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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,120 Stella? 2 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,600 - Stella. - No! 3 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,800 Look at them sugar warehouses 4 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:40,900 blowing up like blasted paper bags. 5 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:42,100 Young madam. 6 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:47,900 It's all right, luv. 7 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:49,800 Come on. That's it. 8 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:59,500 Don't cry. You be a good girl for your mum. 9 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:01,300 Shh, shh, shh. Don't worry. 10 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,000 Your father's gone. Oh, no. Shh, shh. 11 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,400 Look. Pretty pearls. 12 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:08,100 Be a good girl, now. 13 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,200 It's all right. It's all right. 14 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,900 You be a good girl now, and I'll be back soon. 15 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:20,200 Stella! Stella, don't worry, luv. 16 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:22,200 You're all right. 17 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:24,600 Now, take deep breaths, Stella. 18 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:26,900 Stella, breathe deeply. That's it. 19 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,900 Don't worry. You're all right. 20 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:31,600 How... now... 21 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:35,500 brown... cow. 22 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,200 How... now... 23 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,700 brown... cow. 24 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,900 How now, brown cow. 25 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 How now, brown cow. 26 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,800 How now, brown cow. 27 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:54,900 How now, brown cow. 28 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:05,200 I didn't know it was called Dramatic Art. 29 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:06,500 Hoo-er. 30 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:12,300 Oh, yes. It is. 31 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,200 I thought she was just learning to speak properly. 32 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:15,900 Well, that's it, that's it. 33 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Oh. Well, I hope she's not in for another disappointment. 34 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,400 Well, if she is, I've told her 35 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:22,000 this time she'll end up behind the counter 36 00:04:22,100 --> 00:04:25,400 in Woolworths, my girl. Or Boots. 37 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,800 And she'll be damn lucky to get that and all. 38 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:30,800 Damn lucky. Oh, yes. 39 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:45,900 Hello, Mother? 40 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,700 It's Auntie Lily and Uncle Vernon. 41 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,900 They ask too much of me. 42 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,800 Hello? Hello? 43 00:04:56,900 --> 00:04:58,800 Yes, yes, yes. 44 00:04:58,800 --> 00:04:59,900 It's a trunk call. 45 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,400 She's practicing acting 46 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,600 as if into a telephone 47 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:10,200 for her interview. 48 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:12,500 Oh? Oh. 49 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,000 Well, fancy that. 50 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,500 Mrs. Fairfield's out. 51 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,900 Can I take a message? Yes, yes, yes. 52 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:19,600 It's a trunk call. 53 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,700 Should she walk when on the phone? 54 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:25,900 Mrs. Fairfield's out. Shall I take a message? 55 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:27,200 Mrs. Fairfield speaking. 56 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:28,800 Good Lord! 57 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,900 Sidney, don't say Good Lord. 58 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,000 No, that's not right. 59 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,400 How now, brown cow. 60 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:48,200 Won't do, young lady. I'm expected. 61 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:50,100 Rose Lipman is known to me 62 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,200 which is how you've come by this interview. 63 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:55,600 Audition! Have you settled up with the taxi? 64 00:05:55,700 --> 00:05:57,000 Yes. Here, here. 65 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,500 I'd rather die than tip him! 66 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,900 I think it degrades the giver 67 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:03,600 every bit as much as the receiver. 68 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:06,100 Chuck it through the window and hook it, then! 69 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:07,600 I'll go on the tram. 70 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:09,800 You'll arrive bedraggled. 71 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:11,900 She'll be soaked! She'll ruin her hair! 72 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,900 Mrs. Fairfield says... 73 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:36,900 Sidney, I believe the telephone is going-- 74 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:39,900 Not a play that springs immediately to mind, is it? 75 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,500 Off. 76 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,800 Hello? Hello? 77 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:51,900 Everybody is always out when you need them most. 78 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:53,100 There's no need for that, Bunny. 79 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,900 Hello? Hello? 80 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:00,400 I think it's tea time. Don't you? 81 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,200 Yes, yes, yes. It-- it's a trunk call. 82 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:06,400 Not my fault. 83 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:07,700 Hello? 84 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:10,000 Hello? 85 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,600 The thing is... 86 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,000 I think she's a genius. Don't you, Bunny? 87 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:16,600 Your promiscuity is humiliating. 88 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:21,000 # Even when the darkest clouds # 89 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,900 # Are in the sky # 90 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:24,400 # You mustn't sigh # 91 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:26,600 # And you must not cry # 92 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:29,400 # Just spread a little happiness # 93 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:35,400 # As you go by # 94 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:46,800 I must keep my coat on. 95 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:48,800 Thank you. 96 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:52,000 But you're drenched. Huh? 97 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:56,100 That is not important. 98 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,800 Auntie Lily said time enough for a new dress 99 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:02,200 when I get the job. 100 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,500 Yes. 101 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:18,100 I think I'm falling in love with him, Mother. 102 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:20,600 I could've been afraid of him 103 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:24,800 but for his nicotine-stained fingers. 104 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:27,700 I know a man who can't close his eyes. 105 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,600 He burned... in a bomb. 106 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:33,900 How interesting. 107 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:35,400 He was to be married 108 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:37,900 but his fianc�e was afraid that it would pass on 109 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,600 to the children and threw him over. 110 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,100 It's all right. 111 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,200 But the worst thing, he says, 112 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,900 is people thinking he looks fierce 113 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:55,400 when most days 114 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,200 he weeps. 