One has a great many wealthier friends who will risk a tax deductible loss.This type is interested in art.The other is one to whom each production means potential ruin or fortune.This type is out o make a buck.Finally, there is Broadway actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis):Margo Channing is a Star of the Theater.They""re fading away by dozens every night.What I want to say to you is this, that whatever you are, and whoever you""re with, you""re a British-serving officer and here""s an order.Young Donald admits to his two buddies that he saw no sense in resisting the torture:I told them, and why shouldn""t I? For him? To stand here and watch and know all the time I was gonna be next to have your nails torn off and those pincers and burning sticks driven into you until - And things you can""t even talk about.He must have been a very important chimp, the great grandson ofKing Kong, maybe." [The illusion to the Beauty killed the Beast theme is unmistakably obvious.] Feeling sick from the sweet champagne and the "tripe" he is reading ("that silly hodgepodge of melodramatic plots") by eleven that evening, he concocts his own plot.You don""t hink much of that, do you?In contrast to her unappealing pursuits, his "racket" is similarly "awful": "brain surgery, a large practice, about ten days off every summer.