Herr Isherwood,it is not good to treat a young lady so,for this I'm ashamed of you

No I'm going to make her some herbal tea to calm her

-Is she still here? -Is she still here!

What brutality! What evil! These men!

These men

What have you been saying to Schneider?

I don't know

Maybe she thinks that somehow your are the father.

What?

The father

Chris, what's happened to you? -Oh,nothing

Do you mean to say you're?

I'm afraid so,I've been worried about if for quite a time

Tried not to think about it just now I was

...I was going to the taxi I feel faint all of a sudden

But this is serious

You do sort of find the right word for things,darling,don't you?

Haven't you better to lie down and rest?

You are angry that I'm still here?

Chris, I'm frightened

I've made things up so much, never thought about anything

Now it's here and real

Don't worry,we'll see this through

Clive?

Well,haven't we better get in touch with him

I mean you can always find him in person

I know,actually he sent another telegram

Telling me about some film friend of his in Paris

Passing me on I suppose

Chris, don't talk to me about Clive

All the same.

...I think we ought to be very practically about having this baby

Practically is just not having it

I suppose so,still I don't like the idea

I'm not exactly crazy about it, darling

Would it help at all if I?

...if you were...

...if it was official if we got married?

Chris...

Now,I'll marry you if it will do any good,it needn't be

Chris, I'll never forget you saying never

There is a limit even for me

Here,dear Fraulein, some good herb tea

Fraulein Schneider,there has been a lot of misunderstanding

...about Fraulein Sally leaving about her little trouble

...and about the man responsible for all this.

He's left the country and I never want to see him again

What?

Then indeed Herr Isherwood, I'm sorry,I misunderstood

So no marriage...

That is sad

Then for a young lady in such misfortune there is nothing but Frau Pitzberger

Who?

Is she a doctor?

Herr Isherwood,she is everything

If you have a wart,heavens forbid or a carbuncle

...she charmed it away

If you wish a young lady to fall in love with you

she will give you to put into her coffee

If you wish your fortune

-Where does she live? -No, that sort of thing will never do.

Fraulein, Sally must have the best attention the best possible

Naturally, but Herr Isherwood, that needs much money

We can sell all the stuff, we'll get something for it

Not much,darling,we tried everything on so much

...there is some egg on the n�glig� already

Well if it isn't enough I can work

I wrote about the subject nearest at hand

...what I'd seen and felt on that walk back from Fritz' place

"Portrait of Berlin"I called it

I went out and took it to the Berlin editor of an American magazine

Sally!

-I've been waiting and waiting for you to come in

This is good

Good.It's wonderful what do you think? They are going to be married

Really?

Natalia's father is going to Switzerland and Fritz is going ,he's going to be

-Sort of a partner -Not the business partner...

...there is other work to do

Natalia is going to have millions of the most divine babies

I'm so glad

Does make oneself old fashioned

Chris,you wouldn't believe it,when I told her

- Didn't spit in your eye? - She knew it all the time.

We must go.There is much to do

-Are you going for good? -I do not know

But I must believe that the German people one day will understand

...what these Nazis are

And then you come back?

Perhaps.But you write to us and visit us if you can,both of you

-Good Bye, Natalia. -Good Bye, Chris.

-Good Bye, Natalia.Good luck - Good Bye, Sally.

-Good Bye, Sally. -Good Bye, Fritz.

Must say my advice turned out rather well

Anyway it takes the shine of my little triumph

All the same,he read it,he liked it , he paid for it,cash on the barrel head

Chris,I think you're wonderful!

And what we got for the clothes and things it will pay for everything

I called the place you can go right away,they see you this afternoon.

And by tomorrow maybe it will be all over

-Well,I suppose I.... -What?

I suppose I'd better change and get a tooth brush or something

Nervous?

Well,tell me what happened, what did the editor say?

Well,he seemed an awfully nice sort of chap

And he said he is going to turn it out with lots of photographs.

Yes he wants to see me again this afternoon

Why?

He didn't say except I suppose he wants to make some changes or something

-Chris, you mustn't come up. -Why not?

You should go back to that editor

But I can't let you go to that place all alone

Nonsense,Chris,look,he may be testing you,see if you are keen.

He may be offering you a terrific job

Maybe going to retire and looking for a real young man to take his place

Please, Chris.

Well,all right

And look,darling,there is something to tell you

You are sending me some marvellous bunch of flowers

...and write to me actually throbbing on the card...

...and show it to the nurses so they won't think I'm...

Well,you know

Good Luck, darling

CURTIS B. RYLAND Berlin Editor

When I got back to the editor he had marvellous news for me

...and a breathtaking question

-Now,can you leave tomorrow? -I...

-You are a free agent. -Well...

-No wife no family.. -No

Fine

Listen,I'm in a rush,we'll talk in the car I'll drop you off near your home

I get the idea "A portrait of Madrid", " A portrait of Stockholm"

A copy for you,and if I don't see you tomorrow,Good Luck

Thank you

-Watch that deadline -Right

250 dollars and all expenses paid

I was ready to go I felt quite a pang of leaving Sally

...but I knew she was in good hands and well looked after

Sally!

