The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)

Marvin Kaplan: Leon

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• Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : For what possible reason could a sensible man get mixed up with a girl like that?

  Leon : I can think of a couple.

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : Outside of that.

• Leon : Mr. Maxwell, I, I should like to discuss a matter of economics.

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : Discuss.

  Leon : For the past year, I've been operating on the basis of deficit financing. Which, while it may be a necessity to the federal government, still, to an individual like myself, it wreaks havoc in terms of the basic necessities of existence.

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : Meaning?

  Leon : I want a raise.

• Kathleen 'Kathy' Maguire : This is a fine and courageous thing he's done.

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : Greatness doesn't care who wears its mantle.

  Kathleen 'Kathy' Maguire : It's true. There is a kind of simple nobility about him.

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : There's a bit of Abe Lincoln in that boy. He places honor and duty above dollars and cents.

  Leon : That I can vouch for.

• Leon : Takes all kind of people to make the world. Thank goodness I'm not one of 'em.

• Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : Leon, the vicissitudes of our competitive economy based on an equilibrium of supply and demand make any realignment of fiduciary relationships highly untenable, if not reductio ad absurdum.

  Leon : Meaning?

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : No.

  [to Leon's request for a raise] 

• Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : Do you realize how mulch it's worth for a young man to associate with a firm like Maxwell and Hale?

  Leon : $35 a week.

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : Now, Leon, when are you going to realize that money isn't everything?

  Leon : With me, it isn't anything.

  Arthur 'Artie' Colner Maxwell : We'll discuss this after lunch.

  Leon : Who can afford to eat?