Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) tells an exhausted Carlotta Vance (Marie Dressler) that they all have tickets to go to the theater to see, I'm not sure if it's, Say it with Music or Words
Did you know that there is an Internet Broadway Database too? I did a search for "say it with" and found only a single entry.
http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/10168This looks to be a failure since it only ran twice. I doubt this is the show. Now there is a more modern show that was called
Say it With Music but I can't find much on it. Just that it ran in the 1990s.
Carlotta... describes a character from the play, [something like...] "...funny man, with a cigar." I'm wondering is this an actual play and performer? I thought maybe 'Funny man. With a cigar' might be Groucho Marx.
This is the entry for Groucho over there
http://www.ibdb.com/Person/View/5966 and it doesn't look like he had a show during that time period. W. C. Fields and George Burns came to mind, but neither were doing Broadway at that time either. Fields was in Ballyhoo in 1931 though, so he wins for the closest there was at the time.
I think Fields is probably the most likely candidate, more so than Groucho. Unless anyone else can think of someone I haven't thought of or know about.
Random Thoughts:
http://goo.gl/eXk3O
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richard-1787
8 years ago
Groucho Marx had done several shows on Broadway before 1933, when Dinner at Eight was released, so the line probably refers to him.
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