 Well, well, well, here's Mama Bloom's brood. Today we find Papa in his office at the Excelo Pictures Corporation in Hollywood. With him are his two sons-in-law, Sydney and Harold, and the three of them are not arguing instead. Well, listen. Now, Sydney, how much do you owe me on the last hand? Twenty-five cents. It's thirty-five? Thirty-five. Where do you get that part? I always got it ever since I learned to count. Twenty-five and ten out thirty-five, or maybe you'd like to change that around, huh? Okay, okay, thirty-five cents it is. Here you are. Now, when you two financial wizards get through squabbling over a dime, I'd like to hear some bids. I'm out eighty-five cents. So you're out eighty-five cents, huh? I'm out of my mind from you and Sydney, so what's the difference? Whose bid? Mine, don't rush me. Alright, make it snappy, Pa. Sydney and I have work to do this afternoon. Sydney and you have work to do, so? What little pleasure I get out of being with you two is taking your money away at Pina. Couldn't you want I should rush through that, huh? Now, listen, leave me alone. I got a hot hand to figure. I haven't. I still have. Hey, Sid, you're sure Mom and the girls won't walk in on her? Oh, no, they went shopping. They won't stop me. Sydney, when Mama goes shopping, even she doesn't know where she'll end up. And if Mama came in and saw us playing pinnacle when we were supposed to be busy working, I'd never hear the last of it. Well, stop worrying about that pond bid. Alright, alright, then, then... three hundred. Again? Where'd you get this deck of cards? From the drug store. I couldn't find a pinnacle deck any place else. Now, you must know the man who makes them. He must have made them just for you, Pa. Sydney, listen, when I play pinnacle, I play it good. That's why I win. No, no, no, no. I bid three hundred. Are you two deaf? Your bid, Sid. Three tenths. Pass. Sydney. Sydney, please. Didn't you learn our lesson from the last tenth? Now you're going to bid against me again. Three tenths stays. Three tenths stays, he says. Like he's having a million dollars. Alright, Sidney, I'll teach you a lesson. Take it at three tenths. I suppose you got everything stopped again. And what do you want me to do? Show you my hand? Okay, okay, alright. I mailed eighty kings. Eighty kings, alright. Two twenties. A pinnacle. Yeah, so it makes a hundred and sixty. A hundred and sixty, huh? You got a hundred and fifty yet to make. A hundred and fifteen cards to make. Uh-huh. Now, wait a minute. Is king and queen of trumps? That gives me forty more. Alright, see, still got a hundred and ten to make. Sydney, for a smart boy, you play pinnacle like Ashlamil. No, no, no. Is that all you got to mailed? Yep. Uh-huh. So you was going to make me bid up, huh? You thought I was going to be a fish, huh? Can I play it out, Sid? I might as well. Here goes. Oh, that's for you Pa. Yeah, just a minute, I... Yeah? Mrs. Blue and Mrs. Shipane are here. Oh, yeah. Alright, tell them to wait a minute. Who is it, Pa? It's Mom and Sarah. Holy smoke, get the cards away. Oh, gosh, yes. I told Sally I was going to be too busy to go shopping with her this afternoon. Hey, quick, put the cards under the blotter, under the desk. Yeah, hurry on, Sid. Yeah, baby. Lucky your secretary called in here. Sydney, I told you that when Mama goes shopping, she never knows where. She'll end up, so I told the girl to tell me when she came in. Okay, the cards are away. You're very lucky, Sydney. Better tell them to come in or they'll think something's funny. Yes, Mr. Blue. Tell Mama, tell Mrs. Bloom and her daughter to come in now. Yes, sir. You see, Sidney, when you're married, as long as I am, you'll know how to handle things. Well, hello, Mama. Hello, sir. Hello, how are you? Hi, honey. Hello, sweet. Say, where's Yatta? Didn't she come along? She had a lot of bundles, Harold, so she took them home. Oh, there goes my Sally. Harold, for a married man, you're saying nothing new. I am glad to sit down, my puppies is killing me. Oh, don't say that. Don't say that, sir. Puppies for feed. It's good English, I read it in the magazine. Well, Mama, what did you do all morning? We went shopping. And we got some of the duckiest things for the twin. She says duckiest, but I shouldn't say puppies. Sir, I ain't sauce for the goose the same as the slender. Gendem, I'm a gendem. All right, all right, Papa, all right. What are you doing all day? Doing? Hi. Working, Mama, working. Yeah, that's right, Ma. We've been working hard on the new picture. How's it coming? Sydney don't like it. Why not? He thinks he's got more than he has got. Why don't you and Sarah go for a walk around the studios, Ma? Walk? Sydney, I just got told through walking. Why do you think I am a heckler? A hiker, Ma. A heckler is someone who annoys somebody else. So walking right now would annoy me. Well, you and Sydney and Harold go right on doing what you were doing when they came in, Papa. Huh? Yeah, Sarah and me just came in to get a load of our dogs. Yeah. Oh, Ma, I wish you wouldn't use slang. It sounds terrible. My dogs feel terrible. Go ahead, Papa, you go ahead and vote. Yeah. Sarah and me will be as quiet as a couple of moves. Ma, they're shooting some of the new picture on stage four. Why don't you and Sally walk out and take a look at it? Oh, that'd be swell. What do you say, Ma? Well, I say I'm going to stay right here and relax. But Mama, we can't work with everybody sitting around. Everybody? Since Vanessa and me, everybody? Well, you're everybody in the world, I smile. Sydney, you shouldn't flatten us. Uh, Sid, yeah? Uh, what do you think of the sequence in Hearts of the East? Where, uh, where the, uh... Where what? I guess I was thinking of the wrong picture. Say, what's the matter with all three of you? What's happened? What happened? What do you mean, honey? Well, you said you were busy, but now you can't think of a thing to be busy about. Well, uh, maybe, maybe we're tired. Oh, sure, that's it. We're tired. We've been in here for an hour. I guess we'd better go soon. No, no, no, you're not