George Murphy credited as playing...
Roger Wendling
- Betsy Brown: If you're looking for Miss Wendling, she isn't home. I'm waiting for her too, on important business.
- Roger Wendling: Maybe if it's very important, I might put in a good word for you.
- Betsy Brown: Oh! do you know Miss Wendling?
- Roger Wendling: Oh, yes, very well. You see, she's my aunt.
- Betsy Brown: She is? Well, say! Would you give her this
- [handing him a child's piggy bank]
- Betsy Brown: and tell her it's on account of the rent for the hotel?
- Roger Wendling: The hotel? What hotel?
- Betsy Brown: Next door.
- Roger Wendling: Whom shall I say this is from?
- Betsy Brown: From Betsy. No, from Pop, Mr. Shea.
- Betsy Brown: I used to be an orphan before Pop adopted me.
- Roger Wendling: That is a coincidence, you know, I used to be an orphan myself!
- Betsy Brown: It's too bad we weren't orphans at the same time. We could've had lots of fun together!
- Roger Wendling: This young lady wants to give you money to pay the rent on the hotel.
- Sarah Wendling: Nonsense! So you've gone in for social service, have you?
- Roger Wendling: Not exactly, Aunt Sarah, I just met an acquaintance.
- Betsy Brown: There's almost five dollars in here, and I'm sure Pop will have the rest for you very soon.
- Willoughby Wendling: Bless my soul!
- Sarah Wendling: Keep your soul out of this. You will please get rid of this child.
- Roger Wendling: But Aunt Sarah...
- Sarah Wendling: If those people next door think they can play on my sympathy like this, they are greatly mistaken. I'll have my rent, all of it, or out they go.
- William J. 'Pop' Shea: Well, Mr. Wendling, I can't possibly raise the money in five days.
- Roger Wendling: Well, Mr. Shea, I was going to make a suggestion before your daughter so graciously knighted me. I was going to suggest that perhaps I could lend you the twenty-five hundred. Why not?
- William J. 'Pop' Shea: You'd lend...? Thanks a million!
- Betsy Brown: Thanks TWO million- one for me!
- Barbara Shea: I'm sorry, but we can't accept your generous offer.
- William J. 'Pop' Shea: Why not, Barbara?
- Barbara Shea: Because I don't know how we'd be able to pay it back, and we're not going to be at the mercy of some spiteful old moneybag who calls us a lot of riffraff!
- Betsy Brown: Barbara is awful smart. She reads great big books when she's not helping Pop run the hotel.
- Roger Wendling: She does?
- Betsy Brown: Yes, she told me she's studying how not to be an actress.
- Roger Wendling: I see. Well, does she have any boyfriends?
- Betsy Brown: Oh, yes, lots of them. There's Ole, the Martins, Jimmy and his Jazz Bandits...
- Roger Wendling: No, I mean someone who takes her out to dinner. A sweetheart?
- Betsy Brown: Oh, no. I guess she's just an old maid, like I was before you came along.
- William J. 'Pop' Shea: I hope this check don't bounce.
- Roger Wendling: I don't think it will.
- Jimmy Clayton: Pop, here's twenty-five bucks more!
- William J. 'Pop' Shea: It's all right, Jimmy, I got it! I got the twenty-one hundred!
- Jimmy Clayton: What? Just when we made the supreme sacrifice! Look!
- William J. 'Pop' Shea: What happened?
- Jimmy Clayton: We done a striptease in a pawn shop!
- Sarah Wendling: Young lady, I've come here to tell you to let this nephew of mine alone. You let him pay your rent for you, didn't you?
- Roger Wendling: Aunt Sarah!
- Barbara Shea: I don't have to listen to this!
- Roger Wendling: Aunt Sarah, that was uncalled for, unkind, and untrue!
- Betsy Brown: Uncle Roger didn't give us any money! We got it from - from someone else.
- Sarah Wendling: So it's Uncle Roger now, is it? Is Miss Shea your mother?
- Betsy Brown: Practically.
- Roger Wendling: Betsy is Mr. Shea's adopted child.
- Sarah Wendling: Adopted, eh? So they brought her into this wholesome atmosphere, nice place for a child. Why, she's using her as a decoy, and you don't you have the sense to realize it!
- Sarah Wendling: Young lady, give your father a message from me that he's being disposessed.
- Barbara Shea: Oh, you can't!
- Sarah Wendling: I'm tearing the hotel down.
- Barbara Shea: But he paid his rent!
- Sarah Wendling: He's violated his lease by having all sorts of animals on the premises. He'll save himself a lot of trouble by getting right out.
- Roger Wendling: I'll have something to say about this.
- Sarah Wendling: I'm afraid you will not, as our attorney will inform you. Furthermore, Roger, if you continue your association with this woman...
- Roger Wendling: Continue it? I was just trying to get her to make it permanent!
- Roger Wendling: It's my property and my money just as much as it is hers, and trustee or no trustee, she's got to give it to me.
- Willoughby Wendling: Did you ask her?
- Roger Wendling: I asked her for the hotel and fifteen hundred dollars, just enough to rent a theater and back a show to give those poor devils a chance to earn a living for themselves.
- Perry: Mr. Wendling, isn't it true that you intend to use this money to put on a Broadway show?
- Roger Wendling: A small portion of it, yes.
- Perry: And you intend to put this show on with actors living at the Hotel Variety?
- Roger Wendling: That's right.
- Perry: Isn't it probable that this Broadway venture of yours may turn out to be a failure? Or in the Broadway vernacular, a flop?
- Jimmy Clayton: What? With me and the band? I object!