Paul Frees: John Beresford Tipton

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters a laboratory to witness Tipton, who is off-screen, holding two test tubes of liquids. Only Tipton's hands are visible to viewers. He is wearing a lab coat]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Mike, you see here two test tubes. Each one contains a separate element, in fluid state, of course. Their nature prevents them from mixing. Now watch.

  [Tipton pours the liquid from one test tube into the other. The liquids do not blend and one sits atop the other liquid] 

  Michael Anthony : [Smiling]  Mmm-hmm. You might say that, because of their attitudes, they are mutually exclusive - incompatible.

  John Beresford Tipton : [Chuckles]  *You* might say.

  [Anthony is taken aback] 

  John Beresford Tipton : But at the moment, we are dealing with chemical elements. Now, in this dropper

  [indicating a third tube] 

  John Beresford Tipton : is a third element, completely unrelated to the other two. Let's see what happens.

  [Tipton pours the third tube into the tube containing the other two liquids. All three liquids mingle into one liquid] 

  John Beresford Tipton : In that dropper is a catalytic agent, which has the property of affecting and blending the other two elements.

  [Tipton puts the tube into a rack] 

  John Beresford Tipton : There. Mike, there are people whose lives are just as dramatically changed by a catalytic agent.

  [Tipton hands an envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Here's the name of our next millionaire, one of the incompatible elements - a human element.

  [Anthony accepts the envelope, smiles, bows]