On Again-Off Again (1937)

William Hobbs: How much would you charge me to call you a half-witted horse's neck?
Claude Horton: A half-witted horse's neck? Now let me see...that'll cost you a hundred.
William Hobbs: Make it $75!
Claude Horton: What do you think this is...a cut-rate drugstore? One hundred!
William Hobbs: One hundred for a little thing like that? Why you cheap, chiseling crook!
Claude Horton: That's the hundred.

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[Horton slaps butler Hobbs in the face]
William Hobbs: What's that for?
Claude Horton: That's for calling me a mongoose.
William Hobbs: I called you that weeks ago!
Claude Horton: Well, I just saw a picture of one in a book...besides, I'm too tall for a mongoose!

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William Hobbs: I can't have Florence see me like this!
Claude Horton: Still thinkin' about Florence? I thought my wife was your big interest.
William Hobbs: Your wife?...why that frowsy-lookin' frump!
Claude Horton: Frowsy-lookin' frump, eh? That'll cost you ninety dollars.
William Hobbs: 90?
Claude Horton: I'm knocking off 10 percent because I agree with you!

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Edward Peple's play, "A Pair of Sixes," opened at Broadway's Longacre Theatre in New York City on 17 March 1914 and closed in September 1914 after 207 performances, The opening night cast included Maude Eburne and Hale Hamilton.
'Robert Woolsey' was in constant pain during the filming due to a severe kidney ailment that eventually took his life in late 1938.
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