Manic
Depressive
Pictures presents...
Hello, Fresno, goodbye!
Pro duced by R .U. Manic
And direc ted by Depressive
Now you know the name
of the picture
and you'd like to see it, but no.
Screenplay by Gluck,
from a stage play by Motz,
from a story by Blipp,
from a chapter by Ronk,
from a sentence by Dopes,
from a comma by Stokes,
from an idea by Gropes,
based on a Joe Miller's jokes.
Now you know the name of the picture,
and who wrote it,
an d you'd still like to see it.
But now...
Now finally, finally at last,
comes the picture.
And what do we see?
The same old beauti
ful Corvus Girls.
The opening scene is a ranch in Fresno,
California.
So what are they singing?
When it's cherry blossom time
in Orange, New Jersey
We'll make a peach of a pear
I know we can't elope,
so honey, do be mine
And if up from the gulch
rides a hunk of man
He is our hero,
Cowboy Dan
A galloping, yodeling buckaroo
His horse, of course, is a baritone, too.
I've got the old wagon
wheels inside of me.
I've got that old cactus
in the hide of me.
I've got that...
The girls are delighted to hear this.
But where is our heroine?
As the bell rings for lunch,
we find our heroine in the corral,
eating her heart out.
She is Mary Swann,
tap -dancing daughter
of an American juggling act
who left her on the doorstep
of an old English castle
where she was found by Sir Basil Metabolism who said,
I chose a girl, baby.
I shall raise her as me own
daughter, which he did.
But she wants to tap -dance
a cowboy dancer
she met on this trip
who was love at first sight
wants to marry her so she can
tap dance
but she knows
her basil will never permit this.
Never! Never! Never!