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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:03:16,792 --> 00:03:19,250 - There must be so many much more amusing ways 2 00:03:19,250 --> 00:03:22,375 of spending Saturday afternoon than at Crystal Palace. 3 00:03:22,375 --> 00:03:25,833 - That is precisely why Papa insisted on the Crystal Palace. 4 00:03:25,833 --> 00:03:28,417 - Grace, it's really all your part for allowing 5 00:03:28,417 --> 00:03:30,333 Mr. Sullivan to fall in love with you. 6 00:03:30,333 --> 00:03:32,625 - Everyone agrees that one day Mr. Sullivan 7 00:03:32,625 --> 00:03:35,500 will be our greatest composer of music. 8 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:38,833 I'm proud to be inspired his affections. 9 00:03:42,333 --> 00:03:45,750 ♪ Oh Father our redeemer ♪ 10 00:03:56,417 --> 00:04:01,417 ♪ Hallelujah ♪ 11 00:04:04,125 --> 00:04:27,083 ♪ Hallelujah ♪ 12 00:04:28,792 --> 00:04:30,708 ♪ Amen ♪ 13 00:04:50,583 --> 00:04:53,083 - You can wake up now, Willie. 14 00:04:54,667 --> 00:04:56,250 Fine composition, Gilbert. 15 00:04:56,250 --> 00:04:57,792 You should make a point of hearing it sometime. 16 00:04:57,792 --> 00:05:02,708 - I shall tell Sullivan it transported me to another world. 17 00:05:13,833 --> 00:05:16,875 I was so proud of you, Arthur, so very proud. 18 00:05:16,875 --> 00:05:18,333 - When can we be married? 19 00:05:18,333 --> 00:05:19,917 - One day. - Soon? 20 00:05:19,917 --> 00:05:22,417 - Your old professor from Leipzig was enraptured. 21 00:05:22,417 --> 00:05:23,958 There are no heights of music 22 00:05:23,958 --> 00:05:25,708 which you may not scale, he says. 23 00:05:25,708 --> 00:05:26,875 - How soon? 24 00:05:26,875 --> 00:05:29,875 - You will write great music for me, will you not Arthur? 25 00:05:29,875 --> 00:05:30,708 - Grace. 26 00:05:30,708 --> 00:05:33,458 - Oratorios, symphonies, serenades, 27 00:05:33,458 --> 00:05:35,333 and grand, grand opera. 28 00:05:35,333 --> 00:05:37,208 - When can we be married? 29 00:05:37,208 --> 00:05:38,875 - Soon, I said soon. 30 00:05:43,167 --> 00:05:46,667 Arthur, what was Mr., what was his name, 31 00:05:46,667 --> 00:05:49,167 Mr. Gilbert doing at the Crystal Palace? 32 00:05:49,167 --> 00:05:50,583 - Gilbert? 33 00:05:50,583 --> 00:05:52,542 I invited him there, you know. 34 00:05:52,542 --> 00:05:54,333 - And the man with him? 35 00:05:54,333 --> 00:05:55,750 - D'Oyly Carte. 36 00:05:55,750 --> 00:05:57,583 - Another theatrical person? 37 00:05:57,583 --> 00:06:01,583 Arthur, you are not working again with Mr. Gilbert? 38 00:06:01,583 --> 00:06:02,917 - Well. 39 00:06:02,917 --> 00:06:04,083 - Arthur! 40 00:06:04,083 --> 00:06:04,917 - Grace 41 00:06:06,667 --> 00:06:08,750 I wish I could make you understand. 42 00:06:08,750 --> 00:06:09,917 What am I beside you? 43 00:06:09,917 --> 00:06:13,417 A nobody, only the son of poor Lambeth bandmaster 44 00:06:13,417 --> 00:06:15,167 with nothing but my music. 45 00:06:15,167 --> 00:06:17,375 I freely admit I'll turn my hand to anything 46 00:06:17,375 --> 00:06:19,375 to make our marriage possible. 47 00:06:19,375 --> 00:06:20,708 Last week, if you must know, 48 00:06:20,708 --> 00:06:24,750 I sold half a dozen pot boilers to Mr. Chapel 49 00:06:24,750 --> 00:06:26,583 at five guineas a time. 50 00:06:26,583 --> 00:06:27,750 - Pot boilers? 51 00:06:27,750 --> 00:06:29,417 - Grace. 52 00:06:29,417 --> 00:06:30,583 What is it? 53 00:06:30,583 --> 00:06:32,292 - And I thought I was helping you. 54 00:06:32,292 --> 00:06:33,625 - You are, you know you are, 55 00:06:33,625 --> 00:06:37,292 it was for you that I wrote my oratorio. 56 00:06:37,292 --> 00:06:39,458 - And from all the stories in the Holy Scriptures, 57 00:06:39,458 --> 00:06:41,167 which did you choose? 58 00:06:41,167 --> 00:06:42,458 The Prodigal Son. 59 00:06:42,458 --> 00:06:43,583 - Unless I have the means, 60 00:06:43,625 --> 00:06:46,083 how can I ever approach your father? 61 00:06:46,083 --> 00:06:48,292 - When you worked with Mr. Gilbert once before, 62 00:06:48,292 --> 00:06:49,958 was it successful? 63 00:06:49,958 --> 00:06:51,667 - I admit Thespis didn't do too well. 64 00:06:51,667 --> 00:06:53,375 - How will another failure help you? 65 00:06:53,375 --> 00:06:54,958 - But D'Oyly Carte thinks. 66 00:06:54,958 --> 00:06:56,417 - Darling, Arthur, 67 00:06:56,417 --> 00:06:59,333 if you really love me you'll go to your theatrical friends 68 00:06:59,333 --> 00:07:01,458 this very night and tell them that you are sorry 69 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:03,792 but you cannot compose their comic operetta. 70 00:07:03,792 --> 00:07:04,625 - How can 1? 71 00:07:04,625 --> 00:07:05,917 I've already started it. 72 00:07:05,917 --> 00:07:08,833 - You were taught by the pupil of Beethoven himself. 73 00:07:08,833 --> 00:07:12,542 You must learn to dedicate yourself to your art religiously, 74 00:07:12,542 --> 00:07:14,625 like the great masters. 75 00:07:14,625 --> 00:07:19,375 The theatre, dearest Arthur, is not your world. 76 00:07:19,375 --> 00:07:21,458 - Grace, are you there? 77 00:07:21,458 --> 00:07:22,917 - Yes, Papa. 78 00:07:22,917 --> 00:07:23,917 - Ah. 79 00:07:23,917 --> 00:07:26,333 Our guests are waiting for you, my dear. 80 00:07:26,333 --> 00:07:28,875 - Then I must go them, Papa, must I not? 81 00:07:28,875 --> 00:07:31,250 I'm afraid Mr. Sullivan has to leave us. 82 00:07:31,250 --> 00:07:34,250 He has a very important appointment. 83 00:07:36,125 --> 00:07:37,500 - Curious girl, Grace. 84 00:07:37,542 --> 00:07:39,083 Do you understand her, Mr. Sullivan? 85 00:07:39,083 --> 00:07:41,208 - Well, sir ll-- - I don't. 86 00:07:41,208 --> 00:07:42,958 Never understood her mother either. 87 00:07:42,958 --> 00:07:43,792 - Indeed, sir? 88 00:07:43,792 --> 00:07:45,125 - No, no, not for a moment. 89 00:07:45,125 --> 00:07:46,792 Do you know we have produced seven children 90 00:07:46,792 --> 00:07:48,917 in a state of mutual misunderstanding? 91 00:07:48,917 --> 00:07:49,750 All girls. 92 00:07:50,917 --> 00:07:53,292 She seems to think you are a genius, are you? 93 00:07:53,292 --> 00:07:54,500 - Well, sir, I hope not. 94 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:56,667 - A genius so often has to be supported 95 00:07:56,667 --> 00:07:58,417 by his father in law. 96 00:08:00,083 --> 00:08:02,833 - But, sir, I wouldn't dream of approaching you 97 00:08:02,833 --> 00:08:05,583 unless I have the means of supporting Grace. 98 00:08:05,583 --> 00:08:06,625 - It would cheer me up immensely 99 00:08:06,625 --> 00:08:08,167 if there was an early prospect of, 100 00:08:08,167 --> 00:08:11,333 let's be exceedingly modest, a thousand a year? 101 00:08:11,375 --> 00:08:13,083 - Thousand a year? 102 00:08:13,083 --> 00:08:14,625 - There you are, my boy. 103 00:08:14,625 --> 00:08:15,625 I hope you aren't going to feel 104 00:08:15,625 --> 00:08:16,625 that you aren't welcome here. 105 00:08:16,625 --> 00:08:18,417 You're a brilliant fellow, they tell me. 106 00:08:18,417 --> 00:08:19,625 Though I must say I'd feel happier 107 00:08:19,625 --> 00:08:21,792 if you were on the stock exchange, eh? 108 00:08:21,792 --> 00:08:24,750 Well, consider it, my boy, consider it. 109 00:08:24,750 --> 00:08:25,917 Think it over. 110 00:08:27,250 --> 00:08:28,208 - Goodnight, sir. 111 00:08:28,208 --> 00:08:29,958 - Goodnight, Mr. Sullivan. 112 00:08:29,958 --> 00:08:33,208 Mind you, 2,000 a year would be better. 113 00:08:38,208 --> 00:08:40,250 ♪ The rich attorney, he jumped with joy ♪ 114 00:08:40,250 --> 00:08:42,833 ♪ And replied to my fond professions ♪ 115 00:08:42,833 --> 00:08:44,833 ♪ You shall reap the reward of your pluck, my boy ♪ 116 00:08:44,833 --> 00:08:47,292 ♪ At the Bailey and Middlesex Sessions ♪ 117 00:08:47,292 --> 00:08:49,625 ♪ You'll soon get used to her looks, said he ♪ 118 00:08:49,625 --> 00:08:52,750 ♪ And a very nice girl you'll find her ♪ 119 00:08:52,750 --> 00:08:55,000 ♪ She may very well pass for 43 ♪ 120 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,042 ♪ In the dusk, with a light behind her ♪ 121 00:08:58,042 --> 00:09:00,625 - Sullivan, my dear chap, congratulations. 122 00:09:00,625 --> 00:09:01,625 Congratulations. 123 00:09:01,625 --> 00:09:04,208 Your first batch of music is really superb. 124 00:09:04,208 --> 00:09:06,208 Gilbert and I are absolutely delighted, aren't we, Gilbert? 125 00:09:06,208 --> 00:09:08,042 - We are indeed, and I know what I'm talking about. 126 00:09:08,042 --> 00:09:10,417 I once succeeded in distinguishing Pop! Goes the Weasel 127 00:09:10,417 --> 00:09:11,958 from God Save the Queen. 128 00:09:11,958 --> 00:09:13,792 - The point is can you be ready with the rest 129 00:09:13,792 --> 00:09:14,958 by the next week? 130 00:09:14,958 --> 00:09:18,500 - I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I can't do it. 131 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:20,583 - Oh, well we have to make the week after then. 132 00:09:20,583 --> 00:09:22,250 - No, you misunderstand me. 133 00:09:22,250 --> 00:09:23,917 - Well, of course if you can manage it earlier, 134 00:09:23,917 --> 00:09:25,917 I'm presenting it on the 25th. 135 00:09:25,917 --> 00:09:26,750 - What? 136 00:09:26,750 --> 00:09:28,458 - With a new opera by Offenbach. 137 00:09:28,458 --> 00:09:30,500 - Stiff competition, you know Offenbach. 138 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:32,833 We have to try to beat the Frenchmen at his own game. 139 00:09:32,833 --> 00:09:34,375 - I'm sure you will. 140 00:09:34,375 --> 00:09:36,958 What Offenbach can do, Sullivan can do, eh? 141 00:09:36,958 --> 00:09:38,250 Offenbach made a fortune. 142 00:09:38,250 --> 00:09:40,208 - Yes, and what I mean is why shouldn't the two of you 143 00:09:40,208 --> 00:09:41,958 start a new school of English light opera? 144 00:09:41,958 --> 00:09:42,792 Why not, indeed? 145 00:09:42,792 --> 00:09:46,125 I have no personal objections to making a fortune. 146 00:09:46,125 --> 00:09:47,500 - Gilbert? 147 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:48,500 - Hm? 148 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:50,500 - Speaking of Offenbach, 149 00:09:51,417 --> 00:09:53,792 how much would you say he makes a year? 150 00:09:53,792 --> 00:09:56,542 - I think 1,000 out of London alone. 151 00:09:56,542 --> 00:09:57,917 - 1,000 a year? 152 00:09:57,917 --> 00:09:59,167 - Probably two. 153 00:10:00,208 --> 00:10:01,458 - 2,000 a year? 154 00:10:04,625 --> 00:10:07,667 I mark that Allegro vivace should go faster like this, 155 00:10:07,667 --> 00:10:09,000 here let me show you. 156 00:10:17,458 --> 00:10:21,458 ♪ Silence in Court ♪ 157 00:10:21,458 --> 00:10:25,375 ♪ And all attention lend ♪ 158 00:10:25,375 --> 00:10:28,500 ♪ Behold your Judge ♪ 159 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:31,917 ♪ In due submission bend ♪ 160 00:10:41,292 --> 00:10:43,500 ♪ When [, good friends, was called to the bar ♪ 161 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:45,833 ♪ I'd an appetite fresh and hearty ♪ 162 00:10:45,833 --> 00:10:48,042 ♪ But I was, as many young barristers are ♪ 163 00:10:48,042 --> 00:10:50,292 ♪ An impecunious party ♪ 164 00:10:50,292 --> 00:10:52,708 ♪ I'd a swallow-tail coat of a beautiful blue ♪ 165 00:10:52,708 --> 00:10:55,875 ♪ A brief which I bought of a booby ♪ 166 00:10:55,875 --> 00:10:58,167 ♪ A couple of shirts and a collar or two ♪ 167 00:10:58,208 --> 00:11:00,375 ♪ And a ring that looked like a ruby ♪ 168 00:11:00,375 --> 00:11:02,833 ♪ A couple of shirts and a collar or two ♪ 169 00:11:02,833 --> 00:11:07,833 ♪ And a ring that looked like a ruby ♪ 170 00:11:08,292 --> 00:11:10,375 ♪ In Westminster Hall I danced a dance ♪ 171 00:11:10,375 --> 00:11:12,750 ♪ Like a semi-despondent fury ♪ 172 00:11:12,750 --> 00:11:14,958 ♪ For I thought I should never hit on a chance ♪ 173 00:11:14,958 --> 00:11:17,042 ♪ Of addressing a British Jury ♪ 174 00:11:17,042 --> 00:11:19,625 ♪ But I soon got tired of third-class journeys ♪ 175 00:11:19,625 --> 00:11:22,958 ♪ And dinners of bread and water ♪ 176 00:11:22,958 --> 00:11:25,708 ♪ So I fell in love with a rich attorney's ♪ 177 00:11:25,708 --> 00:11:27,750 ♪ Elderly, ugly daughter ♪ 178 00:11:27,750 --> 00:11:30,042 ♪ So he fell in love with a rich attorney's ♪ 179 00:11:30,042 --> 00:11:35,042 ♪ Elderly, ugly daughter ♪ 180 00:11:35,458 --> 00:11:37,583 ♪ The rich attorney, he jumped with joy ♪ 181 00:11:37,583 --> 00:11:39,917 ♪ And replied to my fond professions ♪ 182 00:11:39,917 --> 00:11:42,042 ♪ You shall reap the reward of your pluck, my boy ♪ 183 00:11:42,042 --> 00:11:44,417 ♪ At the Bailey and Middlesex Sessions ♪ 184 00:11:44,417 --> 00:11:46,750 ♪ You'll soon get used to her looks, said he ♪ 185 00:11:46,750 --> 00:11:49,833 ♪ And a very nice girl you'll find her ♪ 186 00:11:49,833 --> 00:11:52,125 ♪ She may very well pass for 43 ♪ 187 00:11:52,125 --> 00:11:54,667 ♪ In the dusk, with a light behind her ♪ 188 00:11:54,667 --> 00:11:56,667 ♪ She may very well pass for 43 ♪ 189 00:11:56,667 --> 00:12:01,667 ♪ In the dusk, with a light behind her ♪ 190 00:12:02,250 --> 00:12:04,542 ♪ At length I became as rich as the Gurneys ♪ 191 00:12:04,542 --> 00:12:06,667 ♪ An incubus then I thought her ♪ 192 00:12:06,667 --> 00:12:09,000 ♪ So I threw over that rich attorney's ♪ 193 00:12:09,042 --> 00:12:11,042 ♪ Elderly, ugly daughter ♪ 194 00:12:11,042 --> 00:12:13,458 ♪ The rich attorney my character high ♪ 195 00:12:13,458 --> 00:12:17,833 ♪ Tried vainly to disparage ♪ 196 00:12:17,833 --> 00:12:18,917 I Nod 197 00:12:18,917 --> 00:12:20,875 ♪ Yes ♪ 198 00:12:20,875 --> 00:12:23,125 ♪ And now, if you please, I'm ready to try ♪ 199 00:12:23,125 --> 00:12:25,500 ♪ This breach of Promise of Marriage ♪ 200 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:27,542 ♪ And now, if you please, he's ready to try ♪ 201 00:12:27,542 --> 00:12:30,917 ♪ This breach of Promise of Marriage ♪ 202 00:12:30,917 --> 00:12:34,750 ♪ Where is the plaintiff, let her now be brought ♪ 203 00:12:34,750 --> 00:12:37,500 ♪ Angelina ♪ 204 00:12:51,333 --> 00:12:54,292 ♪ Comes the broken flower ♪ 205 00:12:54,292 --> 00:12:57,000 ♪ Comes the cheated maid ♪ 206 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,792 ♪ Though the tempest lower ♪ 207 00:12:59,792 --> 00:13:02,792 ♪ Rain and cloud will fade ♪ 208 00:13:02,792 --> 00:13:05,667 ♪ Take, oh take these posies ♪ 209 00:13:05,667 --> 00:13:08,542 ♪ Though thy beauty rare ♪ 210 00:13:08,542 --> 00:13:11,333 ♪ Shame the blushing roses ♪ 211 00:13:11,333 --> 00:13:13,708 ♪ They are passing fair ♪ 212 00:13:13,708 --> 00:13:18,708 ♪ They are walking there ♪ 213 00:13:18,958 --> 00:13:23,958 ♪ Fairest days are sun and shade ♪ 214 00:13:24,625 --> 00:13:29,625 ♪ i am no unhappy maid ♪ 215 00:13:30,125 --> 00:13:35,125 ♪ Wear the flowers till they fade 216 00:13:35,333 --> 00:13:40,792 ♪ Happy be thy life, oh maid ♪ 217 00:13:40,792 --> 00:13:45,125 ♪ Happy, happy be thy life, oh maid ♪ 218 00:13:58,792 --> 00:14:00,833 ♪ May it please you, my lud ♪ 219 00:14:00,833 --> 00:14:02,792 ♪ Gentlemen of the jury ♪ 220 00:14:02,792 --> 00:14:07,250 ♪ See my interesting client ♪ 221 00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:11,333 ♪ Victim of a heartless wile ♪ 222 00:14:11,333 --> 00:14:15,375 ♪ See the traitor all defiant ♪ 223 00:14:15,375 --> 00:14:20,375 ♪ Wear a supercilious smile ♪ 224 00:14:20,708 --> 00:14:25,625 ♪ Sweetly smiled my client on him ♪ 225 00:14:25,625 --> 00:14:30,292 ♪ Coyly woo'd and gently won him ♪ 226 00:14:30,292 --> 00:14:34,250 ♪ Sweetly smiled his client on him ♪ 227 00:14:34,250 --> 00:14:39,250 ♪ Coyly woo'd and gently won him ♪ 228 00:14:43,042 --> 00:14:45,417 ♪ Picture, then, my client naming ♪ 229 00:14:45,417 --> 00:14:47,625 ♪ And insisting on the day ♪ 230 00:14:47,625 --> 00:14:50,250 ♪ Picture him excuses framing ♪ 231 00:14:50,250 --> 00:14:53,792 ♪ Going from her far away ♪ 232 00:14:53,792 --> 00:14:58,375 ♪ Doubly criminal to do so ♪ 233 00:14:58,375 --> 00:15:03,125 ♪ For the maid had bought her trousseau ♪ 234 00:15:03,125 --> 00:15:06,958 ♪ Doubly criminal to do so ♪ 235 00:15:06,958 --> 00:15:10,917 ♪ For the maid had bought her trousseau ♪ 236 