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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

I've been doing some sketches of this house.

And I wondered if you'd be kind enough to let me come in and look around

You mean my apartment?

Well, it's not a lot of trouble. You see, nobody else seems to be home.

Well, no.

No trouble.

Come on in. Thank you.

I certainly do appreciate it. Well, you're going to have to excuse the mess.

Mess?

Oh, yeah, you're right. It is pretty neat, isn't it?

I guess that's just a reflex.

My name's Matt Bryan.

I'm Mary Richards.

I guess you know that this house is a Frank Wright.

A Frank Lloyd Wright?

No, no, no.

Frank Wright.

Wright. Wright.

The two are often confused, but in fact, Frank Wright died in 1936 of acute

frustration. Oh.

But his houses were pretty famous, huh? Oh, very famous, because they were so

ugly.

Oh.

Oh, I don't mean to say that this is ugly. No, I think that you've...

Fixed this up very nicely.

Would it be okay if I just made a couple quick sketches?

Oh, yeah, sure.

Is this for a magazine or something? No, no, it's just for my files. You see,

I'm thinking of writing a book called Humor in Architecture.

So if it's all right, I'll just sketch my way around and maybe you can pretend

that I'm not here, huh? Oh, yeah, sure.

Would it be all right if I talk while you're doing that?

Oh, sure, by all means.

You know, this is one of the last of Reich's houses still standing in

Minneapolis. Oh? What did they do, tear them all down?

No, they mostly fell down all by themselves.

No, really.

Well, you're right. Yes, they did tear them down. And what did they replace

with? High -rises and office buildings.

Could I see what you're doing? Sure.

You can have it.

Of course, if I ever have to refer to it, I'll have to come back and take

another look.

Well, I better put my groceries away. The frozen stuff will start to fall off.

Okay, I'll get out of your way for a minute.

Oh, well, no.

Tell me, is this balcony safe?

From there, he looks gorgeous, too.

Can you just lock the windows?

I mean, can you keep him out there? I'll help you feed and water him.

wrote a Morgenstern. She lives upstairs.

Oh, I didn't realize there was a fourth floor. There isn't, but I live up there

anyway.

If you'd like to see what I've done with my apartment, maybe you'd like to

sketch it. Well, thank you, but I've got to get back to the office.

Oh.

I didn't finish. Maybe some other time I could come back. Oh, you'll maybe come

back and finish. Yeah, and next time I'll bring a bottle of wine.

Oh, great. Nice meeting you, lady.

sketched your telephone.

Yeah.

Yes, Matt, the house is still standing.

Okay. All right, I'll see you in a little while.

Goodbye.

Frank Reich.

Reich? Reich. He designed the old house I'm living in.

Big deal.

Give me a modern apartment building any day.

Yeah, you should see Ted's place.

Really something.

Floodlights out front.

Sparkle stuff in the stucco.

Plastic palm trees.

It's really sort of special.

Hey, gang, how about a little luncherino?

Thanks, Ted. I'd like to, but I have a date for lunch. Who is Matt?

Uh, an architect.

That's why all the sudden interest, hmm?

Personally, I don't care for architecture.

Uh,

Mary, what's your architect's name?

I hope it isn't Frank Reich.

Oh, no, no, it's Matt Bryan.

Hey, I think I did a story on him once. Yeah?

Yeah, isn't he interested in preserving old houses or something?

Yeah, that sounds like Matt.

Well, I wrote a big... feature on this organization he started to save old

buildings. Mary, pull the Matt Bryan file.

Matt Bryan?

Well, Mr. Grant, that's the most fantastic coincidence. Murray and I were

talking about Matt Bryan.

That's not a coincidence. I heard you. That's why I told you to pull his file.

Graham Bryan.

Matt.

Here you are, Mr. Grant.

I don't want that.

Well, why'd you have me pull it then?

Because I thought you'd be interested in looking at it.

Oh, no.

There's probably some good stuff in there.

Well, thank you. Personal stuff.

No, I really, I don't think that... Matt Bryan.

Matt Bryan.

Born April 3rd, 1990.

He's almost as old as I am.

Is he?

Pretty good picture of him, too.

But I...

interested in that kind of stuff.

Right.

I'll just, um, refile this for you.

individual. That's a striking resemblance. Well, you see, I was just

research for a documentary we're thinking of doing on famous Minneapolis

architects. I'll just refile this with this other research.

