Lucille
Chopsticks
Paul
I can play as good as I need to. I can play as good as Berlin, and he’s turned out twice as many hits as anybody.
Lucille
He knows what people want. He appeals to the women.
Paul
It ruins a composer to play the piano too good. They depend on fancy harmony and tempo, instead of pretty melodies.
Paul
His eye drawn to the newspaper.
Did you read that thing from that Boston paper about Pretty PollyPretty Polly? They say Gershwin hasn’t given them one tune. Ten years from now, nobody’ll know there was a Gershwin. He won’t live.
He’s pretty pleased about it, too.
Lucille
At least he won’t starve to death.
Paul
It was me that was responsible for Gershwin getting his start. I brought him and Georgie White together.