115 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,300 Inside. 116 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:02,300 Oh, hell. 117 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:11,800 Well, I look forward to meeting you again, Miss Bradshaw. 118 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,000 Congratulations. 119 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:17,600 Oh? 120 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:19,900 Bunny here is our stage manager. 121 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:21,500 I think he ought to take care of-- 122 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,600 There's a taxi. 123 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:24,900 - No, I-- I-- - Taxi! 124 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,600 I have shopping to do, thank you. 125 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,200 Uncle Vernon never travels by cab 126 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:31,500 'cause he finds tipping degrading. 127 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,900 Isn't that foolish of him? 128 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,400 But you haven't seen me act, Mr. Potter. 129 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:41,400 Oh, I rather think I have, what? 130 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:57,200 Stella? 131 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,400 Good evening. My name is Stella Bradshaw. 132 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:41,500 I don't expect you'll ever want to love me. 133 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:59,100 What you are is dog's bodies. 134 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,000 Assistant stage managers they have to pay. 135 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,900 You're students. 136 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:07,900 So they don't have to pay you. 137 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:13,400 When you've been nine days in an open boat 138 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:17,400 I expect you look on that sort of thing with contempt. 139 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:19,900 George was in an open boat. 140 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,400 Oh. 141 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,800 For nine days. 142 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,600 Weren't you, George? 143 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:31,900 It's not as deep as all that. 144 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,500 Eh? What? 145 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,200 The stage, George. It's not as deep as I expected. 146 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:40,000 I thought you meant the organ. 147 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:43,200 Too deep for me to see. 148 00:11:44,300 --> 00:11:47,800 Here. Keep your nice clothes clean. 149 00:11:47,900 --> 00:11:49,500 Thank you. 150 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,500 It's not that I'm bored by what you all did in the war. 151 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,400 But everybody has, like, stories to tell 152 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:02,900 and bits of them to show 153 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:04,900 where they were hurt. 154 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:06,800 Oh, they will have. 155 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:10,700 Who's that? 156 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,900 That's P.L. O'Hara. 157 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:15,000 "Richard II" before the war. 158 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:17,400 I keep that notice because it mentions me. 159 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:19,800 Not by name. The set. 160 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:22,400 He sent me that postcard during the war. 161 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:23,900 Don't know why. 162 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:26,500 He was on the "Andrew," commanding a corvette. 163 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,800 Best Captain Hook we've had in this theatre, the same. 164 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:33,500 Set for "Richard II" 165 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,400 on which I solved the problem of the dungeon. 166 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,600 Ladies, gentlemen, and others assorted 167 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:50,800 please find a seat. 168 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:52,600 It is rather fine. 169 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,200 But then, I love beautiful things, don't you? 170 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:57,600 - Yes. - Wait. 171 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:00,100 Morning, darling. 172 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,400 - Hello! - How old is she, exactly? 173 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:10,200 Absolutely none of your business. 174 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:13,900 It's my fault. I was trying to be pleasant. 175 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,200 She drinks. 176 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,900 Have I got time for a cup? 177 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:19,400 No. You're here to work, young man, sit down. 178 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:24,700 Get some fags, will you? What's your name? 179 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:25,900 Her name's Stella. 180 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:28,900 And she won't, Mr. Fairchild, unless Bunny lets her. 181 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:38,900 Time hurries. 182 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:40,800 So, does everybody know everybody? 183 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:42,600 This side. 184 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:44,200 Well, if you don't, you will. 185 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:46,100 And you all know me 186 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,200 or what they say about me. 187 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:50,000 And all of that is true. 188 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:54,900 So speak now if you don't 189 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:58,900 because we do "Dangerous Corner." 190 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:01,000 Two weeks' rehearsal, play for two weeks 191 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:02,800 while we rehearse "Caesar and Cleo." 192 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:06,700 Playing for two weeks, while we rehearse "Peter Pan." 193 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:11,800 So, the thing is, it's a very heavy season 194 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:16,400 and you're all going to have to work very, very hard. 195 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:20,300 But you're all the very best people we could find 196 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,200 the length and breadth of the profession. 197 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:24,200 Aww! 198 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:25,700 For the money. 199 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,900 Welcome. I think you're all very good. 200 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:35,200 I mean... 201 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:37,900 wonderful. 202 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:43,200 You wanted to know the truth and here it is! 203 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:44,600 Some of it. 204 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:47,700 She's been in love with you for ages. 205 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,600 Wives are always aware of these things, you know. 206 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,400 I'll tell you what I have longed to tell you for some time 207 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:57,700 that I think you're a fool for not having responded to it. 208 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:02,100 For not having done something about it before now. 209 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:05,900 Sorry. 210 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:08,400 Doesn't matter. Go on, go on! 211 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,600 When somebody loves you like that 212 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:16,900 for God's sake, make the most of it 213 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:19,000 before it's too late. 214 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:24,600 Leave it! 215 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:28,200 Stop fussing like an old queen, Bunny! 216 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:39,200 Stella. 217 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:41,300 Ten minutes. 218 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:46,700 Darling, I'd like you to take some notes for me. 219 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,500 Care for a snifter, squire? 220 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,600 Do you know where the general post office is? 221 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,100 Of course. I live here. 222 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,200 Of course you do. I think that's charming. 