00:15:10,958 --> 00:15:13,167 ♪ Cheer up, my pretty ♪ 237 00:15:13,167 --> 00:15:15,292 ♪ Oh, cheer up ♪ 238 00:15:15,333 --> 00:15:18,750 ♪ Cheer up, cheer up ♪ 239 00:15:18,750 --> 00:15:20,625 ♪ We love you ♪ 240 00:15:20,625 --> 00:15:23,625 ♪ Cheer up, my pretty ♪ ♪ Ah me ♪ 241 00:15:23,625 --> 00:15:28,125 ♪ Oh cheer up ♪ ♪ Ah me ♪ 242 00:15:35,542 --> 00:15:38,583 ♪ I love him, I love him, with fervour unceasing ♪ 243 00:15:38,583 --> 00:15:41,333 ♪ worship and madly adore ♪ 244 00:15:41,333 --> 00:15:44,625 ♪ My blind adoration is ever increasing ♪ 245 00:15:44,625 --> 00:15:47,500 ♪ My loss I shall ever deplore ♪ 246 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,875 ♪ Oh, see what a blessing, what love and caressing ♪ 247 00:15:50,875 --> 00:15:53,750 ♪ I've lost, and remember it, pray ♪ 248 00:15:53,750 --> 00:15:56,792 ♪ When you I'm addressing, are busy assessing ♪ 249 00:15:56,792 --> 00:15:59,417 ♪ The damages Edwin must pay ♪ 250 00:15:59,417 --> 00:16:02,833 ♪ Yes, he must pay ♪ 251 00:16:02,833 --> 00:16:05,958 ♪ I smoke like a furnace, I'm always in liquor ♪ 252 00:16:05,958 --> 00:16:08,917 ♪ A ruffian, a bully, a sot ♪ 253 00:16:08,917 --> 00:16:12,083 ♪ I'm sure I should thrash her, perhaps I should kick her ♪ 254 00:16:12,083 --> 00:16:14,875 ♪ I am such a very bad lot ♪ 255 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:18,000 ♪ I'm not prepossessing, as you may be guessing ♪ 256 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,833 ♪ She couldn't endure me a day ♪ 257 00:16:20,833 --> 00:16:23,958 ♪ Recall my professing, when you are assessing ♪ 258 00:16:23,958 --> 00:16:26,708 ♪ The damages Edwin must pay ♪ 259 00:16:26,708 --> 00:16:29,208 ♪ Yes, he must pay ♪ 260 00:16:29,208 --> 00:16:30,625 ♪ We should be fairly ♪ 261 00:16:30,625 --> 00:16:33,500 ♪ I'm sure I should thrash her ♪ 262 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:36,667 ♪ Perhaps I should kick her ♪ 263 00:16:36,667 --> 00:16:39,583 ♪ I love him, I love him ♪ 264 00:16:39,583 --> 00:16:41,917 ♪ With fervour increasing ♪ ♪ I smoke like a furnace ♪ 265 00:16:41,917 --> 00:16:42,958 ♪ I love him ♪ ♪ I'm always in liquor ♪ 266 00:16:42,958 --> 00:16:46,625 ♪ A ruffian, a bully, a sot ♪ 267 00:16:49,750 --> 00:16:54,750 ♪ The question, gentlemen, is one of liquor ♪ 268 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:01,000 ♪ You ask for guidance, this is my reply ♪ 269 00:17:02,917 --> 00:17:07,917 ♪ He says, when tipsy, he would thrash and kick her ♪ 270 00:17:10,208 --> 00:17:15,208 ♪ Let's make him tipsy, gentlemen, and try ♪ 271 00:17:16,958 --> 00:17:18,583 ♪ With all respect, I do object ♪ 272 00:17:18,583 --> 00:17:20,167 ♪ I do object ♪ ♪ I don't object ♪ 273 00:17:20,167 --> 00:17:21,583 ♪ With all respect, I do object ♪ 274 00:17:21,583 --> 00:17:25,375 ♪ I do object ♪ 275 00:17:25,375 --> 00:17:28,375 ♪ Put your briefs upon the shelf ♪ 276 00:17:28,375 --> 00:17:33,375 ♪ I will marry her myself ♪ 277 00:17:33,417 --> 00:17:35,167 ♪ Ah ♪ 278 00:17:40,458 --> 00:17:42,292 ♪ Oh, joy unbounded ♪ 279 00:17:42,292 --> 00:17:43,958 ♪ With wealth surrounded ♪ 280 00:17:43,958 --> 00:17:45,792 ♪ The knell is sounded ♪ 281 00:17:45,792 --> 00:17:47,708 ♪ Of grief and woe ♪ 282 00:17:47,708 --> 00:17:49,167 ♪ With love devoted ♪ 283 00:17:49,167 --> 00:17:51,000 ♪ On you he's doted ♪ 284 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,750 ♪ To castle moated ♪ 285 00:17:52,750 --> 00:17:54,708 ♪ Away they go ♪ 286 00:17:54,708 --> 00:17:57,958 ♪ I wonder whether they'll live together ♪ 287 00:17:57,958 --> 00:18:01,417 ♪ In marriage tether, in manner true ♪ 288 00:18:01,417 --> 00:18:04,917 ♪ It seems to me, sir, of such as she, sir ♪ 289 00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:08,292 ♪ Ajudge is he, sir, and a good judge too ♪ 290 00:18:08,292 --> 00:18:09,875 ♪ Oh, I am a Judge ♪ 291 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:11,250 ♪ And a good Judge too ♪ 292 00:18:11,250 --> 00:18:12,375 ♪ Yes, i am a Judge ♪ 293 00:18:12,375 --> 00:18:13,750 ♪ And a good Judge too ♪ 294 00:18:13,750 --> 00:18:14,958 ♪ Though homeward as you trudge ♪ 295 00:18:14,958 --> 00:18:16,333 ♪ You declare my law is fudge ♪ 296 00:18:16,333 --> 00:18:17,583 ♪ Yet of beauty I'm a judge ♪ 297 00:18:17,583 --> 00:18:19,250 ♪ And a good Judge too ♪ 298 00:18:19,250 --> 00:18:20,417 ♪ The defendant is a snob ♪ 299 00:18:20,417 --> 00:18:21,875 ♪ And a good snob, too ♪ 300 00:18:21,875 --> 00:18:23,167 ♪ The defendant is a snob ♪ 301 00:18:23,167 --> 00:18:24,667 ♪ And a good snob, too ♪ 302 00:18:24,667 --> 00:18:26,500 ♪ The defendant is a snob ♪ 303 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:31,000 ♪ He'll reward him with his fob ♪ 304 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,250 ♪ So we've settled with the job ♪ 305 00:18:34,250 --> 00:18:37,417 ♪ And a good job, too ♪ 306 00:19:28,417 --> 00:19:29,667 - Wait, please. 307 00:19:33,458 --> 00:19:35,458 - I felt sure you would come, Mr. Sullivan, 308 00:19:35,458 --> 00:19:36,958 but I had nearly given you up. 309 00:19:36,958 --> 00:19:38,375 - There were no cabs in this rain. 310 00:19:38,375 --> 00:19:39,333 Where is Grace? 311 00:19:39,333 --> 00:19:42,542 - It's no use, Mr. Sullivan, I assure you. 312 00:19:42,542 --> 00:19:45,125 - Lettie, is that Mr. Sullivan? 313 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:49,750 - Grace, what happened? 314 00:19:49,750 --> 00:19:52,167 Why did you leave like that, Grace, without a word? 315 00:19:52,167 --> 00:19:54,042 There was no chance to explain. 316 00:19:54,042 --> 00:19:55,375 - I could forgive you for squandering 317 00:19:55,375 --> 00:19:57,250 your gifts on triviality. 318 00:19:57,250 --> 00:20:01,042 It was wrong and wicked, yet I did forgive you. 319 00:20:01,083 --> 00:20:04,167 But when I saw you glory in it. 320 00:20:04,208 --> 00:20:05,792 - Grace, I beg you. 321 00:20:07,333 --> 00:20:09,583 - I watched you conducting your little operetta, 322 00:20:09,583 --> 00:20:12,458 I saw you afterwards out there bobbing and bowing. 323 00:20:12,458 --> 00:20:15,667 And although I could scarcely believe my eyes, 324 00:20:15,667 --> 00:20:19,167 I saw that you were proud of it, you were in your element. 325 00:20:19,167 --> 00:20:22,833 You liked it, Arthur, you actually liked it. 326 00:20:24,542 --> 00:20:26,042 - Grace. 327 00:20:26,042 --> 00:20:27,375 Grace. 328 00:20:27,375 --> 00:20:29,458 Grace, you must listen to me. 329 00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:30,792 Grace. - Well, well, well, 330 00:20:30,792 --> 00:20:33,083 good evening Mr. Sullivan, or is it goodnight? 331 00:20:33,083 --> 00:20:34,958 Good morning to be absolutely accurate. 332 00:20:34,958 --> 00:20:36,875 - Sir, I must talk to Grace at once. 333 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:38,125 - It will serve no purpose. 334 00:20:38,125 --> 00:20:40,667 - Sir, she has just declared that she'll never forgive me. 335 00:20:40,667 --> 00:20:42,500 - What more my boy, she undoubtedly means it. 336 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:43,708 - So you don't understand. 337 00:20:43,708 --> 00:20:45,667 - Nor do you, therefore we are on equal terms. 338 00:20:45,667 --> 00:20:48,125 - Sir, I must have one last word with her. 339 00:20:48,125 --> 00:20:49,500 - Take my advice, my boy, 340 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:50,875 have one last word with me instead. 341 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:52,042 I've got a very good idea. 342 00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:53,750 You sit yourself down there, I won't be a moment. 343 00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:55,583 Don't run away. 344 00:20:55,583 --> 00:20:58,042 ♪ You'll soon get used to the looks, said he ♪ 345 00:20:58,042 --> 00:21:02,292 ♪ And a very nice girl you'll find her ♪ 346 00:21:02,292 --> 00:21:04,542 ♪ She may very well pass for 43 ♪ 347 00:21:04,542 --> 00:21:06,208 ♪ In the dusk with the light behind her ♪ 348 00:21:06,208 --> 00:21:08,375 Capital little tune, that of yours, my boy. 349 00:21:08,375 --> 00:21:09,583 Hold that moment, will you? 350 00:21:09,583 --> 00:21:10,417 Thank you. 351 00:21:10,417 --> 00:21:12,542 ♪ I'm a judge, and a good judge too ♪ 352 00:21:12,542 --> 00:21:14,958 So I am hopeful, if nothing else. 353 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,375 - I fear you are right, sir. 354 00:21:16,375 --> 00:21:17,625 I don't understand her. 355 00:21:17,625 --> 00:21:19,500 - I suppose she wanted a Bach 356 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:21,708 and found he was only a Offenbach. 357 00:21:21,708 --> 00:21:23,125 No pun intended. 358 00:21:23,125 --> 00:21:26,000 Here's to you, Mr. Sullivan. 359 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,917 - Your health, sir. 360 00:21:27,917 --> 00:21:30,042 - If it is any consolation to you, Arthur, 361 00:21:30,042 --> 00:21:32,583 I suppose I can call you Arthur now we're not to be related, 362 00:21:32,583 --> 00:21:34,167 if it's any consolation to you, 363 00:21:34,167 --> 00:21:36,458 I think you might have had a lucky escape, you know. 364 00:21:36,458 --> 00:21:38,667 - How can you say that, sir? 365 00:21:38,667 --> 00:21:40,292 - Well, genius, Arthur, 366 00:21:40,292 --> 00:21:42,417 isn't the delicate plant Grace thinks. 367 00:21:42,417 --> 00:21:45,500 Oh no, no, no, it's as hardy as a Jerusalem artichoke. 368 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:47,292 Grace would have begun by mothering, 369 00:21:47,292 --> 00:21:49,000 but ended by smothering. 370 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,375 - It's curious situation, isn't it, sir? 371 00:21:51,375 --> 00:21:54,083 - We're a curious family, my boy. 372 00:21:54,083 --> 00:21:57,375 - Grace wanted me because of my art. 373 00:21:57,375 --> 00:22:00,458 You rejected me because I have no means. 374 00:22:00,458 --> 00:22:04,292 Now she won't have me and I suppose you would. 375 00:22:05,292 --> 00:22:06,708 Like a shot, like a shot. 376 00:22:06,708 --> 00:22:08,542 But as you can't very well marry me, my boy, 377 00:22:08,542 --> 00:22:10,292 there is only one thing to do. 378 00:22:10,292 --> 00:22:12,583 - What's that, sir? 379 00:22:12,625 --> 00:22:14,917 - Finish the bottle. 380 00:22:14,917 --> 00:22:17,083 ♪ Judge and a good Judge too ♪ 381 00:22:17,083 --> 00:22:18,500 ♪ Though all my law is fudge ♪ 382 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:20,958 ♪ I shall never, never budge ♪ 383 00:22:20,958 --> 00:22:23,375 ♪ But I'll live and die a Judge ♪ 384 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:26,625 ♪ And a good Judge too ♪ 385 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:50,083 - It is proposed that Gilbert and Sullivan 386 00:22:50,083 --> 00:22:52,333 shall enter into partnership with D'Oyly Carte. 387 00:22:52,333 --> 00:22:54,292 Sullivan and Gilbert's fees to be four guineas 388 00:22:54,292 --> 00:22:55,958 per performance for each opera, 389 00:22:55,958 --> 00:22:58,042 the profits to be equally divided. 390 00:22:58,083 --> 00:22:59,458 How's that? 391 00:22:59,458 --> 00:23:01,583 I don't think we need a formal contract. 392 00:23:01,583 --> 00:23:03,417 - No, no, no, of course not. 393 00:23:03,417 --> 00:23:04,417 - Are we too early? 394 00:23:04,417 --> 00:23:05,917 - No, of course not, Miss Lenoir. 395 00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:06,958 - To seal the contract? 396 00:23:06,958 --> 00:23:08,833 Happy thoughts, Mrs. Gilbert 397 00:23:08,833 --> 00:23:09,958 - Thank you. - Gilbert. 398 00:23:09,958 --> 00:23:12,375 - Now remember gentlemen, you mustn't work me too hard. 399 00:23:12,375 --> 00:23:13,875 This is only a side line, you know? 400 00:23:13,875 --> 00:23:15,458 - Of course, the college of Music must come first. 401 00:23:15,458 --> 00:23:18,375 - We are very lucky to have got you at all. 402 00:23:18,375 --> 00:23:19,875 - Well, here's to the partnership. 403 00:23:31,375 --> 00:23:34,708 Come on, Grossmith, let's give it a try. 404 00:23:36,958 --> 00:23:38,917 ♪ My name is John Wellington Wells ♪ 405 00:23:38,917 --> 00:23:40,833 ♪ I'm a dealer in magic and spells ♪ 406 00:23:40,833 --> 00:23:41,875 ♪ In blessings and curses ♪ 407 00:23:41,917 --> 00:23:42,958 ♪ And ever-filled purses ♪ 408 00:23:42,958 --> 00:23:47,417 ♪ In prophecies, witches, and knells ♪ 409 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:30,250 ♪ Gaily tripping, lightly skipping ♪ 410 00:24:30,250 --> 00:24:32,500 ♪ Flock the maidens to the shipping ♪ 411 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:34,417 ♪ Gaily tripping, lightly skipping ♪ 412 00:24:34,417 --> 00:24:36,583 ♪ Flock the maidens to the shipping ♪ 413 00:24:36,583 --> 00:24:38,792 ♪ Flags and guns and pennants dipping ♪ 414 00:24:38,792 --> 00:24:41,167 ♪ All the ladies love the shipping ♪ 415 00:24:41,167 --> 00:24:42,958 ♪ Sailors sprightly, always rightly ♪ 416 00:24:42,958 --> 00:24:45,667 ♪ Welcome ladies so politely ♪ 417 00:24:45,667 --> 00:24:47,583 ♪ Ladies who can smile so brightly ♪ 418 00:24:47,583 --> 00:24:49,917 ♪ Sailors welcome most politely ♪ 419 00:24:49,917 --> 00:24:51,583 ♪ Welcome those politely ♪ 420 00:24:51,583 --> 00:24:53,500 ♪ Sailors sprightly, always rightly ♪ 421 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:56,667 ♪ Welcome ladies so politely ♪ 422 00:24:56,667 --> 00:24:58,333 ♪ Gaily tripping ♪ ♪ We are smart and sober men ♪ 423 00:24:58,333 --> 00:25:00,875 ♪ Lightly skipping ♪ ♪And quite devoid of fear ♪ 424 00:25:00,875 --> 00:25:03,083 ♪ Flock the maidens ♪ ♪ In all the Royal N ♪ 425 00:25:03,083 --> 00:25:05,167 ♪ To the shipping ♪ ♪ None are so smart as we are ♪ 426 00:25:05,167 --> 00:25:07,167 ♪ Gaily tripping, lightly skipping ♪ 427 00:25:07,167 --> 00:25:12,167 ♪ Sailors welcome most politely ♪ 428 00:25:14,042 --> 00:25:16,708 ♪ Most politely ♪ 429 00:25:27,833 --> 00:25:29,083 ♪ Dear little Buttercup ♪ 430 00:25:29,083 --> 00:25:33,083 ♪ Though I could never tell why ♪ 431 00:27:05,458 --> 00:27:07,292 ♪ Never mind the why and wherefore ♪ 432 00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:09,083 ♪ Love can level ranks, and therefore ♪ 433 00:27:09,083 --> 00:27:10,625 ♪ I admit the jurisdiction ♪ 434 00:27:10,625 --> 00:27:12,500 ♪ Ably have you played your part ♪ 435 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:14,208 ♪ You have carried firm conviction ♪ 436 00:27:14,250 --> 00:27:18,083 ♪ To my hesitating heart ♪ 437 00:27:18,083 --> 00:27:19,875 ♪ Ring the merry bells on board ship ♪ 438 00:27:19,875 --> 00:27:21,542 ♪ Rend the air with warbling wild ♪ 439 00:27:21,542 --> 00:27:23,292 ♪ For the union of his lordship ♪ 440 00:27:23,292 --> 00:27:25,833 ♪ With a humble captain's child ♪ 441 00:27:25,833 --> 00:27:27,833 ♪ For a humble captain's daughter ♪ 442 00:27:27,833 --> 00:27:29,958 ♪ For a gallant captain's daughter ♪ 443 00:27:29,958 --> 00:27:32,250 ♪ And a lord who rules the water ♪ 444 00:27:32,250 --> 00:27:35,917 ♪ And a tar who ploughs the water ♪ 445 00:27:35,917 --> 00:27:37,792 ♪ Let the air with joy be laden ♪ 446 00:27:37,792 --> 00:27:39,292 ♪ Ring the merry bells on board ship ♪ 447 00:27:39,292 --> 00:27:41,042 ♪ For the union of a maiden ♪ 448 00:27:41,042 --> 00:27:42,750 ♪ For her union with his lordship ♪ 449 00:27:42,750 --> 00:27:44,417 ♪ Rend with songs the air above ♪ 450 00:27:44,417 --> 00:27:46,417 ♪ For the man who owns her love ♪ 451 00:27:46,417 --> 00:27:48,625 ♪ Rend with songs the air above ♪ 452 00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:52,625 ♪ For the man who owns her love ♪ 453 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:17,250 Encore! 454 00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:18,750 - Speech! - Encore! 455 00:28:20,958 --> 00:28:22,500 Speech, speech! 456 00:28:22,542 --> 00:28:24,958 - Come on, sir, you promised. 457 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,792 - Go on, say something, Sullivan. 458 00:28:35,792 --> 00:28:37,958 Oh no, words by Gilbert. 459 00:28:37,958 --> 00:28:40,125 - Shall I tell them why we are going to America? 