![]() He even does a cold-read to convince Campbell of his skills.Ĭampbell stops him mid-monologue and tells him he is great! Campbell still needs to convince the backer, so he sends Rains over to see Nick Roper, a gangsta who has decided to dabble in culture. Rains tells him he can perform the role through make-up and acting. The next morning, Campbell tells Rains there is big role open in the play, but Campbell says he is too soft, which is ironic since the role is of a blackmailer. ![]() Campbell is remorseful about how he treated Rains earlier that day and says it would be an honor to have Rains in his play. Campbell takes him back to his office and puts him to sleep on his sofa. They speak briefly and Rains passes out, this being back in the good old days when $20 could get it done. He laments the modern playwrights as Campbell enters the bar and overhears him. Well that is understandable, it has been 350 years. “Nobody writes like that anymore, Jerry,” he says. It should have been worth another sawbuck to get him to knock it off. Rains takes the $20 back to the bar and begins performing Macbeth for the bartender. Campbell had stolen $5,000 as a bank teller long ago, but now is married to a high class society dame from a rich family that has probably stolen millions exploiting the working man so Campbell’s small-time larceny would be humiliating to them.Ĭampbell gives Rains $20, and leaves him crying in his office. They were both from a bad area of Philly, and had made up more glamorous stories of their background when they got to the big city. Rains says he will blackmail Campbell about the 3 years he spent in prison. Rains says he feels that he is only his characters, there is nothing underneath and that’s why he drinks. Being pre- ADA, Campbell tells him he is a drunk and he won’t hire him. His secretary talks him into seeing Rains. He goes to Campbell’s office, but Campbell is on the way to a cocktail party. Enjoying his water on the rocks, he sees that Wayne Campbell has a new play. What he wants is an alcohole.īeing the kind of bar that has caricatures of actors on the wall, there just happens to be a copy of Variety on the floor. He has been cut off due to his bar tab, and it literally becomes a watering hole as that is all they will serve him. Broadway actor Claude Rains stops by his favorite watering hole and orders a scotch.
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