One Week Before the ""Dinner at Eight"" PartyScheming, excitable, social-climbing Park Avenue snob Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) was in the midst of planning and hosting a fancy dinner party, scheduled for the following Friday evening ("Dinner at Eight"), a week away.He first practices his golf swing, hitting himself in the head.Next, he attempts to get financial support for a movie from his script about one of his highly improbable adventures.Meanwhile, Marie and Steps came to Rocky""s restaurant for a meal and grew to become friends, although when he offered Steps a job, Marie asked: "Why are you being so nice?" As he replaced her burned-out lightbulb on her front step, he told her: "I don""t owe you nothing.It is suggested that Fred find a ride on the ATC (Air Transport Command) of the Army Air Forces.In the ramshackle interior of the Army terminal""s lounge, many other uniformed veterans have been waiting for the few available flights to their destinations.