1 00:02:05,726 --> 00:02:07,428 "Today's arrivals in London 2 00:02:07,495 --> 00:02:08,972 "for the coronation of their majesties 3 00:02:08,996 --> 00:02:10,664 "King George V and Queen Mary 4 00:02:10,731 --> 00:02:12,733 "include the regent of Carpathia, 5 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,736 "his serene highness the grand Duke Charles. 6 00:02:15,803 --> 00:02:19,373 "He will be accompanied by the present king, his son Nicholas VIII, 7 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,008 "and by the Queen Dowager. 8 00:02:21,074 --> 00:02:24,044 "They will be in residence at the Carpathian embassy, 9 00:02:24,111 --> 00:02:27,215 belgrave square, S.W." 10 00:02:30,818 --> 00:02:33,487 But do you mean to say, Northbrook, 11 00:02:33,554 --> 00:02:35,656 that you know nothing about Carpathia whatever? 12 00:02:35,723 --> 00:02:37,925 Don't even know where the beastly place is, for a start. 13 00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:39,993 How long have you been in the foreign office? 14 00:02:40,060 --> 00:02:42,162 15 years, sir, but I'm in the far eastern department. 15 00:02:42,230 --> 00:02:43,997 Now, that's no excuse. 16 00:02:44,064 --> 00:02:47,368 What would you think if I said that I knew nothing about Siam? 17 00:02:47,435 --> 00:02:49,203 Don't think I'd mind very much. 18 00:02:49,270 --> 00:02:52,039 That sort of remark will get you nowhere, Northbrook. 19 00:02:52,105 --> 00:02:53,741 Not even out of this job? 20 00:02:53,807 --> 00:02:54,807 Certainly not. 21 00:02:54,842 --> 00:02:57,110 Your predecessor has had a riding accident, 22 00:02:57,177 --> 00:02:58,779 and you are now in his saddle, 23 00:02:58,846 --> 00:03:01,882 attached to suite of the grand Duke Charles, regent of Carpathia, 24 00:03:01,949 --> 00:03:03,617 and there's an end of it. 25 00:03:03,684 --> 00:03:05,886 But I made so many jolly little plans for the coronation, 26 00:03:05,953 --> 00:03:07,855 and I don't speak a word of Carpathian. 27 00:03:07,921 --> 00:03:09,457 Oh, that's all right. 28 00:03:09,523 --> 00:03:13,026 Fortunately, they're excessively proud of their English. 29 00:03:13,093 --> 00:03:15,963 Now, look here, Northbrook. 30 00:03:17,698 --> 00:03:18,799 Carpathia... 31 00:03:18,866 --> 00:03:21,969 a mixed german/slav population of 11 1/2 millions, 32 00:03:22,035 --> 00:03:24,638 the most efficient railway service in the Balkans, 33 00:03:24,705 --> 00:03:27,541 and the fourth-largest army in Europe. 34 00:03:27,608 --> 00:03:31,144 So delicately poised is the balance of power at this moment 35 00:03:31,211 --> 00:03:33,981 that the secession of this from... 36 00:03:35,182 --> 00:03:36,182 This... 37 00:03:36,183 --> 00:03:38,452 To... 38 00:03:38,519 --> 00:03:41,389 That would certainly make the aggressor 39 00:03:41,455 --> 00:03:43,591 feel strong enough to start his war. 40 00:03:43,657 --> 00:03:46,360 And I presume that even in the far eastern department 41 00:03:46,427 --> 00:03:49,997 they have some idea of who that aggressor would likely to be. 42 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:51,399 Kaiser Wilhelm. 43 00:03:51,465 --> 00:03:53,867 Precisely. Kaiser bill. 44 00:03:53,934 --> 00:03:56,770 They should've left the station by now. 45 00:03:56,837 --> 00:04:00,240 You'd better get along to their embassy. 46 00:04:00,308 --> 00:04:03,311 Yes, by Jove, here they are. 47 00:04:04,612 --> 00:04:07,381 There, Northbrook. There is your future charge. 48 00:04:07,448 --> 00:04:09,116 Who's the boy? 49 00:04:09,182 --> 00:04:11,985 The king, for heaven's sake. The regent's son. 50 00:04:12,052 --> 00:04:13,387 Don't you know anything? 51 00:04:13,454 --> 00:04:15,423 Unhappily, the boy's pro-German, 52 00:04:15,489 --> 00:04:17,100 a cousin of the kaiser on his mother's side, 53 00:04:17,124 --> 00:04:19,827 and in 18 months' time, when he comes to power, 54 00:04:19,893 --> 00:04:21,795 we shall have to look out for trouble. 55 00:04:21,862 --> 00:04:23,964 That's the queen dowager beside him... 56 00:04:24,031 --> 00:04:27,635 the boy's grandmother, the regent's mother-in-law. 57 00:04:27,701 --> 00:04:30,103 Quite a formidable old lady. 58 00:04:30,170 --> 00:04:32,406 And there is the regent. 59 00:04:32,473 --> 00:04:35,275 A character, Northbrook. 60 00:04:35,343 --> 00:04:37,378 Definitely a character. 61 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:45,152 By the way, grand ducal highness, not serene. 62 00:04:45,218 --> 00:04:47,421 And all for formalities... 63 00:04:47,488 --> 00:04:50,324 backing out, all that sort of thing. 64 00:04:50,391 --> 00:04:52,092 He's very touchy about those matters. 65 00:04:52,159 --> 00:04:54,928 In fact, he's a very touchy proposition altogether, 66 00:04:54,995 --> 00:04:56,864 but a very vital one. 67 00:04:56,930 --> 00:05:01,168 He must not by one jot nor one tittle be offended. 68 00:05:01,234 --> 00:05:04,271 And you are the instrument chosen by fate and by me 69 00:05:04,338 --> 00:05:05,939 to see to that happy result. 70 00:05:06,006 --> 00:05:08,809 Tonight, for instance, take him out, entertain him... 71 00:05:08,876 --> 00:05:10,076 the opera, whatever he wishes. 72 00:05:10,110 --> 00:05:11,712 The opera? I say. 73 00:05:11,779 --> 00:05:15,048 I said, Northbrook, whatever he wishes. 74 00:05:31,365 --> 00:05:32,866 Yes, who is it? 75 00:05:32,933 --> 00:05:34,143 Miss Marina, hurry. You'll be late. 76 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:35,335 What? 77 00:05:35,403 --> 00:05:36,913 All the principals to meet the royal party. 78 00:05:36,937 --> 00:05:39,172 Miss Springfield's lining them up on the stage now. 79 00:05:39,239 --> 00:05:41,141 Oh, gosh! My shoulder thing is busted. 80 00:05:41,208 --> 00:05:42,476 Just keep still. 81 00:05:42,543 --> 00:05:43,711 What party? 82 00:05:43,777 --> 00:05:45,212 It'll be that Carpathian lot 83 00:05:45,278 --> 00:05:47,114 in the royal box, I expect. 84 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:49,817 Oh, gosh! 85 00:05:49,883 --> 00:05:53,521 You'll be all right, dear, only hurry. 86 00:05:58,926 --> 00:06:01,662 Quickly. Quickly, everyone, into line. He's coming. 87 00:06:03,531 --> 00:06:06,333 Quickly! Quiet, everyone. Into line. He's coming. Who's missing? 88 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,201 Elsie Marina. 89 00:06:08,268 --> 00:06:10,447 She would be. Can't that girl ever make an entrance on time? 90 00:06:10,471 --> 00:06:12,406 They said to tell her, miss Springfield. 91 00:06:12,473 --> 00:06:14,984 Chorus, in 2 groups, and remember, you are to be seen and not heard. 92 00:06:15,008 --> 00:06:17,745 And, principals, you are not to speak 93 00:06:17,811 --> 00:06:19,246 unless you are directly addressed. 94 00:06:19,312 --> 00:06:20,981 Should that happy privilege be yours, 95 00:06:21,048 --> 00:06:23,884 the regent is to be addressed as your grand... 96 00:06:23,951 --> 00:06:25,719 Ducal highness. 97 00:06:33,193 --> 00:06:35,262 May I present miss Maisie Springfield? 98 00:06:35,328 --> 00:06:37,765 But I know miss Springfield well. We are old friends. 99 00:06:37,831 --> 00:06:39,299 Oh, your grand ducal highness. 100 00:06:39,366 --> 00:06:42,402 What a charming character is this, uh, coconut girl. 101 00:06:42,470 --> 00:06:45,105 Oh, I'm so happy to hear your grand ducal highness say so. 102 00:06:45,172 --> 00:06:49,677 It is a character that goes a little deeper than most in musical comedy. 103 00:06:49,743 --> 00:06:51,378 Ah, yes. Yes, indeed. Quite so. 104 00:06:51,445 --> 00:06:52,722 I have been so anxious to find a role 105 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:55,583 which offered an... an emotional challenge. 106 00:06:55,649 --> 00:06:57,150 Most charming it is. 107 00:06:57,217 --> 00:06:59,186 I began to feel we had lost the gay person 108 00:06:59,252 --> 00:07:01,021 that I knew in Paris. 109 00:07:01,088 --> 00:07:03,290 How gracious of you, sir, to remember. 110 00:07:03,356 --> 00:07:06,827 I look forward to... and this, I take it, is our hero. 111 00:07:06,894 --> 00:07:10,163 I'm most honored to meet your... Grand ducal highness. 112 00:07:10,230 --> 00:07:13,934 I trust lord Percy will manage to extricate himself 113 00:07:14,001 --> 00:07:15,569 from his present impasse. 114 00:07:15,636 --> 00:07:18,639 Oh, yes. Yes, indeed, sir, as you'll see, I hope. 115 00:07:18,706 --> 00:07:20,207 How do you do? Good evening. 116 00:07:20,273 --> 00:07:21,542 Mr. Tim Thorne Lestrange. 117 00:07:21,609 --> 00:07:23,210 Gosh, what do I do? 118 00:07:23,276 --> 00:07:25,445 Just take his hand and curtsy. 119 00:07:25,513 --> 00:07:26,479 What is he, a king or something? 120 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,314 Regent. 121 00:07:27,315 --> 00:07:29,083 What's that? 122 00:07:29,149 --> 00:07:32,219 It's a sort of king's understudy, but he's on all the time. 123 00:07:32,285 --> 00:07:34,354 Regent. 124 00:07:34,421 --> 00:07:35,623 How do you do? 125 00:07:35,689 --> 00:07:36,423 Good evening, sir. 126 00:07:36,424 --> 00:07:37,658 Miss Betty boot. 127 00:07:37,725 --> 00:07:40,027 Most charming. Delightful. 128 00:07:40,093 --> 00:07:42,329 Such pretty music. Did you think so? 129 00:07:42,395 --> 00:07:43,396 Oh, I did. Yes, sir. 130 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:45,365 Yes. It, um... 131 00:07:45,432 --> 00:07:48,969 Good play. It goes a little deeper, I think. 132 00:07:49,036 --> 00:07:50,704 Oh, yes, sir. Rather, sir. 133 00:07:50,771 --> 00:07:52,239 Charming disguises. 134 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:54,041 Mr. Dan Lupino. 135 00:07:54,107 --> 00:07:55,342 Most amusing. 136 00:07:55,408 --> 00:07:56,977 Miss Maggie Cooper. 137 00:07:57,044 --> 00:08:00,681 Most agreeable. Such a strong and original story, 138 00:08:00,748 --> 00:08:01,849 don't you think so? 139 00:08:01,915 --> 00:08:03,917 Oh, yes, sir. We all love it. 140 00:08:03,984 --> 00:08:07,555 It offers an emotional challenge, no? 141 00:08:07,621 --> 00:08:09,557 Oh, yes, sir, like anything. 142 00:08:09,623 --> 00:08:10,791 Miss Murgatroid. 143 00:08:14,027 --> 00:08:15,262 What do I say? 144 00:08:15,328 --> 00:08:16,630 Just how do you do? 145 00:08:16,697 --> 00:08:17,977 What if he says something to me? 146 00:08:18,031 --> 00:08:20,133 You say something back. Come on, get into line. 147 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:21,200 Mr. Arthur Lucas. 148 00:08:21,201 --> 00:08:22,770 Good evening. Miss Fanny Trehearne. 149 00:08:22,836 --> 00:08:24,605 Ah, how do you do? Most delightful. 150 00:08:24,672 --> 00:08:26,239 Miss Elsie Marina. 151 00:08:26,306 --> 00:08:29,543 And the little American friend of our heroine, huh? 152 00:08:29,610 --> 00:08:30,744 How do you do? Good evening. 153 00:08:30,811 --> 00:08:33,513 How do you do, your regent... oops. 154 00:08:33,581 --> 00:08:35,849 The damage, I trust, can be retrieved? 155 00:08:35,916 --> 00:08:37,818 Oh, yes. I can fix it with a pin. 156 00:08:37,885 --> 00:08:39,219 A pin. Has no one here a pin? 157 00:08:39,286 --> 00:08:40,954 I should be most happy to assist you. 158 00:08:41,021 --> 00:08:42,890 Oh, no, your regency. 159 00:08:42,956 --> 00:08:45,693 Ha ha. Charming. Most delightful. 160 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:47,060 Well, good night. 161 00:08:47,127 --> 00:08:50,030 Oh, perhaps better not tempt Providence again. 162 00:08:50,097 --> 00:08:51,098 Ha ha ha ha. 163 00:08:51,164 --> 00:08:55,302 Well, good night, ladies and, uh... 164 00:08:55,368 --> 00:08:56,970 Good night. 165 00:08:59,807 --> 00:09:01,775 I'm really... I'm very pleased, 166 00:09:01,842 --> 00:09:03,611 really very pleased. 167 00:09:03,677 --> 00:09:07,214 Oh. So many doors, like an audience with the Japanese emperor. 168 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,582 Yes, indeed. 169 00:09:08,649 --> 00:09:10,183 I'm so sorry I must leave your theater, 170 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:12,219 but, alas, the foreign secretary awaits me. 171 00:09:12,285 --> 00:09:14,387 Oh, yes, sir. What a shame you couldn't stay 172 00:09:14,454 --> 00:09:15,889 and see our lovely wedding scene. 173 00:09:15,956 --> 00:09:18,726 Dare we hope for another visit from your serene highness? 174 00:09:23,597 --> 00:09:25,198 Himmel, he's not serene. 175 00:09:25,265 --> 00:09:28,168 He has not been serene since he was regent. 176 00:09:28,235 --> 00:09:32,372 All right, he's gone. Come on, get on with it. 177 00:09:35,776 --> 00:09:38,946 Oh, miss Springfield, I'm terribly sorry for being so late. 178 00:09:39,012 --> 00:09:40,914 That, miss Marina, I'm prepared to forget, 179 00:09:40,981 --> 00:09:42,826 but what I cannot forgive is your disgracing us all 180 00:09:42,850 --> 00:09:44,652 in front of my very dear friend the regent. 181 00:09:44,718 --> 00:09:46,654 See? It could've happened to anyone. 182 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:47,955 It could happen to anyone. 183 00:09:48,021 --> 00:09:49,322 That's what makes it so funny, 184 00:09:49,389 --> 00:09:51,458 that it always seems to happen to you. 185 00:09:51,524 --> 00:09:53,761 What did you think of him, by the way? 186 00:09:53,827 --> 00:09:57,130 Don't you think he's rather a dream? 187 00:09:57,197 --> 00:09:58,465 A dream, she says. 188 00:09:58,531 --> 00:09:59,800 She knows better. 189 00:10:04,604 --> 00:10:06,907 If those are your wishes, sir, 190 00:10:06,974 --> 00:10:08,742 they will be carried out, of course. 191 00:10:08,809 --> 00:10:11,211 If you please, Mr. Northbrook. 192 00:10:17,250 --> 00:10:17,918 Come in. 193 00:10:17,919 --> 00:10:19,153 Miss Marina, a letter. 194 00:10:19,219 --> 00:10:20,220 What? 195 00:10:20,287 --> 00:10:24,157 I say, by Jove, you look absolutely stunning. 196 00:10:24,224 --> 00:10:25,993 Oh, go away, silly. 197 00:10:26,927 --> 00:10:29,096 Good evening, milord. 198 00:10:31,198 --> 00:10:32,198 Miss Marina. 199 00:10:32,232 --> 00:10:34,201 Miss Marina. 200 00:10:35,135 --> 00:10:36,135 Else. 201 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:41,641 Have I got too much Rouge on? 202 00:10:41,709 --> 00:10:42,976 Where are you going? Romano's. 203 00:10:43,043 --> 00:10:45,012 No, that's all right. Pink shades. 204 00:10:45,078 --> 00:10:46,446 Aha. Private room? 205 00:10:46,513 --> 00:10:47,881 Certainly not. The idea. 206 00:10:47,948 --> 00:10:49,649 Come on, Betty. Who are they? 207 00:10:49,717 --> 00:10:51,251 Oh, we don't know their names, dear. 208 00:10:51,318 --> 00:10:53,186 Betty. Oh, don't be late, loves. 209 00:10:53,253 --> 00:10:55,131 But they're all right. They're in the lifeguards. 210 00:10:55,155 --> 00:10:56,656 Oh, come on. 211 00:10:56,724 --> 00:10:58,501 Remember, we've got to be in our places tomorrow morning at 7:00. 212 00:10:58,525 --> 00:11:00,193 7:00? Yes, 7:00. 213 00:11:00,260 --> 00:11:02,495 But the procession doesn't start till half past 9:00. 214 00:11:02,562 --> 00:11:04,497 That's what it says in the papers, dear. 215 00:11:04,564 --> 00:11:05,598 Whatever is that? 216 00:11:05,665 --> 00:11:07,634 Prop man gave to me for tomorrow. 217 00:11:07,701 --> 00:11:10,738 It's all right. I'll see she gets there on time. Come on, Betty. 218 00:11:10,804 --> 00:11:12,272 Oh, I wouldn't miss the coronation 219 00:11:12,339 --> 00:11:14,274 for the whole brigade of guards. 220 00:11:14,341 --> 00:11:17,610 I say, by Jove, you look absolutely stunning. 221 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:21,148 Good night, Ivy, dear. Don't wait for us. 222 00:11:21,214 --> 00:11:22,750 Oh, thanks, dear. Good night. 223 00:11:22,816 --> 00:11:23,951 So long, else. 224 00:11:24,017 --> 00:11:25,886 What's that, summons or something? 225 00:11:25,953 --> 00:11:27,654 Hey, listen. Come here. 226 00:11:27,721 --> 00:11:29,322 Listen. 227 00:11:29,389 --> 00:11:31,959 "His grand ducal highness, 228 00:11:32,025 --> 00:11:34,995 "the grand Duke Charles, prince regent of Carpathia, 229 00:11:35,062 --> 00:11:39,032 "requests the pleasure of miss Elsie Marina's company 230 00:11:39,099 --> 00:11:41,935 "at supper this evening, June the 21st, 1911, 231 00:11:42,002 --> 00:11:45,338 "at 12 midnight at Carpathian embassy, 232 00:11:45,405 --> 00:11:47,741 46 Belgrave square." 233 00:11:47,808 --> 00:11:48,909 Let me see. Is it a joke? 234 00:11:48,976 --> 00:11:50,677 "The honorable Peter Northbrook 235 00:11:50,744 --> 00:11:52,946 "will present himself at the Avenue theater at 11:15 236 00:11:53,013 --> 00:11:56,917 to escort miss Marina to the embassy." 237 00:11:56,984 --> 00:11:58,752 You're in, dear. 238 00:12:00,053 --> 00:12:03,757 Oh, gosh, I don't have a thing to wear. 239 00:12:11,832 --> 00:12:13,566 Please, ladies, please. 240 00:12:13,633 --> 00:12:14,701 Time is getting short. 241 00:12:14,768 --> 00:12:16,403 Oh, this won't do. 242 00:12:16,469 --> 00:12:18,349 I think this one's the best, Elsie, dear, honest. 243 00:12:18,405 --> 00:12:21,674 Say, who else is coming to this party besides his majesty? 244 00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:23,076 His majesty? 245 00:12:23,143 --> 00:12:25,112 Yes, that... that... that grand Duke. 246 00:12:25,178 --> 00:12:27,714 Oh, my dear, you've quite startled me. 247 00:12:27,781 --> 00:12:29,049 Look, miss Marina, 248 00:12:29,116 --> 00:12:31,151 I think perhaps before you meet the regent again, 249 00:12:31,218 --> 00:12:32,796 you should learn the correct form of address. 250 00:12:32,820 --> 00:12:34,421 Otherwise, who knows? 251 00:12:34,487 --> 00:12:37,624 There may be a few petites moments d'embarras. 252 00:12:37,690 --> 00:12:39,392 Oh, I just hate that. 253 00:12:39,459 --> 00:12:43,030 Your host tonight is correctly addressed as your grand ducal highness 254 00:12:43,096 --> 00:12:45,498 or sir. Although, as the prince of Hungary, 255 00:12:45,565 --> 00:12:48,268 which he was before he married the late queen of Carpathia, 256 00:12:48,335 --> 00:12:50,403 he is, I suppose, correctly entitled 257 00:12:50,470 --> 00:12:52,873 to the formal appellation of imperial and royal. 258 00:12:52,940 --> 00:12:55,242 Although, at that time, by his own request, 259 00:12:55,308 --> 00:12:58,545 serene highness was continued until he became regent. 260 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:01,181 I don't know what you're talking about. 261 00:13:01,248 --> 00:13:03,917 It's most important that you should, miss Marina. 262 00:13:03,984 --> 00:13:06,686 And I don't even know who you are, much less who he is. 263 00:13:06,753 --> 00:13:09,823 I am his grand ducal highness' personal equerry. 