Hello,

Matt Bryant.

Oh, hi, I'm Luke Grant.

And this is Marie Slaughter. Hi, how are you?

They're pouring the foundation for a building I designed, and I have to hurry

over there before the cement dries.

Oh, what for?

I always like to put my footprint in it.

He really looks great, doesn't he? Yeah, he sure does.

Who?

The guy Mary's interested in.

Who?

The guy she just left with, Matt Bryan.

Is he better looking than me?

44.

44? Oh, I don't believe it. I mean, he looks incredible.

He's the youngest looking 44 I ever saw.

Guess how old I am.

Well, I'm prematurely gray.

I hope I look that good when I'm his age.

Murray, you don't look that good now. Why should you be?

44.

He just doesn't look that old.

That's not old.

I'm 46.

He's 44.

You're 46.

Gee, we better warn Mary what he's going to look like in two years.

You know, I have this terrible fear that someday my zipper's going to be stuck

and there'll be nobody here to unzip me and I'll have to call the fire

department to get me out of my dress.

Wait a minute. Would you stand still a minute?

That's one thing about dressing window dummies. They never walk away from you.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's just that Matt's going to pick me up in a few minutes. I

don't want to be late. There.

You're going out with him again?

Yeah, well, it's just our second date. Your second date today.

Mary, you don't have to tell me what a man...

on your dresser if you don't want to. I don't want to.

Oh, come on.

A whole wallet.

Most I ever got was cab fare home.

It's not what you think, Rhoda.

Matt and I had lunch today and he had to leave in a hurry and he forgot his

wallet on the cashier's counter.

You know, you can really get to know a lot about a guy by reading his wallet.

Hey, Rhoda, come on. That would be like somebody going through your purse.

No, it's too late, ma 'am. I've already gotten into it. I just can't put it

down.

Dude. What?

It's a picture of Matt with a very tiny baseball player.

Let me see.

Oh, yeah, I think that's his son.

Oh, isn't he darling?

Mary, I don't know how to break this to you, but where there's a son, quite

often there's a mother.

And even a wife sometimes.

Oh, well, no, I'm pretty sure that Matt's divorced.

Did he tell you that?

No, but on his driver's license where it says married, it's been crossed out,

see? Uh -huh, uh -huh.

No good, Matt.

So he's got a kid.

Looks like he's about nine years old.

Ah! Not ready.

Matt, I'll leave you... Miss Richards?

Yes? My father got stuck on the job, and so he asked me to come and pick you up.

I pictured you about nine years old.

Well, I was about 15 years ago.

The last time we saw you, you were about this big.

I beg your pardon?

Oh, it was a picture in your father's wallet. Right. Oh, I have it. He left it

today when we had lunch. Yeah, I can see where you got confused about me.

But my father still looks pretty much the same as he did 15 years ago.

I guess it sort of runs in the family. You ought to meet my grandfather.

I'd like to.

you himself, but he's up in a building under construction, and they haven't put

the phones in yet. Well, are you an architect, too? Yeah, I work for my

I'm also double parked outside, so I'll wait for you in the car, all right? Oh,

yes, sure. I'll just be a second.

Nice to meet you. Yeah, borrow that, Judith.

Really? What a cute boy.

Rhoda, I got news for you. That's a grown man.

You know, something just occurred to me.

I am only about...

six years older than he is.

Ah, this is a make. Matt and I are just dating, right? Oh, Mary, when you're

over 30 and still single, there's no such thing as just dating. Unless you're

Gidget.

Guthrie Theater.

Well, I... We don't know how it's going. We only go places where we can't talk.

Yeah, I'll hold.

Phyllis, I thought you were... Yes, I was.

But your problem is too big to talk about on the telephone.

he doesn't want to talk about marriage.

No, Phyllis, I didn't say he doesn't want to talk about marriage. I said he

doesn't seem to want to talk. Mary, when they don't seem to want to talk,

marriage is what they're always not talking about.

How well I remember it. Every time I even got close to the subject of

with Lars, he didn't want to talk about it.

He still doesn't want to talk about it.

about marriage.

Mary, why not?

Well, because I don't know him. What do you mean you don't know him?

Okay, fellas, let me give you an example of a typical evening with Matt. He

picks me up, we get into his car, immediately he puts a cassette into his

deck, usually a Broadway show, and we sort of hum along with that till we get

the theater, which is just before the curtain goes up, so again, we don't

After the play, he takes me to a loud place for a drink where it is impossible

to talk, then he brings me home and we say goodnight. Oh.

