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(people chattering)
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(quick orchestral music)
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♫ A perfectly awful day
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♫ The first Monday of every month
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♫ Every floor scrubbed
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♫ Every chair dusted
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♫ A perfectly awful day
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♫ Every bed without a wrinkle
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♫ Every hair combed on 97 orphans
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♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
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♫ Has to bear the brunt of it all
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♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
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♫ The oldest orphan in the John Grier Home
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♫ A perfectly awful day
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♫ The trustees come to visit
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♫ Taking tea breaks
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♫ Having reports written
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♫ They hurry away in the night
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♫ For houses in the city
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♫ And I watch them with 97 orphans
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♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
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♫ Never breaking free of this place
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♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
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♫ The oldest orphan in the John Grier Home
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Little Tommy Dylan comes
singing up the stairs
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♫ Jerusha Abbott, you are wanted
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♫ In the office and you better hurry up
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♫ Who wants me
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♫ Mrs. Lippett in the office
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♫ And I think she's really mad
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♫ Where did I go wrong
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♫ Were the sandwiches not thin enough
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♫ Were there shells in the nut cakes
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♫ Where did I go wrong
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♫ Did a lady visitor see the hole
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♫ In Susy Hawthorne's stocking
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I hurry to the office.
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The long lower hall is quite dark.
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One last trustee is leaving
through the big front door,
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his arm raised waving to
the automobile in the drive.
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♫ A perfectly awful day
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♫ A silhouetted figure
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♫ Tall and gangly
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♫ Shrouded in the darkness
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♫ I cannot see his face
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♫ But the headlights in the driveway
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♫ Cast a shadow sharp against the wall
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♫ Looking like a daddy longlegs
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♫ The biggest one that I have ever seen
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♫ A creeping crawling daddy longlegs
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♫ And it makes me laugh
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♫ On this awful day
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♫ Me, Jerusha Abbott
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♫ The oldest orphan in the John Grier Home
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(audience applauding)
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(gasps)
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Mrs. Lippett!
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I run down the corridor.
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I step into the office.
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Mrs. Lippett smiles at me.
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Strange.
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She asks me to sit.
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Stranger still.
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She hands me a letter.
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Strangest of all.
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Who's it from?
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Did you not notice the
gentleman who has just gone?
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The spidery, I mean, tall man?
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The letter is from him!
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Open it and be grateful for the rare
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good fortune that has befallen you.
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Thank you, Mrs. Lippett.
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For Miss Abbott.
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(soft piano music)
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351 Riverside Drive, Manhattan.
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The further education
of Miss Jerusha Abbott
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by Mr. John Smith, nine point plan.
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Further education?
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One, owing to the exceptional
talent that Miss Abbott
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has shown in her original
and amusing essays,
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Mr. Smith has decided
to send her to college.
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Two, it is Mr. Smith's
plan that Miss Abbott
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should educate herself to become a writer.
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Three, Miss Abbott's board and tuition
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will be paid direct to the college.
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Four, she will receive in addition during
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her four years of study,
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a monthly allowance of $35.
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This will ensure an equality
with her fellow students.
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Five, Miss Abbott must write
a letter of acknowledgement
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to Mr. Smith once a month.
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Not thanks, thanks must
never be mentioned.
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Six, Mr. Smith's name is
obviously not Mr. Smith.
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(audience laughing)
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But he prefers to remain unknown.
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To Miss Abbott he will never
be anything but Mr. Smith.
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♫ Who is this man
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♫ Who has designed this uncommon plan
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♫ To educate Jerusha
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♫ However best he can
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♫ How can this be
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♫ Who would take on this uncertainty
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♫ To educate Jerusha
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♫ Who in heavens name is he
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♫ I guess I'll never know him
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♫ I guess I'll never even learn his name
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♫ These are his orders
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♫ This is his game
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♫ I guess I'll never know him
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♫ You mustn't know your betters
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♫ But he will know me in letters
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Seven, Miss Abbott's letters must tell
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of the progress of her studies
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and details of her daily life.
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Such a letter she would write
her family, if she had one.
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Eight, the reason for
the letters is to foster
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Miss Abbott's facility
in literary expression.
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Nine, Mr. Smith will never
answer Miss Abbott's letters,
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nor take the slightest notice of them.
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He detests letter writing and above all,
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does not wish Miss Abbott
to become a burden.
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♫ So though I might
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♫ Thank him twice each and every night
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♫ He will never answer
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♫ No Mr. Smith will never write
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♫ I guess I'll never know him
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♫ Though I am rather curious to see
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♫ What kind of man would educate me
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♫ I guess I'll never know him
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♫ You mustn't know your betters
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♫ But he will know me in letters
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(quick orchestral music)
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♫ This man will never write me
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♫ I cannot outguess him
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♫ So how should I address him
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- Dear kind trustee who
sends orphans to college.
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(audience laughing)
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- Here I am, after four hours on a train.
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It's a funny sensation, isn't it?
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- I never rode on a train before.
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- College is the biggest
most bewildering place.
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I get lost whenever I leave my room.
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I'll write you a description later
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when I'm feeling less muddled.
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Classes don't begin until Monday morning,
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but I wanted to write a letter
now just to get acquainted.
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It seems queer to be
writing letters at all.
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- I've never written more
than three in my life,
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so please overlook if mine
are not the model kind.
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- Before leaving the home,
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Mrs. Lippett and I had
a very serious talk.
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She told me how to behave
all the rest of my life
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and especially towards the kind gentleman
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who is doing so much for me.
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She told me that normally Mr. Smith
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only supports boys through college,
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girls being a waste of his charity
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as they tend to marry
themselves off to the first
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unsuitable man and so fritter away
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the education lavished on them.
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(audience laughing)
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So I must take care to be
a very respectful girl.
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- But how can one be respectful
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to a person who calls himself John Smith?
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- Why couldn't you have picked out a name
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with a little personality?
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I might as well write letters
to dear, hitching post.
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- Or dear, clothes pole.
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- Anyway, I've been thinking
about you a great deal.
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Having somebody take an interest
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in me after all these years.
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♫ I feel like I belong to somebody now
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♫ A kind of family
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♫ I feel like I belong to somebody now
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♫ A guiding hand
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♫ A soul that takes an
interest in my welfare
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♫ A friend who takes
an interest in my life
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♫ I feel like I belong to somebody now
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♫ A kind of angel
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♫ I feel like I belong to something more
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♫ Than just a school
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♫ But when I think of
you, I know so little
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♫ I can only think of three things
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♫ You're tall, you're
rich, and you hate girls
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♫ I guess I could call you Mr. Girl Hater
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♫ Mr. Girl Hater, but
that's too insulting to me
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♫ It would never do
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♫ Or I could call you dear Mr. Rich Man
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♫ Thanks, Mr. Rich Man
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♫ But that's too insulting to you
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♫ And you might not be
rich for that much longer
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♫ But I'm pretty sure you'll stay tall
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♫ So I'll call you Dear Daddy Long Legs
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♫ Oh Daddy Long Legs
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♫ I'll keep calling you
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♫ I hope you don't mind, Daddy Long Legs
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♫ It's just a pet name
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♫ We won't tell a soul, no
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♫ The bell sounds, I must go
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♫ Yours, Jerusha Abbott
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♫ Whose education is underwritten
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♫ By a man I lovingly call
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♫ Mr. Hitching post, Clothes pole
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♫ Daddy Long Legs, Smith
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(audience applauding)
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- P.S. I know I'm not to
expect any letters in return
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and I've been warned not to
bother you with questions,
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but tell me, Daddy, just this once.
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- Are you awfully old
or just a little old?
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(audience laughing)
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- And are you completely
gray or just a little gray?
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- It's very difficult thinking about you
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in the abstract, like
a theorem in geometry.
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Given you're a tall old
man who hates girls,
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but is very generous to
one quite impertinent girl,
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what do you look like?
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♫ Somewhat amusing
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♫ A semblance of style
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♫ Certainly better than many a letter
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♫ I've read in a while
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♫ But what makes me chuckle
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♫ Lo and behold
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♫ She thinks I'm old
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♫ And crusty too perhaps and cold
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♫ She thinks I'm old
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♫ A misconceit has taken hold
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♫ Good punctuation
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♫ The humor is quaint
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♫ And reading her prose
I suppose is more fun
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♫ Than say watching the drying of paint
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♫ But it's sort of funny
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♫ In its own sort of way
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♫ She thinks I'm gray
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♫ Why she thinks so I can't say
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♫ She thinks I'm gray
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♫ And no doubt withering away
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♫ But I made it clear my obligation
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♫ Does not include communication
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♫ A girl could lead to aggravation
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♫ Boys never question
their patron's appearance
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♫ They'd never consider
such gross interference
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♫ Boys are less trouble in my estimation
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♫ My appearance should mean as little
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♫ to her as hers to me
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♫ Is she fair or dark
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♫ Fat or thin
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♫ Short or tall
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♫ I've no idea and no wish to know
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♫ What does it matter
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She has a brain, that's what matters.
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A brain and a wit and a
fearless turn of phrase.
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This girl deserves her chance.
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♫ A good education
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♫ Is all that she'll need
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♫ Then she'll go on to write
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♫ A triumphant first novel
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♫ The great literati will read
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♫ She'll be the creme de le creme
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♫ The talk of the town
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♫ A prominent author of world renown
264
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♫ While I look on from the side
265
00:14:38,226 --> 00:14:40,880
♫ Glowing with pride
266
00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,734
♫ Knowing how it all began
267
00:14:44,734 --> 00:14:47,753
♫ Content to remain in the shadows
268
00:14:47,753 --> 00:14:51,503
♫ A girl-hating gray old man
269
00:14:56,205 --> 00:14:59,372
(audience applauding)
270
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- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
271
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I love college and I know
thanks must not be mentioned,
272
00:15:08,724 --> 00:15:10,672
so I won't mention them.
273
00:15:10,672 --> 00:15:13,209
But I'm feeling sorry for
everybody who isn't a girl
274
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and who can't be here.
275
00:15:14,928 --> 00:15:16,856
- My room is up in a tower that used to be
276
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the contagious ward before
they built the infirmary.
277
00:15:20,065 --> 00:15:21,816
(audience laughing)
278
00:15:21,816 --> 00:15:24,781
- After you've lived in
a dormitory for 18 years
279
00:15:24,781 --> 00:15:28,341
with 20 roommates, it
is restful to be alone.
280
00:15:28,341 --> 00:15:30,019
This is the first chance I've ever had
281
00:15:30,019 --> 00:15:33,218
to get aquatinted with Jerusha Abbott.
282
00:15:33,218 --> 00:15:35,978
I think I'm going to like her.
283
00:15:35,978 --> 00:15:37,134
- There are two other freshmen
284
00:15:37,134 --> 00:15:38,730
on the same floor as me named--
285
00:15:38,730 --> 00:15:40,003
- Sallie McBride--
286
00:15:40,003 --> 00:15:42,198
- And Julia Rutledge Pendleton.
287
00:15:42,198 --> 00:15:45,521
- Sallie has red hair and a turn up nose
288
00:15:45,521 --> 00:15:47,665
and is really quite friendly.
289
00:15:47,665 --> 00:15:49,916
- Julia comes from one
of the first families
290
00:15:49,916 --> 00:15:52,674
in New York and hasn't noticed me yet.
291
00:15:52,674 --> 00:15:55,620
- Sallie is the most
entertaining person in the world.
292
00:15:55,620 --> 00:15:59,185
- And Julia Rutledge
Pendleton, the least so.
293
00:15:59,185 --> 00:16:00,977
- She believes that if
you are a Pendleton,
294
00:16:00,977 --> 00:16:03,086
that fact alone admits you to heaven
295
00:16:03,086 --> 00:16:04,843
without any further examination.
296
00:16:04,843 --> 00:16:07,396
(audience laughing)
297
00:16:07,396 --> 00:16:11,146
- Julia and I
were born to be enemies.
298
00:16:12,824 --> 00:16:15,997
- You know, Daddy, it isn't the work
299
00:16:15,997 --> 00:16:19,546
that's going to be hard
in college, it's the play.
300
00:16:19,546 --> 00:16:22,768
Half the time I don't know what
the girls are talking about.
301
00:16:22,768 --> 00:16:24,820
Their jokes seem to relate to a past
302
00:16:24,820 --> 00:16:27,271
that everyone but me has shared.
303
00:16:27,271 --> 00:16:29,315
It's a miserable feeling.
304
00:16:29,315 --> 00:16:31,315
I've had it all my life.
305
00:16:32,489 --> 00:16:35,989
♫ I am in a foreign world
306
00:16:37,674 --> 00:16:41,841
♫ They speak a languages of their own
307
00:16:42,773 --> 00:16:46,940
♫ Nobody knows where I
have come from, Daddy
308
00:16:48,396 --> 00:16:52,229
♫ I can't help but feel alone
309
00:16:53,327 --> 00:16:56,827
♫ I am in a foreign world
310
00:16:58,592 --> 00:17:02,509
♫ I am different, I am strange
311
00:17:03,895 --> 00:17:08,062
♫ I know that I should
try to fit in somehow
312
00:17:09,153 --> 00:17:13,320
♫ But I don't I think that I can change
313
00:17:14,552 --> 00:17:17,952
♫ And I know you won't believe it
314
00:17:17,952 --> 00:17:21,109
♫ But I just want to be like other girls
315
00:17:21,109 --> 00:17:24,391
♫ Wear fancy shoes like other girls
316
00:17:24,391 --> 00:17:27,413
♫ Write a literary masterpiece
317
00:17:27,413 --> 00:17:30,790
♫ For scholars to peruse
318
00:17:30,790 --> 00:17:33,707
♫ Like other girls
319
00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:41,467
♫ Sallie McBride is my best friend
320
00:17:42,663 --> 00:17:46,830
♫ I told her that my folks had died
321
00:17:48,105 --> 00:17:52,272
♫ 'Cause I can't tell her
where I come from, Daddy
322
00:17:53,943 --> 00:17:58,562
♫ Is that the same as having lied
323
00:17:58,562 --> 00:18:02,318
♫ For I have shut up the remembrance
324
00:18:02,318 --> 00:18:05,526
♫ 'Cause I just wanna be like other girls
325
00:18:05,526 --> 00:18:08,464
♫ Make lemon pies like other girls
326
00:18:08,464 --> 00:18:11,911
♫ Cure disease and write a symphony
327
00:18:11,911 --> 00:18:15,489
♫ And win the Nobel prize
328
00:18:15,489 --> 00:18:18,406
♫ Like other girls
329
00:18:22,003 --> 00:18:24,894
♫ I bought an evening dress
330
00:18:24,894 --> 00:18:27,536
♫ Oh glory be
331
00:18:27,536 --> 00:18:29,960
♫ You can't imagine how it feels
332
00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,034
♫ Dressed in gingham all your life
333
00:18:33,034 --> 00:18:35,929
♫ Wearing hand-me-downs from
girls who didn't like you
334
00:18:35,929 --> 00:18:38,361
♫ It takes its toll, it takes its toll
335
00:18:38,361 --> 00:18:42,777
♫ The bitterness of wearing
your enemy's clothes
336
00:18:42,777 --> 00:18:45,944
♫ Eats into your soul
337
00:18:48,534 --> 00:18:52,034
♫ I am in a foreign world
338
00:18:53,422 --> 00:18:57,339
♫ I am different, I am strange
339
00:18:58,948 --> 00:19:03,115
♫ I know that I should
try to fit in somehow
340
00:19:04,104 --> 00:19:08,271
♫ But I don't I think that I can change
341
00:19:09,772 --> 00:19:12,998
♫ And I know you won't believe it
342
00:19:12,998 --> 00:19:16,107
♫ But I just want to be like other girls
343
00:19:16,107 --> 00:19:19,606
♫ Get all dressed up like other girls
344
00:19:19,606 --> 00:19:22,644
♫ Become a scientist, a motorist
345
00:19:22,644 --> 00:19:25,260
♫ A suffragette, a Methodist
346
00:19:25,260 --> 00:19:29,427
♫ A Fabian, a freudian,
the class valedictorian
347
00:19:35,179 --> 00:19:38,846
♫ Or what else heaven knows
348
00:19:39,797 --> 00:19:43,179
♫ Like other girls
349
00:19:43,179 --> 00:19:45,958
♫ Like other girls
350
00:19:45,958 --> 00:19:48,875
♫ Like other girls
351
00:19:54,815 --> 00:19:57,982
(audience applauding)
352
00:20:02,310 --> 00:20:04,102
- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
353
00:20:04,102 --> 00:20:06,224
I suppose you've been
waiting very impatiently
354
00:20:06,224 --> 00:20:07,654
to hear what I am learning.
355
00:20:07,654 --> 00:20:09,935
- Latin, Second Punic War.
356
00:20:09,935 --> 00:20:11,468
Hannibal and his forces pitched camp
357
00:20:11,468 --> 00:20:13,165
at Lake Trasimene last night.
358
00:20:13,165 --> 00:20:14,972
They prepared an ambuscade for the Romans
359
00:20:14,972 --> 00:20:17,778
and a battle took place at
the fourth watch this morning.
360
00:20:17,778 --> 00:20:19,516
Romans in retreat!
361
00:20:19,516 --> 00:20:22,039
♫ For French I have to
read The Three Musketeers
362
00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:24,295
(speaking foreign language)
363
00:20:24,295 --> 00:20:28,770
♫ Geometry, I've finished
cylinders, now doing cones
364
00:20:28,770 --> 00:20:32,154
♫ And I'm learning all
about the human body
365
00:20:32,154 --> 00:20:35,061
♫ Physiology is really complex
366
00:20:35,061 --> 00:20:37,391
I hope you never touch alcohol, Daddy.
367
00:20:37,391 --> 00:20:40,448
It does awful things to your liver.
368
00:20:40,448 --> 00:20:43,502
(audience laughing)
369
00:20:43,502 --> 00:20:47,669
And in a man of advanced
years, it could be fatal.
370
00:20:48,895 --> 00:20:51,815
(audience laughs)
371
00:20:51,815 --> 00:20:55,139
♫ And so it's good night, Daddy Long Legs
372
00:20:55,139 --> 00:20:57,773
♫ Sweet Daddy Long Legs
373
00:20:57,773 --> 00:20:59,604
♫ I'll keep calling you
374
00:20:59,604 --> 00:21:01,326
♫ I hope you don't mind
375
00:21:01,326 --> 00:21:02,855
♫ Daddy Long Legs
376
00:21:02,855 --> 00:21:05,658
♫ It's just a pet name
377
00:21:05,658 --> 00:21:08,508
♫ What else can I do
378
00:21:08,508 --> 00:21:12,591
♫ You are such a dream come true
379
00:21:14,667 --> 00:21:18,000
♫ Yours, Jerusha Abbott
380
00:21:19,106 --> 00:21:23,273
♫ Not affiliated with the John Grier Home
381
00:21:26,128 --> 00:21:27,784
- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
382
00:21:27,784 --> 00:21:31,563
Julia Pendleton dropped in this
evening to pay a social call
383
00:21:31,563 --> 00:21:33,984
and stayed a solid hour.
384
00:21:33,984 --> 00:21:35,954
- She started on
the subject of family
385
00:21:35,954 --> 00:21:37,797
and I couldn't switch her off.
386
00:21:37,797 --> 00:21:40,806
- She wanted to know what
my mother's maiden name was.
387
00:21:40,806 --> 00:21:42,010
- What an unfortunate question
388
00:21:42,010 --> 00:21:44,230
to ask a person from an orphan asylum.
389
00:21:44,230 --> 00:21:47,122
- I hadn't the courage
to say I didn't know.
390
00:21:47,122 --> 00:21:48,970
- Mrs. Lippett got all our last names
391
00:21:48,970 --> 00:21:50,737
from the telephone book.
392
00:21:50,737 --> 00:21:52,741
Abbott is on the first page.
393
00:21:52,741 --> 00:21:54,917
She got Jerusha from a tombstone.
394
00:21:54,917 --> 00:21:56,586
- But I couldn't tell Julia that,
395
00:21:56,586 --> 00:22:00,115
so I miserably plumped for the
first name I could think of.
396
00:22:00,115 --> 00:22:01,325
Montgomery.
397
00:22:01,325 --> 00:22:02,475
- Then she wanted to know whether we were
398
00:22:02,475 --> 00:22:05,894
the Massachusetts Montgomery's
or the Virginian kind.
399
00:22:05,894 --> 00:22:08,409
- Her mother was a Rutherford.
400
00:22:08,409 --> 00:22:11,360
The family came over on the ark.
401
00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:15,167
(audience laughing)
402
00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:19,334
- On her father's side, they
date back further than Adam.
403
00:22:21,152 --> 00:22:22,918
- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
404
00:22:22,918 --> 00:22:25,580
the postman brought me
three letters today.
405
00:22:25,580 --> 00:22:27,917
All bills, which is all I ever get.
406
00:22:27,917 --> 00:22:29,909
Maybe one day I'll get a personal letter.
407
00:22:29,909 --> 00:22:31,645
What would that be like?
408
00:22:31,645 --> 00:22:34,007
I can only imagine.
409
00:22:34,007 --> 00:22:35,513
- Oh, you never answered my question
410
00:22:35,513 --> 00:22:37,484
and it was very important.
411
00:22:37,484 --> 00:22:38,734
- Are you bald?
412
00:22:40,193 --> 00:22:41,906
(audience laughing)
413
00:22:41,906 --> 00:22:43,815
- I have planned exactly
what you look like,
414
00:22:43,815 --> 00:22:45,978
very satisfactorily, until I reach the top
415
00:22:45,978 --> 00:22:48,453
of your head and then I'm stuck.