264 00:13:09,890 --> 00:13:11,758 And in my own right, 265 00:13:11,825 --> 00:13:14,403 the deputy head of the far eastern department of the foreign office. 266 00:13:14,427 --> 00:13:17,464 Deputy head of the far eastern department. Imagine. 267 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:19,099 Imagine. 268 00:13:19,166 --> 00:13:22,435 I still don't know anything. I mean, why, uh... 269 00:13:22,502 --> 00:13:24,838 Royal and imperial? Isn't one enough? 270 00:13:24,905 --> 00:13:27,140 Well, it all goes back to the holy Roman empire. 271 00:13:27,207 --> 00:13:28,842 The grand Duke is a nephew by marriage... 272 00:13:28,909 --> 00:13:30,010 Bulging on the hip? 273 00:13:30,077 --> 00:13:32,045 Of the emperor Franz Josef of Austria. 274 00:13:32,112 --> 00:13:34,681 All right. No wisecracks about Austria, then. 275 00:13:34,747 --> 00:13:37,985 I sincerely hope no wisecracks about anything, miss Trehearne. 276 00:13:38,051 --> 00:13:40,053 In these troubled times, the lightest remark 277 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,122 can have most terrible repercussions. 278 00:13:42,189 --> 00:13:44,157 I can see the history books now... 279 00:13:44,224 --> 00:13:45,658 the war of Elsie's remark. 280 00:13:45,725 --> 00:13:47,436 Say, is it all right over the you-know-what? 281 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:49,029 Wonderful over the you-know-what. 282 00:13:49,096 --> 00:13:52,099 You can come out now. 283 00:13:54,734 --> 00:13:55,734 Well? 284 00:13:55,735 --> 00:13:56,904 Very nice. 285 00:13:56,970 --> 00:13:58,671 Is that all you can say? 286 00:13:58,738 --> 00:14:00,273 Very nice, indeed. 287 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:01,208 Oh, miss Marina, 288 00:14:01,209 --> 00:14:02,809 there is one other small point... 289 00:14:02,876 --> 00:14:04,244 in conversation with royalty, 290 00:14:04,311 --> 00:14:07,380 only speak when you are directly addressed. 291 00:14:07,447 --> 00:14:08,781 What did he say? 292 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:10,951 Wait for the cue before speaking the line, dear. 293 00:14:11,018 --> 00:14:12,219 Good night, Mr. Northbrook. 294 00:14:12,285 --> 00:14:14,387 Good night. I won't wait up. 295 00:14:14,454 --> 00:14:17,757 Are you sure he hasn't gotten me mixed up with Maisie Springfield? 296 00:14:17,824 --> 00:14:19,592 He's a very dear friend of hers, 297 00:14:19,659 --> 00:14:20,659 she keeps telling us. 298 00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:22,329 I'm quite sure of that. 299 00:14:22,395 --> 00:14:25,332 But why me? I just have that little bit in the second act. 300 00:14:25,398 --> 00:14:27,334 Perhaps that was just the little bit he liked. 301 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,336 But why me? I wonder why he wants me. 302 00:14:29,402 --> 00:14:32,005 Hmm. Tough question that, all right. 303 00:14:32,072 --> 00:14:33,706 Don't forget tomorrow morning, dear. 304 00:14:33,773 --> 00:14:36,109 Must leave here sharp at 6:20, 305 00:14:36,176 --> 00:14:38,611 so don't be too late. Good night. 306 00:14:38,678 --> 00:14:40,147 Be good! 307 00:14:49,256 --> 00:14:53,826 Gosh, this is the first time I've ever seen an embassy. 308 00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:55,462 Surely not. 309 00:14:55,528 --> 00:14:58,365 After all, there are 9 embassies in London at the present time. 310 00:15:00,167 --> 00:15:03,336 Anyway, it's the first time I've ever been... 311 00:15:03,403 --> 00:15:05,305 Inside of one. 312 00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:08,341 Gosh. 313 00:15:08,408 --> 00:15:11,378 This is really something, isn't it? 314 00:15:11,444 --> 00:15:12,912 Something. 315 00:15:12,980 --> 00:15:15,182 This hallway and everything. 316 00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:16,416 Yes. 317 00:15:16,483 --> 00:15:20,520 Personally, I find the decorations a little vulgar. 318 00:15:20,587 --> 00:15:23,890 Well, all I can can say is give me vulgarity. 319 00:15:23,957 --> 00:15:25,925 We needn't have hurried so much. 320 00:15:25,993 --> 00:15:27,594 We're the first ones, aren't we? 321 00:15:28,695 --> 00:15:30,563 This way, miss Marina. 322 00:15:30,630 --> 00:15:33,433 Upstairs? What's the idea of having a supper party upstairs? 323 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:35,268 Well, it's quite an informal party. 324 00:15:35,335 --> 00:15:38,238 But think of all the trouble of bringing the food 325 00:15:38,305 --> 00:15:39,639 all the way up from the kitchen. 326 00:15:39,706 --> 00:15:42,409 I fancy it'll be a cold supper, miss Marina. 327 00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:44,311 Well, they still have to carry it up. 328 00:15:44,377 --> 00:15:46,379 Is his wife going to be here? 329 00:15:46,446 --> 00:15:49,616 No, miss Marina. Her late majesty passed over, as they say, 330 00:15:49,682 --> 00:15:50,682 some 10 years ago. 331 00:15:50,717 --> 00:15:51,918 Oh. 332 00:15:51,985 --> 00:15:53,196 Now, if you should meet the queen dowager... 333 00:15:53,220 --> 00:15:54,587 oh, gosh, another one? 334 00:15:54,654 --> 00:15:56,789 She is addressed as "your majesty" or "ma'am." 335 00:15:56,856 --> 00:15:58,525 Now, the young king, the regent's son... 336 00:15:58,591 --> 00:15:59,826 oh, no. 337 00:15:59,892 --> 00:16:01,971 Well, it's extremely unlikely that you will meet him, 338 00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:04,331 but he is "your majesty" or "sir." 339 00:16:04,397 --> 00:16:08,335 I'm shaking. This is worse than a first night. 340 00:16:10,237 --> 00:16:13,106 Oh, we're still the first ones, aren't we? 341 00:16:13,173 --> 00:16:16,109 Gee, this is all right, too, isn't it? 342 00:16:16,176 --> 00:16:18,645 Is that the dining room in there? 343 00:16:18,711 --> 00:16:20,013 No. 344 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:24,717 Well, is it in there? 345 00:16:24,784 --> 00:16:26,153 No. 346 00:16:27,954 --> 00:16:29,589 There, then. 347 00:16:29,656 --> 00:16:30,656 No. 348 00:16:30,690 --> 00:16:32,292 Well, where is it? 349 00:16:32,359 --> 00:16:34,194 Hmm. 350 00:16:36,629 --> 00:16:39,766 And incidentally, where is his regency? 351 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:41,268 His grand ducal highness. 352 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:43,470 Oh, well, all right. But where is he? 353 00:16:43,536 --> 00:16:46,206 He was called away to an important meeting. 354 00:16:59,586 --> 00:17:00,720 Hey! 355 00:17:20,473 --> 00:17:21,941 Two places. 356 00:17:22,008 --> 00:17:23,042 Pas devant. 357 00:17:23,110 --> 00:17:24,844 What? Not in front of them. 358 00:17:24,911 --> 00:17:26,079 I know, but two places. Shh! 359 00:17:35,455 --> 00:17:36,999 Please, miss Marina, I beg you, control yourself. 360 00:17:37,023 --> 00:17:38,591 There's no need for panic. 361 00:17:38,658 --> 00:17:40,527 Oh, isn't there? This is a plot, isn't it? 362 00:17:40,593 --> 00:17:42,495 Supper for two. You knew all the time. 363 00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,664 Well, I suppose I have to confess I did have an idea 364 00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:46,709 when I received the grand Duke's instructions regarding yourself... 365 00:17:46,733 --> 00:17:48,668 you know, there's a word for what you are, 366 00:17:48,735 --> 00:17:52,305 and it's not deputy head of the far eastern department. 367 00:17:52,372 --> 00:17:54,574 Miss Marina, I implore you not to leap to conclusions. 368 00:17:54,641 --> 00:17:56,419 I don't have to do any leaping to this conclusion. 369 00:17:56,443 --> 00:17:58,287 I just walked straight there, and I'm walking straight out! 370 00:17:58,311 --> 00:18:00,913 But why this panic over a harmless little tete-à-tete supper? 371 00:18:00,980 --> 00:18:04,251 Oh, I know all about these harmless little tete-à-tete suppers. 372 00:18:04,317 --> 00:18:06,286 I've had to fight my way out of quite a few. 373 00:18:06,353 --> 00:18:08,288 "Champagne, and I hope you like caviar 374 00:18:08,355 --> 00:18:09,922 "and something cold to follow, 375 00:18:09,989 --> 00:18:12,292 "because we really don't want the servants around, do we? 376 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,395 "It's so much more fun serving ourselves, don't you think? 377 00:18:15,462 --> 00:18:18,198 "And then after supper, miss Marina, you must be very tired. 378 00:18:18,265 --> 00:18:21,067 Why don't you put your feet up on this nice sofa?" 379 00:18:21,134 --> 00:18:22,735 Oh, no. I know every move. 380 00:18:22,802 --> 00:18:24,082 Aren't you confusing this embassy 381 00:18:24,137 --> 00:18:25,672 with a private room at Romano's? 382 00:18:25,738 --> 00:18:27,474 What's the difference? Except up there, 383 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:29,276 it's a longer run from the sofa to the door. 384 00:18:29,342 --> 00:18:31,778 And there's no evidence that a Duke can't run 385 00:18:31,844 --> 00:18:33,004 just as fast as the next man. 386 00:18:33,045 --> 00:18:34,013 Oh, please, please, miss Marina. 387 00:18:34,014 --> 00:18:35,282 Pas devant. 388 00:18:35,348 --> 00:18:36,916 Now, don't give me pas devant stuff. 389 00:18:36,983 --> 00:18:38,451 Make any excuse you like, uh... 390 00:18:38,518 --> 00:18:40,553 My aunt's ill or something. Your aunt, miss Marina? 391 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:42,589 I'm awfully sorry. Really I am, but good-bye. 392 00:18:42,655 --> 00:18:44,357 Oh, please, please, please, miss Marina. 393 00:18:44,424 --> 00:18:46,135 You want to get me and the whole foreign office 394 00:18:46,159 --> 00:18:46,926 in the most terrible trouble? 395 00:18:46,993 --> 00:18:48,661 Since you asked, yes. 396 00:18:48,728 --> 00:18:50,506 I'm sure you don't want to insult the grand Duke. 397 00:18:50,530 --> 00:18:51,674 Why don't you have a little supper with him? 398 00:18:51,698 --> 00:18:53,266 It'll be a very good one. 399 00:18:53,333 --> 00:18:54,610 He's the most charming conversationalist. 400 00:18:54,634 --> 00:18:56,769 After supper, all you have to say is, 401 00:18:56,836 --> 00:18:59,572 "well, sir, it's been a most delightful evening, and I must go home." 402 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:02,509 Yes, as an exit line, that's swell, but can you guarantee the exit? 403 00:19:02,575 --> 00:19:04,953 I don't think so. This is a Balkan grand Duke, for heaven's sake. 404 00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:06,346 Educated in England. 405 00:19:06,413 --> 00:19:08,848 That's just what I mean. No. Listen, please. 406 00:19:08,915 --> 00:19:10,383 Miss Marina, please. 407 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:14,053 Look, supposing I do guarantee your exit, as you call it? 408 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:16,489 Supposing I give you time for supper, and then after supper, 409 00:19:16,556 --> 00:19:18,658 I come in with a message from a hospital, 410 00:19:18,725 --> 00:19:21,160 where your aunt has been taken after an accident? 411 00:19:21,228 --> 00:19:23,162 Well, I don't know. 412 00:19:23,230 --> 00:19:26,333 No, I don't think so at all. 413 00:19:26,399 --> 00:19:28,835 Why, thank you. 414 00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:32,505 How do you do? So good of you to come on such short notice. 415 00:19:32,572 --> 00:19:34,241 Oh, that's all right, your regency. 416 00:19:34,307 --> 00:19:35,642 Your grand ducal. 417 00:19:35,708 --> 00:19:38,077 Oh, that's all right, your grand ducal. 418 00:19:38,144 --> 00:19:40,847 Highness. Grand ducal highness. 419 00:19:40,913 --> 00:19:42,048 Oh, the hell with it. 420 00:19:42,114 --> 00:19:44,050 I must apologize for being late. 421 00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:46,319 The crowds are already gathering in the streets, 422 00:19:46,386 --> 00:19:47,387 and my motor was held up. 423 00:19:47,454 --> 00:19:49,356 That's all right. 424 00:19:49,422 --> 00:19:51,734 Northbrook, I expect you are looking forward to your night's rest. 425 00:19:51,758 --> 00:19:53,078 We have a very full day before us. 426 00:19:53,125 --> 00:19:54,727 We have indeed, sir. 427 00:19:54,794 --> 00:19:56,863 The carriage leaves the embassy for Buckingham Palace 428 00:19:56,929 --> 00:19:59,031 at 9:00. If you're here at 8:20... 429 00:19:59,098 --> 00:20:00,199 Very good, sir. Good night. 430 00:20:00,267 --> 00:20:02,502 Good night, your grand ducal highness. 431 00:20:20,287 --> 00:20:23,022 Were you surprised to get my invitation? 432 00:20:23,089 --> 00:20:25,057 I'll say I was. I was so surprised, 433 00:20:25,124 --> 00:20:26,402 I couldn't hardly think you meant me. 434 00:20:26,426 --> 00:20:28,094 Oh, but of course I meant you. 435 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,997 I had your name most carefully marked down on my program. 436 00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:33,900 In matters of this kind, I assure you, I am most methodical. 437 00:20:33,966 --> 00:20:36,836 Who did you think I meant if not you, huh? 438 00:20:36,903 --> 00:20:38,771 Well, Maisie Springfield. 439 00:20:38,838 --> 00:20:41,441 Oh, no, no, no. Maisie Springfield... 440 00:20:41,508 --> 00:20:43,576 she's far too, what I would call, old hat. 441 00:20:43,643 --> 00:20:45,545 Oh? And am I what you'd call new hat? 442 00:20:45,612 --> 00:20:49,181 Ha ha ha! Excellent, miss, uh... Miss, uh... 443 00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:51,150 You don't have your program handy. 444 00:20:51,217 --> 00:20:53,019 Shh! Ha ha ha ha ha. 445 00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:54,387 Capital. Most amusing. 446 00:20:54,454 --> 00:20:55,598 Marina. Elsie Marina. That's my name. 447 00:20:55,622 --> 00:20:56,823 Of course. How stupid of me. 448 00:20:56,889 --> 00:20:59,292 It's just my stage name, Elsie Marina. 449 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,027 My dad was a marine, see? 450 00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:03,430 My real name is Elsie Stolzenburg. 451 00:21:04,063 --> 00:21:05,532 Indeed. 452 00:21:05,598 --> 00:21:09,101 I decided to change it when I decided to stay in England. 453 00:21:09,168 --> 00:21:12,539 You see, the company I came over with from the states, 454 00:21:12,605 --> 00:21:14,507 um, they got stranded in New York. 455 00:21:14,574 --> 00:21:16,275 In the strand? Really? 456 00:21:16,343 --> 00:21:19,812 ♪ let's all go down the strand, have a banana ♪ 457 00:21:19,879 --> 00:21:22,382 heh heh heh heh. Most amusing. 458 00:21:22,449 --> 00:21:23,616 You like caviar, I hope. 459 00:21:23,683 --> 00:21:25,217 Oh, yes. 460 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:28,688 I ordered a cold supper because then we can serve ourselves, 461 00:21:28,755 --> 00:21:30,990 and that's so much more fun, don't you agree? 462 00:21:31,057 --> 00:21:32,692 Oh, yes, much more fun. 463 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:34,260 That is a charming dress. 464 00:21:34,327 --> 00:21:36,596 Well, it's very old, I'm afraid. 465 00:21:36,663 --> 00:21:37,363 Shh! 466 00:21:37,364 --> 00:21:38,898 You like vodka? 467 00:21:38,965 --> 00:21:41,233 I've never tried it. I don't think I better. 468 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:45,872 But you must. This is very special. 469 00:21:45,938 --> 00:21:48,741 Well, uh, cheerio. 470 00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:50,610 Cheerio. 471 00:21:50,677 --> 00:21:53,446 Oh, no, no, no. Not to sip like that. 472 00:21:53,513 --> 00:21:55,748 You'll make yourself, as you say, uh, tiddly. 473 00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:59,051 Like this, and then it has no dangerous effect. 474 00:22:02,088 --> 00:22:04,657 No, no. No more, please. 475 00:22:04,724 --> 00:22:06,593 Oh, one more will not hurt a fly. 476 00:22:06,659 --> 00:22:08,194 Maybe, but you know what they say... 477 00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:09,396 drunk as a fly? 478 00:22:09,462 --> 00:22:11,698 Oh, but that is really quite excellent. 479 00:22:11,764 --> 00:22:14,967 I can see you have a witty little tongue, miss Marina. 480 00:22:15,034 --> 00:22:15,834 I have? 481 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:17,537 Hurt a fly. Drunk as a fly. 482 00:22:17,604 --> 00:22:19,138 I must remember that. 483 00:22:19,205 --> 00:22:21,941 I really shouldn't bother, your grand ducal. 484 00:22:22,008 --> 00:22:23,810 Well, uh, cheerio. 485 00:22:23,876 --> 00:22:24,977 Cheerio. 486 00:22:28,314 --> 00:22:30,116 What is the matter? 487 00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:33,152 That time I burned my witty little tongue. 488 00:22:33,219 --> 00:22:35,221 Heh heh heh. That is very sad. 489 00:22:35,287 --> 00:22:39,225 I'm really quite delighted you're here, miss Marina. Quite delighted. 490 00:22:39,291 --> 00:22:40,927 I hope you are, too. 491 00:22:40,993 --> 00:22:42,194 Enraptured. 492 00:22:42,261 --> 00:22:43,996 Ah, will you sit here? 493 00:22:46,966 --> 00:22:47,966 Champagne? 494 00:22:47,967 --> 00:22:49,402 Yes. 495 00:22:58,310 --> 00:23:02,081 There. Now we are to ourselves. 496 00:23:08,354 --> 00:23:10,757 Good. Well, now, you will forgive me 497 00:23:10,823 --> 00:23:12,659 if I don't join you for the minute. 498 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:14,093 I have already had dinner 499 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,864 and have one or two matters of business to attend to. 500 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:27,540 Turned quite warm all of a sudden, hasn't it? 501 00:23:29,642 --> 00:23:32,044 I wasn't addressed. 502 00:23:32,111 --> 00:23:34,280 Give me the ambassador. 503 00:23:34,346 --> 00:23:37,149 Very well, then wake him. 504 00:23:37,216 --> 00:23:40,319 Ach, ambassador, you were asleep? How sad. 505 00:23:40,386 --> 00:23:43,556 I wish to tell you of my interview with the foreign secretary. 506 00:23:43,623 --> 00:23:47,059 It concerned, of course, my having ordered the arrest of Wolffstein. 507 00:23:47,126 --> 00:23:49,095 Sir, what has disturbed them at the moment, 508 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:51,598 we have not been able to think up a charge, 509 00:23:51,664 --> 00:23:53,733 which makes it rather awkward. 510 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,235 Yes, it was careless of me, I admit, 511 00:23:56,302 --> 00:23:58,938 but I have been so busy all evening. 512 00:23:59,005 --> 00:24:02,542 What? Yes, yes, my dear fellow, you can speak freely. 