Another Fine Mess (1930)

Charles K. Gerrard: Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree

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• Lord Leopold Plumtree : [to Stan who is dressed as the maid]  Pardon me, are you any relation to the butler?

  Ollie : Oh, yes, yes, they're twins. You see, one was born in Detroit, the other in Mee-ami.

  [laughs] 

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : I don't quite understand.

  Ollie : Oh, that's all right. Neither do they.

  [laughs] 

• Stan : [posing as the butler]  You wish to see Colonel Buckshot?

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : Why, I'd LOVE to! Hauw-haw-haw-huh-huh-huh-huh!

  Stan : [turning away and calling toward the stairway]  Colonel Buckshot!

  [a few seconds pass with no answer] 

  Stan : Oh, Ollie - - uh - - Colonel Buckshot!

  [No answer] 

  Stan : [speaking to Lord Plumtree and his wife]  Wait there.

  [He walks several yards to the foot of the stairs, then cups his hand to his mouth and hollers up the stairs] 

  Stan : Colonel BUCKshot...

  [using his classic shrill whistle] 

  Stan : ... HHREEE-YER-REEET!

  Ollie : [posing as Colonel Buckshot]  What is it, Hives?

  Stan : [wincing at the derogatory name Hardy has chosen for him]  Lord Appletree - - he wants to rent a room.

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : No, no, my dear fellow - - 'PLUMtree'. 'PLUMtree'. Lord Leopold 'Plumtree' - - my card. And I wish to rent the entire HOUSE.

  [inspects the new card that Lord Plumtree has given him, then absently tosses the first card away] 

• Ollie : I beg your pardon, Lord Figtree!

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : Plumtree, my dear fellow, Plumtree. My card.

• Lord Leopold Plumtree : Oh, by the way, Colonel, do you have any horses?

  Ollie : [posing as Colonel Buckshot]  I'm sorry... I've just shipped all my horses to my plantation in Kentucky.

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : Kentucky? What part of Kentucky do you come from, Colonel?

  Ollie : [fondly and grandly]  Omaha... dear old Omaha!

  Stan : I thought Omaha was in Wisconsin.

• Ollie : Oh, Agnes - - meet your new master, Lord Flagpole Crabtree.

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : PLUMtree... PLUMtree! Lord Leopold PLUMtree! My cahd.

  Ollie : That's RIGHT!

• Ollie : Ahhh... at last I have found it, Lord Appletree!

  Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree : Plumtree, my dear fellow! Plumtree! Accent on the "Lum". My card.

  [He reaches in his pocket for another card, but accidentally takes out three cards at once, which he hands to Hardy] 

  Ollie : [leafing through the cards and reading them off one-by-one]  "Plumtree"... "Plumtree"... "Plumtree"... I am awfully sorry.

• Lord Leopold Plumtree : [shaking his hand in surprise and pain after the brace holding up the lid of the piano vibrates loose and the lid falls shut and pinches Lord Plumtree's finger]  Oh, I say! I SAY!

  Ollie : Oh, I beg your pardon, Lord Figtree!

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : 'PLUMtree!' 'PLUMtree'! Lord Leopold 'Plumtree'!

  [He hands Hardy another card] 

  Ollie : Ah, a thousand pardons - - my mistake!

• Lady Plumtree : Well, this must be the place.

  Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree : Perfectly ripping.

• Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree : [to Lady Plumtree]  Now dear, will you return to the depot and attend to our trunks; while I go over final details with dear old Bucky.

  Ollie : [pretending to be Col. Buckshot]  Quite right, Plummy.

• Lord Leopold Plumtree : How much do you want for the rent?

  Ollie : Would $20 a month be too much?

  Lord Leopold Plumtree : $20 a month? That's practically giving it away.

  Ollie : Well, I got it for almost nothing myself.