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Who can turn the world on with her smile?

Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

Well, it's you, girl, and you should know it.

With each glance and every little movement you show it, love is all

need to waste it. You can never tell, why don't you take it?

You're gonna make it after all.

You're gonna make it after all.

Well, you're covered down with a cold.

What's your temperature?

Oh. What is it?

101.

That has to be my temperature, right? Couldn't be my weight.

Rhoda, you get right back upstairs and into bed. Is there anything I can get

you? Vitamin C, aspirin, anything like that? No, no, ma 'am, nothing. Thanks a

lot, kid.

Although I would like a couple of magazines. That would be nice. A couple

magazines. Okay, I'll drop them off for you. And some books, maybe. A crossword

puzzle. A puzzle, good. Break the monotony.

And fruit, Mary. I love fruit. Okay, I've got some oranges, I think. And you

know what? I was supposed to take my car in for a six -month checkup, and I was

wondering... Rhoda!

All right.

Hi, Mary.

Morning.

Yes, well, uh, I always said that looks aren't important when you have a good

clothes sense going for you.

I'd like to tell you something.

What?

It is so hard for me to tell you this. What is it you can tell me? What?

I'm extremely contagious.

Mary, how you can be so friendly with Rhoda is really beyond me.

Well... Well, anyway, I came up here to ask you for a favor, Mary, but...

Mary, do not say yes unless it's really convenient for you. Promise.

I promise. I was wondering if you could stay with Bess for the weekend. It would

really be terrific, and it would really help me out a lot.

Stay with Bess for the weekend? Is that all?

Oh, sure. I'd be glad to.

Oh, Mary.

Oh, I'm so relieved. Oh, you're a lifesaver.

Well, Bess has her.

Little suitcase all packed and her sleeping bag all rolled up, and she'll

up here and stay with you. Well, listen, would she be more comfortable if I went

down there and stayed with her?

Oh, that wouldn't seem fair.

No, I don't mind.

No, no, I mean to Bess.

See, Lars and I are going off on our little adventure, and she ought to be

to have one, too.

Well, what little adventure are you and Lars...

that Lars and I have any particular problems, but, well, if it's possible

things to be better, why shouldn't he be?

Yeah, it sounds terrific to me, too.

Excuse me. Hold it a minute.

Do you realize you have been tying up my phone for over half an hour? Business

call, Mayor. Can't be helped. What, honey?

Sure will be neato to get out of town.

How about 7 .30?

See you then.

Are you going out of town this weekend?

Well, sort of.

Where are you going, Ted?

Oh, nowhere. Just a place. Not important.

Just someplace. On business.

By myself.

By yourself.

On business?

Well, maybe one other person.

How about coming over to the house tomorrow night and watch a fight with

Paul says he's going to put Sanders away in the twelfths, but I got five bucks

says he doesn't. Thanks, Lou. I'd like to, but I have tickets to a concert

tomorrow night.

A concert?

Go to a fight. Go to a concert.

I can't either, Lou, going out of town.

What? I said I can't either, Lou. Can't either what?

Come to your house and watch.

I guess it's time to go to the studio.

Ted, you sure you can't make it over to the house tomorrow night?

Sorry, no can do.

Maybe some other time, fella.

Murray, you changed your mind.

Thanks, Lou, but I won't.

Mary, this fantastic young pianist is playing with the Minneapolis Symphony.

Starikovsky, Anton Starikovsky.

Sandy's in town?

Yeah. Sandy?

Oh, yeah, that's what we used to call him back in Roseburg.

You mean he's from Roseburg, Minnesota?

Yeah. Hmm, that's disillusioning.

Uh, how well did you know him?

Oh, just slightly.

Uh -huh.

Well, he asked me to marry him.

But you only knew him slightly?

Yeah. Well, of course, I would have known him better if I'd accepted.

Okay, here's the list so far. We have on the agenda going to the car wash, going

horseback riding, going to the park. To identify flora and fauna for my science

report. Right. Getting stuff at the market to bake cookies with. And last

not least, coming home and baking these giant cookies.

Did I leave anything out? That sounds terrific.

weekend going? Great so far, and look what we're going to do today.

Not so close, honey.

Uh -huh, yeah.

Identifying flora and fauna.

Gee, I haven't identified a fauna in Lord knows how long.

It sounds like fun, kids.

Mary, have you got some orange juice I could borrow? Yeah, help yourself.

Hello?

Just a second, please.

Um, Bess, could you go outside and see if the mail's come yet? Well, sure, Aunt

Mary. Thanks.

