User: M-le-mot-dit
File: So's Your Old Man (1926).webm
Author: Gregory La Cava
Publisher: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1926
PD: PD-US|1952
Note: A 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring W. C. Fields and Alice Joyce. It was written by J. Clarkson Miller based on [[Author:Julian Leonard Street|Julian Street]]'s short story ''Mr. Bisbee's Princess''. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Cat: Comedy film, Silent film
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00:00
{{ft/s|
{{Center|{{Smaller|Adolph Zukor And Jesse L. Lasky}}<br />
{{X-smaller|PRESENT}}<br />
{{X-larger|W. C. FIELDS}}<br />
{{Smaller|''IN''}}<br />
{{Xx-larger|''SO'S YOUR OLD MAN''}}<br />
''A'' GREGORY LA CAVA<br />
{{Fine|PRODUCTION}}<br />
{{Smaller|''with''}} ALICE JOYCE {{Smaller|''and'' CHARLES ROGERS}}
{{Smaller block|''From Julian Streets story "Mr. Bisbee's Princess."''<br />
{{X-smaller|''Winner of the O. Henry Memorial Prize of the best short story of 1915''}}}}
WILLIAM LE BARON, ''Associate Producer, Eastern States''<br />
''A Paramount {{Gap}} Picture''{{Gap|4em}}<br />
{{X-smaller|{{Gap}}''Copyright'' MCMXXVI {{Gap}} ''Paramount Picture Zukor Lasky''}}}}
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00:09
{{ft/s|
{{Center|{{Larger|DIRECTED}}<br />
by<br />
{{X-larger|GREGORY LA CAVA}}}}
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00:16
{{ft/s|1=
{{{!}} cellspacing=10 {{ts|ac|sm92}}
{{!}}colspan=2{{!}}''Adapted by''<br />Howard Emmett Rogers ''and'' Tom J. Geraghty
{{Rule|4em}}
{{!}}-
{{!}}colspan=2{{!}}''Screen Play by''<br />J. Clarkson Miller
{{!}}-
{{!}}''Production Editor''<br />Ralph Block
{{!}}''Film and Title Editor''<br />Julian Johnson
{{!}}-
{{!}}''Photographed by''<br />George Webber
{{!}}''Title Decorations by''<br />John Held, Jr.
{{!}}}
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00:34
{{ft/s|
{{Center|When distinguished strangers came to Waukeagus, N. J., they were shown the Shoe Factory, Riverside Park{{Bar|2}}and the home of the Murchisons, on the upper West Side.}}
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00:56
{{ft/s|
{{Center|Young Robert Murchison had just reached the ukulele stage of calf love.}}
{{Right|{{Fine|{{…}} ''Charles Rogers''}}|1em}}
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01:15
{{ft/s|
Unfortunately, a lot of poor people had somehow got into Waukeagus.
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01:31
{{ft/s|
{{Center|Alice Bisbee{{Bar|2}}convincing evidence that even poor people can have attractive children.}}
{{Right|{{Fine|{{…}} ''Catherine Reichert''}}|1em}}
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01:45
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I've told mother all about you{{Bar|2}}and she's coming here to call{{Bar|2}}this afternoon."}}
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02:08
{{ft/s|
{{Center|Mrs. Bisbee{{Bar|2}}whose social existence had been trampled to death between the wash-tubs and the kitchen stove.}}
{{Right|{{Fine|{{…}} ''Marcia Harris''}}|1em}}
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02:21
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Mother! Just think! MRS. MURCHISON is coming to call on you this afternoon."}}
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03:02
{{ft/s|
{{Center|The workshop and laboratory of Samuel Bisbee, Esq.}}
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03:08
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Fine block|SAMUEL BISBEE<br />
GLAZIER}}}}
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03:16
{{ft/s|
{{Center|W. C. FIELDS<br />
''as''<br />
Samuel Bisbee, inventor and most important person in Waukeagus{{Bar|2}}according to Samuel Bisbee.}}
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03:31
{{ft/s|
{{Center|Two fellow-scientists{{Bar|2}}}}
{{Right|{{Fine block|{{…}} ''Jerry Sinclair''{{Em}}<br />{{…}} ''Franck Montgomery''}}|1em}}
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04:00
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Boys, here's success to Bisbee's Non-Breakable Windshield!"}}
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04:29
{{ft/i|
{{Block center|{{Monospace block|{{Smaller block|{{Right|Washington, D. C.|2em}}
<br />My dear Mr. Bisbee:
<p>{{Gap}}Automobile men are naturally skeptical<br />
but if you have really perfected a clear-<br />
glass, non-breakable windshield, it is<br />
worth a million dollars. Please meet the<br />
convention promptly at ten, next Thursday</p>}}}}}}
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04:50
{{ft/s|
{{Center|Mrs. Bisbee received Mrs. Murchison with hopes for the best{{Bar|2}}and fears for the worst.}}
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05:09
{{ft/s|
{{Center|Mrs. A. Brandewyne Murchison{{Bar|2}}bell-cow of the Waukeagus social herd.}}
{{Right|{{Fine|{{…}} ''Julia Ralph''}}|1em}}
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05:18
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I suppose you know, my good woman, that your daughter is trying to turn my son's head…?"}}
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05:31
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Of course, the great social gulf between my family and yours would make such an affair impossible."}}
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05:45
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Possibly you don't know, Mrs. Murchison, that I come from the Warrens of Virginia."}}
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06:17
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"That's Nancy Warren{{Bar|2}}grandniece of Martha Washington Warren."}}