513 00:24:02,609 --> 00:24:04,677 There's no one here. 514 00:24:04,744 --> 00:24:07,780 Uncarpathian activities. 515 00:24:07,847 --> 00:24:10,950 Heh heh heh. Yes, that would be most amusing. 516 00:24:11,017 --> 00:24:13,052 But what has chiefly disturbed, sir, 517 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,489 at what is the fact that these stupid Americans have protested. 518 00:24:16,556 --> 00:24:21,060 Some nonsense about political freedom and Democratic rights. 519 00:24:21,127 --> 00:24:23,362 You know what children the Americans are 520 00:24:23,429 --> 00:24:24,564 in matters of this kind. 521 00:24:24,631 --> 00:24:26,165 Their diplomacy always makes me 522 00:24:26,232 --> 00:24:28,467 think of the minotaur legend reversed, you know? 523 00:24:28,535 --> 00:24:34,907 The bull chasing Theseus through the labyrinth. Heh heh heh. 524 00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:39,278 A steam-traction engine in Hampton court maze. 525 00:24:39,345 --> 00:24:40,446 Heh heh heh heh. 526 00:24:40,513 --> 00:24:42,949 Eh? Eh? Ha ha ha ha! 527 00:24:43,015 --> 00:24:45,251 Excellent. "Heh heh heh heh." 528 00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:49,088 What? Oh, no. The British, of course, will be more sensible. 529 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:52,158 They'll wait until after the trial and then protest. 530 00:24:52,224 --> 00:24:53,660 But, oh, Herr gock, 531 00:24:53,726 --> 00:24:56,462 when will these crazy Americans grow up? 532 00:24:56,529 --> 00:25:00,166 Yes, we will talk tomorrow. Good night. 533 00:25:03,803 --> 00:25:05,938 Well, well, well. And how is everything? 534 00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:07,139 Just dandy. 535 00:25:07,206 --> 00:25:09,676 Ach. I see you have already served yourself. 536 00:25:09,742 --> 00:25:11,010 How remiss of me. 537 00:25:11,077 --> 00:25:12,879 Oh, not at all. I prefer it this way. 538 00:25:12,945 --> 00:25:15,381 Splendid. Well, uh, cheerio. 539 00:25:15,447 --> 00:25:16,515 Mud in your eye. 540 00:25:16,583 --> 00:25:19,151 What a priceless expression. 541 00:25:19,218 --> 00:25:20,258 Wherever did you learn it? 542 00:25:20,286 --> 00:25:21,287 In America. 543 00:25:21,353 --> 00:25:22,531 Oh, really. Have you been there? 544 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:23,956 I was born there. I am American. 545 00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:25,658 Are you, indeed, miss, uh... 546 00:25:25,725 --> 00:25:27,369 Yes, your grand ducal, that's just what I am. 547 00:25:27,393 --> 00:25:30,529 Excuse me. I have thought of another telephone call I must make. 548 00:25:30,597 --> 00:25:34,634 Oh, it's quite all right. I just adore my own company. 549 00:25:36,603 --> 00:25:38,705 Connect me with the French ambassador. 550 00:25:38,771 --> 00:25:41,774 Heh? Yes, he'll still be at the reception. 551 00:25:41,841 --> 00:25:43,976 Well, I shall try later. 552 00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:47,980 To president Taft. 553 00:25:50,917 --> 00:25:54,153 I said, to president Taft. 554 00:25:57,590 --> 00:26:00,092 President Taft. 555 00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:05,464 So I wasn't addressed. 556 00:26:05,531 --> 00:26:07,867 Who cares? 557 00:26:07,934 --> 00:26:10,469 Bull in the labyrinth. 558 00:26:10,536 --> 00:26:13,372 Who the heck's Theseus, anyway? 559 00:26:13,439 --> 00:26:17,777 Protest. I should darn well think they would protest, 560 00:26:17,844 --> 00:26:20,579 arresting people that way. 561 00:26:21,948 --> 00:26:25,484 Disgraceful. Ah, miss Marina, 562 00:26:25,551 --> 00:26:28,154 won't you have some champagne? 563 00:26:28,220 --> 00:26:29,956 Oh, I don't know, your grand ducal. 564 00:26:30,022 --> 00:26:32,391 You really think I ought? 565 00:26:32,458 --> 00:26:35,662 Well, maybe just a sip. 566 00:26:35,728 --> 00:26:38,798 Maybe just up to... 567 00:26:38,865 --> 00:26:41,133 Whoa! Ha ha ha! 568 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,136 I beg your pardon. You said something? 569 00:26:44,203 --> 00:26:48,808 Oh, no. Just playing a little game over here all by myself. 570 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:51,077 Good. Uh, cheerio. 571 00:26:51,143 --> 00:26:52,244 Down the hatch. 572 00:26:52,311 --> 00:26:53,311 Ha ha ha. 573 00:26:55,014 --> 00:26:58,417 Why was I not informed of Wolffstein's arrest, father? 574 00:26:58,484 --> 00:27:00,252 Why was I left to learn it 575 00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:01,954 from the London evening standard? 576 00:27:02,021 --> 00:27:03,823 There was no need to inform you. 577 00:27:03,890 --> 00:27:06,826 No need to inform the king?! 578 00:27:06,893 --> 00:27:10,062 Ah. May I present miss Elsie Marina? 579 00:27:10,129 --> 00:27:11,729 Good evening. It's delightful to meet you. 580 00:27:11,764 --> 00:27:12,965 Won't you sit down? 581 00:27:13,032 --> 00:27:14,834 By whose orders was Wolffstein arrested? 582 00:27:14,901 --> 00:27:16,903 By mine, of course. 583 00:27:16,969 --> 00:27:19,305 He must be released immediately. 584 00:27:19,371 --> 00:27:22,842 Yes. You may be a real king very soon, Nicky, 585 00:27:22,909 --> 00:27:25,745 but for the moment, I'm still the ruler of Carpathia 586 00:27:25,812 --> 00:27:27,513 and of yourself. 587 00:27:27,579 --> 00:27:29,949 Go to your room. 588 00:27:30,016 --> 00:27:32,685 Go to your room at once. 589 00:27:39,658 --> 00:27:41,493 Good night, miss Marina. 590 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,262 It has been a great pleasure. 591 00:27:43,329 --> 00:27:45,832 Good night, your highness... majesty. 592 00:27:48,701 --> 00:27:50,870 Colonel Hoffman. 593 00:27:51,771 --> 00:27:52,872 Hoffman. 594 00:27:52,939 --> 00:27:54,173 Go to the king's bedroom, 595 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:55,742 see if he's there, and lock him in. 596 00:27:55,808 --> 00:27:57,476 Also, most important, 597 00:27:57,543 --> 00:27:59,979 put no telephone calls through to him, inward or outward, 598 00:28:00,046 --> 00:28:01,147 until further notice. 599 00:28:01,213 --> 00:28:02,524 Understood, your grand ducal highness. 600 00:28:02,548 --> 00:28:04,483 Will you hold a moment, sir, please? 601 00:28:04,550 --> 00:28:07,887 We're just going up to say good night to the regent. 602 00:28:07,954 --> 00:28:09,388 Her majesty has just come in, sir, 603 00:28:09,455 --> 00:28:11,415 and is declaring her intention of saying good night 604 00:28:11,457 --> 00:28:12,725 to your grand ducal highness. 605 00:28:12,792 --> 00:28:15,594 I see. Very well. 606 00:28:15,661 --> 00:28:17,063 The queen dowager has returned 607 00:28:17,129 --> 00:28:19,631 from St. James palace earlier than expected 608 00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,500 and is coming up in a moment. 609 00:28:21,567 --> 00:28:24,703 Huh. The queen dowag... the queen dowager? That's your mother? 610 00:28:24,771 --> 00:28:25,671 My mother-in-law. 611 00:28:25,672 --> 00:28:27,174 Oh, that's worse. 612 00:28:27,239 --> 00:28:29,217 You... you... you... you'll want me to hide, won't you? 613 00:28:30,042 --> 00:28:32,044 Um, where? Uh, in there? 614 00:28:32,111 --> 00:28:33,612 Do you have a closet or something? 615 00:28:33,679 --> 00:28:35,314 My dear. 616 00:28:35,381 --> 00:28:38,350 I can see you have a very strong sense of the dramatic. 617 00:28:38,417 --> 00:28:40,719 No, no, no. Just sit there and calm yourself. 618 00:28:40,787 --> 00:28:42,267 Now, before you meet my mother-in-law, 619 00:28:42,321 --> 00:28:44,323 I must warn you, she is a little vague 620 00:28:44,390 --> 00:28:47,359 and can be very deaf, on occasions. 621 00:28:47,426 --> 00:28:49,461 My dear, 622 00:28:49,528 --> 00:28:50,963 such boredom. 623 00:28:51,030 --> 00:28:52,799 The decoration's hideous, 624 00:28:52,865 --> 00:28:54,934 and the music... catastrophe. 625 00:28:55,001 --> 00:28:58,070 Our friend, the ex-king of Moravia, drove me home. 626 00:28:58,137 --> 00:29:00,072 He is now called the Duke of Strelitz. 627 00:29:00,139 --> 00:29:01,917 He cannot, of course, go to the Abbey tomorrow, 628 00:29:01,941 --> 00:29:04,944 but he is most anxious that you should invite him to the room 629 00:29:05,011 --> 00:29:06,946 you have taken in the Ritz for Nicky. 630 00:29:07,013 --> 00:29:08,380 Maud? Yes, ma'am? 631 00:29:08,447 --> 00:29:10,749 Oh, there you are, my dear. I did not see you. 632 00:29:10,817 --> 00:29:14,954 Give me a glass of that champagne that I see over there. 633 00:29:15,021 --> 00:29:17,857 Might I present miss Elsie Marina? 634 00:29:17,924 --> 00:29:19,926 Oh, yes, my dear. Of course. 635 00:29:19,992 --> 00:29:21,293 I remember you well. 636 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,129 Oh, I'm quite sure you don't, your royal... 637 00:29:23,195 --> 00:29:27,633 oh, I mean, your, uh... Imperial... your... Uh, serene majesty? 638 00:29:27,699 --> 00:29:28,968 What does she say? 639 00:29:29,035 --> 00:29:30,736 She says she is deeply flattered 640 00:29:30,803 --> 00:29:33,739 and compliments you on your wonderful memory. 641 00:29:33,806 --> 00:29:34,874 Thank you, my dear. 642 00:29:34,941 --> 00:29:36,008 Sweetly pretty. 643 00:29:36,075 --> 00:29:37,676 She should use more mascara. 644 00:29:37,743 --> 00:29:39,979 When one is young, one should use a lot of mascara, 645 00:29:40,046 --> 00:29:41,647 and when one is old, 646 00:29:41,713 --> 00:29:43,115 one should use much more. 647 00:29:43,182 --> 00:29:44,550 And what do you do, my dear? 648 00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:47,553 I-I'm in the coconut girl at the Avenue. 649 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:48,720 Ja? 650 00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:50,022 She says she's an actress. 651 00:29:50,089 --> 00:29:53,092 An actress? That is very interesting. 652 00:29:53,159 --> 00:29:56,262 Um, madame Sarah Bernhardt has acted for us, you know. 653 00:29:56,328 --> 00:29:59,999 Personally, I do not find her so good in Magda as mademoiselle Duse. 654 00:30:00,066 --> 00:30:01,400 You agree, no? 655 00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:04,904 No? 656 00:30:04,971 --> 00:30:06,438 You do not agree? 657 00:30:06,505 --> 00:30:07,773 That is very interesting. 658 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,408 You know Lucien Quitry, too? 659 00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:11,878 No, ma'am. 660 00:30:11,944 --> 00:30:13,712 Only madame Bernhardt. 661 00:30:13,779 --> 00:30:16,219 Well, you are quite right to be loyal to your friends, my dear. 662 00:30:16,282 --> 00:30:18,851 Loyalty is a quality that we do not see enough nowadays. 663 00:30:18,918 --> 00:30:22,121 Tres bien. Well, I must go to bed. 664 00:30:22,188 --> 00:30:23,890 Which uniform are you wearing tomorrow? 665 00:30:23,956 --> 00:30:25,824 The morning royal guards, my dear. 666 00:30:25,892 --> 00:30:27,393 Ah, now let me see what color. 667 00:30:27,459 --> 00:30:28,961 Oh, that's all right. We won't clash. 668 00:30:29,028 --> 00:30:30,196 Good night, my dear. 669 00:30:30,262 --> 00:30:32,431 Maud? Where is that idiot? Yes, ma'am? 670 00:30:32,498 --> 00:30:34,934 Tell my aides I am ready to go to bed. 671 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:36,111 Maud, you look very pinched. 672 00:30:36,135 --> 00:30:37,403 What is the matter with you? 673 00:30:37,469 --> 00:30:39,138 I fear I have a slight cold, ma'am. 674 00:30:39,205 --> 00:30:42,108 Oh, you poor thing. I am so very, very sorry. 675 00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:43,218 I must make you one of my syrups. 676 00:30:43,242 --> 00:30:45,144 So kind of you, ma'am. 677 00:30:45,211 --> 00:30:47,813 Idiotic creature... always catching cold. I really can't think how. 678 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,949 As far as I know, her life is quite blameless. 679 00:30:50,016 --> 00:30:51,550 Anyway, with a face like that... 680 00:30:51,617 --> 00:30:53,419 good night, my dear. You are so delightful. 681 00:30:53,485 --> 00:30:54,853 Good night, ma'am. 682 00:30:54,921 --> 00:30:57,256 And just a touch more on the cheeks, too, I think. 683 00:30:57,323 --> 00:30:58,925 Yes, ma'am. 684 00:30:58,991 --> 00:31:02,428 And don't make mischief between me and madame Bernhardt now, 685 00:31:02,494 --> 00:31:04,330 or I shall be cross. 686 00:31:07,533 --> 00:31:10,136 Oh, a little vague? 687 00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:13,339 Say, doesn't she mind about you and me? 688 00:31:13,405 --> 00:31:15,141 Mind? 689 00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:17,276 Well, isn't she your wife's mother? 690 00:31:17,343 --> 00:31:18,610 No, my dear. 691 00:31:18,677 --> 00:31:21,647 My wife and I were married because she needed to reinforce 692 00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:24,283 her trade agreement with Hungary. 693 00:31:24,350 --> 00:31:27,753 I accepted her because the emperor told me to. 694 00:31:27,819 --> 00:31:31,257 For 10 years, we were utterly and completely devoted to each other 695 00:31:31,323 --> 00:31:34,126 with never an unkind word on either side. 696 00:31:34,193 --> 00:31:36,028 How could there be any question 697 00:31:36,095 --> 00:31:41,100 of anyone minding anything in such circumstances? 698 00:31:41,167 --> 00:31:44,203 Ooh, I find your life shocking. 699 00:31:44,270 --> 00:31:45,271 Why? 700 00:31:45,337 --> 00:31:47,706 Well, there's no... Love in it. 701 00:31:47,773 --> 00:31:49,208 Nothing? 702 00:31:49,275 --> 00:31:52,244 Oh, yes, Maisie Springfields by the dozens, 703 00:31:52,311 --> 00:31:54,180 but I mean, oh, real love. 704 00:31:55,514 --> 00:31:56,514 Oh, excuse me. 705 00:31:56,515 --> 00:31:59,485 Oh, no, not again. 706 00:32:01,453 --> 00:32:03,155 Yes? 707 00:32:03,222 --> 00:32:07,226 Riots? My dear fellow, there is no need to panic. 708 00:32:07,293 --> 00:32:10,429 The new chief of police is a good man, and I trust him. 709 00:32:10,496 --> 00:32:12,364 Heh? No! 710 00:32:16,068 --> 00:32:18,004 Well, my dear... 711 00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:21,840 Well? 712 00:32:21,907 --> 00:32:25,311 My dear, wouldn't you be more comfortable on the sofa? 713 00:32:25,377 --> 00:32:28,680 You could put your feet up there and rest. 714 00:32:28,747 --> 00:32:30,016 Oh, no, thank you. 715 00:32:30,082 --> 00:32:33,885 I think I'll stay right where I am. 716 00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,988 Just as you please. 717 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,270 My dear, it was so good of you 718 00:32:51,337 --> 00:32:54,073 to come and see me here tonight. 719 00:32:54,140 --> 00:32:55,641 You said that before. 720 00:32:55,707 --> 00:32:56,708 Did I? 721 00:32:56,775 --> 00:32:59,511 That is a beautiful dress. 722 00:32:59,578 --> 00:33:01,747 You said that before, too. 723 00:33:01,813 --> 00:33:03,849 Heh heh heh. What does it matter? 724 00:33:03,915 --> 00:33:05,317 What are words, 725 00:33:05,384 --> 00:33:07,786 where deeds can say so much more? 726 00:33:07,853 --> 00:33:11,123 That's just terrible, my... 727 00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:12,791 what is terrible? 728 00:33:12,858 --> 00:33:14,960 That performance of yours. 729 00:33:15,027 --> 00:33:17,496 Dear, I do not altogether understand you, miss Marina. 730 00:33:17,563 --> 00:33:22,000 Ohh. Now, don't pull "grand Duke" with me. 731 00:33:22,068 --> 00:33:24,070 You made a pass, and I turned it down. 732 00:33:24,136 --> 00:33:25,337 That's all that happened. 733 00:33:25,404 --> 00:33:28,074 We can still be friendly. 734 00:33:29,708 --> 00:33:31,477 Excuse me. 735 00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:36,782 Say, listen, I could use a short one. 736 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,085 I need it for my heart. It's kind of beating down here. 737 00:33:39,151 --> 00:33:40,519 I'm so sorry. 738 00:33:40,586 --> 00:33:42,621 It's all right. It's not your fault. 739 00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:44,666 In fact, if I'd known this was all that was going to happen, 740 00:33:44,690 --> 00:33:47,226 I wouldn't even have been nervous. 741 00:33:47,293 --> 00:33:49,995 Long life to your grand highness. 742 00:33:50,062 --> 00:33:51,263 Cheerio. 743 00:33:52,764 --> 00:33:56,435 Better luck next time, only not with me, of course. 744 00:33:59,538 --> 00:34:02,374 Say, listen, there is something to this stuff. 745 00:34:02,441 --> 00:34:04,310 Are you sure there's no effect 746 00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:06,245 when you drink it that way? 747 00:34:07,646 --> 00:34:11,717 After 3 of them, you might experience a certain euphoria. 748 00:34:11,783 --> 00:34:14,220 I think you have had enough. 749 00:34:14,286 --> 00:34:16,522 I think so, too. 750 00:34:19,625 --> 00:34:23,529 I don't know why I was so nervous tonight. 751 00:34:23,595 --> 00:34:26,998 I thought I was gonna have a real struggle with myself. 752 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:28,867 I thought... 753 00:34:28,934 --> 00:34:31,570 Well, of course, I would have won it. I always do. 754 00:34:31,637 --> 00:34:33,439 But I thought this time... 755 00:34:33,505 --> 00:34:35,841 he's a Hungarian prince 756 00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:38,009 and a grand ducal... 757 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:40,846 Well, with fire and passion and... 758 00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:44,049 I thought if... Anybody knows about this love stuff, 759 00:34:44,116 --> 00:34:45,751 this guy will. 760 00:34:45,817 --> 00:34:48,820 Ha ha ha ha ha! 761 00:34:54,726 --> 00:34:56,695 I even thought... 762 00:34:56,762 --> 00:34:58,730 I even thought that you'd have... 763 00:34:58,797 --> 00:35:02,601 Gypsy violins playing somewhere outside, and that... 764 00:35:02,668 --> 00:35:05,604 The lights would be dimmed low and... 765 00:35:05,671 --> 00:35:09,741 There'd be strange, seductive perfume everywhere in the air. 766 00:35:09,808 --> 00:35:11,910 Well, put it all together, I thought, 767 00:35:11,977 --> 00:35:15,647 "mmm, sister, you better watch your step. 768 00:35:15,714 --> 00:35:18,850 You just better watch out." 769 00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:23,322 Oh, well. 770 00:35:23,389 --> 00:35:25,524 Do they all fall as easily as that, 771 00:35:25,591 --> 00:35:28,126 those Maisie Springfields and all those others? 