Sandy, listen, uh, this is just incredibly bad timing. I mean, I can't

anything I would rather do than hear you play, but I've got a small problem.

But listen, how about tomorrow night?

Oh, just the one night, huh? Aunt Mary.

Uh, just a second, Sandy. Yes, ma 'am. Excuse me, but if there's some place you

want to go, don't not go on account of me. I can stay alone.

Oh, no. Oh, Bess, dear, I feel responsible.

Well, you can get a sitter.

No, honey, I just, I couldn't. Sandy. Oh, Mary.

Tell him to hold on. Could you hang on just another couple of seconds?

It is the guy. You showed me his picture in the paper, and he's adorable.

Right. So what are you staying home tonight?

Well, you could go out with him. A little Bess here doesn't mind if you

her with somebody else. No, no, I can't. Okay, I'm going to help you, Mayor.

I'll go out with him.

Honestly,

you should go.

Well, I'd feel bad if you stayed home because of me. Well, come on.

Hello, Sandy.

Slight reversal of plans here.

I'd be delighted.

Tonight at my house.

Okay, great. See you then. Bye -bye.

Well, how do you like that after all these years? I like it. I like it.

Beth, do you have a regular babysitter? I usually call Miss Henderson's agency.

They have the most fun sitters.

Thanks for the orange juice.

And have a good time tonight, huh? Thanks. Feel better.

Yeah.

Mrs. Henderson, this is Mary Richards, and I'd like to hire a sitter.

That's right.

For tonight.

Mrs. Henderson, why are you laughing?

Well, I didn't realize that Saturday nights were booked up so far and, you

bands.

Well, listen, could you recommend another agency?

Well, yes, I realize that you're the best, but could you possibly tell me

second best might be?

There isn't any.

Well, thank you, Mrs. Henderson.

Yeah, she's fun.

I really had a fun time today, Aunt Mary.

Oh, yeah, it was a lot of fun for you sitting around watching me call

babysitters all day.

Come in.

Okay, girls, how do I look?

Whoa!

Rhoda, you're not going out tonight.

Well, you know, Mary, the really craziest thing happened a little while

you know, all day long I've had a temperature of 101, right? Right. So

calls me, who I've been dying to go out with, and he asked me out for tonight.

And this sort of miracle occurred.

Was the miracle.

Well, the miracle was I decided to go out with a temperature of 101.

Oh.

I've got to stop doing that.

So what happened with the sitter?

Well, I called every agency in town. I finally had to call Murray, and he gave

me the name of a sitter who was not available, but her sister is, so she's

coming over to sit with Beth. Well, I'm glad it all worked out for you.

You know, you could make yourself much sicker going out tonight.

Did you tell him you have a temperature of 101?

I would have, ma 'am, but it's this rule I have.

I never discuss flu symptoms with a six -foot -one Yale graduate with a black

curly hair.

Well, you could give him your cold.

Uh -huh. If I play my cards right.

Bye -bye. Bye.

Well, Beth, I think you'll have plenty of stuff to eat tonight. There are

in here to make sandwiches with, and, uh, well, there's enough stuff that the

babysitter brings a boyfriend to eat.

I'll get it up there, okay?

This is Richard's apartment.

Yeah? I'm the sitter.

Let me handle this.

Okay, who's Silas Marner?

Who? She's 11.

What difference does it make how old I am as long as I'm good?

Well, Dee Dee, the thing is that Bess here is 12.

You know, and I mean, it's just funny to even think. Mrs. Richards, I can make

her go to bed. I make my brother go to bed, and he's bigger than she is. So

tell me what time you want the kid in bed.

Dee Dee, this is all very, very admirable, and I'm sure that you're a

Make yourself comfortable, and when my date gets here, we'll drive you home

right now.

I've got 20 minutes to drum up somebody who can come over and sit.

Did I help you with that present, little girl?

No.

Call her.

Call her.

Rota's out.

Murray's not home.

Aunt Mary, I can stay alone. It's only for a few hours.

Absolutely not.

Hi. It's, uh, Mary. Listen, I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm sort of desperate.

Do you by any chance know of somebody who could come over and babysit with

tonight?

See, it's sort of an emergency.

Well, right away.

Yeah, my television set's working.

You mean it?

Oh, thank you. That's absolutely terrific.

See you in a while.

Well, who's going to be my sitter?

Mr. Grant.

Sandy, you too.

Thank you. Well, come on in.

Are these yours?

Oh, no.

No, no.

Whose are these?

Other people's.

