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Adam Stanton (Shepperd Strudwick) - a close childhood friend of Jack""s.At one of many fancy social occasions, a formal dinner, discussion flares over the direction of Jack""s troubled career choice and conflicting political viewpoints regarding Willie Stark""s populist message." She orders him out.He sarcastically replies with a reference toGrauman""s Chinese Theatrein Hollywood: "Next time, I""ll bring my autograph album along, or maybe a hunk of cement and ask for your footprint.Girls who""ve been places, speak languages."Rosa: "Not yours!"Latimer: "Maybe I want to learn theirs."Rosa: "You can""t teach an old dog new tricks.I want you to marry me." (He burst into uproarious laughter at her request, and she slapped him in the face.He grabbed her for a rough kiss.)Rosa""s Discontent With Married Life in Loyalton:Once Rosa and Lewis met up in their home after the weekend, the trampy Rosa told her doctor husband as she walked down the stairs - filing her nails with an emery board, and looking around as she snarled - a most-famous line:What a dump![Note: This line of dialogue would later reappear in he opening scene ofWho""s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), delivered by Elizabeth Taylor, from Edward Albee""s play of the same name.I can""t get myself right.I wanted to look mellow and I look brittle.My face doesn""t compose well - it""s all highlights.How can I dim myself down, Leon? Suggest something.Oh, I""m so bored with this face.I wish I had someone else""s face.Whose face would you have if you had your choice? Oh well, I guess one gets the face one deserves.Her dapper boyfriend/lover, who shares her cynical view of love and a business partnership, is the suave and handsome playboy Count Leon D""Algout (Melvyn Douglas), who responds wittily: "There""s one marvelous advantage to your conversation, Swana." She proposed disabling the "dedicated power breaker" hat enabled the First Order""s tracker on the Star Destroyer ship - the lead flagshipSupremacyitself.