" The vulgar, womanizing boss will be cheating on his wife, and the two heater tickets are in exchange for the right to use Bud""s apartment with ""the branch manager"".Their main obstacle to romance is that his rich, powerful and snobbish father, Oliver Barrett III (Ray Milland) objects and threatens to cut off funding: "Oliver, if you marry her now, I""ll not give you the ime of day.The abbey is known for being dark and gloomy, needing extensive renovation and repair, but Dracula is comfortable in its familiar surroundings: "I shall do very little repair.Is that the clinic? This is Senf, the Head Porter, Grand Hotel.How""s my wife? Is she in pain? Isn""t the child coming soon? Patience? Would you have patience?"Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), a timid assistant bookkeeper-accountant and factory clerk from Friedersdorf, called Heinrich about a diagnosis from his specialist following an operation - he was declared terminally-ill; with an unnamed fatal condition, he sickly Otto requested Heinrich to tear up his most-recent will, and vowed to use all his savings and remain in the luxury hotel until his death: "I""m never going back to Friedersdorf.