That's Bess with the long... Hello, Bess. ...who is staying with me for the

weekend. And this is Dee Dee, who we have to drop off, by the way, as soon as

boss gets here, who is babysitting tonight. And I'll explain it again

Starakovsky? Call me Sandy. It makes life so much simpler.

Excuse me, that'll be my boss.

Oh, Mr. Grant, it's just great that you could come.

Right, where's the set?

It's a black and white.

Oh, yeah.

Mr. Grant, I'd like you to meet Anton, well, Sandy Starakovsky.

Little Dee Dee. Uh -huh. I was all ready to watch the fight, and the two blows

out on my set, and Dee Dee is watching this documentary on her set.

There's six wives of Henry VIII, eight wives of Henry VI, I don't know.

And the championship fight will begin in a few minutes right after this word

from Cavalier Blades.

Well, I guess you're all set, so we can be on our way. Come on, Dee Dee, we'll

drop you off.

Pleasure meeting you.

to take a chance. I'm playing tonight.

Starikovsky, you got a brother who plays for Chicago?

Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. He plays halfback, doesn't he? No, he plays

first violin.

That must be a different Chicago.

Anything you want, kid. Just don't play with matches.

And now here's the referee, Alfred Double, giving the final instructions to

fighters. Oh, yeah.

Boy, this is going to be something.

This is going to be great.

Can I watch with you, Mr. Grant? Sure, sit down.

This is the moment that gets you. Now, you see, it starts slow at first. That's

because they're feeling each other out.

Mapping out their strategy.

See, they've got to go 15.

That's why they're patient.

What?

for such a short thing.

Usually it lasts longer.

Usually I see it.

in any particular grade?

Eighth.

Eighth?

Boy.

Well, well, well.

Great. Good show.

You getting a little drowsy yet?

Not yet. It's still pretty early.

Are there any other championship fights you'd like to watch on TV tonight?

What's that?

Well, see, they have all these kids.

And everybody laughs a lot because they have all these kids.

What else is on? Is anything real on?

Like a western?

Make cookies? I don't make cookies, kid.

Oh, Mr. Graham, it's really fun.

Aunt Mary and I bought this cookie mix. Look, you want to make cookies?

You go get a box of cookies. You get a plate.

Boom, boom, boom. You make cookies.

But they taste so much better when they come out of the oven. All nice and hot.

And you can have them with some nice ice -cold milk. Yeah, nice ice -cold milk,

right. Well, it doesn't have to be milk. You can drink any... Anything cold with

them. Anything you want.

Anything you want.

Like if you want milk, you can have milk.

Right.

And if I want milk, I can have scotch.

Right.

I like it, kid.

cookies on an empty stomach.

Oh, Mr. Grant, you'll love this. Uh -huh.

Okay, put contents in the bowl.

But it's no fun unless we play for something.

Well, I don't get my allowance until tomorrow.

Chips. What can we use for chips?

If you can wait until they cool, we can play for the cookies.

That's a good idea.

Yeah. Okay.

Now, what do you want to play? Spit in the ocean?

Or no peaky baseball?

I meant Mr. Gray.

I'll just be on my merry way.

Good night. Mr. Grant, I just can't thank you enough.

You may have a point.

Well, I guess I better get Bess into bed.

And lunch.

And right up until my plane leaves.

That would be great.

See, Sandy, you know, it is really so strange. I mean, it's like no time at

has passed since we last saw each other. I know.

Aren't we supposed to have changed?

Isn't this where I'm expected to look at you and say to myself, I wonder what I

ever saw in her?

I forgot.

take her sister home, and I took her cab here.

And there's not much chance of me hailing a cab down there at one in the

morning.

Oh.

Well,

look, you don't have to. I can always call a cab. No, not at all.

Mary, I'll see you tomorrow.

See you tomorrow.

Look, you really don't have to. Perfectly okay. I don't mind in the

I take all the merry sitters home.

Nervous? No, I'm a professional. We don't get nervous.

We get panic -stricken.

Hi,

Mary. How did it go?

Oh, just super, Phyllis. Want some cookies that I made? Oh, I'd love some.

little later, honey. Oh, Phyllis Lindstrom, this is Sandy Starikovsky.

Sandy. Oh, Bess, I'd like to hear all about it later. How was the marathon?

Mary, it was the...

experience of my life.

And I truly believe that Lars and I have grown even closer, if you can believe

that.

And so, Mary, that's why I want to ask you another favor.

Well, sure. What is it?

Mary, could you possibly keep Bess just a little while longer?

Well, Phyllis, I'd like to, but you see, Sandy and I are going out in about 20

minutes. Oh!

Plenty of time. Thank you.