jay@umcp-cs.UUCP (11/21/83)
This is probably one of those you-had-to-be-there type of quotes, but it
struck my wife and me as so ludicrous that I thought I'd pass it on. Picture
a group of sophisticated 1930's types (specifically, Conrad Nagel, Virginia
Bruce and Melvyn Douglas) sitting around spouting pompous platitudes. On one
subject they all agree: that knowledge of the truth is always for the best.
Nothing bad can come from basking in the true light. Well, as you
might imagine, the ensuing events prove that, at least in their cases, the
truth can be devastating. Wives and husbands have been unfaithful, murder and
theft may have been committed. It is at this latter realization that one of
the heroines of this otherwise dead serious film spouts the following:
I'm now facing a most urgent problem, the sort of problem that only
women have to face. If a man has been dragged back to your house
to be told he's a liar, a cad, and a possible thief, oughtn't you
to make a few sandwiches for him?
Ernst Lubitsch eat your heart out! BTW, the name of the 1934 film is
"Dangerous Corner", referring to all those hidden truths best left unrevealed.
Unless you habitually stay up 'til 6:00AM, you probably won't meet
up with it which may or may not be all for the best. As for myself,
I'm an indiscriminately compulsive movie watcher.
Oh, yes, the man's response to the above quote: "He'll get no sandwiches from
me!"
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Jay Elvove ..!seismo!umcp-cs!jay