- T. Mosley Thorpe: My mood for writing is completely gone. My brain is more fogged than ever.
- Ann Prentiss: You said it.
- Humbolt Prentiss: Arline, I've broken the news to Mother.
- Arline Davis: What did she say?
- Humbolt Prentiss: She started throwing things at me. Oh, that's alright. She always does. It's a very good sign for us.
- Arline Davis: In other words, she didn't really disapprove or she'd have shot you.
- Mrs. Prentiss: Gentlemen, the show is off. I can't afford it!
- Nicolai Nicoleff: [histrionically] Madam, with those few words, you have broken my heart.
- Schultz: I don't feel so good myself.
- Mrs. Prentiss: You want what?
- Ann Prentiss: Some decent clothes. Well, look at me. Is it any wonder that nobody ever talks to me or notices me?
- Mrs. Prentiss: Well, who do you want to notice you?
- Ann Prentiss: Men and boys. I want to have some fun.
- Bellman: Where will I put it?
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Well, you can put it - I would suggest putting it in your nose.
- Humbolt Prentiss: You know that I'm not good at fractions.
- Mrs. Prentiss: No, but, I notice you're very good at figures.
- Humbolt Prentiss: Yes, you might say that I'm a specialist.
- Betty Hawes: I beg your pardon, did you send for a stenographer?
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Yes, and a Swiss cheese on rye. Have you got it with you?
- Betty Hawes: No.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: That's strange. Sit down.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: I want a stenographer. I'm writing a monograph on snuff boxes. Very important dictation.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Put her to bed with a hot water bottle.
- Ann Prentiss: That'll be more fun than I've had in ages.
- Ann Prentiss: Can I do anything I want to when I want to do it - as long as I don't disgrace the family name?
- Ann Prentiss: The first thing I'm going to do is get some decent clothes. I'm sick and tired of looking like Little Orphan Annie.
- Mrs. Prentiss: What's the matter with your clothes? Your dresses are always trim and neat.
- Ann Prentiss: Yes, like burlap bags.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Every moment is precious. Will you have a pinch of snuff?
- Betty Hawes: No, but I'd just as soon join you in a chew of tobacco.
- Ann Prentiss: [singing] A- shopping we will go, A- shopping we will go
- Dick Curtis: Heigh-ho the merry-o, To spend your mama 's dough...
- Dick Curtis: [singing] That's what I could go for, For the cute little baby, Inside those clothes...
- Nicoleff: The orchestra. Why is it not playing? How do you expect the soul of Nicoleff to expand without music?
- Louis Lamson: Mrs. Matilda Prentiss just arrived, you know, the widow of H.P. Prentiss, the flypaper king.
- Nicoleff: Blatantly, vulgarly rich.
- Louis Lamson: Disgustingly rich - and she puts on a musical show here every season. A benefit for the milk fund.
- Nicoleff: I don't like milk.
- Betty Hawes: How about time out for a little snifter?
- T. Mosley Thorpe: I never indulge in alcohol. No.
- Betty Hawes: A nice cold bottle of champagne isn't really alcohol.
- Betty Hawes: Two-thirds and two-thirds is four-thirds in any country.
- Schultz: Well, that's the way I figure it. And, personally, I wouldn't play ball unless I get one-half of the fourth third.
- Nicoleff: You see that I get 19% of what you get for the costumes and scenery. That's all you got to worry about. The extra third was my idea!
- Betty Hawes: I get one-third of that extra third or I go right to Mrs. Prentiss and spill.
- Schultz: Now, that's right. That's fair enough. Give her one-third of the fourth third that I get half of and then split the rest with me. It's easy. You don't have to even figure it.
- Nicoleff: Thieves! Bandits! Cutthroats!
- Schultz: I'll show you who's a cutthroat, you swindler!
- Nicoleff: You cannot insult Nicoleff!
- Betty Hawes: The split goes three ways and don't you forget it!
- Dick Curtis: Arline, I hardly know how to say this, but I'm afraid I've done you a pretty dirty trick.
- Arline Davis: Old Devil Conscience knocking at your door?
- Arline Davis: Don't be so conceited, you mug. Maybe I've met someone I like better.
- Dick Curtis: You deserve the finest man in the world.
- Arline Davis: Till he comes along, I'll take a rich one.
- Betty Hawes: [singing] I'm in the money, The skies are sunny, I'll get a lot of what it takes to get along, Mmm-Mmm, Mmm-Mmm-Mmm...
- Betty Hawes: Let's write a *beautiful* love song.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: A love song! How do you get such good ideas?
- Betty Hawes: I'm inspired by being with you.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Oh, tut-tut.
- Betty Hawes: Call the girl Betty after me, huh?
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Betty. Betty. Yes, that's very good. Betty, Betty. My darling, Betty. Yes. Now what rhymes with Betty?
- Betty Hawes: Spaghetti.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Spaghetti! Spaghetti. No, that's not the proper mood for a love song.
- Betty Hawes: Well, it might do for an Italian love song.
- Mrs. Prentiss: Mosley, I must speak to you. I want you to keep the total receipts, $7,500. I know I can trust you, Mosley.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: I'm really touched by this confidence.
- Mrs. Prentiss: I'm glad you're touched.
- Mrs. Prentiss: Sold out! $7,500! More money than I've ever taken in before. I do hope the grounds are well-policed, because I'm a little uneasy carrying so much money around with me.
- Betty Hawes: Yeah? Well, let me hold it for you. Now, no thief would never suspect poor little me of all that cash.
- Louis Lamson: Well, let me put it in the hotel safe.
- Schultz: A safe to a burglar is like a bottle to a corkscrew. Let me hide the cash. I got on a money belt. I'll put it right here, next to my heart.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Shysters! They haven't got a leg to stand on.
- Betty Hawes: Darling, you've given them as many legs as a centipede.
- Mrs. Prentiss: I'll have you run out of the hotel. I'll have you run out of the state. You male - gold digger!
- Mrs. Prentiss: Simply sweep her off her feet!
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Well, don't you think that's a trifle undignified?
- Mrs. Prentiss: Stop quibbling, Mosley.
- Mrs. Prentiss: You contemptible coward. Engaged to my daughter and lollygagging around with a public stenographer.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Can I be blamed because I can't typewrite - and must dictate?
- Mrs. Prentiss: Oh! So you were dictating, were you?
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Yes, I was dictating.
- Mrs. Prentiss: I know everything that's going on around here.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: I hope you're not provoked at me.
- Mrs. Prentiss: No, you've been merely weak and vacillating.
- Mrs. Prentiss: I have a real man in the family. I shall have Humbolt give you a good thrashing.
- T. Mosley Thorpe: Don't forget I used to be pretty good with the gloves myself. See?
- Mrs. Prentiss: I shall forbid Humbolt to use gloves when he thrashes you.
- Winny: [singing] Come on along and listen to, The lullaby of Broadway, The hip-hooray and ballyhoo, The lullaby of Broadway, The rumble of the subway train, The rattle of the taxis, The daffodils who entertain, At Angelo's and Maxie's, When a Broadway baby says good night, It's early in the morning, Manhattan babies don't sleep tight, Until the dawn, Good night, baby, Good night, Milkman's on his way...
