Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Robert Benchley: Stebbins
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Quotes
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Stebbins : Oh, Miss, please... A Scotch and soda, and a glass of milk.
John Jones : A glass of milk?
Stebbins : Yeah, I'm on the wagon. I went to the doctor today to see about these jitters I got, and he said it was the wagon for a month, or a whole new set of organs. I can't afford a whole new set of organs.
John Jones : Well, if I'd known you were on the wagon, I could've got along all right without this, but as long as it's here...
[toasts]
John Jones : Good luck!
Stebbins : [watches him drink] Good?
John Jones : Yes, it's just like any other Scotch and soda.
Stebbins : [morosely] That's what I thought.
[sips milk]
Stebbins : Doesn't taste the same as when I was a baby...
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Scott ffolliott : Ring Mayfair 24574...
Stebbins : [gets out notebook] Let me write that...
Scott ffolliott : Mayfair 24574. That's my cousin. He's the director of the airline. Tell him we need two seats on tomorrow's clipper for America. Then go to Hilton Nursing Home and stick by Van Meer. Then phone Miss Edith Armbruster, Kensington 66255. Tell her I'm off to America. Will she dine with me next Monday instead of tomorrow?
Stebbins : Sure.
Scott ffolliott : Then call up Stevens at The Post, tell him I'm off to America.
John Jones : Cable New York, tell them I'm off to America!
Scott ffolliott : [as they run off] Ring up Crescent Dancing Academy and cancel my rhumba lesson!
Stebbins : [reads it back to himself] Two ham sandwiches on rye.
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Stebbins : They love to cable from New York. It makes them think that you're working for them.
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Stebbins : There's an invitation to that lunch for the Dutchman Van Meer tomorrow. I guess that's your dish.
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Stebbins : When are you going to send the story in to the esteemed gazette?
John Jones : When I get ready.
Stebbins : Well, there goes another one of my illusions. I thought you were one of the journalists nothing could stop. Floods, smallpox, love: the story must go on.
John Jones : It'll go on.
