This is the sort of episode that should have been in kinescope, what with Jerry Lacy playing Humphrey Bogart's type of character. I always maintain that Jerry Lacy isn't like Humphrey Bogart because I don't like Bogart and I do like Lacy - but the character of Tony Peterson was definitely designed with Bogart in mind, and clearly everybody thought that they had hit the bull's-eye with Lacy. It's just my good luck that I think they were wrong.
I've started thinking of Julia's notebook as the McGuffin - a Hitchcock thing, not a Bogart thing. (Was Bogart ever in a Hitchcock movie?) There it was - in the clock, in Julia's hands, in Tony's hands, on Tony's desk, under Carolyn's hands - as we held our breath waiting to see if Carolyn would get hold of of it, until finally it got locked into the safe.
Grayson Hall got the chance to let out a few of the stops today. I particularly liked it after Julia handed the notebook over to Tony, when her whole body relaxed.
I had forgotten which set was used for Tony's office. It's a favorite of mine because I like that wide arch. With Sunny_Collins in mind, I was looking at the framed whatchamacallits on the walls. I'm no artist. Are they pen-and-ink drawings? Did the impecunious Peterson buy them at a flea market? And shouldn't a struggling lawyer have his diplomas hanging on the wall, or did I miss them somewhere? My father was a lawyer, but not struggling, so the only diploma he had hanging on his office wall was from his elementary school.
