Richard Carlson credited as playing...
Owen Vail
- John Thornway: What goes on here?
- Owen Vail: Our star has suddenly decided she doesn't like the third act.
- Isobel Rekay: I hate it. It doesn't march along, it - it dribbles.
- John Thornway: Let's get to work. Well, here's how it goes. Stefan enters. I'm Stefan. Nadina is singing, that's you, you're Nadina. Now, you can't go on with the gay songs, so you break it.
- Owen Vail: [singing effeminately] Oh, I'm a gypsy, I oh-oh-oh-oh-oh...
- Owen Vail: If you keep on being so chummy with that - that babe from the woods...
- John Thornway: I am not chummy with Miss Mars. Isobel's imagining things.
- Owen Vail: John, about such things, women do not imagine, they know. I don't know how they know; but, they know.
- John Thornway: [Lily walks in, shocked, at the conversation John and Owen are having, not realizing they are running through a scene where John is playing Stefan and Owen is playing Nadina] You mustn't cry.
- Owen Vail: [effeminately] Why are you here? Go away. Leave me alone.
- John Thornway: No.
- Owen Vail: What do you want?
- John Thornway: First, I want to tell you that you're beautiful. And then I want to take you in my arms.
- Owen Vail: Oh, Stefan.
- Owen Vail: Tell me, Miss Mars, what's wrong with it?
- Lily Mars: Well, to me it just - just - fizzles out.
- Owen Vail: Fizzles?
- Lily Mars: Just fizzles out...
- John Thornway: Stop fizzling!
- Scotty - Stage Manager: Is there anything I can do, John?
- John Thornway: Yeah, Scotty. You can go out and get drunk, for me.
- Owen Vail: Anything I can do, John?
- John Thornway: You can help Scotty.
- Leo: Anything *I* can do?
- John Thornway: Yeah, you help the two of them.
- Scotty - Stage Manager: It'll take a little high powered coaxing and petting. John knows how to handle her.
- Owen Vail: Let's hope he hasn't lost his touch.