It never failed, did it? Ever hear of the wordhumility? No, you wouldn""t.I guess it would never occur to you to just say, ""Please mister, I""m in trouble, will you help me?"" No, that would bring you down off your high horse for a minute.And then one night, Margo Channing came to play inRemembranceand I went to see it.Well, here I am.She had followed her acting idol from San Francisco across the country - with theatrical aspirations of her own to become a big star on Broadway.When Cody finds Verna narcissistically admiring herself in her new mink coat (worn directly over her slip) in front of a mirror while standing on a chair, he is frantic that his mother has left to go to the market to buy strawberries "for her boy." Sam is childishly enthralled by a view of a sea captain""s navigational map and a view of Bishop""s Light, an English coastal lighthouse that he has observed, reminding him of his English roots.