Alice overhears the invitation, and comments that she is planning a party for George hat same evening - the date of his birthday.Tracy, we must just be ourselves.Very much ourselves."As part of the deal, Connor and Liz are not informed hat Tracy, Dinah, and Mrs.Lord know about their true identities and what they are really there for.Dexter gives a brief description of the two reporters: "The girl""s quite nice.He writes short stories, very down-to-earth."In the parlor, Mike (with his research cards) begins questioning Dexter about Tracy""s fiancee, George Kittredge.Therefore, his was Cagney""s third film of four with Walsh.He also helmed one of the best films in the gangster genre -High Sierra (1941)starring Humphrey Bogart.His sophisticated girlfriend, Helen St.James (Jane Wyman), wearing a leopard coat, drops by with presents for his recuperative weekend:the new Thurber with comical jokes and pictures, a nice quiet little double-murder by Agatha Christie, cigarettes, chewing gum.In many ways, Shelton""s premise that the game of baseball ("America""s favorite pasttime") was like a religion was well-founded:both have a regular schedule of games or meetings, with both beginning their ""liturgical season"" around Easter-timeboth involved various rituals (the national anthem, pre- and at-bat rituals such as unstrapping and re-strapping batting gloves, the 7th inning stretch""s singing of ""Take Me Out to the Ballgame,"" the ceremonial first pitch, keeping a score sheet, players hrowing the ball ""round the horn"" after a strike-out, etc.