Mary Poppins Scene 10 Summary

Bird Buffet

  • Next, we see George Banks arriving home. The kids run up and start telling him jokes. But George doesn't want to hear it. He's all stressed out and fed up.
  • When he sees Mary, he asks her to come with him. Meanwhile, Winifred is rushing out to another suffragette rally, but George makes her sit down.
  • George starts telling Mary how to raise the children, and sings a song about how they need to operate with discipline and be more like him—an efficient bank manager. He wants them to go on outings with purpose.
  • Mary agrees and says that the children will go to the bank with George tomorrow. George agrees, but seems apprehensive.
  • Upstairs, the children are worried that Mary got fired. But Mary explains that's not the case: she got Mr. Banks to agree to let the children go to the bank.
  • Then, Mary sings a song about an old lady who feeds birds at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and shakes a little snow globe with a replica of St. Paul's in it.
  • We actually see the old lady, feeding the birds on the cathedral steps, as Mary sings.
  • Turns out—this was another lullaby. Michael and Jane have conked out.