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A lyricist moves to New York City aspiring to make it big on Tin Pan Alley.

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Act III

Fred
I wished it wasn’t quite so soon.
Eileen
What?
Fred
I mean, on account of those two numbers.
Eileen
Don’t forget⁠—you’re to ask him for a thousand dollars advance on each of them.
Fred
June Moon
Eileen
Don’t be ridiculous! That number will still be selling when you’re dead.
Fred
I won’t care so much then.
Eileen
Your children will. Don’t you want children, dear?
Fred is embarrassed.
Fred
I don’t get along with them very good.
Eileen
You would with your own.
Fred
No. I figure I’d get along better with other people’s, because they’d go home once in a while.
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