416
00:22:48,453 --> 00:22:50,113
- I can't decide whether
you have white hair
417
00:22:50,113 --> 00:22:52,569
or black hair or sort
of sprinkly gray hair
418
00:22:52,569 --> 00:22:54,156
or maybe none at all.
419
00:22:54,156 --> 00:22:55,705
Please inform.
420
00:22:55,705 --> 00:22:58,196
(audience laughing)
421
00:22:58,196 --> 00:23:02,196
Oh and Daddy, did you
ever hear of Michelangelo?
422
00:23:04,460 --> 00:23:05,866
- He was a famous artist who lived
423
00:23:05,866 --> 00:23:07,627
in Italy in the Middle Ages.
424
00:23:07,627 --> 00:23:08,897
The whole class laughed
425
00:23:08,897 --> 00:23:11,510
because I thought he was an archangel.
426
00:23:11,510 --> 00:23:13,761
- Doesn't he sound like one?
427
00:23:13,761 --> 00:23:15,173
Even more embarrassing,
428
00:23:15,173 --> 00:23:18,778
somebody mentioned Florence Nightingale
429
00:23:18,778 --> 00:23:21,779
and I asked if she was a freshman.
430
00:23:21,779 --> 00:23:24,363
- That joke has gone all over college.
431
00:23:24,363 --> 00:23:25,642
- You wouldn't believe, Daddy,
432
00:23:25,642 --> 00:23:29,086
what an abyss of ignorance my mind is.
433
00:23:29,086 --> 00:23:31,229
- The things that most girls
with a properly assorted
434
00:23:31,229 --> 00:23:35,115
family and friends and a
library know by absorption,
435
00:23:35,115 --> 00:23:37,198
I've never even heard of.
436
00:23:38,048 --> 00:23:41,539
♫ I didn't know that Henry VIII
437
00:23:41,539 --> 00:23:44,012
♫ Was married more than once
438
00:23:44,012 --> 00:23:46,022
♫ Or Shelley was a poet
439
00:23:46,022 --> 00:23:49,482
♫ I didn't know Alexander the Great
440
00:23:49,482 --> 00:23:51,885
♫ Had conquered most of Greece
441
00:23:51,885 --> 00:23:54,368
♫ Or people came from monkeys
442
00:23:54,368 --> 00:23:57,613
♫ I didn't know that the Garden of Eden
443
00:23:57,613 --> 00:24:02,067
♫ Was all just a beautiful myth
444
00:24:02,067 --> 00:24:05,698
♫ I never read Great Expectations
445
00:24:05,698 --> 00:24:07,773
♫ Summer On The Lake
446
00:24:07,773 --> 00:24:09,835
♫ Euripides' Electra
447
00:24:09,835 --> 00:24:13,153
♫ I never met The Two Noble Kinsmen
448
00:24:13,153 --> 00:24:17,046
♫ Or ever came across The
Merry Wives Of Windsor
449
00:24:17,046 --> 00:24:21,267
♫ I always feel like
I'm Alice in Wonderland
450
00:24:21,267 --> 00:24:25,421
♫ Stranded in Vanity Fair
451
00:24:25,421 --> 00:24:27,249
♫ Once upon a time
452
00:24:27,249 --> 00:24:29,617
♫ Oh captain, my captain
453
00:24:29,617 --> 00:24:33,870
♫ I'm so many years behind
454
00:24:33,870 --> 00:24:37,953
♫ I'm still so many years behind
455
00:24:39,439 --> 00:24:43,330
♫ I didn't know that she'd be so clever
456
00:24:43,330 --> 00:24:46,915
♫ I never dreamed of such imagination
457
00:24:46,915 --> 00:24:50,592
♫ I never read thoughts so expressive
458
00:24:50,592 --> 00:24:54,488
♫ I really must reread
The Count of Monte Cristo
459
00:24:54,488 --> 00:24:55,996
♫ What am I thinking
460
00:24:55,996 --> 00:24:58,003
♫ I'm missing appointments
461
00:24:58,003 --> 00:25:01,792
♫ To read what she studied in French
462
00:25:01,792 --> 00:25:03,886
♫ I'm baffled and perplexed
463
00:25:03,886 --> 00:25:06,198
♫ Oh captain, my captain
464
00:25:06,198 --> 00:25:09,639
♫ I really must get back to work
465
00:25:09,639 --> 00:25:13,715
♫ I wonder what she'll write me next
466
00:25:13,715 --> 00:25:17,323
♫ I'd never heard of Meg, Jo, Beth or Amy
467
00:25:17,323 --> 00:25:20,686
♫ I'd never been to Dover Beach
468
00:25:20,686 --> 00:25:22,121
♫ Or heard the phrase
469
00:25:22,121 --> 00:25:26,490
♫ A man's reach should exceed his grasp
470
00:25:26,490 --> 00:25:29,711
♫ I feel like The Idiot
471
00:25:29,711 --> 00:25:31,795
♫ Or the Toilers Of The Sea
472
00:25:31,795 --> 00:25:34,407
♫ Oh captain, my captain
473
00:25:34,407 --> 00:25:38,351
♫ All the world is verse to me
474
00:25:38,351 --> 00:25:41,934
♫ A lady with a lamp I see
475
00:25:43,811 --> 00:25:47,530
♫ I'd never heard the Moonlight Sonata
476
00:25:47,530 --> 00:25:52,267
♫ A Chopin Polonaise,
a Brandenburg Concerto
477
00:25:52,267 --> 00:25:56,434
♫ I didn't know that Lillian
Russell triumphed on the stage
478
00:25:57,867 --> 00:25:59,835
♫ Or Monet was a painter
479
00:25:59,835 --> 00:26:02,118
♫ And you may laugh at me
480
00:26:02,118 --> 00:26:06,285
♫ I thought George Elliot
was without question, a man
481
00:26:07,864 --> 00:26:09,870
♫ I'm opening my mind
482
00:26:09,870 --> 00:26:12,562
♫ Oh captain, my captain
483
00:26:12,562 --> 00:26:16,145
♫ I'm so many years behind
484
00:26:17,334 --> 00:26:21,417
♫ I'm still so many years behind
485
00:26:23,426 --> 00:26:26,685
♫ Now, Daddy, I must sleep
486
00:26:26,685 --> 00:26:30,185
♫ But I will think of you
487
00:26:31,146 --> 00:26:33,320
♫ For, Daddy
488
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,487
♫ I know there is still
much catching up to do
489
00:26:40,014 --> 00:26:42,743
- P.S. some of the girls
sell their textbooks
490
00:26:42,743 --> 00:26:43,695
when they're through with them,
491
00:26:43,695 --> 00:26:45,538
but I intend to keep mine.
492
00:26:45,538 --> 00:26:46,672
Then after I graduate,
493
00:26:46,672 --> 00:26:50,685
I shall have my whole education
in a row in the bookcase.
494
00:26:50,685 --> 00:26:52,510
- So much easier and more accurate
495
00:26:52,510 --> 00:26:56,187
than trying to keep it in your head.
496
00:26:56,187 --> 00:26:59,654
Dead Daddy, Christmas
holidays begin next week.
497
00:26:59,654 --> 00:27:01,958
The corridors are filled with trunks
498
00:27:01,958 --> 00:27:04,838
and everybody is bubbling with
the excitement of going home.
499
00:27:04,838 --> 00:27:06,448
Except me, of course.
500
00:27:06,448 --> 00:27:08,401
- But I'm going to have
a beautiful vacation
501
00:27:08,401 --> 00:27:10,166
with a whole library to be read
502
00:27:10,166 --> 00:27:12,250
and three empty weeks to do it in.
503
00:27:12,250 --> 00:27:14,113
I should be perfectly happy except for one
504
00:27:14,113 --> 00:27:16,720
little threatening cloud on the horizon.
505
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,037
Examinations in February.
506
00:27:18,037 --> 00:27:20,310
- Oh and don't forget
to answer my question.
507
00:27:20,310 --> 00:27:22,474
- If you don't want
the trouble of writing,
508
00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:25,472
have your secretary telegraph.
509
00:27:25,472 --> 00:27:26,305
He can just say--
510
00:27:26,305 --> 00:27:27,183
- Mr. Smith has white hair--
511
00:27:27,183 --> 00:27:28,016
- Or--
512
00:27:28,016 --> 00:27:28,849
- Mr. Smith has a little hair--
513
00:27:28,849 --> 00:27:30,333
- Or--
- Mr. Smith is bald.
514
00:27:30,333 --> 00:27:32,266
(audience laughing)
515
00:27:32,266 --> 00:27:35,942
- Have a lovely Christmas,
Daddy, wherever you might be.
516
00:27:35,942 --> 00:27:38,417
(soft piano music)
517
00:27:38,417 --> 00:27:41,167
- Dear Daddy, it's Christmas Eve.
518
00:27:42,068 --> 00:27:46,094
I'm up in my tower in the
gathering afternoon gloom.
519
00:27:46,094 --> 00:27:48,161
- There are snowflakes the size of dinner
520
00:27:48,161 --> 00:27:51,746
plates falling outside but
I'm very happy curled up
521
00:27:51,746 --> 00:27:54,543
on the window seat with
my latest favorite book.
522
00:27:54,543 --> 00:27:55,919
- Jane Eyre.
523
00:27:55,919 --> 00:27:57,493
I sat up half of last night reading it
524
00:27:57,493 --> 00:28:00,305
and I shall do the same tonight.
525
00:28:00,305 --> 00:28:02,625
Those Brontes fascinate me.
526
00:28:02,625 --> 00:28:06,204
Their books, their lives, their spirit,
527
00:28:06,204 --> 00:28:08,176
where did they get it?
528
00:28:08,176 --> 00:28:09,981
When I was reading about
little Jane's troubles
529
00:28:09,981 --> 00:28:11,470
in the charity school,
530
00:28:11,470 --> 00:28:14,284
I got so angry I had to
go out and take a walk.
531
00:28:14,284 --> 00:28:17,046
- I'm not suggesting the John
Grier Home was like that.
532
00:28:17,046 --> 00:28:18,961
We had plenty to eat and plenty to wear
533
00:28:18,961 --> 00:28:20,595
and a furnace in the cellar.
534
00:28:20,595 --> 00:28:23,286
But there was one deadly likeness,
535
00:28:23,286 --> 00:28:25,715
our lives were absolutely monotonous.
536
00:28:25,715 --> 00:28:27,543
- You see, Daddy, I
think the most important
537
00:28:27,543 --> 00:28:31,480
quality for any person
to have is imagination.
538
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,720
It helps people put themselves
in other people's shoes.
539
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,314
It makes them kind and
sympathetic and understanding.
540
00:28:40,314 --> 00:28:42,466
It ought to be cultivated in children.
541
00:28:42,466 --> 00:28:44,549
- But the John Grier Home
stamped out the slightest
542
00:28:44,549 --> 00:28:46,835
flicker of imagination that appeared.
543
00:28:46,835 --> 00:28:49,473
Duty was the one quality it encouraged.
544
00:28:49,473 --> 00:28:50,679
- I don't think children should know
545
00:28:50,679 --> 00:28:53,234
the meaning of that odious word.
546
00:28:53,234 --> 00:28:57,401
They should do nothing from
duty and everything from love.
547
00:29:00,858 --> 00:29:02,683
- It's almost dark now.
548
00:29:02,683 --> 00:29:06,276
I close my eyes halfway and
peer though the falling snow
549
00:29:06,276 --> 00:29:08,364
and wonder if I can almost see you looking
550
00:29:08,364 --> 00:29:11,865
back at me and I--
- I send you my love.
551
00:29:11,865 --> 00:29:13,615
- I send you my love.
552
00:29:15,604 --> 00:29:17,232
Jerusha.
553
00:29:17,232 --> 00:29:20,181
- P.S. maybe it isn't proper to send love.
554
00:29:20,181 --> 00:29:22,489
If it isn't, please excuse.
555
00:29:22,489 --> 00:29:24,230
But I must love somebody at Christmas
556
00:29:24,230 --> 00:29:25,941
and there's only you and Mrs. Lippett
557
00:29:25,941 --> 00:29:27,450
and I can't love her.
558
00:29:27,450 --> 00:29:29,025
(audience laughing)
559
00:29:29,025 --> 00:29:32,927
So you see, you'll have to put up with it.
560
00:29:32,927 --> 00:29:35,516
♫ Isn't it baffling
561
00:29:35,516 --> 00:29:38,533
♫ Curious post-script
562
00:29:38,533 --> 00:29:42,272
♫ What is she thinking of
563
00:29:42,272 --> 00:29:46,730
♫ Why is she sending me love
564
00:29:46,730 --> 00:29:50,534
(quickening piano music)
565
00:29:50,534 --> 00:29:54,701
♫ Isn't it amusing, I
have read every last book
566
00:29:57,889 --> 00:29:59,700
♫ But I can't help feeling
567
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,867
♫ There's something I still overlook
568
00:30:05,132 --> 00:30:09,299
♫ So I search the page for
what's hidden from view
569
00:30:12,593 --> 00:30:15,568
♫ What does she mean by love
570
00:30:15,568 --> 00:30:17,590
♫ It's lost on me
571
00:30:17,590 --> 00:30:20,673
♫ I only wish I knew
572
00:30:21,527 --> 00:30:23,927
♫ I've read the works of Shakespeare
573
00:30:23,927 --> 00:30:27,927
♫ I can quote Lovelace and Gray
574
00:30:29,351 --> 00:30:33,518
♫ But maybe I don't understand
what they're trying to say
575
00:30:36,603 --> 00:30:39,694
♫ So I search the page
576
00:30:39,694 --> 00:30:43,870
♫ Is there something I've missed
577
00:30:43,870 --> 00:30:46,986
♫ What does she mean by love
578
00:30:46,986 --> 00:30:51,153
♫ It's just a word, but one that I resist
579
00:30:53,109 --> 00:30:55,278
♫ Childhood memories
580
00:30:55,278 --> 00:30:57,400
♫ Long ago feelings
581
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,204
♫ All that's lost in the past
582
00:31:01,204 --> 00:31:04,866
♫ Love is not meant to last
583
00:31:04,866 --> 00:31:07,033
♫ Jerusha
584
00:31:08,611 --> 00:31:11,018
♫ Jerusha
585
00:31:11,018 --> 00:31:13,215
♫ What am I afraid of
586
00:31:13,215 --> 00:31:17,298
♫ It's just a line that she sent
587
00:31:18,694 --> 00:31:22,861
♫ Written in haste, I can't
bother to know what she meant
588
00:31:26,070 --> 00:31:30,237
♫ But I search the page
for what words might reveal
589
00:31:33,632 --> 00:31:36,731
♫ What does she mean by love
590
00:31:36,731 --> 00:31:40,898
♫ And what does she intend to make me feel
591
00:31:43,531 --> 00:31:44,868
- Dearest Daddy Long Legs,
592
00:31:44,868 --> 00:31:48,737
I have some awful, awful,
awful news to tell you.
593
00:31:48,737 --> 00:31:51,787
This is the sunniest most
blinding winter afternoon
594
00:31:51,787 --> 00:31:54,149
with icicles dripping from the fir trees
595
00:31:54,149 --> 00:31:58,134
and all the world bending
under a weight of snow.
596
00:31:58,134 --> 00:32:02,717
Except me and I'm bending
under a weight of sorrow.
597
00:32:02,717 --> 00:32:06,310
- I flunked mathematics
and I flunked Latin prose.
598
00:32:06,310 --> 00:32:07,586
I am tutoring in them and will take
599
00:32:07,586 --> 00:32:09,774
another examination next month.
600
00:32:09,774 --> 00:32:11,942
- I know you'll be disappointed.
601
00:32:11,942 --> 00:32:15,655
Will you forgive me if I
promise never to flunk again?
602
00:32:15,655 --> 00:32:18,476
Please tell me you forgive me.
603
00:32:18,476 --> 00:32:20,753
Yours, in sackcloth.
604
00:32:20,753 --> 00:32:22,479
(audience laughing)
605
00:32:22,479 --> 00:32:25,859
- Dear Mr. Smith, this
is a letter in the middle
606
00:32:25,859 --> 00:32:27,815
of the month and the middle of the night
607
00:32:27,815 --> 00:32:31,239
because I'm so, so lonely
and I can't sleep a wink.
608
00:32:31,239 --> 00:32:33,325
I've been in the infirmary for six days
609
00:32:33,325 --> 00:32:36,229
now with severe tonsillitis
and a miserable fever.
610
00:32:36,229 --> 00:32:38,745
- Though I don't know why
I'm bothering to tell you.
611
00:32:38,745 --> 00:32:40,929
You are probably the horridest
one of all those horrid
612
00:32:40,929 --> 00:32:44,815
trustees and the only reason
you are educating me is not
613
00:32:44,815 --> 00:32:48,899
because you care about me,
but for the sense of charity.
614
00:32:48,899 --> 00:32:51,553
♫ You never answer any of my questions
615
00:32:51,553 --> 00:32:54,181
♫ You never show the
slightest bit of interest
616
00:32:54,181 --> 00:32:57,060
♫ In my life, in my letters or my feelings
617
00:32:57,060 --> 00:33:01,227
♫ You are not the man
that you appear to be
618
00:33:02,222 --> 00:33:04,702
♫ And I don't know a
single thing about you
619
00:33:04,702 --> 00:33:07,452
♫ Not your name, nor your
face, nor your family
620
00:33:07,452 --> 00:33:10,206
♫ Do you care if I'm
living or I'm breathing
621
00:33:10,206 --> 00:33:13,999
♫ Do you dare to toss it all away
622
00:33:13,999 --> 00:33:16,804
♫ Every word I say
623
00:33:16,804 --> 00:33:20,637
♫ Just because you pay for me
624
00:33:25,776 --> 00:33:28,609
♫ Are they for me
625
00:33:34,282 --> 00:33:37,199
(soft piano music)
626
00:33:40,366 --> 00:33:43,696
♫ I'm a beast
627
00:33:43,696 --> 00:33:47,463
♫ I'm a burden, Daddy
628
00:33:47,463 --> 00:33:51,213
♫ Please forgive what I said
629
00:33:53,292 --> 00:33:55,921
♫ I was mean
630
00:33:55,921 --> 00:33:57,790
♫ I was mad
631
00:33:57,790 --> 00:33:58,983
♫ Oh, but, Daddy
632
00:33:58,983 --> 00:34:02,566
♫ I'm no good at being bad
633
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,217
♫ I was hurt
634
00:34:11,058 --> 00:34:14,701
♫ I was wounded, Daddy
635
00:34:14,701 --> 00:34:18,451
♫ I believed you didn't care
636
00:34:20,220 --> 00:34:24,657
♫ Oh, I cried all night long
637
00:34:24,657 --> 00:34:25,955
♫ Oh, but, Daddy
638
00:34:25,955 --> 00:34:29,538
♫ I'm so happy being wrong
639
00:34:35,853 --> 00:34:40,020
♫ I thought I imagined you, Daddy
640
00:34:42,786 --> 00:34:46,786
♫ And now I know your technique
641
00:34:49,277 --> 00:34:53,444
♫ You don't have to answer my letters
642
00:34:56,091 --> 00:34:58,830
♫ If you burn the one
643
00:34:58,830 --> 00:35:01,747
♫ I sent last week
644
00:35:04,112 --> 00:35:06,695
♫ You are real
645
00:35:08,886 --> 00:35:12,460
♫ You're a person, Daddy
646
00:35:12,460 --> 00:35:16,543
♫ And I pledge with all my heart
647
00:35:18,524 --> 00:35:21,857
♫ I will make a success
648
00:35:22,943 --> 00:35:24,130
♫ Oh, 'cause, Daddy
649
00:35:24,130 --> 00:35:27,547
♫ I'm unhappy being less
650
00:35:34,419 --> 00:35:36,307
♫ Daddy
651
00:35:36,307 --> 00:35:39,057
♫ I want so much
652
00:35:40,163 --> 00:35:42,580
♫ To impress
653
00:35:53,481 --> 00:35:56,648
(audience applauding)
654
00:36:00,641 --> 00:36:03,308
- From the desk of Mr. Jervis...
655
00:36:04,521 --> 00:36:08,858
Pendleton,
(audience laughing)
656
00:36:08,858 --> 00:36:10,608
Manhattan, April 1st.
657
00:36:12,140 --> 00:36:14,973
April Fools' Day, how appropriate.
658
00:36:16,067 --> 00:36:18,068
(smooth instrumental music)
Dear Miss Abbott,
659
00:36:18,068 --> 00:36:20,706
I put pen to paper with some trepidation,
660
00:36:20,706 --> 00:36:23,094
but with a feeling after your last letter
661
00:36:23,094 --> 00:36:27,193
that I really do owe you
some sort of response.
662
00:36:27,193 --> 00:36:29,299
♫ I want to write you back
663
00:36:29,299 --> 00:36:31,824
♫ But I don't know what to say
664
00:36:31,824 --> 00:36:33,358
♫ How can I explain
665
00:36:33,358 --> 00:36:35,539
♫ That I'm not really
666
00:36:35,539 --> 00:36:37,908
♫ Old
667
00:36:37,908 --> 00:36:39,232
♫ And I'm not at all
668
00:36:39,232 --> 00:36:42,098
♫ The man that you'd imagine
669
00:36:42,098 --> 00:36:43,123
♫ No, I'm not at all
670
00:36:43,123 --> 00:36:46,155
♫ The man you would expect
671
00:36:46,155 --> 00:36:48,738
♫ But, Jerusha
672
00:36:50,596 --> 00:36:53,036
♫ Would you object
673
00:36:53,036 --> 00:36:55,688
Of course I write in
contravention of my own rules
674
00:36:55,688 --> 00:36:57,618
of engagement which forbid any sort
675
00:36:57,618 --> 00:37:00,682
of communication from me to you.