going. You're not going and leave me alone. Hello. My Papa's being for Sarah and me alone, but you think we are insensible? Invisible, Ma. The ain't. Well, uh... Say, what'd you buy for the twins, Sally? Uh, Harold. You shouldn't ask questions that are off the subject. You and Sidney and Papa are very busy. I don't want it, and Sarah and me come in. You should stop looking. You should go rather ahead with what you were doing, and you shouldn't pay no attention to us. Just act like the ain't in the room. But they can't do that, Mama. Well, when you're home at night, Papa, you can act like it without trying. What's different about now? What's different about... What? Nothing. Nothing. I think it's all... That's so funny, Harold. Nothing. I just thought of something. Secret he's got to himself. Say, something's up. I don't know what it is, but all three of you are certainly acting as though... as though... well, like the Caddyweight, the Canary. Yeah, yeah, sir. I was thinking the same thing. Something is very superstitious. Mommy, you're talking through your hat. When you came in, you just surprised us. That's all. Sure, that's it, Ma. We weren't expecting you so soon. And how? Harold, you're just from me. Uh, Jake. Yes, Becky? Uh, what picture was you taking about when Sarah and me came in? What picture we were talking about? Uh-huh. About, uh... Belle, we were talking... sitting there for once in your life. Ain't you got anything to say? No, Pa. Oh, hey. Harold? Yeah, Pa. What was the name of the picture we were talking about? Must be our very good picture. They stopped talking about it for three minutes and they forget the name. Well, Ma and I certainly walked into something, whatever it is. Now, honey, you don't know what you're talking about. It seems to me that when you said you were too busy to go shopping with me, you certainly should be able to remember what was going to keep you busy. Uh, Sarah, what, Ma? You've got to remember that we are married to big shoes. They've got a lot of things on their brain. Sometimes they're thinking of one thing, and the next minute they jump to something else. All executors are like that. I read in a bookbun where a man could read and touch at the same time. Only Papa can do it. I could if I tried. Then why aren't you remembering what you was talking about when Sarah and me walked in? Well, we was talking about about 310 different things. Ha, ha, ha. Even our jinx couldn't be doing that. Genius, Ma. Jinx is bad luck. Maybe Papa's fault. You're right, Ma. Don't call Papa names, Harold. Well, gee, I didn't. You did. I'm allowed to call him names. I'm his relative by marriage. Uh, Sarah, why don't you and Ma go and take a look at the rushes? They should be getting run off about this time. Yeah, yeah. I'd like to know why you were so anxious to get rid of us. I'm anxious. I just thought maybe you'd like to look at the rushes, darling. We've been rushing around on morning, Sydney. So, is there any reason why we should look at anybody else rushing around? Well, you don't get it, Ma. The rushes are shots made today. We have prints made of them to see if we need retakes on any of the sequences. Yeah, I get it. Ha, ha, ha. I didn't understand before you explained it to me. And after you've explained it, I'm still in a daisy. Oh, Ma, it's... It's days, days. I know, I know. I gave it a extra letter. So why shouldn't I? It don't cost me anymore to talk more letters. Mama, isn't it time for you to go home and start cooking supper? Three o'clock it isn't already. You're hungry, Jack. Yeah, yeah. You got an appetite like Jack the giant killer. Well, we've suggested everything for you to do. We can't think of anything else. Harold, darling, you could suggest until you're blue in the eyes. Sarah and me come into rest and we are resting. We are not wanting to go any place else. You see, I'm very comfortable. Why not? Aren't you sitting down? I could be sitting down and still be uncomfortable. Well, I give up. The way you three are acting, you'd think more, and I were a couple of criminals. If Papa thinks such a thing, he should have another thing coming. Do you think that, Papa? I didn't say it, did I? Well, maybe you were thinking. Well, don't blame me for thinking what Sarah says. Sidney, if I can't, you think of something for Mama and Sarah to do. I should think of something? Any other time you got ideas that come out five at a time, but now you ain't even got one little one. Well, I certainly don't need anyone to tell me when I'm not welcome. Come on, Ma, let's go. Oh, now, honey, there's nothing for you to get sore about. No. Ma and I come in here to see you and you treat us as though was low... Like they've us convicts. So be the girl, Sarah. Mama, you ain't mad, too. Did I say it? No, Mama, but just to say it... There ain't any buts about it, Papa. I ain't mad. Are you, honey? Well, I certainly don't feel as though you were glad to see me. Oh, but I was, dear. Sure we were. You just took us by surprise. Didn't you say you were going? Sure, dear. Come on, Sarah. I'll be home early for dinner, honey. All right. Then maybe I'll find out what this was all about. So long we might drop over tonight, Ma. Yeah, yeah. Sarah and Sydney's coming. You boys and Papa can talk about the new picture. Oh, sure, sure. We'll continue to talk about the new picture. How about it? Oh, sure. Sure, that'll be great. Yeah, that'll be fine. Well, all right. See you later. Yeah, be home early, Papa. Sure, sure, Mama. Bye. Goodbye. Bye, honey. Bye, honey. Bye, honey. Well, well, you see, boys, when you are married, as long as I am, you will know just what to do at a time like that. Mama and Sarah didn't find nothing. They had to be something story. Phew. That was close. I couldn't think of a thing to say. Well, well, well. What are we waiting for? Hmm? Hmm? Let's get started again. Get the cards from under the blotter. Okay, okay. Give me time. Papa. Boy. Mama, what are you doing back? Papa, I'm just dropping back to tell you that I wouldn't be saying good-bye to Sarah that you was playing pinnacle in here.