When Grace announces her pregnancy, Gus entitles a song "Pretty Baby," in her honor. Sometime after tenor John McCormack introduces Gus and Van Alstyne's song "Memories," the shy Gus finally gets up the courage to propose to Grace, and the two are married. When Townsend suggests that Gus team up with composer Egbert Van Alstyne, he refuses out of loyalty to Grace, until she persuades him of the composer's superior talents by pretending to have written one of Van Alstyne's melodies. With Grace plugging the tune, it sells briskly, but the team's subsequent songs are not as successful. She then offers the song to her boss, but when he refuses to listen to it, she quits her job and sells the song, "I Wish I Had a Girl," to Fred Townsend. Feeling deeply inferior, Gus departs, leaving his new lyric with Grace, who likes it enough to set it to music. LeBoy recites from "Songs from the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The LeBoys invite him to stay to dinner, and while Gus eats, Mr. Although she brusquely dismisses him, he finally persuades her to look at them, and she advises him that the trick to writing a good lyric is to remember that most popular songs give people a way to say "I love you." Later that evening, Gus, having taken her advice to heart, appears unexpectedly at the house where Grace lives with her parents. In Chicago in 1908, aspiring lyricist Gus Kahn begs music company clerk Grace LeBoy to read some lyrics he has written.
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