772 00:35:28,194 --> 00:35:32,130 Before your insults grow too great to be borne, miss Marina, 773 00:35:32,198 --> 00:35:33,832 I'm ringing for your motor. 774 00:35:33,899 --> 00:35:35,534 Oh, no, don't do that. 775 00:35:35,601 --> 00:35:37,903 I mean, I don't want you to get your car out again. 776 00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:39,738 I live way out in Brixton. 777 00:35:39,805 --> 00:35:40,806 I could just walk. 778 00:35:40,872 --> 00:35:42,841 You will go in the motor! 779 00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:44,576 Ok, if you insist. 780 00:35:44,643 --> 00:35:47,746 I'll just get my wrap. 781 00:35:47,813 --> 00:35:49,581 Ohh! 782 00:35:49,648 --> 00:35:50,882 Sorry. 783 00:35:58,089 --> 00:35:59,858 Pretty good, huh? 784 00:36:06,198 --> 00:36:07,933 Why am I deserted?! 785 00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:11,337 Why is there no one to answer the bell?! 786 00:36:12,771 --> 00:36:13,339 Major Domo! 787 00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:14,606 With respect, 788 00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:15,850 your grand ducal highness yourself 789 00:36:15,874 --> 00:36:17,209 gave orders that the attendants 790 00:36:17,276 --> 00:36:18,777 were to be moved from the door... 791 00:36:18,844 --> 00:36:22,781 see that a motor is here, and tell the a.D.C. On duty 792 00:36:22,848 --> 00:36:25,651 he is to escort miss Marina to a place called Brixton. 793 00:36:25,717 --> 00:36:28,854 As your grand ducal highness commands. 794 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,656 Major Domo! 795 00:36:38,196 --> 00:36:40,098 Why was this room not perfumed? 796 00:36:40,165 --> 00:36:41,600 Perfumed, your grand ducal highness? 797 00:36:41,667 --> 00:36:43,435 And why were the lights not turned down 798 00:36:43,502 --> 00:36:45,504 to give a romantic and mysterious effect? 799 00:36:45,571 --> 00:36:48,173 With respect, your grand ducal highness gave no such command. 800 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,141 Himmel! Am I to think of everything? 801 00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:52,678 Have I not enough on my mind? 802 00:36:59,985 --> 00:37:01,687 What are you doing? 803 00:37:01,753 --> 00:37:04,823 You would lock the stable door after the horse has bolted? 804 00:37:04,890 --> 00:37:07,235 If it is your grand ducal highness' wish that the stable door be locked, 805 00:37:07,259 --> 00:37:08,803 I will instantly instruct the head coachman... 806 00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:11,697 dummkopf! Do you not know the English idiomatic phrase 807 00:37:11,763 --> 00:37:16,034 that it is foolish to lock the stable door after the horse has... 808 00:37:16,101 --> 00:37:18,770 Hey? But has it? 809 00:37:31,383 --> 00:37:33,018 Give that to me. 810 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:35,987 Wait. 811 00:37:36,054 --> 00:37:38,390 One of my personal servants plays the violin. 812 00:37:38,457 --> 00:37:39,825 Which is that? 813 00:37:39,891 --> 00:37:42,428 I think it is Franz, your grand ducal highness. 814 00:37:42,494 --> 00:37:43,729 And does he play it well? 815 00:37:43,795 --> 00:37:45,307 I am tone deaf, your grand ducal highness... 816 00:37:45,331 --> 00:37:46,698 where is he now? In bed, sir. 817 00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:48,885 Well, fetch him out of it, and tell him I may need him 818 00:37:48,934 --> 00:37:50,836 to play his confounded fiddle outside this door. 819 00:37:50,902 --> 00:37:53,004 But don't let him begin until I ring. 820 00:37:53,071 --> 00:37:53,971 Wait! 821 00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:59,077 Oh, hasn't the car gotten here yet? 822 00:37:59,144 --> 00:38:01,380 Ah, the little bird... 823 00:38:01,447 --> 00:38:04,215 So anxious to return to her nest. 824 00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:06,952 Well, this is my exit, I guess. 825 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,223 Please, this is not quite yet good-bye. 826 00:38:12,290 --> 00:38:14,826 Give me just one minute to tell you 827 00:38:14,893 --> 00:38:18,564 how deeply distressed I feel at what has happened between us. 828 00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:20,732 Listen, I'm the one who should be sorry. 829 00:38:20,799 --> 00:38:23,402 Oh, please, please, let me try to explain a little about something 830 00:38:23,469 --> 00:38:25,337 that is in my mind at the moment. 831 00:38:25,404 --> 00:38:28,106 Won't you sit down just for a second, huh? 832 00:38:28,173 --> 00:38:30,409 Well, I don't want to keep those drivers up. 833 00:38:30,476 --> 00:38:32,911 Oh, that is all right. They're used to waiting. 834 00:38:32,978 --> 00:38:34,380 It is simply this, my dear. 835 00:38:34,446 --> 00:38:38,650 I have realized that all that you have said about my life is true. 836 00:38:38,717 --> 00:38:40,919 It is quite without love. 837 00:38:40,986 --> 00:38:44,756 I'm... I'm growing into middle age. 838 00:38:44,823 --> 00:38:46,124 Oh, no. 839 00:38:46,191 --> 00:38:48,494 Almost into middle age. 840 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,529 Hey, I didn't ask for that. 841 00:38:50,596 --> 00:38:54,833 Yes. Here am I having reached the age of 40, 842 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:57,903 and I have never known what it is to love or be loved. 843 00:38:57,969 --> 00:39:00,906 It is like the legend of the sleeping Princess, 844 00:39:00,972 --> 00:39:03,442 only here it is the prince who sleeps 845 00:39:03,509 --> 00:39:06,478 and awaits the kiss of the beautiful young maiden 846 00:39:06,545 --> 00:39:09,381 that will bring him back to life. 847 00:39:09,448 --> 00:39:12,050 You mean you want me to kiss you. 848 00:39:13,485 --> 00:39:15,086 You are so literal. 849 00:39:15,153 --> 00:39:16,855 It is love that I need, 850 00:39:16,922 --> 00:39:19,825 the ennobling love of a pure young woman, 851 00:39:19,891 --> 00:39:22,093 her bright faith in me as I am 852 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,795 and as I might yet be, 853 00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:28,434 her glowing self-sacrifice to my little weaknesses and desires... 854 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:30,902 for love is sacrifice, is it not? 855 00:39:31,870 --> 00:39:34,606 Yes. And where is the mystic kiss 856 00:39:34,673 --> 00:39:37,976 which might bring this sleeping prince to life? 857 00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:43,715 I got you. 858 00:39:43,782 --> 00:39:46,918 Do you know what your hair reminds me of? 859 00:39:48,153 --> 00:39:50,689 Summer corn, kissed by the wind 860 00:39:50,756 --> 00:39:54,192 into enchantingly exciting furrow... 861 00:39:54,259 --> 00:39:55,594 Your eyes... 862 00:39:55,661 --> 00:39:56,461 Hey! 863 00:39:56,462 --> 00:39:57,663 Hmm? 864 00:39:57,729 --> 00:39:59,631 Where is that music coming from? 865 00:39:59,698 --> 00:40:03,469 Music? Oh. One of my servants, a Hungarian, 866 00:40:03,535 --> 00:40:06,071 always plays at this hour. 867 00:40:06,137 --> 00:40:09,074 He's lamenting his lost love. 868 00:40:13,044 --> 00:40:14,379 Ohh. 869 00:40:14,446 --> 00:40:16,414 Poor boy. 870 00:40:16,482 --> 00:40:19,585 Isn't life awful? 871 00:40:19,651 --> 00:40:22,387 Go back to my eyes. 872 00:40:22,454 --> 00:40:25,857 Twin pools of gladness and joy 873 00:40:25,924 --> 00:40:29,394 in which any man would be happy to drown himself. 874 00:40:29,461 --> 00:40:30,729 In both of them? 875 00:40:30,796 --> 00:40:32,664 In either. 876 00:40:32,731 --> 00:40:35,433 Oh, I like that. Twin pools. 877 00:40:35,501 --> 00:40:36,267 Go on. 878 00:40:36,268 --> 00:40:38,070 Ah, your chin... 879 00:40:38,136 --> 00:40:42,841 Oh, you skipped my nose because you noticed the bump on the end. 880 00:40:42,908 --> 00:40:44,242 Oh, no, no, no. 881 00:40:44,309 --> 00:40:48,580 I left it out because there is nothing to say of perfection. 882 00:40:48,647 --> 00:40:51,182 Oh, that's nice. 883 00:40:51,249 --> 00:40:52,984 Back to my chin. 884 00:40:53,051 --> 00:40:55,954 This is what I think of your chin. 885 00:40:58,156 --> 00:41:00,358 My darling. 886 00:41:00,425 --> 00:41:03,228 Oh, my darling. 887 00:41:06,331 --> 00:41:08,900 Oh, that poor Hungarian! 888 00:41:08,967 --> 00:41:11,537 I do hope he gets his love back. 889 00:41:11,603 --> 00:41:12,938 Well, don't think of his love. 890 00:41:13,004 --> 00:41:15,306 Think of ours, my darling, you know? 891 00:41:15,373 --> 00:41:17,475 Think of our love and the beauty of our meeting here. 892 00:41:17,543 --> 00:41:19,110 Ooh, you have pretty hair. 893 00:41:19,177 --> 00:41:20,478 Ah, you think so, huh? 894 00:41:20,546 --> 00:41:21,780 You like my hair? 895 00:41:21,847 --> 00:41:24,315 You use the wrong stuff on it, though. 896 00:41:24,382 --> 00:41:25,450 What do you use? 897 00:41:25,517 --> 00:41:26,918 A little pomade, dear, but... 898 00:41:26,985 --> 00:41:29,320 that's where you're wrong. You should use, um... 899 00:41:29,387 --> 00:41:31,256 oh, what's the name of that stuff? 900 00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:32,658 What's the name of it? 901 00:41:32,724 --> 00:41:34,560 Oh, I know! Uh, pinaud's lilac. 902 00:41:34,626 --> 00:41:35,994 Huh? Ah. 903 00:41:36,061 --> 00:41:38,429 So remember what I was asking you, my darling... 904 00:41:38,496 --> 00:41:39,765 to remember our love. 905 00:41:39,831 --> 00:41:41,700 Oh, you have pretty eyebrows. 906 00:41:41,767 --> 00:41:44,302 "Love"... what a universe of joy and pain 907 00:41:44,369 --> 00:41:46,204 lies in that little word. 908 00:42:13,498 --> 00:42:14,538 Your grand ducal highness! 909 00:42:14,566 --> 00:42:16,167 This is intolerable! 910 00:42:16,234 --> 00:42:18,212 My deepest respects, sir. My message is so important, 911 00:42:18,236 --> 00:42:19,476 I had no choice but to intrude. 912 00:42:19,504 --> 00:42:21,106 Revolution?! No, sir. 913 00:42:21,172 --> 00:42:23,012 Miss Marina's aunt has been in a motor accident. 914 00:42:23,074 --> 00:42:26,211 The hospital is calling for her most urgently. 915 00:42:26,277 --> 00:42:27,278 What? 916 00:42:27,345 --> 00:42:31,249 Oh, go away, you silly lad. 917 00:42:33,652 --> 00:42:35,854 But, miss Marina, your aunt. 918 00:42:35,921 --> 00:42:38,323 Do you realize how serious her condition is? 919 00:42:38,389 --> 00:42:41,326 Well, it's her own fault. She has no right out this time of night. 920 00:42:41,392 --> 00:42:42,226 She's 93. 921 00:42:42,227 --> 00:42:43,193 Miss Marina... 922 00:42:43,194 --> 00:42:44,863 miss Marina asked you to go away, 923 00:42:44,930 --> 00:42:46,164 and I command you to go away. 924 00:42:46,231 --> 00:42:47,899 I am most horribly displeased 925 00:42:47,966 --> 00:42:49,176 at this breach of etiquette, Mr. Northbrook, 926 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:50,936 and shall no doubt find opportunity 927 00:42:51,002 --> 00:42:53,038 of expressing my displeasure in certain quarters. 928 00:42:53,104 --> 00:42:55,073 Your grand ducal highness... go! 929 00:43:04,549 --> 00:43:06,785 My dear... 930 00:43:06,852 --> 00:43:08,086 Ooh. 931 00:43:08,153 --> 00:43:10,722 I got a solemn word of warning for you. 932 00:43:10,789 --> 00:43:13,659 What is that, my beloved? 933 00:43:13,725 --> 00:43:16,862 You know what's going to happen? 934 00:43:16,928 --> 00:43:19,831 I'm gonna fall in love with you, 935 00:43:19,898 --> 00:43:22,033 'cause I always, always do. 936 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:23,301 Always? 937 00:43:23,368 --> 00:43:26,571 Hmm. Both times. 938 00:43:26,638 --> 00:43:29,474 So, you better watch out. 939 00:43:29,540 --> 00:43:32,778 You better watch out. 940 00:43:36,281 --> 00:43:40,318 Oh! What pretty cherubs on the ceiling! 941 00:43:42,420 --> 00:43:45,356 Good night, my darling. 942 00:43:45,423 --> 00:43:47,258 Good night. 943 00:43:47,325 --> 00:43:50,095 See you in the morning. 944 00:43:51,429 --> 00:43:52,931 Major Domo! 945 00:44:24,029 --> 00:44:25,997 Stop that infernal din! 946 00:44:26,064 --> 00:44:29,200 How do you expect a man to get any sleep? 947 00:45:09,340 --> 00:45:10,375 Good morning, sir. 948 00:45:31,429 --> 00:45:32,864 Good gracious. 949 00:45:34,265 --> 00:45:35,666 Ah, good morning, Mr. Northbrook. 950 00:45:35,733 --> 00:45:37,202 Good morning, sir. 951 00:45:37,268 --> 00:45:39,180 Uh, my father has sent for me. You think I should go in? 952 00:45:39,204 --> 00:45:40,381 I think, sir, perhaps you'd better not. 953 00:45:40,405 --> 00:45:41,706 I understand from the major Domo 954 00:45:41,773 --> 00:45:43,408 that his valets are with him. 955 00:45:43,474 --> 00:45:45,476 They're having a little trouble with his shaving. 956 00:46:02,527 --> 00:46:05,696 Promising weather for the coronation, don't you think so, sir? 957 00:46:05,763 --> 00:46:07,332 Pity you can't go into the Abbey, 958 00:46:07,398 --> 00:46:09,467 but, of course, protocol forbids it. 959 00:46:09,534 --> 00:46:12,838 I understand you're watching the procession from a window in the Ritz hotel. 960 00:46:12,904 --> 00:46:15,440 You should have an exceptionally good view. 961 00:46:15,506 --> 00:46:17,475 Who is accompanying your majesty? 962 00:46:17,542 --> 00:46:20,711 The Duke of Strelitz... And, of course, my jailer. 963 00:46:20,778 --> 00:46:22,914 Your jailer, sir? 964 00:46:22,981 --> 00:46:24,182 Colonel Hoffman. 965 00:46:24,249 --> 00:46:26,852 Is that you, Nicky? 966 00:46:26,918 --> 00:46:28,486 Yes, father. 967 00:46:30,889 --> 00:46:32,657 Good morning, Nicky. 968 00:46:32,723 --> 00:46:34,923 I've been thinking things over, and it seems to me better 969 00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:36,703 you do not have Strelitz with you this morning. 970 00:46:36,727 --> 00:46:39,130 But, father, I do not want to be alone with Hoffman. 971 00:46:39,197 --> 00:46:40,365 I know. 972 00:46:40,431 --> 00:46:42,043 Strelitz is my cousin, and I have not seen him 973 00:46:42,067 --> 00:46:43,768 since his... since his abdication. 974 00:46:43,835 --> 00:46:45,847 Yeah, I know, dear boy, you are very fond of him, but I really think... 975 00:46:45,871 --> 00:46:50,475 dummkopf! Am I to go to the coronation looking like a sliced tomato?! 976 00:47:14,799 --> 00:47:16,001 Aye? 977 00:47:21,306 --> 00:47:23,909 Nicky, when in England, we speak only English. 978 00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:28,980 In any case, Nicky, I believe you are merely sulking 979 00:47:29,047 --> 00:47:31,049 because of Wolffstein's arrest. 980 00:47:31,116 --> 00:47:33,551 That issue is far too important for me as sulking, father. 981 00:47:33,618 --> 00:47:35,186 Will you please tell me 982 00:47:35,253 --> 00:47:37,133 what has happened in my country since last night? 983 00:47:37,188 --> 00:47:39,457 The riots are still continuing, 984 00:47:39,524 --> 00:47:41,392 and that they appear to be well organized, 985 00:47:41,459 --> 00:47:45,530 I have had no option but to order certain further arrests. 986 00:47:45,596 --> 00:47:46,864 Further arrests? 987 00:47:46,932 --> 00:47:50,668 Yes. I have the list here, I think. 988 00:47:50,735 --> 00:47:52,603 Yes, here it is. 989 00:48:01,046 --> 00:48:04,315 No friends of yours there, I hope. 990 00:48:04,382 --> 00:48:07,652 I am not allowed to have politicians for friends, father. 991 00:48:07,718 --> 00:48:09,187 You know that. 992 00:48:09,254 --> 00:48:11,556 Thank you so much, Mr. Northbrook. 993 00:48:13,091 --> 00:48:16,494 Oh, I wonder who it is I have left off this list. 994 00:48:16,561 --> 00:48:18,196 There was some name he was looking for 995 00:48:18,263 --> 00:48:21,732 and relieved to find not there. 996 00:48:21,799 --> 00:48:23,034 Shh. 997 00:49:18,556 --> 00:49:19,590 Northbrook! 998 00:49:19,657 --> 00:49:20,691 Sir? 999 00:49:20,758 --> 00:49:22,860 Do I see what I saw? 1000 00:49:22,927 --> 00:49:24,495 I fear so, sir. Yes. 1001 00:49:24,562 --> 00:49:26,764 But why has she not been got rid of, huh? 1002 00:49:26,831 --> 00:49:28,699 I understand, sir, her sleep was unduly heavy 1003 00:49:28,766 --> 00:49:30,768 and resistant to prodding and shaking... 1004 00:49:30,835 --> 00:49:32,779 she cannot be seen here at this hour of the morning. 1005 00:49:32,803 --> 00:49:33,838 She will make a scandal. 1006 00:49:33,904 --> 00:49:35,184 Suppose the queen is in that room 1007 00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:36,783 and she comes out again looking like that, huh? 1008 00:49:36,807 --> 00:49:38,643 I'm sure, sir, her sense of comme il faut... 1009 00:49:38,709 --> 00:49:42,313 she has as much sense of comme il faut as a rhinoceros. 1010 00:49:43,548 --> 00:49:44,615 Do I gather, sir, 1011 00:49:44,682 --> 00:49:48,019 that the evening was not an entirely happy one? 1012 00:49:49,387 --> 00:49:52,090 Northbrook, this British understatement of yours 1013 00:49:52,157 --> 00:49:53,824 I begin to find irritating. 1014 00:49:53,891 --> 00:49:56,027 The evening was an unqualified nightmare. 1015 00:49:56,094 --> 00:49:57,195 Oh, I'm so sorry, sir. 1016 00:49:57,262 --> 00:49:59,164 I have only one evening in London, 1017 00:49:59,230 --> 00:50:00,598 one single evening 1018 00:50:00,665 --> 00:50:02,900 in which to arrange for myself a little relaxation, 1019 00:50:02,967 --> 00:50:04,169 and what happens? 1020 00:50:04,235 --> 00:50:06,671 Out of the whole of this vast, teeming city, 1021 00:50:06,737 --> 00:50:09,240 teeming with beautiful, intelligent women, 1022 00:50:09,307 --> 00:50:12,443 you find me what? A little American ninnycompoop. 1023 00:50:12,510 --> 00:50:15,746 With respect, sir, either "ninny" by itself or "nincompoop." 1024 00:50:15,813 --> 00:50:17,148 "Ninnycompoop" will serve. 1025 00:50:17,215 --> 00:50:19,350 She fully deserves a new word. 1026 00:50:19,417 --> 00:50:21,586 The mind of a backward child, 1027 00:50:21,652 --> 00:50:22,920 the muscles of a boxer, 1028 00:50:22,987 --> 00:50:24,622 and an approach to life 1029 00:50:24,689 --> 00:50:27,024 of such stomach-turning sentimentality 1030 00:50:27,092 --> 00:50:28,426 that I found myself, Northbrook, 1031 00:50:28,493 --> 00:50:31,229 I found myself last night uttering phrases 1032 00:50:31,296 --> 00:50:33,464 which had any single one of them been overheard 1033 00:50:33,531 --> 00:50:35,766 would have made me the laughingstock of Europe. 1034 00:50:35,833 --> 00:50:37,235 And to crown it all, 1035 00:50:37,302 --> 00:50:40,571 she is rendered insensible by an amount of vodka 1036 00:50:40,638 --> 00:50:42,107 which in Carpathia 1037 00:50:42,173 --> 00:50:44,775 you would add to the morning milk of a 4-year-old child 1038 00:50:44,842 --> 00:50:46,411 as a mild tonic! 