u do for ten thousand
dollars is stupid isn't it? I can understand a man's risking
twenty years of his life for some things--a man like Peary or
Dewey, or Santos-Dumont. They took big risks for big prizes. But
there's thousands of men in this country, not half as clever as you
are, earning ten thousand a year--without any risk of going to
jail. None of THEM is afraid to go out in public with his wife and
children. THEY'RE not afraid to ask a policeman what time it is.
They don't have to wear black masks, nor ruin their beautiful
complexions with burnt cork.

REDDY:
Ah, go on. Who'd give ME a job?

ALICE:
Whom did you ever ask for one?

REDDY:
(to HARRY)
Pass me some more of that pie like mother used to make.

HATCH:
Yes, there are clerks and shopkeepers working behind a counter
twenty-four hours a day, but they don't make ten thousand a year,
and no one ever hears of THEM. There's no FAME in their job.

ALICE:
Fame! Oh, how interesting. Are you--a celebrity?

HATCH:
I'm quite as well known as I care to be. Now, tomorrow, all the
papers will be talking about this. There'll be columns about us
three. No one will know we are the ones they're talking about--

REDDY:
I hope not.

HATCH:
But the men in our profession will know. And they'll say, "That
was a neat job of So-and-so's last night." That's fame. Why,
we've got a reputation from one end of this country to the other.

HARRY:
That's right! There's some of us just as well known as--Mister--
Santos--Dumont.

REDDY:
And we fly just as high, too.

ALICE:
(to HATCH)
I suppose YOU--I suppose you're quite a FAMOUS burglar?

REDDY:
Him? Why, he's as well known as Billy the Kid.

ALICE:
Billy the kid, really! He sounds SO attractive. But I'm afraid--I
don't think--that I ever heard of HIM.

REDDY:
Never heard of Billy the Kid? What do you think of that?

HATCH:
Well, then, I'm as well known as "Brace" Phillips, the Manhattan
Bank robber.

REDDY:
SURE he is.

HATCH:
Don't tell me you never heard of him?

ALICE:
I'm afraid not.

HATCH:
Why, he's a head-liner. He's as well known as George Post. Coppy
Farrell? Billy Porter?

ALICE:
No. There you are. Now, you claim there is fame in this
profession, and you have named five men who