Rafter Romance (1933)

George Sidney: Eckbaum

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• Eckbaum : You could call it a loan couldn't you?

  Jack : Listen, Eckbaum, you can call it a lot worst than that and you'd still be right. Listen, I know what's in back of that old dame's mind and I won't have it!

  Eckbaum : But, Jack, she wants to help you.

  Jack : That's my business.

  Eckbaum : All right, then, so it's my business. After all, I'm a landlord, not a Salvation Army Captain.

• Eckbaum : Miss Carroll, what else can I do? You know, I got taxes, heavy taxes. You know, this ain't the Eckbaum Foundation for Indignant Females.

• Eckbaum : For $15 a month, you'll have a place so comfortable to live in, I guarantee you'll be like a bug in the rug.

• Mary : What about the other party, Mr. Eckbaum?

  Eckbaum : Wha-what other party? Ah, don't you worry about that. The nighttime, the attic is yours! In the daytime, you ain't here, anyhow. So what do you care? As far as you're concerned, the other party is - inwizible.

• Jack : Now, listen, Eckbaum, I know these dames. They come to Greenwich Village, from small towns, looking for romance. I don't care if she is broke! She's just trying to hang one on over on you. What do think this is? Seventh heaven?

  Eckbaum : On the fourth floor? It couldn't be.

  Jack : Trying to make a flop house out of this joint? A flop house for women! She slides out of bed and I slide in.

  [sarcastically] 

  Jack : That's swell.

• Eckbaum : No, not in the same bed! Never at the same time together. On that I insist! Fifteen minutes before she can come in, you gotta get out. You understand that? Even if I have to put Julius at the door to see that it happens.

  Jack : A rotten outrage. I won't have any moon-faced, corn-fed, goggle-eyed spinster in my room.

  Eckbaum : Oh, yes you will. You got to agree to that now.