1039 00:50:46,477 --> 00:50:48,546 And, gott, how maddening 1040 00:50:48,613 --> 00:50:51,216 to think how overjoyed Lucy sunningdale would have been 1041 00:50:51,282 --> 00:50:54,419 if I had asked her to have a little supper with me here last night. 1042 00:50:54,485 --> 00:50:56,254 I'd like to remind your grand ducal highness 1043 00:50:56,321 --> 00:50:57,755 I think I heard you remark 1044 00:50:57,822 --> 00:51:00,691 that you found lady Sunningdale... Old hat. 1045 00:51:00,758 --> 00:51:03,060 I have no doubt at all that I did. 1046 00:51:03,128 --> 00:51:04,962 Nevertheless, my dear Northbrook, 1047 00:51:05,029 --> 00:51:06,664 there is an old Russian saying... 1048 00:51:06,731 --> 00:51:10,401 "better an old hat than a bare head." 1049 00:51:10,468 --> 00:51:12,437 And telephone to lady Sunningdale 1050 00:51:12,503 --> 00:51:15,005 and ask her to join me here tonight for supper. 1051 00:51:15,072 --> 00:51:17,142 But, sir, the coronation ball... 1052 00:51:17,208 --> 00:51:19,777 I shall make a token appearance and leave in good time, 1053 00:51:19,844 --> 00:51:21,045 say about 12:30. 1054 00:51:21,112 --> 00:51:23,013 But, sir, tonight, coronation night, 1055 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,515 she may well have an engagement. 1056 00:51:24,582 --> 00:51:26,184 She will break it. 1057 00:51:27,185 --> 00:51:29,420 Good morning. 1058 00:51:29,487 --> 00:51:31,989 That's his room in there, isn't it? 1059 00:51:32,056 --> 00:51:33,424 Yes, but, miss Marina... 1060 00:51:33,491 --> 00:51:35,626 but I've just got to say good morning. 1061 00:51:35,693 --> 00:51:36,794 Who is that? 1062 00:51:36,861 --> 00:51:37,761 Guess who. 1063 00:51:37,762 --> 00:51:39,130 Oh, gott! 1064 00:51:42,667 --> 00:51:43,801 Good morning, my dear. 1065 00:51:43,868 --> 00:51:44,534 Oh, good morning. 1066 00:51:44,535 --> 00:51:45,703 How are you? 1067 00:51:45,770 --> 00:51:47,281 Oh, you poor darling, you've cut yourself. 1068 00:51:47,305 --> 00:51:48,506 It is nothing. 1069 00:51:48,573 --> 00:51:51,609 Oh, but you still look lovely to me. 1070 00:51:51,676 --> 00:51:52,476 What's the matter? 1071 00:51:52,477 --> 00:51:54,212 Uh, someone might come in. 1072 00:51:54,279 --> 00:51:55,780 Oh, this is Times Square. 1073 00:51:55,846 --> 00:51:56,957 I found that out last night. 1074 00:51:56,981 --> 00:51:57,982 But who cares? 1075 00:51:58,048 --> 00:51:59,250 But this is the morning. 1076 00:51:59,317 --> 00:52:00,785 It's different, you know? 1077 00:52:00,851 --> 00:52:01,751 What's different about it? 1078 00:52:01,752 --> 00:52:02,652 Unless maybe it's you. 1079 00:52:02,653 --> 00:52:03,988 No, I assure you, my dear, 1080 00:52:04,054 --> 00:52:05,523 I'm exactly the same person. 1081 00:52:05,590 --> 00:52:07,458 You're not acting exactly the same way. 1082 00:52:07,525 --> 00:52:08,859 But this is the morning. 1083 00:52:08,926 --> 00:52:10,761 You keep saying that. 1084 00:52:10,828 --> 00:52:13,964 I remember last night, the way you kept repeating yourself. 1085 00:52:14,031 --> 00:52:15,933 Tell me, my darling grand Duke, 1086 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,402 is it only very late at night 1087 00:52:17,468 --> 00:52:19,036 that you're such a lonely person, 1088 00:52:19,103 --> 00:52:22,707 you feel the need to share your life with a pure young woman, 1089 00:52:22,773 --> 00:52:24,275 no, no, please. Whose bright face... 1090 00:52:24,342 --> 00:52:25,376 Ennobling love... 1091 00:52:25,443 --> 00:52:26,677 there are certain phrases 1092 00:52:26,744 --> 00:52:28,313 should never be quoted out of context. 1093 00:52:28,379 --> 00:52:29,539 I don't know what that means. 1094 00:52:29,580 --> 00:52:30,948 Oh, yes I do. 1095 00:52:31,015 --> 00:52:33,017 It means it's the morning. 1096 00:52:33,083 --> 00:52:34,752 Doesn't it? 1097 00:52:34,819 --> 00:52:38,623 Anyway, to me, it's still dream time. 1098 00:52:38,689 --> 00:52:41,659 This coronation day, 1911, 1099 00:52:41,726 --> 00:52:46,030 I woke up to find myself madly in love with you. 1100 00:52:46,096 --> 00:52:47,232 But madly. 1101 00:52:47,298 --> 00:52:49,033 So there. 1102 00:52:49,099 --> 00:52:52,570 My dear, I'm overwhelmed, of course, but, alas, I feel it my duty... 1103 00:52:52,637 --> 00:52:54,605 oh, don't make another long speech, 1104 00:52:54,672 --> 00:52:55,816 although some of them last night 1105 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,742 made more sense than you know. 1106 00:52:57,808 --> 00:53:00,545 You know, you do need more love in your life. 1107 00:53:00,611 --> 00:53:03,381 I never met anyone who needed it more. 1108 00:53:03,448 --> 00:53:04,949 So now you've got it, 1109 00:53:05,015 --> 00:53:06,217 good luck to you. 1110 00:53:06,284 --> 00:53:07,518 Cheerio. 1111 00:53:07,585 --> 00:53:08,795 Is that all you're going to say? 1112 00:53:08,819 --> 00:53:11,389 Oh, my dear, of course I'm overwhelmed, 1113 00:53:11,456 --> 00:53:14,292 but, alas, we have so little time together. 1114 00:53:14,359 --> 00:53:16,961 I must leave tomorrow for Carpathia. 1115 00:53:17,027 --> 00:53:17,661 Tomorrow? 1116 00:53:17,662 --> 00:53:18,763 Mmm. 1117 00:53:18,829 --> 00:53:20,665 Oh, well. As soon as the show's over, 1118 00:53:20,731 --> 00:53:21,866 I'll rush right over. 1119 00:53:21,932 --> 00:53:22,732 That's a promise. 1120 00:53:22,733 --> 00:53:23,734 Splendid. 1121 00:53:23,801 --> 00:53:26,404 Anyway, we still have today, haven't we? 1122 00:53:27,838 --> 00:53:30,808 Well, now, you see, my dear miss Marina... 1123 00:53:30,875 --> 00:53:31,875 miss Marina? 1124 00:53:31,876 --> 00:53:33,911 But it was "beloved" last night. 1125 00:53:33,978 --> 00:53:35,580 Ah. Well, alas, beloved... 1126 00:53:35,646 --> 00:53:37,782 oh, don't go on saying alas in that phony way. 1127 00:53:37,848 --> 00:53:40,184 Oops. Here we go. Times Square. 1128 00:53:40,251 --> 00:53:41,452 We have precisely 7 minutes. 1129 00:53:41,519 --> 00:53:42,687 Oh, gott, I must get ready. 1130 00:53:42,753 --> 00:53:44,154 And so, alas... 1131 00:53:44,221 --> 00:53:47,325 I mean I'm afraid we must say our little adieus. 1132 00:53:47,392 --> 00:53:49,460 Ok, honey. You go get into your costume, 1133 00:53:49,527 --> 00:53:52,473 and don't forget, I'm going to be sitting right outside of the Avenue theater. 1134 00:53:52,497 --> 00:53:53,798 That's where you came last night. 1135 00:53:53,864 --> 00:53:56,434 That's just opposite the new admiralty arch, 1136 00:53:56,501 --> 00:53:59,036 so don't forget to wave to me, will you? 1137 00:53:59,103 --> 00:54:00,371 I will remember. 1138 00:54:04,642 --> 00:54:06,844 Oh, say, could you get me an old raincoat somewhere? 1139 00:54:06,911 --> 00:54:08,579 Raincoat? 1140 00:54:08,646 --> 00:54:11,015 Yes, I can't very well go down the street this way. 1141 00:54:11,081 --> 00:54:12,281 I see your point, miss Marina. 1142 00:54:12,317 --> 00:54:13,918 I'll try and find you an old mackintosh, 1143 00:54:13,984 --> 00:54:17,422 but such things are not so easy to come by in belgrave square. 1144 00:54:40,511 --> 00:54:42,447 But she can't have stayed here all night. 1145 00:54:42,513 --> 00:54:43,814 Well, where did she stay, then? 1146 00:54:43,881 --> 00:54:44,915 I don't know. 1147 00:54:44,982 --> 00:54:47,752 Look! Isn't that her at the window? 1148 00:54:47,818 --> 00:54:49,286 Elsie! Elsie! Elsie! 1149 00:54:49,354 --> 00:54:50,921 Elsie! Elsie! Elsie! 1150 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:03,534 She's gone! 1151 00:55:05,002 --> 00:55:07,037 Oh, she didn't see us. 1152 00:55:07,104 --> 00:55:08,104 Shall we wait, or what? 1153 00:55:08,105 --> 00:55:09,407 Oh, we must make her see us. 1154 00:55:41,138 --> 00:55:43,040 Oh, it's you. 1155 00:55:43,107 --> 00:55:44,842 Oh, I mean it's your, uh... 1156 00:55:44,909 --> 00:55:47,111 Let's see. What are... oh, your majesty. 1157 00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:48,245 Good morning, miss Marina. 1158 00:55:48,312 --> 00:55:50,080 That was a charming dance. 1159 00:55:50,147 --> 00:55:52,783 Oh, it's nothing. It's just a little routine I have to practice. 1160 00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:54,184 I'm an understudy, you know. 1161 00:55:54,251 --> 00:55:55,720 Oh, really? Most interesting. 1162 00:55:55,786 --> 00:55:57,855 I wonder, miss Marina... 1163 00:55:57,922 --> 00:56:01,058 If I might ask you to do a small favor for me, eh? 1164 00:56:01,125 --> 00:56:04,729 Will you ring up a certain telephone number... this one? 1165 00:56:04,795 --> 00:56:06,397 Oh, what could be easier? 1166 00:56:06,464 --> 00:56:07,798 Thank you so much. 1167 00:56:14,439 --> 00:56:15,439 Gerard 2-4-5, please. 1168 00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:16,974 Not so loud, please. 1169 00:56:17,041 --> 00:56:19,777 When you get the number, ask for the ambassador. 1170 00:56:22,079 --> 00:56:23,147 Hello. Um... 1171 00:56:23,213 --> 00:56:24,213 Hello. 1172 00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:26,383 Is the ambassador there? 1173 00:56:26,451 --> 00:56:28,118 Oh, no. It's not for me. 1174 00:56:28,185 --> 00:56:29,720 It's for the king of Carpathia. 1175 00:56:29,787 --> 00:56:31,188 You shouldn't have said that. 1176 00:56:31,255 --> 00:56:32,265 There are spies everywhere! 1177 00:56:32,289 --> 00:56:33,524 Oh, there are? 1178 00:56:39,363 --> 00:56:41,298 Excellence... 1179 00:56:46,537 --> 00:56:48,205 Elsie! Elsie! Elsie! 1180 00:56:48,272 --> 00:56:49,840 Elsie! Elsie! 1181 00:57:10,661 --> 00:57:12,096 Auf wiedersehen. 1182 00:57:15,633 --> 00:57:17,134 Thank you so much, miss Marina. 1183 00:57:17,201 --> 00:57:19,003 That was most kind. 1184 00:57:19,069 --> 00:57:21,338 Think nothing of it, your majesty. 1185 00:57:21,405 --> 00:57:23,474 You are going to the coronation? 1186 00:57:23,541 --> 00:57:25,510 Oh, I'll say. 1187 00:57:25,576 --> 00:57:27,244 You must come to mine. 1188 00:57:27,311 --> 00:57:29,146 Really? When is that? 1189 00:57:29,213 --> 00:57:31,582 16, 18 months. 1190 00:57:31,649 --> 00:57:33,518 Not sooner than that? 1191 00:57:36,987 --> 00:57:39,123 Sooner, miss Marina? 1192 00:57:39,189 --> 00:57:40,189 Yes. 1193 00:57:40,190 --> 00:57:41,759 I speak German. 1194 00:57:41,826 --> 00:57:43,894 I was born in Milwaukee. 1195 00:57:43,961 --> 00:57:46,664 You're going to turn your father out on August 15 1196 00:57:46,731 --> 00:57:49,066 and make yourself a real king. 1197 00:57:49,133 --> 00:57:51,669 The Bulgarian army's going down to help you. 1198 00:57:51,736 --> 00:57:54,171 It is most unfortunate that you should have heard that. 1199 00:57:54,238 --> 00:57:56,473 It might prove exceedingly dangerous for you. 1200 00:57:56,541 --> 00:57:59,343 Dangerous? Oh, don't give me that. 1201 00:57:59,409 --> 00:58:00,511 I'm an American citizen. 1202 00:58:00,578 --> 00:58:02,179 Nobody can do anything to me. 1203 00:58:02,246 --> 00:58:05,149 Besides, who cares about your old Balkan revolutions? 1204 00:58:05,215 --> 00:58:07,051 You have them all the time, anyway. 1205 00:58:07,117 --> 00:58:08,619 You... ahem... 1206 00:58:09,887 --> 00:58:12,890 You are going to tell father, of course. 1207 00:58:12,957 --> 00:58:14,959 Depends if I get the chance. 1208 00:58:15,025 --> 00:58:16,927 Miss Marina, I beg of you... 1209 00:58:16,994 --> 00:58:18,095 oh, excuse me. 1210 00:58:21,966 --> 00:58:23,467 Hello, Fanny! Hiya, girls! 1211 00:58:23,534 --> 00:58:25,069 You all right? 1212 00:58:25,135 --> 00:58:27,113 Of course I'm all right. What, are you worried about me? 1213 00:58:27,137 --> 00:58:28,906 Worried? I didn't sleep a wink last night, 1214 00:58:28,973 --> 00:58:31,075 so this morning I went to collect a rescue squad. 1215 00:58:31,141 --> 00:58:33,143 Oh, I don't need any rescuing. 1216 00:58:33,210 --> 00:58:34,579 I'm having a lovely time. 1217 00:58:34,645 --> 00:58:36,881 Elsie, you're a wicked girl. 1218 00:58:36,947 --> 00:58:38,716 Oh, no, I'm not. Not yet. 1219 00:58:38,783 --> 00:58:39,817 Well, come down at once. 1220 00:58:39,884 --> 00:58:42,086 We're terribly late as it is. 1221 00:58:42,152 --> 00:58:43,353 Ok, you run ahead. 1222 00:58:43,420 --> 00:58:45,923 I have to say my one last good-bye to my regent. 1223 00:58:45,990 --> 00:58:47,858 What's he like, Elsie? 1224 00:58:47,925 --> 00:58:50,060 He's the cutest grand Duke in the world. 1225 00:58:50,127 --> 00:58:51,127 Is he nice? 1226 00:58:51,161 --> 00:58:53,664 No, not really, just kind of cute. 1227 00:58:53,731 --> 00:58:54,865 Like the ones on the stage? 1228 00:58:54,932 --> 00:58:56,601 He's not like that at all. 1229 00:58:56,667 --> 00:58:59,369 He hasn't any sense of humor and not a bit of charm. 1230 00:58:59,436 --> 00:59:00,571 What? What? What? 1231 00:59:00,638 --> 00:59:02,472 Well, why do you find him so cute, then? 1232 00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:03,874 I don't know. I just do. 1233 00:59:03,941 --> 00:59:06,076 In fact, I love him so much, I could eat him, 1234 00:59:06,143 --> 00:59:07,077 just chew him up. 1235 00:59:08,512 --> 00:59:11,315 Don't let anybody get my seat. Run along, now. 1236 00:59:11,381 --> 00:59:12,381 Bye, Elsie. 1237 00:59:13,884 --> 00:59:15,986 But I have a very good sense of humor! 1238 00:59:16,053 --> 00:59:18,022 Oh! Oh, of course you have, 1239 00:59:18,088 --> 00:59:19,590 but it's kind of a Balkan one, 1240 00:59:19,657 --> 00:59:21,626 just as good as ours, but different. 1241 00:59:21,692 --> 00:59:24,629 And, well, you shouldn't listen to private conversations. 1242 00:59:24,695 --> 00:59:26,272 Nicky, what are you doing standing about? 1243 00:59:26,296 --> 00:59:28,699 You should be on your way. 1244 00:59:28,766 --> 00:59:29,900 Yes, father. 1245 00:59:43,113 --> 00:59:44,148 Here. 1246 00:59:44,214 --> 00:59:45,214 What's this? 1247 00:59:45,215 --> 00:59:46,617 A small parting gift. 1248 00:59:46,684 --> 00:59:49,186 I was going to present it to you with a few appropriate words, 1249 00:59:49,253 --> 00:59:51,622 but now you have driven them clean out of my head. 1250 00:59:51,689 --> 00:59:52,923 Oh, it's beautiful. 1251 00:59:52,990 --> 00:59:55,025 With your crest and everything. 1252 00:59:55,092 --> 00:59:56,092 It is nothing. 1253 00:59:56,093 --> 00:59:57,928 I don't want to say anything, 1254 00:59:57,995 --> 00:59:59,840 but I'll bet there are quite a few of these things 1255 00:59:59,864 --> 01:00:02,466 being worn around Europe these days, huh? 1256 01:00:02,532 --> 01:00:03,934 Oh, not Maisie Springfield. 1257 01:00:04,001 --> 01:00:05,569 Oh, well, I can't complain. 1258 01:00:05,636 --> 01:00:08,472 After all, she really earned hers, didn't she? 1259 01:00:08,538 --> 01:00:10,140 Pin it on for me, please. 1260 01:00:27,057 --> 01:00:30,360 This is where I wake up, I guess, isn't it? 1261 01:00:30,427 --> 01:00:32,629 I fear so, my dear. 1262 01:00:35,465 --> 01:00:38,235 Yes, uh, ok, well... 1263 01:00:38,302 --> 01:00:39,904 Guess that's my cue. 1264 01:00:41,338 --> 01:00:42,338 Good-bye. 1265 01:00:43,540 --> 01:00:45,810 It has been wonderful knowing you. 1266 01:00:45,876 --> 01:00:48,679 If only it could have lasted longer. 1267 01:00:51,849 --> 01:00:53,718 What's the matter? I've said something wrong? 1268 01:00:53,784 --> 01:00:56,153 No, you spoke your line beautifully. 1269 01:00:56,220 --> 01:00:58,222 It's your medals. They're tickling me. 1270 01:00:58,288 --> 01:01:00,290 Why do you always say such things?! 1271 01:01:00,357 --> 01:01:02,192 You seem to enjoy disconcerting me. 1272 01:01:02,259 --> 01:01:05,095 That is one thing I cannot bear, to be disconcerted. 1273 01:01:05,162 --> 01:01:07,331 See that her majesty is ready. We leave in 2 minutes. 1274 01:01:07,397 --> 01:01:08,632 Her majesty is ready. 1275 01:01:08,699 --> 01:01:10,010 And the motor to take the king to the Ritz? 1276 01:01:10,034 --> 01:01:11,034 He has already left. 1277 01:01:11,035 --> 01:01:12,436 Miss Marina... 1278 01:01:25,015 --> 01:01:27,051 This is all I can find, I'm afraid. 1279 01:01:27,117 --> 01:01:28,618 Belongs to the housekeeper. 1280 01:01:28,685 --> 01:01:30,821 Oh, it'll do just fine, thanks. 1281 01:01:32,723 --> 01:01:34,058 Oh, dear. 1282 01:01:34,124 --> 01:01:36,560 Life is rather sad sometimes, isn't it? 1283 01:01:36,626 --> 01:01:38,162 Sometimes. 1284 01:01:41,365 --> 01:01:42,499 I'm so late now, 1285 01:01:42,566 --> 01:01:44,201 I'll never get there on time. 1286 01:01:47,772 --> 01:01:49,373 Oh, gosh! 1287 01:01:49,439 --> 01:01:51,842 Who was that? Mr. Northbrook, who was that creature? 1288 01:01:51,909 --> 01:01:53,543 Was it an anarchist? 1289 01:01:53,610 --> 01:01:54,410 No, ma'am. 1290 01:01:54,411 --> 01:01:55,980 Then who was it? 1291 01:01:56,046 --> 01:01:59,049 A young lady, ma'am, called miss Elsie Marina. 1292 01:01:59,116 --> 01:02:00,116 Ah. 1293 01:02:01,651 --> 01:02:03,020 Fetch her to me. 1294 01:02:06,891 --> 01:02:08,692 Miss Marina. 1295 01:02:08,759 --> 01:02:11,461 Her majesty wishes to speak to you. 1296 01:02:13,864 --> 01:02:15,399 Miss Marina. 1297 01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:44,394 Good morning, my dear. 1298 01:02:44,461 --> 01:02:46,263 So delightful to see you again. 1299 01:02:46,330 --> 01:02:50,034 Why are you dressed up as a revolutionary? 1300 01:02:50,100 --> 01:02:51,836 Is this a new game? 1301 01:02:51,902 --> 01:02:53,737 If it is, you should have let me know. 1302 01:02:53,804 --> 01:02:55,139 I love games. 1303 01:02:55,205 --> 01:02:56,907 No, ma'am. It's not a game. 1304 01:02:56,974 --> 01:02:59,143 Well, take that thing off. 1305 01:02:59,209 --> 01:03:01,111 It looks most unbecoming. 1306 01:03:04,114 --> 01:03:05,434 Come here, my dear. 1307 01:03:08,152 --> 01:03:10,787 I am going to have a cigarette. 1308 01:03:10,855 --> 01:03:12,556 So soothing before a long ordeal. 1309 01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:14,358 Will you join me? 1310 01:03:14,424 --> 01:03:15,424 No, thank you. 1311 01:03:15,425 --> 01:03:16,961 Well, please sit down. 1312 01:03:21,298 --> 01:03:23,333 Oh, ma'am is probably wondering 1313 01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,503 why I'm still dressed the way I was last night. 1314 01:03:26,570 --> 01:03:29,573 You see, I had a stupid accident with my latchkey. 1315 01:03:29,639 --> 01:03:31,075 What does she say? 1316 01:03:31,141 --> 01:03:33,210 Said she had an accident with her latchkey, ma'am. 1317 01:03:33,277 --> 01:03:34,320 And what is a latchkey? Well, ma'am, it's... 1318 01:03:34,344 --> 01:03:35,779 oh, it does not matter. 