460 00:28:40,125 --> 00:28:41,417 - Why not? 461 00:28:41,417 --> 00:28:43,000 - At this moment in New York, 462 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,583 eight pirate companies are presenting our HMS Pinafore. 463 00:28:46,583 --> 00:28:48,958 - Philadelphia is presenting a German version. 464 00:28:48,958 --> 00:28:51,208 - Chicago is presenting a negro version. 465 00:28:51,208 --> 00:28:53,250 - No one is presenting our version. 466 00:28:53,250 --> 00:28:55,208 - And what's makes even more heartbreaking 467 00:28:55,250 --> 00:28:58,583 is no one is paying us a penny for presenting any version. 468 00:28:58,583 --> 00:29:00,375 Shame. 469 00:29:00,375 --> 00:29:02,458 - Are we going to take this shocking state of affairs 470 00:29:02,458 --> 00:29:03,542 lying down? 471 00:29:03,542 --> 00:29:04,500 - Are we? 472 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:05,625 No. 473 00:29:05,625 --> 00:29:07,625 - What are we going to do? 474 00:29:07,625 --> 00:29:08,583 - Well to begin with, 475 00:29:08,583 --> 00:29:10,458 we're taking our own company of Pinafore over there. 476 00:29:10,458 --> 00:29:11,875 - I knew there was some reason why 477 00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:13,500 we were going the United States. 478 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:14,625 - And then my dear Gilbert, 479 00:29:14,625 --> 00:29:16,292 you may recall we are going to do something 480 00:29:16,292 --> 00:29:18,375 that we've never done before. 481 00:29:18,375 --> 00:29:21,125 - We are writing an entirely new comic opera. 482 00:29:21,125 --> 00:29:23,083 - Which is to have its opening night in New York, 483 00:29:23,083 --> 00:29:26,125 instead of London. 484 00:29:26,125 --> 00:29:27,250 - What's it about? 485 00:29:27,250 --> 00:29:28,083 - Pirates, Madame. 486 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,333 - Let's hear something from it. 487 00:29:33,208 --> 00:29:34,875 - I beg your pardon, Captain? 488 00:29:34,875 --> 00:29:37,042 - Sing us a song from the new opera. 489 00:29:37,042 --> 00:29:37,958 - What, us? 490 00:29:43,375 --> 00:29:45,042 You've brought it on yourselves, you know. 491 00:29:45,042 --> 00:29:46,958 You don't know my voice is like. 492 00:29:46,958 --> 00:29:47,792 - Didn't know he had one. 493 00:29:47,792 --> 00:29:50,542 - Go to your piano, my dear fellow. 494 00:29:50,542 --> 00:29:52,250 Ladies and Gentlemen, in our new piece 495 00:29:52,250 --> 00:29:55,458 we introduce the noble and hitherto neglected figure, 496 00:29:55,458 --> 00:29:56,750 the British policeman. 497 00:30:07,750 --> 00:30:11,208 ♪ When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling ♪ 498 00:30:11,208 --> 00:30:12,417 ♪ Not a-burgling ♪ 499 00:30:12,417 --> 00:30:15,500 ♪ When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime ♪ 500 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:16,750 ♪ Pied in crime ♪ 501 00:30:16,750 --> 00:30:20,000 ♪ He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling ♪ 502 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,167 ♪ Brook a-gurgling ♪ 503 00:30:21,167 --> 00:30:24,625 ♪ And listen to the merry village chime ♪ 504 00:30:24,625 --> 00:30:26,250 ♪ Village chime ♪ 505 00:30:26,250 --> 00:30:29,750 ♪ When the coster's finished jumping on his mother ♪ 506 00:30:29,750 --> 00:30:30,875 ♪ On his mother ♪ 507 00:30:30,875 --> 00:30:33,958 ♪ He loves to lie a-basking in the sun ♪ 508 00:30:33,958 --> 00:30:35,083 ♪ In the sun ♪ 509 00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:38,500 ♪ Ah, take one consideration with another ♪ 510 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:39,500 ♪ With another ♪ 511 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:44,500 ♪ The policeman's lot is not a happy one ♪ 512 00:30:45,792 --> 00:30:49,042 ♪ When constabulary duty's to be done ♪ 513 00:30:49,042 --> 00:30:50,375 ♪ To be done ♪ 514 00:30:50,375 --> 00:30:55,083 ♪ The policeman's lot is not a happy one ♪ 515 00:30:55,083 --> 00:30:57,042 ♪ Happy one ♪ 516 00:31:14,750 --> 00:31:16,792 ♪ When the foeman bares his steel ♪ 517 00:31:16,792 --> 00:31:18,792 ♪ Tarantara, tarantara ♪ 518 00:31:18,792 --> 00:31:20,750 ♪ We uncomfortable feel ♪ 519 00:31:20,750 --> 00:31:22,750 ♪ Tarantara ♪ 520 00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:24,625 ♪ And we find the wisest thing ♪ 521 00:31:24,625 --> 00:31:25,917 ♪ Tarantara, tarantara ♪ 522 00:31:25,917 --> 00:31:28,667 ♪ Poor wandering one ♪ 523 00:31:28,667 --> 00:31:32,167 ♪ Though ye have surely strayed ♪ 524 00:31:32,167 --> 00:31:34,083 ♪ Take heart of grace ♪ 525 00:31:34,083 --> 00:31:36,000 ♪ Your steps retrace ♪ 526 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,000 ♪ Poor wandering ones ♪ 527 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:45,125 ♪ Poor wandering ones ♪ 528 00:31:45,125 --> 00:31:48,500 ♪ If such poor love as mine ♪ 529 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,167 ♪ Can help you find ♪ 530 00:31:50,167 --> 00:31:52,292 ♪ True peace of mind ♪ 531 00:31:52,292 --> 00:31:56,500 ♪ Why, take it, it is thine ♪ 532 00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:00,417 ♪ Come, friends, who plough the sea ♪ 533 00:32:00,417 --> 00:32:02,417 ♪ Truce to navigation ♪ 534 00:32:02,417 --> 00:32:04,292 ♪ Take another station ♪ 535 00:32:04,292 --> 00:32:08,167 ♪ Let's vary piracy ♪ 536 00:32:08,167 --> 00:32:09,958 ♪ With a little burglary ♪ 537 00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:17,417 - Girls, girls, quiet, please. 538 00:32:17,417 --> 00:32:18,875 Mr. D'Oyly Carte. 539 00:32:18,875 --> 00:32:20,167 - Good evening, ladies. 540 00:32:20,167 --> 00:32:21,542 Good evening, Mr. D'Oyly Carte. 541 00:32:21,542 --> 00:32:24,125 - Mind the intrusion but I simply had to come and thank you 542 00:32:24,125 --> 00:32:25,958 personally for your wonderful contribution 543 00:32:25,958 --> 00:32:27,750 to our great success. 544 00:32:28,583 --> 00:32:30,458 Are you all looking forward for going home to your mothers? 545 00:32:31,958 --> 00:32:33,417 It should be lovely getting back to London 546 00:32:33,417 --> 00:32:34,417 and the old theatre. 547 00:32:34,417 --> 00:32:36,417 - Ah, the old theatre. 548 00:32:36,417 --> 00:32:39,208 Ladies, don't you think that the opera comique 549 00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:42,750 is a little small for the Gilbert & Sullivan company now? 550 00:32:42,750 --> 00:32:44,333 - Why, are we going to move, Mr. D'Oyly Carte? 551 00:32:44,333 --> 00:32:46,042 - Can't tell you that, it's a secret. 552 00:32:48,625 --> 00:32:53,625 All right, between the 17 of us, you won't say a word? 553 00:32:53,833 --> 00:32:54,667 No. 554 00:32:54,667 --> 00:32:55,750 - I'm sure you won't. 555 00:32:55,750 --> 00:32:58,083 I have bought a site in the Strand 556 00:32:58,083 --> 00:32:59,750 for a completely new building. 557 00:32:59,750 --> 00:33:02,292 Within a couple of years and a couple of operas, 558 00:33:02,292 --> 00:33:04,042 we shall have our very own theatre. 559 00:33:06,208 --> 00:33:07,042 The Savoy. 560 00:33:08,708 --> 00:33:09,750 Goodnight, ladies. 561 00:33:09,750 --> 00:33:11,125 Goodnight. 562 00:33:11,125 --> 00:33:12,333 - And a very happy trip home. 563 00:33:12,333 --> 00:33:13,458 And you. 564 00:33:13,458 --> 00:33:18,458 - Oh, I know I can rely absolutely on your indiscretion. 565 00:33:30,417 --> 00:33:31,792 - Aren't you ready yet, dear? 566 00:33:31,792 --> 00:33:33,875 Good gracious, I've been waiting for half an hour. 567 00:33:33,875 --> 00:33:35,125 What have you been doing? 568 00:33:35,125 --> 00:33:36,542 - It's only half past seven. 569 00:33:36,542 --> 00:33:38,542 Oh Willie, I do wish you wouldn't work yourself 570 00:33:38,542 --> 00:33:40,333 up into such a state on every first night. 571 00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:41,625 - You don't seem to realise, dear, 572 00:33:41,625 --> 00:33:43,125 this is no ordinary first night. 573 00:33:43,125 --> 00:33:45,333 Carte built this theatre specially for us. 574 00:33:45,333 --> 00:33:47,208 If lolanthe fails in the full glare of this 575 00:33:47,208 --> 00:33:48,667 confounding new electric light, 576 00:33:48,667 --> 00:33:50,625 you'll find yourself married to a ruined man. 577 00:33:50,625 --> 00:33:52,292 - Dear, dear, dear. 578 00:33:52,292 --> 00:33:54,208 - We ought to had a fortnight extra rehearsal at least. 579 00:33:54,208 --> 00:33:57,083 - Why don't you go away sit down and smoke a cigar. 580 00:33:57,083 --> 00:33:58,917 - Sullivan is enough to undermine anybody's nerves. 581 00:33:58,917 --> 00:34:00,750 He is not at all well, as you know, he is a sick man. 582 00:34:00,750 --> 00:34:03,292 He will gad about hobnobbing with half the crowned heads 583 00:34:03,292 --> 00:34:05,250 in Europe leaving everything till the last moment. 584 00:34:05,250 --> 00:34:06,208 What's the result? 585 00:34:06,208 --> 00:34:08,083 He has to sit up all last night scoring the music. 586 00:34:08,083 --> 00:34:10,167 - And very nice music it is too 587 00:34:10,167 --> 00:34:11,458 Willie, I do wish. 588 00:34:11,458 --> 00:34:12,875 - I don't feel like a cigar 589 00:34:12,875 --> 00:34:15,250 with destruction staring me in the face 590 00:34:15,250 --> 00:34:17,125 - Brandy and soda then. 591 00:34:17,125 --> 00:34:18,833 Are we going to celebrate afterwards? 592 00:34:18,833 --> 00:34:21,042 Arthur Sullivan is giving a party at Romano's. 593 00:34:21,042 --> 00:34:21,875 - We certainly are not. 594 00:34:21,875 --> 00:34:23,875 I'd as soon think of celebrating a first night 595 00:34:23,875 --> 00:34:26,333 as I would have forthcoming amputation of the hip joint. 596 00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:28,083 Do hurry up. 597 00:34:38,292 --> 00:34:40,333 - Hello, Jenny. - Good evening, Mr. Sullivan. 598 00:34:40,333 --> 00:34:41,458 - Good evening. - Good evening. 599 00:34:41,458 --> 00:34:42,625 - The best, glad to meet you. 600 00:34:42,625 --> 00:34:43,542 Arthur. 601 00:34:43,542 --> 00:34:45,417 - Ellen. - My dear, how do you feel? 602 00:34:45,417 --> 00:34:47,208 - Feeling better every moment. 603 00:34:47,208 --> 00:34:49,792 The ozone of the theatre, 604 00:34:49,792 --> 00:34:50,708 there's nothing like it 605 00:34:50,708 --> 00:34:51,792 - How is he, Louis? 606 00:34:51,792 --> 00:34:52,917 - He should never have come out, Madame. 607 00:34:52,917 --> 00:34:54,125 - Nonsense, how's the house? 608 00:34:54,125 --> 00:34:55,917 That's much more important. - Wonderful, come and see. 609 00:34:55,917 --> 00:34:57,000 Everyone will be here tonight, 610 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,250 The Prince and Princess of Wales, Duke of Edinburgh, 611 00:34:59,250 --> 00:35:02,875 Mr. Gladstone, Oscar Wilde, Mr. Irving. 612 00:35:02,875 --> 00:35:05,292 - They are singing the Pirates. 613 00:35:05,292 --> 00:35:08,750 ♪ Take heart, fair days will shine ♪ 614 00:35:08,750 --> 00:35:11,250 ♪ Take any heart ♪ 615 00:35:11,250 --> 00:35:12,458 ♪ Take mine ♪ 616 00:35:12,458 --> 00:35:16,417 ♪ Take heart, no danger lowers ♪ 617 00:35:16,417 --> 00:35:18,333 ♪ Take any heart, but ours ♪ 618 00:35:24,958 --> 00:35:26,208 - Good evening, Grossmith. 619 00:35:26,208 --> 00:35:27,542 - Good evening, Mr. Gilbert. 620 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:29,250 - How are you feeling? 621 00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:30,250 - I'm a bit nervous, I'm afraid. 622 00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:31,667 - Oh, you mustn't be nervous, 623 00:35:31,667 --> 00:35:33,125 you are playing the Lord Chancellor. 624 00:35:33,125 --> 00:35:35,542 Lord Chancellors are never at a loss. 625 00:35:35,542 --> 00:35:36,458 - No, I suppose not. 626 00:35:36,458 --> 00:35:37,667 - And you must remember, 627 00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:40,000 nervousness always communicates itself to other people. 628 00:35:40,042 --> 00:35:40,875 - Yes, of course. 629 00:35:40,917 --> 00:35:42,375 - I know you won't forget that every syllable 630 00:35:42,375 --> 00:35:45,167 of the nightmare song must be absolutely distinct. 631 00:35:45,167 --> 00:35:47,833 - Very good, Mr. Gilbert. 632 00:35:47,833 --> 00:35:49,708 - No man can do more than his best. 633 00:35:49,708 --> 00:35:50,542 - No, sir. 634 00:35:55,542 --> 00:35:59,875 - I've just been putting Paul Grossmith at his ease. 635 00:36:00,750 --> 00:36:02,125 - Grossmith. 636 00:36:02,125 --> 00:36:04,125 Good luck old chap, all the very best. 637 00:36:04,167 --> 00:36:05,667 Not that you've anything to worry about, 638 00:36:05,667 --> 00:36:07,875 you always rise to the occasion. 639 00:36:07,875 --> 00:36:09,708 - You really think so, Dr. Sullivan? 640 00:36:09,708 --> 00:36:10,542 - Think so? 641 00:36:10,542 --> 00:36:11,542 I'm sure of it. 642 00:36:11,542 --> 00:36:14,792 Gilbert hates first nights, I love 'em. 643 00:36:18,458 --> 00:36:19,917 - Now you're quite sure you know what to do? 644 00:36:19,917 --> 00:36:21,250 - Yes. - On the first signal, 645 00:36:21,250 --> 00:36:22,583 you turn down the gas. 646 00:36:22,583 --> 00:36:23,458 On the second, the electric power. 647 00:36:23,458 --> 00:36:25,458 - Mr. Carte, Their Royal Highnesses' carriage 648 00:36:25,458 --> 00:36:27,042 has just entered the Strand. 649 00:36:27,042 --> 00:36:28,625 - The Strand? - Yes. 650 00:36:28,625 --> 00:36:29,792 - Come with me. - Yes. 651 00:36:37,833 --> 00:36:39,667 - Your Royal Highness. 652 00:37:03,708 --> 00:37:07,583 Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, 653 00:37:07,583 --> 00:37:10,542 my lords, ladies and gentlemen, 654 00:37:10,542 --> 00:37:13,875 welcome to our theatre, the new home for the genius 655 00:37:13,875 --> 00:37:16,333 of Mr. Gilbert and Doctor Sullivan. 656 00:37:18,875 --> 00:37:21,625 This is the first time that it has been attempted 657 00:37:21,625 --> 00:37:25,542 to light any public building with the electricity. 658 00:37:27,833 --> 00:37:31,208 In order that you may judge the difference, 659 00:37:31,208 --> 00:37:34,375 I have withheld the electric lighting 660 00:37:34,375 --> 00:37:37,625 until His Royal Highness gives his gracious assent 661 00:37:37,625 --> 00:37:39,333 to the new illumination. 662 00:37:39,333 --> 00:37:41,000 Your Royal Highness. 663 00:38:06,167 --> 00:38:08,167 Thank you, thank you. 664 00:38:08,167 --> 00:38:10,708 Now, some anxiety has been expressed 665 00:38:10,708 --> 00:38:13,292 as to whether there is any danger to the public, 666 00:38:13,292 --> 00:38:16,083 what is termed an electrical shock. 667 00:38:16,083 --> 00:38:18,000 But as you will see, 668 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,667 the lamps are quite safe and easy to handle. 669 00:38:22,583 --> 00:38:24,667 However, some of you may ask, 670 00:38:24,667 --> 00:38:27,083 supposing the lamps were to break, 671 00:38:27,083 --> 00:38:30,250 surely then there will danger of fire. 672 00:38:38,083 --> 00:38:39,500 As you can see, 673 00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:40,875 quite unscorched. 674 00:38:44,542 --> 00:38:47,292 - Bravo, well done, Carte, well done. 675 00:38:47,292 --> 00:38:48,542 - Thank goodness for that. 676 00:38:48,542 --> 00:38:49,542 - Are you ready, Mr. Sullivan? 677 00:38:49,542 --> 00:38:51,333 - Quite ready. 678 00:38:51,333 --> 00:38:52,625 - Good Luck. 679 00:38:52,625 --> 00:38:53,750 - Going out front? 680 00:38:53,750 --> 00:38:54,750 - I'm going for a long walk. 681 00:38:54,750 --> 00:38:57,667 - Switch on your stage lighting. 682 00:38:57,667 --> 00:39:01,167 Be ready to take out the house lights. 