Jimmy Durante credited as playing...
'Spike'
- 'Spike': [to Martha as she is about to go on stage] Spunk up, kid! All they can do is throw things at ya.
- 'Spike': Listen bub, this girl is married, has ten children and I'm the youngest. Do I make myself clear?
- Wrigley: [Pointing to Abigail, he is drunk and forcibly escorted away] She's the "Queen of Burlesque" with the Golden Rooster! She's "The Belle of the Bowery!"
- Mrs. Ella Patterson: Oh dear, dear. This is dreadful. This is really dreadful.
- [to Abigail]
- Mrs. Ella Patterson: I'm so sorry.
- 'Spike': Well, what's the matter with being "The Belle of the Bowery?" What's wrong with that?
- Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr.: There's nothing the matter with being "The Belle of the Bowery" Mr. Marengo except she's not the sort of a person we'd care to have in the opera.
- 'Spike': Oh, you was thinkin' of her for the opera?
- Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr.: Miss Abigail has a very beautiful voice. I'm sure it was the alcohol in Wrigley that was talking, wasn't it Miss Abigail?
- Martha Canford Chandler: [Before Abigail can speak, Martha jumps in] Oh, he meant me. I'm the one who sings at the Golden Rooster, not Abigail.
- Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr: Martha, have you lost your mind?
- Martha Canford Chandler: I am High "C" Suzie.
- Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr: [laughs nervously] This is ridiculous. Abigail, what's gotten into her?
- Abigail Chandler: I'm sure that butler's been drinking.
- Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr: Mr. Marengo, you know she's talking nonsense.
- 'Spike': [to Martha] Are you on the level, kid?
- Martha Canford Chandler: I'm "The Belle of the Bowery" and I'm proud of it.
- Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr: Well, I... I refuse to believe it. I shall, if necessary, go down to, uh, the place and prove it all to be a fiction.
- Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr.: That might be best.
- Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr: I shall be there tomorrow night.
- Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Sr.: I think it a very good idea.
- Martha Canford Chandler: I just hope he doesn't hit you. Suppose he fell on you.
- 'Spike': Don't worry, kid. He's just another hunk of rhubarb pie to me.
- 'Spike': This babe, uh, is she a canary with steam? You know - does she chirp, is she a thrush?
- Bowery Chorine: He means is she a warbler?
- Martha Canford Chandler: She sings, if that's what you mean.
- 'Spike': Are you sure she's from Boston.
- Martha Canford Chandler: Oh, yes indeed. Her family's lived there for generations.
- 'Spike': Naw, this kid ain't that old. That ain't her.
- 'Spike': [breaking past guard trying to keep him away from Olstrom] Brother, you're tougher to corner than the stock market! I've been chasing you all over town ...
- Abigail Chandler: Thank you, Spike.
- 'Spike': Whoa, there. Don't go pinning the tail on the wrong donkey. I didn't do nuttin'. She came looking for ya down at the Rooster.
- 'Spike': What're ya doin'?
- Abigail Chandler: I'm leaving.
- 'Spike': Leavin'? You can't do that. You'll cook the goose of the Golden Rooster.
- 'Spike': Hiya, Georgie, old pelican. How's your liver?
- George - Opera Stage Doorman: Whadda you want?
- 'Spike': George, Georgie, you haven't changed a bit, have you?
- [to Abigail]
- 'Spike': Hasn't changed a bit - same old jolly pop.
- [Back to George]
- 'Spike': George, we're going in to see what's his name -- you know, the guy that runs the chorus.
- George - Opera Stage Doorman: Mr. Ossifish.
- 'Spike': Yeah.
- George - Opera Stage Doorman: The chorus master.
- 'Spike': Yeah. Octo-fish. Put on a little weight, haven't ya?