He was looking for a way to make money and boost his sour and drunken reputation after many failures.We three would make an ideal couple.Why, you""ve got beauty, charm, money.You have got money, haven""t you? ""Cause if you haven""t, we can quit right now.In this scene, he has simultaneously proposed love and marriage to both Mrs.Rittenhouse and Mrs.Whitehead.Mrs.Rittenhouse is again brutally mishandled:Mrs.Rittenhouse: I""m fascinated.Spaulding: I""m ""fascinated"" too.Right on the arm.Spaulding then excuses himself for a "strange interlude" during this marriage proposal scene.He mocks the portentiousness of the theatre and parodies Eugene O""Neill""sStrange Interludewith three soliloquies, by speaking in ""interior monologues"" directly to the audience.[Note: An earlier pre-Code filmOnly Yesterday (1933), starring Margaret Sullavan and John Boles, was based upon the same story.They retired o a tent to have sex, while Wade wandered off into the woods, listening on iPod headphones and singing along to Night Ranger""s "Sister Christian.If she""ll fool her husband, I figure she""ll fool me...The boob hat I am, I thought I could escape her.Elsa""s crippled [physically impotent from the waist down] husband - famous, wealthy trial lawyer Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) with protuberant eyes, explicitly seeks out O""Hara the next day in the seaman""s hiring hall.