Jake and Joey are playfully pictured with their fists raised against each other, mimicking the traditional boxer""s stance:That""s me and my brother, foolin"" around.We can get them up for you by tomorrow.We would have had them up by now, except Robbie""s had the runs, so we""ve been tryin"" not o use him too much this week.Not a darn thing.Not where he comes from, what he makes, or what he makes making it.Only thing we know about him is his name, and you weren""t too sure about that.Yet he walks in, and we hand him Kay....I want o know whether he""s going to make her happy.Whether he""s going o make a home for her, can he support her?"- Stanley""s desire is to follow through on all that "old-fashioned rigmarole" including the lengthy "man-to-man" talk (a fireside "little chat") he has with Buckley about his financial prospects (three months before the nuptials), to determine if he can suitably support Kay; the interview is interminably long and boring- during the required meeting of the Banks to get o know the wealthy in-laws the Dunstans, Stanley and Ellie meet with Herbert or "Herbie" (Moroni Olsen) and Doris Dunstan (Billie Burke), who live in much more than a "shack"; Stanley admits (in voice-over) about the meeting: "We did more bare-faced lying in those few minutes than we had done in our entire lives"; he get-together in the Dunstan""s living room ends when Stanley drinks too much Madeira (fortified wine from Portugal) and falls asleep upright on the couch in the midst of the discussion- in the scene of the Banks"" party to announce the engagement (the guests routinely decline Stanley""s pre-prepared martinis and order many other varieties of drinks), Stanley finds himself confined to the kitchen and is unable to deliver his prepared speech; he is advised about finances and his place in the proceedings: "Enjoy your minute in the limelight.Anguished, Jim believes that he causes his parents o continually move from town to town to protect him.]The 74 minute film was a box-office failure, due to the advent of the "talkies" a year before, but its indelible images yet remain.