683 00:39:31,167 --> 00:39:33,250 10 past nine. 684 00:39:34,958 --> 00:39:38,833 ♪ Bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses ♪ 685 00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:42,875 ♪ Tantantara ♪ 686 00:39:42,875 --> 00:39:47,875 ♪ Tantantara tantantara tantantara tantantara ♪ 687 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,000 ♪ Talalararatarad ♪ 688 00:39:53,417 --> 00:39:57,292 ♪ La ra ♪ 689 00:39:57,292 --> 00:39:59,708 ♪ Tantantara ♪ 690 00:40:12,125 --> 00:40:14,625 ♪ The law is the true embodiment ♪ 691 00:40:14,625 --> 00:40:17,208 ♪ Of everything that's excellent ♪ 692 00:40:17,208 --> 00:40:19,500 ♪ It has no kind of fault or flaw ♪ 693 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:24,333 ♪ And I, my lords, embody the law ♪ 694 00:40:24,333 --> 00:40:26,667 ♪ The constitutional guardian I ♪ 695 00:40:26,667 --> 00:40:29,333 ♪ Of pretty young wards in chancery ♪ 696 00:40:29,333 --> 00:40:31,583 ♪ All very agreeable girls, and none ♪ 697 00:40:31,583 --> 00:40:34,083 ♪ Are over the age of 21 ♪ 698 00:40:36,375 --> 00:40:39,042 ♪ A pleasant occupation for ♪ 699 00:40:39,042 --> 00:40:41,542 ♪ A rather susceptible Chancellor ♪ 700 00:40:41,542 --> 00:40:43,625 ♪ A pleasant occupation for ♪ 701 00:40:43,625 --> 00:40:47,792 ♪ A rather susceptible Chancellor ♪ 702 00:41:25,792 --> 00:41:28,458 The nightmare song. - Yes, sir? 703 00:41:28,458 --> 00:41:29,958 - Large nightmare and soda. 704 00:41:29,958 --> 00:41:31,333 - Beg you pardon, sir? 705 00:41:31,375 --> 00:41:32,583 - Large brandy and soda. 706 00:41:32,583 --> 00:41:33,917 - Yes, yes, Sir. 707 00:41:39,958 --> 00:41:41,500 ♪ Pick 'em all up in a tangle ♪ 708 00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:44,292 ♪ Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to remain ♪ 709 00:41:44,292 --> 00:41:45,875 ♪ at its usual angle ♪ 710 00:41:45,875 --> 00:41:48,083 ♪ Well, you get some repose in the form of a doze ♪ 711 00:41:48,083 --> 00:41:49,833 ♪ With hot eye-balls and head ever aching ♪ 712 00:41:49,833 --> 00:41:52,375 ♪ But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams ♪ 713 00:41:52,375 --> 00:41:54,375 ♪ That you'd very much better be waking ♪ 714 00:41:54,375 --> 00:41:56,250 ♪ For you dream you are crossing the Channel ♪ 715 00:41:56,250 --> 00:41:58,750 ♪ And tossing about in a steamer from Harwich ♪ 716 00:41:58,750 --> 00:42:00,958 ♪ Which is something between a large bathing machine ♪ 717 00:42:00,958 --> 00:42:03,167 ♪ And a very small second-class carriage ♪ 718 00:42:03,208 --> 00:42:05,292 ♪ And you're giving a treat, penny ice and cold meat ♪ 719 00:42:05,292 --> 00:42:07,500 ♪ To a party of friends and relations ♪ 720 00:42:07,500 --> 00:42:09,500 ♪ They're a ravenous horde, and they all came on board ♪ 721 00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:11,875 ♪ At Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations ♪ 722 00:42:11,875 --> 00:42:13,958 ♪ And bound on that journey you find your attorney ♪ 723 00:42:13,958 --> 00:42:16,083 ♪ Who started that morning from Devon ♪ 724 00:42:16,083 --> 00:42:18,125 ♪ He's a bit undersized, and you don't feel surprised ♪ 725 00:42:18,125 --> 00:42:20,208 ♪ When he tells you he's only 11 ♪ 726 00:42:20,208 --> 00:42:21,042 ♪ Well, you're driving like mad ♪ 727 00:42:21,042 --> 00:42:22,792 Fourpence, please. 728 00:42:22,792 --> 00:42:25,708 - What? - That'll be fourpence, sir. 729 00:42:34,042 --> 00:42:34,875 Sir! 730 00:43:09,167 --> 00:43:10,292 - Cab, cab! 731 00:43:19,792 --> 00:43:22,750 Faster. 732 00:43:22,750 --> 00:43:26,083 ♪ Two strings go to every bow ♪ 733 00:43:26,083 --> 00:43:29,042 ♪ Make up your minds that grief "twill bring ♪ 734 00:43:29,042 --> 00:43:32,333 ♪ If you've two beaux to every string ♪ 735 00:43:32,333 --> 00:43:35,500 ♪ Up in the air, sky high, sky high ♪ 736 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:38,750 ♪ Free from Wards in Chancery ♪ 737 00:43:38,750 --> 00:43:41,667 ♪ We will be surely happier for ♪ 738 00:43:41,667 --> 00:43:45,083 ♪ He's such a susceptible Chancellor ♪ 739 00:43:45,083 --> 00:43:48,417 ♪ Up in the air, sky high, sky high ♪ 740 00:43:48,417 --> 00:43:51,375 ♪ Free from Wards in Chancery ♪ 741 00:43:51,375 --> 00:43:54,458 ♪ We will be surely happier, for ♪ 742 00:43:54,458 --> 00:43:58,875 ♪ He's such a susceptible Chancellor ♪ 743 00:44:16,125 --> 00:44:17,292 Bravo! 744 00:44:19,292 --> 00:44:20,625 Author! 745 00:44:20,625 --> 00:44:21,458 Author! 746 00:44:33,125 --> 00:44:35,375 Thank you, my dear fellow, thank you. 747 00:44:35,375 --> 00:44:36,208 Thanks. 748 00:44:44,208 --> 00:44:46,167 - Congratulations, Mr. Gilbert. 749 00:44:46,167 --> 00:44:47,667 - Thank you, thank you. 750 00:44:47,667 --> 00:44:48,833 - May I congratulate you, Mr. Gilbert? 751 00:44:48,875 --> 00:44:50,833 - Thank you, my dear, you were charming, charming. 752 00:44:50,833 --> 00:44:52,833 Ah, my queen of the fairies. 753 00:44:52,833 --> 00:44:54,708 - My prince of authors. 754 00:44:54,750 --> 00:44:56,542 - Congratulations, Willie darling. 755 00:44:56,542 --> 00:44:57,958 It went wonder. - Thank you, my darling. 756 00:44:57,958 --> 00:44:59,625 What a relief, I feel a different man. 757 00:44:59,625 --> 00:45:02,625 Grossmith, my dear fellow, how did the nightmare song go? 758 00:45:02,625 --> 00:45:04,292 - Marvellously, thank you, Mr. Gilbert. 759 00:45:04,292 --> 00:45:06,667 A double encore. - Capital, capital. 760 00:45:06,667 --> 00:45:07,958 - I say Gilbert. - What is it, what? 761 00:45:07,958 --> 00:45:09,083 - Brandy. - Louis. 762 00:45:09,083 --> 00:45:09,917 - What happened? 763 00:45:09,917 --> 00:45:10,750 - He's ill. 764 00:45:10,750 --> 00:45:12,750 - No, it's nothing, nothing, a little giddy. 765 00:45:12,750 --> 00:45:13,958 - Sit down a minute. 766 00:45:13,958 --> 00:45:14,792 - Pillow. 767 00:45:14,792 --> 00:45:16,625 - No, this will do him much more good. 768 00:45:16,625 --> 00:45:17,625 There you are. 769 00:45:17,625 --> 00:45:18,583 - Thank you, Gilbert. 770 00:45:18,625 --> 00:45:19,958 - He's had no sleep for three nights. 771 00:45:19,958 --> 00:45:21,333 - Of course, of course. 772 00:45:21,333 --> 00:45:23,167 How are you feeling now? 773 00:45:23,167 --> 00:45:24,250 - Better, much better. 774 00:45:24,250 --> 00:45:25,375 - He should never have come, Mr. Gilbert. 775 00:45:25,375 --> 00:45:27,125 - Rubbish, Louis, rubbish. 776 00:45:27,125 --> 00:45:28,958 - I'm perfectly all right. 777 00:45:28,958 --> 00:45:30,958 - Louis, Louis, put him to bed and call a doctor. 778 00:45:30,958 --> 00:45:31,958 - Yes, Madame. 779 00:45:31,958 --> 00:45:33,125 - Is he all right, Mr. Gilbert? 780 00:45:33,125 --> 00:45:33,958 - Yes, yes, of course. 781 00:45:33,958 --> 00:45:35,375 Just a little overtired. 782 00:45:35,375 --> 00:45:38,208 He'll be all right in the morning. 783 00:45:41,708 --> 00:45:43,250 - Mr. Sullivan's carriage. 784 00:45:43,250 --> 00:45:44,333 - Would you like us to come with you? 785 00:45:44,333 --> 00:45:46,542 - No, no I'll be all right. 786 00:45:46,542 --> 00:45:49,792 Oh, Gilbert, my supper party at Romano's. 787 00:45:49,792 --> 00:45:50,875 Would you look after it? - Of course, 788 00:45:50,875 --> 00:45:52,750 I'll see to it, don't worry about that. 789 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:54,292 - Sorry, Gilbert. 790 00:45:54,292 --> 00:45:55,417 - Look after him, Louis. 791 00:45:55,417 --> 00:45:56,333 - Yes, Sir. 792 00:45:59,750 --> 00:46:01,833 - Poor Sullivan, amazing. 793 00:46:02,917 --> 00:46:04,542 Too much for him, you know? 794 00:46:04,542 --> 00:46:06,875 All too much for him 795 00:46:06,875 --> 00:46:09,958 Well, now come along everybody, Romanos, Romanos. 796 00:46:09,958 --> 00:46:11,125 We must celebrate. 797 00:46:11,125 --> 00:46:14,375 ♪ Up in the air, sky high, sky high ♪ 798 00:46:14,375 --> 00:46:17,500 ♪ Free from Wards in Chancery ♪ 799 00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:20,500 ♪ We will be surely happier, for ♪ 800 00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:24,083 ♪ He's such a susceptible Chancellor ♪ 801 00:46:24,083 --> 00:46:27,083 ♪ Up in the air, sky high, sky high ♪ 802 00:46:27,125 --> 00:46:30,250 ♪ Free from Wards in Chancery ♪ 803 00:46:30,250 --> 00:46:33,417 ♪ We will be surely happier, for ♪ 804 00:46:33,417 --> 00:46:36,750 ♪ He's such a susceptible Chancellor ♪ 805 00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:04,458 - That's better, now where was i? 806 00:47:04,458 --> 00:47:06,667 I hope you forgive me, my dear Gilbert. 807 00:47:06,667 --> 00:47:08,125 - Oh, yes, my dear Gilbert. 808 00:47:08,125 --> 00:47:10,375 I hope you forgive me but it is the first time 809 00:47:10,375 --> 00:47:12,958 a new plot of yours has not appealed to me. 810 00:47:12,958 --> 00:47:15,375 Frankly your idea of a magic lozenge 811 00:47:15,375 --> 00:47:18,750 is one that I cannot bring myself to swallow. 812 00:47:18,750 --> 00:47:20,500 Although I'd be only too glad to resume 813 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:23,667 our happy collaboration on a story of really human interest 814 00:47:23,667 --> 00:47:25,500 and probability. 815 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:28,375 Meanwhile, there is no hurry as I've accepted an invitation 816 00:47:28,375 --> 00:47:32,083 to compose a dramatic cantata for the Leeds Festival 817 00:47:32,083 --> 00:47:35,958 for which my friend Joseph Bennet the eminent critic 818 00:47:35,958 --> 00:47:40,250 is adapting Longfellow's beautiful poem The Golden Legend. 819 00:47:40,250 --> 00:47:41,792 So very much is expected of me 820 00:47:41,792 --> 00:47:43,583 by the world of serious music 821 00:47:43,583 --> 00:47:46,042 that I must devote myself during the coming weeks 822 00:47:46,042 --> 00:47:47,792 to this ambitious work. 823 00:47:47,792 --> 00:47:49,042 How does that sounds to you? 824 00:47:49,042 --> 00:47:50,667 I'm more delighted 825 00:47:50,667 --> 00:47:52,583 than I can say. 826 00:47:52,583 --> 00:47:54,500 - Gilbert's not going to like this, you know? 827 00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:56,250 - Your friends are asking themselves 828 00:47:56,250 --> 00:47:57,500 what are you going to give us? 829 00:47:57,500 --> 00:48:00,708 Another Pirates or Pinafore that will be dead and forgotten 830 00:48:00,708 --> 00:48:03,875 in another 10 years or a stream of glorious harmony 831 00:48:03,875 --> 00:48:05,208 that will live forever. 832 00:48:05,208 --> 00:48:06,667 - What's wrong with both? 833 00:48:06,667 --> 00:48:07,833 - Oh, Arthur. 834 00:48:07,833 --> 00:48:10,250 - Smythe, will you see that this goes 835 00:48:10,250 --> 00:48:12,167 over to Mr. Gilbert by hand at once? 836 00:48:12,167 --> 00:48:13,500 - Yes, Sir. 837 00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:15,042 It's almost half past, sir. 838 00:48:15,042 --> 00:48:16,417 - What? 839 00:48:16,417 --> 00:48:17,583 Good heavens, so it is. 840 00:48:17,583 --> 00:48:18,708 - Well, I must be going. 841 00:48:18,750 --> 00:48:20,708 - No, my dear Joseph, there's no need for that. 842 00:48:20,708 --> 00:48:22,042 No, no, I mustn't take up your time, 843 00:48:22,042 --> 00:48:25,375 it is too valuable and we haven't much time to spare. 844 00:48:25,375 --> 00:48:27,750 My dear Arthur, the path of the true artist 845 00:48:27,750 --> 00:48:30,292 is beset with temptations. 846 00:48:30,292 --> 00:48:31,583 Thank you. 847 00:48:31,583 --> 00:48:32,750 I'm glad you are devoting yourself 848 00:48:32,750 --> 00:48:35,042 to work of a more earnest character. 849 00:48:35,042 --> 00:48:36,917 Au revoir. - Good bye, Joseph. 850 00:48:36,917 --> 00:48:39,708 - Louis, preserve your master from distractions. 851 00:48:39,708 --> 00:48:41,208 We're expecting great things of him. 852 00:48:41,208 --> 00:48:42,042 Yes, sir. 853 00:48:42,042 --> 00:48:44,583 - To resume our happy collaboration on a story 854 00:48:44,583 --> 00:48:46,792 of really human interest and probability. 855 00:48:46,792 --> 00:48:49,125 Human interest and probability? 856 00:49:18,125 --> 00:49:19,708 My dear Sullivan. 857 00:49:49,583 --> 00:49:51,000 - Willie, darling, 858 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,500 I thought you might like some coffee 859 00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:54,375 as you don't seem to be coming to bed. 860 00:49:54,375 --> 00:49:55,750 - How does it feel to be married 861 00:49:55,750 --> 00:49:57,750 to a transcendent genius? 862 00:49:57,750 --> 00:50:00,000 - I suppose I've always taken it for granted, dear. 863 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,333 Milk? - Thank you. 864 00:50:01,333 --> 00:50:03,250 Kitty, I've had a magnificent idea. 865 00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:04,083 - How nice. 866 00:50:04,083 --> 00:50:04,917 Biscuit? 867 00:50:04,917 --> 00:50:06,708 - Will you telephone Sullivan for me? 868 00:50:06,708 --> 00:50:08,375 - But it's past midnight, Willie. 869 00:50:08,375 --> 00:50:10,292 - He never goes to bed. 870 00:50:11,750 --> 00:50:13,500 Are you there? 871 00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:16,667 Metropolitan Exchange 3684 please. 872 00:50:16,667 --> 00:50:20,625 - I'll give him human interest and probability. 873 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,917 - Yes? - Sullivan, can you hear me? 874 00:50:24,917 --> 00:50:26,208 - Oh it's you, Gilbert. - I've got something 875 00:50:26,208 --> 00:50:27,625 to read to you at once. - What? 876 00:50:27,625 --> 00:50:29,083 I'm sending my carriage. 877 00:50:29,083 --> 00:50:31,625 But I'm working, I'm in bed. 878 00:50:31,625 --> 00:50:33,958 - Well never mind, get up. 879 00:50:33,958 --> 00:50:36,958 Get dressed, we are going to Japan. 880 00:50:50,333 --> 00:50:52,292 ♪Three little maids from school are we ♪ 881 00:50:52,333 --> 00:50:54,042 ♪ Pert as a schoolgirl well can be ♪ 882 00:50:54,042 --> 00:50:56,417 ♪ Filled to the brim with girlish glee ♪ 883 00:50:56,417 --> 00:50:57,750 ♪ Three little maids from school ♪ 884 00:50:57,750 --> 00:50:59,792 ♪ Everything is a source of fun ♪ 885 00:51:01,333 --> 00:51:05,000 ♪ Nobody's safe, for we care for none ♪ 886 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,792 ♪ Life is a joke that's just begun ♪ 887 00:51:08,792 --> 00:51:13,500 ♪Three little maids from school ♪ 888 00:51:13,500 --> 00:51:15,167 ♪ Three little maids who, all unwary ♪ 889 00:51:15,167 --> 00:51:16,958 ♪ Come from a ladies' seminary ♪ 890 00:51:16,958 --> 00:51:19,625 ♪ Freed from its genius tutelary ♪ 891 00:51:19,625 --> 00:51:26,167 ♪Three little maids from school ♪ 892 00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:30,292 ♪ One little maid is a bride, Yum Yum ♪ 893 00:51:30,292 --> 00:51:32,125 ♪ Two little maids in attendance come ♪ 894 00:51:32,125 --> 00:51:34,000 ♪ Three little maids is the total sum ♪ 895 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,250 ♪ Three little maids from school ♪ 896 00:51:37,250 --> 00:51:39,458 ♪ From three little maids take one away ♪ 897 00:51:39,458 --> 00:51:41,167 ♪ Two little maids remain, and they ♪ 898 00:51:41,167 --> 00:51:43,125 ♪ Won't have to wait very long, they say ♪ 899 00:51:43,125 --> 00:51:46,542 ♪ Three little maids from school ♪ 900 00:51:46,542 --> 00:51:48,458 ♪ Three little maids who, all unwary ♪ 901 00:51:48,458 --> 00:51:50,208 ♪ Come from a ladies' seminary ♪ 902 00:51:50,208 --> 00:51:52,792 ♪ Freed from its genius tutelary J 903 00:51:52,792 --> 00:51:58,750 ♪ Three little maids from school ♪ 904 00:52:01,708 --> 00:52:03,708 - Capital, bravo. 905 00:52:03,708 --> 00:52:05,542 - May I ask, what was that? 906 00:52:05,542 --> 00:52:07,875 It's from The Mikado. 907 00:52:07,875 --> 00:52:10,042 - Another comic opera? 908 00:52:10,042 --> 00:52:11,250 - Well, 909 00:52:11,250 --> 00:52:12,083 yes. 910 00:52:13,250 --> 00:52:15,208 Well, thank you ladies, that was very nice. 911 00:52:15,208 --> 00:52:16,750 I think that'll be all for today. 912 00:52:16,750 --> 00:52:17,958 - Good bye, Dr. Sullivan. 913 00:52:17,958 --> 00:52:19,125 - Thank you, Dr. Sullivan. 914 00:52:19,125 --> 00:52:20,042 - Thank you, sir. 915 00:52:20,042 --> 00:52:20,875 Goodbye. 916 00:52:22,583 --> 00:52:24,167 Such a lovely tune. 917 00:52:26,208 --> 00:52:27,333 - I thought you might like to know 918 00:52:27,333 --> 00:52:28,333 that Her Majesty the Queen 919 00:52:28,333 --> 00:52:29,750 has graciously consented to attend 920 00:52:29,750 --> 00:52:32,250 the first London performance of The Golden Legend. 921 00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:33,167 - The Queen? 