223 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:01,900 Now, I want you to run all the way 224 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:03,900 and don't change a word. 225 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,700 There you are. 226 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:08,700 Ten bob. That's two and six change. 227 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,400 Bunny! Where's Bunny? 228 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:12,600 Bunny! 229 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:14,800 Meredith, old boy, 230 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:16,900 when are we gonna get onto the stage? 231 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:18,600 The old green, huh? 232 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:20,800 I'm having a bit of trouble finding my character. 233 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:23,200 Mmm. So I'd noticed. 234 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,700 A cup of tea, please. 235 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,900 One of those, thanks. 236 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:43,200 There's a man next to you 237 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:45,700 whose toes can be seen through his boots. 238 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,000 Oh, my God, I can smell it. 239 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,900 There's no need to be so loud. 240 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:02,200 People have feelings. 241 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:04,800 A minute longer and you'd be scratching. 242 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:09,400 "Darling Hilary stop. In hell stop." 243 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:12,000 "You must ring stop." 244 00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:14,900 "Reverse charges." 245 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,400 "I love you. Meredith." 246 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:19,900 Oh! 247 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,300 What's this about Hilary? 248 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:28,900 I phoned twice this morning, Bunny. 249 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:31,900 I mean... 250 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,900 not a dicky bird. 251 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:37,400 Well, perhaps the bill hasn't been paid. 252 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:39,500 It has. I paid it. 253 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:42,600 Of course, that girl is in love with you, too 254 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:44,000 if that's any comfort. 255 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,800 Stella by Starlight? 256 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:50,900 "Don't bother to telephone stop." 257 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:54,400 "Will not accept reverse charges stop." 258 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,600 "Yours, Meredith." 259 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,300 Thank you. 260 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:07,700 If I could, I'd take you away from all this. 261 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,900 I'm sorry. 262 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:27,700 You're afraid of dirt. 263 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,300 Better than lurking in corridors for Meredith Potter 264 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,100 with a copy of Shakespeare at hand in case he notices you. 265 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,900 What about you, then? 266 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:37,400 Got a pash on him? 267 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,700 He's not here anyway. 268 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,200 In London with the designer, I'm told. 269 00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:44,200 I know. 270 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:47,800 Why don't you like George? 271 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:51,600 I do. He has native intelligence. 272 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:54,600 - He's not a nigger. - What? 273 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,200 He went straight from St. Aloysius' 274 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,600 to the Royal Court as a stagehand. 275 00:18:58,700 --> 00:18:59,900 If he slopped glue 276 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:01,600 he was hit on the head with the brush. 277 00:19:01,700 --> 00:19:04,200 If he made a noise, he was fined sixpence. 278 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:08,000 They all were. Then he came here as a day man. 279 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,700 They were all something. 280 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,800 At sea. Over Germany. In the desert. 281 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:28,900 Well, Mother, I might as well get it over with 282 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,800 s-so that when the moment comes to be p-penetrated 283 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:38,400 by Mr. Potter, I shall not put him off 284 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,200 scream... or anything. 285 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:51,800 I don't like the feel of it. 286 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:53,500 Thank you very much, Geoffrey. 287 00:19:55,700 --> 00:19:57,900 It's not that I don't like old George. 288 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:00,000 It's just that he stinks. 289 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:04,900 I'll put these on the boiler. 290 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:14,800 Leave it! Leave it! 291 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:16,800 You'll have us all blown to eternity! 292 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,000 I can do it! 293 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Oh, can you? Can you? 294 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:24,800 Look at you! 295 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:27,600 Blow us all to buggery. 296 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:29,900 At the theatre I have a lot to do with gas. 297 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:31,400 It's one of my jobs is gas. 298 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:32,700 Oh, is it? 299 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:35,800 I hope you know what you're doing there all hours. 300 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:37,700 All kinds of hours. 301 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,700 What do you know of life? 302 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,100 The way that life can bowl you over? 303 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,000 Bowl you over! 304 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:47,600 But not here it won't. 305 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,400 You put that on the door. 306 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:55,400 Unless you want all and sundry catching you in your vest. 307 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,500 Uncle Vernon? 308 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:33,700 I know you want what's best for me. 309 00:21:33,700 --> 00:21:37,600 A-and... 310 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:40,600 fear for me, don't you? 311 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,400 But it's all right. 312 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:51,000 I want it to happen. 313 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:56,900 And... 314 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,400 Really, I-- I think the world of you. 315 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,900 I've cleaned the tidemark 316 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:14,300 and put the loofah back under the stairs. 317 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:19,300 Night-night. 318 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:25,100 Nighty-night. God bless. 319 00:22:34,900 --> 00:22:36,300 Night-night. 320 00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:52,200 Night-night. 321 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,200 Do I do the right thing? 322 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:03,700 If the school won't have her back... 323 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,300 Not won't. Not won't. 324 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,300 Well, they don't think she'd benefit. 325 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,800 She's got the brains. Candles. But not... 326 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,800 Oh, yes. Anything else? 327 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,400 ...the application. Toilet rolls. 328 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,600 Quantity two dozen. 329 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:22,900 Afraid I can only manage... 330 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:24,700 She's burgeoning, you know. 331 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:26,400 Is she? 332 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,200 - Is your daughter? - What? 333 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:33,500 Burgeoning, as it were, yet? 334 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:36,300 I don't know. 335 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,400 I haven't looked. 