Scottie believes he may be able to acclimatize himself and be cured.As she supervises, as a mother might do, he first starts out with a small stepstool.He hopes to gradually get used to the sensation as he chants: "I look up, I look down":We""ll start with this." Jakie""s father points to his watch: "He will start the fasting of Yom Kippur without supper."Yudleson brings the news: "In a saloon, who do you think I saw singing raggy time songs? - your son Jakie!" His father is furious to find his son in the beer-garden performing ""Waiting for the Robert E.As he lazily cuts off the heads of the meters with a pipe cutter, he red, two-hour time limit VIOLATION warning pops up, foreshadowing his own imminent arrest.What""ll your review say?Second critic: I like it too.So, er, I guess I""ll pan it.First critic: Oh.(He laughs.) Well, that""s logical.Second critic: My publisher resents Cohan impersonating the president of the United States.Says our young readers dream of being president.First critic: ""I""d rather be right than be president..."" Cohan may find out he isn""t either one.The camera moves through the outer door and into the dressing room of George M.Cohan - he is being congratulated backstage by well-wishers and his wife Mary (17 year old Joan Leslie) just following his performance, but he is anxious about his impersonation of the president:Cohan: Well, that""s all very well, but we""re still reading on dangerous ground.Perhapswe""rewrong." Nonetheless, Alice puts on a smiling face, pretending that she is enjoying herself.Looking like the proverbial wallflower, she is rescued by a request o dance from overweight, boring and unpopular Frank Dowling (Grady Sutton), but he is clumsy, awkward, and out-of-step on the dance floor.