And So They Were Married (1936)

Donald Meek: Hotel Manager

Quotes 

• Hotel Manager : [When a snowslide has blocked the road on the day of the new lodge's grand opening]  25 waiters, four chefs, a 10-piece jazz band, and two guests... oooh.

• Edith Farnham : Yes, paint - fresh paint.

  Fred Cutler - Hotel Clerk : Well, you see... oh, here's the manager now.

  Stephen Blake : [Arriving at the front desk with the Hotel Manager]  My son will be positively sick...

  Hotel Manager : I know it, Mr. Blake, and I'm very, very sorry.

  Stephen Blake : But you must have one room in the hotel that wasn't painted yesterday.

  Hotel Manager : I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid not. I'm afraid they're all about the same.

  [Turning to Edith Farnham] 

  Hotel Manager : Are, are you bothered by the paint too, Mrs. Farnham?

  Edith Farnham : Me? Oh, no, I find it rather refreshing.

• Hotel Manager : Yes, it is a catastrophe. Such a thing never occurred at my hotel at Lake Placid.

• Hotel Manager : Oh, this is a catastrophe. How can we have a grand opening without people? A thing like this never happened to my hotel at Palm Beach.