336 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:41,900 No, no, no! It's the one on the left! 337 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,500 The left, dear! She's deaf as a post. 338 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,700 Yes, well, it's your right. Thank you. 339 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,100 Now, Geoffrey, move stage left. 340 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,700 Stage left. Thank you very much. 341 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:59,000 Thank you, no. Number 8? 342 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,500 - No, thank you. - Shall I move stage left? 343 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,600 Geoffrey, is that where I asked you to stand? 344 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,800 I was trying-- 345 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,200 Please stand where I asked you to stand! 346 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:11,900 - Sorry. - Number 10? 347 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,900 Footlights. That takes me back. 348 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:15,800 No. Number 11. 349 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,200 Now, that's very close. Thank you. 350 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:21,600 The play's awfully good, isn't it, Mr. Potter? 351 00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:25,000 Why this wasn't sorted out yesterday is beyond me. 352 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,300 I'm coming in! 353 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,700 What do you think it's about, Stella? 354 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,400 Now, there are two ways of doing this... 355 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:34,600 Love? 356 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,000 Uh, love. 357 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,000 Is it? 358 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:46,700 People loving people who love other people? 359 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,300 No, no. Thank you. 360 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,800 I, um... 361 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:57,000 I think it's about time. 362 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,900 I think we're all mourners at a funeral procession 363 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:04,800 and that some of us have simply dropped behind 364 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:07,600 to tie a shoelace. 365 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:11,300 So contact with the beloved is suspended. 366 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,400 But the dead-- the dead are still there. 367 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:21,000 So, too, those we think we love. 368 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:23,600 Just around 369 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,100 the dangerous corner, if you like... 370 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,400 waiting to be, um... 371 00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:31,800 Hilary! 372 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:35,700 Bunny. How long? 373 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,700 Weeks at this rate. 374 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,000 Caught up with-- waiting to be caught up with. 375 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:49,400 I-- I hadn't thought of it like that. 376 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,400 No. 377 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,400 Stella. Stella! 378 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,600 Call beginners, please. 379 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,600 Don't you think they're good, Stella's notes? 380 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,600 I mean, I wish I could spell like that. 381 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:20,400 Mourners at a "funral," is my favourite bit. 382 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:22,500 It's cold now! 383 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,000 I hate cold bacon. 384 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,900 We haven't all got shoes with laces. 385 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,900 All beginners, please! 386 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:42,400 Beginners, please! 387 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:44,400 - Fetch Bunny. - What's that noise? 388 00:26:44,500 --> 00:26:46,100 Not a word. 389 00:26:56,900 --> 00:27:00,200 Why can't we start?! 390 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,600 Th-there's a spot of bother. 391 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:05,600 Huh? Speak up. What is wrong? 392 00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:08,400 I've been forbidden to divulge. 393 00:27:16,900 --> 00:27:18,200 How long?! 394 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:24,200 Leave her! 395 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:26,400 He's such a shit! 396 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,000 Cheer up, Stella. It might never happen. 397 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:31,100 There are priests out there. 398 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,200 Only for rehearsals. It's a sin otherwise. 399 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:36,600 His Nibs is a convert. 400 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:39,900 Mr. Potter's Catholic? 401 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:42,600 Well, they all are. Actors. 402 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,200 Desmond Fairchild, he's not. 403 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,900 What is he? 404 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,400 Hold it under there, like that. 405 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:57,000 Deep breaths, Miss Allenby. 406 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:00,200 Remember your training. 407 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:11,900 Stand by, Mr. Fairchild, please. 408 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,000 House lights. 409 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:21,500 Going up. 410 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:25,400 You have just been listening to a play 411 00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:28,800 in eight scenes written for broadcasting 412 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:33,900 by Mr. Humphrey Stoat, called "The Sleeping Dog." 413 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,500 Hello, Mother. 414 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:47,900 I'm becoming a Catholic. 415 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,800 You'd like the play. 416 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,000 At the end, they dance to that tune 417 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,200 "My Foolish Heart." 418 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,600 # When I take my sugar to tea # 419 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,700 # All the boys are jealous of me # 420 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:05,900 # 'Cause I never take her where the gang goes # 421 00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:08,500 # When I take my sugar to tea # 422 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,000 # I'm a rowdy dowdy, that's me # 423 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:13,900 # She's a high hat baby, that's she # 424 00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:16,900 # So I never take her where the gang goes # 425 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:19,900 # When I take my sugar to tea # 426 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,600 # Every Sunday afternoon # 427 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,200 # We forget about our cares # 428 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,400 # Rubbing elbows at the Ritz # 429 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,400 Ah, Dotty's over there. Shall we join them? 430 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:30,900 Oh, let's not. 431 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:32,600 Oh, poor Dicky. 432 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,900 What a cross he has to bear. 433 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:39,000 Drunk as a fiddler's bitch she was. 434 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:42,900 Is. Will be. Ha ha ha! 435 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:45,500 Some people like being burdened. 436 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:47,500 Gives them an interest. 437 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,200 Obsession? 438 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:52,600 Obsession is hell! 439 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:54,300 It devours. 440 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,400 Oh, I haven't forgotten the misery of it. 441 00:29:57,500 --> 00:30:01,800 Him! P.L. O'Hara. 442 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:03,000 Though everybody warned me. 443 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:04,900 I mean, he chased everything in a skirt. 444 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:06,900 Dicky isn't like that. 445 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:10,000 No, but Dawn is. Trousers. 446 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:11,200 Poor Dicky. 447 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:12,800 Poor Dicky and his trousers. 