922 00:52:33,167 --> 00:52:36,917 - That is of course if you ever have time to finish it. 923 00:52:43,542 --> 00:52:45,833 ♪ A more humane Mikado never ♪ 924 00:52:45,833 --> 00:52:47,958 ♪Did in Japan exist ♪ 925 00:52:47,958 --> 00:52:49,208 ♪ To nobody second ♪ 926 00:52:49,208 --> 00:52:50,208 ♪ I'm certainly reckoned ♪ 927 00:52:50,208 --> 00:52:52,333 ♪ Atrue philanthropist ♪ 928 00:52:52,333 --> 00:52:55,208 ♪ It is my very humane endeavour ♪ 929 00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:58,458 ♪ To make, 10 some extent ♪ 930 00:52:58,458 --> 00:53:00,083 ♪ Bach evil liver ♪ 931 00:53:00,083 --> 00:53:01,792 ♪ A running river ♪ 932 00:53:01,792 --> 00:53:06,792 ♪ Of harmless merriment ♪ 933 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,708 ♪ My object all sublime ♪ 934 00:53:09,708 --> 00:53:11,917 ♪ I shall achieve in time ♪ 935 00:53:11,917 --> 00:53:14,458 ♪ To let the punishment fit the crime ♪ 936 00:53:14,458 --> 00:53:16,708 ♪ The punishment fit the crime ♪ 937 00:53:16,708 --> 00:53:19,083 ♪ And make each prisoner pent ♪ 938 00:53:19,083 --> 00:53:21,167 ♪ Unwillingly represent ♪ 939 00:53:21,167 --> 00:53:23,500 ♪ A source of innocent merriment ♪ 940 00:53:23,500 --> 00:53:26,042 ♪ Of innocent merriment ♪ 941 00:53:26,042 --> 00:53:28,417 ♪ His object all sublime ♪ 942 00:53:28,417 --> 00:53:30,667 ♪ He shall achieve in time ♪ - Gilbert. 943 00:53:30,667 --> 00:53:32,833 - What is it, Carte? 944 00:53:32,833 --> 00:53:33,958 - I think you ought to know, 945 00:53:33,958 --> 00:53:35,875 I still haven't heard anything from Sullivan. 946 00:53:35,875 --> 00:53:37,042 - You mean he hasn't sent the music? 947 00:53:37,042 --> 00:53:37,875 - Not a crotchet. 948 00:53:37,875 --> 00:53:39,542 - But he promised me faithfully. 949 00:53:39,542 --> 00:53:41,958 Here we are, the first full costume rehearsal, 950 00:53:41,958 --> 00:53:43,792 and still three numbers missing. 951 00:53:43,792 --> 00:53:45,583 I shall speak to him on the telephone at once. 952 00:53:45,583 --> 00:53:46,417 - I've tried that, 953 00:53:46,417 --> 00:53:47,833 apparently Louis can't get him near the machine. 954 00:53:47,833 --> 00:53:48,792 - That's absurd. 955 00:53:48,792 --> 00:53:50,167 Give me my hat. - Yes, sir 956 00:53:50,167 --> 00:53:51,917 - You keep them at it, Carte. 957 00:53:51,917 --> 00:53:54,083 The time has come to extract these numbers from Sullivan, 958 00:53:54,083 --> 00:53:55,917 if necessary by force. 959 00:53:58,333 --> 00:54:03,333 ♪ Sent his messenger of faith ♪ 960 00:54:04,292 --> 00:54:08,708 ♪ And whispered in my maiden's heart ♪ 961 00:54:11,917 --> 00:54:15,500 ♪ Rise up ♪ 962 00:54:15,500 --> 00:54:18,208 ♪ Rise up ♪ 963 00:54:18,208 --> 00:54:20,042 ♪ And ♪ 964 00:54:35,417 --> 00:54:37,625 ♪ The flowers that bloom in the spring, trala ♪ 965 00:54:37,625 --> 00:54:39,875 ♪ Breathe promise of merry sunshine ♪ 966 00:54:39,875 --> 00:54:42,292 ♪ As we merrily dance and we sing, frala ♪ 967 00:54:42,292 --> 00:54:44,417 ♪ We welcome the hope that they bring, trala ♪ 968 00:54:44,417 --> 00:54:48,583 ♪ Of a summer of roses and wine ♪ 969 00:55:27,208 --> 00:55:28,708 ♪ Here's a how-de-do ♪ 970 00:55:28,708 --> 00:55:30,375 ♪ If i marry you ♪ 971 00:55:30,375 --> 00:55:31,875 ♪ When your time has come to perish ♪ 972 00:55:31,875 --> 00:55:33,375 ♪ When the maiden whom you cherish ♪ 973 00:55:33,375 --> 00:55:35,000 ♪ Must be slaughtered, too ♪ 974 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:40,375 ♪ Here's a how-de-do ♪ 975 00:55:40,375 --> 00:55:41,750 ♪ Here's a pretty mess ♪ 976 00:55:41,750 --> 00:55:43,208 ♪ In a month, orless ♪ 977 00:55:43,208 --> 00:55:44,708 ♪ I must die without a wedding ♪ 978 00:55:44,708 --> 00:55:46,375 ♪ Let the bitter tears I'm shedding ♪ 979 00:55:46,375 --> 00:55:47,875 ♪ Witness my distress ♪ 980 00:55:47,875 --> 00:55:51,708 ♪ Here's a pretty mess ♪ 981 00:55:51,708 --> 00:55:53,375 ♪ Here's a state of things ♪ 982 00:55:53,375 --> 00:55:54,750 ♪ To her life she clings ♪ 983 00:55:54,750 --> 00:55:57,708 ♪ Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion ♪ 984 00:55:57,708 --> 00:55:59,375 ♪ Burial it brings ♪ 985 00:55:59,375 --> 00:56:03,500 ♪ Here's a state of things ♪ 986 00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:04,958 ♪ With a passion that's intense ♪ 987 00:56:04,958 --> 00:56:06,708 ♪ You worship and adore ♪ 988 00:56:06,708 --> 00:56:07,917 ♪ But the laws of common sense ♪ 989 00:56:07,917 --> 00:56:09,833 ♪ You oughtn't to ignore ♪ 990 00:56:09,833 --> 00:56:11,292 ♪ If what I say is true ♪ 991 00:56:11,292 --> 00:56:12,875 ♪ 'Tis death to marry you ♪ 992 00:56:12,875 --> 00:56:14,458 ♪ Here's a pretty state of things ♪ 993 00:56:14,458 --> 00:56:15,917 ♪ Here's a pretty how-de-do ♪ 994 00:56:15,917 --> 00:56:17,375 ♪ Here's a pretty state of things ♪ 995 00:56:17,375 --> 00:56:19,250 ♪ A pretty state of things ♪ 996 00:56:19,250 --> 00:56:20,333 - Bravo, sir. 997 00:56:22,042 --> 00:56:23,458 ♪ But if what he says is true ♪ 998 00:56:23,458 --> 00:56:25,208 ♪ I cannot, cannot marry you ♪ 999 00:56:25,208 --> 00:56:30,208 ♪ Here's a pretty, pretty state of things ♪ 1000 00:56:31,167 --> 00:56:35,542 ♪ Here's a pretty how-de-do ♪ 1001 00:56:35,542 --> 00:56:36,458 Bravo, sir! 1002 00:56:38,167 --> 00:56:39,583 Well done. 1003 00:57:02,833 --> 00:57:05,333 ♪ Rise up ♪ 1004 00:57:05,333 --> 00:57:10,333 ♪ Rise up and look from where thou art ♪ 1005 00:57:12,458 --> 00:57:17,458 ♪ And scatter with unselfish hands ♪ 1006 00:57:19,417 --> 00:57:24,167 ♪ Thy freshness on the barren sands ♪ 1007 00:57:24,167 --> 00:57:28,208 ♪ And solitudes of death ♪ 1008 00:57:28,208 --> 00:57:31,042 ♪ For he's going to marry Yum-Yum ♪ 1009 00:57:31,042 --> 00:57:31,833 ♪ Yum-Yum ♪ 1010 00:57:31,875 --> 00:57:33,583 ♪ Your anger pray bury for all will be merry ♪ 1011 00:57:33,583 --> 00:57:35,750 ♪ I think you had better succumb ♪ 1012 00:57:35,750 --> 00:57:37,583 ♪ And join our expressions of glee ♪ 1013 00:57:37,583 --> 00:57:40,167 ♪ On this subject I pray you be dumb ♪ 1014 00:57:40,167 --> 00:57:42,208 ♪ You'll find there are many who'll wed for a penny ♪ 1015 00:57:42,208 --> 00:57:44,167 ♪ The word for your guidance is mum ♪ 1016 00:57:44,167 --> 00:57:46,208 ♪ There's lots of good fish in the sea ♪ 1017 00:57:46,208 --> 00:57:48,583 ♪ On this subject we pray you be dumb ♪ 1018 00:57:48,583 --> 00:57:50,833 ♪ We think you had better succumb ♪ 1019 00:57:50,833 --> 00:57:52,417 ♪ And join our expressions of glee ♪ 1020 00:57:52,417 --> 00:57:55,042 ♪ You'll find there are many who'll wed for a penny ♪ 1021 00:57:55,042 --> 00:57:58,667 ♪ There are lots of good fish in the sea ♪ 1022 00:57:58,667 --> 00:58:00,583 ♪ There's lots of good fish, fish in the sea ♪ 1023 00:58:00,625 --> 00:58:02,833 ♪ There's lots of good fish, fish in the sea ♪ 1024 00:58:02,833 --> 00:58:05,750 ♪ The sea, the sea, the seq, the sea, the sea ♪ 1025 00:58:05,750 --> 00:58:14,833 ♪ The deed divine ♪ 1026 00:58:14,833 --> 00:58:19,833 ♪ Shall through the ages ♪ 1027 00:58:21,083 --> 00:58:23,833 ♪ Burn and shine ♪ 1028 00:58:34,625 --> 00:58:39,625 ♪ Burn and shine ♪ 1029 00:58:41,250 --> 00:58:46,250 ♪ Burn and shine ♪ 1030 00:58:46,625 --> 00:58:51,625 ♪ Burn and shine ♪ 1031 00:58:53,042 --> 00:58:55,792 ♪ Burn and shine ♪ 1032 00:59:02,292 --> 00:59:05,583 - Arthur Sullivan, Doctor of Music, 1033 00:59:05,583 --> 00:59:09,083 First Principal of the National School of Music, 1034 00:59:09,083 --> 00:59:10,917 for services to music. 1035 00:59:19,917 --> 00:59:21,792 Doctor Sullivan, Your Majesty. 1036 00:59:21,792 --> 00:59:23,917 - Good morning, Doctor Sullivan. 1037 00:59:23,917 --> 00:59:26,083 I'm very pleased your name has been submitted 1038 00:59:26,083 --> 00:59:29,208 by the Prime Minister for recognition of your music, 1039 00:59:29,208 --> 00:59:31,500 which we all so greatly admire. 1040 00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:34,167 - Your Majesty is most gracious. 1041 00:59:39,792 --> 00:59:40,875 - Sir Arthur. 1042 00:59:49,167 --> 00:59:52,750 May I say, Sir Arthur, how greatly I admired your cantata 1043 00:59:52,750 --> 00:59:54,250 The Golden Legend. 1044 00:59:54,250 --> 00:59:57,375 I frequently play passages from it on the pianoforte. 1045 00:59:57,375 --> 01:00:00,417 - I'm deeply honoured, Madam. 1046 01:00:00,417 --> 01:00:02,542 - Why don't you write a grand opera? 1047 01:00:02,542 --> 01:00:04,875 - A grand opera, Madam? 1048 01:00:04,875 --> 01:00:06,708 - You'd do it so well. 1049 01:00:09,042 --> 01:00:10,125 - Yes, Madam. 1050 01:00:16,667 --> 01:00:19,917 ♪ Take heart, fair days will shine ♪ 1051 01:00:19,917 --> 01:00:23,333 ♪ Take any heart, take mine ♪ 1052 01:00:23,333 --> 01:00:26,542 ♪ Take heart, fair days will shine ♪ 1053 01:00:26,542 --> 01:00:30,125 ♪ Take any heart, take mine ♪ 1054 01:00:30,125 --> 01:00:33,625 ♪ Take heart, no danger lowers ♪ 1055 01:00:33,625 --> 01:00:36,833 ♪ Take any heart, but ours ♪ 1056 01:00:36,833 --> 01:00:40,125 ♪ Take heart, fair days will shine ♪ 1057 01:00:40,125 --> 01:00:42,750 ♪ Take any heart, take mine ♪ 1058 01:01:01,083 --> 01:01:04,792 ♪ Poor wandering one ♪ 1059 01:01:04,792 --> 01:01:08,208 ♪ Thou hast surely strayed ♪ 1060 01:01:08,208 --> 01:01:10,125 ♪ Take heart of grace ♪ 1061 01:01:10,125 --> 01:01:12,333 ♪ Your steps retrace ♪ 1062 01:01:12,333 --> 01:01:23,958 ♪ Poor wandering ones ♪ 1063 01:01:23,958 --> 01:01:27,917 ♪ Take mine ♪ 1064 01:01:36,708 --> 01:01:50,042 ♪ Take mine ♪ 1065 01:01:50,042 --> 01:01:52,750 ♪ Take heart no danger lowers ♪ 1066 01:01:52,750 --> 01:01:55,750 ♪ Take any heart but ours ♪ 1067 01:02:13,875 --> 01:02:16,208 ♪ Take mine ♪ 1068 01:02:29,875 --> 01:02:32,917 - Ladies and gentlemen, to the new opera. 1069 01:02:32,917 --> 01:02:35,875 To Ruddigore, may it be the best yet. 1070 01:02:35,875 --> 01:02:37,833 - Well I think we can all drink to that. 1071 01:02:37,833 --> 01:02:39,958 Ruddigore, what a score. 1072 01:02:39,958 --> 01:02:41,208 - What a title. 1073 01:02:42,167 --> 01:02:43,583 Gilbert, what would you say 1074 01:02:43,583 --> 01:02:45,958 to our doing a grand opera together? 1075 01:02:45,958 --> 01:02:46,958 - A grand opera? 1076 01:02:46,958 --> 01:02:47,833 - Yes, why not? 1077 01:02:47,833 --> 01:02:49,458 - I thought Gilbert might like to write the book. 1078 01:02:49,458 --> 01:02:51,458 - My dear fellow, I'm tremendously flattered, 1079 01:02:51,458 --> 01:02:53,792 but whoever heard the words in grand opera? 1080 01:02:53,792 --> 01:02:55,625 Always the triumph of sound over sense. 1081 01:02:55,625 --> 01:02:56,958 If I don't hear my words, 1082 01:02:56,958 --> 01:02:59,167 you know how it upsets my digestion. 1083 01:02:59,167 --> 01:03:00,417 - I only raised the point 1084 01:03:00,417 --> 01:03:02,500 because I thought I'd like to write 1085 01:03:02,500 --> 01:03:04,125 in a new field for a change. 1086 01:03:04,125 --> 01:03:05,875 - Quite so, I understood perfectly. 1087 01:03:05,875 --> 01:03:09,208 - A field where the music doesn't have to take second place. 1088 01:03:09,208 --> 01:03:10,875 - Second place? 1089 01:03:10,875 --> 01:03:12,167 - Second place to the words. 1090 01:03:12,167 --> 01:03:14,167 - Oh, you are joking. 1091 01:03:14,167 --> 01:03:15,708 Oh, I believe he's serious. 1092 01:03:15,708 --> 01:03:17,958 You're not suggesting that's what's happened with me, 1093 01:03:17,958 --> 01:03:18,917 are you? 1094 01:03:18,917 --> 01:03:20,625 - But everyone knows that, Gilbert. 1095 01:03:20,625 --> 01:03:21,458 What? 1096 01:03:21,458 --> 01:03:24,375 My dear Sullivan, you can't expect me to take you seriously. 1097 01:03:24,375 --> 01:03:25,792 Are you really under the impression 1098 01:03:25,792 --> 01:03:28,708 that you've been effacing yourself for the last 12 years? 1099 01:03:28,750 --> 01:03:30,500 - I can assure you that time after time 1100 01:03:30,500 --> 01:03:33,792 I've had to reduce my music to a mere rumpti-tum 1101 01:03:33,792 --> 01:03:35,667 so that every syllable of yours could be heard 1102 01:03:35,667 --> 01:03:36,958 at the back of the gallery. 1103 01:03:36,958 --> 01:03:38,167 - You're getting a touch of the sun, 1104 01:03:38,167 --> 01:03:39,625 you'd better put your hat on. 1105 01:03:39,625 --> 01:03:41,417 - My dear fellow, anyone can tell you 1106 01:03:41,417 --> 01:03:43,958 that I've always had to play second fiddle. 1107 01:03:43,958 --> 01:03:45,708 - While my words been consistently dulled 1108 01:03:45,708 --> 01:03:48,417 by your first fiddle and all your other confounded fiddles. 1109 01:03:48,417 --> 01:03:50,833 - Gentlemen, gentlemen, please think of the company. 1110 01:03:50,833 --> 01:03:52,042 - I am thinking of the company. 1111 01:03:52,042 --> 01:03:53,417 If Sullivan turns to grand opera, 1112 01:03:53,417 --> 01:03:54,542 they'll all be out of work. 1113 01:03:54,583 --> 01:03:56,333 I'm perfectly willing to go on as we are, 1114 01:03:56,333 --> 01:03:57,583 apparently he isn't. 1115 01:03:57,583 --> 01:03:59,500 - No one has the company more at heart. 1116 01:03:59,500 --> 01:04:01,708 - Just because I refuse to consider myself 1117 01:04:01,708 --> 01:04:03,042 chained to comic opera. 1118 01:04:03,042 --> 01:04:06,083 - Very few people would object being chained to a gold mine. 1119 01:04:06,125 --> 01:04:08,458 - A gold mine that may very soon be exhausted. 1120 01:04:08,458 --> 01:04:10,667 - I don't really see what this has to do with grand opera. 1121 01:04:10,667 --> 01:04:12,667 - It has this to do with it, 1122 01:04:12,667 --> 01:04:15,792 I'm not content to go on with the old way one moment longer. 1123 01:04:15,792 --> 01:04:18,333 - And I am not content to go in any other way. 1124 01:04:18,333 --> 01:04:21,083 If we work together, we must work as master and master, 1125 01:04:21,083 --> 01:04:22,625 not as master and servant. 1126 01:04:22,625 --> 01:04:25,500 - Exactly, so far it has always been Gilbert's comedies 1127 01:04:25,500 --> 01:04:27,875 with music tacked on by me. 1128 01:04:27,875 --> 01:04:29,458 - Tacked on? 1129 01:04:29,458 --> 01:04:30,542 I don't know what to say. 1130 01:04:30,542 --> 01:04:33,167 How can I reply to such preposterous nonsense? 1131 01:04:33,167 --> 01:04:34,958 - Don't try, Willie. 1132 01:04:34,958 --> 01:04:37,417 - Dear, this was such a happy occasion. 1133 01:04:37,417 --> 01:04:39,958 - I am sorry, Helen, but the truth chooses its own time 1134 01:04:39,958 --> 01:04:42,333 to come out and the truth is I lost my liking 1135 01:04:42,333 --> 01:04:46,500 for comic opera and I'll have no more to do with it. 1136 01:04:46,500 --> 01:04:47,958 - Ladies and gentlemen, 1137 01:04:47,958 --> 01:04:51,750 I give you Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. 1138 01:04:51,750 --> 01:04:53,417 Gilbert and Sullivan. 1139 01:04:53,417 --> 01:04:56,750 - It would be nice if you would sat down, dear. 1140 01:04:56,750 --> 01:05:00,750 ♪ For they themselves have said it ♪ 1141 01:05:00,750 --> 01:05:04,792 ♪ And it's greatly to their credit ♪ 1142 01:05:04,792 --> 01:05:12,583 ♪ That they both are Englishmen ♪ 1143 01:05:32,375 --> 01:05:36,333 ♪ I once was a very abandoned person ♪ 1144 01:05:36,333 --> 01:05:40,042 ♪ Making the most of evil chances ♪ 1145 01:05:40,042 --> 01:05:43,917 ♪ Nobody could conceive a worse 'un ♪ 1146 01:05:43,917 --> 01:05:48,458 ♪ Even in all the old romances ♪ 1147 01:05:48,458 --> 01:05:53,458 ♪ I blush for my wild extravagances ♪ 1148 01:05:57,167 --> 01:05:59,208 ♪ But be so kind ♪ 1149 01:05:59,208 --> 01:06:01,417 ♪ To bear in mind ♪ 1150 01:06:01,417 --> 01:06:06,000 ♪ We were the victims of circumstances ♪ 1151 01:06:17,167 --> 01:06:22,167 ♪ That is one of our blameless dances ♪ 1152 01:06:24,667 --> 01:06:29,042 ♪ I was once an exceedingly odd young lady ♪ 1153 01:06:29,042 --> 01:06:32,833 ♪ Suffering much from spleen and vapours ♪ 1154 01:06:32,833 --> 01:06:35,208 - Sullivan is an hour and half late already. 1155 01:06:35,208 --> 01:06:36,500 Do you suppose he is coming at all this morning? 1156 01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:38,208 - Come, come, we both know better than that. 1157 01:06:38,208 --> 01:06:39,125 - After what what happened yesterday, 1158 01:06:39,125 --> 01:06:40,500 there is no telling what he will do. 1159 01:06:40,500 --> 01:06:41,667 - Gilbert, do try to make allowances. 