1:29:01
- I believe so. Wilhelm?
- Indeed it is.
1:29:03
Yes.
1:29:04
Do you not consider it to be perhaps...
too short?
1:29:07
Too short for what?
1:29:09
For propriety.
Might it not be rather unseemly?
1:29:14
- I'm sorry, unseemly to whom?
- To the audience of the Savoy Theatre.
1:29:18
Hmm. I shouldn't have thought so.
1:29:21
In any case, I shall be the judge.
1:29:23
Rest assured, Mr Lely, my designs
are properly researched and authentic.
1:29:27
No offence to you, Mr Wilhelm,
but your properly authentic costume...
1:29:31
...seems to have left me
in the buff somewhat!
1:29:34
- Quite.
- No more in the buff...
1:29:36
...than Japanese peasants
have been for the last 800 years.
1:29:39
May I draw your attention to the fact that
I am not, actually, a Japanese peasant.
1:29:44
No. You're a Scotch actor, who is
taking the part of a Japanese prince...
1:29:47
...who is posing as an itinerant minstrel.
1:29:50
Lely, I would be only too happy
for the tailor here...
1:29:53
...to chop off some of my surplus
and stitch it to your kilt.
1:29:57
Thank you, Grossmith.
I'm sure we shall reap the benefits...
1:30:01
...of your remonstrations in time.
1:30:03
Yes, GG. Do you not agree with me
that this garment is rather vulgar?
1:30:07
I do, as it happens.
1:30:09
Mr Grossmith...
1:30:11
...kindly oblige me by removing your hat.
1:30:13
Why, sir? Are you ready for me?
1:30:15
Would that I were, sir!
1:30:17
I'll thank you not to refer
to my designs as vulgar, Mr Lely.
1:30:21
Mr Wilhelm, to my eyes, your designs
are not only vulgar but obscene!
1:30:26
- How dare you, sir?
- Strong words, Lely. What do you mean?
1:30:30
Mr Gilbert, I'm a respectably married man
and I love my wife dearly.
1:30:35
One of the few pleasures
she has enjoyed...
1:30:37
...since the untimely demise
of my beloved mother-in-law...
1:30:40
...has been to watch me
perform upon the stage.
1:30:43
But I am not prepared to allow her to
suffer the embarrassment of seeing me...
1:30:48
...flaunted before the public like a...
half-dressed performing dog!
1:30:54
You have my sympathies, Lely.
1:30:56
But, unfortunately,
your avocation as an actor...
1:30:59
...compels you on occasion to endure
the most ignominious indignities...