448 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:16,900 Oh, P.L., P.L.! 449 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:19,100 I thought I could help him forget. 450 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,800 About what? 451 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:23,600 What he did. 452 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:26,800 Got a local girl in trouble and scarpered. 453 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:33,000 Is Mr. Potter's friend o-obsessed with him? 454 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,900 Bunny? 455 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:36,400 Hilary. 456 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,900 Do you know, treasure, I don't know. 457 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,600 Is she pretty? Is she elegant? 458 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:46,000 She'd have to be special. 459 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,600 Any lady friend of Meredith's 460 00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:52,300 would have to be something special. 461 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,300 How very true. 462 00:30:57,900 --> 00:30:59,800 What about Desmond Fairchild? 463 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,800 What's your estimation of him? 464 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:04,400 He's a cunt. 465 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:09,900 Belated afternoon to you girls. 466 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,100 I shall give her a part. 467 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,800 Of course, he is. She shall play... 468 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:29,200 She shall play Ptolemy, the boy king, hmm? 469 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,700 Save getting an amateur in. 470 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,400 Trouble is, Fairchild is a local councilor's nephew. 471 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,000 Is he? 472 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,900 Maybe you should talk to her, then, Bunny. 473 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,000 Wash her mouth out with soap. 474 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:50,900 Stella... 475 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,200 Can't stop or it won't stretch, George says. 476 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,100 It's been brought to my notice 477 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,200 that you called a member of the company a... 478 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,100 Is that how you spell it? 479 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,240 This is a theatre, 480 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:21,400 George told me he was. 481 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:24,900 Isn't it something to do with betting, like favourite? 482 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,400 Spend less time in the prop room. 483 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:40,800 Ptolemy. The boy king. Son of the flute-blower. 484 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:42,400 He's only in Act II. 485 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:49,900 Geoffrey, don't stand about. You'll turn to stone. 486 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,900 You're a bit lucky. 487 00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:59,800 Luck doesn't come into it. 488 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:04,700 Mr. Potter wouldn't ask me if he didn't think I could do it. 489 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:44,900 I'm being interviewed by the "Manchester Daily News." 490 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,600 I'm at the Reparatory Theatre. 491 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:49,000 I play the boy king. 492 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:51,000 S'all right for some. 493 00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:53,700 Son of the flute-blower? 494 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,900 Didn't he want his welsh rarebit? 495 00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:59,400 I'm 16 years old. 496 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,100 I've got a diploma from 497 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,100 the Manchester Academy of Dramatic Art. 498 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,500 I can also do American dialects from the Deep South. 499 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,400 I was trained by Mrs. Ackerley. 500 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:17,700 She plumped out me vowels. I tend to have flat ones. 501 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,200 I'll wait for you after the show. 502 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:28,900 Take you for a drink. 503 00:34:31,700 --> 00:34:35,800 Oh! Good girl! Ohh! 504 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,900 How do you get V.D.? 505 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,900 All the newspapers. Even Manchester. 506 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:18,300 There'll be many's the write-up for our Stella 507 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,600 but this'll be the important one, now. 508 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:30,000 On the doorstep of my digs this morning 509 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,100 with a bloody great bunch of half-dead daffodils. 510 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,900 - Who? - Dawn Allenby, who do you think? 511 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:36,000 I had to let her in. 512 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:38,000 She started picking up my socks. 513 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:40,000 Ohh! She drinks. 514 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:41,600 - We know. - We know. 515 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:48,400 Why does Richard St. Ives 516 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:50,600 put a red dot in the corner of each eye? 517 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:53,400 To make him look younger. 518 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,600 How dare you?! 519 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,300 How dare he? 520 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,900 All right, Stella? 521 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:33,300 Good luck. 522 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,400 House lights, Joe. 523 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,500 Ah! By Apis, Persian, thy gods are good to thee. 524 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,900 Try yet again, Captain. Double or quits. 525 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,900 No, I am not in the vein. 526 00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:07,700 Stand! Who goes there? 527 00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:27,500 Good night, old boy! 528 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:38,100 T-there's this man. 529 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:39,300 A boy-- 530 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:47,800 Been given my bloody notice. 531 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:52,800 Not wanted after "Caesar and Cleopatra." 532 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,000 Oh, dear. 533 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:59,600 Swine. What a swine. 534 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,800 Tells me there's nothing for me. 535 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:08,400 Looking at me through that bloody monocle. 536 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:10,900 Bloody swine. 537 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,100 Swine Meredith bloody Potter. 538 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,900 What about bloody Wendy? 539 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,100 Mr. Potter's not to blame! 540 00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:22,600 It was Dicky St. Ives said it was you or him. 541 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000 Come on, then! Be a good-- 542 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,300 No! Stay away! 543 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:35,200 Ha! I only drink 544 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,900 because our house took a direct hit in Ealing. 545 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,700 I'm not like that! I'm sorry. 546 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:46,000 For two days, I was buried alive 547 00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:47,900 nursing my mother's vase. 548 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,600 Oh, dear. What are we to do? 549 00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:53,000 When they pulled me out 550 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:56,400 the vase was without so much as a single crack. 551 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:56,400 The thing is... 552 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:01,700 Then the bloody rescue man stumbled. 553 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,900 I have a gulp in my throat won't go away. 554 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,500 As if I'm waiting for something. 555 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,400 What are you doing here, young lady? 556 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:28,500 N-nothing, Miss Lipman. 