1319 01:03:35,846 --> 01:03:37,882 I'm sure it is something very dull. 1320 01:03:37,948 --> 01:03:40,650 Such irritating news, Mr. Northbrook, this morning. 1321 01:03:40,717 --> 01:03:41,761 Maud Wollenzu meisen-braun, 1322 01:03:41,785 --> 01:03:42,920 my chief lady-in-waiting, 1323 01:03:42,987 --> 01:03:44,855 claims she cannot leave her bed. 1324 01:03:44,922 --> 01:03:49,226 So I have no option but to take the baroness brunnheim to the Abbey. 1325 01:03:49,293 --> 01:03:51,228 It is not, of course, her fault, 1326 01:03:51,295 --> 01:03:54,464 but I feel we shall be very squashed in the carriage. 1327 01:04:06,043 --> 01:04:07,244 Excuse me, ma'am. 1328 01:04:07,311 --> 01:04:09,279 I didn't quite catch that. 1329 01:04:09,346 --> 01:04:12,249 I don't think miss Marina speaks French, ma'am. 1330 01:04:12,316 --> 01:04:14,418 Doesn't speak French? How ridiculous. 1331 01:04:14,484 --> 01:04:17,721 She lives with Sarah Bernhardt in Paris. 1332 01:04:28,765 --> 01:04:29,765 Oui. 1333 01:04:29,766 --> 01:04:31,735 You see? 1334 01:04:43,713 --> 01:04:44,713 Oui. 1335 01:04:44,714 --> 01:04:45,714 Bien. 1336 01:04:57,727 --> 01:04:59,863 Most intelligent. Reading la Roche-Foucauld. 1337 01:04:59,930 --> 01:05:01,565 Yes, indeed, ma'am. 1338 01:05:01,631 --> 01:05:03,667 I think perhaps I'd better warn the regent 1339 01:05:03,733 --> 01:05:05,811 that we shall be leaving soon if your majesty will excuse me. 1340 01:05:05,835 --> 01:05:07,737 Mmm. Is that that evening dress you were wearing? 1341 01:05:07,804 --> 01:05:10,840 Oh, yes, ma'am. You see, I was trying to explain... 1342 01:05:10,907 --> 01:05:11,907 ohh... 1343 01:05:11,908 --> 01:05:13,477 Lottie, my jewelry box. 1344 01:05:17,614 --> 01:05:20,684 Just turn around, my dear, will you? 1345 01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:22,286 And lower yourself. 1346 01:05:26,323 --> 01:05:29,093 Yes, that is very possible. 1347 01:05:29,159 --> 01:05:31,028 I think we need something else. 1348 01:05:31,095 --> 01:05:32,396 But, ma'am... 1349 01:05:32,462 --> 01:05:34,298 just turn around again, my dear, will you? 1350 01:05:34,364 --> 01:05:36,633 And lower yourself again. 1351 01:05:36,700 --> 01:05:37,734 Good. 1352 01:05:37,801 --> 01:05:39,669 Oh, what's happening? 1353 01:05:39,736 --> 01:05:40,837 Is this a game? 1354 01:05:40,904 --> 01:05:42,639 Did you say something, my dear? 1355 01:05:42,706 --> 01:05:45,075 Ask ma'am if this is a game! 1356 01:05:45,142 --> 01:05:47,344 She wants to know, is this a game, ma'am? 1357 01:05:47,411 --> 01:05:50,080 Uh, Lottie, my dear, put your cape on her, would you? 1358 01:05:50,147 --> 01:05:52,516 Oh, what's happening? Please tell me. 1359 01:05:52,582 --> 01:05:53,650 Better and better. 1360 01:05:53,717 --> 01:05:55,361 Lottie, my dear, would you be very disappointed... 1361 01:05:55,385 --> 01:05:57,054 ho ho. On the contrary, ma'am, 1362 01:05:57,121 --> 01:05:59,523 as you know, it is my little trouble. 1363 01:05:59,589 --> 01:06:02,126 I always have been a little nervous of long ceremonies. 1364 01:06:02,192 --> 01:06:03,460 Good. That is settled, then. 1365 01:06:03,527 --> 01:06:06,196 Lend her your gloves and arrange her veil on her. 1366 01:06:06,263 --> 01:06:08,398 Oh, what's happening? Please tell me. 1367 01:06:08,465 --> 01:06:11,335 I am appointing you my lady-in-waiting for the day, my dear, 1368 01:06:11,401 --> 01:06:13,803 and taking you to the Abbey. 1369 01:06:13,870 --> 01:06:16,073 Oh, ma'am, you can't. 1370 01:06:16,140 --> 01:06:18,442 I mean, what if someone would recognize me? 1371 01:06:18,508 --> 01:06:19,308 I'd be arrested. 1372 01:06:19,309 --> 01:06:20,349 Arrest my lady-in-waiting? 1373 01:06:20,377 --> 01:06:22,046 My dear child, such an absurdity. 1374 01:06:22,112 --> 01:06:24,781 But where will I sit, and what will I do? 1375 01:06:24,848 --> 01:06:26,316 You just do what is obvious 1376 01:06:26,383 --> 01:06:29,053 and sit where Mr. Northbrook tells you. 1377 01:06:29,119 --> 01:06:30,887 You still look rather bare. 1378 01:06:30,954 --> 01:06:32,556 I know. You need an order. 1379 01:06:32,622 --> 01:06:34,958 Lottie, go and fetch the ambassador, will you? 1380 01:06:35,025 --> 01:06:35,825 My dear... 1381 01:06:35,826 --> 01:06:37,062 Hello. 1382 01:06:37,127 --> 01:06:39,063 My dear, such fun, how you will laugh. 1383 01:06:39,129 --> 01:06:40,997 We are taking miss Marina to the Abbey. 1384 01:06:41,065 --> 01:06:42,566 Oh? Are we? 1385 01:06:42,632 --> 01:06:45,202 But I need an order for her, my dear. 1386 01:06:45,269 --> 01:06:47,171 Ah, dear ambassador, 1387 01:06:47,237 --> 01:06:48,314 fetch me that nice mauve order, 1388 01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:49,706 the one the regent gave 1389 01:06:49,773 --> 01:06:51,575 to the foreign secretary the other day. 1390 01:06:51,641 --> 01:06:52,909 My dear mother-in-law... 1391 01:06:52,976 --> 01:06:54,254 what is it you are wearing, Lottie? 1392 01:06:54,278 --> 01:06:56,113 The purple pillow... 1393 01:06:56,180 --> 01:06:57,223 no. The mauve one is much more fetching. 1394 01:06:57,247 --> 01:06:58,748 So slim and pretty, 1395 01:06:58,815 --> 01:07:00,950 we will now be most comfortable in the carriage. 1396 01:07:01,017 --> 01:07:02,186 Hand it to the regent. 1397 01:07:04,821 --> 01:07:05,922 You realize, I suppose, 1398 01:07:05,989 --> 01:07:07,491 that this order is only given 1399 01:07:07,557 --> 01:07:09,859 for a very special personal service 1400 01:07:09,926 --> 01:07:10,894 to the head of the state? 1401 01:07:10,895 --> 01:07:11,995 Such hairsplitting. 1402 01:07:12,062 --> 01:07:13,697 No doubt she will do you one one day. 1403 01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:19,403 Take your cape off. 1404 01:07:22,139 --> 01:07:23,273 Kneel down. 1405 01:07:29,579 --> 01:07:33,883 I hereby invest you with the royal Carpathian order 1406 01:07:33,950 --> 01:07:37,254 of perseverance. 1407 01:07:38,054 --> 01:07:39,223 Second-class. 1408 01:07:39,289 --> 01:07:41,225 Come, my dears. 1409 01:07:42,659 --> 01:07:47,397 And I hereby return you this. 1410 01:07:47,464 --> 01:07:49,599 After all, we're not parting quite yet, 1411 01:07:49,666 --> 01:07:52,169 are we, my darling grand Duke? 1412 01:08:27,036 --> 01:08:28,905 Oh, it's a shame. 1413 01:08:28,972 --> 01:08:30,707 She's gonna hate us. Oh, do be quiet. 1414 01:08:30,774 --> 01:08:32,585 Yes, fair Lily, we can't spoil a lovely day like this 1415 01:08:32,609 --> 01:08:35,011 worrying about that wretched girl. 1416 01:08:35,078 --> 01:08:37,113 I'm sure miss America has missed the boat. 1417 01:08:37,181 --> 01:08:38,315 Nyah, nyah, nyah. 1418 01:08:38,382 --> 01:08:39,949 Oh, shut up. Oh, cheer up, Fanny. 1419 01:08:40,016 --> 01:08:41,685 It's her own silly fault. 1420 01:08:41,751 --> 01:08:43,052 Well, it's a shame. 1421 01:08:43,119 --> 01:08:44,654 Oh, well. What could we do? 1422 01:09:18,054 --> 01:09:20,924 Oh! Isn't this wonderful? 1423 01:09:20,990 --> 01:09:22,192 Most impressive. 1424 01:09:22,259 --> 01:09:25,529 And the soldiers facing the procession, too. 1425 01:09:25,595 --> 01:09:29,366 Such a change from the last coronation I attended, the bessarabias. 1426 01:09:29,433 --> 01:09:31,668 Revolver shots going off like kettle drums 1427 01:09:31,735 --> 01:09:34,037 and the sky black with infernal machines. 1428 01:09:34,103 --> 01:09:36,172 Happily, no fatalities, 1429 01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:37,441 except in the crowd, 1430 01:09:37,507 --> 01:09:40,444 but it all left a very bad impression. 1431 01:10:07,871 --> 01:10:10,974 This must be his grand Duke who lives now. 1432 01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:12,476 This is your moment, Maisie, dear. 1433 01:10:12,542 --> 01:10:14,478 She won't get over this. It's a shame. 1434 01:10:20,550 --> 01:10:22,252 It's her. I promise you, it's her. 1435 01:10:22,319 --> 01:10:23,620 It's Elsie! 1436 01:10:23,687 --> 01:10:25,389 It's Elsie! 1437 01:10:30,927 --> 01:10:32,262 Ha ha ha ha! 1438 01:10:32,329 --> 01:10:34,498 Miss Springfield, miss Springfield, 1439 01:10:34,564 --> 01:10:36,165 it's Elsie Marina, miss Springfield, 1440 01:10:36,232 --> 01:10:39,002 with the regent of Carpathia. Mmm! 1441 01:10:39,068 --> 01:10:41,037 Such a thing could not happen. 1442 01:17:43,226 --> 01:17:46,329 Say, you haven't seen an old raincoat around, have you? 1443 01:17:50,867 --> 01:17:52,335 Ok, forget it. 1444 01:17:55,438 --> 01:17:56,438 Oh. 1445 01:18:04,547 --> 01:18:06,649 Gosh. 1446 01:18:06,716 --> 01:18:08,351 Another one. 1447 01:18:39,783 --> 01:18:41,117 Hi there! 1448 01:18:42,318 --> 01:18:44,921 Good afternoon, miss Marina. 1449 01:18:44,988 --> 01:18:47,690 Oh, don't look so anxious. 1450 01:18:47,757 --> 01:18:49,392 I don't tell tales. 1451 01:18:49,458 --> 01:18:52,461 Oh. Oh, that is good of you. 1452 01:18:52,528 --> 01:18:54,230 I'm so very grateful. 1453 01:18:54,297 --> 01:18:55,808 Still, that doesn't mean that I don't think 1454 01:18:55,832 --> 01:18:58,701 you're a very naughty boy. 1455 01:18:58,768 --> 01:18:59,903 Indeed? 1456 01:18:59,969 --> 01:19:02,071 To me and many of my countrymen, 1457 01:19:02,138 --> 01:19:05,374 it is my father who is the naughty boy. 1458 01:19:05,441 --> 01:19:07,510 Yes, but you're only 16, 1459 01:19:07,576 --> 01:19:08,476 whereas he's... 1460 01:19:08,477 --> 01:19:09,879 well, he says 40, 1461 01:19:09,946 --> 01:19:12,615 but I'd make a rough guess at, um... 1462 01:19:12,681 --> 01:19:14,183 45? 1463 01:19:14,250 --> 01:19:16,385 Shouldn't you wait till you're grown up? 1464 01:19:16,452 --> 01:19:17,954 Miss Marina... 1465 01:19:18,021 --> 01:19:20,423 I can see that you are very kind 1466 01:19:20,489 --> 01:19:22,358 and a good person, 1467 01:19:22,425 --> 01:19:24,693 but in matters of this nature... 1468 01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:25,795 Nicolas... 1469 01:19:25,862 --> 01:19:28,865 I wish to speak with you. 1470 01:19:28,932 --> 01:19:30,499 No, do not go, miss Marina. 1471 01:19:30,566 --> 01:19:32,368 This concerns you, too. 1472 01:19:32,435 --> 01:19:34,637 The telephone operator has reported to Hoffman 1473 01:19:34,703 --> 01:19:37,240 that you've talked with the German ambassador this morning. 1474 01:19:37,306 --> 01:19:37,806 That is true? 1475 01:19:37,807 --> 01:19:39,309 Yes. 1476 01:19:39,375 --> 01:19:41,210 After miss Marina had obtained you the number. 1477 01:19:41,277 --> 01:19:43,079 She did not know what the number was. 1478 01:19:43,146 --> 01:19:45,181 You passed a message, didn't you? 1479 01:19:45,248 --> 01:19:46,649 Your operator will tell you... 1480 01:19:46,715 --> 01:19:47,715 she doesn't speak German. 1481 01:19:47,716 --> 01:19:49,318 I know. I found that out. 1482 01:19:51,955 --> 01:19:54,090 Will you tell me the message, Nicky? 1483 01:19:59,863 --> 01:20:04,533 Isn't it nice that it was such a fine day for the coronation? 1484 01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:06,302 You'll go to your room. 1485 01:20:06,369 --> 01:20:08,838 Colonel Hoffman will visit you there later. 1486 01:20:08,905 --> 01:20:10,473 And, of course, there's no question 1487 01:20:10,539 --> 01:20:12,641 of your going to the ball tonight. 1488 01:20:12,708 --> 01:20:15,778 I prefer not to keep company with traitors. 1489 01:20:15,845 --> 01:20:18,114 Miss Marina... 1490 01:20:18,181 --> 01:20:21,617 I say this with sincerity. 1491 01:20:21,684 --> 01:20:23,219 It has been a real pleasure. 1492 01:20:35,398 --> 01:20:38,534 What am I to do with such a boy? 1493 01:20:41,470 --> 01:20:44,273 If you were asking me that question seriously, 1494 01:20:44,340 --> 01:20:47,243 oh, would I give you an answer, but since you're not... 1495 01:20:47,310 --> 01:20:48,978 but I am asking you, although, Herr Gott, 1496 01:20:49,045 --> 01:20:50,880 I know what the answer is going to be. 1497 01:20:50,947 --> 01:20:54,517 Something about his not having enough love in his life, I suppose. 1498 01:20:54,583 --> 01:20:56,085 Not such a bad guess. 1499 01:20:58,687 --> 01:21:00,789 Such sentimental idiocy. 1500 01:21:00,856 --> 01:21:03,092 Why do you always swear in German? 1501 01:21:03,159 --> 01:21:07,363 Because the Germans have the best oaths... 1502 01:21:07,430 --> 01:21:11,400 And the best machine guns. 1503 01:21:11,467 --> 01:21:13,336 Yes, I suppose... 1504 01:21:13,402 --> 01:21:15,304 Cross thunder weather yet again 1505 01:21:15,371 --> 01:21:17,540 wouldn't sound nearly so fierce, would it? 1506 01:21:18,908 --> 01:21:20,143 Oh, well. 1507 01:21:20,209 --> 01:21:21,978 I guess there's nothing left for me to do 1508 01:21:22,045 --> 01:21:24,347 but to take off all of my finery 1509 01:21:24,413 --> 01:21:26,482 and slip quietly out of your life forever. 1510 01:21:26,549 --> 01:21:27,716 What? 1511 01:21:27,783 --> 01:21:30,153 I said, I guess there's nothing left... 1512 01:21:30,219 --> 01:21:31,454 no, no, no. Before that. 1513 01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:33,422 You translated. Do you speak German? 1514 01:21:33,489 --> 01:21:34,257 Sure. 1515 01:21:34,258 --> 01:21:35,658 Then you heard his message. 1516 01:21:35,724 --> 01:21:38,761 Oh, yes, but I'm not going to tell you what it was, 1517 01:21:38,827 --> 01:21:41,030 so don't excite yourself too much. 1518 01:21:41,097 --> 01:21:43,699 Ooh, don't you look cute when you're fierce. 1519 01:21:43,766 --> 01:21:45,468 Miss Marina... 1520 01:21:45,534 --> 01:21:48,404 You are in possession of some very dangerous information, and I must... 1521 01:21:48,471 --> 01:21:50,940 now, don't put the screws on me, darling. 1522 01:21:51,007 --> 01:21:53,376 Oh, my dear, dear child, if only you could... 1523 01:21:53,442 --> 01:21:56,045 oh, you can't wheedle me either. 1524 01:21:58,247 --> 01:22:00,516 Well done. That's the best yet. 1525 01:22:02,351 --> 01:22:03,886 My darling, don't swear anymore. 1526 01:22:03,953 --> 01:22:05,354 You're gonna run out of oaths. 1527 01:22:05,421 --> 01:22:07,356 I'm not going to tell you, and that's that, 1528 01:22:07,423 --> 01:22:10,626 but I will tell you I think the treatment of your son just now 1529 01:22:10,693 --> 01:22:11,627 was plain bad policy. 1530 01:22:11,628 --> 01:22:13,430 Good policy, I suppose, 1531 01:22:13,496 --> 01:22:15,374 would be to kiss the little schweinhund on both cheeks 1532 01:22:15,398 --> 01:22:17,233 and say, let bygones be bygones. 1533 01:22:17,300 --> 01:22:19,435 Dear child, come to the ball. 1534 01:22:19,502 --> 01:22:21,270 The words right out of my mouth. 1535 01:22:21,337 --> 01:22:23,257 Now, who is Nicky more likely to tell his plot to, 1536 01:22:23,306 --> 01:22:24,607 that nasty old colonel Hoffman 1537 01:22:24,673 --> 01:22:26,709 giving him the dickens in his room 1538 01:22:26,775 --> 01:22:29,378 or his dream prince of a beautiful father 1539 01:22:29,445 --> 01:22:30,779 taking him to the ball? 1540 01:22:30,846 --> 01:22:31,923 Do not call me by these names. 1541 01:22:31,947 --> 01:22:33,016 It is grotesque. 1542 01:22:33,082 --> 01:22:34,217 Oh, darling, 1543 01:22:34,283 --> 01:22:36,385 I may call you by other names one day, 1544 01:22:36,452 --> 01:22:37,886 but for now, you'll have to forgive 1545 01:22:37,953 --> 01:22:39,422 the language of love. 1546 01:22:40,923 --> 01:22:43,092 I'm ready for my good-bye kiss. 1547 01:22:46,529 --> 01:22:47,563 Is that all I get? 1548 01:22:47,630 --> 01:22:49,132 The way I'm feeling at the moment, 1549 01:22:49,198 --> 01:22:51,267 it is considered a bit too much. 1550 01:22:53,236 --> 01:22:55,238 Tell the king to come and see me. 1551 01:22:55,304 --> 01:22:57,540 Hey, what about my parting present? 1552 01:23:03,112 --> 01:23:05,514 No. Pin it on, please. 1553 01:23:17,293 --> 01:23:18,561 Now... 1554 01:23:18,627 --> 01:23:21,064 Say to me what you said to me this morning. 1555 01:23:21,130 --> 01:23:23,199 If I do, you will only laugh at me again 1556 01:23:23,266 --> 01:23:25,210 and say my epaulets are scratching you or something, 1557 01:23:25,234 --> 01:23:28,003 and I shall be disconcerted again. 1558 01:23:28,071 --> 01:23:29,705 Take the risk. 1559 01:23:30,873 --> 01:23:34,443 It has been wonderful knowing you. 1560 01:23:34,510 --> 01:23:37,380 If only it could have lasted longer. 1561 01:23:39,315 --> 01:23:41,016 Thank you, my darling. 1562 01:23:53,529 --> 01:23:55,164 His majesty. 1563 01:23:57,866 --> 01:24:00,269 Nicky... 1564 01:24:00,336 --> 01:24:02,771 Sit down, Nicky. 1565 01:24:02,838 --> 01:24:04,773 This German embassy affair 1566 01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:06,609 has made me most unhappy. 1567 01:24:06,675 --> 01:24:08,444 I have always known that you and I 1568 01:24:08,511 --> 01:24:10,513 did not see eye-to-eye on policy, 1569 01:24:10,579 --> 01:24:13,349 but that my own son should conspire against me 1570 01:24:13,416 --> 01:24:16,352 has been a most bitter shock. 1571 01:24:16,419 --> 01:24:19,188 Ah, Nicky, Nicky, I wonder if you realize 1572 01:24:19,255 --> 01:24:22,525 how easy it is to break a father's heart. 1573 01:24:22,591 --> 01:24:25,661 If you mean your heart, father, I don't. 1574 01:24:25,728 --> 01:24:29,665 Perhaps that is because I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, Nicky. 1575 01:24:29,732 --> 01:24:33,369 Some people prefer to keep their feelings bottled up, you know, 1576 01:24:33,436 --> 01:24:35,104 and I... maybe I am at fault... 1577 01:24:36,905 --> 01:24:40,476 Anyway, Nicky, I don't want to say any more about it. 1578 01:24:40,543 --> 01:24:42,945 I have decided to let bygones be bygones, 1579 01:24:43,011 --> 01:24:44,980 and after all, in spite of everything, 1580 01:24:45,047 --> 01:24:46,615 you may come to the ball. 1581 01:24:46,682 --> 01:24:48,617 Thank you, father, but I don't think I want to. 1582 01:24:48,684 --> 01:24:50,619 I think I would rather go to bed. 1583 01:24:50,686 --> 01:24:52,621 Oh, but, sir, you must go to the ball. 1584 01:24:52,688 --> 01:24:55,324 It's going to be the most beautiful ball ever... 1585 01:24:55,391 --> 01:24:57,226 fabulous uniforms, beautiful decorations... 1586 01:24:57,293 --> 01:24:59,128 no. I would've liked to have gone, 1587 01:24:59,195 --> 01:25:01,864 but grandmother says she's not going because she's tired, 1588 01:25:01,930 --> 01:25:03,332 and I won't know anyone. 1589 01:25:03,399 --> 01:25:05,334 And I won't have anyone to dance with. 1590 01:25:05,401 --> 01:25:06,545 Invite someone to dance with. 1591 01:25:06,569 --> 01:25:07,712 Invite someone? Yes, of course. 