676
00:37:00,682 --> 00:37:02,796
But only last month I
was guilty of sending you
677
00:37:02,796 --> 00:37:06,963
a bouquet of flowers so perhaps
the damage is already done.
678
00:37:08,296 --> 00:37:09,896
♫ And it's getting very hard
679
00:37:09,896 --> 00:37:12,354
♫ To abstain from a response
680
00:37:12,354 --> 00:37:16,808
♫ Especially for a man
who loves to correspond
681
00:37:16,808 --> 00:37:21,085
♫ For I long to interject my observations
682
00:37:21,085 --> 00:37:24,868
♫ I'm bursting with opinions and advice
683
00:37:24,868 --> 00:37:27,451
♫ But, Jerusha
684
00:37:29,642 --> 00:37:32,027
♫ Would they suffice
685
00:37:32,027 --> 00:37:33,348
I shall motor up to the college one
686
00:37:33,348 --> 00:37:36,721
of these afternoons and introduce myself.
687
00:37:36,721 --> 00:37:38,713
But I must warn you.
688
00:37:38,713 --> 00:37:40,684
♫ I'm not good at friendship
689
00:37:40,684 --> 00:37:42,619
♫ I'm not good at attachment
690
00:37:42,619 --> 00:37:43,766
♫ Or family
691
00:37:43,766 --> 00:37:45,054
♫ Or commitment
692
00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:47,228
♫ I roundly despise my relations
693
00:37:47,228 --> 00:37:49,398
♫ You're acquainted already with Julia
694
00:37:49,398 --> 00:37:52,041
♫ Who I blame for my low expectations
695
00:37:52,041 --> 00:37:53,881
(audience laughing)
696
00:37:53,881 --> 00:37:56,048
♫ Jerusha
697
00:37:59,340 --> 00:38:01,662
♫ So perhaps it isn't wise
698
00:38:01,662 --> 00:38:04,272
♫ To reveal myself just yet
699
00:38:04,272 --> 00:38:05,848
♫ Why not meet you first
700
00:38:05,848 --> 00:38:08,656
♫ As the man I really am
701
00:38:08,656 --> 00:38:10,676
♫ Why not introduce myself
702
00:38:10,676 --> 00:38:13,283
♫ As Julia's Uncle
703
00:38:13,283 --> 00:38:14,792
♫ Daddy just for now
704
00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:17,037
♫ Remains discrete
705
00:38:17,037 --> 00:38:19,537
♫ So, Jerusha
706
00:38:21,695 --> 00:38:24,778
♫ When shall we meet
707
00:38:27,403 --> 00:38:29,753
- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
708
00:38:29,753 --> 00:38:31,835
did you ever see this college?
709
00:38:31,835 --> 00:38:34,747
It is a heavenly spot in May.
710
00:38:34,747 --> 00:38:38,624
All the shrubs are in blossom
and the trees are dressed
711
00:38:38,624 --> 00:38:41,273
in their loveliest young green
712
00:38:41,273 --> 00:38:44,056
and the grass is dotted
with yellow dandelions
713
00:38:44,056 --> 00:38:48,927
and hundreds of girls in blue
and white and pink dresses.
714
00:38:48,927 --> 00:38:52,051
And oh, Daddy, what a day we've had today.
715
00:38:52,051 --> 00:38:54,935
A strange man was sighted on campus.
716
00:38:54,935 --> 00:38:57,169
Nobody knew who he was at first.
717
00:38:57,169 --> 00:38:59,451
Humanity here is so exclusively female
718
00:38:59,451 --> 00:39:03,344
that any unknown male specimen
is practically a scandal.
719
00:39:03,344 --> 00:39:04,592
(audience laughing)
720
00:39:04,592 --> 00:39:07,431
- The man in question is
a Mr. Jervis Pendleton.
721
00:39:07,431 --> 00:39:09,013
- Of the house of Julia?
722
00:39:09,013 --> 00:39:10,366
- Her uncle, in short.
723
00:39:10,366 --> 00:39:11,954
- Or in long I should say.
724
00:39:11,954 --> 00:39:13,809
He's as tall as you, Daddy.
725
00:39:13,809 --> 00:39:14,892
- Being in town on business,
726
00:39:14,892 --> 00:39:18,144
he decided to run out to the
college and call on his niece.
727
00:39:18,144 --> 00:39:19,994
- He's her father's youngest brother,
728
00:39:19,994 --> 00:39:22,315
but she doesn't know him very intimately.
729
00:39:22,315 --> 00:39:24,476
It seems he glanced at Julia as a baby,
730
00:39:24,476 --> 00:39:27,192
decided he didn't like her and
has never noticed her since.
731
00:39:27,192 --> 00:39:29,766
(audience laughing)
732
00:39:29,766 --> 00:39:32,992
- Julia and Sallie had lessons
they just couldn't cut.
733
00:39:32,992 --> 00:39:36,622
- So Julia begged me to look
after him for the afternoon.
734
00:39:36,622 --> 00:39:38,860
I said I would though my heart sank,
735
00:39:38,860 --> 00:39:42,174
because I don't care much for Pendletons.
736
00:39:42,174 --> 00:39:46,177
Anyway, it turns out
he's as sweet as a lamb.
737
00:39:46,177 --> 00:39:47,723
He's a real human being.
738
00:39:47,723 --> 00:39:48,682
(audience laughing)
739
00:39:48,682 --> 00:39:50,599
Not a Pendleton at all.
740
00:39:51,592 --> 00:39:55,882
With a sweet, dark face and
the funniest underneath smile
741
00:39:55,882 --> 00:39:58,178
that never quite comes
through but just wrinkles
742
00:39:58,178 --> 00:40:00,980
up the corner of his mouth.
743
00:40:00,980 --> 00:40:03,431
♫ He reminds me of you
744
00:40:03,431 --> 00:40:05,514
♫ In much younger days
745
00:40:05,514 --> 00:40:07,856
(audience laughing)
746
00:40:07,856 --> 00:40:10,032
♫ Softly eccentric
747
00:40:10,032 --> 00:40:12,618
♫ And set in his ways
748
00:40:12,618 --> 00:40:14,955
♫ He reminds me of you
749
00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:17,721
♫ It's funny and yet
750
00:40:17,721 --> 00:40:20,589
♫ How can he really remind me
751
00:40:20,589 --> 00:40:25,292
♫ Of someone that I've never met
752
00:40:25,292 --> 00:40:28,864
♫ And P.S. I wish you and I
753
00:40:28,864 --> 00:40:31,057
♫ Could be friends
754
00:40:31,057 --> 00:40:35,224
♫ Wouldn't that be a lovely surprise
755
00:40:36,191 --> 00:40:40,358
♫ 'Cause P.S. how sweet
to be writing to you
756
00:40:41,782 --> 00:40:45,949
♫ If I knew the color of your eyes
757
00:40:48,127 --> 00:40:50,171
♫ We went for tea
758
00:40:50,171 --> 00:40:52,970
♫ At an outdoor cafe
759
00:40:52,970 --> 00:40:57,288
♫ Oh, and his eyes are
both blue by the way
760
00:40:57,288 --> 00:40:59,457
♫ We talked and we talked
761
00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:01,962
♫ You should have been there
762
00:41:01,962 --> 00:41:03,624
♫ And then he went on
763
00:41:03,624 --> 00:41:06,523
♫ About Melville and Whitman
764
00:41:06,523 --> 00:41:09,348
♫ I'm floating on air
765
00:41:09,348 --> 00:41:13,515
♫ And P.S. I blushed
when he offered his arm
766
00:41:14,662 --> 00:41:18,829
♫ And we walked under fair weather skies
767
00:41:20,245 --> 00:41:24,412
♫ And oh, how I wish that
you'd been with us too
768
00:41:26,028 --> 00:41:30,195
♫ And I knew the color of your eyes
769
00:41:32,046 --> 00:41:36,610
♫ He made it seem like I'd
known him from long ago
770
00:41:36,610 --> 00:41:38,794
♫ Laughed at my jokes
771
00:41:38,794 --> 00:41:41,703
♫ Though they scarcely seemed apropos
772
00:41:41,703 --> 00:41:44,654
♫ I'm feeling more like a girl
773
00:41:44,654 --> 00:41:47,987
♫ And less like a child
774
00:41:50,555 --> 00:41:52,564
♫ Oh, what a man
775
00:41:52,564 --> 00:41:55,099
♫ I'll never forget
776
00:41:55,099 --> 00:41:59,885
♫ But really the only man I've ever met
777
00:41:59,885 --> 00:42:01,740
♫ Then he took the train
778
00:42:01,740 --> 00:42:04,115
♫ And I heaved a sigh
779
00:42:04,115 --> 00:42:06,237
♫ And Julia got angry
780
00:42:06,237 --> 00:42:10,404
♫ 'Cause he left without
even saying goodbye
781
00:42:11,813 --> 00:42:15,980
♫ And P.S. it's late
and I can't get to sleep
782
00:42:17,206 --> 00:42:21,373
♫ So I'll lay out my soul on the line
783
00:42:22,627 --> 00:42:26,794
♫ What do I care if
there's blue in his eyes
784
00:42:28,154 --> 00:42:32,321
♫ If someday you're looking into mine
785
00:42:35,635 --> 00:42:39,802
♫ One day, you'll be looking into mine
786
00:42:50,958 --> 00:42:54,125
(audience applauding)
787
00:42:59,482 --> 00:43:03,255
- P.P.S. I looked in
the mirror this morning
788
00:43:03,255 --> 00:43:05,694
and found a perfectly new dimple
789
00:43:05,694 --> 00:43:07,992
that I'd never seen before.
790
00:43:07,992 --> 00:43:11,699
It's very curious, where
do you think it came from?
791
00:43:11,699 --> 00:43:15,438
- P.P.P.S all through the day yesterday,
792
00:43:15,438 --> 00:43:18,809
Mr. Pendleton looked at me
as if he really knew me.
793
00:43:18,809 --> 00:43:20,495
Almost better than I know myself.
794
00:43:20,495 --> 00:43:22,407
- But he doesn't know
anything about me, really.
795
00:43:22,407 --> 00:43:24,251
You're the only man that knows me.
796
00:43:24,251 --> 00:43:25,994
Though I don't know you at all.
797
00:43:25,994 --> 00:43:29,383
- Mr. Jervis Pendleton is
a puzzle and that's a fact.
798
00:43:29,383 --> 00:43:32,543
- He seems so sophisticated and assured,
799
00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:33,903
a proper Pendleton.
800
00:43:33,903 --> 00:43:36,338
- But when he laughs, he
becomes like a little boy
801
00:43:36,338 --> 00:43:38,725
and not a Pendleton at all.
802
00:43:38,725 --> 00:43:41,195
- But then he gets embarrassed
that he's let himself
803
00:43:41,195 --> 00:43:45,362
be young and he hides
inside his older self again.
804
00:43:47,192 --> 00:43:50,275
What shall we think of Mr. Pendleton?
805
00:43:51,941 --> 00:43:56,311
♫ I see my name upon the page
806
00:43:56,311 --> 00:44:01,266
♫ She writes of me in such detail
807
00:44:01,266 --> 00:44:06,240
♫ Am I just fostering her education
808
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:10,743
♫ Or reading someone else's mail
809
00:44:10,743 --> 00:44:15,636
♫ I know things I shouldn't know
810
00:44:15,636 --> 00:44:19,883
♫ It isn't fair what I have done
811
00:44:19,883 --> 00:44:22,292
♫ But I can't help myself
812
00:44:22,292 --> 00:44:25,245
♫ She's so enthralling
813
00:44:25,245 --> 00:44:29,689
♫ And so I read another one
814
00:44:29,689 --> 00:44:32,740
♫ And I scarcely can believe it
815
00:44:32,740 --> 00:44:35,930
♫ For she will never be like other girls
816
00:44:35,930 --> 00:44:38,830
♫ Settle for less like other girls
817
00:44:38,830 --> 00:44:41,392
♫ Be invasive or conniving
818
00:44:41,392 --> 00:44:44,892
♫ Or a damsel in distress
819
00:44:46,103 --> 00:44:49,150
♫ Like other girls
820
00:44:49,150 --> 00:44:51,742
♫ Like other girls
821
00:44:51,742 --> 00:44:54,659
♫ Like other girls
822
00:44:56,957 --> 00:44:58,491
- Daddy Long Legs, help!
823
00:44:58,491 --> 00:45:00,204
I've just had a letter from Mrs. Lippett.
824
00:45:00,204 --> 00:45:02,540
She hopes I'm behaving
in a manner that would
825
00:45:02,540 --> 00:45:05,836
do credit to the John Grier Home.
826
00:45:05,836 --> 00:45:07,439
And since I've no place to go this summer,
827
00:45:07,439 --> 00:45:10,282
she orders me back to the
asylum to work for my board
828
00:45:10,282 --> 00:45:12,633
till college opens in the fall.
829
00:45:12,633 --> 00:45:14,603
I hate the John Grier Home!
830
00:45:14,603 --> 00:45:17,404
I'd rather die than go back!
831
00:45:17,404 --> 00:45:19,237
Yours most truthfully.
832
00:45:22,533 --> 00:45:24,018
- Dear Miss Abbott,
833
00:45:24,018 --> 00:45:25,784
Mr. Smith instructs me to tell
834
00:45:25,784 --> 00:45:27,439
you that he would be pleased--
835
00:45:27,439 --> 00:45:29,194
- If you would agree to spend
836
00:45:29,194 --> 00:45:32,176
the summer at Lock Willow Farm.
837
00:45:32,176 --> 00:45:34,388
Address and directions are enclosed.
838
00:45:34,388 --> 00:45:37,597
He trusts you will find the
accommodation acceptable.
839
00:45:37,597 --> 00:45:39,102
- Please acknowledge by return.
840
00:45:39,102 --> 00:45:42,722
Yours et cetera, secretary to Mr. Smith.
841
00:45:42,722 --> 00:45:44,937
(audience laughing)
842
00:45:44,937 --> 00:45:47,261
- Dear sweet Daddy Long Legs,
843
00:45:47,261 --> 00:45:49,718
you are such a brick!
844
00:45:49,718 --> 00:45:50,854
- Brick!
845
00:45:50,854 --> 00:45:53,854
(audience laughing)
846
00:45:55,395 --> 00:45:58,178
- I am so, so happy to accept your offer
847
00:45:58,178 --> 00:46:01,226
to spend the summer at Lock Willow Farm.
848
00:46:01,226 --> 00:46:03,355
Though I'm scared that
Mrs. Lippett will stretch
849
00:46:03,355 --> 00:46:06,824
out a long arm and grab me back.
850
00:46:06,824 --> 00:46:07,991
- Lock Willow.
851
00:46:09,591 --> 00:46:12,251
- What a lovely name for a farm.
852
00:46:12,251 --> 00:46:14,303
- I don't really know what a farm is,
853
00:46:14,303 --> 00:46:16,759
I've never been on one in my life.
854
00:46:16,759 --> 00:46:19,233
But I know I'm going to love it.
855
00:46:19,233 --> 00:46:21,288
I'm going to love being free.
856
00:46:21,288 --> 00:46:24,788
(soft instrumental music)
857
00:46:27,140 --> 00:46:29,420
- Oh Daddy, happy day!
858
00:46:29,420 --> 00:46:31,729
I'm here, I'm on a farm.
859
00:46:31,729 --> 00:46:32,754
- And it's heavenly.
860
00:46:32,754 --> 00:46:34,463
- The house is square and old.
861
00:46:34,463 --> 00:46:35,512
- A hundred years or so.
862
00:46:35,512 --> 00:46:36,805
- It sits on the top of a hill.
863
00:46:36,805 --> 00:46:38,077
- Surrounded by hemlocks.
864
00:46:38,077 --> 00:46:39,989
- And maples.
- And murmuring pines.
865
00:46:39,989 --> 00:46:43,342
- It looks way off over
miles of green ridges,
866
00:46:43,342 --> 00:46:45,332
to another line of hills.
867
00:46:45,332 --> 00:46:48,674
- The people here are Mr. and
Mrs. Semple who farm the land
868
00:46:48,674 --> 00:46:51,012
along with a hired girl called Carrie
869
00:46:51,012 --> 00:46:55,487
and two hired men,
Amasai and Old Ira Hatch.
870
00:46:55,487 --> 00:46:58,008
I'm eating more than
I ever did in my life.
871
00:46:58,008 --> 00:47:00,314
For supper last night we had ham and eggs
872
00:47:00,314 --> 00:47:02,699
and biscuits and honey and jelly cake
873
00:47:02,699 --> 00:47:07,277
and pie and pickles and
cheese and cups of tea.
874
00:47:07,277 --> 00:47:10,872
- I confidently
expect to become very fat.
875
00:47:10,872 --> 00:47:12,661
- My room is big and square and empty
876
00:47:12,661 --> 00:47:15,323
with adorable old fashioned furniture
877
00:47:15,323 --> 00:47:18,284
and windows that have to
be propped up on sticks.
878
00:47:18,284 --> 00:47:20,367
- And a large pine table.
879
00:47:21,408 --> 00:47:22,869
I'm going to spend the summer
880
00:47:22,869 --> 00:47:26,952
with my elbows spread out
on it, writing a novel.
881
00:47:30,830 --> 00:47:33,327
- Dear Daddy, Sundays in
Lock Willow are proving
882
00:47:33,327 --> 00:47:35,197
to be a real test of character.
883
00:47:35,197 --> 00:47:37,385
But today was the worst so far.
884
00:47:37,385 --> 00:47:39,595
- We hitched up the wagon
and drove to church,
885
00:47:39,595 --> 00:47:42,694
where the minister encouraged
us to abandon all thoughts
886
00:47:42,694 --> 00:47:46,344
of earthly joy for fear
of eternal hellfire.
887
00:47:46,344 --> 00:47:48,104
(audience laughing)
888
00:47:48,104 --> 00:47:50,990
- I find it isn't safe to discuss
religion with the Semples.
889
00:47:50,990 --> 00:47:52,601
- Their God, whom they inherited
890
00:47:52,601 --> 00:47:55,223
from their remote Puritan ancestors,
891
00:47:55,223 --> 00:47:59,135
is a narrow, unjust, irrational, mean,
892
00:47:59,135 --> 00:48:01,468
revengeful, bigoted, person.
893
00:48:03,770 --> 00:48:07,443
Thank heaven I didn't
inherit my God from anyone.
894
00:48:07,443 --> 00:48:10,433
I'm free to make mine up as I wish him.
895
00:48:10,433 --> 00:48:14,105
He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative
896
00:48:14,105 --> 00:48:18,403
and forgiving and understanding
and he has a sense of humor.
897
00:48:18,403 --> 00:48:19,757
- I like the Semples immensely
898
00:48:19,757 --> 00:48:22,509
but they are better than their own God.
899
00:48:22,509 --> 00:48:25,167
I told them so and they
are horribly troubled.
900
00:48:25,167 --> 00:48:26,557
They think I'm blasphemous.
901
00:48:26,557 --> 00:48:28,011
- And I think they are!
902
00:48:28,011 --> 00:48:30,381
- We came home from church
in a resentful silence.
903
00:48:30,381 --> 00:48:32,091
- When we got back to the farm,
904
00:48:32,091 --> 00:48:33,997
we found that buttercup, one of the cows,
905
00:48:33,997 --> 00:48:35,775
had gotten to the orchard last night
906
00:48:35,775 --> 00:48:38,890
and eaten dozens of apples
until they went to her head.
907
00:48:38,890 --> 00:48:41,931
Now she's dead drunk
and it's all my fault.
908
00:48:41,931 --> 00:48:44,161
I was the one that left the gate open.
909
00:48:44,161 --> 00:48:46,529
- And this afternoon I was
collecting eggs in the hayloft
910
00:48:46,529 --> 00:48:49,391
when I fell off a beam, cut
my knee on a pitchfork--
911
00:48:49,391 --> 00:48:51,334
- And broke every egg in my basket.
912
00:48:51,334 --> 00:48:52,440
- I ran back to the house
913
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,050
and slipped in a mess
by the farmyard gate.
914
00:48:55,050 --> 00:48:57,504
- I was wearing my best Sunday shoes.
915
00:48:57,504 --> 00:48:59,303
The ones you bought me.
916
00:48:59,303 --> 00:49:01,583
And they'll never be the same again.
917
00:49:01,583 --> 00:49:05,750
- Did you ever hear of such a
discouraging series of events?
918
00:49:06,657 --> 00:49:08,206
- I didn't get to work on my novel
919
00:49:08,206 --> 00:49:11,236
until halfway through the afternoon.
920
00:49:11,236 --> 00:49:14,372
But when I finally got to my table,
921
00:49:14,372 --> 00:49:16,897
I had such a nice surprise.
922
00:49:16,897 --> 00:49:18,485
- There in
the middle of the page,
923
00:49:18,485 --> 00:49:20,129
was the biggest most beautiful
924
00:49:20,129 --> 00:49:23,047
daddy longlegs I've ever seen.
925
00:49:23,047 --> 00:49:26,575
I mean a real one, Daddy,
of the eight legged sort.
926
00:49:26,575 --> 00:49:30,067
I picked him up very carefully by one leg
927
00:49:30,067 --> 00:49:32,608
and dropped him out of the window.
928
00:49:32,608 --> 00:49:34,314
He floated on the wind like a feather
929
00:49:34,314 --> 00:49:38,172
and landed gently on a
clump of honeysuckle.
930
00:49:38,172 --> 00:49:42,110
- As I watched him go,
I thought about today.
931
00:49:42,110 --> 00:49:44,474
You know, Daddy, it isn't the big troubles
932
00:49:44,474 --> 00:49:47,019
in life that require character.
