1:37:00
Please go to the back of the stage.
Thank you.
1:37:03
Yes, yes. Come upstage.
As quickly as you can. Come along.
1:37:07
Thank you.
1:37:10
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much indeed.
1:37:12
One, two, three.
1:37:15
Very good. Thank you.
1:37:17
Now, what I would like you to do
when the music commences...
1:37:20
...I would like you to advance downstage.
1:37:22
Thank you very much.
1:37:24
- Cellier.
- One, two. Two, two.
1:37:27
- Off you go. Come along.
1:37:32
Stop, stop!
1:37:33
Will this take long?
I'm to arrange a mazurka at four o'clock.
1:37:36
I have not made myself clear.
1:37:38
When Mrs Russell commences playing
the pianoforte, diddle-dum, diddle-dee...
1:37:42
...what I would like you to do
is to advance downstage.
1:37:46
"Comme ça", diddle-dum, diddle-dee.
1:37:49
Do you understand?
I think you do. Let's try once more.
1:37:53
Cellier!
1:37:54
- One, two. Two, two.
1:37:57
Come along. That's it. Very good!
1:38:01
Excellent! That is exactly it!
Thank you very much indeed!
1:38:04
Excellent! First rate.
1:38:06
Thank you very much indeed.
1:38:08
D'Auban, that is exactly what I want.
1:38:10
I do beg your pardon,
but I appear to have missed the point.
1:38:13
- That is the very effect I need.
- And what effect exactly is that?
1:38:17
- What did they do?
- They walked downstage.
1:38:19
They appeared to me to be
ambling along the Strand.
1:38:22
They walked downstage
in the Japanese manner!
1:38:25
They walked in the Japanese manner
because they are Japanese.
1:38:28
Exactly! And that is precisely
why they are here.
1:38:32
Our maids are not Japanese.
However, they are very funny.
1:38:35
No funnier, however, than they would be
if they all sat down on pork pies.
1:38:40
- Young fella-me-lad, Mr Gilbert, sir.
1:38:42
I've arranged
Terpsichore, Chinese, Japanese...
1:38:45
...for pantomime, burlesque
and the ballet...
1:38:48
...for many a season,
always to great acclaim.
1:38:50
D'Auban... this is not low burlesque.
1:38:53
This is an entirely original
Japanese opera.
1:38:57
Miss Bond, Miss Braham and Miss Grey,
kindly resume your opening positions!