1592 01:25:07,736 --> 01:25:09,338 I can easily arrange these things. 1593 01:25:09,405 --> 01:25:10,973 You mean anyone? Yes, anyone! 1594 01:25:11,039 --> 01:25:13,576 Miss Marina, will you accompany me 1595 01:25:13,642 --> 01:25:15,778 to the coronation ball tonight? 1596 01:25:17,780 --> 01:25:22,751 Oh, I shall be very happy to obey your majesty's command. 1597 01:25:22,818 --> 01:25:23,618 That is good! 1598 01:25:23,619 --> 01:25:25,588 Then I shall come in person 1599 01:25:25,654 --> 01:25:27,523 to collect you at your theater at 11:00? 1600 01:25:27,590 --> 01:25:29,225 Oh, that would be nice. 1601 01:25:29,292 --> 01:25:32,561 Say, uh, do you think your grandmother would mind if... 1602 01:25:32,628 --> 01:25:35,431 No, she won't mind. I'll bring them for you. 1603 01:25:35,498 --> 01:25:36,899 She'll just say, "such fun." 1604 01:25:36,965 --> 01:25:39,902 And I'll borrow one of her tiaras for you, too. 1605 01:25:39,968 --> 01:25:43,672 Well, if they can see me leave the theater in a tiara, 1606 01:25:43,739 --> 01:25:47,543 they can darn well see me arrive in an evening gown. 1607 01:25:47,610 --> 01:25:49,678 I think I shall find you another order. 1608 01:25:49,745 --> 01:25:52,715 The one you are wearing is not first-class. 1609 01:25:52,781 --> 01:25:56,685 Oh. No? Well, mind, I wasn't going to say anything, 1610 01:25:56,752 --> 01:26:00,589 but, um, if you really think... 1611 01:26:09,998 --> 01:26:11,834 See you at the ball. 1612 01:26:56,011 --> 01:26:57,746 Dear Lucy. 1613 01:26:57,813 --> 01:26:59,748 You don't know how many engagements 1614 01:26:59,815 --> 01:27:01,784 I've broken for your sake tonight... 1615 01:27:01,850 --> 01:27:03,786 some that I wouldn't have broken 1616 01:27:03,852 --> 01:27:05,854 for any other man in the world. 1617 01:27:05,921 --> 01:27:07,089 So kind. 1618 01:27:07,155 --> 01:27:11,026 You will come, then, to the embassy at about 12:30? 1619 01:27:11,093 --> 01:27:12,828 I have arranged a little supper. 1620 01:27:12,895 --> 01:27:16,832 At your command, I would come to the end of the earth. 1621 01:27:16,899 --> 01:27:19,368 Belgrave square is fortunately not so far. 1622 01:27:19,435 --> 01:27:21,837 Ah, and here is your escort, my dear. 1623 01:27:21,904 --> 01:27:23,972 If your grand ducal highness will permit. 1624 01:27:24,039 --> 01:27:27,576 Not at all. I envy you, old boy. 1625 01:27:33,749 --> 01:27:35,718 Well? I'm afraid I can't find them. 1626 01:27:35,784 --> 01:27:37,520 Northbrook, you should not let them 1627 01:27:37,586 --> 01:27:38,854 out of your sight for a moment. 1628 01:27:38,921 --> 01:27:41,223 With such a girl like that, anything can happen. 1629 01:27:41,290 --> 01:27:42,491 Anything. 1630 01:27:42,558 --> 01:27:45,694 You search that way, I will search this way. 1631 01:28:04,079 --> 01:28:07,015 "...for the settled peace of the kingdom. 1632 01:28:07,082 --> 01:28:11,253 Signed, Nicolas viii." 1633 01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:13,088 Uh, just "Nicolas." 1634 01:28:13,155 --> 01:28:14,823 Ok, Nicky. 1635 01:28:14,890 --> 01:28:18,226 Well, it seems reasonable enough to me. 1636 01:28:18,293 --> 01:28:21,096 If only your father were a reasonable man. 1637 01:28:21,163 --> 01:28:22,965 Excuse me, please. 1638 01:28:23,031 --> 01:28:24,633 Oh, pardon me. 1639 01:28:30,038 --> 01:28:31,038 Really. 1640 01:28:32,808 --> 01:28:35,077 Anyway, I promise to do everything I can. 1641 01:28:35,143 --> 01:28:38,113 Anyway, it's gonna be wonderful to have a dance with him. 1642 01:28:38,180 --> 01:28:39,915 Ahem. Oh! 1643 01:28:39,982 --> 01:28:42,885 Hello there! We've been looking all over for you. 1644 01:28:42,951 --> 01:28:46,555 Indeed? And I have been looking for you. 1645 01:28:46,622 --> 01:28:48,023 Well, can you beat that? 1646 01:28:48,090 --> 01:28:50,225 Father, I feel sure that you should like 1647 01:28:50,292 --> 01:28:53,095 to have a dance with miss Marina. 1648 01:28:53,161 --> 01:28:54,397 I should be charmed. 1649 01:28:58,467 --> 01:29:00,403 Ah, Northbrook. 1650 01:29:00,469 --> 01:29:02,571 Would you care for a little refreshment? 1651 01:29:02,638 --> 01:29:04,106 Thank you so much. 1652 01:29:04,172 --> 01:29:05,774 What a sweet boy he is. 1653 01:29:05,841 --> 01:29:06,841 My son? 1654 01:29:06,842 --> 01:29:08,110 Far too grown up. 1655 01:29:08,176 --> 01:29:10,112 I guess that's just due to, uh... 1656 01:29:10,178 --> 01:29:11,780 due to his upbringing. 1657 01:29:11,847 --> 01:29:14,249 Say, wouldn't it be a good thing 1658 01:29:14,316 --> 01:29:15,884 if you and him made it up? 1659 01:29:15,951 --> 01:29:18,787 I mean, for your country and for European peace and all that. 1660 01:29:18,854 --> 01:29:20,823 These things are not done so easily. 1661 01:29:20,889 --> 01:29:22,634 Oh, I don't know. With a little give and take, 1662 01:29:22,658 --> 01:29:23,458 it wouldn't be so hard. 1663 01:29:23,459 --> 01:29:24,827 As a matter of fact, 1664 01:29:24,893 --> 01:29:26,505 I just happen to know what his conditions would be. 1665 01:29:26,529 --> 01:29:27,763 Conditions? 1666 01:29:27,830 --> 01:29:30,966 Yes. He wants a motorcycle, 1667 01:29:31,033 --> 01:29:36,672 and he wants to be allowed to ride it anywhere in Carpathia. 1668 01:29:36,739 --> 01:29:39,508 Well, it seems reasonable enough to me. 1669 01:29:39,575 --> 01:29:42,144 Let's see. What else did he want? 1670 01:29:42,210 --> 01:29:44,780 Oh, yes, I remember. 1671 01:29:44,847 --> 01:29:46,449 He wants a general election. 1672 01:29:48,350 --> 01:29:49,785 I knew you would say that. 1673 01:29:49,852 --> 01:29:51,787 Still, I don't know why you object. 1674 01:29:51,854 --> 01:29:54,457 General elections are a good thing. They're Democratic. 1675 01:29:54,523 --> 01:29:56,459 You are very pretty, my dear, 1676 01:29:56,525 --> 01:29:57,926 but you will be wise to think twice 1677 01:29:57,993 --> 01:29:59,928 before entering the political arena. 1678 01:29:59,995 --> 01:30:02,130 You may find the role of madame de pompadour 1679 01:30:02,197 --> 01:30:03,966 is a little beyond your range, 1680 01:30:04,032 --> 01:30:06,835 and your range is so charming as it is. 1681 01:30:06,902 --> 01:30:08,003 Do you reverse? 1682 01:30:08,070 --> 01:30:09,705 Just try me. 1683 01:30:50,045 --> 01:30:51,980 It is time for Nicky to go home. 1684 01:30:52,047 --> 01:30:55,984 And it is time for me to say good-bye to you, my dear. 1685 01:30:56,051 --> 01:30:57,051 Oh, is it? 1686 01:30:57,052 --> 01:30:58,453 I fear so, my dear. 1687 01:30:58,521 --> 01:31:01,824 Oh... Alas. 1688 01:31:02,858 --> 01:31:04,793 Um, what about my brooch? 1689 01:31:04,860 --> 01:31:07,429 Uh, it will be sent on to you. 1690 01:31:07,496 --> 01:31:08,631 Oh, no. Don't bother. 1691 01:31:08,697 --> 01:31:11,033 I could stop by sometime and pick it up. 1692 01:31:11,099 --> 01:31:12,367 Yes, of course. By all means. 1693 01:31:12,434 --> 01:31:14,970 Northbrook? Yes, sir? 1694 01:31:15,037 --> 01:31:17,372 You will conduct his majesty back to the embassy 1695 01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:19,007 and take miss Marina to Brixton. 1696 01:31:19,074 --> 01:31:21,710 And now, my dear, it really is good-bye. 1697 01:31:21,777 --> 01:31:24,179 I thank you for your little services to us, 1698 01:31:24,246 --> 01:31:27,583 and I wish you much happiness and success. 1699 01:31:29,317 --> 01:31:31,554 Oh, your grand ducal, 1700 01:31:31,620 --> 01:31:33,922 it's been a great, great... 1701 01:31:35,791 --> 01:31:39,094 Well... Good-bye. Good-bye. 1702 01:31:45,100 --> 01:31:46,201 Good night, Nicky. 1703 01:31:46,268 --> 01:31:49,605 Northbrook, I will take my carriage in 10 minutes. 1704 01:32:04,419 --> 01:32:09,057 They went for a ride on a bus? 1705 01:32:09,124 --> 01:32:10,292 A public bus? 1706 01:32:10,358 --> 01:32:12,527 On number 57. 1707 01:32:13,662 --> 01:32:15,163 This may mean a scandal, Northbrook. 1708 01:32:15,230 --> 01:32:16,732 Yes, sir. 1709 01:32:16,799 --> 01:32:20,302 And you followed this bus in the carriage as far as Victoria station? 1710 01:32:20,368 --> 01:32:21,970 Yes, sir. I then followed them on foot 1711 01:32:22,037 --> 01:32:23,839 as they walked from there to the embassy. 1712 01:32:23,906 --> 01:32:26,074 They walked... you mean she's here in the building? 1713 01:32:26,141 --> 01:32:28,677 Yes, sir. She is with the king in the stewards' room. 1714 01:32:28,744 --> 01:32:30,188 What are they doing in the stewards' room? 1715 01:32:30,212 --> 01:32:32,314 She is teaching the king an American dance 1716 01:32:32,380 --> 01:32:34,016 called a fox trot. 1717 01:32:34,082 --> 01:32:36,151 Your valet Franz is playing for them. 1718 01:32:36,218 --> 01:32:41,089 With one or two others of the household. In ragtime. 1719 01:32:42,457 --> 01:32:43,759 Exactly, sir. 1720 01:32:46,795 --> 01:32:49,064 Lady Sunningdale is late. 1721 01:32:49,131 --> 01:32:51,433 Only a few minutes, sir. 1722 01:32:51,499 --> 01:32:53,235 Her unpunctuality used to be 1723 01:32:53,301 --> 01:32:55,738 one of her most irritating characteristics. 1724 01:32:55,804 --> 01:33:01,076 I had hoped she might have grown out of it by now. 1725 01:33:01,143 --> 01:33:04,947 She has had the, after all... Time. 1726 01:33:06,014 --> 01:33:06,948 Hello. 1727 01:33:06,949 --> 01:33:07,815 Hello. 1728 01:33:07,816 --> 01:33:09,484 Oh, supper! How lovely. 1729 01:33:09,551 --> 01:33:11,119 How thoughtful of you, darling. 1730 01:33:11,186 --> 01:33:13,588 I'll just run down and say good night to Nicky. 1731 01:33:13,656 --> 01:33:16,859 I'll be right back in just a minute. 1732 01:33:25,467 --> 01:33:26,835 Come, come, sir. 1733 01:33:26,902 --> 01:33:28,804 All that is needed is a little firmness. 1734 01:33:28,871 --> 01:33:29,972 You should say straight out 1735 01:33:30,038 --> 01:33:31,439 that the supper is not for her 1736 01:33:31,506 --> 01:33:33,051 and that you are expecting another guest. 1737 01:33:33,075 --> 01:33:34,943 That is your considered suggestion 1738 01:33:35,010 --> 01:33:37,179 for surmounting this crisis, Northbrook? 1739 01:33:37,245 --> 01:33:38,346 Yes, sir, it is. 1740 01:33:38,413 --> 01:33:41,650 Then I can only say that I now fully understand 1741 01:33:41,717 --> 01:33:44,552 why the foreign office always makes such a mess 1742 01:33:44,619 --> 01:33:47,422 of its relations with the state department. 1743 01:33:47,489 --> 01:33:50,458 Northbrook, we are not here dealing with a civilized adult, 1744 01:33:50,525 --> 01:33:51,927 but with an unruly child. 1745 01:33:51,994 --> 01:33:56,631 Do you think I am anxious to have supper for 3? 1746 01:33:57,365 --> 01:33:58,801 I'm sorry, sir. 1747 01:33:58,867 --> 01:34:01,804 I had not, I agree, considered that aspect. 1748 01:34:01,870 --> 01:34:04,472 The best policy, then, would appear for me to... 1749 01:34:04,539 --> 01:34:06,775 Intercept lady Sunningdale on arrival 1750 01:34:06,842 --> 01:34:09,812 and escort her to the little music roomdownstairs. 1751 01:34:09,878 --> 01:34:12,547 There I can arrange to have another table made. 1752 01:34:12,614 --> 01:34:13,849 2 suppers I am to eat? 1753 01:34:13,916 --> 01:34:15,617 I'm afraid I see no alternative. 1754 01:34:15,684 --> 01:34:17,452 But how am I to leave this one? 1755 01:34:17,519 --> 01:34:20,022 That is the crux, Northbrook. 1756 01:34:20,088 --> 01:34:22,691 A few minutes after lady Sunningdale arrives, 1757 01:34:22,758 --> 01:34:24,492 I shall come up here and announce 1758 01:34:24,559 --> 01:34:26,729 that the ambassador urgently requires your presence 1759 01:34:26,795 --> 01:34:28,196 in the chancellery 1760 01:34:28,263 --> 01:34:30,365 and that your business will last for at least an hour. 1761 01:34:30,432 --> 01:34:32,567 You will then say good-bye to miss Marina 1762 01:34:32,634 --> 01:34:34,402 for positively the last time... 1763 01:34:34,469 --> 01:34:35,437 oh, I shall be here, sir. 1764 01:34:35,438 --> 01:34:36,872 No harm will come to you... 1765 01:34:36,939 --> 01:34:39,207 and leave miss Marina for me to escort back to Brixton. 1766 01:34:39,274 --> 01:34:40,843 At least an hour is hopeless. 1767 01:34:40,909 --> 01:34:42,144 You had better say all night. 1768 01:34:42,210 --> 01:34:43,678 Only so will your plan 1769 01:34:43,746 --> 01:34:45,680 have the faintest chance of success. 1770 01:34:46,715 --> 01:34:47,816 Well, here I am. 1771 01:34:47,883 --> 01:34:49,684 You may leave us, Northbrook. 1772 01:34:49,752 --> 01:34:51,186 Very well, sir. 1773 01:34:58,560 --> 01:35:03,065 Say, he doesn't do that half as bad as me, does he? 1774 01:35:03,131 --> 01:35:04,131 Vodka? 1775 01:35:04,132 --> 01:35:05,132 Thank you. 1776 01:35:09,071 --> 01:35:10,605 Oh, that's too much. 1777 01:35:10,672 --> 01:35:14,409 Oh, you can take that, surely. 1778 01:35:14,476 --> 01:35:17,412 Oh, too fast. I wanted to make you a toast. 1779 01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:19,714 Well, here, you'll have to have some more. 1780 01:35:19,782 --> 01:35:21,249 No... not so much, please. 1781 01:35:21,316 --> 01:35:24,086 You don't want to spoil my illusions of you, do you? 1782 01:35:24,152 --> 01:35:26,088 What are your illusions of me? 1783 01:35:26,154 --> 01:35:29,624 Well, your capacity for vodka's certainly one of them. 1784 01:35:29,691 --> 01:35:34,797 Here's to... More love in everybody's life. 1785 01:35:34,863 --> 01:35:35,998 Cheers. 1786 01:35:37,866 --> 01:35:41,736 Well, I have a little document here. 1787 01:35:41,804 --> 01:35:43,071 Shall I read it? 1788 01:35:46,975 --> 01:35:49,044 "Manifesto to my faithful subjects. 1789 01:35:49,111 --> 01:35:50,913 "I, Nicolas viii, king, 1790 01:35:50,979 --> 01:35:53,581 "do hereby renounce and reject thoroughly the overtures 1791 01:35:53,648 --> 01:35:55,851 "lately made to me by a certain person 1792 01:35:55,918 --> 01:35:59,621 "that I assume the powers of government before the appointed time, 1793 01:35:59,687 --> 01:36:02,891 "and I do hereby solemnly adjure all citizens of the realm 1794 01:36:02,958 --> 01:36:05,127 "to unite loyally and wholeheartedly 1795 01:36:05,193 --> 01:36:07,595 "under the regency of my father, the grand Duke Charles, 1796 01:36:07,662 --> 01:36:09,597 "for the settled peace of the kingdom. 1797 01:36:09,664 --> 01:36:11,166 Signed, Nicolas." 1798 01:36:13,902 --> 01:36:16,071 But it isn't signed "Nicolas" at all. 1799 01:36:16,138 --> 01:36:17,772 Of course not, darling. 1800 01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:21,844 You know, you have those little conditions to agree to first. 1801 01:36:21,910 --> 01:36:24,980 Give and take, darling. Give and take. 1802 01:36:25,047 --> 01:36:26,481 Ah, that's right. 1803 01:36:26,548 --> 01:36:29,651 That'll help you see it in the best possible light. 1804 01:36:29,717 --> 01:36:32,154 Do you not see, you pretty little dummkopf, 1805 01:36:32,220 --> 01:36:35,490 that a general election will put the kaiser's party in power 1806 01:36:35,557 --> 01:36:38,626 and there will be a war in Europe in 6 months? 1807 01:36:38,693 --> 01:36:41,964 Well, I don't see how you can be so sure. 1808 01:36:42,030 --> 01:36:43,966 I mean, well, what if your party wins? 1809 01:36:44,032 --> 01:36:45,968 That's a funny thing about general elections. 1810 01:36:46,034 --> 01:36:47,602 You never know who's going to win. 1811 01:36:47,669 --> 01:36:51,974 "The overtures lately made to me by a certain person..." 1812 01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:53,976 Of course, you do not realize 1813 01:36:54,042 --> 01:36:56,478 what it is you are making the boy sign. 1814 01:36:56,544 --> 01:36:58,947 Yes, darling. A manifesto. 1815 01:36:59,014 --> 01:37:02,450 A confession. An abject confession by my son 1816 01:37:02,517 --> 01:37:05,120 that the kaiser's party were plotting with him 1817 01:37:05,187 --> 01:37:07,655 to overthrow the constitution and destroy me. 1818 01:37:07,722 --> 01:37:08,590 Ausgezeichnet! 1819 01:37:08,591 --> 01:37:09,825 Another vodka. 1820 01:37:09,892 --> 01:37:11,326 Ah, no, thank you. I've had enough. 1821 01:37:11,393 --> 01:37:12,293 A little one. 1822 01:37:12,294 --> 01:37:14,429 Ah, hmm. 1823 01:37:14,496 --> 01:37:15,496 Something to eat? 1824 01:37:15,530 --> 01:37:18,867 Uh, no, thank you. I'm not hungry. 1825 01:37:18,934 --> 01:37:21,536 Of course, the timing of events 1826 01:37:21,603 --> 01:37:23,671 will have to be most carefully considered. 1827 01:37:23,738 --> 01:37:27,876 I hold the initiative now. I must not lose it. 1828 01:37:27,943 --> 01:37:31,213 Well, I don't see, with your fine brain 1829 01:37:31,279 --> 01:37:33,882 and your wonderful grasp of the situation, 1830 01:37:33,949 --> 01:37:36,952 how you could ever lose anything so little 1831 01:37:37,019 --> 01:37:39,287 as an initiative. 1832 01:37:50,198 --> 01:37:52,968 Wouldn't you be more comfortable with your feet up? 1833 01:37:53,035 --> 01:37:55,170 No, thank you. 1834 01:38:00,575 --> 01:38:02,344 Vodka? 1835 01:38:02,410 --> 01:38:04,212 No, thank you. 1836 01:38:08,650 --> 01:38:09,384 Mein gott! I have it! 1837 01:38:09,385 --> 01:38:10,151 What? 1838 01:38:10,152 --> 01:38:11,419 I will give this manifesto 1839 01:38:11,486 --> 01:38:13,956 to the press of the entire world. 1840 01:38:14,022 --> 01:38:15,557 That will proclaim wolffstein's guilt 1841 01:38:15,623 --> 01:38:17,759 and explain why I've had to put him in jail. 1842 01:38:17,825 --> 01:38:20,528 Also, it will answer those stupid American protests... 1843 01:38:20,595 --> 01:38:23,098 I mean, it will satisfy Democratic opinion. 1844 01:38:23,165 --> 01:38:24,366 Well, that's wonderful. 1845 01:38:24,432 --> 01:38:26,668 But here lies the real key of the plan. 1846 01:38:26,734 --> 01:38:28,303 I will be most magnanimous. 1847 01:38:28,370 --> 01:38:31,173 Having established the guilt of Wolffstein to the entire world, 1848 01:38:31,239 --> 01:38:33,108 I will then release him. 1849 01:38:33,175 --> 01:38:35,410 So will I make him look the perfect bloody fool, 1850 01:38:35,477 --> 01:38:37,597 and I will look to my country and the rest of the world 1851 01:38:37,645 --> 01:38:39,514 as the true freedom-loving democrat, 1852 01:38:39,581 --> 01:38:42,150 and so will I win my election by a landslide! 1853 01:38:42,217 --> 01:38:44,386 Brilliant! Brilliant! Quite, quite brilliant. 1854 01:38:45,421 --> 01:38:48,023 Oh, I can see they don't call you 1855 01:38:48,090 --> 01:38:51,726 the fox of the Balkans for nothing, do they? 1856 01:38:51,793 --> 01:38:53,028 Am I called so? 1857 01:38:53,095 --> 01:38:55,563 Didn't you know it? 1858 01:38:55,630 --> 01:38:57,565 The fox of the Balkans? 