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06:22
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Are you sure this album belongs to you?"}}
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06:35
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Boys, this is a big day for you. You're going to be the first to see the Bisbee Non-Breakable Windshield in action!"}}
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07:55
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"My dear, I am delighted to find you come from such a good family."}}
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09:24
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Mrs Murchison{{Bar|2}}I{{Bar|2}}I'm so anxious to have you meet my husband."}}
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09:36
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I knew your old man when he only had one pair of pants!"}}
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09:52
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"The Warrens were high-hats, all right{{Bar|2}}but there's a lot more life in the old Bisbee album!"}}
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10:44
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"That's cousin Sadie{{Bar|2}}she was the best dancer in burlesque, till she lost her voice."}}
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11:09
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"When I come back from Washington I'll be as big a fish here as you are."}}
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11:43
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{SIC|ED|WANTED}} for {{SIC|BURG|BURGLARY}}}}
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11:53
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I have never been so ''degraded'' in my life!"}}
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12:28
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I'll not permit you to associate with a girl whose father is such a vulgarian!"}}
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12:46
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"How dare you call my father names?"}}
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12:56
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I'll have you know my father is a gentleman!"}}
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13:41
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"So's your old man!"}}
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14:03
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"No dame can pull that stuff on me and get away with it!"}}
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14:34
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"No wonder my family disowned me for eloping with you!"}}
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14:41
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Go to your room! You're just like your father."}}
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14:55
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Twenty years of you is enough to discourage any woman!"}}
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15:57
{{ft/s|
{{Center|In a Washington hotel, the Convention of Automobile Engineers was hitting on all six cylinders.}}
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16:05
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I wrote this fellow Bisbee to come here this morning and give us a demonstration."}}
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16:15
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Smaller block|HOTEL<br />BOSSERT}}}}
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16:18
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Smaller block|NO<br />PARKING}}}}
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17:13
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"This glass of mine is harder to break than a blonde's heart."}}
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17:32
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Boys, this demonstration is going to surprise you."}}
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18:15
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Stand back, boys! This brick may bounce!"}}
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18:36
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Whaddaya think o' that!"}}
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19:34
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I moved ''his'' car around the corner."}}
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19:57
{{ft/s|
{{Center|On the train bound for home, Mr. Bisbee tried to decide between self-destruction and the ridicule of his fellow-townsmen.}}
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20:18
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Larger|'''POISON'''}}<br />
{{X-smaller|'''FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY'''}}}}
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20:33
{{ft/s|
{{Center|Two helpful neighbors from Bisbee's home town.}}
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20:42
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Sam Bisbee{{Bar|2}}drunk again!"}}
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21:10
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Is that so? You and who else?"}}
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21:29
{{ft/s|
{{Center|In a compartment on the same train was another lonely figure.}}
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21:37
{{ft/s|
Her Highness… Princess Lescaboura, of the Spanish province of Andrasia.