933
00:49:47,019 --> 00:49:48,821
Anyone can rise to a crisis and face
934
00:49:48,821 --> 00:49:51,374
a crushing tragedy with courage,
935
00:49:51,374 --> 00:49:55,814
but to meet the petty hazards
of the day with a laugh,
936
00:49:55,814 --> 00:49:57,992
I really think that requires spirit.
937
00:49:57,992 --> 00:50:00,102
(soft instrumental music)
938
00:50:00,102 --> 00:50:05,036
♫ I've discovered, the
secret of happiness is
939
00:50:05,036 --> 00:50:08,369
♫ Learning how to glide
940
00:50:09,287 --> 00:50:11,501
♫ I've discovered
941
00:50:11,501 --> 00:50:14,090
♫ The secret of happiness is
942
00:50:14,090 --> 00:50:17,257
♫ Just enjoy the ride
943
00:50:18,268 --> 00:50:22,435
♫ Don't let the journey
be tainted by pride and
944
00:50:23,392 --> 00:50:25,367
♫ I've discovered
945
00:50:25,367 --> 00:50:27,731
♫ The secret of happiness is
946
00:50:27,731 --> 00:50:31,064
♫ Not to mourn the past
947
00:50:32,238 --> 00:50:34,474
♫ I've discovered
948
00:50:34,474 --> 00:50:36,935
♫ The secret of happiness is
949
00:50:36,935 --> 00:50:40,102
♫ Not to run too fast
950
00:50:41,118 --> 00:50:45,285
♫ You can still beat them
by coming in last 'cause
951
00:50:46,775 --> 00:50:51,091
♫ The secret, the secret of happiness is
952
00:50:51,091 --> 00:50:53,073
♫ I've discovered
953
00:50:53,073 --> 00:50:55,517
♫ The secret of happiness is
954
00:50:55,517 --> 00:50:58,434
♫ Not to be afraid
955
00:51:00,188 --> 00:51:02,260
♫ I've discovered
956
00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:04,679
♫ The secret of happiness is
957
00:51:04,679 --> 00:51:07,762
♫ All illusions fade
958
00:51:09,071 --> 00:51:13,238
♫ Don't fear the future,
you'll just be delayed, 'cause
959
00:51:14,565 --> 00:51:18,732
♫ The secret, the secret of happiness is
960
00:51:19,621 --> 00:51:22,621
♫ Living in the now
961
00:51:23,699 --> 00:51:27,866
♫ Living in the time it takes
to blink, I think, is how
962
00:51:32,765 --> 00:51:35,403
♫ We're meant to be living
963
00:51:35,403 --> 00:51:37,379
♫ I've discovered
964
00:51:37,379 --> 00:51:39,799
♫ The secret of happiness is
965
00:51:39,799 --> 00:51:42,799
♫ Following my will
966
00:51:44,486 --> 00:51:48,856
♫ I've discovered, the
secret of happiness is
967
00:51:48,856 --> 00:51:52,523
♫ That we can run that hill
968
00:51:53,594 --> 00:51:57,761
♫ Happiness comes when
we learn to be still, and
969
00:51:59,198 --> 00:52:03,756
♫ The secret, the secret of happiness is
970
00:52:03,756 --> 00:52:08,667
♫ The secret of happiness is clear
971
00:52:08,667 --> 00:52:13,327
♫ The secret of happiness is near
972
00:52:13,327 --> 00:52:17,494
♫ The secret of happiness is here
973
00:52:32,278 --> 00:52:35,445
(audience applauding)
974
00:52:38,883 --> 00:52:42,366
- Daddy, today I made a
truly amazing discovery.
975
00:52:42,366 --> 00:52:44,832
I was searching in the
attic for something to read
976
00:52:44,832 --> 00:52:47,062
when I came across a stout wooden box
977
00:52:47,062 --> 00:52:49,675
with a skull and crossbones
painted on the top,
978
00:52:49,675 --> 00:52:51,284
like a pirate's treasure chest.
979
00:52:51,284 --> 00:52:54,060
- I opened it up and
inside there was a pile
980
00:52:54,060 --> 00:52:58,595
of very thumbed illustrated
boys adventure stories.
981
00:52:58,595 --> 00:53:00,766
One was called On The Trail,
982
00:53:00,766 --> 00:53:03,378
and scrawled across the
front cover in a funny,
983
00:53:03,378 --> 00:53:06,033
little boy hand were the words.
984
00:53:06,033 --> 00:53:08,513
- If this book should ever roam,
985
00:53:08,513 --> 00:53:12,680
box its ears and send it
home to Jervis Pendleton.
986
00:53:14,648 --> 00:53:16,987
- I ran downstairs to
show it to Mrs. Semple
987
00:53:16,987 --> 00:53:19,078
and she told me that the Pendleton family
988
00:53:19,078 --> 00:53:22,223
used to own this farm and Julia's uncle,
989
00:53:22,223 --> 00:53:24,545
whom she calls Master Jervie.
990
00:53:24,545 --> 00:53:26,136
- Master Jervie.
991
00:53:26,136 --> 00:53:27,543
(audience laughing)
992
00:53:27,543 --> 00:53:31,404
- Spent a summer here once
after he'd been very ill.
993
00:53:31,404 --> 00:53:35,284
He was 11 years old and
his mother had just died.
994
00:53:35,284 --> 00:53:37,691
After that, he came back year after year
995
00:53:37,691 --> 00:53:39,934
for all his summer holidays.
996
00:53:39,934 --> 00:53:43,702
Then later after he'd grown
up and inherited the farm,
997
00:53:43,702 --> 00:53:45,971
he gave it to Mrs. Semple for being
998
00:53:45,971 --> 00:53:49,054
a second mother to him all that time.
999
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,927
- Isn't that a wonderful story?
1000
00:53:56,109 --> 00:53:58,095
- But it makes me wonder about you,
1001
00:53:58,095 --> 00:53:59,778
even more than I did before.
1002
00:53:59,778 --> 00:54:02,344
(audience laughing)
1003
00:54:02,344 --> 00:54:05,339
Did you know Mr. Pendleton yourself?
1004
00:54:05,339 --> 00:54:07,399
Or more likely his father,
1005
00:54:07,399 --> 00:54:09,133
or even his grandfather I suppose.
1006
00:54:09,133 --> 00:54:11,799
(audience laughing)
1007
00:54:11,799 --> 00:54:13,742
How old are you, Daddy?
1008
00:54:13,742 --> 00:54:17,390
I know you won't tell me, but
you can't stop me wondering.
1009
00:54:17,390 --> 00:54:19,017
♫ Where are you now
1010
00:54:19,017 --> 00:54:21,208
♫ How goes your day
1011
00:54:21,208 --> 00:54:25,347
♫ And is your head sporting silver or gray
1012
00:54:25,347 --> 00:54:27,319
♫ What are you like
1013
00:54:27,319 --> 00:54:29,584
♫ Who could you be
1014
00:54:29,584 --> 00:54:33,599
♫ 'Cause I have imagined a kindly old man
1015
00:54:33,599 --> 00:54:36,958
♫ Of at least 83
1016
00:54:36,958 --> 00:54:39,367
♫ And what would I think
1017
00:54:39,367 --> 00:54:42,426
♫ If I knew who you were
1018
00:54:42,426 --> 00:54:46,343
♫ On my own I can only surmise
1019
00:54:47,721 --> 00:54:50,274
♫ But if we could meet
1020
00:54:50,274 --> 00:54:53,549
♫ It would lift my heart so
1021
00:54:53,549 --> 00:54:57,716
♫ And I'd know the color of your eyes
1022
00:55:00,553 --> 00:55:01,720
- Dear Miss...
1023
00:55:03,861 --> 00:55:04,694
Jerusha,
1024
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:06,883
I've been meaning to write to you
1025
00:55:06,883 --> 00:55:09,828
for quite some time but with no success.
1026
00:55:09,828 --> 00:55:12,932
It felt rather dishonest writing
to you as Jervis Pendleton
1027
00:55:12,932 --> 00:55:14,129
when all your letters were being
1028
00:55:14,129 --> 00:55:16,084
written to me as Daddy Long Legs.
1029
00:55:16,084 --> 00:55:17,915
So I put it off.
1030
00:55:17,915 --> 00:55:19,765
I shouldn't have done.
1031
00:55:19,765 --> 00:55:20,598
But I did.
1032
00:55:21,682 --> 00:55:24,362
Your discovery of my
connection to Lock Willow
1033
00:55:24,362 --> 00:55:26,442
has made a confession
all the more necessary
1034
00:55:26,442 --> 00:55:28,250
but I still don't know
whether to write to you
1035
00:55:28,250 --> 00:55:29,811
as Jervis telling you I'm Daddy,
1036
00:55:29,811 --> 00:55:32,478
or Daddy telling you I'm Jervis.
1037
00:55:34,341 --> 00:55:36,022
Either way, I fear I shall be a terrible
1038
00:55:36,022 --> 00:55:37,855
disappointment to you.
1039
00:55:39,837 --> 00:55:41,837
♫ What can I say
1040
00:55:41,837 --> 00:55:44,565
♫ What would make sense
1041
00:55:44,565 --> 00:55:49,330
♫ I've made a mess of
things at your expense
1042
00:55:49,330 --> 00:55:51,522
♫ My little deceit
1043
00:55:51,522 --> 00:55:54,666
♫ Is haunting me now
1044
00:55:54,666 --> 00:55:58,844
♫ And all I want is to tell you the truth
1045
00:55:58,844 --> 00:56:01,763
♫ But I just don't know how
1046
00:56:01,763 --> 00:56:04,200
♫ 'Cause what will you think
1047
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,264
♫ When you know who I am
1048
00:56:07,264 --> 00:56:10,570
♫ When you've seen through
my foolish disguise
1049
00:56:10,570 --> 00:56:12,675
♫ I'm so excited
1050
00:56:12,675 --> 00:56:16,842
♫ And how can I manage to soften the blow
1051
00:56:18,235 --> 00:56:22,402
♫ When you know the color of my lies
1052
00:56:24,542 --> 00:56:26,837
♫ I'm curious
1053
00:56:26,837 --> 00:56:28,647
♫ I'm absentee
1054
00:56:28,647 --> 00:56:30,413
♫ What are you like
1055
00:56:30,413 --> 00:56:33,848
♫ You mustn't see the man I am
1056
00:56:33,848 --> 00:56:35,476
♫ When will I know
1057
00:56:35,476 --> 00:56:39,250
♫ The man I'll never be
1058
00:56:39,250 --> 00:56:42,667
♫ The color of your eyes
1059
00:56:51,913 --> 00:56:55,080
(audience applauding)
1060
00:56:59,543 --> 00:57:01,185
- Dear Daddy
1061
00:57:01,185 --> 00:57:03,765
♫ I'm really turning into somebody now
1062
00:57:03,765 --> 00:57:05,876
♫ A proper sophomore
1063
00:57:05,876 --> 00:57:08,320
♫ I'm really turning into so much more
1064
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,510
♫ Than just a girl
1065
00:57:10,510 --> 00:57:13,957
♫ It's lovely looking
down on all the freshmen
1066
00:57:13,957 --> 00:57:17,230
♫ A hopelessly ignorant lot
1067
00:57:17,230 --> 00:57:19,777
♫ I'm really turning into somebody now
1068
00:57:19,777 --> 00:57:21,946
♫ A modern woman
1069
00:57:21,946 --> 00:57:24,440
♫ And who do you suppose I'm rooming with
1070
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,231
♫ Sallie McBride
1071
00:57:26,231 --> 00:57:30,141
- And Julia Rutledge
Pendleton, it's the truth!
1072
00:57:30,141 --> 00:57:33,385
♫ A Pendleton is rooming with an orphan
1073
00:57:33,385 --> 00:57:36,130
♫ What a democratic country this is
1074
00:57:36,130 --> 00:57:37,602
(audience laughing)
1075
00:57:37,602 --> 00:57:39,516
Sallie is running for class president
1076
00:57:39,516 --> 00:57:41,306
and unless all signs fail,
1077
00:57:41,306 --> 00:57:43,132
she's going to be elected.
1078
00:57:43,132 --> 00:57:45,036
- Such an atmosphere of intrigue.
1079
00:57:45,036 --> 00:57:47,075
You should see what politicians we are.
1080
00:57:47,075 --> 00:57:50,836
- Oh I tell you, Daddy, when
we women get our rights,
1081
00:57:50,836 --> 00:57:54,060
you men will have to
look alive to keep yours.
1082
00:57:54,060 --> 00:57:55,592
(audience laughing)
1083
00:57:55,592 --> 00:57:58,095
♫ I'm really turning into somebody now
1084
00:57:58,095 --> 00:58:00,282
♫ An academic
1085
00:58:00,282 --> 00:58:02,794
♫ Courses in romantic poetry
1086
00:58:02,794 --> 00:58:04,982
♫ And Latin verse
1087
00:58:04,982 --> 00:58:08,133
♫ I'm mixing salt with hydrochloric acid
1088
00:58:08,133 --> 00:58:10,670
♫ And geometry is really complex
1089
00:58:10,670 --> 00:58:12,506
Listen to what I've learned.
1090
00:58:12,506 --> 00:58:14,000
The area of the convex
surface of the frustum
1091
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,556
of a regular pyramid is half the product
1092
00:58:15,556 --> 00:58:17,146
of the sum of the perimeters of its bases
1093
00:58:17,146 --> 00:58:20,220
by the altitude of
either of its trapezoids.
1094
00:58:20,220 --> 00:58:23,447
It doesn't sound true, but it is!
1095
00:58:23,447 --> 00:58:25,155
Oh, and Daddy, guess what?
1096
00:58:25,155 --> 00:58:28,080
♫ Sallie McBride invited me
1097
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:29,867
♫ To spend the whole Christmas
1098
00:58:29,867 --> 00:58:31,762
♫ With her in Massachusetts
1099
00:58:31,762 --> 00:58:33,731
♫ Isn't that lovely
1100
00:58:33,731 --> 00:58:38,710
♫ I am so excited to go, you have no idea
1101
00:58:38,710 --> 00:58:42,082
♫ They are such a close knitted family
1102
00:58:42,082 --> 00:58:45,142
♫ Dear Daddy Long Legs
1103
00:58:45,142 --> 00:58:48,235
♫ How will I fit in
1104
00:58:48,235 --> 00:58:51,277
- Families, I never
dreamed they could be so nice!
1105
00:58:51,277 --> 00:58:55,444
- Sallie has a father and
a mother and a grandmother
1106
00:58:57,088 --> 00:58:59,645
and the sweetest little
three year old baby sister
1107
00:58:59,645 --> 00:59:02,416
and a medium sized brother
who forgets to wipe his feet.
1108
00:59:02,416 --> 00:59:04,748
- And a big, good-looking
brother named Jimmie,
1109
00:59:04,748 --> 00:59:07,404
who's a junior at Princeton.
1110
00:59:07,404 --> 00:59:10,318
♫ I've been here for just about a week now
1111
00:59:10,318 --> 00:59:13,796
♫ And guess what Sallie's family did
1112
00:59:13,796 --> 00:59:17,724
♫ They threw me a ball in my honor
1113
00:59:17,724 --> 00:59:20,884
♫ It was the first ball I'd attended
1114
00:59:20,884 --> 00:59:22,353
♫ With long white gloves
1115
00:59:22,353 --> 00:59:24,525
♫ And white satin shoes
1116
00:59:24,525 --> 00:59:26,070
♫ I led the cotillion
1117
00:59:26,070 --> 00:59:29,826
♫ With Sallie's brother, Jim
1118
00:59:29,826 --> 00:59:33,993
♫ If you could see me dance with him
1119
00:59:35,549 --> 00:59:38,799
♫ Dear Daddy Long Legs
1120
00:59:39,759 --> 00:59:43,926
♫ The sight of Jerusha and Jimmie McBride
1121
00:59:45,967 --> 00:59:47,966
Would you be terribly displeased, Daddy,
1122
00:59:47,966 --> 00:59:51,825
if I didn't become a
great author after all,
1123
00:59:51,825 --> 00:59:53,658
but just a plain girl?
1124
00:59:55,252 --> 00:59:58,533
- Dear Daddy, Julie's
desirable uncle came to see us
1125
00:59:58,533 --> 01:00:02,478
this afternoon and brought a
three pound box of chocolates.
1126
01:00:02,478 --> 01:00:05,478
(audience laughing)
1127
01:00:08,995 --> 01:00:10,901
- Then he stayed for tea in the study,
1128
01:00:10,901 --> 01:00:13,114
though we had an awful lot of
trouble getting permission.
1129
01:00:13,114 --> 01:00:15,640
Julia had to swear before a notary public
1130
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,774
that he really was her uncle.
1131
01:00:17,774 --> 01:00:19,248
- Sallie said the Dean
would never have allowed
1132
01:00:19,248 --> 01:00:21,251
it if she'd chanced to see how youngish
1133
01:00:21,251 --> 01:00:24,001
and good-looking Uncle Jervis is.
1134
01:00:25,157 --> 01:00:28,097
- I told him I'd spent the
summer at Lock Willow Farm.
1135
01:00:28,097 --> 01:00:29,711
He was surprised I knew the place.
1136
01:00:29,711 --> 01:00:31,525
- But remembered it very well himself.
1137
01:00:31,525 --> 01:00:34,011
- We had a beautiful gossipy time about--
1138
01:00:34,011 --> 01:00:35,607
- The Semples--
- And the horses--
1139
01:00:35,607 --> 01:00:36,777
- And the chickens--
- And the cows--
1140
01:00:36,777 --> 01:00:39,444
- And the frogs--
- and the sweet little skunks.
1141
01:00:39,444 --> 01:00:41,799
- Sweet little skunks?
1142
01:00:41,799 --> 01:00:44,312
- He even remembered the
pirate chest in the attic.
1143
01:00:44,312 --> 01:00:45,940
- And the boys' adventure stories.
1144
01:00:45,940 --> 01:00:47,161
- He asked if they still kept--
1145
01:00:47,161 --> 01:00:47,994
- Doughnuts--
1146
01:00:47,994 --> 01:00:49,581
- In a yellow crock with
a blue plate over it
1147
01:00:49,581 --> 01:00:51,021
on the bottom shelf of the pantry.
1148
01:00:51,021 --> 01:00:52,814
- And they do!
1149
01:00:52,814 --> 01:00:55,610
- I called him Master Jervie to his face
1150
01:00:55,610 --> 01:00:58,007
and he didn't appear insulted.
1151
01:00:58,007 --> 01:01:00,981
Julia said she's never
seen him so amiable.
1152
01:01:00,981 --> 01:01:03,045
But Julia hasn't a bit of tact,
1153
01:01:03,045 --> 01:01:07,004
and men, I find, require a great deal.
1154
01:01:07,004 --> 01:01:09,266
They purr if you rub them the right way
1155
01:01:09,266 --> 01:01:10,402
and spit if you don't.
1156
01:01:10,402 --> 01:01:13,116
(audience laughing)
1157
01:01:13,116 --> 01:01:15,569
Oh and Daddy, here's the best part.
1158
01:01:15,569 --> 01:01:18,936
Mr. Pendleton has invited Julia and Sallie
1159
01:01:18,936 --> 01:01:21,519
and me to New York next Friday.
1160
01:01:22,359 --> 01:01:25,238
- Julia will be staying
with her family, naturally.
1161
01:01:25,238 --> 01:01:26,844
- But Sallie and I are going to stop
1162
01:01:26,844 --> 01:01:30,059
at the Martha Washington Hotel.
1163
01:01:30,059 --> 01:01:32,544
I've never been in a hotel in my life!
1164
01:01:32,544 --> 01:01:35,317
- Did you ever hear
of anything so exciting?
1165
01:01:35,317 --> 01:01:37,339
- I don't believe I'll ever go to heaven,
1166
01:01:37,339 --> 01:01:39,807
I'm just getting everything
I want down here.
1167
01:01:39,807 --> 01:01:41,840
(cheery instrumental music)
1168
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:43,702
♫ The lights are bright
in the New York night
1169
01:01:43,702 --> 01:01:45,827
♫ There's a bustle on the street
1170
01:01:45,827 --> 01:01:47,884
♫ And you feel alive
but you don't know why
1171
01:01:47,884 --> 01:01:50,218
♫ And you're dizzy from the heat
1172
01:01:50,218 --> 01:01:54,385
♫ The traffic moves in rhythm
with your own heart beat
1173
01:01:55,327 --> 01:01:57,430
♫ When you woke today you didn't know
1174
01:01:57,430 --> 01:01:59,583
♫ What the world is all about
1175
01:01:59,583 --> 01:02:01,614
♫ You could never see
the way you saw before
1176
01:02:01,614 --> 01:02:03,928
♫ And now there isn't any doubt
1177
01:02:03,928 --> 01:02:08,095
♫ The city's full of questions
that you must find out
1178
01:02:09,897 --> 01:02:13,920
♫ Let me show you my Manhattan
1179
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:18,087
♫ It's mesmerizing, a metropolitan dream
1180
01:02:20,268 --> 01:02:24,832
♫ You would thrive in my Manhattan
1181
01:02:24,832 --> 01:02:27,434
♫ A thousand lights for you to see
1182
01:02:27,434 --> 01:02:31,253
♫ All the things you'll be
1183
01:02:31,253 --> 01:02:35,420
♫ Let me show you my Manhattan, Jerusha
1184
01:02:36,722 --> 01:02:38,777
♫ And a trolley car and a two cent plane
1185
01:02:38,777 --> 01:02:40,793
♫ Then Julia buys a hat
1186
01:02:40,793 --> 01:02:42,866
♫ So were running late for a play at eight
1187
01:02:42,866 --> 01:02:45,252
♫ About a Danish autocrat
1188
01:02:45,252 --> 01:02:49,419
♫ A town that never sleeps,
can you imagine that
1189
01:02:51,191 --> 01:02:55,336
♫ Let me show you my Manhattan
1190
01:02:55,336 --> 01:02:57,755
♫ It's captivating
1191
01:02:57,755 --> 01:03:01,761
♫ The New York Times at your door
1192
01:03:01,761 --> 01:03:05,967
♫ You would flourish in Manhattan
1193
01:03:05,967 --> 01:03:08,660
♫ There's so much wonder in the air
1194
01:03:08,660 --> 01:03:12,518
♫ Nothing can compare
1195
01:03:12,518 --> 01:03:16,685
♫ Let me show you my Manhattan, Jerusha
1196
01:03:18,226 --> 01:03:21,305
- Mercy daddy, isn't New York big?
