A scene from His Girl Friday 1940
Hildy

I have to do a yarn on Williams. Did he know what he was doing when he fired that gun?

Murphy

If you ask us, 'No.' If you ask the state alienist, the answer is 'Yes.'

Hildy

Who is he? What's he do?

Jake McCue

He was a bookkeeper. He starts out at twenty dollars a week and after fourteen years, he gradually works himself up to seventeen fifty...Plus the company goes out of business and Williams loses his job...

Ernie

So he starts hangin' around the park, listenin' to a lot of soapbox spellbinders makin' phony speeches and begins to believe 'em.

Endicott

And makes some of his own.

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Jake McCue Roscoe Karns

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