Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Franklin Pangborn: Vernon Lewis

Quotes 

• Beverly Ross : I bought this volume to make for the one I broke.

  [gives Mr. Lewis a record] 

  Vernon Lewis : Oh, so you're the one who finished my Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony".

  Beverly Ross : Yes, but, I got a better one. Freddie Slack at his boogie best!

  Vernon Lewis : I beg your pardon?

  Beverly Ross : "The Cow Cow Boogie". Freddie never grooved one that was better.

  Vernon Lewis : Will you take this ghastly thing away.

  Beverly Ross : You don't like Freddie Slack?

  Vernon Lewis : I don't like him. I don't dislike him. I don't know him. My program is 'Symphony at Dawn". Dew is on the grass. Woodwinds. The white swans stretching their lazy wings. There's going to be no boogie woogie to contaminate it with a lot of cow cow stuff - and certainly not in slacks.

• Beverly Ross : Oh, Mr. Lewis, you've got to go away. Go to the mountains or go fishing or something.

  Vernon Lewis : No, no, no, no. It can't be done. Some fool once said, "The show must go on."

  Beverly Ross : Oh, but, can't you find a substitute?

  Vernon Lewis : You find one and I'll be up to my knees in creek water before you can say: Tchaikovsky.

  Beverly Ross : All right, Tchaikovsky! You're looking at your substitute right now.

• Vernon Lewis : You were just pinch hitting for me.

  Beverly Ross : I might have been pinch hitting; but, I got to first base!

• Beverly Ross : The studio door was locked and there was Mr. Lewis inside sticking his *tongue* out at me. I wish you'd tell him where he gets off.

  Vernon Lewis : I wish you'd tell her where she gets off.