1197
01:03:21,305 --> 01:03:24,586
Do you mean to tell me you
live in all that confusion?
1198
01:03:24,586 --> 01:03:27,973
It will take me months to
recover from two days of it.
1199
01:03:27,973 --> 01:03:31,188
Oh and Daddy, isn't Shakespeare wonderful?
1200
01:03:31,188 --> 01:03:33,625
Master Jervie took us to see Hamlet.
1201
01:03:33,625 --> 01:03:36,588
- If you've never seen it on
the stage, you really must.
1202
01:03:36,588 --> 01:03:38,853
It's perfectly corking.
1203
01:03:38,853 --> 01:03:42,209
- I've been hearing about
Shakespeare all my life,
1204
01:03:42,209 --> 01:03:46,279
but I had no idea he really wrote so well.
1205
01:03:46,279 --> 01:03:50,992
- I've always suspected he
went largely on his reputation.
1206
01:03:50,992 --> 01:03:55,143
♫ You are welcome in Manhattan
1207
01:03:55,143 --> 01:03:57,473
♫ It's waiting for you
1208
01:03:57,473 --> 01:04:01,463
♫ Rendezvous in Time Square
1209
01:04:01,463 --> 01:04:04,227
♫ Take a chance on my Manhattan
1210
01:04:04,227 --> 01:04:06,096
♫ Fifth Avenue
1211
01:04:06,096 --> 01:04:07,435
♫ The Algonquin
1212
01:04:07,435 --> 01:04:12,226
♫ Is the rage, Crusoe on the stage
1213
01:04:12,226 --> 01:04:14,876
♫ Write a page about Manhattan
1214
01:04:14,876 --> 01:04:17,252
♫ The plaza, rubbing elbows with the queen
1215
01:04:17,252 --> 01:04:21,125
♫ While having drinks
with Oscar Hammerstein
1216
01:04:21,125 --> 01:04:22,354
♫ The Belasco and The Met
1217
01:04:22,354 --> 01:04:23,187
♫ Coney island
1218
01:04:23,187 --> 01:04:24,279
♫ The sights you will not soon forget
1219
01:04:24,279 --> 01:04:25,438
♫ There's J.P. Morgan
1220
01:04:25,438 --> 01:04:29,565
♫ Just hop on the Ninth Avenue Line
1221
01:04:29,565 --> 01:04:33,732
♫ This city could be yours and mine
1222
01:04:34,609 --> 01:04:35,545
♫ My Manhattan
1223
01:04:35,545 --> 01:04:36,741
♫ Your Manhattan
1224
01:04:36,741 --> 01:04:38,661
♫ Your Manhattan
1225
01:04:38,661 --> 01:04:41,328
♫ Our Manhattan
1226
01:04:44,716 --> 01:04:47,883
(audience applauding)
1227
01:04:51,585 --> 01:04:54,210
- Fergussen Hall, June the 2nd.
1228
01:04:54,210 --> 01:04:56,970
Mr. Daddy Long Legs Smith.
1229
01:04:56,970 --> 01:04:57,945
- Sir.
1230
01:04:57,945 --> 01:05:00,049
- Having perfected the science of dividing
1231
01:05:00,049 --> 01:05:01,935
a thesis under different headings,
1232
01:05:01,935 --> 01:05:05,091
I will now adopt the same
form for my letter writing.
1233
01:05:05,091 --> 01:05:06,951
All necessary facts are included
1234
01:05:06,951 --> 01:05:09,289
without unnecessary verbiage.
1235
01:05:09,289 --> 01:05:11,547
- One, we had written
examinations this week in,
1236
01:05:11,547 --> 01:05:12,569
A, Chemistry,
1237
01:05:12,569 --> 01:05:13,895
B, History.
1238
01:05:13,895 --> 01:05:16,203
- Two, we had junket for
dessert tonight, flavored with,
1239
01:05:16,203 --> 01:05:17,036
A, vanilla,
1240
01:05:17,036 --> 01:05:18,598
B, nutmeg.
1241
01:05:18,598 --> 01:05:20,197
- Three, I am writing a special essay
1242
01:05:20,197 --> 01:05:22,361
on the sources of Shakespeare's plays.
1243
01:05:22,361 --> 01:05:23,758
- Four, Louisa McMahon slipped
1244
01:05:23,758 --> 01:05:25,931
and fell this afternoon
at basketball, and she,
1245
01:05:25,931 --> 01:05:27,211
A, dislocated her shoulder,
1246
01:05:27,211 --> 01:05:28,683
B, bruised her knee.
1247
01:05:28,683 --> 01:05:30,175
(audience laughing)
1248
01:05:30,175 --> 01:05:32,032
- Five, I have a new hat trimmed with,
1249
01:05:32,032 --> 01:05:33,507
A, blue velvet ribbon,
1250
01:05:33,507 --> 01:05:35,141
B, two indigo quills,
1251
01:05:35,141 --> 01:05:37,058
C, three red pompoms.
1252
01:05:37,058 --> 01:05:38,688
- Six, it is half past nine.
1253
01:05:38,688 --> 01:05:41,921
- Seven, good night.
1254
01:05:41,921 --> 01:05:44,074
- P.S. oh and Daddy, you'll never guess
1255
01:05:44,074 --> 01:05:46,171
the nice thing that has happened.
1256
01:05:46,171 --> 01:05:49,432
- Mrs. McBride invited
me to spend the summer
1257
01:05:49,432 --> 01:05:52,560
in the Adirondacks with the whole family.
1258
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,595
Jimmie McBride is going to
have some college friends
1259
01:05:55,595 --> 01:06:00,257
visiting so we shall have
plenty of men to dance with.
1260
01:06:00,257 --> 01:06:02,847
(audience laughing)
1261
01:06:02,847 --> 01:06:04,150
Dear Miss Abbott,
1262
01:06:04,150 --> 01:06:05,475
Mr. Smith prefers that you should
1263
01:06:05,475 --> 01:06:08,846
decline Mrs. McBride's invitation.
1264
01:06:08,846 --> 01:06:11,241
- Why, why, why, Daddy?
1265
01:06:11,241 --> 01:06:14,225
Mrs. McBride wants me, really and truly.
1266
01:06:14,225 --> 01:06:15,618
I'll be a help.
1267
01:06:15,618 --> 01:06:18,080
It's a fine chance for
me to learn housekeeping.
1268
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:19,794
Every woman ought to understand it
1269
01:06:19,794 --> 01:06:22,377
and I only know asylum-keeping.
1270
01:06:24,252 --> 01:06:26,416
And she wants me as a
companion for Sallie.
1271
01:06:26,416 --> 01:06:28,982
We're planning to do such
a lot of reading together.
1272
01:06:28,982 --> 01:06:30,564
And Jimmie McBride is going to teach me
1273
01:06:30,564 --> 01:06:34,531
how to ride on horseback
and paddle a canoe and shoot
1274
01:06:34,531 --> 01:06:38,295
and fish and everything
I've always wanted to do.
1275
01:06:38,295 --> 01:06:39,952
Please let me go, Daddy.
1276
01:06:39,952 --> 01:06:42,693
I've never wanted anything so much.
1277
01:06:42,693 --> 01:06:43,834
- Miss Abbott,
1278
01:06:43,834 --> 01:06:46,361
Mrs. Smith has made his decision.
1279
01:06:46,361 --> 01:06:50,927
You will return to Lock Willow,
the same as last summer.
1280
01:06:50,927 --> 01:06:53,844
(soft piano music)
1281
01:06:54,813 --> 01:06:55,646
- Sir,
1282
01:06:57,662 --> 01:07:00,387
regarding yours of the 7th.
1283
01:07:00,387 --> 01:07:03,044
In compliance with the instructions
1284
01:07:03,044 --> 01:07:05,711
received through your secretary,
1285
01:07:07,484 --> 01:07:09,883
I leave on Friday next to spend
1286
01:07:09,883 --> 01:07:12,466
the summer at Lock Willow Farm.
1287
01:07:14,366 --> 01:07:17,346
I remain yours et cetera.
1288
01:07:17,346 --> 01:07:18,179
Jerusha.
1289
01:07:19,349 --> 01:07:20,182
Abbott.
1290
01:07:22,552 --> 01:07:23,385
Miss.
1291
01:07:33,958 --> 01:07:36,379
♫ It's been nearly two months now
1292
01:07:36,379 --> 01:07:39,796
♫ Since I wrote you last
1293
01:07:41,904 --> 01:07:44,515
♫ You can't imagine my regret
1294
01:07:44,515 --> 01:07:48,682
♫ Still, it wasn't nice not to write
1295
01:07:49,905 --> 01:07:54,012
♫ I won't see Sallie in the summer
1296
01:07:54,012 --> 01:07:58,224
♫ I know you must have had your reasons
1297
01:07:58,224 --> 01:08:02,391
♫ I know you didn't mean to hurt me, Daddy
1298
01:08:08,245 --> 01:08:12,412
♫ I don't know why you behave as you do
1299
01:08:13,326 --> 01:08:17,172
♫ Just a line on a card that denotes
1300
01:08:17,172 --> 01:08:20,981
♫ Where you have ordered me to
1301
01:08:20,981 --> 01:08:25,148
♫ You don't try to imply there's a why
1302
01:08:26,654 --> 01:08:30,404
♫ I wouldn't venture a guess
1303
01:08:32,935 --> 01:08:36,852
♫ I couldn't know someone less
1304
01:08:39,780 --> 01:08:43,863
♫ I've imagined you so many ways
1305
01:08:45,264 --> 01:08:49,446
♫ You are kind, you are tall, you are old
1306
01:08:49,446 --> 01:08:52,832
♫ But in all those pondering days
1307
01:08:52,832 --> 01:08:56,999
♫ I'd not imagined you heartless and cold
1308
01:08:58,542 --> 01:09:02,625
♫ I thought you cared, I confess
1309
01:09:04,642 --> 01:09:08,559
♫ I couldn't know someone less
1310
01:09:11,259 --> 01:09:14,223
♫ And I'm here on a farm in the country
1311
01:09:14,223 --> 01:09:17,618
♫ Sleep in a wooden bed
1312
01:09:17,618 --> 01:09:20,559
♫ Mrs. Semple is really quite simple
1313
01:09:20,559 --> 01:09:23,412
♫ Sees that the cows are fed
1314
01:09:23,412 --> 01:09:26,612
♫ Tomorrow we may paint the barn
1315
01:09:26,612 --> 01:09:29,711
♫ A different shade of red
1316
01:09:29,711 --> 01:09:33,377
♫ There's an ice cream
social at the school house
1317
01:09:33,377 --> 01:09:36,460
♫ I wish I were dead
1318
01:09:37,486 --> 01:09:41,653
♫ If I could travel to places in books
1319
01:09:42,747 --> 01:09:46,783
♫ I could see with my eyes
1320
01:09:46,783 --> 01:09:50,363
♫ How Milton's heaven looks
1321
01:09:50,363 --> 01:09:54,530
♫ But I am here watching days slip away
1322
01:09:55,735 --> 01:09:59,568
♫ Adrift in my own discontent
1323
01:10:02,170 --> 01:10:05,069
♫ Though you've shown me kindness
1324
01:10:05,069 --> 01:10:09,188
♫ And changed my life, I must confess
1325
01:10:09,188 --> 01:10:13,575
♫ Why would you set me free
1326
01:10:13,575 --> 01:10:17,148
♫ Only to imprison me
1327
01:10:17,148 --> 01:10:19,981
♫ I couldn't know
1328
01:10:22,685 --> 01:10:25,268
♫ Someone less
1329
01:10:33,910 --> 01:10:37,077
(audience applauding)
1330
01:10:43,092 --> 01:10:46,111
- Dear Jerusha, enough is enough.
1331
01:10:46,111 --> 01:10:47,313
No more duplicity.
1332
01:10:47,313 --> 01:10:48,932
No more deceit.
1333
01:10:48,932 --> 01:10:51,672
The man you think you know as Mr. Smith,
1334
01:10:51,672 --> 01:10:56,258
or Daddy Long Legs, as you
so wittily nominated him,
1335
01:10:56,258 --> 01:11:00,425
is none other than me, your
friend, your good friend,
1336
01:11:01,662 --> 01:11:03,437
your dear friend...
1337
01:11:03,437 --> 01:11:07,129
(audience laughing)
1338
01:11:07,129 --> 01:11:07,962
Jervis.
1339
01:11:09,272 --> 01:11:13,171
It is I, not Daddy Long Legs,
who read your funny essay,
1340
01:11:13,171 --> 01:11:15,399
dragged you from the
orphanage, sent you to college,
1341
01:11:15,399 --> 01:11:16,950
paid for your clothes, your food,
1342
01:11:16,950 --> 01:11:20,495
your books and everything
else you possess.
1343
01:11:20,495 --> 01:11:22,740
(soft piano music)
1344
01:11:22,740 --> 01:11:26,907
I'm afraid Daddy Long Legs is
a figment of your imagination,
1345
01:11:28,702 --> 01:11:32,035
just as Mr. Smith was a figment of mine.
1346
01:11:33,554 --> 01:11:36,614
♫ I am just a fool
1347
01:11:36,614 --> 01:11:39,765
♫ An imposter and a fake
1348
01:11:39,765 --> 01:11:43,432
♫ Like the Lady of the Lake
1349
01:11:44,457 --> 01:11:48,624
♫ I'm drowning in the waves of my deceit
1350
01:11:50,980 --> 01:11:55,147
♫ But rescued by your
face each time we meet
1351
01:11:58,870 --> 01:12:02,416
♫ If I tell you the truth at last
1352
01:12:02,416 --> 01:12:06,369
♫ Would I lose your esteemed affection
1353
01:12:06,369 --> 01:12:09,520
♫ Would you hate me and curse my name
1354
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:13,520
♫ I'd only have myself to blame
1355
01:12:20,211 --> 01:12:23,461
♫ So why upset you now
1356
01:12:25,827 --> 01:12:29,127
♫ When we can still be friends
1357
01:12:29,127 --> 01:12:33,478
♫ As the truth just slightly bends
1358
01:12:33,478 --> 01:12:37,478
♫ I'm happy in my mad hypocrisy
1359
01:12:39,387 --> 01:12:43,554
♫ Pretending I'm the man I'll never be
1360
01:12:50,007 --> 01:12:51,793
Dear Miss Abbott,
1361
01:12:51,793 --> 01:12:53,185
I've just heard from Julia
1362
01:12:53,185 --> 01:12:56,214
that you are in Lock
Willow for the summer.
1363
01:12:56,214 --> 01:12:58,162
By an extraordinary coincidence,
1364
01:12:58,162 --> 01:13:01,008
I'm about to visit an ailing elderly aunt,
1365
01:13:01,008 --> 01:13:05,235
uncle, aunt, who lives just north of there
1366
01:13:05,235 --> 01:13:08,395
and I'll be motoring back home
in just over a week's time.
1367
01:13:08,395 --> 01:13:10,981
So I hope you don't mind my dropping in
1368
01:13:10,981 --> 01:13:15,375
and seeing the Semples and
sharing the place for a few days.
1369
01:13:15,375 --> 01:13:17,554
What a pleasure it will
be to see Lock Willow
1370
01:13:17,554 --> 01:13:20,054
again after so many years.
1371
01:13:20,054 --> 01:13:22,719
And you too, of course.
1372
01:13:22,719 --> 01:13:24,914
- Well Daddy, you'll never, never,
1373
01:13:24,914 --> 01:13:27,438
never guess who's arrived at Lock Willow.
1374
01:13:27,438 --> 01:13:29,787
- Master Jervie!
1375
01:13:29,787 --> 01:13:32,603
(audience laughing)
1376
01:13:32,603 --> 01:13:34,705
- And such a nice time we're having!
1377
01:13:34,705 --> 01:13:37,660
At least I am, and I think he is, too.
1378
01:13:37,660 --> 01:13:39,181
For he's been here 10 days already
1379
01:13:39,181 --> 01:13:40,933
and doesn't show any signs of leaving.
1380
01:13:40,933 --> 01:13:43,098
(audience laughing)
1381
01:13:43,098 --> 01:13:45,398
He still looks like a true Pendleton,
1382
01:13:45,398 --> 01:13:47,298
but he isn't in the least.
1383
01:13:47,298 --> 01:13:52,251
He's just as simple and
unaffected and sweet as can be.
1384
01:13:52,251 --> 01:13:54,126
- Such a lot of adventures we're having!
1385
01:13:54,126 --> 01:13:55,385
- We've explored the country--
1386
01:13:55,385 --> 01:13:59,040
- For miles and miles--
- And I've learned to fish--
1387
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,391
- With funny little flies--
- Made of feathers and twine--
1388
01:14:02,391 --> 01:14:04,991
- And shoot with a revolver--
- And paddle a canoe--
1389
01:14:04,991 --> 01:14:06,520
- And ride on horseback.
1390
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:10,280
(audience laughing)
1391
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:13,259
- On Sunday, we scandalized
the Semples by skipping church.
1392
01:14:13,259 --> 01:14:15,033
- We climbed Sky Hill instead.
1393
01:14:15,033 --> 01:14:16,199
- That's a mountain near here.
1394
01:14:16,199 --> 01:14:17,720
- Not an awfully high mountain perhaps,
1395
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:18,910
no snow on the summit.
1396
01:14:18,910 --> 01:14:20,088
- At least you're pretty breathless
1397
01:14:20,088 --> 01:14:21,838
when you reach the top.
1398
01:14:21,838 --> 01:14:23,949
(sighs)
1399
01:14:23,949 --> 01:14:26,071
- We stayed at the top for the sunset
1400
01:14:26,071 --> 01:14:28,738
and built a fire in some
rocks and cooked our supper.
1401
01:14:28,738 --> 01:14:31,216
- We came down by moonlight.
1402
01:14:31,216 --> 01:14:32,788
It was so beautiful.
1403
01:14:32,788 --> 01:14:34,852
- We laughed and joked
and talked the whole way.
1404
01:14:34,852 --> 01:14:36,284
- He's read all the books I've ever read
1405
01:14:36,284 --> 01:14:38,016
and lots of others besides.
1406
01:14:38,016 --> 01:14:39,433
(soft piano music)
1407
01:14:39,433 --> 01:14:42,383
- Before we got home, we
got caught in a rainstorm
1408
01:14:42,383 --> 01:14:44,353
and ran like crazy children
1409
01:14:44,353 --> 01:14:47,990
and took shelter in a grove
of gigantic old pines.
1410
01:14:47,990 --> 01:14:51,222
- We sat in silence till the rain stopped
1411
01:14:51,222 --> 01:14:55,389
and the moon sailed back out
over the scudding clouds.
1412
01:14:57,335 --> 01:15:00,592
♫ I've discovered
1413
01:15:00,592 --> 01:15:04,256
♫ The secret of happiness is
1414
01:15:04,256 --> 01:15:07,423
♫ Not to run too fast
1415
01:15:09,455 --> 01:15:12,365
♫ I've discovered
1416
01:15:12,365 --> 01:15:15,907
♫ The secret of happiness is
1417
01:15:15,907 --> 01:15:19,240
♫ Not to mourn the past
1418
01:15:20,718 --> 01:15:24,885
♫ Nothing of any importance can last
1419
01:15:27,996 --> 01:15:30,231
♫ I imagined
1420
01:15:30,231 --> 01:15:32,944
♫ The secret of happiness was
1421
01:15:32,944 --> 01:15:36,277
♫ The art of compromise
1422
01:15:37,163 --> 01:15:39,622
♫ But I've discovered
1423
01:15:39,622 --> 01:15:42,525
♫ The secret of happiness is
1424
01:15:42,525 --> 01:15:45,692
♫ Looking in her eyes
1425
01:15:46,574 --> 01:15:50,791
♫ Happiness comes as a total surprise
1426
01:15:50,791 --> 01:15:52,256
♫ And
1427
01:15:52,256 --> 01:15:57,006
♫ The secret, the secret of happiness is
1428
01:15:57,006 --> 01:16:00,006
♫ Living in the now
1429
01:16:01,750 --> 01:16:06,520
♫ Living in the time it takes to blink
1430
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:09,270
♫ I think is how
1431
01:16:10,512 --> 01:16:13,376
♫ We're meant to be living
1432
01:16:13,376 --> 01:16:15,572
♫ I've discovered
1433
01:16:15,572 --> 01:16:18,048
♫ The secret of happiness is
1434
01:16:18,048 --> 01:16:21,631
♫ All the stars that shine
1435
01:16:22,949 --> 01:16:25,183
♫ But I've discovered
1436
01:16:25,183 --> 01:16:27,600
♫ The secret of happiness is
1437
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:31,738
♫ Something more divine
1438
01:16:31,738 --> 01:16:36,278
♫ That her happiness is
more precious than mine
1439
01:16:36,278 --> 01:16:40,445
♫ And the secret, the
secret of happiness is
1440
01:16:42,248 --> 01:16:46,415
♫ The secret of happiness is clear
1441
01:16:47,384 --> 01:16:51,634
♫ The secret of happiness is near
1442
01:16:51,634 --> 01:16:55,134
♫ The secret of happiness
1443
01:16:59,050 --> 01:17:01,217
♫ Is here
1444
01:17:12,053 --> 01:17:15,220
(audience applauding)
1445
01:17:17,412 --> 01:17:19,565
- Dear, dear Daddy,
I'm so happy to be back
1446
01:17:19,565 --> 01:17:21,568
at college and working again.