{{Right|{{Fine|{{…}} ''Alice Joyce''}}|1em}}
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21:49
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Smaller|MY DIARY}}}}
{{Fine block|{{Cursive block|{{Block center|Running away—God knows<br />
where—and I wonder if<br />
Prince Alonzo will miss me?<br />
Perhaps not.… here in America<br />
he has had no time for his wife.}}}}}}
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22:19
{{ft/i|
{{Fine block|{{Cursive block|{{Block center|Perhaps I am not appreciated<br />
because I am not useful.<br />
If I could be of service<br />
—even if it were only to<br />
help some poor person—}}}}}}
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23:05
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Let me put some iodine on it."}}
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23:22
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Don't mention it, Rosita{{Bar|2}}it's seldom I have an opportunity to do things for others."}}
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23:52
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Why don't you drown yourself{{Bar|2}}it's funnier."}}
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24:39
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Now see what you done{{Bar|2}}you fathead!"}}
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26:17
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I must have stumbled!"}}
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26:33
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I might have broken my neck!"}}
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26:40
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Smaller|IODINE}}<br />{{X-smaller|POISON CAU[TION]}}<br /><br />{{Larger|'''POISON'''}}}}
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27:06
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Don't do it, girlie{{Bar|2}}it don't pay."}}
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27:16
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"You swallow it one day and the next day you're sorry."}}
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27:41
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I know just how you feel{{Bar|2}}"}}
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28:20
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"If you think ''you'' got troubles{{Bar|2}}wait till you hear mine!"}}
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28:36
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"He's not only drunk{{Bar|2}}he's got a woman with him!"}}
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28:44
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"—and then this Murchison dame shows up{{Bar|2}}"}}
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28:50
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I was a perfect gentleman."}}
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29:35
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"But I told ''her'' a few things{{Bar|2}}the big hawk{{Bar|2}}"}}
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30:02
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"{{Bar|2}}so, y'see{{Bar|2}}if I go back home now everybody'll laugh at me."}}
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30:24
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Maybe we'd better take poison, after all."}}
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30:37
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"You've helped me so much, Mr. Bisbee, that I'd like to do something for you in return."}}
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30:47
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I guess nobody can help me but a fairy princess … and there ain't no such thing.…"}}
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31:01
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I wouldn't be too sure of that. You never can tell when you'll meet a fairy princess."}}
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31:27
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Wau—keee—guuus! Wau—keee—guuus"}}
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31:44
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Perhaps you'll see me again, Mr. Bisbee. You deserve help{{Bar|2}}and I have an idea."}}
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31:58
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Even though we are both unhappy{{Bar|2}}we have got to carry on!"}}
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32:22
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Say, girlie, what's your name?"}}
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32:27
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"You may call me Marie."}}
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32:51
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Fine block|'''SEE THE WORLD THROUGH'''<br />'''BISBEE'S WINDOWS'''}}}}
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33:42
{{ft/s|
{{Center|By the time Mr. Bisbee got back to Waukeagus, he was the most talked-of man in town.}}
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34:19
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Xx-smaller|TOBACCO & PIPES}}}}
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34:37
{{ft/i|
{{Center|[…]Y & CIGARS}}
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35:09
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"How was she, Sam{{Bar|2}}pretty nice?"}}
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35:14
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Better have a little bracer, Sam, before you meet the Missus. She's been hearin' a lot about ye!"}}
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35:38
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Get away from here{{Bar|2}}you skeik!"}}
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36:19
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"You don't have to do much to get a big reception in this town!"}}
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36:58
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{sc|Roach}}<br />''EXTERMINATOR''}}
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37:12
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I gave you the wrong jug—the joke's on me!"}}
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37:41
{{ft/s|
{{Center|It was three days before Sam Bisbee felt sufficiently braced to go home and meet the Missus.}}
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37:49
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Smaller|SPECIAL<br />HARTZ MOUNTAIN<br />CANARIES<br />3${{Sup|0.}}}}
{{Dhr}}
{{Fine|PARROTS.<br />CAGES & FEED}}}}
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38:08
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Y'gonna give y'wife that owl?"}}
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38:14
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I allus take m'wife a pet{{Bar|2}}sh'likes pets{{Bar|2}}fixes things up O. K."}}
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38:25
{{ft/i|
{{Center|JERRY'S<br />BIRD STORE<br />{{X-larger|BIRDS}} & {{X-larger|ANIMALS}}}}
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38:36
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{X-larger block|PRINCESS COMING<br />HERE TODAY!
{{Rule|4em}}
{{Font-stretch|.67|WEALTH AND FASHION OF OUR CITY WILL GREET}}<br />{{Font-stretch|.7|SPANISH ROYALTY}}}}
{{Rule|3em}}
{{Smaller|PRINCESS LESCABOURA, TRAVELING INCOGNITO, RE-<br />
LUCTANTLY ADMITS INTENTIONS TO ALERT NEW<br />
YORK CORRESPONDENT OF WAUKEAGUS ARGUS<br />
—OBJECT OF VISIT A MYSTERY—RECEPTION<br />
COMMITTEE HEADED BY SOCIAL AND<br />
BUSINESS LEADERS}}}}
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38:53
{{ft/i|
{{Right|WAUKEAGUS}}
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39:06
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"This is a wonderful reception, but I intended my visit to be purely personal."}}
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39:13
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"We wouldn't help but wonder, Your Royal Highness, why you should honor Waukeagus with Your Royal Presence."}}
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39:27
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I've come to visit my old friend, Sam Bisbee."}}
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39:35
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Did she say BISBEE?"}}
