Mr. Poppins, excuse me.
This is my granddaughter, Essie,
and this is her husband, Mr. Carmichael.
Hello.
-What do you say, Mr. Poppins?
-How do you do?
Help yourself to a Love Dream.
They're on the table.
And this is my daughter, Mrs. Sycamore.
-This is Mr. Poppins, dear.
-How do you do?
Have a chair, Mr. Poppins.
Were you ever in a monastery?
In a monastery? Well, I....
What's the matter, Penny? Stuck?
Yes, I sort of got myself in a monastery
and I can't get out.
It'll come to you.
Remember how you got out of that jail?
Oh, that's fine, Ed.
-Is Alice coming home to dinner?
-She didn't say.
I think she should stop working
in that millinery shop.
They make her stay so late.
Penny, she hasn't been there
for five months.
She hasn't?
Isn't that a shame?
She was going to get me a hat I liked.
-She works for bankers now.
-Bankers? That's wonderful.
Essie's dancing teacher
wants to borrow $100 on his car.
Do you think she could fix it?
Sure, Kirby and Company
just loaned somebody $80 million.
I must speak to Alice about it.
Mr. DePinna was right.
The powder chamber
was too close to the balloon.
-Have a Love Dream, Father.
-No, thanks.
Mr. Poppins, this is Mr. Sycamore,
my son-in-law.
How do you do?
We're testing a new skyrocket
and Mr. DePinna was saying--
Knew it all the time.
You can't have that powder chamber close.
Mr. Poppins, Mr. DePinna.
How do you do?
-Mr. Poppins is going to stay with us.
-Oh, really? How wonderful!
Just for a short time. You see--
That's what I thought, that day
nine years ago when I delivered the ice.
Nine years ago?
You were the ice man.
-Mr. Poppins makes up things.
-Really?
You do?
Say, that's wonderful!
-Did you make that all by yourself?
-Yes.
That beats all.
-I have other ideas, too. Better ones.
-You have?
-Let's go down to the shop.
-You have a shop? That's marvelous.
Mrs. Penny...
Mrs. Penny...
...why don't you write a play
about "ism" mania?
-"Ism" mania?
-Yes, sure.
You know, communism, fascism...
...voodooism,
everybody's got an "ism" these days.
-I thought it was an itch or something.
-Well, it's just as catching.
When things go a little bad nowadays,
you go out and get yourself an "ism"...
...and you're in business.
I got it.
It might help Cynthia to have an "ism"
in the monastery.
Yes, it might at that.
Only give her Americanism.
Let her know something about Americans.
John Paul Jones, Patrick Henry,
Samuel Adams.
Washington, Jefferson, Monroe.
Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Edison and Mark Twain.
When things got tough with those boys,
they didn't run around looking for "isms."
Lincoln said, "With malice toward none,
with charity for all."
Nowadays they say, "Think the way I do
or I'll bomb the daylights out of you."
Why don't you go back
to your war play, Mrs. Sycamore?
-I like that one best.
-Really, Rheba? Well, maybe I will.
Hello. Miss Alice Sycamore, please.
You know, every once in a while
I get a very strange sensation.
I seem to hear a ringing in my ears.
Me, too. I thought for a moment
it was the telephone.
Yeah.
I hear voices, too.
Voices that say, "If you don't kiss her soon,
you're a chump."
If I were really clever, I could answer
the phone without the use of my hands.
I saw it done in a circus once.
Good.
That's wonderful.
I bet you'd be a sensation on a trapeze.
-Mr. Anthony Kirby Junior's office.
-Now, that's clever the way you say that.
Hello, Rheba.
No, Rheba.
Were you ever in a monastery?
No, but I'm the fellow
that got caught in a cave once.
-Really?
-Yeah.
Whatever happened to you?
Well, the cave caved in
and I haven't been heard from since.
Mrs. Kirby.
Hello, Mr. Hammond.
I'm just going in to see my son, Tony.
He's a very busy man nowadays.
I doubt if you can see him.
Dinner? Wait a minute, Rheba.
Wants to know if I will be home for dinner.
-No.
-The man says no, Rheba.
Tell Grandpa that I love him
just as much as ever...
...but a terrible,