1447
01:17:21,568 --> 01:17:24,122
Though I got a lot
accomplished at Lock Willow.
1448
01:17:24,122 --> 01:17:26,993
Six short stories and seven poems.
1449
01:17:26,993 --> 01:17:30,160
Those I sent to magazines all came back
1450
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,320
with the most courteous promptitude.
1451
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:35,743
But I don't mind, it's good practice.
1452
01:17:35,743 --> 01:17:38,797
And now Daddy, news from
the groves of Academe!
1453
01:17:38,797 --> 01:17:40,976
I've elected economics this year.
1454
01:17:40,976 --> 01:17:42,593
- A very illuminating subject.
1455
01:17:42,593 --> 01:17:43,979
- And when I finish that--
1456
01:17:43,979 --> 01:17:46,886
- I'm going to take Charity and Reform.
1457
01:17:46,886 --> 01:17:51,131
- Then, Mr. Trustee, I'll know
just how to run an orphanage.
1458
01:17:51,131 --> 01:17:54,026
- And just you wait to see
the asylum I'm going to run.
1459
01:17:54,026 --> 01:17:56,829
- It's my favorite play at
night before I go to sleep.
1460
01:17:56,829 --> 01:17:59,727
- I plan my orphan's lives
down to the slightest detail,
1461
01:17:59,727 --> 01:18:01,545
their meals and clothes and lessons--
1462
01:18:01,545 --> 01:18:02,431
- And punishments,
1463
01:18:02,431 --> 01:18:05,406
for even my superior
orphans are sometimes bad.
1464
01:18:05,406 --> 01:18:08,663
- But anyway, I'm
going to make them happy.
1465
01:18:08,663 --> 01:18:09,729
And here's another thing--
1466
01:18:09,729 --> 01:18:12,623
- Don't you think I'd
make an admirable voter,
1467
01:18:12,623 --> 01:18:14,822
if women had their rights?
1468
01:18:14,822 --> 01:18:16,774
I was 21 last week.
1469
01:18:16,774 --> 01:18:18,454
This is an awfully wasteful country
1470
01:18:18,454 --> 01:18:20,819
to throw away such an honest--
1471
01:18:20,819 --> 01:18:22,249
- Educated--
- Conscientious--
1472
01:18:22,249 --> 01:18:24,317
- Intelligent--
- Citizen--
1473
01:18:24,317 --> 01:18:25,818
- As I would be.
1474
01:18:25,818 --> 01:18:27,230
- Oh and that reminds me!
1475
01:18:27,230 --> 01:18:29,569
At church yesterday, a
preacher from Georgia
1476
01:18:29,569 --> 01:18:32,061
said we girls must take
care not to develop
1477
01:18:32,061 --> 01:18:35,478
our intellects at the expense
of our womanly natures.
1478
01:18:35,478 --> 01:18:36,694
- It's always the same!
1479
01:18:36,694 --> 01:18:38,936
Why on earth don't they
go to men's colleges
1480
01:18:38,936 --> 01:18:41,499
and urge the students there
not to allow their manly
1481
01:18:41,499 --> 01:18:45,802
natures to be crushed by
too much mental activity?
1482
01:18:45,802 --> 01:18:48,051
- P.S. Julia has invited me to spend
1483
01:18:48,051 --> 01:18:50,513
Christmas in New York with her family.
1484
01:18:50,513 --> 01:18:52,790
Fancy Jerusha Abbott
of the John Grier Home
1485
01:18:52,790 --> 01:18:55,330
sitting at the tables of the rich.
1486
01:18:55,330 --> 01:18:58,794
I'd rather go to Sallie's
but Julia asked me first.
1487
01:18:58,794 --> 01:19:00,794
(soft piano music)
- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
1488
01:19:00,794 --> 01:19:03,707
Christmas with the Pendletons
was such an illuminating time,
1489
01:19:03,707 --> 01:19:06,843
but I'm glad I don't
belong to such a family.
1490
01:19:06,843 --> 01:19:10,028
The material atmosphere of
that house was crushing.
1491
01:19:10,028 --> 01:19:12,120
I never heard one word of real talk
1492
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:15,400
from the time we arrived until we left.
1493
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:19,031
I don't believe an idea
ever entered the front door.
1494
01:19:19,031 --> 01:19:22,117
(cheery piano music)
1495
01:19:22,117 --> 01:19:24,027
♫ Perfectly awful days
1496
01:19:24,027 --> 01:19:25,603
♫ Christmas in Manhattan
1497
01:19:25,603 --> 01:19:27,076
♫ Such pretension
1498
01:19:27,076 --> 01:19:29,016
♫ And pointless conversation
1499
01:19:29,016 --> 01:19:30,608
♫ Perfectly awful days
1500
01:19:30,608 --> 01:19:32,268
♫ The air of self-importance
1501
01:19:32,268 --> 01:19:36,231
♫ I was drowning in social obligation
1502
01:19:36,231 --> 01:19:39,716
♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
1503
01:19:39,716 --> 01:19:43,842
♫ Had to bear the brunt of it all
1504
01:19:43,842 --> 01:19:47,709
♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
1505
01:19:47,709 --> 01:19:51,876
♫ The only orphan on the Upper East Side
1506
01:19:54,006 --> 01:19:55,913
If I ever marry and have a family,
1507
01:19:55,913 --> 01:19:57,171
I'm going to make them as exactly
1508
01:19:57,171 --> 01:19:59,946
like Sallie and Jimmie as I can.
1509
01:19:59,946 --> 01:20:01,937
Not for all the money in
the world would I ever
1510
01:20:01,937 --> 01:20:06,846
let any children of mine
develop into Pendletons.
1511
01:20:06,846 --> 01:20:09,989
I saw Master Jervie only
once when he came for tea
1512
01:20:09,989 --> 01:20:13,390
but I didn't have a chance
to speak to him alone.
1513
01:20:13,390 --> 01:20:16,402
He was so uneasy, not himself at all.
1514
01:20:16,402 --> 01:20:19,291
- His relations seem to freeze his blood.
1515
01:20:19,291 --> 01:20:21,062
- Julia's mother says he's unbalanced
1516
01:20:21,062 --> 01:20:23,198
and it all comes from
him being a bachelor.
1517
01:20:23,198 --> 01:20:25,832
She introduced him to
dozens of eligible heiresses
1518
01:20:25,832 --> 01:20:28,889
but he turned up his nose at all of them.
1519
01:20:28,889 --> 01:20:31,104
- Julia's aunt says he
was sweet on one of them
1520
01:20:31,104 --> 01:20:33,220
for a while but she threw him over
1521
01:20:33,220 --> 01:20:36,172
for an English Duke
and he never recovered.
1522
01:20:36,172 --> 01:20:38,254
(audience laughing)
1523
01:20:38,254 --> 01:20:42,217
- Julia's grandmother
suspects he's a socialist.
1524
01:20:42,217 --> 01:20:45,539
She can't even imagine where
he picked up his queer ideas.
1525
01:20:45,539 --> 01:20:47,493
He sometimes forgets to shave-
1526
01:20:47,493 --> 01:20:49,695
- And he throws away all of his money
1527
01:20:49,695 --> 01:20:51,293
on every sort of crazy,
1528
01:20:51,293 --> 01:20:53,760
Liberal reform instead of
spending it on sensible
1529
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:57,927
things like yachts and
automobiles and polo ponies.
1530
01:20:58,972 --> 01:21:02,748
- You know, Daddy, I think
I'll be a socialist too.
1531
01:21:02,748 --> 01:21:04,535
You wouldn't mind, would you?
1532
01:21:04,535 --> 01:21:07,013
I probably am one by rights.
1533
01:21:07,013 --> 01:21:10,155
I'm sure I belong to the Proletariat.
1534
01:21:10,155 --> 01:21:13,229
♫ Now Daddy I must sleep
1535
01:21:13,229 --> 01:21:16,387
♫ But we shall wait and see
1536
01:21:16,387 --> 01:21:20,554
♫ Just what type of socialist I'm to be
1537
01:21:23,644 --> 01:21:25,176
- Dear Comrade,
1538
01:21:25,176 --> 01:21:28,229
(audience laughing)
1539
01:21:28,229 --> 01:21:29,979
Hooray, I'm a Fabian!
1540
01:21:31,220 --> 01:21:34,231
- That's a socialist
who's willing to wait.
1541
01:21:34,231 --> 01:21:35,897
- We don't want the social revolution
1542
01:21:35,897 --> 01:21:37,115
to come tomorrow morning.
1543
01:21:37,115 --> 01:21:38,635
It would be too upsetting.
1544
01:21:38,635 --> 01:21:40,560
- We want it to come very gradually
1545
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,346
in the distant future when we shall all
1546
01:21:42,346 --> 01:21:45,824
be prepared and able to sustain the shock.
1547
01:21:45,824 --> 01:21:47,795
- In the meantime, we
must be getting ready,
1548
01:21:47,795 --> 01:21:51,112
by instigating industrial,
educational and-
1549
01:21:51,112 --> 01:21:53,918
- Orphan asylum reforms.
1550
01:21:53,918 --> 01:21:56,285
- Yours, with fraternal love,
1551
01:21:56,285 --> 01:21:57,118
Jerusha.
1552
01:21:58,799 --> 01:22:00,869
- Dear Daddy, such a busy time.
1553
01:22:00,869 --> 01:22:03,350
Vacation in 10 days,
examinations tomorrow.
1554
01:22:03,350 --> 01:22:05,301
Lots of studying, lots of packing,
1555
01:22:05,301 --> 01:22:07,054
though the outdoors is so lovely
1556
01:22:07,054 --> 01:22:08,684
that it hurts you to stay inside.
1557
01:22:08,684 --> 01:22:11,877
- Julia is going abroad
this summer, to Paris,
1558
01:22:11,877 --> 01:22:13,843
and wants me to go with her.
1559
01:22:13,843 --> 01:22:15,363
And Sallie and Jimmie want me to go
1560
01:22:15,363 --> 01:22:17,745
with them to the Adirondacks.
1561
01:22:17,745 --> 01:22:19,574
So what do you think I'm going to do?
1562
01:22:19,574 --> 01:22:20,736
You may have three guesses.
1563
01:22:20,736 --> 01:22:21,667
- Paris?
- Wrong.
1564
01:22:21,667 --> 01:22:23,583
- The Adirondacks?
- Wrong.
1565
01:22:23,583 --> 01:22:25,112
I'll tell you, Daddy, is you promise not
1566
01:22:25,112 --> 01:22:27,260
to make a lot of objections.
1567
01:22:27,260 --> 01:22:28,822
And I warn your secretary ahead
1568
01:22:28,822 --> 01:22:31,651
of time that my mind is made up.
1569
01:22:31,651 --> 01:22:33,704
- I'm taking a job.
1570
01:22:33,704 --> 01:22:36,172
- Living with Sallie and Julia has been
1571
01:22:36,172 --> 01:22:40,346
an awful strain on my stoical philosophy.
1572
01:22:40,346 --> 01:22:44,002
They've both had things since
the time they were babies.
1573
01:22:44,002 --> 01:22:47,964
The world, they think, owes
them everything they want.
1574
01:22:47,964 --> 01:22:50,034
And maybe it does, for it seems to pay up
1575
01:22:50,034 --> 01:22:51,913
whenever they need it.
1576
01:22:51,913 --> 01:22:53,694
But as for me, it owes me nothing
1577
01:22:53,694 --> 01:22:56,777
and it's time to start
paying back my debt.
1578
01:22:56,777 --> 01:22:59,350
So I shall teach French
and Algebra this summer,
1579
01:22:59,350 --> 01:23:01,771
and begin to support myself.
1580
01:23:01,771 --> 01:23:02,821
- My Dear Jerusha,
1581
01:23:02,821 --> 01:23:04,102
I've just heard from Julia that
1582
01:23:04,102 --> 01:23:06,713
you decline her invitation to Paris.
1583
01:23:06,713 --> 01:23:08,068
Are you insane?
1584
01:23:08,068 --> 01:23:10,584
Foreign travel is a crucial
part of your education,
1585
01:23:10,584 --> 01:23:14,779
and Paris the most
dazzling city in the world.
1586
01:23:14,779 --> 01:23:17,593
Quite apart from anything
else I shall be there myself
1587
01:23:17,593 --> 01:23:19,684
and I'm sure we could slip away
1588
01:23:19,684 --> 01:23:21,516
from our Pendleton chaperones
1589
01:23:21,516 --> 01:23:25,152
and have the odd dinner together
at some cozy little bistro.
1590
01:23:25,152 --> 01:23:27,330
Write to me by return telling
me you've changed your mind.
1591
01:23:27,330 --> 01:23:28,338
Jervis Pendleton.
1592
01:23:28,338 --> 01:23:29,647
- Dear Mr. Pendleton,
1593
01:23:29,647 --> 01:23:33,382
a change of mind is out of the question.
1594
01:23:33,382 --> 01:23:35,715
I have secured a holiday situation
1595
01:23:35,715 --> 01:23:37,635
with a Mrs. Charles Paterson
1596
01:23:37,635 --> 01:23:39,810
and her sweet little daughter, Florence.
1597
01:23:39,810 --> 01:23:41,020
Yours, Jerusha.
1598
01:23:41,020 --> 01:23:42,654
- Jerusha, you are quite the most silly,
1599
01:23:42,654 --> 01:23:45,450
foolish, irrational, quixotic, idiotic,
1600
01:23:45,450 --> 01:23:48,374
stubborn child I've ever met.
1601
01:23:48,374 --> 01:23:49,608
You really must learn to take
1602
01:23:49,608 --> 01:23:51,753
the advice of those who are older
1603
01:23:51,753 --> 01:23:53,845
and wiser than you are.
1604
01:23:53,845 --> 01:23:56,239
Please reconsider your ludicrous plan.
1605
01:23:56,239 --> 01:23:57,072
Jervis.
1606
01:23:58,091 --> 01:23:59,704
Dear Miss Abbott,
1607
01:23:59,704 --> 01:24:01,408
Mr. Smith strongly objects
1608
01:24:01,408 --> 01:24:03,094
to your wasting your precious time
1609
01:24:03,094 --> 01:24:06,142
and talent on a pointless
display of independence.
1610
01:24:06,142 --> 01:24:07,834
(audience laughing)
1611
01:24:07,834 --> 01:24:09,288
He would far prefer you to take up
1612
01:24:09,288 --> 01:24:10,973
the Pendleton's very kind offer
1613
01:24:10,973 --> 01:24:14,824
of a trip to Paris where your writing
1614
01:24:14,824 --> 01:24:16,933
career would be nourished by contact
1615
01:24:16,933 --> 01:24:19,088
with the most refined company imaginable.
1616
01:24:19,088 --> 01:24:20,325
Yours, et cetera.
1617
01:24:20,325 --> 01:24:22,384
- Dear Daddy, too late I'm afraid.
1618
01:24:22,384 --> 01:24:24,387
I'm here at the seaside
stuffing first declension
1619
01:24:24,387 --> 01:24:27,857
nouns into little Florence Paterson.
1620
01:24:27,857 --> 01:24:32,184
She is rather dim I'm afraid,
and uncommonly spoiled.
1621
01:24:32,184 --> 01:24:33,486
She's never had to concentrate
1622
01:24:33,486 --> 01:24:36,539
on anything more difficult
than ice cream soda.
1623
01:24:36,539 --> 01:24:40,082
But I'm writing my novel
for three solid hours
1624
01:24:40,082 --> 01:24:41,761
before breakfast every morning,
1625
01:24:41,761 --> 01:24:46,090
so please have no worries
about my literary career.
1626
01:24:46,090 --> 01:24:48,555
Of course I wanted to go to Paris
1627
01:24:48,555 --> 01:24:50,736
with Julia and Master Jervie,
1628
01:24:50,736 --> 01:24:52,928
and if he hadn't been so dictatorial
1629
01:24:52,928 --> 01:24:55,601
I might have changed my mind,
1630
01:24:55,601 --> 01:24:58,462
but to be called a silly, foolish,
1631
01:24:58,462 --> 01:25:01,824
irrational, quixotic,
idiotic, stubborn child,
1632
01:25:01,824 --> 01:25:04,464
that was what made up my mind.
1633
01:25:04,464 --> 01:25:06,870
Please don't be cross with me, Daddy.
1634
01:25:06,870 --> 01:25:09,338
It's bad enough I've
quarreled with Jervie.
1635
01:25:09,338 --> 01:25:11,682
Have a lovely summer, wherever you are.
1636
01:25:11,682 --> 01:25:12,901
Loving you always,
1637
01:25:12,901 --> 01:25:13,734
Jerusha.
- Jerusha,
1638
01:25:13,734 --> 01:25:14,567
(speaking foreign language)
1639
01:25:14,567 --> 01:25:15,896
Just got back from Paris.
1640
01:25:15,896 --> 01:25:18,737
What a fascinating city and how sad
1641
01:25:18,737 --> 01:25:21,385
the lives of those who never see it.
1642
01:25:21,385 --> 01:25:22,422
Now what do you think?
1643
01:25:22,422 --> 01:25:24,842
I'm looking at my diary
and I see the first week
1644
01:25:24,842 --> 01:25:27,209
of September is remarkably
empty so I could
1645
01:25:27,209 --> 01:25:29,699
just squeeze in a visit to Lock Willow.
1646
01:25:29,699 --> 01:25:31,520
I assume you'd be free to join me.
1647
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:32,577
No answer necessary.
1648
01:25:32,577 --> 01:25:33,484
I'll see you there.
1649
01:25:33,484 --> 01:25:34,317
Jervis.
1650
01:25:34,317 --> 01:25:35,150
- Dear Daddy,
1651
01:25:35,150 --> 01:25:37,898
A horribly complacent little
note from Master Jervie,
1652
01:25:37,898 --> 01:25:40,672
expecting to see me in
Lock Willow in September
1653
01:25:40,672 --> 01:25:42,772
and a lovely long letter from Sallie
1654
01:25:42,772 --> 01:25:46,230
inviting me to Camp
McBride for the same time.
1655
01:25:46,230 --> 01:25:47,746
Must I ask your permission to go?
1656
01:25:47,746 --> 01:25:49,420
Or may I now do as I please?
1657
01:25:49,420 --> 01:25:50,825
Yes, I'm sure I can.
1658
01:25:50,825 --> 01:25:53,472
I'm nearly a senior now, you know.
1659
01:25:53,472 --> 01:25:57,270
Anyway, I want to see Sallie
and I want to see Jimmie,
1660
01:25:57,270 --> 01:25:59,560
and I want Master Jervie
to arrive at Lock Willow
1661
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:01,393
and find me not there.
1662
01:26:02,433 --> 01:26:05,088
I must show him that
he can't dictate to me.
1663
01:26:05,088 --> 01:26:07,182
No one can dictate to me but you, Daddy,
1664
01:26:07,182 --> 01:26:08,519
and you can't always.
1665
01:26:08,519 --> 01:26:10,456
I'm off to the woods!
- Miss Abbott!
1666
01:26:10,456 --> 01:26:13,099
Mr. Smith positively
forbids you to fritter
1667
01:26:13,099 --> 01:26:15,189
away any more of your time in a purely
1668
01:26:15,189 --> 01:26:18,326
social excursion to the Adirondacks.
1669
01:26:18,326 --> 01:26:20,554
- Sorry, Daddy, but your
letter didn't come in time.
1670
01:26:20,554 --> 01:26:22,249
(audience laughing)
1671
01:26:22,249 --> 01:26:24,312
If you wish your
instructions to be obeyed,
1672
01:26:24,312 --> 01:26:27,592
you must have your secretary
write more promptly.
1673
01:26:27,592 --> 01:26:30,357
The woods are fine, and so is the camp,
1674
01:26:30,357 --> 01:26:32,894
and so is the weather,
and so are the McBrides,
1675
01:26:32,894 --> 01:26:34,753
and so is the whole world.
1676
01:26:34,753 --> 01:26:36,414
I'm very, very happy.
1677
01:26:36,414 --> 01:26:37,264
- Jerusha,
1678
01:26:37,264 --> 01:26:40,327
I'm afraid I can't join you
in Lock Willow after all.
1679
01:26:40,327 --> 01:26:42,725
I've been invited by
some very close friends
1680
01:26:42,725 --> 01:26:45,434
to go yachting at Rhode Island.
1681
01:26:45,434 --> 01:26:47,196
Have a lovely summer and enjoy the farm.
1682
01:26:47,196 --> 01:26:48,029
Jervis.
1683
01:26:48,029 --> 01:26:48,862
- Dear Daddy,
1684
01:26:48,862 --> 01:26:49,998
Why do you think of this?
1685
01:26:49,998 --> 01:26:54,550
A note Master Jervie sent to
Lock Willow but forwarded here.
1686
01:26:54,550 --> 01:26:56,971
He's sorry but he finds
he can't join me there.
1687
01:26:56,971 --> 01:26:59,907
He's going yachting with
some friends instead.
1688
01:26:59,907 --> 01:27:02,780
But all this time he knew
I was with the McBrides,
1689
01:27:02,780 --> 01:27:06,542
for Sallie told Julia and Julia told him.
