Large, magnified typewritten letters rap out the Jewish names: Hudes Isak, Feber, Bauman, Klein, Chaim, Neuman, Samuel, Salomon, Horn, Steiner."The restaurant-lunch scene, the second scene in the film, is one of the film""s funniest.During the meal, Walter deliberately sits between Bruce and Hildy.He congratulates the bridegroom on his choice of a star reporter: "...You""re getting a great little girl for yourself...You""re getting something else too, Bruce, you""re getting a great newspaperman...One of the best I ever knew.Sorry o see her go.Darn sorry, Hildy." Bruce wonders if Hildy has any doubts about leaving the newspaper business and then realizes his is her first chance "to have a home and to be like you said - a human being, and I""m gonna make you take that chance.That""s part of the new way.Alex: New way? What""s this about a new way? There""s been some very large talk behind my sleeping back, and no error.He refuses to take the ticket from Sgt.Paine: "You ell the Major I won""t need it.Oh porter, order me a ticket tonight for the Josefstadt Theatre."At the Josefstadt Theatre that night after the performance, Holly introduces himself to the woman from the cemetery, "Miss (Anna) Schmidt" (Alida Valli).).This spoof of detective films was the first of Keaton""s feature films solely directed by himself, after his co-director stints inThree Ages (1923)andOur Hospitality (1923).