The Wet Parade (1932)

Robert Young: Kip Tarleton

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Quotes 

• Kip Tarleton : [upon arriving]  Say, this is some party.

  Jerry Tyler : My boy, this is what you call a "coming out" party. Everybody comes out of it with a hangover. So step right in and...

  Drunk Woman : [approaching Jerry and hanging her arm around him]  I thought you were going to show me the swimming pool.

  [the drunk woman makes eyes at Jerry and walks away] 

  Jerry Tyler : There's a girl who's gonna get kissed *right* on the springboard.

  [Jerry follows the woman, straightening his tie demonstrating that he's going to get lucky with her] 

• Kip Tarleton : [after they see Jerry off to join the war]  *Gosh,* I wish I was going. But I had to promise Mom, she'd be sunk without me, I guess.

  Roger Chilcote, Jr. : Yeah? Well, I've got flat feet, and no draft board would *ever* pass me, and I'm glad of it.

  Kip Tarleton : Oh gee, Roge, that isn't like you.

  Roger Chilcote, Jr. : Yeah, I know. You're all hopped up with that patriotic hypodermic like the rest of them. They've told you about the poor little Belgian girls and blown a bugle in your ear and said "Sic 'em."

  Kip Tarleton : But you know they're only doing their duty.

  Roger Chilcote, Jr. : Aw, like a glorified street fight, that's what war is. Somebody throws a brick and everybody starts taking sides. And when it's all over, do they know what they've been fighting for? *No.* Ten years from now, no one will be able to tell you what *this* war was all about... except the guys that made money out of it, and they're not gonna bring up the subject.

  Kip Tarleton : Oh, but you know we're on the right side.

  Roger Chilcote, Jr. : Listen. War *has* no right side. All war does is fertilize the ground and supply the surfaces with armless and legless wonders. Well, I don't propose to be *either!*