Telephone linemen testing the line tell a telephone operator the news.The eye-batting operator drawls back: "You're elling me?"A closeup of an Actors' Equity Association contract fills the screen.Private detective Spade only reveals that Miles was ailing a guy named Thursby to find out where he lived.How about a pick-me-up?Just then, the doorbell rang and Wynant's lawyer MacCaulay entered, and asked:What's Mimi [Dorothy's divorced mother] up to, Mr.Having chosen a misguided film director as the main character of his own film, many critics have generally assumed that he film had a personal, introspective, autobiographical slant, with Sturges arguing for and affirming the production of light comedies (to lift viewers' spirits) while providing commentary upon serious 'message' films.Go in and tell her you're going to the convention.Be a man, and I'll see you in the morning." Inside his own house, Ollie is confronted by his formidable wife Mrs.Lottie Chase Hardy (Mae Busch), whom he sweetly calls "Sugar." After learning that Stan's wife Betty is duck-hunting and that he has just locked himself out of his own house, Ollie receives permission from his wife for Stan to come in and wait until she returns.