1160 01:06:41,708 --> 01:06:46,208 ♪ It certainly entertained the gapers ♪ 1161 01:06:47,833 --> 01:06:49,500 - Thank you, that was excellent. 1162 01:06:49,500 --> 01:06:50,333 I'm terribly sorry 1163 01:06:50,333 --> 01:06:51,167 to be so late. - He is coming along. 1164 01:06:51,167 --> 01:06:52,583 - I had a shocking night. 1165 01:06:52,583 --> 01:06:54,625 I apologise for keeping the company waiting. 1166 01:06:54,625 --> 01:06:55,958 - Good morning, Sullivan. 1167 01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:57,750 How are you? 1168 01:06:57,750 --> 01:06:59,750 - I'd like to begin with numbers four and five, 1169 01:06:59,750 --> 01:07:01,875 if Mr. Gilbert has no objections. 1170 01:07:01,875 --> 01:07:03,333 - Mr. Gilbert has no objection 1171 01:07:03,333 --> 01:07:06,417 to rehearsing numbers four, five, or any other numbers. 1172 01:07:06,417 --> 01:07:09,000 Sir Roderick, Robin, and chorus of ghosts, 1173 01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:10,417 position, please. 1174 01:07:12,417 --> 01:07:14,417 - Helen. - Yes, I know I heard. 1175 01:07:14,417 --> 01:07:15,667 Don't worry, they'll never keep it up, 1176 01:07:15,667 --> 01:07:17,958 it will be all right after the first night. 1177 01:07:17,958 --> 01:07:19,167 - Good morning, Sir Arthur 1178 01:07:19,167 --> 01:07:20,750 - Good morning, Sellier. 1179 01:07:20,750 --> 01:07:22,750 Line after E, gentlemen. 1180 01:07:40,917 --> 01:07:45,917 ♪ Beware, beware, beware ♪ 1181 01:07:47,875 --> 01:07:50,750 ♪ Gaunt vision, who art thou ♪ 1182 01:07:50,750 --> 01:07:53,042 ♪ That thus, with icy glare ♪ 1183 01:07:53,042 --> 01:07:56,250 ♪ And stern relentless brow ♪ 1184 01:07:56,250 --> 01:08:00,208 ♪ Appearest, who knows how ♪ 1185 01:08:00,208 --> 01:08:05,208 ♪ I am the spectre of the late Sir Roderic Murgatroyd ♪ 1186 01:08:05,958 --> 01:08:09,667 ♪ Who comes to warn thee that thy fate ♪ 1187 01:08:09,667 --> 01:08:12,625 ♪ Thou canst not now avoid ♪ 1188 01:08:25,500 --> 01:08:26,792 - Cab! 1189 01:08:56,458 --> 01:08:57,292 - Boo! 1190 01:08:59,125 --> 01:08:59,958 Boo! 1191 01:09:01,917 --> 01:09:04,042 Give us back The Mikado. 1192 01:09:04,042 --> 01:09:05,792 Yeah, give us back The Mikado. 1193 01:09:08,833 --> 01:09:10,958 - Give us back The Mikado. 1194 01:09:19,792 --> 01:09:20,833 - Well whatever the press may say, 1195 01:09:20,875 --> 01:09:22,417 the advance booking was excellent. 1196 01:09:22,417 --> 01:09:23,667 - Well I think we ought to tell that 1197 01:09:23,667 --> 01:09:25,458 to Gilbert and Arthur quickly. 1198 01:09:25,458 --> 01:09:26,875 - Yes, of course. 1199 01:09:27,917 --> 01:09:29,083 Are you there? 1200 01:09:29,083 --> 01:09:32,250 Mr. Carte would like to speak to Mr. Gilbert, please. 1201 01:09:32,250 --> 01:09:33,500 What? 1202 01:09:33,500 --> 01:09:34,750 Oh has he? 1203 01:09:34,750 --> 01:09:35,583 Thank you. 1204 01:09:35,583 --> 01:09:37,750 Apparently Mr. Gilbert is not answering the telephone 1205 01:09:37,750 --> 01:09:39,667 this morning to anyone. 1206 01:09:42,917 --> 01:09:46,708 - Please telephone to Arthur Sullivan immediately. 1207 01:09:46,708 --> 01:09:48,625 - Well Mr. Carte, this is Louis speaking. 1208 01:09:48,625 --> 01:09:50,167 Sir Arthur left this morning. 1209 01:09:50,167 --> 01:09:51,042 - What, where to? 1210 01:09:51,042 --> 01:09:53,000 - He took the first train for the continent. 1211 01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:54,875 - Sullivan has gone abroad. 1212 01:09:54,875 --> 01:09:56,417 What's his address? 1213 01:09:56,417 --> 01:09:58,250 - I'm afraid he didn't leave one, sir 1214 01:09:58,250 --> 01:10:00,417 All he said that he was going to devote himself 1215 01:10:00,417 --> 01:10:02,667 to work of a more earnest character. 1216 01:10:50,125 --> 01:10:53,292 - Helen, what are you doing here? 1217 01:10:53,292 --> 01:10:55,292 - D'Oyly thought a little flutter would be good for me. 1218 01:10:55,292 --> 01:10:57,083 To my belief it was quite right. 1219 01:10:57,083 --> 01:10:59,333 I seem to have done rather well out of you, Arthur. 1220 01:10:59,333 --> 01:11:01,208 - How did you know I was in Monte Carlo? 1221 01:11:01,208 --> 01:11:03,333 - Well if it isn't tactless to quote Ruddigore, 1222 01:11:03,333 --> 01:11:05,625 paragraphs got into all the papers. 1223 01:11:05,667 --> 01:11:06,458 - Did they? 1224 01:11:06,458 --> 01:11:07,667 I didn't see them. - Of course not, 1225 01:11:07,667 --> 01:11:08,500 you were applying yourself 1226 01:11:08,500 --> 01:11:10,875 to work of a more earnest character. 1227 01:11:10,875 --> 01:11:11,958 - Really, Helen. 1228 01:11:11,958 --> 01:11:13,542 - Ruddigore is still running, 1229 01:11:13,542 --> 01:11:15,792 although no one knows for how long. 1230 01:11:15,792 --> 01:11:18,625 - Helen, dear, I'm delighted to see you, of course, 1231 01:11:18,625 --> 01:11:20,458 but if you've come all this way with any idea 1232 01:11:20,458 --> 01:11:21,958 of trying to make me change my mind. 1233 01:11:21,958 --> 01:11:24,042 - Have a little stimulant, Arthur. 1234 01:11:24,042 --> 01:11:24,917 - A little one. 1235 01:11:24,917 --> 01:11:29,083 - You're going to need every drop of it. 1236 01:11:29,083 --> 01:11:32,667 Helen, surely you can understand, time is slipping by. 1237 01:11:32,667 --> 01:11:35,292 Already I've spent too much of it on trifles. 1238 01:11:35,292 --> 01:11:37,750 From now on, I'm determined to devote myself 1239 01:11:37,750 --> 01:11:39,917 entirely to serious music. 1240 01:11:39,917 --> 01:11:41,500 - Believe me, Arthur, we do understand. 1241 01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:43,750 You've jumped to the quite wrong conclusions. 1242 01:11:43,750 --> 01:11:45,750 It is simply that D'Oyly has sent me here 1243 01:11:45,750 --> 01:11:47,667 to give you a small message. 1244 01:11:47,667 --> 01:11:48,500 - Oh? 1245 01:11:48,500 --> 01:11:50,542 - He has decided to build another theatre. 1246 01:11:50,542 --> 01:11:52,167 - Another theatre, what for? 1247 01:11:52,167 --> 01:11:55,333 - He is going to call it the Royal English Opera House. 1248 01:11:55,333 --> 01:11:58,708 And I'm here, Arthur to invite you to compose 1249 01:11:58,708 --> 01:12:01,667 the first grand opera to open the theatre. 1250 01:12:01,667 --> 01:12:02,500 - Are you serious? 1251 01:12:02,500 --> 01:12:03,833 - Completely serious. 1252 01:12:03,833 --> 01:12:05,500 D'Oyly is very ambitious too, you know. 1253 01:12:05,500 --> 01:12:06,625 - Helen. 1254 01:12:06,625 --> 01:12:08,458 Helen, how can I ever thank you? 1255 01:12:08,458 --> 01:12:09,292 - Then you accept? 1256 01:12:09,292 --> 01:12:10,583 - Accept, of course I accept. 1257 01:12:10,583 --> 01:12:11,542 I must leave at once. 1258 01:12:11,542 --> 01:12:12,708 - Well there's time for coffee, 1259 01:12:12,708 --> 01:12:14,333 the theatre hasn't been designed yet. 1260 01:12:14,333 --> 01:12:15,250 - What? 1261 01:12:15,250 --> 01:12:17,333 Oh yes, thank you, black. 1262 01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:20,792 So much to do, I must see D'Oyly about a subject. 1263 01:12:20,792 --> 01:12:22,333 Have you ever read Scott's Ivanhoe? 1264 01:12:22,333 --> 01:12:24,750 A magnificent story for a grand opera, 1265 01:12:24,750 --> 01:12:27,708 if only one could find the right man to adapt the book. 1266 01:12:27,708 --> 01:12:31,417 - By the way, Mr. Gilbert is sending his kindest regards. 1267 01:12:31,458 --> 01:12:32,292 - Gilbert? 1268 01:12:32,292 --> 01:12:34,458 You know he'd never touch grand opera. 1269 01:12:34,458 --> 01:12:36,667 - Of course not, I'm merely indicating he is willing 1270 01:12:36,667 --> 01:12:38,667 to let bygones be bygones. 1271 01:12:38,667 --> 01:12:40,917 And in any event he is too busy with his new libretto 1272 01:12:40,917 --> 01:12:41,958 for the Savoy. 1273 01:12:41,958 --> 01:12:45,125 - I wonder if the young Pinero. 1274 01:12:45,125 --> 01:12:46,500 What new libretto? 1275 01:12:46,500 --> 01:12:48,292 - It's another comic opera. 1276 01:12:48,292 --> 01:12:50,292 I think it's the best thing he's done. 1277 01:12:50,292 --> 01:12:52,917 It's a charming romance set in the Tower of London. 1278 01:12:52,917 --> 01:12:54,958 I think you'll like it. 1279 01:12:54,958 --> 01:12:55,958 - I'll what? 1280 01:12:56,875 --> 01:12:59,708 - There's plenty of time to do both, isn't there? 1281 01:12:59,750 --> 01:13:01,083 - Helen. - Sugar, Arthur? 1282 01:13:01,083 --> 01:13:01,917 - Helen. 1283 01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:05,500 You aren't by any chance trying to bribe me 1284 01:13:05,500 --> 01:13:07,083 with a grand opera? 1285 01:13:08,375 --> 01:13:10,125 - I said, sugar? 1286 01:13:23,333 --> 01:13:24,500 - On the desk. 1287 01:13:28,583 --> 01:13:29,417 Helen. 1288 01:13:31,375 --> 01:13:33,833 Thank you, thank you. 1289 01:13:33,833 --> 01:13:35,250 What do you think of this? 1290 01:13:35,250 --> 01:13:37,333 The Royal English Opera House 1291 01:13:37,333 --> 01:13:39,250 as it will look in 12 months' time. 1292 01:13:39,250 --> 01:13:41,167 - D'Oyly, it's magnificent. 1293 01:13:41,167 --> 01:13:42,292 - Gilbert says it will never pay, 1294 01:13:42,292 --> 01:13:43,542 calls it Carte's Folly. 1295 01:13:43,542 --> 01:13:45,833 Yes, but he admits that he and Arthur 1296 01:13:45,833 --> 01:13:48,042 have never worked together so happily. 1297 01:13:48,042 --> 01:13:50,083 - Thanks to our peacemaker. 1298 01:14:13,333 --> 01:14:15,208 - Now Kitty, my dear, are you listening? 1299 01:14:15,208 --> 01:14:16,083 - Yes, Willie. 1300 01:14:16,083 --> 01:14:16,917 - Very well, then. 1301 01:14:16,917 --> 01:14:19,583 The Gondoliers, Act one Scene one. 1302 01:14:19,583 --> 01:14:21,208 The curtain rises. 1303 01:14:21,208 --> 01:14:22,875 The scene is Venice. 1304 01:14:24,458 --> 01:14:25,667 Once upon a time, 1305 01:14:25,667 --> 01:14:27,542 that's how all the best stories begin, 1306 01:14:27,542 --> 01:14:29,667 there were two gondoliers. 1307 01:14:29,667 --> 01:14:33,042 Their names were Marco and Giuseppe. 1308 01:14:33,042 --> 01:14:35,292 Giuseppe is the stout one. 1309 01:14:35,292 --> 01:14:37,417 ♪ We're called gondolieri ♪ 1310 01:14:37,417 --> 01:14:39,292 ♪ But that's a vagary ♪ 1311 01:14:39,292 --> 01:14:40,667 ♪ It's quite honorary ♪ 1312 01:14:40,667 --> 01:14:45,667 ♪ The trade that we ply ♪ 1313 01:14:49,333 --> 01:14:51,625 ♪ In enterprise of martial kind ♪ 1314 01:14:51,625 --> 01:14:53,458 ♪ When there was any fighting ♪ 1315 01:14:53,458 --> 01:14:55,083 ♪ He led his regiment from behind ♪ 1316 01:14:55,083 --> 01:14:56,958 ♪ He found it less exciting ♪ 1317 01:14:56,958 --> 01:14:58,875 ♪ But when away his regiment ran ♪ 1318 01:14:58,875 --> 01:15:00,750 ♪ His place was at the fore ♪ 1319 01:15:00,750 --> 01:15:02,500 ♪ That celebrated, cultivated, underrated nobleman ♪ 1320 01:15:02,500 --> 01:15:04,208 ♪ The Duke of Plaza-Voro ♪ 1321 01:15:04,250 --> 01:15:06,125 ♪ In the first and foremost flight, ha, ha ♪ 1322 01:15:06,125 --> 01:15:08,083 ♪ You always found that knight, ha, ha ♪ 1323 01:15:08,083 --> 01:15:09,875 ♪ That celebrated, cultivated, underrated nobleman ♪ 1324 01:15:09,875 --> 01:15:11,833 ♪ The Duke of Plaza-Voro ♪ 1325 01:15:11,833 --> 01:15:14,583 At last we have arrived at our destination. 1326 01:15:14,583 --> 01:15:17,167 This is the Ducal Palace and it is here 1327 01:15:17,167 --> 01:15:19,667 that the Grand Inquisitor resides. 1328 01:15:19,667 --> 01:15:22,333 ♪ Of that there is no manner of doubt ♪ 1329 01:15:22,333 --> 01:15:24,750 ♪ No probable, possible shadow of doubt ♪ 1330 01:15:24,750 --> 01:15:30,042 ♪ No possible doubt whatever ♪ 1331 01:15:30,042 --> 01:15:33,167 Until it is ascertained which of you two gondoliers 1332 01:15:33,167 --> 01:15:34,500 is to be king, 1333 01:15:34,500 --> 01:15:37,792 I have arranged that you shall reign jointly. 1334 01:15:37,792 --> 01:15:39,167 As one individual? 1335 01:15:39,167 --> 01:15:41,042 As one individual. 1336 01:15:41,042 --> 01:15:42,667 Like this? 1337 01:15:42,667 --> 01:15:45,042 Something like that. ♪ Tra la la la la la ♪ 1338 01:15:45,042 --> 01:15:46,542 ♪ Tra la la la la la ♪ 1339 01:15:46,542 --> 01:15:49,042 ♪ Tra la la tra la la la la ♪ 1340 01:15:49,042 --> 01:15:51,333 ♪ When vespers are ringing ♪ 1341 01:15:51,333 --> 01:15:52,875 ♪ To hope ever clinging ♪ 1342 01:15:52,875 --> 01:15:54,583 ♪ With songs of our singing ♪ 1343 01:15:54,583 --> 01:15:59,583 ♪ A vigil we keep ♪ 1344 01:16:00,542 --> 01:16:03,542 ♪ When daylight is fading ♪ 1345 01:16:03,542 --> 01:16:06,750 ♪ Enwrapt in night's shading ♪ 1346 01:16:06,750 --> 01:16:09,792 ♪ With soft serenading ♪ 1347 01:16:09,792 --> 01:16:13,125 ♪ We sing them to sleep ♪ 1348 01:16:23,583 --> 01:16:26,958 ♪ Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero ♪ 1349 01:16:26,958 --> 01:16:30,083 ♪ Xeres we'll drink Manzanilla, Montero ♪ 1350 01:16:30,083 --> 01:16:33,375 ♪ Wine, when it runs in abundance, enhances ♪ 1351 01:16:33,375 --> 01:16:36,375 ♪ The reckless delight of that wildest of dances ♪ 1352 01:16:36,375 --> 01:16:38,000 ♪ To the pretty pitter-pitter-patter ♪ 1353 01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:39,958 ♪ And the clitter, clitter, clitter, clatter ♪ 1354 01:16:39,958 --> 01:16:41,667 ♪ Clitter, clitter, clatter ♪ 1355 01:16:41,667 --> 01:16:43,333 ♪ Pitter, pitter, patter ♪ 1356 01:16:43,333 --> 01:16:44,375 ♪ Oh the pitter, pitter, pitter, patter ♪ 1357 01:16:44,375 --> 01:16:46,333 ♪ And the clitter, clitter, clitter, clatter ♪ 1358 01:16:46,333 --> 01:16:49,458 ♪ Patter, patter, patter, patter, we'll dance ♪ 1359 01:16:49,458 --> 01:16:52,833 ♪ Old Xeres we'll drink Manzanilla, Montero ♪ 1360 01:16:52,833 --> 01:16:55,958 ♪ For wine, when it runs in abundance ♪ 1361 01:16:55,958 --> 01:17:00,458 ♪ Enhances the reckless delight of that wildest of dances ♪ 1362 01:17:00,458 --> 01:17:04,542 ♪ The reckless delight ♪ 1363 01:17:04,542 --> 01:17:07,958 ♪ Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero ♪ 1364 01:17:07,958 --> 01:17:11,250 ♪ Keres we'll drink, Manzanilla, Montero ♪ 1365 01:17:11,250 --> 01:17:14,500 ♪ Wine, when it runs in abundance, enhances ♪ 1366 01:17:14,500 --> 01:17:19,500 ♪ The reckless delight of that wildest of dances ♪ 1367 01:17:54,875 --> 01:17:56,458 Good Afternoon, Mr. Gilbert. 1368 01:17:56,458 --> 01:17:58,000 Good Afternoon, James. 1369 01:17:58,000 --> 01:17:59,708 - Good Afternoon, Madam. - Good Afternoon. 1370 01:17:59,708 --> 01:18:01,167 It good to see you again. 1371 01:18:01,167 --> 01:18:02,917 I hope you had a nice holiday in India. 1372 01:18:02,917 --> 01:18:04,958 Wonderful, half killed me. 1373 01:18:04,958 --> 01:18:05,958 - An accident, sir? 1374 01:18:05,958 --> 01:18:06,792 - Gout. 1375 01:18:06,792 --> 01:18:08,958 - Oh, dear sir, I am sorry. 1376 01:18:08,958 --> 01:18:10,500 - This hasn't seen the inside of a boot 1377 01:18:10,500 --> 01:18:13,083 for the last three months. 1378 01:18:13,083 --> 01:18:15,500 Tell Mr. Shanks I'd like to have a word with him, will you? 1379 01:18:15,500 --> 01:18:17,708 - He's down at Shaftesbury Avenue at the moment, sir. 1380 01:18:17,708 --> 01:18:19,750 - Didn't he know we were coming home today? 1381 01:18:19,750 --> 01:18:22,292 - It's all been repainted. 1382 01:18:22,292 --> 01:18:24,792 - So it has, got a new carpet too. 1383 01:18:24,792 --> 01:18:26,500 - That's right, sir. - Great improvement. 1384 01:18:26,500 --> 01:18:28,542 I'll go straight up to Mr. Carte's office. 1385 01:18:28,542 --> 01:18:29,667 - Yes, Sir. 1386 01:18:29,667 --> 01:18:32,500 - Must have cost Carte a pretty penny. 1387 01:18:32,500 --> 01:18:33,750 - Don't rush after him, William. 1388 01:18:33,750 --> 01:18:35,208 - All right, don't fuss. 1389 01:18:35,208 --> 01:18:37,250 I'm still in what is lugubriously referred to 1390 01:18:37,250 --> 01:18:39,000 as the prime of life. 1391 01:18:40,542 --> 01:18:42,083 Oh, Carte is not here. 1392 01:18:42,083 --> 01:18:43,583 - I expect he's back stage then. 1393 01:18:43,583 --> 01:18:45,083 - I sent him a telegram. 1394 01:18:45,083 --> 01:18:47,292 If there's one thing Carte respects, it's a telegram. 1395 01:18:47,292 --> 01:18:48,125 - He's sure to be here in a minute. 1396 01:18:49,750 --> 01:18:53,333 I think we'd both feel the benefit if you sat down. 1397 01:18:53,333 --> 01:18:54,750 - Nobody there either. 