Captain January (1936)

Sara Haden: Agatha Morgan

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• Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Who is that child?

  Mary : She's the adopted daughter of Captain January, the lighthouse keeper. Isn't she a pretty little thing?

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Does she go to school?

  Mary : Well, no. You see, the former truant officer wasn't very strict.

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : That's why she's the former truant officer. You schoolteachers will find me strict enough.

• Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You should be taken home and spanked! What kind of man is this Captain January to allow you to run around?

  Helen : Cap's the finest man in the whole world! See that lighthouse down there? Well, Cap owns it... He saved a million ships in his day.

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You go right home and tell him I'm coming to have a talk with him.

  Helen : Yes, ma'am. I'll bet SHE can't spit a curve in the wind.

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Don't be impudent!

  Helen : I didn't mean to be! Cap always tells me to be polite to old ladies.

• Mrs. Agatha Mogan : There is a compulsory education law in this state, and this child is old enough.

  Helen : How can she know how old I am? We don't even know ourselves.

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : From what I've observed, this child is being brought up completely without control. She's rude and undisciplined, like a little heathen. Look at the clothes she wears. Not even a dress!

  Capt. January : What business is that of yours? Star is mine!

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You forget that Star is adopted, Captain January. It's well within the power of the school authorities to have her taken away from you and placed in an institution.

• Capt. Nazro : Star can read writing and write reading better than any six-year-old on this coast.

  Capt. January : Any six-year-old? Why, there ain't no seven- or eight-year-old that knows as much as Star. I've been learning her from the two best books there is, The Bible and Bowditch.

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Bowditch? A book on navigation? Fine reading for a child of six!

  Capt. Nazro : Any objections to The Bible?

  Capt. January : There ain't no better reading in the world than The Bible and Bowditch. They both learn you to steer a straight course.

• Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Disreputable sailors, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves, teaching a child to behave this way!

  Helen : Don't be mad at them. They always have fun with me like this. Did you know that Captain Joe Ross can spit 15 feet in a 20-mile gale?

  [Captain Joe Ross smiles at Mrs. Morgan] 

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Indeed!

  Helen : And the skipper, the one with the accordion, once he killed three men with a table knife!

• Mrs. Agatha Mogan : There seems to be some doubt about the child's age. You say she has the learning of a child of eight. Very well, we'll call her eight.

  Helen : Maybe I'm only six.

  Capt. January : I'll stand on eight.

• Deputy Sheriff : I've got an order here to produce that child before Judge Thompson.

  Capt. January : All right, when do you want her?

  Deputy Sheriff : Tomorrow afternoon at three.

  Capt. January : All right, we'll be there.

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : You take that child right now! Don't you understand he's trying to sneak her out of the jurisdiction of the court?

  Capt. Nazro : He's trying to do no such thing!

  Mrs. Agatha Mogan : Then why is he on this boat? Officer, you're responsible for the custody of the child!

  Deputy Sheriff : Maybe you're right. I can't take any chances.

  Helen : Oh, Cap, don't let them take me away!