" 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 are at the top of it,
and I've never heard of one of them. And I read the papers, too.
REDDY:
Well, there's OTHER ladies who have heard of us. Real ladies.
When I was doing my last bit in jail, I got a thousand letters from
ladies asking for me photograph, and offering to marry me.
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