1398 01:18:54,750 --> 01:18:56,375 Come in. 1399 01:18:56,375 --> 01:18:59,875 The place is inhabited after all. 1400 01:18:59,875 --> 01:19:01,333 Perhaps I was rather overstating it. 1401 01:19:01,333 --> 01:19:02,542 - Yes, sir? 1402 01:19:02,542 --> 01:19:05,292 - Tell Mr. Carte that Mr. And Mrs. Gilbert have arrived. 1403 01:19:05,292 --> 01:19:06,792 - He's not in, sir. 1404 01:19:06,792 --> 01:19:07,625 - Where is he? 1405 01:19:07,625 --> 01:19:09,083 - Shaftesbury Avenue. 1406 01:19:09,083 --> 01:19:12,083 - What is this devouring passion for Shaftesbury Avenue? 1407 01:19:12,083 --> 01:19:14,083 - He is at the new opera house, sir. 1408 01:19:14,083 --> 01:19:15,917 - The new opera house, I see. 1409 01:19:15,917 --> 01:19:17,625 Tell Mrs. Carte then. 1410 01:19:17,625 --> 01:19:19,125 She's out too, sir. 1411 01:19:19,125 --> 01:19:20,042 - Where is she? 1412 01:19:20,042 --> 01:19:22,792 - Shafts-- - Thank you boy, that'll do. 1413 01:19:22,792 --> 01:19:24,375 The new Mecca apparently. 1414 01:19:24,375 --> 01:19:26,792 - Never mind, you can meet him tomorrow. 1415 01:19:26,792 --> 01:19:28,292 - I particularly want to see him today. 1416 01:19:28,292 --> 01:19:31,875 Here I am after months abroad teeming with new ideas. 1417 01:19:31,875 --> 01:19:33,000 Can you hear me? 1418 01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:34,708 This is Mr. Gilbert. 1419 01:19:34,708 --> 01:19:37,250 Is Arthur Sullivan in London? 1420 01:19:37,250 --> 01:19:38,083 He is? 1421 01:19:38,083 --> 01:19:39,208 Oh, capital. 1422 01:19:39,208 --> 01:19:40,875 Will you? Thank you. 1423 01:19:42,208 --> 01:19:44,583 Savoy Theatre quarterly accounts. 1424 01:19:44,583 --> 01:19:46,250 Copy for Mr. Gilbert. 1425 01:19:46,250 --> 01:19:48,708 - Don't you think you ought to put your foot up, dear? 1426 01:19:48,708 --> 01:19:51,208 - I feel more like putting it down at the moment, dear. 1427 01:19:51,208 --> 01:19:55,833 Quite bad enough not being met at the station. 1428 01:19:55,833 --> 01:19:56,917 How on Earth? 1429 01:19:57,958 --> 01:20:01,667 Good Heavens, Carte has deducted 4,500 pounds 1430 01:20:01,667 --> 01:20:04,292 of our profits for so-called expenses. 1431 01:20:04,292 --> 01:20:06,542 He's actually charging us 500 pounds 1432 01:20:06,542 --> 01:20:08,583 for that new carpet. 1433 01:20:08,583 --> 01:20:10,458 Hello, yes I certainly do. 1434 01:20:10,458 --> 01:20:12,625 Will you connect him, please? 1435 01:20:12,625 --> 01:20:14,125 Hello, Sullivan, how are you? 1436 01:20:14,125 --> 01:20:15,292 Have you seen. 1437 01:20:16,542 --> 01:20:17,958 Where is he gone? 1438 01:20:19,292 --> 01:20:20,458 The new opera house, 1439 01:20:20,458 --> 01:20:22,375 there you have the answer in a nutshell. 1440 01:20:22,375 --> 01:20:23,875 Kitty, you take the carriage home. 1441 01:20:23,875 --> 01:20:25,583 I have business to attend to. 1442 01:20:25,583 --> 01:20:27,208 - Do wait till you've calmed down, dear. 1443 01:20:27,208 --> 01:20:28,417 Where are you going now? 1444 01:20:28,417 --> 01:20:29,958 - I'm joining the Gadarene procession 1445 01:20:29,958 --> 01:20:31,167 to Shaftesbury Avenue. 1446 01:20:52,958 --> 01:20:55,708 Where is Mr. D'Oyly Carte? 1447 01:20:55,708 --> 01:20:57,542 Up there, sir. 1448 01:21:02,792 --> 01:21:04,333 - Take me up. - What? 1449 01:21:04,333 --> 01:21:06,958 - Don't argue, man, take me up. 1450 01:21:06,958 --> 01:21:08,708 - All right, Charlie. 1451 01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:20,583 - Magnificent. 1452 01:21:20,583 --> 01:21:22,458 The figures of the classical muses should, I feel, 1453 01:21:22,458 --> 01:21:23,833 be picked out in gold. 1454 01:21:23,833 --> 01:21:25,167 - Why if it isn't it Gilbert. 1455 01:21:25,167 --> 01:21:26,583 How are you, Gilbert? - Hello, Gilbert. 1456 01:21:26,583 --> 01:21:27,417 - Back I see. 1457 01:21:27,417 --> 01:21:29,167 What do you think of all this, eh? 1458 01:21:29,167 --> 01:21:30,458 - I must apologise for intruding 1459 01:21:30,458 --> 01:21:32,333 on your private Valhalla, gentlemen. 1460 01:21:32,333 --> 01:21:35,542 I realise I am only a figure from the popular theatre. 1461 01:21:35,542 --> 01:21:36,625 - What's the matter Gilbert? 1462 01:21:36,625 --> 01:21:38,125 - I have just left the Savoy, 1463 01:21:38,125 --> 01:21:39,958 you may recollect that there is such a place, 1464 01:21:39,958 --> 01:21:41,667 To find it deserted by the management 1465 01:21:41,667 --> 01:21:43,958 and other evidence of gross neglect. 1466 01:21:43,958 --> 01:21:45,417 - What do you mean, gross neglect? 1467 01:21:45,417 --> 01:21:46,667 - Exactly what I say. 1468 01:21:46,667 --> 01:21:47,667 Have you have seen these accounts? 1469 01:21:47,667 --> 01:21:48,750 No, of course you haven't. 1470 01:21:48,750 --> 01:21:50,750 I always have to attend to them. 1471 01:21:50,750 --> 01:21:52,167 - Can't you get this thing down? 1472 01:21:52,167 --> 01:21:55,500 - 4,500 pounds deducted from our profits. 1473 01:21:55,500 --> 01:21:56,875 Do you hear that, Sullivan? 1474 01:21:56,875 --> 01:21:58,000 - I'm not interested. 1475 01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:00,125 - 250 for a gondola. 1476 01:22:00,125 --> 01:22:02,000 150 for ironmongery. 1477 01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:02,833 Ironmongery. 1478 01:22:02,833 --> 01:22:05,333 And to cap it all, 500 pounds for that carpet, 1479 01:22:05,333 --> 01:22:06,917 the carpet for the front of the house. 1480 01:22:06,917 --> 01:22:09,208 While Carte has been building his white elephant, 1481 01:22:09,208 --> 01:22:12,958 you and I have been refurbishing the Savoy for him unawares. 1482 01:22:12,958 --> 01:22:15,042 - You call this a white elephant? 1483 01:22:15,042 --> 01:22:17,958 - Gilbert, I should be sorry to lose the advantage 1484 01:22:17,958 --> 01:22:20,375 of the production of your future operas, 1485 01:22:20,375 --> 01:22:22,000 but the Earth does not contain the money 1486 01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,083 that will pay me to put up with this sort of thing. 1487 01:22:24,083 --> 01:22:25,208 - Very well, then. 1488 01:22:25,208 --> 01:22:27,708 I write no more for the Savoy. 1489 01:22:38,958 --> 01:22:40,333 - Wait for me, Barlow. 1490 01:22:40,333 --> 01:22:41,500 - Sir Arthur Sullivan. 1491 01:22:41,500 --> 01:22:43,333 Beg pardon sir, I'm from the Chronicle. 1492 01:22:43,333 --> 01:22:44,500 - I was afraid you might be. 1493 01:22:44,500 --> 01:22:45,792 - About these rumours, sir. - What? 1494 01:22:45,792 --> 01:22:47,458 - That your long partnership with Mr. Gilbert 1495 01:22:47,458 --> 01:22:49,167 is likely to come to an end. 1496 01:22:49,167 --> 01:22:51,250 - I can't say anything now, excuse me. 1497 01:22:51,250 --> 01:22:53,750 I'm merely insisting, madam, 1498 01:22:53,750 --> 01:22:56,667 that he has no right to charge any part of that carpet 1499 01:22:56,667 --> 01:22:58,125 to Sullivan or myself. 1500 01:22:58,125 --> 01:23:00,958 - And I insist that it comes under the simple heading 1501 01:23:00,958 --> 01:23:04,333 of fair wear and tear, clause 7 of our agreement. 1502 01:23:04,333 --> 01:23:05,708 - Mumbo jumbo. 1503 01:23:05,708 --> 01:23:07,042 - I don't know quite what you are suggesting. 1504 01:23:07,042 --> 01:23:08,958 - D'Oyly, Gilbert, listen to me. 1505 01:23:08,958 --> 01:23:11,708 - Sullivan, please. - No, let me speak. 1506 01:23:11,708 --> 01:23:13,875 For over 15 years our three names 1507 01:23:13,875 --> 01:23:17,167 have been linked in harmony, wherever our operas are played. 1508 01:23:17,167 --> 01:23:18,958 You've often said that Gilbert and Sullivan 1509 01:23:18,958 --> 01:23:22,333 are as much a national institution as Westminster Abbey. 1510 01:23:22,333 --> 01:23:25,333 And here we are bickering over the price of a carpet. 1511 01:23:25,333 --> 01:23:28,208 - Gentlemen, please remember you are quarrelling 1512 01:23:28,208 --> 01:23:31,125 in the very theatre built out of your success. 1513 01:23:31,125 --> 01:23:35,417 Listen, why don't you take a leaf out of your own book, 1514 01:23:35,417 --> 01:23:38,167 The Gondoliers, act two. 1515 01:23:38,167 --> 01:23:42,333 ♪ In a contemplative fashion ♪ 1516 01:23:42,333 --> 01:23:47,125 ♪ And a tranquil frame of mind ♪ 1517 01:23:47,125 --> 01:23:51,792 ♪ Free from every kind of passion ♪ 1518 01:23:51,792 --> 01:23:55,458 ♪ Some solution let us find ♪ 1519 01:23:56,542 --> 01:24:00,792 Free from every kind of passion, some solution we must find. 1520 01:24:00,792 --> 01:24:02,917 Your words, Mr. Gilbert. 1521 01:24:02,917 --> 01:24:04,792 Your music, Sir Arthur. 1522 01:24:04,792 --> 01:24:06,417 - Thank you, Helen. 1523 01:24:06,417 --> 01:24:08,333 I'm sure we can forget what been said 1524 01:24:08,333 --> 01:24:11,500 and talk over our difficulties calmly like reasonable men. 1525 01:24:11,500 --> 01:24:13,667 - I'm more than willing. 1526 01:24:13,667 --> 01:24:14,708 - All right. 1527 01:24:14,708 --> 01:24:16,250 Carte, you be reasonable first. 1528 01:24:16,250 --> 01:24:18,792 - Well, I'm sure if Gilbert looks at it calmly, 1529 01:24:18,792 --> 01:24:21,625 he is bound to see that my attitude is reasonable. 1530 01:24:21,625 --> 01:24:25,042 - In other words, no advance on fair wear and tear. 1531 01:24:25,042 --> 01:24:27,250 - Don't you think we could forget the carpet, 1532 01:24:27,250 --> 01:24:28,458 if only for a moment? 1533 01:24:28,458 --> 01:24:30,167 - Nothing would delight me more, madam, 1534 01:24:30,167 --> 01:24:32,292 to shake the dust of clause seven from our feet. 1535 01:24:32,292 --> 01:24:34,208 Besides, we all know the carpet is only a symptom 1536 01:24:34,208 --> 01:24:36,375 of the disease which has been rotting the fabric 1537 01:24:36,375 --> 01:24:38,417 of this partnership since 1883. 1538 01:24:38,417 --> 01:24:39,542 - If we must quarrel, 1539 01:24:39,542 --> 01:24:41,625 at least can't we quarrel in the present tense. 1540 01:24:41,625 --> 01:24:43,042 - I can well understand your reluctance 1541 01:24:43,042 --> 01:24:45,250 to embark on the past imperfect. 1542 01:24:45,250 --> 01:24:47,417 - I am only reluctant. - I have had to humour you 1543 01:24:47,417 --> 01:24:48,375 like a baby for years. 1544 01:24:58,042 --> 01:24:59,375 - So it has come to this, then? 1545 01:24:59,375 --> 01:25:00,417 - It has. 1546 01:25:00,417 --> 01:25:04,292 - After 15 years wonderful association, over a mere carpet. 1547 01:25:04,292 --> 01:25:07,417 - No, madam, people may say so but Sullivan knows and I know 1548 01:25:07,417 --> 01:25:08,917 that it goes deeper than that. 1549 01:25:08,917 --> 01:25:11,083 I said it before and I'll say it again, 1550 01:25:11,083 --> 01:25:13,375 a cobbler should stick to his last. 1551 01:25:13,375 --> 01:25:14,708 - There's nothing more to be said. 1552 01:25:14,708 --> 01:25:16,333 I'm physically and mentally ill 1553 01:25:16,333 --> 01:25:18,167 over this whole wretched business. 1554 01:25:18,167 --> 01:25:19,333 - Very well. 1555 01:25:19,333 --> 01:25:22,000 Good day, madam, good day Carte. 1556 01:25:23,958 --> 01:25:25,542 I think you may find it was a mistake 1557 01:25:25,542 --> 01:25:28,667 to kick down the ladder by which you've risen. 1558 01:26:16,333 --> 01:26:17,917 - Dedicated by special permission 1559 01:26:17,917 --> 01:26:20,208 to Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, 1560 01:26:20,208 --> 01:26:23,042 at whose suggestion this work was written, 1561 01:26:23,042 --> 01:26:24,750 in grateful acknowledgement of Her Majesty's 1562 01:26:24,750 --> 01:26:27,625 kindly encouragement by her humble and devoted 1563 01:26:27,625 --> 01:26:30,375 subject and servant, Arthur Sullivan. 1564 01:26:30,375 --> 01:26:32,167 - Thank you indeed, Sir Arthur. 1565 01:26:32,167 --> 01:26:34,875 I shall treasure this always. 1566 01:26:34,875 --> 01:26:37,292 Such a very beautiful volume. 1567 01:26:38,833 --> 01:26:42,125 So this work was written at my suggestion? 1568 01:26:42,125 --> 01:26:43,958 - Indeed yes, Ma'am. 1569 01:26:43,958 --> 01:26:46,000 Your Majesty may perhaps recall. 1570 01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,917 - Yes, yes I believe I do. 1571 01:26:48,917 --> 01:26:50,583 How very gratifying. 1572 01:26:51,958 --> 01:26:53,417 I've been thinking 1573 01:26:53,417 --> 01:26:56,167 it's time we had a performance at Windsor. 1574 01:26:56,167 --> 01:26:59,500 A stage can very easily be erected in the Waterloo Gallery 1575 01:26:59,500 --> 01:27:02,125 and the company could be brought down from London. 1576 01:27:02,125 --> 01:27:04,417 - It's an honour and a privilege, Ma'am. 1577 01:27:04,417 --> 01:27:06,833 - It shall be arranged shortly. 1578 01:27:06,833 --> 01:27:09,667 Since the Prince of Wales told me all about it, 1579 01:27:09,667 --> 01:27:12,750 I have always wanted to see The Gondoliers. 1580 01:27:12,750 --> 01:27:13,958 - The Gondoliers, Ma'am? 1581 01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:17,250 - Yes, of course I know all the tunes very well already, 1582 01:27:17,250 --> 01:27:18,083 but. 1583 01:27:20,958 --> 01:27:23,417 What is it, Sir Arthur? 1584 01:27:23,417 --> 01:27:25,583 Would it not be practical? 1585 01:27:26,667 --> 01:27:29,417 - Certainly, Ma'am, of course. 1586 01:27:29,417 --> 01:27:31,958 It's just that I'm overwhelmed. 1587 01:27:41,417 --> 01:27:44,250 ♪ Oh, is a glorious thing, I ween ♪ 1588 01:27:44,250 --> 01:27:46,250 ♪ To be a regular Royal Queen ♪ 1589 01:27:46,250 --> 01:27:48,333 ♪ No half-and-half affair, I mean ♪ 1590 01:27:48,333 --> 01:27:50,125 ♪ No half-and-half affair ♪ 1591 01:27:50,125 --> 01:27:52,125 ♪ But a right-down regular, regular, regular ♪ 1592 01:27:52,125 --> 01:27:53,833 ♪ Regular Royal Queen ♪ 1593 01:27:53,833 --> 01:27:56,083 ♪ And noble lords will scrape and bow ♪ 1594 01:27:56,083 --> 01:27:58,375 ♪ And double themselves in two ♪ 1595 01:27:58,375 --> 01:28:00,625 ♪ And open their eyes in blank surprise ♪ 1596 01:28:00,625 --> 01:28:02,833 ♪ At whatever she likes to do ♪ 1597 01:28:02,833 --> 01:28:05,958 ♪ And everybody will roundly vow ♪ 1598 01:28:05,958 --> 01:28:10,042 ♪ She's fair as flowers in May ♪ 1599 01:28:10,042 --> 01:28:14,917 ♪ And say how clever at whatsoever ♪ 1600 01:28:14,917 --> 01:28:18,292 ♪ She condescends to say ♪ 1601 01:28:18,292 --> 01:28:21,417 ♪ Oh, is a glorious thing, I ween ♪ 1602 01:28:21,417 --> 01:28:23,542 ♪ To be a regular Royal Queen ♪ 1603 01:28:23,542 --> 01:28:25,458 ♪ No half-and-half affair, I mean ♪ 1604 01:28:25,458 --> 01:28:27,042 ♪ No half-and-half affair ♪ 1605 01:28:27,083 --> 01:28:28,667 ♪ But a right-down regular, regular, regular ♪ 1606 01:28:28,667 --> 01:28:30,667 ♪ Regular Royal Queen ♪ 1607 01:28:30,667 --> 01:28:32,750 ♪ Oh, is a glorious thing, I ween ♪ 1608 01:28:32,750 --> 01:28:34,542 ♪ To be a regular Royal Queen ♪ 1609 01:28:34,542 --> 01:28:38,792 ♪ A right-down regular Royal Queen ♪ 1610 01:28:50,083 --> 01:28:51,000 The cobbler 1611 01:28:53,458 --> 01:28:54,458 should stick 1612 01:28:56,833 --> 01:28:57,833 to his last. 1613 01:29:12,125 --> 01:29:15,042 - Happy New Year, my dear. 1614 01:29:15,083 --> 01:29:17,583 - Happy New Year, Helen. 1615 01:29:17,583 --> 01:29:20,917 - You know, it's not everyone who has the privilege 1616 01:29:20,917 --> 01:29:23,958 of watching the old year and the old century 1617 01:29:23,958 --> 01:29:25,875 go out hand in hand. 1618 01:29:25,875 --> 01:29:29,583 - The old century, Victoria's century. 1619 01:29:29,583 --> 01:29:31,792 Sad to see it go. 1620 01:29:31,792 --> 01:29:33,417 So many things have gone with it. 1621 01:29:33,417 --> 01:29:35,000 - I know what you're thinking. 1622 01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:36,583 - Oh, you always do. 1623 01:29:36,583 --> 01:29:37,958 - Sullivan and Gilbert? 1624 01:29:37,958 --> 01:29:39,333 - Gilbert and Sullivan. 1625 01:29:39,333 --> 01:29:40,875 - They may come back after all. 1626 01:29:40,875 --> 01:29:43,833 - No, they're not even on speaking terms. 1627 01:29:43,833 --> 01:29:46,083 Besides it'd never quite be the same. 1628 01:29:46,083 --> 01:29:48,667 - This is a night for looking forward, not back. 1629 01:29:48,667 --> 01:29:50,250 - You're right. 