1:28:03
- Where's the whalebone?
- There are no bones, Miss Bond.
1:28:06
Well, Madame Leon, I do fear
that if there are no bones...
1:28:09
...then it is plainly not a corset.
1:28:11
No, Miss Bond, it is not a corset,
but it may serve for a corset.
1:28:15
It may give you the shape you desire.
1:28:17
Tighter, please, Miss Morton, tighter!
1:28:19
I cannot appear on stage without a corset.
1:28:22
It certainly feels like a corset, Jessie.
1:28:24
You do resemble a birthday gift.
I could eat you.
1:28:30
Do forgive me, Miss Bond. One is
working to the best of one's abilities.
1:28:34
I fear sometimes it is not appreciated.
1:28:39
- That is the "hori". Am I correct, Wilhelm?
- Quite so, Mr Gilbert.
1:28:43
As opposed to the "zori",
which is the stocking, is it not?
1:28:47
- The stockings are the "tarbi", sir.
- Ah! "Tarbi".
1:28:50
- The sandals are the "zori".
- Exactly, sir.
1:28:53
I'm beginning to get it, Grossmith.
1:28:55
- Mr Gilbert.
- Lely?
1:28:57
Is this to be the length of my gown
for Nanki-Poo?
1:29:01
- I believe so. Wilhelm?
- Indeed it is.
1:29:03
Yes.
1:29:04
Do you not consider it to be perhaps...
too short?
1:29:07
Too short for what?
1:29:09
For propriety.
Might it not be rather unseemly?
1:29:14
- I'm sorry, unseemly to whom?
- To the audience of the Savoy Theatre.
1:29:18
Hmm. I shouldn't have thought so.
1:29:21
In any case, I shall be the judge.
1:29:23
Rest assured, Mr Lely, my designs
are properly researched and authentic.
1:29:27
No offence to you, Mr Wilhelm,
but your properly authentic costume...
1:29:31
...seems to have left me
in the buff somewhat!
1:29:34
- Quite.
- No more in the buff...
1:29:36
...than Japanese peasants
have been for the last 800 years.
1:29:39
May I draw your attention to the fact that
I am not, actually, a Japanese peasant.
1:29:44
No. You're a Scotch actor, who is
taking the part of a Japanese prince...
1:29:47
...who is posing as an itinerant minstrel.
1:29:50
Lely, I would be only too happy
for the tailor here...
1:29:53
...to chop off some of my surplus
and stitch it to your kilt.
1:29:57
Thank you, Grossmith.
I'm sure we shall reap the benefits...