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Wilhelm:
Rest assured, Mr. Lely, my designs are properly researched and authentic to the last thread. Durward Lely:
No disrespect to you, Mr. Wilhelm, but your authentically tailored costume seems to have left me rather in the buff, somewhat! Wilhelm:
No more in the buff than Japanese peasants have been for the last eight hundred years, sir. Durward Lely:
May I draw your attention, Mr. Wilhelm, to the fact that I am not actually a Japanese peasant? Gilbert:
No, you are a Scotch actor who is taking the part of a Japanese prince who is posing as an itinerant minstrel
Rest assured, Mr. Lely, my designs are properly researched and authentic to the last thread. Durward Lely:
No disrespect to you, Mr. Wilhelm, but your authentically tailored costume seems to have left me rather in the buff, somewhat! Wilhelm:
No more in the buff than Japanese peasants have been for the last eight hundred years, sir. Durward Lely:
May I draw your attention, Mr. Wilhelm, to the fact that I am not actually a Japanese peasant? Gilbert:
No, you are a Scotch actor who is taking the part of a Japanese prince who is posing as an itinerant minstrel
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Rest assured Mr Lely my designs are properly researched and authentic to the last thread
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Hmm No offense to you Mr WiIheIm but your properIy authentic costume
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seems to have left me rather in the buff somewhat
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Quite
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No more in the buff than Japanese peasants have been for the Iast 800 years Mr LeIy
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May I draw your attention to the fact Mr WiIheIm
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that I am not actuaIIy a Japanese peasant
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No You're a Scotch actor who is taking the part of a Japanese prince
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who is posing as an itinerant minstreI
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Movie Summary
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