1630 01:29:50,250 --> 01:29:52,542 Come to think of it, you always are right. 1631 01:29:52,542 --> 01:29:54,125 The new century. 1632 01:29:54,125 --> 01:29:55,875 - To the new century. 1633 01:30:12,542 --> 01:30:14,875 ♪ Oh, the happy days of doing ♪ 1634 01:30:14,875 --> 01:30:18,417 ♪ Oh, the sighing and the suing ♪ 1635 01:30:18,417 --> 01:30:21,875 ♪ When a wooer goes a-wooing ♪ 1636 01:30:21,875 --> 01:30:26,875 ♪ Oh, the sweets that never cloy ♪ 1637 01:30:28,875 --> 01:30:32,042 ♪ When a brother leaves his sister ♪ 1638 01:30:32,042 --> 01:30:35,292 ♪ For another, sister weeps ♪ 1639 01:30:35,292 --> 01:30:38,583 ♪ Tears that trickle, tears that blister ♪ 1640 01:30:38,583 --> 01:30:42,125 ♪'Tis but mickle sister reaps ♪ 1641 01:30:42,125 --> 01:30:45,917 ♪ Tears that trickle ♪ 1642 01:30:45,917 --> 01:30:50,417 ♪ Tears that blister ♪ 1643 01:30:50,417 --> 01:30:57,750 ♪ Oh, the doing and undoing ♪ 1644 01:30:57,750 --> 01:31:01,250 ♪Oh, the sighing and the suing ♪ 1645 01:31:01,250 --> 01:31:04,792 ♪ When a brother goes a-wooing ♪ 1646 01:31:04,792 --> 01:31:09,792 ♪ And a sobbing sister weeps ♪ 1647 01:31:12,333 --> 01:31:15,667 ♪ When a jester is outwitted ♪ 1648 01:31:15,667 --> 01:31:19,000 ♪ Feelings fester, heart is lead ♪ 1649 01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:22,750 ♪ Food for fishes only fitted ♪ 1650 01:31:22,750 --> 01:31:26,833 ♪ Jester wishes he was dead ♪ 1651 01:31:26,833 --> 01:31:30,625 ♪ Food for fishes only fitted ♪ 1652 01:31:30,625 --> 01:31:35,625 ♪ Jester wishes he was dead ♪ 1653 01:31:36,542 --> 01:31:39,875 ♪ Oh, the doing and undoing ♪ 1654 01:31:39,875 --> 01:31:43,458 ♪ Oh, the sighing and the suing ♪ 1655 01:31:43,458 --> 01:31:47,250 ♪ When a jester goes a-wooing ♪ 1656 01:31:47,292 --> 01:31:52,292 ♪ And he wishes he was dead ♪ 1657 01:31:54,208 --> 01:31:57,542 ♪ Oh, the doing and undoing ♪ 1658 01:31:57,542 --> 01:32:00,958 ♪ Oh, the sighing and the suing ♪ 1659 01:32:00,958 --> 01:32:04,917 ♪ When a jester goes a-wooing ♪ 1660 01:32:04,917 --> 01:32:09,917 ♪ And he wishes he was dead ♪ 1661 01:32:11,792 --> 01:32:15,125 ♪ He wishes he was dead ♪ 1662 01:32:38,458 --> 01:32:40,625 - And I helped that man to escape. 1663 01:32:40,625 --> 01:32:42,792 And I've kept his secret and pretended 1664 01:32:42,792 --> 01:32:44,875 that I was his dearly loving sister 1665 01:32:44,875 --> 01:32:46,417 and did everything I could do. 1666 01:32:46,417 --> 01:32:47,750 - No, no. 1667 01:32:47,750 --> 01:32:51,500 That wasn't how I taught it to you years ago. 1668 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,750 - Mr. Gilbert! 1669 01:32:54,750 --> 01:32:56,958 - Now, once again, please, 1670 01:32:56,958 --> 01:32:59,625 and I helped that man to escape. 1671 01:33:02,083 --> 01:33:05,042 - And I helped that man to escape, 1672 01:33:05,042 --> 01:33:06,917 - And I've kept his secret. 1673 01:33:06,917 --> 01:33:08,708 And I've kept his secret. 1674 01:33:08,750 --> 01:33:16,542 - And pretended that I was his dearly loving sister. 1675 01:33:16,542 --> 01:33:18,333 - That was much better, my dear. 1676 01:33:18,333 --> 01:33:20,208 Punctuate, punctuate. 1677 01:33:20,208 --> 01:33:22,125 - Mr. Gilbert, it's wonderful to see you again 1678 01:33:22,125 --> 01:33:23,417 after all this long time. 1679 01:33:23,417 --> 01:33:25,167 - Very nice to see you. - Very nice to see you. 1680 01:33:25,167 --> 01:33:27,333 - I thought the quartet was quite beautifully rendered, 1681 01:33:27,333 --> 01:33:29,167 but you must remember your consonants, 1682 01:33:29,167 --> 01:33:32,125 your Ms and your Ns and your Ts. 1683 01:33:32,125 --> 01:33:33,292 - Mr. Gilbert. 1684 01:33:39,458 --> 01:33:41,208 How are you? - Good afternoon, 1685 01:33:41,208 --> 01:33:42,583 Mrs. Carte. 1686 01:33:42,583 --> 01:33:44,292 I came up to London to lunch at the Garrick. 1687 01:33:44,292 --> 01:33:46,958 As I happened to be passing, I thought I'd look in. 1688 01:33:46,958 --> 01:33:49,167 - We're all very glad that you did. 1689 01:33:49,167 --> 01:33:52,375 Mr. Cross, I think we might all have tea now. 1690 01:33:52,375 --> 01:33:53,208 - How's D'Oyly? 1691 01:33:53,208 --> 01:33:55,708 - He is a little better, he got up the first time yesterday. 1692 01:33:55,708 --> 01:33:56,917 - Good. 1693 01:33:56,917 --> 01:33:57,875 Been a long time. 1694 01:33:57,875 --> 01:33:58,917 - Yes. 1695 01:33:58,917 --> 01:34:01,250 - I think the Yeoman was favourite, you know. 1696 01:34:01,250 --> 01:34:04,083 Best thing Sullivan and I ever wrote. 1697 01:34:04,083 --> 01:34:05,792 I hear he's been ill too. 1698 01:34:05,792 --> 01:34:07,667 - Very ill, indeed. - Is he back in England? 1699 01:34:07,667 --> 01:34:08,750 - Yes. 1700 01:34:08,750 --> 01:34:10,083 He got back last week. 1701 01:34:10,083 --> 01:34:11,333 - Good, good. 1702 01:34:11,333 --> 01:34:12,833 Poor fellow. 1703 01:34:12,833 --> 01:34:14,583 He suffered a great deal. 1704 01:34:14,583 --> 01:34:15,833 You know it's over two years 1705 01:34:15,833 --> 01:34:17,208 since he and I spoke to each other. 1706 01:34:17,208 --> 01:34:19,542 - That's nothing less than a tragedy, Mr. Gilbert. 1707 01:34:19,542 --> 01:34:21,250 - Things were never the same after our quarrel. 1708 01:34:21,250 --> 01:34:23,458 Nothing seemed to go right for us, you know. 1709 01:34:23,458 --> 01:34:25,875 Is Sullivan coming to the first night of our revival? 1710 01:34:25,875 --> 01:34:28,250 - He might if you were to ask him. 1711 01:34:28,250 --> 01:34:29,083 - I? 1712 01:34:29,083 --> 01:34:30,667 - I think it would mean a great deal to him. 1713 01:34:30,667 --> 01:34:32,000 - Can't you send him a message? 1714 01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:35,333 - I really don't think that's necessary. 1715 01:34:41,667 --> 01:34:42,875 My dear Gilbert. 1716 01:34:42,875 --> 01:34:44,250 - My dear Sullivan. 1717 01:34:44,250 --> 01:34:47,125 I was lunching at the club and happened to be passing. 1718 01:34:47,125 --> 01:34:48,042 - So I heard. 1719 01:34:48,042 --> 01:34:49,750 - Oh, did you? 1720 01:34:49,750 --> 01:34:51,250 I'm sorry to see you like this. 1721 01:34:51,250 --> 01:34:53,792 - Yes, he gave me up for lost in the south of France. 1722 01:34:53,792 --> 01:34:55,250 Prince of Wales sent his own doctor, 1723 01:34:55,250 --> 01:34:57,292 but I am a good deal better now as you can see. 1724 01:34:57,292 --> 01:34:59,292 - Yes, yes, quite yes, obviously. 1725 01:34:59,292 --> 01:35:01,875 - Gilbert, what would you say to burying the hatchet 1726 01:35:01,875 --> 01:35:04,167 once and for all and smoking the pipe of peace? 1727 01:35:04,167 --> 01:35:06,958 - There's nothing I should like more, just a minute. 1728 01:35:06,958 --> 01:35:08,458 - How's the gout? 1729 01:35:08,458 --> 01:35:09,625 - That's taken a back seat, 1730 01:35:09,625 --> 01:35:12,083 arthritis has now moved up in the first place. 1731 01:35:12,083 --> 01:35:14,042 Same old Gilbert. 1732 01:35:14,042 --> 01:35:16,250 - Couldn't we make this a public reconciliation? 1733 01:35:16,250 --> 01:35:17,625 - What do you mean? - Take our calls together 1734 01:35:17,625 --> 01:35:19,917 on the first night like we used to do, all three of us? 1735 01:35:19,917 --> 01:35:20,958 - Including Carte? 1736 01:35:20,958 --> 01:35:21,792 - Why not? 1737 01:35:21,792 --> 01:35:24,292 The old firm, or should I say the infirm. 1738 01:35:24,292 --> 01:35:26,125 - This thing would present a certain problem. 1739 01:35:26,125 --> 01:35:27,917 - Not at all, Louis can wheel you on. 1740 01:35:27,917 --> 01:35:30,667 - What a trio of old crocks we've become. 1741 01:35:30,667 --> 01:35:33,208 What we really need is three wheel chairs. 1742 01:35:33,208 --> 01:35:36,125 - So we, that's a brilliant idea. 1743 01:35:36,125 --> 01:35:37,958 - What? - We all take our calls 1744 01:35:37,958 --> 01:35:39,292 in wheelchairs. 1745 01:35:39,292 --> 01:35:40,625 - Gilbert, you're quite right, 1746 01:35:40,625 --> 01:35:43,417 three wheelchairs it'll look wonderful from the front. 1747 01:35:43,417 --> 01:35:44,958 - It'll bring the house down. 1748 01:35:44,958 --> 01:35:48,250 - Helen, put down two wheelchairs for the opening night. 1749 01:35:48,250 --> 01:35:49,833 The third one will do for D'Oyly. 1750 01:35:49,833 --> 01:35:52,042 - Yes, I heard you, I think it is a charming idea. 1751 01:35:52,042 --> 01:35:54,167 - You can wheel D'Oyly on, Helen. 1752 01:35:54,167 --> 01:35:55,917 - Arthur, I don't want to hurry you, 1753 01:35:55,917 --> 01:35:57,708 but I think it's time Louis was taking you home. 1754 01:35:57,708 --> 01:35:58,708 - What, already? 1755 01:35:58,708 --> 01:36:00,625 - Now you know he has very strict instructions. 1756 01:36:00,625 --> 01:36:02,375 Isn't that so, Louis? - I have, madam, very strict. 1757 01:36:02,375 --> 01:36:04,417 - Oh well, I suppose orders is orders. 1758 01:36:04,417 --> 01:36:07,250 I'm looking forward to giving some of my own again soon. 1759 01:36:07,250 --> 01:36:09,083 Au revoir, Gilbert. - See you on Tuesday night. 1760 01:36:09,083 --> 01:36:14,042 - Rather, I wouldn't miss the opening for the world. 1761 01:36:14,042 --> 01:36:16,417 - Mr. Gilbert, what do you think of his appearance? 1762 01:36:16,417 --> 01:36:18,667 - His appearance, Mrs. Carte, is of no consequence. 1763 01:36:18,667 --> 01:36:22,833 What we couldn't stand would be his disappearance. 1764 01:36:34,375 --> 01:36:38,500 ♪ Joy has broken duly ♪ 1765 01:36:38,500 --> 01:36:43,250 ♪ With happiness my soul is cloyed ♪ 1766 01:36:43,250 --> 01:36:48,208 ♪ With happiness is alloyed ♪ 1767 01:36:48,208 --> 01:36:53,208 J♪ With happiness her soul is cloyed ♪ 1768 01:36:53,208 --> 01:36:57,958 ♪ This is my joy-day unalloyed ♪ 1769 01:36:57,958 --> 01:37:00,208 ♪ Unalloyed ♪ 1770 01:37:00,208 --> 01:37:05,208 ♪ it is my joy ♪ 1771 01:37:06,167 --> 01:37:07,708 ♪ Day ♪ 1772 01:37:07,708 --> 01:37:12,083 ♪ Unalloyed ♪ 1773 01:37:12,083 --> 01:37:16,625 ♪ Yes yes with happiness her soul is cloyed ♪ 1774 01:37:16,625 --> 01:37:20,625 ♪ This is her joy day unalloyed ♪ 1775 01:37:28,750 --> 01:37:30,625 - I've got this to a tee now. 1776 01:37:30,625 --> 01:37:31,708 Is Sullivan here? 1777 01:37:31,750 --> 01:37:34,500 - We thought it wise for him not to come before the finale. 1778 01:37:34,500 --> 01:37:35,500 - Well now let's see, 1779 01:37:35,500 --> 01:37:37,625 I should make my entrance from the prompt side. 1780 01:37:37,625 --> 01:37:39,667 Sullivan from the OP like we always used to do 1781 01:37:39,667 --> 01:37:41,250 when we had the full use of our legs. 1782 01:37:41,250 --> 01:37:44,125 Carte, I want you to go in centre through the players. 1783 01:37:44,125 --> 01:37:45,750 - I don't wish to argue with the producer, 1784 01:37:45,750 --> 01:37:46,958 but shan't I look rather prominent? 1785 01:37:46,958 --> 01:37:48,500 - My dear fellow, that's the whole idea. 1786 01:37:48,500 --> 01:37:50,500 After all, you started this thing. 1787 01:37:50,500 --> 01:37:52,125 Well now I think we ought to try it. 1788 01:37:52,125 --> 01:37:53,292 - Where? - Well here. 1789 01:37:53,292 --> 01:37:54,958 Get in, my dear fellow. 1790 01:37:54,958 --> 01:37:57,917 Harry, will you wheel Sir Arthur's chair in from over there 1791 01:37:57,917 --> 01:37:58,958 when I give the signal? 1792 01:37:58,958 --> 01:38:01,583 Mrs. Carte, you wheel D'Oyly in from over there. 1793 01:38:01,583 --> 01:38:03,792 Right, positions, please. 1794 01:38:15,667 --> 01:38:20,417 ♪ All thought of Leonard Meryll set aside ♪ 1795 01:38:20,417 --> 01:38:25,417 ♪ Thou art mine own, I claim thee as my bride ♪ 1796 01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:27,750 ♪ Thou art his own ♪ Ready everybody? 1797 01:38:27,750 --> 01:38:29,167 Right, off we go. 1798 01:38:46,833 --> 01:38:48,250 Thank you, Harry. 1799 01:38:51,625 --> 01:38:53,417 Problem is what we're going to do for an encore. 1800 01:38:53,417 --> 01:38:55,125 Ah, Sullivan's here. 1801 01:38:55,125 --> 01:38:55,958 - No, sir. 1802 01:38:55,958 --> 01:38:57,208 - What is it, Louis? 1803 01:38:57,208 --> 01:39:00,542 - We sent for the doctors at six, madam. 1804 01:39:00,542 --> 01:39:02,792 He asked me to give this to Mr. Gilbert. 1805 01:39:02,792 --> 01:39:03,792 He insisted. 1806 01:39:07,125 --> 01:39:12,083 - My dear Gilbert, I feel the disappointment so very much. 1807 01:39:12,083 --> 01:39:14,417 Good Luck to you all. 1808 01:39:14,417 --> 01:39:16,375 Three wheelchairs would have looked wonderful 1809 01:39:16,375 --> 01:39:17,625 from the front. 1810 01:39:19,333 --> 01:39:20,917 - How is he, Louis? 1811 01:39:22,167 --> 01:39:27,167 ♪ And shed a tear or two ♪ 1812 01:39:27,792 --> 01:39:32,792 ♪ For I have a song to sing, O' ♪ 1813 01:39:33,917 --> 01:39:38,917 ♪ Sing me your song, O' ♪ 1814 01:39:42,875 --> 01:39:44,750 ♪ It is sung to the moon ♪ 1815 01:39:44,750 --> 01:39:46,750 ♪ By a love-lorn loon ♪ 1816 01:39:46,750 --> 01:39:49,958 ♪ Who fled from the mocking throng, O' ♪ 1817 01:39:49,958 --> 01:39:53,458 ♪ It's the song of a merryman, moping mum ♪ 1818 01:39:53,458 --> 01:39:57,208 ♪ Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum ♪ 1819 01:39:57,208 --> 01:40:00,875 ♪ Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb ♪ 1820 01:40:00,875 --> 01:40:05,375 ♪ As he sighed for the love of a lady ♪ 1821 01:40:05,375 --> 01:40:07,708 ♪ Heighdy heighdy ♪ 1822 01:40:07,708 --> 01:40:10,833 ♪ Misery me, lackadaydee ♪ 1823 01:40:10,833 --> 01:40:12,833 ♪ He sipped no sup and he craved no crumb ♪ 1824 01:40:12,833 --> 01:40:15,792 ♪ As he sighed for the love of a lady ♪ 1825 01:40:15,792 --> 01:40:19,042 ♪ I have a song to sing, O' ♪ 1826 01:40:19,042 --> 01:40:24,042 ♪ What is your song, O' ♪ 1827 01:40:26,417 --> 01:40:28,042 ♪ It is sung with the ring ♪ 1828 01:40:28,042 --> 01:40:29,750 ♪ Of the songs maids sing ♪ 1829 01:40:29,750 --> 01:40:32,833 ♪ Who love with a love lifelong, O' ♪ 1830 01:40:32,833 --> 01:40:36,167 ♪ It's the song of a merrymaid, nestling near ♪ 1831 01:40:36,167 --> 01:40:39,500 ♪ Who loved her Lord, but who dropped a tear ♪ 1832 01:40:39,500 --> 01:40:41,583 - Goodnight, Mr. Gilbert. 1833 01:40:42,542 --> 01:40:45,792 ♪ Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum ♪ 1834 01:40:45,792 --> 01:40:49,125 ♪ Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb ♪ 1835 01:40:49,125 --> 01:40:52,667 ♪ As he sighed for the love of a lady ♪ 1836 01:40:52,667 --> 01:40:55,625 ♪ Heighdy, heighdy ♪ 1837 01:40:55,625 --> 01:40:58,458 ♪ Misery me, lackadaydee ♪ 1838 01:40:58,458 --> 01:41:00,583 ♪ He sipped no sup, and he craved no crumb ♪ 1839 01:41:00,583 --> 01:41:03,292 ♪ As he sighed for the love of a lady ♪ 1840 01:41:03,292 --> 01:41:05,708 ♪ Heighdy, heighdy ♪ 1841 01:41:05,708 --> 01:41:07,875 ♪ Misery me, lackadaydee ♪ 1842 01:41:07,875 --> 01:41:09,875 ♪ He sipped no sup, and he craved no crumb ♪ 1843 01:41:09,875 --> 01:41:12,333 ♪ As he sighed for the love of a lady ♪ 1844 01:41:12,333 --> 01:41:17,333 ♪ Heighdy ♪ 1845 01:41:19,417 --> 01:41:26,208 ♪ Heighdy ♪ 1846 01:41:38,875 --> 01:41:41,750 ♪ A wandering minstrel, I ♪ 1847 01:41:41,750 --> 01:41:46,750 ♪ A thing of shreds and patches ♪ 1848 01:41:47,083 --> 01:41:50,667 ♪ Of ballads, songs and snatches ♪ 1849 01:41:50,667 --> 01:41:54,875 ♪ And dreamy lullaby ♪ 1850 01:41:54,875 --> 01:41:58,042 ♪ My catalogue is long ♪ 1851 01:41:58,042 --> 01:42:02,292 ♪ Through every passion ranging ♪ 1852 01:42:02,292 --> 01:42:06,333 ♪ And to your humours changing ♪ 1853 01:42:06,333 --> 01:42:11,333 ♪ I tune my supple ♪ 1854 01:42:13,125 --> 01:42:15,042 ♪ Song ♪ 1855 01:42:57,458 --> 01:43:00,375 - Are you sure you have everything? 1856 01:43:02,583 --> 01:43:03,417 - No, no. 1857 01:44:08,458 --> 01:44:12,333 Mr. William Gilbert, Barrister at Law, 1858 01:44:12,333 --> 01:44:14,208 Justice of the Peace, 1859 01:44:14,208 --> 01:44:18,167 Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex, playwright. 1860 01:44:18,167 --> 01:44:19,875 For services to the theatre. 1861 01:44:19,875 --> 01:44:24,875 ♪ For he is an Englishman ♪ 1862 01:44:24,875 --> 01:44:29,417 ♪ And he himself has said it ♪ 1863 01:44:29,417 --> 01:44:34,250 ♪ And it's greatly to his credit ♪ 1864 01:44:34,250 --> 01:44:42,542 ♪ That he is an Englishman ♪ 131717