557 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:32,900 These new shoes are killing me. 558 00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:37,000 They're gone, Vernon and Lily. 559 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:42,000 It's not them. It's a young man. 560 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,300 A reporter. 561 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,900 He pursues me 562 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,900 and awaits me in the shadows. 563 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:00,400 I've ordered a taxi. 564 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,100 Silly girl. 565 00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:06,500 What'll become of her, Bunny? 566 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,000 What will become of you? 567 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,400 If you're lucky, you'll end up like me. 568 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,400 At least me... 569 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:19,000 I was as silly as you in a lot of ways. Still am. 570 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,600 A sickness, my girl, being something else. 571 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,000 See you don't get lost while you are something else. 572 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,600 Came to the right place for it, I'll say that. 573 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:42,000 Listening to every word we say. 574 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:44,100 Look... 575 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:50,800 And this stuck in her sock. 576 00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:55,900 I find it comforting. 577 00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:57,100 You're never a Catholic. 578 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,000 Vernon Bradshaw wouldn't let you near-- 579 00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:00,900 Uncle Vernon does not rule my life. 580 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:03,200 Not this nor in the next. 581 00:41:03,300 --> 00:41:06,200 I'm thinking about going over. 582 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:07,600 To the Romans. 583 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:11,000 While you think, wear a smaller one round your neck. 584 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:12,300 Don't tell Uncle Vernon. 585 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,800 All right, but behave yourself. 586 00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:19,800 I do rule your life while you're in this theatre, my girl. 587 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,300 Be what you like. 588 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,000 Don't tell the whole of Liverpool I said you could. 589 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:30,200 While you're on the cross 590 00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:33,900 there's a boil coming in on your wrist should be lanced. 591 00:41:33,900 --> 00:41:35,900 Anything else? 592 00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:39,500 No. 593 00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:42,900 Right. Left foot forward. 594 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:51,200 Thank you. 595 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,400 Stella? 596 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,700 Go down to the kitchen 597 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,400 and ask the waiter with a dent in his forehead 598 00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,200 to send up a bucket full of ice cubes 599 00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:43,100 and two or three napkins. 600 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,900 And then get lots of black coffee and some aspirin. 601 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,800 Last night he thought he could fly 602 00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:57,600 from a window at The Commercial. 603 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,600 Fortunately at the bar parlour window. 604 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,300 I've got a part in this one. 605 00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:10,000 As I live and breathe, Peter Pan! 606 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:15,400 - Slightly! - Very same. 607 00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:19,900 Scala Theatre, 1922. 608 00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:22,900 'Course I've-- I've grown somewhat since then. 609 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,200 Oh, yes! Mmm! 610 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,300 Oh, who's Hook this time? 611 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,200 - Dicky St. Ives. - Oh, bugger. 612 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,700 Morning, Dicky. How are you, squire? 613 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,100 Very, very well. 614 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:36,100 Geoffrey! 615 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,200 Get me 20 Players, will you? 616 00:43:40,300 --> 00:43:41,900 What did your last servant die of? 617 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,900 Do as you're told, Geoffrey. 618 00:43:44,900 --> 00:43:46,900 Hoity-toity this morning, aren't we? 619 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,600 Thank you, Stella. 620 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,300 And there's your torch. Remember what I told you? 621 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,300 I can't. 622 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,900 Not shine a torch and ring a bell at the same time. 623 00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:57,200 Weren't you in the Girl Guides, dear? 624 00:43:57,300 --> 00:43:59,400 No. They wouldn't have me. 625 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:03,300 And I have an aversion to flickering lights. 626 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:04,800 Something in me past. 627 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:08,800 Little candle flames make me shiver. 628 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:11,100 I cannot go into it here. 629 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:16,000 Sufficient to say, it is the stuff of nightmares. 630 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:19,700 You-- None of you know-- 631 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,500 I don't know. 632 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:27,800 I'm not qualified to say whether the grief 633 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,400 his mother felt in the death of his elder brother had an 634 00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:35,100 adverse effect on Mr. Barrie's emotional development 635 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,900 because... 636 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,100 I have pains of my own. 637 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,400 Me. Not you. 638 00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:50,200 Or you or you or anyone. 639 00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:51,500 I-- Me! 640 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:56,400 I... I... have them. 641 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:07,200 "Peter Pan" is pure make-believe. 642 00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:10,300 I don't want any truck with anything else 643 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,900 so, children, and poor people 644 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,700 if you can't see the truth, give me make-believe. 645 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,400 I prefer it. 646 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:26,400 So don't give me any symbolic... 647 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:28,200 Ohh! 648 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,900 Shambolic more like, what? 649 00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:42,900 What are you miserable about? 650 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,900 Nothing. 651 00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:50,800 Is it because I've got a part 652 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,300 and you've only a torch and a bell? 653 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,900 Tinkerbell's very important. 654 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,300 In this precarious profession 655 00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,900 it doesn't do to get too big for one's boots. 656 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,000 So, what were you doing the other night swearing at Meredith 657 00:46:03,100 --> 00:46:04,800 and running down the stairs like a looney? 658 00:46:04,900 --> 00:46:06,400 What were you doing spying? 659 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:09,300 I was coping with Dawn. 660 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,200 Poor woman. 661 00:46:11,300 --> 00:46:13,100 She was two days under rubble. 662 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:14,900 They all were. 663 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,900 It-- It's Mr. Potter. 664 00:46:21,700 --> 00:46:24,900 He hardly knows I'm there. 665 00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:28,000 He can't feel anything of me... 666 00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:29,900 here. 667 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,500 He should be able to. 668 00:46:35,300 --> 00:46:37,400 He's got other things to think about. 