Adolphe Menjou credited as playing...
Nicolai Nicoleff
- 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.
- 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: 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!
- Nicoleff: This has been the most pleasant engagement of my career. May I present to you a tiny token of my esteem?
- Mrs. Prentiss: Well, what is it?
- Nicoleff: A priceless solid silver fruit dish, given to me by the Grand Duke Alexis, after seeing my production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" with an all-Eskimo cast.