Title:Serenade
Author(s): James M. Cain
Publisher(s): Orion
Pages: 224
Year: 1937
Format: EPUB
Language: English
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The lawyer was five floors down in the same building. He didn$prime;t have redwood paneling in his office. It was just an office, and he was a brisk little guy named Sholto. I laid it out for him. He leaned back, took a couple of calls, and started to talk. $prime;Sharp, you haven$prime;t got a leg to stand on. You made a contract, a contract that any jury would regard as perfectly fair, and the only thing you can do is go through with it. It may reflect credit on your aesthetic conscience that you prefer opera to pictures, but it doesn$prime;t reflect any credit on your moral conscience that you jump a contract just because you want to. As well as I can make out this picture company took you when you were a bum, put you on your feet, and now you want to hand them a cross. I don$prime;t say you couldn$prime;t lick them in court. Nobody can say what a jury is going to do. But you$prime;ll be a bum before you ever get to court. Show business is all one gigantic hook-up, Gold knows it frontwards, backwards, crosswise, and on the bias, and you haven$prime;t got a chance. You$prime;re sewed. You$prime;ve got to go back and make that picture.»
«Just give up everything, now it$prime;s breaking for me, go back and make a picture just because that cluck has an idea that opera is through?»
«What the hell are you trying to tell me? One more picture like this Bunyan and you can walk into any opera house in the world, and the place is yours. You$prime;re being built into a gallery draw that not one singer in a million can bring into the theatre with him. Haven$prime;t you got any brains? These musicals are quota pictures. They go all over the world. They make you famous from Peru to China and from Norway to Capetown, and from Panama to Suez and back again. Don$prime;t you suppose opera houses know that? Don$prime;t you think the Metropolitan knows it? Do you suppose all this commotion you$prime;ve caused is just a tribute to your A flat in Pagliacci? It is like hell.»
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