Rafter Romance (1933)

Ginger Rogers: Mary Carroll

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• Office Supervisor : You understand the terms? $10 a week and a 5% commission on all iceboxes sold through your efforts. A very generous offer!

  Mary : Oh, yes!

• Mary : What about the other party, Mr. Eckbaum?

  Eckbaum : Wha-what other party? Ah, don't you worry about that. The nighttime, the attic is yours! In the daytime, you ain't here, anyhow. So what do you care? As far as you're concerned, the other party is - inwizible.

• Mary : Mr. Eckbaum, are you trying to get me to share a room with a man? Of all the vile, horrible things I've ever heard in my whole life!

• Mary : I don't know how I'm going to live in that place.

  Hubbell : Oh, no, no, Miss Carroll. It vill be all right. In my past experience, it is much better for you to 'ave a man in your apartment than a voman.

• Hubbell : Miss Carroll, where are you taking those bright eyes?

  Mary : Home to the little nest, Mr. Hubbell.

  Hubbell : Oh, not yet, not yet. First, a dinner. A banquet! With nice, old Mr. Hubbell.

  Mary : A banquet, Mr. Hubbell?

  Hubbell : Well, you might call it that. Mr. Hubbell never does things by halves when gives a party, you know.

• Mary : [reading his palm]  It says you're going to meet a stranger.

  Jack : Isn't it funny? If that breadbox hadn't been in front of Hoffman's and you hadn't been sitting on it...

  Mary : And you hadn't been looking out of the window...

  Jack : You'll never know how lovely you looked - framed in salami.

• Hubbell : Great work, bright eyes. No one ever listened to as much sales talk as that before. That calls for a celebration and not one minute later than this evening.

  Mary : Oh, Mr. Hubbell, I - I don't know, but, I...

  Hubbell : Ah, ha! I see promise waivering in those bright eyes. I've got two tickets for the Zeigfeld tonight - and you don't look to me like a young lady who would play a man a dirty trick three times in succession. Are you with me? Or, must I choke myself to death on one of our larger ice cubes?

• Hubbell : Will you join me in a little snort?

  Mary : No, thanks.

  Hubbell : If you don't mind then, if I do?

  Mary : Not at all.

  Hubbell : Well, may all your little ones be troubles.

  [snort] 

• Jack : What are you gong to do tomorrow?

  Mary : Tomorrow?

  Jack : Yes, tomorrow you don't have to work Sundays, do you?

  Mary : Oh, tomorrow. Oh, I believe the Icy Air Company's giving a picnic for their employees. Three-legged races, greased pole, prizes and refreshments. I wonder if it will be any fun?

  Jack : Sounds terrible.

  Mary : I thought so too.

• Jack : [gives Mary some flowers]  Would you wear these to the picnic tomorrow?

  Mary : Ah, thanks; but, you shouldn't have.

  Jack : Oh, please, I'd only spend the money on something foolish: a yacht, a bassoon, a polar bear.

• Mary : Will you please get out or shall I call Mr. Eckbaum?

  Elise : How dare you! I've never been so insulted in my life. It's disgusting! Mrs. Elise Peabody Whittington Smythe. A disgusting affair - in a garret!

  [walks back in the room, picks up a liquor bottle, walk back out]