669 00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:39,000 Thank you, Jimmy. 670 00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:47,200 Oh, dear, dear. 671 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,200 The last thing we need. 672 00:47:12,100 --> 00:47:13,600 "Dearest Swine, 673 00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:15,700 "no money, no job, no friends. 674 00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:20,700 "Hope you and that ghastly Liverpool girl are satisfied. 675 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,900 "Use this in memory of me. Yours, Dawn Allenby." 676 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,600 "Manchester Daily News, November 9th." 677 00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:56,000 Up and out, please! 678 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,600 That means you, too, Miss Bradshaw. 679 00:48:05,700 --> 00:48:08,000 A marvellous man this Caesar. 680 00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:09,800 When think you he will come? 681 00:48:09,900 --> 00:48:13,600 He was settling the Jewish problem when I left. 682 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,000 "In other roles, a promising debut was made 683 00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:38,100 "by young local actress Stella Bradshaw. 684 00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:41,900 "In the part of Ptolemy, she was always convincing..." 685 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:47,300 See, my ship is waiting. 686 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,000 The time for Caesar's farewell to Egypt has arrived. 687 00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:52,800 Caesar comes! 688 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,900 Attention there! Here comes Caesar! 689 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,500 What the-- 690 00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:06,300 Aah! Oh, no! 691 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:07,900 All right, squire? 692 00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:11,000 That bloody woman! Ohh! 693 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,600 Thank you. 694 00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:19,700 This has never happened before, not even for miscarriages. 695 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,800 What's wrong with Desmond Fairchild? 696 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,000 Why could he not go on? 697 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,300 Says he hasn't the legs for Caesar. 698 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:26,400 He would be a laughing-stock. 699 00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:27,700 So what about Captain Hook? 700 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,800 Says he's suited with the part of Smee... 701 00:49:29,900 --> 00:49:31,200 Thank you very much. 702 00:49:31,300 --> 00:49:33,900 Oh, for God's sake, are you sure Dicky can't stand up? 703 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,200 Meredith, the poor man has broken his leg in two places. 704 00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:39,100 Yes, that's �1,10 shillings. 705 00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:40,900 Enjoy the-- Oh, what am I saying? 706 00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:43,200 What about that actor always sending me photographs? 707 00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:46,000 His wife phoned to ask for them back. He's dead. 708 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,100 - What about Cyril? - Who's Cyril? 709 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:52,900 Oh, yes, Cyril What's-his-name I did know at Derby. 710 00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:55,300 And he later lost both his legs at the first Battle of Alamein. 711 00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,000 I mean, try, Bunny! 712 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,300 O'Hara. 713 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,200 - No. - Why not? 714 00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:03,800 The thing is, Rose, I don't-- I don't-- 715 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,500 If he's free, he'll come for me. 716 00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,600 The thing is, I don't think he's right for it. 717 00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:10,300 Do you, Bunny? 718 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:11,900 Fiddlesticks! 719 00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:14,900 He is the best Captain Hook there has ever been. 720 00:51:04,700 --> 00:51:06,600 Haven't changed. 721 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,600 Still hankering after the past, I see. 722 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:13,500 Bloody motorbike at your age. 723 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,900 What is it, next week "Lawrence of Arabia"? 724 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,200 Mind you don't fall off. 725 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,200 Six-week run. Two matinees a week from Tuesday. 726 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,900 All right with Potter after last time? 727 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,300 Funny bugger. Spent too much money 728 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,600 on two big productions, one after the other 729 00:51:37,700 --> 00:51:40,100 and now we won't break even. Well, we might. 730 00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,900 With "Peter Pan." With you. 731 00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:50,900 I don't do that with everyone, so mind. 732 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,800 Welcome home. 733 00:52:05,900 --> 00:52:07,200 I know this is your old dressing room. 734 00:52:07,300 --> 00:52:09,800 George told me. 735 00:52:09,900 --> 00:52:13,500 I'm Stella. A student. 736 00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:15,900 Should be A.S.M. as George says 737 00:52:15,900 --> 00:52:17,500 but they won't pay us. 738 00:52:21,100 --> 00:52:23,800 You have to kick the pipes to get the water out of the taps. 739 00:52:23,900 --> 00:52:25,800 I expect you didn't know. 740 00:52:25,900 --> 00:52:28,800 Do you know Mary Deare, Peter Pan? 741 00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,400 I think she's very good, don't you? 742 00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:33,200 How strange it is. 743 00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:36,900 You and me. Together. I mean, here. 744 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,500 After all these years. 745 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,300 Did you ever get my Christmas cards? 746 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,400 I never forgot. 747 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:48,400 But then you never were one to dwell on the past, were you? 748 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,600 I'm not called. 749 00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,700 I just came in to see you. 750 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,300 They're all very nice. 751 00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,100 Miss Bird is very nice. 752 00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:05,900 So's Miss Blundell. Very nice, too. 753 00:54:05,900 --> 00:54:08,100 Uh, Sibyl, a brew? 754 00:54:10,300 --> 00:54:11,500 Mr. Fairchild is... 755 00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:13,200 Hmm? 756 00:54:13,300 --> 00:54:15,600 I do know other words 757 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,400 but nobody usually likes the sound of them. 758 00:54:23,900 --> 00:54:26,300 I know her. 759 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,400 Stella? Oh, hardly, darling. 760 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,700 First job. Never been further than Blackpool. 761 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,500 I know him. 762 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,300 Now is the hour 763 00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:54,600 when children in their homes are abed. 764 00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:01,200 Their lips bright-browned with the good-night chocolate. 765 00:55:01,300 --> 00:55:06,900 And their tongues drowsily searching for belated crumbs 766 00:55:06,900 --> 00:55:11,400 housed insecurely on their shining cheeks. 767 00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:15,400 Compare with them 768 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,400 the children on this boat about to walk the plank. 769 00:55:19,500 --> 00:55:21,900 Split my infinitives 770 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:26,100 but 'tis my hour of triumph! 771 00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:27,600 Yo-ho, yo-ho, 772 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:32,900 The frisky captain walks along and so... 773 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:35,800 And yet 774 00:55:35,900 --> 00:55:40,300 some disky spirit compels me now 775 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,000 to make my dying speech. 776 00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,900 Lest when dying 777 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,700 there may be... 778 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,600 "No time for it." 779 00:55:57,300 --> 00:56:00,900 Should one pause there? 780 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,600 Yes. 781 00:56:02,700 --> 00:56:05,800 No, no, I mean should we pause there? 