Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

Ethel Merman: Jerry Allen

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Quotes 

• Jerry Allen : [from the lyrics of "Heat Wave"]  "She started the heat wave / By letting her feet wave"

  [bowdlerized from original "By letting her seat wave"] 

• Davey Lane : [watching Paul Whiteman and his orchestra]  Well anyway it's swell music. It's changed though. It's got a new rhythm, nice and slow.

  Alexander (Roger Grant) : [cynically]  Like syrup... kinda sweet and sticky.

  Davey Lane : [exasperated]  Whatta ya do with a guy like that?

  Jerry Allen : Oh, just relax and put your mind on your drinking. Stop trying to maneuver him into talking business.

  Alexander (Roger Grant) : Business? What's that?

  Jerry Allen : You know, the thing you do to take your mind *off* your drinking.