Chris, darling,I changed my mind

I think I began to when Natalia was here

...talking about the millions of marvellous babies she was going to have.

Then Chris I went away from that dreadful place,there was a traffic jam

And the taxi stopped in front of the most wonderful shop in the world

...all for little children

Full of cradles,bottles

...little clothes,little shoes

Yes,but...

I thought that if you were so terrible decent to say we could get married

I said what?

Chris.

You are quite right,I absolutely did.

Oh Dear

Darling,I knew you wouldn't let me down so I went in a bought a few things

When I came out I saw a policeman who held up the traffic..

...Chris don't scoff at me,but he seemed to me to have the face of an angel

If I ever find him he would have

Everything is going to be absolutely perfect!

The only topic I can't find is really ideally name

The whole list in the encyclopedia

Aaron Isherwood, Abel Isherwood...

...Anthony Isherwood...

Anthony is not bad but not for first

-Also Athelstane Isherwood... -What did you say?

"Athelstane",darling,that's sort of name would have an awful effect

...on a person's love life, don't you think?

No,before that above Anthony.

Not for the first I said then of course it my be a girl

In that case it could be Ada Isherwood, Adeline...

Why do you look like that,darling?

You don't want it to be an only child,do you?

There were complexes now the children must be sound

...in mind and body, that's remind me my milk

What are you doing?

Daddy is going to have a drink too

Alcohol is rightly called treacherous

The bottle I took to bed with me nothing reminded me of other bottles

The bed seemed to rock like a confounded crib

If I dozed for a moment I had visions of a boy like Clive.

...followed by a string of girls all exactly like Sally

I don't think my health has ever completely recovered from the agony of that night.

-Sleep well,darling? -No

Here is our coffee I made it good and strong

Coffee but I thought you were drinking milk

Milk is all right,personally I think a dash of absinthe would improve it

This morning is coffee

-About Theodor... -Theodor

Isherwood, the name I choose last night while you were out.

I'd forget what I would say about it

Darling,there is something I have to tell you.

Sally, please don't tell me anymore. Not today,possible not at all

-Darling,it could change your plans -They are very much changed already

We could change them back again

You see darling,I was never much good at arithmetic

Sally,do you mean?

I mean that people who are strange and extraordinary

...terrific sort of personalities...

...are usually rather above being good at figures and all that

I could never understand dates

Yes,Sally,but Theodor, tell me please? Is he?

He isn't.I suppose in a way he never really was

He was a mistake?

I don't think it is very nice to call him that,behind his back I mean

Sally, sit down,relax I'll get the rest of the breakfast

I can see tell by the way you talk you are not thinking of marriage any more

You never really wanted to marry me, Chris.

I'm suppose I'm not the marrying kind

-The taxi is here,Fraulein -This coffer here,please

You're leaving?

For Paris, of course.

Chris, you forget everything

I told you about that friend of Clive he make such terrific films

Clive said in the telegram that he told him all about me.

...and was longing to meet me

-You know what that means? -Yes I'm afraid I do

Well then...

Darling!

Don't come down

I take my last look at you in the room here

Chris...

-It has been fun -Hasn't it?

You remember the very first day I was here?

I'd said I would inspire you,you didn't quite believe me,did you,darling

You did look like a dying fish

But you see it all come true ,I mean

You have really written something at last

You wouldn't have except for me,inspiring,isn't it?

Most likely in an unusual sort of way

Nothing is quite usual,Chris. Life isn't like that

You certainly aren't

I should hope not , I mean having every sort of adventure

...be the most wonderful and fabulous personality

You'll be a success too in a writer's sort of way

Darling I must fly or I miss my train

I almost wish I would

Good Bye, Chris.

Good Bye, Sally.

-I'll send you a postcard - Do

-I do love you.Good Bye -Good Bye,Sally

Of course the promised post card never arrived

And perhaps it was just as well

Who knows I might got embroiled with her again

Well I suppose I'd better go and say,how do you do

I must admit...

...when I saw her name on the book I thought of a certain shudder...

...like someone walking over my grave

-Grave of your youth --Youth...

We can thank heaven on our bended knees we managed to reach years of discretion.

Chris!

-Sally! -How absolutely marvellous to see you

I've been sitting surrounded by the most lascivious looking critics

Have I changed?

Not in the very least

You have,you seem more mature,manly

You were so absolutely unbelievable so repressed,darling

...in those days

-You live in London? -Yes,I have a little house.

How marvellous

I mean I'm stuck here in a most dreary little furnished room

What? With all this?Succesfull authoress?

Yes,I get terrific royalties you know when?

...after the first 200000 copies have been sold

Presently I have written my head off,you know

Last night we had a little celebration in my place

The landlady came in and said and made the most boring remarks

So I had to leave.

I suppose you'd better find your hotel

To tell you the truth,darling, bankrupt,not a penny in the world

There is only one thing for it you'd better come home with me.

All right?

There is a spare room in which I could

Darling!You still a rather like a somebody or other aren't you?

Good Bye everybody

I was hoping to ask

Darling you look marvellous in grey hair, you look absolutely irresistible

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