1690
01:27:06,542 --> 01:27:09,938
You men ought to leave
intrigue to us women.
1691
01:27:09,938 --> 01:27:12,242
You haven't a light enough touch.
1692
01:27:12,242 --> 01:27:15,132
(audience laughing)
1693
01:27:15,132 --> 01:27:18,237
Oh, there's Jimmie calling
for me to go canoeing.
1694
01:27:18,237 --> 01:27:19,459
Goodbye!
1695
01:27:19,459 --> 01:27:22,337
(audience laughing)
1696
01:27:22,337 --> 01:27:24,519
(soft music)
1697
01:27:24,519 --> 01:27:27,769
♫ Completely deflating
1698
01:27:28,780 --> 01:27:31,442
♫ I've been hung out to dry
1699
01:27:31,442 --> 01:27:32,647
♫ I wanted my cake
1700
01:27:32,647 --> 01:27:33,802
♫ But instead she will make
1701
01:27:33,802 --> 01:27:36,779
♫ Me eat helpings of more humble pie
1702
01:27:36,779 --> 01:27:38,414
♫ And whether it's Jervis who writes
1703
01:27:38,414 --> 01:27:39,865
♫ Or Daddy's decree
1704
01:27:39,865 --> 01:27:44,066
♫ She falls rather short of obeying me
1705
01:27:44,066 --> 01:27:46,349
♫ And now there's Jimmie McBride
1706
01:27:46,349 --> 01:27:49,349
♫ There by her side
1707
01:27:52,567 --> 01:27:56,458
♫ I'm ashamed of the man I've become
1708
01:27:56,458 --> 01:28:00,588
♫ Angry words on a page that betray
1709
01:28:00,588 --> 01:28:04,005
♫ All the lies I've spun
1710
01:28:05,226 --> 01:28:10,003
♫ I must leave you to find your own way
1711
01:28:10,003 --> 01:28:12,986
♫ To fail or succeed
1712
01:28:12,986 --> 01:28:15,183
♫ Nonetheless
1713
01:28:15,183 --> 01:28:18,946
♫ I've lost my heart, I confess
1714
01:28:18,946 --> 01:28:22,946
♫ And it seems I've turned into
1715
01:28:24,465 --> 01:28:28,465
♫ Someone I could not know less
1716
01:28:31,453 --> 01:28:33,325
- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
1717
01:28:33,325 --> 01:28:36,409
Back at college and a senior!
1718
01:28:36,409 --> 01:28:39,339
Also editor of the Monthly.
1719
01:28:39,339 --> 01:28:41,276
I love my student life
1720
01:28:41,276 --> 01:28:44,597
but this year's different
because it's the last.
1721
01:28:44,597 --> 01:28:46,662
The swift hand of time is dragging
1722
01:28:46,662 --> 01:28:49,624
me forward at a terrible speed.
1723
01:28:49,624 --> 01:28:51,603
No news from Master Jervie.
1724
01:28:51,603 --> 01:28:54,977
I fear he won't forgive me
for ignoring him this summer.
1725
01:28:54,977 --> 01:28:56,618
But I can't think of him now.
1726
01:28:56,618 --> 01:28:58,860
I must work and write and devote myself
1727
01:28:58,860 --> 01:29:02,659
to you and all that you've done for me.
1728
01:29:02,659 --> 01:29:04,094
Oh, Daddy!
1729
01:29:04,094 --> 01:29:06,401
A blight has fallen over my career!
1730
01:29:06,401 --> 01:29:09,427
I've been writing my novel
all through the summer
1731
01:29:09,427 --> 01:29:13,417
and two weeks ago I
sent it to a publisher.
1732
01:29:13,417 --> 01:29:15,412
♫ A perfectly awful day
1733
01:29:15,412 --> 01:29:17,536
♫ My book has been rejected
1734
01:29:17,536 --> 01:29:18,824
♫ It's insipid
1735
01:29:18,824 --> 01:29:21,378
♫ And lacks imagination
1736
01:29:21,378 --> 01:29:23,182
♫ The plot is overwrought
1737
01:29:23,182 --> 01:29:25,259
♫ The characters are shallow
1738
01:29:25,259 --> 01:29:26,889
♫ And the humor
1739
01:29:26,889 --> 01:29:29,942
♫ Is hopelessly sophomoric
1740
01:29:29,942 --> 01:29:33,297
♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
1741
01:29:33,297 --> 01:29:37,636
♫ Wounded to the core of her soul
1742
01:29:37,636 --> 01:29:40,803
♫ Poor Jerusha Abbott
1743
01:29:41,777 --> 01:29:43,379
♫ Might as well be affiliated
1744
01:29:43,379 --> 01:29:46,962
♫ With the John Grier Home
1745
01:29:48,222 --> 01:29:52,636
I took my manuscript walking
with me yesterday afternoon
1746
01:29:52,636 --> 01:29:54,896
and when I came to the boiler house,
1747
01:29:54,896 --> 01:29:56,338
I went in and asked the janitor
1748
01:29:56,338 --> 01:29:58,838
if I might borrow his furnace.
1749
01:30:00,478 --> 01:30:02,826
He politely opened the door
1750
01:30:02,826 --> 01:30:05,993
and with my own hands I chucked it in.
1751
01:30:08,956 --> 01:30:12,638
I felt as though I had
cremated my only child.
1752
01:30:12,638 --> 01:30:16,274
- I'm so glad Master Jervie
couldn't see my disappointment.
1753
01:30:16,274 --> 01:30:20,515
For this is one blow I can
only share with you, Daddy.
1754
01:30:20,515 --> 01:30:23,028
- I went to bed last
night utterly rejected.
1755
01:30:23,028 --> 01:30:24,767
I thought I would never
amount to anything,
1756
01:30:24,767 --> 01:30:28,746
and that you had thrown
away your money for nothing.
1757
01:30:28,746 --> 01:30:30,939
But what do you think?
1758
01:30:30,939 --> 01:30:32,016
- I woke up this morning with
1759
01:30:32,016 --> 01:30:34,657
a beautiful new plot in my head
1760
01:30:34,657 --> 01:30:37,194
and I've been going about all
day planning my characters,
1761
01:30:37,194 --> 01:30:39,473
just as happy as I could be.
1762
01:30:39,473 --> 01:30:41,574
- Master Jervie would be proud of me.
1763
01:30:41,574 --> 01:30:45,655
- Never give up, he always used to say.
1764
01:30:45,655 --> 01:30:48,988
Though he seems to have given me up now.
1765
01:30:50,347 --> 01:30:51,432
- Daddy dear,
1766
01:30:51,432 --> 01:30:53,011
please observe the postmark.
1767
01:30:53,011 --> 01:30:55,645
Sallie and I are at
Lock Willow for Easter,
1768
01:30:55,645 --> 01:30:58,931
tramping over the hills
and reading and writing.
1769
01:30:58,931 --> 01:31:01,633
We climbed to the top
of Sky Hill this morning
1770
01:31:01,633 --> 01:31:04,926
where Master Jervie and I
once cooked our support.
1771
01:31:04,926 --> 01:31:08,480
It doesn't seem possible it
was nearly two years ago.
1772
01:31:08,480 --> 01:31:10,126
- I could still see the
place where the smoke
1773
01:31:10,126 --> 01:31:12,628
of our fire blackened the rocks.
1774
01:31:12,628 --> 01:31:17,362
It made me quite lonely
to be there without him.
1775
01:31:17,362 --> 01:31:20,112
- Lonely and a little frightened.
1776
01:31:21,370 --> 01:31:22,703
How is that man?
1777
01:31:24,405 --> 01:31:25,822
I mustn't wonder.
1778
01:31:27,311 --> 01:31:29,878
I'm progressing with my book.
1779
01:31:29,878 --> 01:31:32,791
I'm eating it up in chunks.
1780
01:31:32,791 --> 01:31:34,762
I've caught the secret.
1781
01:31:34,762 --> 01:31:37,033
Master Jervie is right about most things
1782
01:31:37,033 --> 01:31:40,444
and he was certainly right about this.
1783
01:31:40,444 --> 01:31:42,585
You are most convincing when you write
1784
01:31:42,585 --> 01:31:45,551
about the things you know.
1785
01:31:45,551 --> 01:31:50,161
And this time it is something
I know, exhaustively.
1786
01:31:50,161 --> 01:31:52,184
Guess where it's set?
1787
01:31:52,184 --> 01:31:54,092
- In the John Grier Home.
1788
01:31:54,092 --> 01:31:55,582
- And it's a good, Daddy.
1789
01:31:55,582 --> 01:31:56,547
It's just about the tiny little
1790
01:31:56,547 --> 01:31:58,915
things that happened everyday
1791
01:31:58,915 --> 01:32:01,022
and it's going to get itself
finished and published.
1792
01:32:01,022 --> 01:32:03,243
You see if it doesn't.
1793
01:32:03,243 --> 01:32:05,218
If you just want a thing hard enough
1794
01:32:05,218 --> 01:32:07,679
and keep on persevering--
1795
01:32:07,679 --> 01:32:10,745
- You get it in the end.
1796
01:32:10,745 --> 01:32:14,768
- I've been trying for four
years to get a letter out of you
1797
01:32:14,768 --> 01:32:17,435
and I haven't given up hope yet.
1798
01:32:18,352 --> 01:32:21,600
Graduation is three weeks
from next Wednesday.
1799
01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:24,591
You will come and make my
acquaintance, won't you?
1800
01:32:24,591 --> 01:32:26,194
I shall hate you if you don't.
1801
01:32:26,194 --> 01:32:27,215
(audience laughs)
1802
01:32:27,215 --> 01:32:29,709
- Sallie's inviting Jimmie McB,
1803
01:32:29,709 --> 01:32:31,631
and Julia's inviting Master Jervie.
1804
01:32:31,631 --> 01:32:33,563
- I'll finally see him again,
1805
01:32:33,563 --> 01:32:36,203
but he won't be there for me.
1806
01:32:36,203 --> 01:32:40,122
He cares nothing for me any
more, I'm sure of that now.
1807
01:32:40,122 --> 01:32:42,203
So who is there for me to invite?
1808
01:32:42,203 --> 01:32:46,120
Just you and Mrs. Lippett
and I don't want her.
1809
01:32:48,108 --> 01:32:50,289
You have to come, Daddy.
1810
01:32:50,289 --> 01:32:52,253
To be proud of me.
1811
01:32:52,253 --> 01:32:53,584
Just this one.
1812
01:32:53,584 --> 01:32:57,137
(bright piano music)
1813
01:32:57,137 --> 01:33:01,392
♫ Why does it feel like I'm flying
1814
01:33:01,392 --> 01:33:05,393
♫ Somebody wake me at last
1815
01:33:05,393 --> 01:33:07,977
♫ For I'm right on the edge
1816
01:33:07,977 --> 01:33:12,205
♫ Of the wide, wide world
1817
01:33:12,205 --> 01:33:16,327
♫ As I look at so many faces
1818
01:33:16,327 --> 01:33:20,595
♫ In a place I never dreamed I would be
1819
01:33:20,595 --> 01:33:23,044
♫ There is one empty chair
1820
01:33:23,044 --> 01:33:27,211
♫ That I simply can't bear to see
1821
01:33:29,501 --> 01:33:32,947
♫ And I'm fighting back the tears
1822
01:33:32,947 --> 01:33:35,447
♫ Yes, I'm fighting back the tears
1823
01:33:35,447 --> 01:33:38,447
♫ On graduation day
1824
01:33:45,591 --> 01:33:50,132
♫ Still this is rather amazing
1825
01:33:50,132 --> 01:33:54,153
♫ Summa Cum Laude and all
1826
01:33:54,153 --> 01:33:56,658
♫ But it won't mean a thing
1827
01:33:56,658 --> 01:34:00,575
♫ If everyone's legs are small
1828
01:34:02,969 --> 01:34:06,225
♫ And I'm fighting back the tears
1829
01:34:06,225 --> 01:34:08,680
♫ Yes, I'm fighting back the tears
1830
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:11,680
♫ On graduation day
1831
01:34:15,609 --> 01:34:19,050
♫ I'm here, Jerusha
1832
01:34:19,050 --> 01:34:22,238
♫ I'm standing in front of you now
1833
01:34:22,238 --> 01:34:25,610
♫ I'm here, Jerusha
1834
01:34:25,610 --> 01:34:28,846
♫ I just look like a person you know
1835
01:34:28,846 --> 01:34:31,787
♫ I'm here, Jerusha
1836
01:34:31,787 --> 01:34:35,010
♫ I'm here, Jerusha
1837
01:34:35,010 --> 01:34:39,060
♫ And I'm fighting back the tears
1838
01:34:39,060 --> 01:34:41,159
♫ Yes, I'm fighting back the tears
1839
01:34:41,159 --> 01:34:44,159
♫ On graduation day
1840
01:34:46,442 --> 01:34:50,366
♫ Well this is your loss, Mr. Clothes Pole
1841
01:34:50,366 --> 01:34:51,249
♫ Well here I am
1842
01:34:51,249 --> 01:34:52,525
♫ Mr. Girl Hater
1843
01:34:52,525 --> 01:34:54,342
♫ Dear Mr. Smith
1844
01:34:54,342 --> 01:34:55,625
♫ Right before your eyes
1845
01:34:55,625 --> 01:34:57,729
♫ Or whatever you're called
1846
01:34:57,729 --> 01:34:59,471
♫ You did not show
1847
01:34:59,471 --> 01:35:00,377
♫ I'm right here
1848
01:35:00,377 --> 01:35:04,665
♫ You are not here and now I'm
1849
01:35:04,665 --> 01:35:06,208
♫ Fighting back the tears
1850
01:35:06,208 --> 01:35:07,263
♫ Fighting back the tears
1851
01:35:07,263 --> 01:35:08,801
♫ Breaking through my fears
1852
01:35:08,801 --> 01:35:11,863
♫ For I will stand out from the crowd
1853
01:35:11,863 --> 01:35:14,545
♫ And you have made somebody proud
1854
01:35:14,545 --> 01:35:18,128
♫ And make somebody proud
1855
01:35:22,844 --> 01:35:26,011
(audience applauding)
1856
01:35:36,838 --> 01:35:41,005
- Jerusha Abbott, Bachelor
of Arts, Class of 1912.
1857
01:35:43,855 --> 01:35:46,438
Summa Cum Laude, valedictorian!
1858
01:35:49,131 --> 01:35:50,048
You did it!
1859
01:35:52,044 --> 01:35:53,544
I helped a little,
1860
01:35:56,685 --> 01:35:58,518
but it was only money.
1861
01:36:00,531 --> 01:36:02,531
(sighs)
1862
01:36:04,893 --> 01:36:09,060
Money, it seems, that has
now outlived its usefulness.
1863
01:36:10,900 --> 01:36:12,706
So, Mr. John Smith,
1864
01:36:12,706 --> 01:36:16,623
philanthropist and
octogenarian, rest in peace.
1865
01:36:21,021 --> 01:36:21,854
Charity.
1866
01:36:23,088 --> 01:36:24,591
(soft piano music)
1867
01:36:24,591 --> 01:36:27,591
It bites the hand that dispenses it.
1868
01:36:28,448 --> 01:36:30,863
It corrodes the heart of the giver,
1869
01:36:30,863 --> 01:36:32,946
however pure his motives.
1870
01:36:34,070 --> 01:36:36,759
If he truly cares for the person he helps,
1871
01:36:36,759 --> 01:36:39,509
how can his money ever be enough?
1872
01:36:41,931 --> 01:36:43,617
It builds a wall of gratitude that
1873
01:36:43,617 --> 01:36:45,534
can never be climbed...
1874
01:36:48,266 --> 01:36:49,683
From either side.
1875
01:36:53,248 --> 01:36:56,415
♫ Charity, oh charity
1876
01:37:02,309 --> 01:37:05,309
♫ Now what can I do
1877
01:37:10,330 --> 01:37:14,247
♫ Once I gave to those in need
1878
01:37:18,761 --> 01:37:22,178
♫ Now I'm in need of you
1879
01:37:27,279 --> 01:37:30,446
♫ Charity, oh charity
1880
01:37:34,495 --> 01:37:37,412
♫ I cannot believe
1881
01:37:41,260 --> 01:37:44,843
♫ How easier it is to give
1882
01:37:46,240 --> 01:37:50,157
♫ Than to let yourself receive
1883
01:37:54,314 --> 01:37:57,815
♫ For what you have given me
1884
01:37:57,815 --> 01:38:01,065
♫ Came out of the blue
1885
01:38:02,391 --> 01:38:04,870
♫ What you have done for me
1886
01:38:04,870 --> 01:38:08,570
♫ I never could do
1887
01:38:08,570 --> 01:38:10,737
♫ Charity
1888
01:38:17,073 --> 01:38:20,573
♫ Just who is helping who
1889
01:38:23,605 --> 01:38:27,438
♫ You are free to go your way
1890
01:38:30,617 --> 01:38:34,200
♫ Whatever path you choose
1891
01:38:36,621 --> 01:38:40,788
♫ The love I've lost in you, my friend
1892
01:38:44,797 --> 01:38:48,214
♫ Was never mine to lose
1893
01:38:50,641 --> 01:38:53,993
♫ For what you have given me
1894
01:38:53,993 --> 01:38:57,243
♫ Came out of the blue
1895
01:38:58,844 --> 01:39:01,218
♫ What you have done for me
1896
01:39:01,218 --> 01:39:04,944
♫ I never could do
1897
01:39:04,944 --> 01:39:07,111
♫ Charity
1898
01:39:13,384 --> 01:39:16,884
♫ Just who is helping who
1899
01:39:24,524 --> 01:39:28,024
♫ Just who is helping who
1900
01:39:41,140 --> 01:39:44,307
(audience applauding)
1901
01:39:49,221 --> 01:39:51,959
- Dear Daddy Long Legs,
1902
01:39:51,959 --> 01:39:53,042
I'm educated.
1903
01:39:54,620 --> 01:39:56,329
My diploma is in a bottom bureau
1904
01:39:56,329 --> 01:39:59,454
drawer with my two best dresses.
1905
01:39:59,454 --> 01:40:02,581
I'm here at Lock Willow for the summer.
1906
01:40:02,581 --> 01:40:04,323
Forever maybe.
1907
01:40:04,323 --> 01:40:07,373
The board is cheap, the surroundings quiet
1908
01:40:07,373 --> 01:40:10,916
and conducive to a literary life.
1909
01:40:10,916 --> 01:40:13,108
I'm mad about my book.
1910
01:40:13,108 --> 01:40:17,275
I think of it every waking
moment and dream of it at night.
1911
01:40:18,216 --> 01:40:20,565
Master Jervie wrote me a very sweet letter
1912
01:40:20,565 --> 01:40:23,063
in the week after graduation,
1913
01:40:23,063 --> 01:40:26,020
full of warm wishes for the future.
1914
01:40:26,020 --> 01:40:27,883
He seems to have recovered his old,
1915
01:40:27,883 --> 01:40:30,050
lovely, sunny, funny self.
1916
01:40:31,683 --> 01:40:33,278
But there's still something missing
1917
01:40:33,278 --> 01:40:36,716
and I can't work out what it is.
1918
01:40:36,716 --> 01:40:38,292
Oh, and Jimmie McBride is dropping
1919
01:40:38,292 --> 01:40:40,707
by sometime during the summer.
1920
01:40:40,707 --> 01:40:42,282
He's connected with a bond house now
1921
01:40:42,282 --> 01:40:45,868
and goes about the country
selling bonds to banks.
1922
01:40:45,868 --> 01:40:50,035
He's combining the Farmers
National and me on the same trip.
1923
01:40:51,612 --> 01:40:53,037
I used to think you might come
1924
01:40:53,037 --> 01:40:56,210
motoring through Lock Willow one day.
1925
01:40:56,210 --> 01:40:57,640
(gentle instrumental music)
1926
01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:01,087
But when you didn't come to my graduation,
1927
01:41:01,087 --> 01:41:05,254
I gave that up as a hopeless
dream and buried it forever.
1928
01:41:07,642 --> 01:41:11,642
♫ I have torn you from my heart
1929
01:41:13,307 --> 01:41:17,307
♫ I have stripped myself of any
1930
01:41:18,314 --> 01:41:21,731
♫ Pointless expectations
1931
01:41:23,702 --> 01:41:27,869
♫ That you will ever change your ways
1932
01:41:29,523 --> 01:41:33,440
♫ I have torn you from my life
1933
01:41:35,706 --> 01:41:39,789
♫ I have washed my hands of ever
1934
01:41:41,097 --> 01:41:44,680
♫ Hoping you will be there
1935
01:41:46,774 --> 01:41:51,201
♫ When I most need a friend
1936
01:41:51,201 --> 01:41:55,368
♫ But you'll never be there, Daddy
1937
01:41:56,922 --> 01:42:00,172
♫ On that I can depend
1938
01:42:02,801 --> 01:42:03,934
♫ Charity
1939
01:42:03,934 --> 01:42:07,851
♫ I have torn you from my soul
1940
01:42:09,865 --> 01:42:13,977
♫ You have hurt me for the last time
1941
01:42:13,977 --> 01:42:15,081
♫ Charity
1942
01:42:15,081 --> 01:42:18,831
♫ And I won't go on bleeding
1943
01:42:20,273 --> 01:42:23,506
♫ You'll never hear another plea
1944
01:42:23,506 --> 01:42:25,103
♫ Oh, charity
1945
01:42:25,103 --> 01:42:29,270
♫ Yes, you've got your freedom, Daddy
1946
01:42:30,916 --> 01:42:33,348
♫ But you don't have me
1947
01:42:33,348 --> 01:42:36,323
♫ Who is helping who
1948
01:42:36,323 --> 01:42:39,095
♫ I too am free
1949
01:42:39,095 --> 01:42:41,958
♫ Who is helping who
1950
01:42:41,958 --> 01:42:44,327
♫ I too am free
1951
01:42:44,327 --> 01:42:47,827
♫ Just who is helping who
1952
01:42:53,710 --> 01:42:55,210
- Dear Mr. Smith,
1953
01:42:56,918 --> 01:42:59,845
I ought to let you know
that I'm thinking of moving.
