Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)

Kenneth MacKenna: Gaylord Stanton

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• Gaylord Stanton : When will these women realize that reason has nothing to do with getting a divorce.

• Gaylord Stanton : A lady is in distress.

  Sheridan : Good! That's where most of them belong, only I spell it with an "h".

  Gaylord Stanton : Gentlemen, the lady is young, very lovely to look upon.

  Reggie Durant : Ah, that's different. Very different!

• Reggie Durant : You fellas would get married.

  Richards : Well, it's the normal way to live. Finding your way out of the house at night. Everybody should get married once.

  Gaylord Stanton : Just to find out how really happy you can be - single.

• Gaylord Stanton : What salary do I pay you?

  Sylvia Brenner : Thirty-five dollars a week.

  Gaylord Stanton : It isn't much, is it?

  Sylvia Brenner : Five dollars more than the last place.

  Gaylord Stanton : Well, isn't it difficult to live on that sum?

  Sylvia Brenner : Difficult, perhaps; but, I manage.

  Gaylord Stanton : Do you live at home?

  Sylvia Brenner : No. I share a furnished apartment with two other girls.

  Gaylord Stanton : Well, how do you manage to clothe yourself on your salary?

  Sylvia Brenner : Many girls do it on less. Dirty, crowded basements. Bargain sales. Make things yourself.

  Gaylord Stanton : Presents, I suppose.

  Sylvia Brenner : My Aunt Alice sent me a nightgown at Christmas - two years ago.

• Gaylord Stanton : I have a proposal to make which may brighten your future a little. Marry me.

  Sylvia Brenner : What?

  Gaylord Stanton : I said you could help yourself by marrying me.

  Sylvia Brenner : You're asking me to - marry you?

  Gaylord Stanton : Just that. You heard how Sheridan manages. Well, I want some of the freedom and security that he has. Now, you'd have more money than you have now, lots of nice clothes, and a chance to travel.

  Sylvia Brenner : Mostly travel.

  Gaylord Stanton : Well, I thought perhaps you'd like to travel?

  Sylvia Brenner : So I would - with my husband.

  Gaylord Stanton : Ah, but you'd enjoy yourself. You couldn't help it. And you'd have - all the lovely things...

  Sylvia Brenner : That I've stood in front of shop windows and wanted.

• Sylvia Brenner : This won't be a real marriage; it'll be, well, it's just a pretense.

  Gaylord Stanton : I know.

  Sylvia Brenner : We - you wouldn't expect - well, we will be married in name only.

  Gaylord Stanton : Oh, not in fact?

  [laughs] 

  Gaylord Stanton : That's agreeable.

• Grace Lawrence : Haven't you mooned over that picture long enough? You know what she looks like.

  Gaylord Stanton : I wonder.

• Sylvia Brenner : I hope you don't mind my dropping in on you like this.

  Gaylord Stanton : Mind? I'm tickled to death.

• Gaylord Stanton : Please call me Gaylord.

  Sylvia Brenner : Gaylord.

• Gaylord Stanton : Oh, Sylvia, I wish nobody were coming tonight. Just - you and I.

  Sylvia Brenner : Yes?

  Gaylord Stanton : I'd like to - to - to talk to you.

• Reggie Durant : That's what love does to you. It makes you terribly lonely, no matter where you are - if she isn't there.

  Gaylord Stanton : So I've heard.

  Sylvia Brenner : I don't think you'd better talk about love to Gaylord. Men so dislike discussing things they don't understand.

• Reggie Durant : She's the most gracious, most charming, the best humored...

  Gaylord Stanton : Yes, I know, I know. I know.

  Reggie Durant : I'm quite sure you don't. But, it doesn't matter.

• Gaylord Stanton : I told Grace all about your illness, dear.

  Sylvia Brenner : Oh, I see.

  Grace Lawrence : He didn't tell me just what the trouble was.

  Sylvia Brenner : Well, I suffered from - heart trouble.

  Grace Lawrence : Is it curable?

  Sylvia Brenner : Oh, yes. I had excellent care - in Paris.

  Gaylord Stanton : Well, I think, dear, you could have been taken care of just as well here.

  Sylvia Brenner : Do you really think so?

• Gaylord Stanton : What you think of is love, is nothing more or less than, well, an emotional hurdle race. And what do you win?

  Sylvia Brenner : You're the last hurdle and, as long as I live, you will be the prize.