Seven generations of them." The widow chides him for wanting to turn the thatched cottage, termed White O"" Mornin"", into "a national shrine, perhaps charge tuppence a visit for a guided tour through the little thatched cottage where all he Thorntons were born.Mayerling was presumably chosen by Austrian-born director Wilder as the name of the butler, because it was the name of the royal hunting lodge where the tragic, mysterious and scandalous double death (a murder/suicide?) of the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary and his young Baroness mistress occurred in 1889.Lydecker: It""s lavish, but I call it home.The acerbic critic/writer is naked - reclining in his bath water at one end of his gigantic marble bathtub.Holly (Mercedes McCambridge) and her brother George Holly (Gene Raymond) who expected an inheritance after Sebastian""s death.Hundreds and thousands of people are going to listen to him over the radio.And unless he says something that""s - well, that""s sensational, it""s just no good." Her widowed, kindly mother (Spring Byington), who was married to her philanthropic father Dr.Mitchell who served he needy common people, suggests that the speech that she is writing shouldn""t be one of those "complaining political speeches.