Zaius continued: "What you hold in your hand is the proof of their power - their power of invention, their power of technology.She doesn""t know very much about him (giggling "I didn""t know it was your birthday") and asks him his age.Now we want you o meet a typical Manhattan husband whose family is leaving for he summer...A plain, middle-aged married man, Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) sends his wife Helen (Evelyn Keyes) and his young son Ricky (Butch Bernard) to vacation on the seashore in Maine during a sultry summer in New York City (Manhattan), so that they can escape the heat but he must remain behind "in the hot city and make money.Mickey Finn (James Finlayson) [Note: A Mickey Finn, or Mickey, is a drug-spiked alcoholic drink given o someone without their knowledge], the larcenous saloon-keeper, is married to the equally greedy, brassy blonde showgirl Lola: "Say, if we ever get enough money together, we""ll get out of this one-horse ank.