The Miracle Woman (1931)

David Manners: John Carson

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• John Carson : Who's that coon shouter that broadcasts over the radio every day?

  Mrs. Higgins : Coon shouter? Oh, do you mean Sister Fallon?

• John Carson : Mrs. Higgins, this is Sister Fallon.

  Mrs. Higgins : Oh, sure. And I suppose you're Saint John and I'm Martha Washington.

• John Carson : Would you like to hear some really good music?

  Florence : I'd love to.

  John Carson : Allow me to present my two friends: Pagliacci the clown and Sambo the hoofer.

• John Carson : You know what this is?

  Florence : It looks like King Tut's will.

  John Carson : It's called braille. Kind of like a morse code, only the dots are raised and you read it with your fingers. Watch: "A book of verses underneath the bough." Here, you try it.

  Florence : A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou beside me.

  John Carson : Oh, you faker! You're not reading. You're remembering.

  Florence : Yes. But, I could learn it. It's just like shorthand.

• John Carson : Are you a teetotaler?

  Florence : No, not annoyingly so.

• Florence : Don't you envy me? I'm going to the River Jordan and maybe swim in it. And then to the Wailing Wall, I've read so much about, in Jerusalem. I suppose I'll have to do some plain and fancy wailing. How do you wail? Ooooo! Come on, you taught me how to laugh. Now, teach me how to wail.

  John Carson : My wailer isn't working tonight.

• John Carson : I have no claim on you. You know how I - how you - If you wanted to stay, you need never see me again.

  John Carson : Now, you're not going to go Hamlet again, are you?