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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 alone,

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.

Is it new?

Yeah.

It's smart, it says it, and it's you.

Thank you.

Hey, I thought you had an iron. Yeah, I do, but you need two of them for a

grilled cheese sandwich.

I was watching television, and there was Pat Boone, and I suddenly got this urge

for a grilled cheese sandwich. And, of course, a glass of milk.

Mary!

Mary, I'm glad I caught you alone. Are you busy?

Close the door. Oh, yes.

Bess is outside with her young man, and they're going to the school dance, and

she's so proud of him. I just know how much she'd like you to meet him. Oh,

sure, I'd love to meet him. Oh, and Mary, when I bring them in, don't make a

big fuss over them. Don't treat them like children.

They're not children, you know. They're little people.

I would love to meet your little people. Why don't you just slide them under the

door?

Mary, you know what I mean.

Young people find it embarrassing to be gushed over.

It's so patronizing. Promise me you won't gush. I promise.

I won't gush. I cross my heart.

I'm going to bring them in now.

You can come in now. They're coming in now.

Good dress.

Thanks, Aunt Mary. This is my friend William Campbell, Mary Richards.

Hello, William. Nice to meet you.

You didn't tell me your aunt was such a beautiful woman.

Oh, well, thank you.

Isn't he cute? And so polite.

Hi, Mary.

Rhoda Morgenstern. Beautiful Aunt Mary's good -natured friend.

Nice to meet you.

I said the cutest little thing you ever saw.

Miss? Miss Richards, best mention you work in a newsroom at WJM.

Well, I'm very interested in you. Oh, well, I tell you, anytime you want to,

come down to the station and look around, huh?

Thanks. I like that.

Everybody, I am late. I'm sorry. I've got to run. I've got to meet my date

downtown in five minutes.

Well, if Miss Richards is going downtown, maybe she could drop us off

you a trip.

Oh, Mary? Yeah, sure. I don't see why not.

Well, you two have a wonderful time now.

Remember, there's no curfew.

Whenever you two decide to come home, it's all right with Lars and me.

Goodbye.

And I'll be in the park.

have to go up those stairs to that lonely room and spend an unexciting

with a book. Whereas you get to spend an exciting evening with Lars, watching

him try to wake up his leg.

Good morning.

Well, good morning.

Remember you told me I could come down to the newsroom and look around?

Yeah, right, I did. It's just that I didn't expect to see you so soon.

You really look beautiful this morning.

Well, thank you.

Don't you have school today?

Nope, they let me off.

Well, I'm going to do a story for the school paper, you know, all about

television news programs. Uh -huh. So they let me off.

Oh, well, well. Well, this is the newsroom. Oh, not much going on right

Did you have a nice time last night?

Yeah, yeah, it was okay.

You know, I don't think it was right of your date to have you meet him like

that. I mean, I may be old -fashioned.

But the right thing to do would have been to pick you up at your apartment.

You know, I couldn't agree with you more.

Guess we're both old -fashioned, huh?

Yeah, I guess.

That guy you were out with last night, did you see him a lot?

No.

Boy, you really do an in -depth interview, don't you?

school paper i'm always pleased to meet a fellow journalist thank you may i have

a cup of coffee yeah sure

news writing. I mean, around here, news writing is one of the most important

jobs. That's right.

If it weren't for me, people would turn on the six o 'clock news, see a grown

man with a silly look on his face saying, good evening, I'm... I'm... Hi,

guys.

Oh,

hi, Sonny.

Any fresh coffee?

Uh, yeah, Ted, I'll get you some. Sit down, Mr. Richards, I'll get it.

Well, thanks. Cute kid.

How many figures did he take? Six.

Bill, I'd like you to meet William Campbell.

William's doing a story on the newsroom for a school paper.

Oh, really?

Well, pleased to meet you, Bill. I hope you don't mind my calling you Bill.

No. Good.

Well, Bill, it all started in a 5 ,000 -watt radio station in Fresno,

California.

Grant won.

Well, either I shape up or I'm fired.

I thought I was a mail boy. That's Lou.

Everybody under the age of 20 looks alike.

Mary, will you handle this? Yes, sir.

Mail! All right, I'm late.

