Bernstein: “Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t feel right spending your money stop. There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler.” Any answer? Charles Foster Kane: Yes—Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.
ATTRIBUTION:
Orson Welles (1915–1985), U.S. filmmaker, actor, producer, and Herman J. Manckiewicz (1897–1953), U.S. screenwriter. Bernstein (Everett Sloane), Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), Citizen Kane, Bernstein is reading telegram from the Inquirer reporter in Cuba (1941).
