Politics (1931)

Polly Moran: Ivy Higgins

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• Ivy Higgins : [Last lines at the commencement of Myrtle and Benny's marriage ceremony]  And, you know, it isn't every young couple that can have the wedding ceremony performed by Her Honor, the Mayor.

  [indicating Hattie] 

  Hattie Burns : No, and it isn't every young couple that can have as Matron of Honor, the Commissioner of Garbage.

  [indicating Ivy] 

• Ivy Higgins : I'll have you know that singers run in my family.

  Peter Higgins : I don't blame 'em!

• Ivy Higgins : Oh, put that foot where it belongs!

  Peter Higgins : If I did, you wouldn't be able to sit down for a month!

• Ivy Higgins : If it wasn't for us women, where would you men be?

  Peter Higgins : In the Garden of Eden eatin' apples.

• Peter Higgins : Rally, my eye! You're going top stay home and iron my underw-w-w-wear!

  Ivy Higgins : Iron them yourself, and, furthermore, after the election you'll be ironing mine!

• Ivy Higgins : If anything happens to you, I'll run myself, and I bet I can fill the chair.

  Hattie Burns : [looks at Ivy's backside and feels her own hips]  No, no, not as well as I could.

• Ivy Higgins : Oh, Hattie, stop that. Do you wanna sit in the mayor's seat with red eyes?

  Hattie Burns : Can't I blubber if I'm happy?

• Ivy Higgins : It's those foreigners that come over here and ruin our city.

  Hattie Burns : Is it?

  Ivy Higgins : Mm hmmm.

  Hattie Burns : Well, if it hadn't been for a foreigner named Columbus you'd never of met Peter.

  Ivy Higgins : Well, I'd be better off if Columbus had stayed at home.

• Ivy Higgins : That's the kind of a mayor we want - somebody who won't take anything.