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- Do something?
- No, we'll struggle through.

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Tim sleeps while we run around
with our trousers round our ankles.

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OK, Freddy, from your entrance
with trousers round ankles.

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"So, where's my other sheet?"
Some other problem, Freddy?

:40:19
- Since we're stopped...
- Why did I ask?

:40:21
I'm stupid about plot.
Could I ask another dumb question?

:40:25
All of my studies in world drama
lie at your disposal.

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Why is the sheikh Philip's double?
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He comes in and we think he's,
you know...

:40:35
- That's the joke.
- I see that.

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- The plot depends on it.
- But it is a coincidence, isn't it?

:40:43
It is kind of a coincidence, Freddy, yes.
:40:46
Until you reflect that there was
an earlier draft of the play.

:40:51
In this, it's clear that Philip's
father, as a young man,

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travelled in the Middle East.
:40:58
- I see.
- You see?

:41:01
- Interesting.
- Yes.

:41:03
- Will the audience get it?
- You show them.

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- That's what acting's about.
- Thank you, Lloyd.

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So, from your entrance, Freddy.
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What's going to be left of this show
when I'm back in New York

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and you're up there on your own?
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So, where's my other sheet?
:41:24
Ah! A house of heavenly peace!
I rent it!

:41:29
- You!
- Is it?

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- Who else?
- You ask to view this house

:41:34
when you're a trouserless tramp!
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- You took the clean sheets!
- You snatched my nightdress.

:41:40
You tossed me aside
like a broken china doll.

:41:44
I won't ask what you were up to with
my girl, but I'll tell you one thing.

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- Brooke!
- Sorry.

:41:52
Your line! We're two lines
from the end of the act.

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- I don't understand.
- Tell her.

:41:58
- "What's that, Dad?"
- But I don't understand.


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