Child of Manhattan (1933)

Aunt Minnie: You could knock me over with a fender.

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Mrs. McGonegal: [Speaking with a heavy Irish accent] He ain't no gintleman!
Madeleine McGonegal: He is so a gentleman; half the time I couldn't understand a word he was sayin'.
Mrs. McGonegal: Probably a Grake or an Eye-talian or somethin'.
Madeleine McGonegal: He's not a Greek, nor an Italian neither. He's from New York City, but he *is* a gentleman!
Mrs. McGonegal: Then look out! I seen plenty a gintlemen when I was a housemaid on Fifth Avenue afore I married your pa, rist 'is soul, and compared to ordinary men... huh!
Mrs. McGonegal: [after thinking for a moment] Say, niver, niver walk upstairs in front of a gintleman. Sure, they have their pints, but they're dangerous!

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The Broadway production of "Child of Manhattan" by Preston Sturges opened at the Fulton Theater on May 1, 1932 and ran for 87 performances.
Neil Hamilton played the role of "Paul Vanderkill" for the first two weeks of production; he was replaced by John Boles.
John Sheehan is in studio records/casting call lists as "Bartender," but the only bartender seen was Jack Kennedy.
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