What, me! The King of Brooklyn, the cultural center of the universe, marry a barbarian? Never!
— (Danny Kaye)
12 seconds sound clip from The Danny Kaye Radio Show - "A Baby From Washington" (3.02.1945).
You can hear this line at 00:19:16 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- So this mortgage has fallen into the hands of Queen Eve of Manhattan.
- Gadzooks, that shrew? What'll we do?
- There is ought but else to do there.
- There is ought but else to do there.
- That's what I taught he said.
- Marry the Queen of Manhattan and the ball park is ours.
- What, me! The King of Brooklyn, the cultural center of the universe, marry a barbarian? Never!
- Well, I gotta keep my lip in shape, don't I?
- King, I hate to say this, but unless you marry Queen Eve of Manhattan... we're licked.
- But I can't marry Eve... I love another.
[...]