Animal Crackers1930

Mrs. Rittenhouse:
You are one of the musicians, but you were not due until tomorrow.

Ravelli:
Couldn't come tomorrow, that's too quick.

Spaulding:
Say, you're lucky he didn't come yesterday.

Ravelli:
We were busy yesterday. But we charge just the same.

Spaulding:
This is better than exploring. What do you fellas get an hour?

Ravelli:
Oh, for playing, we get ten dollars an hour.

Spaulding:
I see. What do you get for not playing?

Ravelli:
Twelve dollars an hour.

Spaulding:
Well, clip me off a piece of that.

Ravelli:
Now for rehearsing, we make special rate: that's'a fifteen dollars an hour.

Spaulding:
That's for rehearsing?

Ravelli:
That's for rehearsing.

Spaulding:
And what do you get for not rehearsing?

Ravelli:
You couldn't afford it. You see, if we don't rehearse, we don't play. And if we don't play [snaps fingers], that runs into money.

Spaulding:
How much would you want to run into an open manhole?

Ravelli:
Just the cover charge. [Laughs with Mrs. Rittenhouse.]

Spaulding:
Well, drop in some time.

Ravelli:
Sewer.

Spaulding:
Well, we cleaned that up pretty well.

Ravelli:
Well, let's see how we stand.

Spaulding:
Flat-footed.

Ravelli:
Yesterday, we didn't come. [to Mrs. Rittenhouse] You remember, yesterday, we didn't come.

Spaulding:
Oh, I remember.

Ravelli:
Yeah, that's three hundred dollars.

Spaulding:
Yesterday, you didn't come, that's three hundred dollars.

Ravelli:
Yes, that's three hundred dollars.

Spaulding:
Well, that's reasonable, I can see that all right.

Ravelli:
Now today, we did come. That's, uh...

Spaulding:
That's a hundred you owe us.

Ravelli:
Hey, I bet I'm gonna lose on the deal. Tomorrow, we leave. That's worth about...

Spaulding:
A million dollars.

Ravelli:
Yeah, that's all right for me, but I gotta partner.

Spaulding:
A partner?!

Hives:
(announcing) The Professor!