A quick-cut montage shows them walking, bicycling, riding in a carriage, and running.In the carriage sequence, each of the children take one of the seven notes on the scale - Maria points to them with the buggy whip, creating a melody with their voices: "Do, Mi, Mi, Mi, So, So, Re, Fa, Fa, La, Ti, Ti.Caesar remarked firmly: "I know what it is I want to change." The group realized that they were being watched: "Whoever or whatever is down here - Now knows we are too now.Artistic performances by a self-absorbed group of disguised, impersonating "ham" actors (who had been forbidden to perform an anti-Hitler play in their own theatre) took to their own ""stage"" (with clever tricks of the trade) to challenge, subvert, ridicule and mock the authoritarian political agenda of the Nazi regime and its main proponents.Uncredited for their work on the script were Dorothy Parker, Dalton Trumbo, and Clifford Odets.It is actually a dark, bittersweet post-war tale of a savings-and-loan manager who struggles against a greedy banker and his own self-doubting nature in a small town.