1859 01:39:02,770 --> 01:39:06,941 Oh, you look so like a fox with those eyebrows... 1860 01:39:07,009 --> 01:39:08,210 Look like a fox? 1861 01:39:08,276 --> 01:39:12,680 Yes. Like a sleek, dangerous animal. 1862 01:39:12,747 --> 01:39:14,449 But such a lonely one. 1863 01:39:14,516 --> 01:39:17,385 Oh, my child, it is my lot to be lonely. 1864 01:39:17,452 --> 01:39:19,954 But must it always be so? 1865 01:39:20,022 --> 01:39:23,291 It must... It must. 1866 01:39:23,358 --> 01:39:26,128 Darling, if you could only under... 1867 01:39:28,997 --> 01:39:31,033 Where's that music coming from? 1868 01:39:31,099 --> 01:39:32,500 Oh, never mind, darling. 1869 01:39:32,567 --> 01:39:34,169 It's just that Hungarian, I expect. 1870 01:39:34,236 --> 01:39:35,803 You told me he played every night. 1871 01:39:35,870 --> 01:39:37,805 The... the... oh, yes. Every Ni... 1872 01:39:37,872 --> 01:39:41,509 mmm. Never mind, my darling. 1873 01:39:42,810 --> 01:39:45,847 ♪ I found a dream ♪ 1874 01:39:45,913 --> 01:39:47,582 ♪ laying in your arms ♪ 1875 01:39:47,649 --> 01:39:51,586 ♪ the whole night through ♪ 1876 01:39:51,653 --> 01:39:53,555 ♪ I'm yours ♪ 1877 01:39:53,621 --> 01:39:59,627 ♪ no matter what others may say or do ♪ 1878 01:39:59,694 --> 01:40:04,132 ♪ light of heart and fancy free ♪ 1879 01:40:04,199 --> 01:40:08,603 ♪ that's the way to start ♪ 1880 01:40:08,670 --> 01:40:12,640 ♪ there will be nothing to lose ♪ 1881 01:40:12,707 --> 01:40:19,481 ♪ till you lose your heart ♪ 1882 01:40:21,516 --> 01:40:24,086 oh, my child, if only you knew 1883 01:40:24,152 --> 01:40:27,222 how I long for that kind of freedom. 1884 01:40:27,289 --> 01:40:29,324 Oh, my sweet. 1885 01:40:35,497 --> 01:40:37,165 Go on with what you were saying. 1886 01:40:37,232 --> 01:40:41,169 What does it matter? What are words? 1887 01:40:41,236 --> 01:40:46,007 What are words where deeds can say so much more? 1888 01:40:46,074 --> 01:40:47,642 Oh, not that again, darling. 1889 01:40:47,709 --> 01:40:51,813 Can't you think of something else to say? 1890 01:41:00,522 --> 01:41:03,325 I didn't quite catch that. 1891 01:41:07,795 --> 01:41:09,831 I love you. 1892 01:41:09,897 --> 01:41:12,267 I love you. 1893 01:41:12,334 --> 01:41:14,769 Oh, gosh, your grand ducal highness, 1894 01:41:14,836 --> 01:41:16,604 how I love you! 1895 01:41:20,675 --> 01:41:21,509 How dare you! 1896 01:41:21,576 --> 01:41:22,616 Your grand ducal highness, 1897 01:41:22,677 --> 01:41:24,212 the ambassador has arrived, 1898 01:41:24,279 --> 01:41:25,147 if you know what I mean. 1899 01:41:25,148 --> 01:41:25,980 Please do not argue. 1900 01:41:26,047 --> 01:41:27,682 Leave the room at once. 1901 01:41:27,749 --> 01:41:29,451 Think yourself lucky 1902 01:41:29,517 --> 01:41:31,597 I'm not telephoning the foreign secretary immediately! 1903 01:42:01,316 --> 01:42:02,750 Morgen, Herr Northbrook. 1904 01:42:02,817 --> 01:42:05,086 Guten morgen. 1905 01:42:35,383 --> 01:42:37,385 Lady Sunningdale. 1906 01:42:53,034 --> 01:42:54,034 Mr. Northbrook. 1907 01:42:54,035 --> 01:42:55,770 Oh, good morning, sir. 1908 01:42:55,837 --> 01:42:57,939 Is my father quite well this morning? 1909 01:42:58,005 --> 01:43:00,275 I've heard nothing to the contrary, sir. Why? 1910 01:43:00,342 --> 01:43:03,278 He has just... Embraced me. 1911 01:43:03,345 --> 01:43:06,080 Well, sir, he's surely done that often before. 1912 01:43:06,147 --> 01:43:07,282 In public, of course, 1913 01:43:07,349 --> 01:43:09,451 but this was in private, Mr. Northbrook, 1914 01:43:09,517 --> 01:43:13,054 in his bedroom, with only his valets to see it. 1915 01:43:13,120 --> 01:43:16,724 And he called me... His darling boy. 1916 01:43:16,791 --> 01:43:19,060 How nice. 1917 01:43:19,126 --> 01:43:20,862 It is most suspicious. 1918 01:43:20,928 --> 01:43:23,698 He was asking, too, the most extraordinary... 1919 01:43:23,765 --> 01:43:26,368 not to say embarrassing... questions. 1920 01:43:26,434 --> 01:43:28,370 Was I not sometimes very lonely? 1921 01:43:28,436 --> 01:43:30,872 Had he not always been a good father to me? 1922 01:43:30,938 --> 01:43:35,610 Did I not sometimes feel the lack of love in my life? 1923 01:43:35,677 --> 01:43:38,780 Mr. Northbrook, my father asked me 1924 01:43:38,846 --> 01:43:41,849 if I did not feel the lack of love in my life. 1925 01:43:41,916 --> 01:43:43,451 Yes, sir. I heard. 1926 01:43:45,019 --> 01:43:46,788 You're not surprised? 1927 01:43:48,323 --> 01:43:50,458 You have heard something already perhaps? 1928 01:43:50,525 --> 01:43:53,595 Is there cause for concern? 1929 01:43:53,661 --> 01:43:56,431 Let me tell you, Mr. Northbrook, I strongly suspect 1930 01:43:56,498 --> 01:43:59,233 some foreign office hocus pocus in all this! 1931 01:43:59,301 --> 01:44:02,236 The foreign office, sir, never resorts to hocus pocus. 1932 01:44:02,304 --> 01:44:05,607 You are doubtless thinking of the wilhelmstrasse. 1933 01:44:05,673 --> 01:44:06,673 Come in. 1934 01:44:07,509 --> 01:44:09,611 Good morning, Northbrook! 1935 01:44:09,677 --> 01:44:12,013 Punctual as usual, I see. Splendid! 1936 01:44:12,079 --> 01:44:13,681 Herr Gott! How handsome you look 1937 01:44:13,748 --> 01:44:15,383 in that uniform of yours. 1938 01:44:15,450 --> 01:44:17,752 And yesterday, too. I meant to say something about it, 1939 01:44:17,819 --> 01:44:20,021 but somehow it slipped my mind. 1940 01:44:20,087 --> 01:44:23,358 And Nicky, my darling boy. 1941 01:44:23,425 --> 01:44:24,526 Yes, father? 1942 01:44:24,592 --> 01:44:27,094 Nothing. Just my darling... aah! 1943 01:44:27,161 --> 01:44:28,696 Careful, Franz. 1944 01:44:28,763 --> 01:44:31,333 You had better get ready. We leave in 5 minutes. 1945 01:44:31,399 --> 01:44:33,234 Yes, father. 1946 01:44:33,301 --> 01:44:35,370 Give me a kiss, Nicky. 1947 01:44:35,437 --> 01:44:36,438 Another kiss? 1948 01:44:36,504 --> 01:44:38,406 Why not, heh? 1949 01:44:38,473 --> 01:44:40,041 One can overdo such things. 1950 01:44:40,107 --> 01:44:42,143 Oh, nonsense. Fathers should kiss their sons. 1951 01:44:42,209 --> 01:44:43,721 When they are children, but not when... 1952 01:44:43,745 --> 01:44:47,682 Nicky, come and give me a kiss this instant! 1953 01:44:57,291 --> 01:44:59,327 Well, Northbrook... 1954 01:45:01,929 --> 01:45:03,398 Well, well, well. 1955 01:45:03,465 --> 01:45:04,766 Well, well, indeed, sir. 1956 01:45:04,832 --> 01:45:06,834 Wonderful morning, is it not? 1957 01:45:06,901 --> 01:45:08,135 Wonderful, sir. 1958 01:45:08,202 --> 01:45:10,080 I have a letter here for your grand ducal highness 1959 01:45:10,104 --> 01:45:13,641 of a somewhat private nature. 1960 01:45:16,844 --> 01:45:17,844 Oh. 1961 01:45:26,020 --> 01:45:27,655 Oh, dear. 1962 01:45:29,491 --> 01:45:30,792 Oh, dear, dear. 1963 01:45:34,362 --> 01:45:36,798 Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. 1964 01:45:38,500 --> 01:45:40,435 You know, Northbrook, 1965 01:45:40,502 --> 01:45:43,605 what I think is the trouble with lady Sunningdale? 1966 01:45:43,671 --> 01:45:47,709 She has not enough love in her life, sir? 1967 01:45:47,775 --> 01:45:50,878 Too much. One should keep her balance in these things. 1968 01:45:50,945 --> 01:45:52,780 Now, Northbrook, I have one or two commissions 1969 01:45:52,847 --> 01:45:54,516 for you to perform after we leave. 1970 01:45:54,582 --> 01:45:55,750 I shall be honored. 1971 01:45:55,817 --> 01:45:57,519 First, a special passport must be obtained 1972 01:45:57,585 --> 01:45:59,954 for a journey to Carpathia next Thursday, 1973 01:46:00,021 --> 01:46:03,425 made out in the name of miss Elsa Stolzenburg. 1974 01:46:03,491 --> 01:46:05,126 Miss who, sir? 1975 01:46:05,192 --> 01:46:07,004 Citizeness of the United States, profession, actress, 1976 01:46:07,028 --> 01:46:10,364 stage name, miss Elsie Marina. 1977 01:46:10,432 --> 01:46:12,534 Oh, sir, I was beginning to wonder. 1978 01:46:12,600 --> 01:46:14,201 Second, for the journey itself... 1979 01:46:14,268 --> 01:46:17,138 a special coach must be attached to the orient express, 1980 01:46:17,204 --> 01:46:19,874 and a French chef must board the train at ostend. 1981 01:46:19,941 --> 01:46:23,210 Flowers. Boughs of flowers in the salons and bedrooms, of course. 1982 01:46:23,277 --> 01:46:26,147 You will attend to these petty details yourself, will you not? 1983 01:46:26,213 --> 01:46:27,113 Gladly, sir. 1984 01:46:27,114 --> 01:46:28,783 Now, for the journey, 1985 01:46:28,850 --> 01:46:31,753 she may require a few dresses, furs, personal ornaments. 1986 01:46:31,819 --> 01:46:33,521 You will see to it that in that respect, 1987 01:46:33,588 --> 01:46:36,558 she is given carte Blanche. 1988 01:46:36,624 --> 01:46:40,194 Carte quite Blanche, sir? 1989 01:46:40,261 --> 01:46:42,564 As Blanche as she cares to make it. 1990 01:46:42,630 --> 01:46:44,999 Gott es willen, that was myself speaking? 1991 01:46:45,066 --> 01:46:47,168 It was, sir. 1992 01:46:47,234 --> 01:46:49,504 I suppose it cannot be... oh... 1993 01:46:49,571 --> 01:46:51,539 Dispose of this, please. 1994 01:47:02,049 --> 01:47:03,651 My father is still dressing? 1995 01:47:03,718 --> 01:47:04,586 Just finishing, sir. 1996 01:47:04,587 --> 01:47:06,153 Oh, thank goodness. 1997 01:47:06,220 --> 01:47:08,255 You will be seeing miss Marina some time you think? 1998 01:47:08,322 --> 01:47:09,791 It appears quite possible, sir. 1999 01:47:09,857 --> 01:47:11,593 When you see her, say good-bye to her for me 2000 01:47:11,659 --> 01:47:13,003 and give her this small parting gift. 2001 01:47:13,027 --> 01:47:13,861 Most certainly, sir. 2002 01:47:13,862 --> 01:47:15,062 Also this photograph. 2003 01:47:15,129 --> 01:47:16,631 Tell her I enjoyed myself last night 2004 01:47:16,698 --> 01:47:18,866 more than I've ever before in my life. 2005 01:47:18,933 --> 01:47:20,334 And thank her most gratefully. 2006 01:47:20,401 --> 01:47:21,135 I will, sir. 2007 01:47:21,136 --> 01:47:22,970 Yes. 2008 01:47:27,475 --> 01:47:28,475 Mr. Northbrook? 2009 01:47:28,476 --> 01:47:29,611 Sir? 2010 01:47:29,677 --> 01:47:33,147 Has he kissed you, too? 2011 01:47:33,214 --> 01:47:35,116 Not yet, sir. 2012 01:47:35,182 --> 01:47:38,520 I should not be too confident, Mr. Northbrook. 2013 01:48:06,247 --> 01:48:07,314 Playing with fire? 2014 01:48:07,381 --> 01:48:10,017 What? Oh, good morning, miss Marina. 2015 01:48:10,084 --> 01:48:11,085 Good morning. 2016 01:48:11,152 --> 01:48:12,720 Yes, I am. 2017 01:48:12,787 --> 01:48:15,590 That's a sport you should leave to me. 2018 01:48:19,426 --> 01:48:22,530 It was a lovely sunrise this morning, wasn't it? 2019 01:48:22,597 --> 01:48:24,599 I doubt if I paid it quite the same attention 2020 01:48:24,666 --> 01:48:26,400 as you obviously have. 2021 01:48:26,467 --> 01:48:28,135 I do hope you haven't taken cold. 2022 01:48:28,202 --> 01:48:30,204 Were you out there long? 2023 01:48:30,271 --> 01:48:31,973 Almost all night. 2024 01:48:32,039 --> 01:48:33,841 I didn't want to go back to Brixton. 2025 01:48:33,908 --> 01:48:35,442 I wanted to see them off. 2026 01:48:35,509 --> 01:48:39,413 You weren't thinking of going to the station, miss Marina. 2027 01:48:39,480 --> 01:48:41,248 No. 2028 01:48:41,315 --> 01:48:42,416 I see. 2029 01:48:42,483 --> 01:48:44,085 I have to present these to you 2030 01:48:44,151 --> 01:48:45,452 with the king's compliments 2031 01:48:45,519 --> 01:48:46,988 and his thanks for last night, 2032 01:48:47,054 --> 01:48:48,694 which he claims was the pleasantest evening 2033 01:48:48,756 --> 01:48:52,727 he has ever spent in his life. 2034 01:48:54,596 --> 01:48:59,533 Oh, how sweet. He signed it, too. 2035 01:48:59,601 --> 01:49:01,869 Aah! Ha ha! 2036 01:49:01,936 --> 01:49:04,238 The royal Carpathian arms. 2037 01:49:04,305 --> 01:49:06,608 Well, wouldn't you know it? 2038 01:49:13,848 --> 01:49:15,416 As I am plainly de trop, 2039 01:49:15,482 --> 01:49:18,485 I shall await your grand ducal highness in the hall. 2040 01:49:18,552 --> 01:49:20,154 I won't say good-bye, miss Marina. 2041 01:49:20,221 --> 01:49:21,732 I understand we shall be seeing a lot of each other 2042 01:49:21,756 --> 01:49:23,057 during the next few days, 2043 01:49:23,124 --> 01:49:24,467 what with special passports and other things. 2044 01:49:24,491 --> 01:49:26,027 Special passports? 2045 01:49:26,093 --> 01:49:27,962 Northbrook, that was intended to be a surprise. 2046 01:49:28,029 --> 01:49:29,764 I'm so sorry, your grand ducal highness. 2047 01:49:29,831 --> 01:49:33,200 I wouldn't have spoilt it for the world. 2048 01:49:39,206 --> 01:49:40,742 Good morning. 2049 01:49:41,609 --> 01:49:43,778 Good morning. 2050 01:49:54,722 --> 01:49:56,157 My dear. 2051 01:49:56,223 --> 01:49:59,360 I have been making such a spectacle of myself today, 2052 01:49:59,426 --> 01:50:01,128 behaving like a schoolboy, 2053 01:50:01,195 --> 01:50:03,097 and what is so surprising, loving it, you know? 2054 01:50:03,164 --> 01:50:04,598 Oh, dear. 2055 01:50:04,666 --> 01:50:07,334 This morning it's up to me to be the grown-up one, 2056 01:50:07,401 --> 01:50:08,169 isn't it? 2057 01:50:08,170 --> 01:50:10,172 Oh, grown up, eh? 2058 01:50:10,237 --> 01:50:13,941 It's hard for you to remember, I suppose, sometimes. 2059 01:50:14,008 --> 01:50:17,144 You're really quite an important man, aren't you? 2060 01:50:17,211 --> 01:50:18,946 Oh... 2061 01:50:19,013 --> 01:50:22,950 I rule a small country which is not my own. 2062 01:50:23,017 --> 01:50:26,453 For which I have some loyalty, but no feeling. 2063 01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:29,256 I rule it as well as I can. 2064 01:50:29,323 --> 01:50:33,360 No better and no worse than any other man in my place. 2065 01:50:33,427 --> 01:50:35,462 Is that so important? 2066 01:50:35,529 --> 01:50:36,597 They say it is. 2067 01:50:36,664 --> 01:50:38,866 They? Why are they? 2068 01:50:40,634 --> 01:50:42,103 People. 2069 01:50:43,037 --> 01:50:45,639 Last night one man said, 2070 01:50:45,707 --> 01:50:47,517 "you know, you wouldn't think it to look at him, 2071 01:50:47,541 --> 01:50:50,845 but there goes the best political brain in Europe." 2072 01:50:50,912 --> 01:50:52,222 "Would not think it to look at..." 2073 01:50:52,246 --> 01:50:54,648 but, my darling, in 18 months' time, 2074 01:50:54,716 --> 01:50:56,217 I shall surrender my power to Nicky. 2075 01:50:56,283 --> 01:50:58,219 I shall then be a free citizen. 2076 01:50:58,285 --> 01:51:03,657 In 18 months' time, I'm free of my contract with George Edwards. 2077 01:51:03,725 --> 01:51:06,027 So there we are, aren't we? 2078 01:51:06,093 --> 01:51:07,762 18... 2079 01:51:08,595 --> 01:51:11,032 My dear child. 2080 01:51:12,566 --> 01:51:16,070 You do not realize what can happen in this world 2081 01:51:16,137 --> 01:51:18,806 in 18 months. 2082 01:51:18,873 --> 01:51:21,442 Yes, I think I do. 2083 01:51:21,508 --> 01:51:24,746 I really think I do. 2084 01:51:27,782 --> 01:51:30,217 This is good-bye, then. 2085 01:51:30,284 --> 01:51:31,986 Au revoir. 2086 01:51:33,420 --> 01:51:35,456 Au revoir, of course. 2087 01:51:39,126 --> 01:51:42,830 Could I have my parting present now, please? 2088 01:51:56,577 --> 01:51:58,512 But it is real, you know? 2089 01:51:58,579 --> 01:52:00,815 Of course it is, my darling. 2090 01:52:00,882 --> 01:52:05,519 I just want to remember which one it is. 2091 01:52:05,586 --> 01:52:08,322 Pin it on for me, please. 2092 01:52:16,630 --> 01:52:18,933 Poor darling, you feel terr... 2093 01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:21,602 terribly disconcerted? 2094 01:52:21,668 --> 01:52:24,571 Yes... 2095 01:52:24,638 --> 01:52:25,973 I do. 2096 01:52:27,341 --> 01:52:30,744 Childishness isn't all fun, is it? 2097 01:52:33,614 --> 01:52:35,049 No. 2098 01:52:41,823 --> 01:52:43,257 Good morning, miss Marina. 2099 01:52:43,324 --> 01:52:45,426 How good of you to be here so early, 2100 01:52:45,492 --> 01:52:47,161 is it not, Charles? Yes, yes, indeed. 2101 01:52:47,228 --> 01:52:49,897 My dear, such a night. Not a wink of sleep. 2102 01:52:49,964 --> 01:52:53,267 Some dreadful drunkard fiddling in the corridor for hours and hours. 2103 01:52:53,334 --> 01:52:55,136 And the night before, too, only not so long. 2104 01:52:55,202 --> 01:52:56,971 I did not dare go out and stop him 2105 01:52:57,038 --> 01:52:59,473 in case it was an anarchist or a republican or something. 2106 01:52:59,540 --> 01:53:01,275 One never knows nowadays. 2107 01:53:01,342 --> 01:53:02,910 So disturbing. 2108 01:53:02,977 --> 01:53:06,513 My dear, why do you always wear white? 2109 01:53:06,580 --> 01:53:09,716 I suppose because I think it suits me, ma'am. 2110 01:53:09,783 --> 01:53:11,485 Yes. But not all the time, my dear. 2111 01:53:11,552 --> 01:53:14,788 You are imitating the divine Sarah Bernhardt, no doubt. 2112 01:53:14,856 --> 01:53:16,323 But even she, I am told, 2113 01:53:16,390 --> 01:53:19,160 changes her dress occasionally. 2114 01:53:19,226 --> 01:53:20,226 Mmm... 2115 01:53:20,227 --> 01:53:21,295 Maud. 2116 01:53:21,362 --> 01:53:23,064 Yes, ma'am, I have it here. 2117 01:53:23,130 --> 01:53:25,732 Here is a little brooch for you 2118 01:53:25,799 --> 01:53:28,836 with the Carpathian arms on it. 2119 01:53:28,903 --> 01:53:30,604 Thank you, ma'am. How kind of you. 2120 01:53:30,671 --> 01:53:33,274 And here is a photograph for you, too. 2121 01:53:33,340 --> 01:53:34,808 Let me see, now. 2122 01:53:34,876 --> 01:53:37,544 Yes, I have signed it. 2123 01:53:37,611 --> 01:53:39,613 Thank you, ma'am. 2124 01:53:39,680 --> 01:53:42,884 You may kiss me, my dear. 2125 01:53:47,721 --> 01:53:49,356 Hmm. 2126 01:53:49,423 --> 01:53:52,359 Mr. Northbrook, you will come to the station with us? 2127 01:53:52,426 --> 01:53:54,896 Of course, ma'am. The king has already left for the station 2128 01:53:54,962 --> 01:53:56,663 with the ambassador. 2129 01:53:56,730 --> 01:53:58,942 And there is a motor to take miss Marina where she wishes? 2130 01:53:58,966 --> 01:54:01,668 Of course, sir. 2131 01:54:01,735 --> 01:54:06,307 Yes. I do think just a little variety in the costume, my dear. 2132 01:54:06,373 --> 01:54:08,575 Nothing exaggerated, of course. 2133 01:54:08,642 --> 01:54:09,810 Simply from time to time, 2134 01:54:09,877 --> 01:54:12,213 an ordinary little day dress. 2135 01:54:12,279 --> 01:54:14,681 Such fun it has been. Good-bye. 2136 01:54:14,748 --> 01:54:17,051 Good-bye, ma'am. 2137 01:54:31,732 --> 01:54:34,868 Send me a photograph. 2138 01:54:37,771 --> 01:54:40,574 Address it to the theater. 2139 01:54:46,713 --> 01:54:48,482 Sign it. 2140 01:54:52,653 --> 01:54:54,621 Au revoir. 2141 01:54:57,691 --> 01:55:00,027 Au revoir.