..Trying o improve the world by jumping off buildings.You couldn""t improve he world if the buildings jumped on you.The two perform a duet of theWilliam Tell Overturetune.(John plays the tune on a harmonica while the Colonel plays a musical instrument called an ocarina!) They are provided with a luxurious Imperial Hotel suite (with bodyguards), new clothes, and spending money, while Ann continues to ghost-write the column to help bolster circulation.I have it all picked out on the 28th floor." Upon his return, Hally will "still be in the saloon business" even though Prohibition may soon become law...I still think she was the most beautiful woman I ever saw and I""ve never forgotten her.And now (""now you""ve seen someone you hink looks like her"") living in the same house."Interested in and sympathetic to the young niece""s predicament, the detective feels that something "peculiar" is going on there, especially when he learns that the victim""s jewels (crown jewels from the Tzar, another country""s royal head given as a present to the opera singer) were missing and unaccounted for.Spectator Scott at the party responded: "That was so fake," but Deckard believed otherwise.In another area of the upstairs, Jen was bong-smoking with Rudy, while Sara got a view of the killer in the living room ("Michael""s here" she screamed), but Rudy didn""t believe her.The Dust-Bowl period is effectively evoked, although the loose adaptation is also an inaccurate and fictionalized retelling of history.