1954
01:42:59,845 --> 01:43:03,569
Sallie is going to do settlement
work in Boston next winter.
1955
01:43:03,569 --> 01:43:05,706
I'm thinking of going with her.
1956
01:43:05,706 --> 01:43:08,023
We could have a studio together.
1957
01:43:08,023 --> 01:43:10,773
I could write while she, settled.
1958
01:43:12,722 --> 01:43:15,237
- I really am a writer now.
1959
01:43:15,237 --> 01:43:18,820
And to prove it, here's
a check for $1,000.
1960
01:43:19,807 --> 01:43:23,557
- It seems so funny, me
sending money to you.
1961
01:43:24,410 --> 01:43:26,567
Where do you think I got it?
1962
01:43:26,567 --> 01:43:28,317
- I've sold my story!
1963
01:43:29,468 --> 01:43:30,680
- It's going to be published
1964
01:43:30,680 --> 01:43:34,263
serially in seven parts
and then in a book!
1965
01:43:36,055 --> 01:43:38,632
I owe you $2,000 more.
1966
01:43:38,632 --> 01:43:41,542
The rest will be coming in installments.
1967
01:43:41,542 --> 01:43:44,346
Don't be horrid please, about taking it.
1968
01:43:44,346 --> 01:43:46,071
I owe you more than money
1969
01:43:46,071 --> 01:43:47,134
and I will continue to pay
1970
01:43:47,134 --> 01:43:50,792
all my life in gratitude and affection.
1971
01:43:50,792 --> 01:43:52,847
Once I've paid off my debt to you,
1972
01:43:52,847 --> 01:43:56,504
all my future royalties will
go to the John Grier Home.
1973
01:43:56,504 --> 01:43:58,133
If the book does really well,
1974
01:43:58,133 --> 01:44:01,691
they'll make me a trustee, just like you.
1975
01:44:01,691 --> 01:44:03,251
Then you'll have to meet me.
1976
01:44:03,251 --> 01:44:06,251
(audience laughing)
1977
01:44:09,230 --> 01:44:13,034
You see, Mr. Smith, I've
got it all worked out.
1978
01:44:13,034 --> 01:44:14,832
My first duty as a new trustee will be
1979
01:44:14,832 --> 01:44:18,371
to reform the asylum under new management.
1980
01:44:18,371 --> 01:44:20,546
You will help me, won't you?
1981
01:44:20,546 --> 01:44:24,385
Mrs. Lippett must be
replaced by someone generous
1982
01:44:24,385 --> 01:44:26,802
and clever and sweet-natured.
1983
01:44:27,716 --> 01:44:31,809
Don't you think Sallie McBride
would be the perfect choice?
1984
01:44:31,809 --> 01:44:34,803
P.S. I've left the check blank for you
1985
01:44:34,803 --> 01:44:38,303
to fill in your real name, whatever it is.
1986
01:44:40,466 --> 01:44:42,115
♫ I hold my breath
1987
01:44:42,115 --> 01:44:44,445
♫ As I read her words
1988
01:44:44,445 --> 01:44:47,382
♫ I can't believe my eyes
1989
01:44:47,382 --> 01:44:48,564
♫ I always knew
1990
01:44:48,564 --> 01:44:50,609
♫ She would have her day
1991
01:44:50,609 --> 01:44:53,688
♫ Still it takes me by surprise
1992
01:44:53,688 --> 01:44:56,219
♫ Here's Jerusha Abbott, author
1993
01:44:56,219 --> 01:44:59,400
♫ On the rise
1994
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:00,394
♫ And I'm swept away
1995
01:45:00,394 --> 01:45:01,595
♫ By a wind of change
1996
01:45:01,595 --> 01:45:03,611
♫ My path is now assured
1997
01:45:03,611 --> 01:45:05,933
♫ She's free to live how she wants to live
1998
01:45:05,933 --> 01:45:08,251
♫ Now her future is secured
1999
01:45:08,251 --> 01:45:09,648
♫ As her loyal readers
2000
01:45:09,648 --> 01:45:12,648
♫ Follow every word
2001
01:45:13,900 --> 01:45:18,132
♫ I am beaming in Manhattan
2002
01:45:18,132 --> 01:45:22,299
♫ Intoxicated with unspeakable joy
2003
01:45:24,459 --> 01:45:28,209
♫ I'm in heaven in Manhattan
2004
01:45:29,281 --> 01:45:31,655
♫ But with caution to be sure
2005
01:45:31,655 --> 01:45:35,720
♫ For there's one thing more
2006
01:45:35,720 --> 01:45:38,796
♫ There's a question in Manhattan
2007
01:45:38,796 --> 01:45:41,959
♫ For Jerusha
2008
01:45:41,959 --> 01:45:45,051
- Dear Daddy, something has happened!
2009
01:45:45,051 --> 01:45:46,620
I know I washed my hands of you forever,
2010
01:45:46,620 --> 01:45:48,521
but I need advice!
2011
01:45:48,521 --> 01:45:52,733
I need it from you and from
nobody else in the world.
2012
01:45:52,733 --> 01:45:55,039
You know I've always had a
special feeling towards you,
2013
01:45:55,039 --> 01:45:56,546
but you won't mind, will you,
2014
01:45:56,546 --> 01:45:57,977
if I tell you I have a more special
2015
01:45:57,977 --> 01:46:00,869
feeling towards another man?
2016
01:46:00,869 --> 01:46:03,117
♫ He reminds me of you
2017
01:46:03,117 --> 01:46:05,656
♫ So proper and such
2018
01:46:05,656 --> 01:46:10,087
♫ I suppose you half expected as much
2019
01:46:10,087 --> 01:46:12,050
♫ We think the same thoughts
2020
01:46:12,050 --> 01:46:14,833
♫ We share the same dreams
2021
01:46:14,833 --> 01:46:16,707
♫ And when we're laughing
2022
01:46:16,707 --> 01:46:19,064
♫ I swear time stands still
2023
01:46:19,064 --> 01:46:22,705
♫ At least that's how it seems
2024
01:46:22,705 --> 01:46:24,901
♫ But Daddy, I'm sure
2025
01:46:24,901 --> 01:46:28,276
♫ I have wounded his soul
2026
01:46:28,276 --> 01:46:32,109
♫ My poet, my mentor, my muse
2027
01:46:33,414 --> 01:46:36,291
♫ 'Cause P.S. last night
2028
01:46:36,291 --> 01:46:39,874
♫ Jervis asked for my hand
2029
01:46:41,498 --> 01:46:43,884
- Marry me, Jerusha.
2030
01:46:43,884 --> 01:46:45,656
Give me your heart.
2031
01:46:45,656 --> 01:46:47,573
You know you have mine.
2032
01:46:49,861 --> 01:46:53,444
♫ Oh why, why did I refuse
2033
01:47:03,696 --> 01:47:04,949
Now he's gone away imagining
2034
01:47:04,949 --> 01:47:07,944
that I want to marry Jimmie McBride.
2035
01:47:07,944 --> 01:47:09,661
I don't in the least.
2036
01:47:09,661 --> 01:47:12,220
Jimmie's a lovely boy, but
he isn't grown up enough
2037
01:47:12,220 --> 01:47:15,541
and I don't think he ever will be.
2038
01:47:15,541 --> 01:47:17,894
The truth is, Daddy, I
care for Mr. Pendleton
2039
01:47:17,894 --> 01:47:20,138
too much to let him marry me
2040
01:47:20,138 --> 01:47:21,790
because I know he would regret it
2041
01:47:21,790 --> 01:47:24,668
in the future and I couldn't stand that.
2042
01:47:24,668 --> 01:47:26,113
It just doesn't seem right that a person
2043
01:47:26,113 --> 01:47:29,666
of my upbringing should marry
into such a family as his.
2044
01:47:29,666 --> 01:47:31,406
And I couldn't bring myself to tell him
2045
01:47:31,406 --> 01:47:34,239
about the John Grier Home, that...
2046
01:47:36,144 --> 01:47:37,977
I don't know who I am.
2047
01:47:39,432 --> 01:47:42,516
My family may be dreadful, you know?
2048
01:47:42,516 --> 01:47:46,599
And his family is so proud
and I'm so proud, too.
2049
01:47:48,710 --> 01:47:50,620
I've been thinking very hard about it.
2050
01:47:50,620 --> 01:47:52,111
Of course he is a socialist,
2051
01:47:52,111 --> 01:47:53,895
and has unconventional ideas.
2052
01:47:53,895 --> 01:47:56,531
Maybe he wouldn't mind
marrying an unknown orphan
2053
01:47:56,531 --> 01:47:58,698
as much as some men might.
2054
01:47:59,601 --> 01:48:03,449
Perhaps when two people
are exactly in accord,
2055
01:48:03,449 --> 01:48:07,964
and always happy when together
and lonely when apart,
2056
01:48:07,964 --> 01:48:09,374
they ought not to let anything
2057
01:48:09,374 --> 01:48:12,041
in the world stand between them.
2058
01:48:13,024 --> 01:48:16,415
Of course I want to believe that.
2059
01:48:16,415 --> 01:48:18,090
Suppose I go to him and
tell him that the problem
2060
01:48:18,090 --> 01:48:20,238
isn't Jimmie, it's the John Grier Home.
2061
01:48:20,238 --> 01:48:24,370
Would that be a dreadful
thing for me to do?
2062
01:48:24,370 --> 01:48:27,331
It would take a great deal of courage.
2063
01:48:27,331 --> 01:48:31,498
I'd almost rather be
miserable the rest of my life.
2064
01:48:33,873 --> 01:48:38,093
But, oh Daddy, (sniffling)
2065
01:48:38,093 --> 01:48:41,343
I miss him, and miss him, and miss him.
2066
01:48:45,617 --> 01:48:49,784
The whole world seems empty
and aching without him.
2067
01:48:51,878 --> 01:48:54,711
I hate the moonlight
because it's beautiful
2068
01:48:54,711 --> 01:48:57,711
and he isn't here to see it with me.
2069
01:49:01,305 --> 01:49:04,472
But maybe you've loved somebody, too,
2070
01:49:05,345 --> 01:49:07,345
and you know how I feel?
2071
01:49:08,580 --> 01:49:11,663
If you have, I don't need to explain.
2072
01:49:12,749 --> 01:49:13,999
If you haven't,
2073
01:49:16,824 --> 01:49:18,157
I can't explain.
2074
01:49:21,079 --> 01:49:22,996
Daddy, what shall I do?
2075
01:49:24,210 --> 01:49:26,043
Please let me see you.
2076
01:49:27,392 --> 01:49:28,225
Please!
2077
01:49:43,153 --> 01:49:44,986
- My dear young lady,
2078
01:49:47,737 --> 01:49:49,904
please come to see me next
2079
01:49:51,523 --> 01:49:54,523
Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock.
2080
01:49:56,443 --> 01:49:58,262
I hope you will have no difficulty
2081
01:49:58,262 --> 01:50:01,345
making your way to the above address.
2082
01:50:02,785 --> 01:50:07,514
I'm afraid, however, that
you may find me deficient
2083
01:50:07,514 --> 01:50:10,514
in the sort of wisdom that you seek.
2084
01:50:11,649 --> 01:50:15,816
I am, in fact, rather unpracticed
in matters of the heart.
2085
01:50:18,851 --> 01:50:22,934
As I fear you will discover
when we finally meet.
2086
01:50:26,594 --> 01:50:27,427
Your.
2087
01:50:28,960 --> 01:50:29,793
- Your.
2088
01:50:31,475 --> 01:50:34,131
- Daddy Long Legs.
2089
01:50:34,131 --> 01:50:35,524
(soft piano music)
2090
01:50:35,524 --> 01:50:39,691
♫ I've discovered the
secret of happiness is
2091
01:50:40,930 --> 01:50:44,097
♫ Wednesday afternoon
2092
01:50:45,927 --> 01:50:50,094
♫ I've discovered the
secret of happiness is
2093
01:50:50,955 --> 01:50:54,538
♫ That I will see you soon
2094
01:50:55,602 --> 01:50:57,590
♫ A man as obscure
2095
01:50:57,590 --> 01:51:01,007
♫ As the man in the moon
2096
01:51:13,181 --> 01:51:14,014
Hello?
2097
01:51:17,257 --> 01:51:18,090
Hello?
2098
01:51:22,983 --> 01:51:23,816
Mr. Smith!
2099
01:51:27,700 --> 01:51:29,700
What are you doing here?
2100
01:51:31,044 --> 01:51:33,771
Do you know Mr. Smith?
2101
01:51:33,771 --> 01:51:35,771
Or whatever he's called?
2102
01:51:37,701 --> 01:51:38,534
- I do.
2103
01:51:41,631 --> 01:51:43,964
- So you know about me then?
2104
01:51:47,119 --> 01:51:50,036
You know about the John Grier Home?
2105
01:51:51,154 --> 01:51:51,987
- I do.
2106
01:51:55,107 --> 01:51:57,274
- How long have you known?
2107
01:52:01,310 --> 01:52:03,810
Don't tell me, you can't be...
2108
01:52:07,545 --> 01:52:08,915
His secretary?
2109
01:52:08,915 --> 01:52:11,915
(audience laughing)
2110
01:52:15,077 --> 01:52:16,744
- Well, not exactly.
2111
01:52:18,666 --> 01:52:19,686
- Where is he?
2112
01:52:19,686 --> 01:52:21,186
- He's right here.
2113
01:52:22,676 --> 01:52:23,593
I'm afraid.
2114
01:52:29,070 --> 01:52:29,903
- You?
2115
01:52:33,659 --> 01:52:34,492
You?
2116
01:52:37,505 --> 01:52:39,172
You read my letters?
2117
01:52:43,025 --> 01:52:44,521
All my letters?
2118
01:52:44,521 --> 01:52:46,920
The ones about you?
2119
01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:49,539
(audience laughs)
2120
01:52:49,539 --> 01:52:50,825
They were private letters!
2121
01:52:50,825 --> 01:52:51,977
- I know.
2122
01:52:51,977 --> 01:52:54,023
- They were letters to him, not you!
2123
01:52:54,023 --> 01:52:54,962
- I know.
2124
01:52:54,962 --> 01:52:58,295
- He would never have done such a thing!
2125
01:53:02,902 --> 01:53:05,315
You're not ever old.
2126
01:53:05,315 --> 01:53:08,931
(audience laughing)
2127
01:53:08,931 --> 01:53:12,093
- Guilty, guilty as charged.
2128
01:53:12,093 --> 01:53:15,106
♫ I'm a beast
2129
01:53:15,106 --> 01:53:18,353
♫ I'm a disappointment
2130
01:53:18,353 --> 01:53:22,990
♫ And I've earned your contempt
2131
01:53:22,990 --> 01:53:26,745
♫ I was rash, I was wrong
2132
01:53:26,745 --> 01:53:31,251
♫ Oh Jerusha, I'm no good at being strong
2133
01:53:31,251 --> 01:53:35,700
- How strong did you have to
be to pick up a fountain pen?
2134
01:53:35,700 --> 01:53:39,867
♫ So many times I wanted to tell you
2135
01:53:41,870 --> 01:53:45,037
♫ But I lost my nerve
2136
01:53:47,088 --> 01:53:51,255
♫ Now I feel your scorn and frustration
2137
01:53:52,565 --> 01:53:57,226
♫ It's a bitter blow I well deserve
2138
01:53:57,226 --> 01:54:00,447
♫ I'm a beast
2139
01:54:00,447 --> 01:54:03,414
♫ I was overzealous
2140
01:54:03,414 --> 01:54:07,309
♫ Guess I have a jealous heart
2141
01:54:07,309 --> 01:54:08,930
- How could you possibly imagine
2142
01:54:08,930 --> 01:54:11,284
I would ever marry Jimmie McBride?
2143
01:54:11,284 --> 01:54:14,317
♫ I was daft, I was blind
2144
01:54:14,317 --> 01:54:18,484
♫ But Jerusha, I never meant to be unkind
2145
01:54:21,378 --> 01:54:24,623
Well anyway, it was all your fault.
2146
01:54:24,623 --> 01:54:25,540
- My fault?
2147
01:54:26,534 --> 01:54:29,625
- I never intended to pay
the least attention to you.
2148
01:54:29,625 --> 01:54:33,810
I said so in my perfectly
sensible nine point plan.
2149
01:54:33,810 --> 01:54:34,916
And you started sending me
2150
01:54:34,916 --> 01:54:37,238
all those ludicrously expressive letters,
2151
01:54:37,238 --> 01:54:40,051
and my curiosity got the better of me.
2152
01:54:40,051 --> 01:54:43,580
I had to see who this impetuous,
delightful creature was.
2153
01:54:43,580 --> 01:54:46,280
And I couldn't very well dress
up as a bald old coot of 83.
2154
01:54:46,280 --> 01:54:47,694
So I went as myself.
2155
01:54:47,694 --> 01:54:49,890
(audience laughing)
2156
01:54:49,890 --> 01:54:50,973
Such as I am.
2157
01:54:53,860 --> 01:54:54,999
- Go on.
2158
01:54:54,999 --> 01:54:58,816
(audience laughing)
2159
01:54:58,816 --> 01:55:02,023
- I would never have done such a silly,
2160
01:55:02,023 --> 01:55:05,722
foolish, irrational, quixotic, idiotic,
2161
01:55:05,722 --> 01:55:09,981
stubborn, childish thing if I
had any idea, any idea at all,
2162
01:55:09,981 --> 01:55:11,719
that I would fall completely,
2163
01:55:11,719 --> 01:55:14,886
madly and hopelessly in love with you.
2164
01:55:16,161 --> 01:55:19,078
(soft piano music)
2165
01:55:21,964 --> 01:55:26,365
♫ All the clues were there
2166
01:55:26,365 --> 01:55:29,615
♫ Right before my eyes
2167
01:55:30,774 --> 01:55:35,290
♫ How could I be so surprised
2168
01:55:35,290 --> 01:55:39,457
♫ And yet it appears I never knew
2169
01:55:42,071 --> 01:55:44,521
♫ All this time
2170
01:55:44,521 --> 01:55:47,604
♫ Daddy has been you
2171
01:55:52,082 --> 01:55:55,165
♫ How was I so blind
2172
01:55:56,021 --> 01:55:59,438
♫ That I could never see
2173
01:56:00,316 --> 01:56:04,983
♫ You were always here with me
2174
01:56:04,983 --> 01:56:09,150
♫ And yet it appears I never knew
2175
01:56:11,459 --> 01:56:13,722
♫ All this time
2176
01:56:13,722 --> 01:56:16,805
♫ Daddy has been you
2177
01:56:18,464 --> 01:56:19,435
♫ Yes, you lied
2178
01:56:19,435 --> 01:56:22,305
♫ And betrayed my trust
2179
01:56:22,305 --> 01:56:26,598
♫ And you made me appear so foolish
2180
01:56:26,598 --> 01:56:30,216
♫ And though it seems I'm the last to know
2181
01:56:30,216 --> 01:56:34,049
♫ I'd be a fool to let you go
2182
01:56:37,344 --> 01:56:39,426
♫ Life may not last long
2183
01:56:39,426 --> 01:56:41,307
♫ My life will never
last without your love
2184
01:56:41,307 --> 01:56:43,659
♫ And hearts might not play fair
2185
01:56:43,659 --> 01:56:45,788
♫ I know it wasn't fair
2186
01:56:45,788 --> 01:56:49,705
♫ But a love like ours is rare
2187
01:56:51,048 --> 01:56:52,978
♫ And what I thought
2188
01:56:52,978 --> 01:56:54,950
♫ Impossible
2189
01:56:54,950 --> 01:56:57,747
♫ Is true
2190
01:56:57,747 --> 01:56:59,486
♫ All this time
2191
01:56:59,486 --> 01:57:03,236
♫ I've been in love with you
2192
01:57:04,631 --> 01:57:08,426
♫ And it seems as I say these words
2193
01:57:08,426 --> 01:57:12,665
♫ That I am writing my first love letter
2194
01:57:12,665 --> 01:57:16,112
♫ It surprises me even now
2195
01:57:16,112 --> 01:57:18,407
♫ And makes me laugh
2196
01:57:18,407 --> 01:57:21,240
♫ That I know how
2197
01:57:25,994 --> 01:57:29,244
♫ So with all my heart
2198
01:57:30,891 --> 01:57:33,974
♫ Racing as it soars
2199
01:57:35,432 --> 01:57:39,099
♫ I am most sincerely yours
2200
01:57:40,296 --> 01:57:42,021
♫ Jerusha
2201
01:57:42,021 --> 01:57:46,397
♫ Who will keep her Jervie strong
2202
01:57:46,397 --> 01:57:51,274
♫ And forgives her Daddy Long Legs
2203
01:57:51,274 --> 01:57:54,703
♫ For not being old
2204
01:57:54,703 --> 01:57:56,538
♫ Or gray
2205
01:57:56,538 --> 01:57:58,705
♫ Or bald
2206
01:58:08,556 --> 01:58:12,056
♫ And for hiding from her
2207
01:58:14,665 --> 01:58:16,832
♫ So long
2208
01:58:28,576 --> 01:58:31,743
(audience applauding)
2209
01:58:38,700 --> 01:58:42,200
(soft instrumental music)
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