Shrek attempted a "heart-to-heart" chat with Artie, interpreting that the young boy had been abandoned by his father, and therefore felt unready and scared to be king, as Artie confirmed: "I""m not cut out for it, and I never will be.Her father Virgil Adams (Fred Stone) is recuperating and bed-ridden from a long illness.He is cared for by her mother Mrs.Adams (Ann Shoemaker), who bitterly disdains her drawling husband""s low-paying clerical job with the wholesale drug firm of Lamb and Co.Inside, workers shovel coal into the red-hot, glowing furnaces, surrounded by the deafening noise.Molten iron pours out into molds.Quarrelsome Bill (Richard Gere) has an undisclosed, violent altercation with his foreman, punches him to the ground, and renders him unconscious - thereby forcing him to run from the scene and leave town as a fugitive.Lise conveys five guises, moods, styles, or aspects of her character: exciting or sexy, sweet and shy, vivacious and modern, studious while reading, and gay or athletic.