You're not the mail boy. No, Mr. Grant, this is the mail boy. Come here, kid.

Uh, listen, um, about that in there, about, uh, what

I said.

You know, if I sounded a little tough, well, that was because...

Here's a buck.

Anyway, the turning point in my career came one night when I heard the lonely

clickety -clack of the railway train.

It seemed to be saying to me over and over, go into television, go into

television.

And then the train said, and you'll be bad, and you'll...

Hannah, figure it out, man.

He met you and I at the same time, and yet he picked you.

That's sort of sweet, though. I mean, he helped me off with my coat. He opened

doors for me. He kept telling me how beautiful I was.

You know, I had somebody in love with me like that once.

Freckles, chocolate stains on his face, runny nose.

He was a stockbroker.

William! It's me, Mary. William.

Mary, William. Ho, ho. First name, base name. this already, huh?

Hello. Hi.

You really look beautiful tonight.

This is where I came in. See you later, Mayor. Nice to see you again. Rhoda,

must you go?

That's very nice of you, Mayor, but you know what they say, three's a crowd.

Besides that, I can tell you two young people would like to be alone.

I was in the neighborhood and there was something I felt I had to tell you.

Oh?

Mary,

on the school paper.

I just used that as an excuse to spend the day with you.

Would you forgive me?

Well, uh, yeah.

I don't see why not.

Good.

Can I come in for a minute?

Oh, yeah, sure. Come on in.

I also remember you told me you liked a good conversation, so I thought maybe

tonight we could just sit around and get to know each other better.

We won't be needing these, will we?

Tell me, Mary, why haven't you ever gotten married?

Oh, just never met the right guy, I guess.

But you have lived with somebody before, though.

Ice cream.

Ice cream. That's what we need is some ice. I haven't had any dessert, and I

you haven't had your dessert either, right? So why don't I just...

I'll have Beth come up here, and then we'll all have some ice cream. Beth!

Hi, Aunt Mary told me you were up here. How come you weren't at school today?

Um, I didn't feel like going.

I like you too.

Only there's somebody I've met that I like better, and I don't think we ought

go out with each other anymore.

I know who it is. It's that new girl, isn't it?

Carmela Corchione.

The one with the big sweaters.

You're never going to get it by taking wild guesses.

Is she in our homeroom?

No, she's not in our homeroom. Is she in our class?

No. Is she older? Yes.

Does she have brown hair? Yes.

No. Do I know her?

Yes.

Old. Old.

Doesn't go to our school.

Brown hair.

William, what are you doing in Aunt Mary's apartment?

Nothing. I was just talking to her. You have eight questions left.

It should be a barrier.

That nice kid who was here yesterday.

What? The one I spent four hours with telling my whole life story to?

I'm going to report him to his school. Who sent the flowers?

The nice kid.

Well, if he thinks I'm going to forgive him just because he sent me flowers.

He sent the flowers to me. See, he's got kind of a crush on me.

Oh, what am I going to do? I don't want to hurt his feelings. He's such a sweet

boy. Say, Mayor.

watching a rerun of Ozzie and Harriet the other night, and Ricky had the same

problem.

He fell in love with his high school English teacher.

Ozzie took him into his den. You know that den that he had?

Ozzie told him, he said, Ricky, in this world, when you cheat, you're only

cheating yourself.

Ricky was cheating with his high school English teacher?

Must have gotten that mixed up with the episode where Ricky had David. do his

homework for him.

Well, anyway, it all worked out in the end.

Of course, I don't think it'll be so easy for you, Mayor.

That's right, Mayor.

You don't have an Aussie to talk to.

Any calls?

No, no calls. Say, Lou, you ever have a crush on anyone older when you were a

kid? Yeah.

Her name was Margaret.

She didn't even know I was alive.

Isn't that funny how I almost forgot that?

Yeah, Margaret.

She had this golden hair.

She had the best rear end I ever saw.

So firm you could crack an egg on it.

That's about as tender as we'll ever see her.

Newsroom. Yeah, she's here.

Hold on.

Is it? Mm -hmm.

