Burgess Meredith credited as playing...
Hank Taylor
- Danny O'Neill: [hiding himself] What'ya think you're doing under this bed?
- Hank Taylor: Looking for a collar button.
- Hank Taylor: I'll buy you a cigar.
- Lester Chisholm: I don't like cigars.
- Hank Taylor: Don't you worry about it! I'll smoke it myself.
- Hank Taylor: That's a sordid little fellow, isn't he. Sordid little place. Must be a sordid life for such a lovely girl.
- Ellen Miller: Well, there's nothing sordid about it - except the people we deal with.
- Danny O'Neill: Seven years ago I must have broken a mirror; because *that* walked in and became my roommate. I was only a simple Freshman at the time...
- Ellen Miller: What are you now, a simple Sophomore?
- Danny O'Neill: Oh, now, Miss Miller, you're being a bit unkind. After all, we've worked hard to stay in College this long.
- Hank Taylor: He's right. Now, it's not easy for a couple of bright guys like us to go on flunking year after year.
- Ellen Miller: What in the world are you talking about?
- Danny O'Neill: Well, it's like this, you see, as long as we can stay in College, the band makes us a very comfortable living.
- Hank Taylor: That's right. Five, six thousand dollars a year. That's more than you can make on Wall Street!
- Ellen Miller: You really want me to work for you?
- Danny O'Neill: Sure. Would you like to?
- Hank Taylor: What's your salary?
- Ellen Miller: 18 a week.
- Hank Taylor: He'll double it.
- Hank Taylor: I'm much too busy to help Artie out. I'm working like a horse.
- Danny O'Neill: Working?
- Hank Taylor: Sure.
- Danny O'Neill: Not with Dorsey?
- Hank Taylor: No, no. He wouldn't change his style to suit me.
- Danny O'Neill: After I quit Whiteman...
- Hank Taylor: You quit Whiteman?
- Danny O'Neill: Sure. Too big a band for me. If I'd a stayed with him, I'd of lost my individuality. Same thing happened to Bix.
- Lester Chisholm: What would you suggest?
- Danny O'Neill: Well, first of all, line up a number.
- Lester Chisholm: That's a good idea; but, off hand, I can't think of...
- Danny O'Neill: Oh, sure, you remember the "Rolling Back to Mammy on the Big River Blues".
- Lester Chisholm: "Rolling Back to Mammy on the Big River Blues"?
- Hank Taylor: That's it! He's got it!
- Danny O'Neill: He's got it!
- Hank Taylor: I wonder what's going on out there?
- Danny O'Neill: It sounds as if she's giving somebody an audition.
- Hank Taylor: I never heard of Shaw with a mandolin section?
- Hank Taylor: Makes you feel good, doesn't it. You know, self sacrifice. Doing unto others.
- Danny O'Neill: That's the life.
- Hank Taylor: Yeah, but, a little self sacrifice goes a long way. We ought to think of our own careers, for a change. After all, we are the intimate friends of Shaw's backer.
- Danny O'Neill: [at the piano] Listen to this. La-da-da-da-da. Da-da, Da-dah...
- Hank Taylor: You're gonna like this Chis. This is back to the good earth. Full of sweep! Play that, Danny.
- Lester Chisholm: I like that. What's it called?
- Danny O'Neill: "Hoedown, the Bayou." You hear that? That's New Orleans.
- Lester Chisholm: I visited there for three weeks. I don't recognize it.
- Hank Taylor: You don't?
- Danny O'Neill: Why, that's the spirit of New Orleans. I can almost smell the delta.
- Hank Taylor: I *can* smell the delta. Can't you smell the delta?
- Lester Chisholm: I have a slight cold.
- Hank Taylor: Well, nothing that your mandolin won't cure. You pick this up, Chis, pick it up, boy.
- Danny O'Neill: Hell, yeah! Come on, son. The train won't wait.
- Hank Taylor: That's it! That's it! Now, we're sailin' up that river. On to Memphis. Chattanooga. Hold on, Chis!
- Danny O'Neill: Hear them steamboat whistles blowin'? Tote that barge, pull that bale. There's a cabin in the cotton. Solid South! Solid North! Solid Jack!
- Lester Chisholm: Solid Jack?
- Hank Taylor: Right. Wagon wheels creakin' westward. Now, we're rollin' past that junction. On to Kansas! Cincinnati!
- Lester Chisholm: Cincinnati! My home town.
- Danny O'Neill: His home town! Your home town! Everybody's home town! Cincinnati!