Wedding Rehearsal (1932)

News Editor: Hold the edition! Clear column 1 and 2, front page. What? The Vesuvius eruption, 50,000 dead? The danger of war in southern Europe? Oh, spike it, throw it out - it's the Binley-Foster wedding!

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Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: Here he is again. "Lord Buckminster will fulfill his usual role of best man." This time, at the Roxbury wedding. I do wish he'd choose a girl for himself.
Miss Hutchinson: Do men ever do that, Lady Buckminster?
Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: Of course they do; whatever do you mean?
Miss Hutchinson: Why, the girl usually chooses the man, and then makes him think he's done it himself!
Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: What a dreadful idea, and how right you are!

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Marquis of Buckminster: Oh, all right, I'll marry somebody.
Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: "Somebody"! Do you know how many girls there are for you to choose from?
Marquis of Buckminster: Roughly 6,000,000, aren't there?
Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: Exactly 7 young women who are fit to bear our name, and your children.
Marquis of Buckminster: Oh...
Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: That is, in England.
Marquis of Buckminster: That's right, dear, buy British, yes. Well, come on, tell me the worst.
Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: My first choice, the Roxbury twins.
Marquis of Buckminster: Both of them?
Dowager Marchioness of Buckminster: Either of them.

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