The Studio Murder Mystery

Rupert Borka:
No, no, no. That is terrible. Get up.

Richard Hardell:
Well, what's the matter?

Rupert Borka:
Matter? Well you cannot act. That is all. You do not feel it; you do not think it. Bah!

Richard Hardell:
Want me to try again?

Rupert Borka:
What for? I told you all week that you cannot act. Then I thought maybe if we came here and rehearsed here alone tonight... but it is useless. Why that dummy has more feeling than you.

Richard Hardell:
Ohhh [throws dummy out of chair and onto floor] Now look here, Borka. Why don't you play ball? You agreed to give this part to the winner of that newspaper contest. Now didn't you?

Rupert Borka:
Yes.

Richard Hardell:
Yes.

Rupert Borka:
Like a fool!

Richard Hardell:
Oh, well you just say that because the winner was me and you've always thought I was just a rich man to hang around moving picture people.

Rupert Borka:
And you are!

Richard Hardell:
No, I'm not either. I've always really wanted to act. And if you weren't the director, old boy I'd be making good right now.

Rupert Borka:
You are crazy. You cannot act and you will never learn to act.