Do you date anyone else who calls me, sir?

don't think that we should lunch well all right i think

maybe it is a good idea for us to have a talk all right fine see you then

goodbye mary's got a boyfriend can

you

imagine william is taking me to la parisienne it's not that expensive You

what kind of place it is? Up front they have this big sign that says, over two

million escargots sold.

I just figured that lunch was as good a place as any to get this whole thing

cleared up. Yeah.

Are you expecting someone?

Uh -uh.

You don't suppose it's him?

Worse, it's her.

Now, Rhoda, if you don't mind, I'd like to speak to Mary on a personal matter.

Go ahead.

wrote a note.

Mary, I came here tonight to assure you

before this trivial situation gets blown up out of all proportion that you have

nothing to feel guilty about.

In fact, Bess and Lars and I all agree that it is really the best thing that

could have happened.

What's the best thing that could have happened? That William chose you over

Bess.

of the other woman.

Rhoda, speak not of what you know not of.

After all, Mary, you may be the first rival Bess ever had, but you're

not going to be the last.

Still is. I am not Bess's rival. I think Lars said it for all of us when he said

to Bess...

more than that.

That's laws.

He always speaks not of what he knows not of.

I had a rather similar experience in high school.

There was this boy that I liked very much, and then there was this

other girl.

Little Miss Personality, bright, cheerful,

Perky. Oh, you know the type.

A girl not unlike you, Mary.

Oh, I'll admit she had a kind of surface charm, but no real depth.

So, naturally, I was hurt when he invited her to the prom instead

of me.

But I got over it.

Oh, there were a few schoolgirl tears.

A few dark nights of the soul.

It wasn't easy accepting the fact that I was the only girl in my senior class

who didn't have a date to her own prom.

I was so ashamed I didn't have a date. I told my father I was meeting this boy

at his house.

Isn't that ridiculous?

And that night, I put on my green organdy formal

evening gown.

purple orchid wrist corsage that I had sent to myself.

And I went out alone to the movies.

I sat through three showings until it was time to go back to my house

where I cried myself to sleep.

Sort of a catharsis, you might say. I feel like a million.

I'll see you later. I've got to go wash my hair.

And for dessert, may I suggest our pastry tray?

You don't have orange marmalade ice cream, do you? She seems to like that.

I'm sorry.

Okay, the pastry tray.

I promise you, you will have everything just the way you want it. Thank you.

And could I talk to the violinist now, please?

Certainly. Maurice?

Maurice? This young man would like you to play something for him and his young

lady. With pleasure.

May I suggest...

Yes, I'm supposed to meet somebody here. Very.

Right this way.

You.

You really look beautiful this afternoon.

William, I want you to know that the only reason I came here this

Here, it's for you.

William, I don't want you buying presents from me. I can afford it. I got

great paper route.

Aren't you going to open it?

It's not real gold.

Shall I help you put it on?

Sure.

Mary, is it too late to ask you to the movies Saturday night?

William, I cannot go to the movies with you.

Friday? No.

Monday? I'm usually not allowed on school nights. William!

because you're friends with Bess. You don't want to go out with me.

It has nothing to do with Bess.

Is there somebody else?

William, there doesn't have to be somebody else.

Just physical.

Let me explain something to you.

You, William, are a boy.

And I, Mary, am a grown -up lady.

And you see, grown -up ladies just do not go out with little boys.

So you're a grown -up. Big deal.

That's right. It is a big deal. Well, who said? I said.

Well, you're really lousy, you know.

Shouldn't have told me you liked me.

William, please stop kicking the table. You're going to spill the water.

Listen, listen to me.

These things sometimes happen. Sometimes two people meet and they're just not

right for each other.

And it's nobody's fault.

William, can't you understand that?

William, look, I can't fall in love with every man I meet, can I?

I guess not.

Good. Now, sit up straight and eat your lunch. It looks delicious.

Mary, you know, I really liked going with you.

Thanks. Me too.

I'd like you to meet Roger Henshaw. Roger, this is Mary Richards. Hi, Roger.

Hello. We're going to the movies.

Oh, great. I hope you have a wonderful time.

You better get going now. Okay. It was nice meeting you, Roger, and I hope I'll

see you again.

With Beth.

Sometime.

Okay, uh, bye.

Bye -bye.

Bye.

Aunt Mary.

What? She didn't even notice you.

Great!