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39:44
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Did you say BISBEE?"}}
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39:55
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"There is a Bisbee in this town, Your Highness{{Bar|2}}but he's not one of our best citizens."}}
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40:07
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Samuel Bisbee did a great service for my country after the Spanish-American war, and I came here to thank him."}}
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40:15
{{ft/i|
{{Float left|{{Center|{{Fine|'''WELCOME'''<br />'''TO'''<br />'''WAUKEAGUS'''}}}}}}
{{Gap|5em}}{{Float right|{{Center|{{Fine|'''WAUKEAGUS'''<br />'''BOOSTER'''}}}}}}
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40:44
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"We're sure it's the wrong Bisbee, Your Highness—but is you insist, we'll take you to his home."}}
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41:28
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"It's a shame you came such a long distance—only to find the wrong person!"}}
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43:02
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"S'allright{{Bar|2}}I'll go quietly."}}
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43:27
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Brace up{{Bar|2}}it's the Princess Lescaboura!"}}
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43:53
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Don't you remember me, Sam? I'm your old friend the Princess Lescaboura!"}}
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44:08
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Thas a great idea!"}}
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44:16
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Les go home and try it on th'wife."}}
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44:25
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Oh, Mr. Bisbee, won't you ride in my car?"}}
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44:55
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I won't ride with that dame!"}}
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46:05
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"My dear Mrs. Bisbee{{Bar|2}}you're the luckiest woman in Waukeagus."}}
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46:13
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Is my husband dead?"}}
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46:27
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"BISBEE!"}}
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46:37
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Pr'ncess{{Bar|2}}meet the wife!"}}
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46:55
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I'm proud to meet the wife of such a great man."}}
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47:16
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Look out{{Bar|2}}she may be stalling!"}}
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47:57
{{ft/s|
{{Center|By the end of the week, the Bisbee home had become the stamping-ground of Waukeagus society.}}
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48:23
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Fine block|'''SEE THE WORLD THROUGH'''<br />'''BISBEE'S WINDOWS'''}}}}
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48:40
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"This 'Princess' idea is great stuff{{Bar|2}}if they don't get wise to us."}}
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48:56
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"What do you think of my father now?"}}
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49:14
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"We do hope you will come to the opening of the new Waukeagus Country Club."}}
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49:48
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"And we want Mr. Bisbee to open the new Golf Links by teeing off the first ball!"}}
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50:13
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I don't know anything about golf. I wouldn't even know which end of the caddy to use."}}
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50:38
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"You'll do it for her{{Bar|2}}won't you, Sam?"}}
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50:43
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I'll try anything, if ''you'' say so{{Bar|2}}but you're taking a big chance!"}}
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50:58
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Mr. Bisbee will be delighted!"}}
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51:10
{{ft/s|
The opening of the Waukeagus Golf and Country Club was a great social triumph for Sam Bisbee.
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51:46
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"We shall now ask Mr. Bisbee to drive off the first ball."}}
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53:39
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"My father wouldn't use ''ordinary'' clubs{{Bar|2}}he makes his own!"}}
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54:40
{{ft/s|
Prince Lescaboura, hearing of his wife's amazing conduct, comes to Waukeagus to investigate.
{{Right|{{Fine|{{…}} ''Charles Beyer''}}|1em}}
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55:40
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Say, girlie, I think I've seen that face before{{Bar|2}}let's not carry this joke too far!"}}
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59:13
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"This toad has insulted the honored name of Lescaboura{{Bar|2}}for that I will kill him!"}}
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1:00:26
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"It's the guy from Washington{{Bar|2}}and he's got a cop with him!"}}
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1:01:22
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"You poor sap{{Bar|2}}he's got a million dollar contract for you{{Bar|2}}and he can't swim!"}}
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1:02:41
{{ft/s|
{{Center|A good fairy princess never does things halfway, so it wasn't long before Sam Bisbee's invention had earned its first million.}}
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1:02:59
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Xx-smaller block|SEE THE WORLD THROUGH<br />BISBEE WINDOWS}}}}
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1:03:14
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"{{Bar|2}}and he says to me ''which'' Hazel do you mean? And I comes right back at him and says, 'Bay Rum!{{' "}}}}
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1:03:30
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"I think my father is the funniest man in the world."}}
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1:03:40
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"And I think you're the sweetest little wife in the world."}}
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1:03:57
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"It's too bad you can't come to Andrasia with us, Sam."}}
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1:04:04
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"We certainly slipped that Princess idea over on them, didn't we, Marie?"}}
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1:04:12
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{Smaller|'''SAM BISBEE'''}}}}
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1:04:26
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"Daddy{{Bar|2}}I'm the happiest girl in the world!"}}
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1:04:33
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"So's your old man!"}}
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1:04:58
{{ft/i|
{{Center|{{X-smaller|BISBEE{{Gap}}BISBEE{{Gap}}BISBEE}}}}
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1:05:04
{{ft/d|
{{Center|"If anybody wants me, I'll be in the garage for the next two weeks."}}
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1:05:31
{{ft/s|
{{Block center|{{Xxx-larger|''The''<br />{{Em}}''End''}}}}
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