Brief Moment (1933)

Donald Cook: Franklin Deane

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• Franklin Deane : Why didn't you do something?

  Harold Sigrift : Well, I did what I could. At first I tried to poison her mind. Then, I tried to poison his. And still I couldn't get her for myself.

• Franklin Deane : Why? Why a blues singer in a nightclub?

• Rodney Deane : Frank, what is this racket of starting at the bottom? How'd you stand it?

  Franklin Deane : Me? I'm no idiot. I started at the top.

  Harold Sigrift : Look at him, he's still there.

  Rodney Deane : How'd you learn the business?

  Franklin Deane : What business? What do you have to know to be a Vice President? All I have to do is sign my name three or four times a day.

• Harold Sigrift : All together boys, he's a Vice President. So what?

  Rodney Deane : Well, he sits in on the meetings. That means something, doesn't it?

  Franklin Deane : I used to think so. But I found that all I was expected to do was say "yes". And nobody even listened to that.

  Rodney Deane : You mean its just a gag? That you don't really have anything to say?

  Franklin Deane : Dad runs this institution. You'll find that out after awhile.

• Rodney Deane : Where are you going?

  Franklin Deane : The Vice President is going out to Meadowbrook to consult with his Polo pony. Good luck.

  Harold Sigrift : There you are, you see. Now, if you were a Vice President, we'd go out to Belmont this afternoon and take in the metropolitan handicap.