If Lars and I could only communicate like that again.

You know, one time his tape deck was broken and we had to really talk.

I mean, I don't mean just words going back and forth. I mean, really talk.

I thought, boy, we had finally made a breakthrough.

And then what happened? He went to Chicago.

Well, Lars goes to St. Paul.

went to Chicago because his tape deck was broken. I mean, when he got back, it

was fixed and we were right back to the original cast recording of Man of La

Mancha. Oh, I love that show.

But what do you think you're going to hear tonight?

How are you and Matt getting along these days?

Oh, fine, I guess.

He left for Chicago again.

You know, I can't get over how great Matt looks for a guy most lose age?

Yeah, well, he really works at it. How do you mean?

Probably he watches his diet.

Yeah, he eats, but, you know, only the right foods, if you know what I mean.

Nothing with sugar or starch, no fats or carbohydrates. That leaves celery.

Listen, anybody can look young, but I like the respect that comes with that

-seasoned look.

In fact, when I was in high school, the teachers used to call me sir.

Well, Matt.

Hi, what are you doing here?

Well, I'm redesigning an office on the 10th floor, and I just decided I'd drop

by. Oh, that's nice.

Oh, Matt, I'd like you to meet my boss, Lou Grant.

This is Matt Bryan, Jr. Oh, hi. And Murray Slaughter.

Hi, how are you? Mary, I'm going to an early lunch before Ted comes in and asks

me to go to lunch. Nice to meet you.

Listen, speaking about lunch, do you think you can get away, too?

Well, sure, yeah, I guess I can.

Look, I just have to run this over to Mimi. I'll be right back. You just make

yourself at home.

Okay.

Nice to meet you, Matt.

You're Matt Bryan?

Yes. The architect?

Oh, yes.

They were right.

About what? You're an incredible shape. How do you do it?

I don't understand.

What month were you born in?

September.

Oh, that explains it.

I'm eight months older than you are.

Then you know the whole thing is indelibly etched in my brain.

Oh, good.

I think I'll have the garden -fresh chef's salad bowl with crispy croutons

tangy bacon bits.

And you?

I'll have a cup of piping hot coffee.

Right.

Is that all?

Oh, I had a late breakfast.

Well, if you had a late breakfast, how come you invited me to an early lunch?

Well, I just wanted to talk. Boy, some coffee break. Nobody even left me a

newspaper to read.

about?

Mainly about you.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's hard not to listen.

Would you mind if I asked you a personal question?

Can I hear the question before I answer that question?

How do you feel about my father?

Oh, why?

Well, you see, I like you.

Well, thank you, Matt. I like you too.

Can we talk about something else? No, Mary. Mary, it's okay.

Oh,

I'm sorry.

I'll go see if I can find a newspaper.

Matt, what is this all about?

Mary, you've got my father on the run.

He's not in Chicago. He just told you he was.

What? And he wasn't there last week either.

Well, why?

He's afraid.

Of me? Of you. Of love.

of marriage, of divorce.

Boy, he sure works fast.

No, not really. He gets nervous when he gets attracted to somebody.

You see, he thinks that attraction leads to love, and love leads to marriage,

and marriage leads to divorce.

So now the only girls he sees are the ones he doesn't like.

Well, I don't think he likes me anymore.

Why? Because he just walked in.

They told me at your office you'd probably be here. Is there anything

that I shouldn't know about? No, no, we're just having lunch.

Would you like to join us? No, but I'd be happy to replace you.

I've been doing a lot of thinking, a lot of thinking about us and about our

relationship, and it's occurred to me, you see, that I am very much attracted

you, and marry me.

Uh, no.

No? No, I had the garden fresh, the piping.

Oh!

I've been running for so long. I guess I stopped too quickly, didn't I? Yeah, I

think you did.

I think there has to be something in between man of La Mancha and will you

me?

Right, right. Well, now, look, why don't we start talking and get to know each

other now?

Yeah, I'd like that.

Then will you marry me?

No, one second.

My first treehouse. I knew I was either going to be an architect or Tarzan.

Oh, Ted, have you met Matt Bryan?

Oh, yes, we've met.

We have?

You're Matt Bryan?

Yes. The architect?

Yes. You just had lunch with Mary?

Yes.

Oh, that's it. You shaved your mustache.

Lane.