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One of the fantastic beings rushes at one of the astronomers who defends himself with his umbrella.With a jab of the umbrella, he creature bursts into a thousand pieces in a puff of smoke.A second creature suffers the same fate from the explorers/colonizers.After taking flight, the terrified astronomers are captured when overwhelmed by large numbers of moon people.And learn.Want to know what the theater is? A flea circus.Also opera.Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian ribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band - all theater.Wherever here""s magic and make-believe and an audience - there""s theater.Donald Duck, Ibsen, and the Lone Ranger.Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford, Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable, Rex the Wild Horse, Eleanora Duse - they""re all theater.[This is director Hitchcock in his customary cameo.Grant turns and is startled to see him.Hitchcock stares ahead and ignores his star.] In Cannes, he strides down stone steps into a coastal restaurant on the French Riviera owned by restauranteur Bertani (Charles Vanel), one of his old colleagues from the war.At the conclusion of the pan, the camera stops on a dark, silhouetted view of a great bridge.In the foreground is a smoky city dump, where chimneys of a shantytown are visible.The drawing dissolves into a live-action image, revealing a a scene shrouded in darkness.A bum rakes a fire, and a dump truck expels trash.Refuse pickers are combing and picking through the mounds of discarded cans next to the East River.Two men exchange a short, casual conversation.They speak about how great it would be if the police went after the real criminals and left them alone: "Well, I figured out a swell racket and everything was going great until the cops came along.