While Midge is sketching a new brassiere design, he asks her a direct question.[Her career of designing brassieres supports he argument that she is a maternal figure who desires him to be a more mature "big boy," but she is ultimately rejected when he chooses another woman.Police chief Bleeker enters the restaurant, sits next o Johnny at the counter, and tries to appease the surly leader:Out there, I think you got me a little wrong.This was not he first time the subject matter was performed.The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on W.Somerset Maugham's mid-1920s London stage play (that featured Gladys Cooper in the lead role).Then, it was a Broadway play that opened in 1927 (with Katharine Cornell), followed by Paramount Studios' talkie of the same name in 1929 with Academy-Award nominated Jeanne Eagels (in her sound film debut) as the female protagonist Leslie Crosbie.Mickey was shoved aside by a charged-up and angry Lang and suffered a heart attack.When the two fighters were separated and an ambulance was summoned for Mickey in the dressing room, Rocky wanted to call the fight off, but Mickey retorted: "Are you out of your mind?.But not quite so obedient.Johnny: No?Mundson: My other little friend will kill for me, Johnny.Johnny: Well, that's what friends are for.(He releases the catch in the stick's knob - it snaps into a rapier with the blade exposed)Mundson: (toasting) To us, Johnny.