Verree Teasdale credited as playing...
Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess
- Sherwood Nash: But, this number, Your Highness, shall simply knock your eye out!
- [spanks Mabel, impersonating a Russian Duchess, in the behind]
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: How dare you!
- Sherwood Nash: Come on, now, Mabel. Be yourself!
- [grabs and kisses Mabel]
- Sherwood Nash: Well, well, well. How are things back in Hoboken?
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: I thought I was getting away with it.
- Sherwood Nash: [looking at Mabel's hair] Well, I must admit the peroxide had me fooled for a little bit. But, Mabel,
- [looks at and pats Mabel's behind]
- Sherwood Nash: I never forget a personality.
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: No kidding, Sherry, I didn't think you'd remember me.
- Sherwood Nash: No?
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: Gee, it must be all of five or six years ago.
- Sherwood Nash: It was eleven, to be exact.
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: Don't be vulgar. Eleven years ago I was still in finishing school.
- Sherwood Nash: And I was a Boy Scout.
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: Oh, yeah? Well, what good deed might you be doing in Paris?
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: Say, what is this Lynn girl to you anyway?
- Sherwood Nash: Now, don't you start. I'm having enough trouble explaining you to her!
- Sherwood Nash: Oh! Baby, baby! Just in time to congratulate you.
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: No kidding, Sherry, how was I? Do they like me?
- Sherwood Nash: Like you? Listen to them! Say, if you're half as good in the second act as you were in the first, well, Duchess, they'll make you a Queen!
- Mabel McGuire aka The Duchess: [singing] Play your broken melody, Upon the strings of fantasy, Forget about your rainbow schemes, Spin a little web of dreams...