782 00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,900 Good time to break. Mary? 783 00:56:07,900 --> 00:56:09,900 I-- I thought... 784 00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:15,100 Mr. O'Hara, can I get you a cup of tea? 785 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:16,800 Yes. Thanks. 786 00:56:16,900 --> 00:56:18,700 Bunny? 787 00:56:20,700 --> 00:56:23,600 Mr. Potter doesn't ask me to do notes anymore. 788 00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:29,200 Have I upset him, Bunny? 789 00:56:29,300 --> 00:56:32,500 I shouldn't think so, dear. Not you. 790 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,200 Did you come back for me, P.L., or something else? 791 00:56:36,300 --> 00:56:41,000 You. I owe you a great deal. 792 00:56:41,100 --> 00:56:43,600 What you been looking for? 793 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,600 You can't do anything I don't hear about 794 00:56:47,700 --> 00:56:50,000 on that motorbike. 795 00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:54,500 You won't find her. Not now. 796 00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,000 I might. 797 00:57:00,900 --> 00:57:03,500 Or I might find him. 798 00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:04,900 How will you know? 799 00:57:07,700 --> 00:57:09,400 I'll know. 800 00:57:12,300 --> 00:57:17,400 A little chap that stands like me. 801 00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:18,700 How's that? 802 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,800 Heroical. Twice nightly. 803 01:00:00,900 --> 01:00:02,600 Leave it. 804 01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:09,900 Disley? 805 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,800 Disley! 806 01:00:13,900 --> 01:00:16,600 Do you want the nursery set stage left or stage right? 807 01:00:16,700 --> 01:00:18,700 - Stella! - Are you sure? 808 01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,000 Because it's got to be even numbers. 809 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:21,400 Cup of tea, dear. 810 01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:22,800 - George? - Uh-huh? 811 01:00:22,900 --> 01:00:24,800 I want the nursery set in next, please. 812 01:00:24,900 --> 01:00:26,800 Hey! 813 01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,900 Good of you to join us, Geoffrey. 814 01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,800 Right! Let's hang the cloths! 815 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:51,800 Careful. 816 01:00:55,700 --> 01:00:56,900 Let's take it up. 817 01:00:56,900 --> 01:00:59,900 Easy! Right! 818 01:01:00,900 --> 01:01:03,000 Fly it! Stella, I'll do it. 819 01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:05,600 Gently! Steady, steady, steady! 820 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:09,400 That's it, that's it. 821 01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:13,900 That's it. Yes, good! 822 01:01:13,900 --> 01:01:16,000 Oh, Disley, it's beautiful. 823 01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,100 Do you like it? Wait till it's lit. 824 01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:21,800 Yes, well done, Disley. It's beautiful. 825 01:01:21,900 --> 01:01:23,900 Wait till it's lit. 826 01:01:36,500 --> 01:01:37,900 No, thanks. 827 01:01:39,100 --> 01:01:41,700 I've had more than enough for one morning. 828 01:01:54,900 --> 01:01:56,800 Well... Ahem! 829 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,900 It's, um... 830 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,100 Not far enough upstage... by two foot. 831 01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,800 Well, it can't go any further back. 832 01:02:04,900 --> 01:02:07,600 It's already on the last set of lines. 833 01:02:07,700 --> 01:02:09,900 Well, it's too far downstage. 834 01:02:09,900 --> 01:02:11,800 What do you propose I do about it? 835 01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:13,400 I don't know. 836 01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,600 Hang it from below the bridge and tumble it. 837 01:02:16,700 --> 01:02:21,400 You do know how to tumble a cloth, don't you, Bunny? 838 01:02:21,500 --> 01:02:23,900 Oh, dear, Bunny doesn't know how to tumble a cloth. 839 01:02:23,900 --> 01:02:25,100 George, can you help? 840 01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,000 Now we'll have to re-hang everything! 841 01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,000 Well, you should've got it right the first time. 842 01:02:29,100 --> 01:02:32,600 I need depth. Every inch you can give me. 843 01:02:32,700 --> 01:02:33,900 Eh, George? 844 01:02:38,700 --> 01:02:43,200 Well, you have the wish to come with me, Geoff-wey 845 01:02:43,300 --> 01:02:45,600 or do you want to stay here with Mr. Potter? 846 01:02:45,700 --> 01:02:48,800 Oh? Oh? Geoff-wey! 847 01:02:48,900 --> 01:02:51,200 Well, Geoffrey? 848 01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,300 Sorry. What does he call you? Your new friend? 849 01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,600 Geoff-wey? Go on, Geoff-wey! 850 01:02:55,900 --> 01:02:57,800 Get up them stairs. You might learn something. 851 01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:01,000 "Bring me out that doodle-doo!" 852 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:02,300 Morning. 853 01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,400 Launched me pirate ship yet? 854 01:03:06,500 --> 01:03:08,000 Not quite, no. 855 01:03:08,100 --> 01:03:09,900 Perhaps you ought to show us how 856 01:03:09,900 --> 01:03:12,700 being a jolly jack tar, and all, hmm? 857 01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:14,700 Or a matelot, and all. 858 01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,900 Tiddly drop of thickers, George. 859 01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:30,900 I think he makes a very good Captain Hook 860 01:03:30,900 --> 01:03:32,900 don't you, Stella? Hmm? 861 01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:50,600 How still the night is. 862 01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:56,900 Nothing sounds alive. 863 01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:01,800 Now is the hour 864 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,500 when children in their homes are abed 865 01:04:05,500 --> 01:04:08,300 their lips bright-browned 866 01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,900 with the good-night chocolate. 867 01:04:12,700 --> 01:04:16,100 And their tongues drowsily searching 868 01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:17,800 for belated crumbs 869 01:04:17,900 --> 01:04:22,000 housed insecurely on their shining cheeks. 870 01:04:24,500 --> 01:04:26,200 Compare with them 871 01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:30,300 the children on this boat about to walk the plank. 872 01:04:32,300 --> 01:04:35,000 Split my infinitives 873 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:40,200 but 'tis my hour of triumph! 874 01:04:49,300 --> 01:04:50,800 And yet... 875 01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:57,700 some disky spirit compels me now 876 01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,700 to make my dying speech 877 01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,200 lest when dying... 878 01:05:04,900 --> 01:05:08,400 there may be no time for it. 879 01:05:26,300 --> 01:05:29,900 As usual, a child being sick during my quiet scene. 880 01:05:29,900 --> 01:05:32,000 Well done, Shirley. Oh, thank you. 881 01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,400 There's a Christmas party. 882 01:05:34,500 --> 01:05:36,900 You were very good with the torch. 883 01:06:00,500 --> 01:06:01,900 Un triomphe! 884 01:06:18,100 --> 01:06:20,100 Over there. 885 01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:21,300 You sit down there. 886 01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:22,500 All right. 887 01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:25,400 John! 888 01:06:25,500 --> 01:06:27,100 I can't go on like this. We have to talk. 889 01:06:27,100 --> 01:06:28,900 Oh, I think everyone ought to talk. 890 01:06:28,900 --> 01:06:30,200 I think you ought to dance, as well. 891 01:06:30,300 --> 01:06:32,900 He's thinking about leaving the theatre. 892 01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,600 We've saved you a seat here, darling. 893 01:06:37,700 --> 01:06:39,000 Come on. 894 01:06:41,500 --> 01:06:43,300 Look at her hair. What a colour. 895 01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,700 I know! Isn't it tedious? 896 01:06:46,900 --> 01:06:47,900 Thank you, darling. 897 01:07:00,100 --> 01:07:02,900 Everybody looked at someone else 898 01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,500 even while they were talking to somebody. 899 01:07:07,100 --> 01:07:10,000 It's not easy to do. 900 01:07:10,100 --> 01:07:13,000 I thought you understood. 901 01:07:13,100 --> 01:07:15,600 Don't let it get you down, Geoff-wey. 902 01:07:18,900 --> 01:07:20,900 What's going on there? 903 01:07:22,100 --> 01:07:23,600 Meredith. 904 01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:25,100 He's up to his usual nonsense. 905 01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,400 You're ruining my life. 906 01:07:31,900 --> 01:07:34,100 You can't force him to give you better parts. 907 01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,200 You mind your own business. You know nothing about it. 908 01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,400 Would you like to dance? 909 01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:46,300 I-- I'm no good at it. 910 01:08:14,900 --> 01:08:16,600 Keep the hands up. 911 01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,000 Yes. 912 01:08:27,100 --> 01:08:28,800 Huh? 913 01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,300 Where's Meredith? 914 01:08:34,300 --> 01:08:35,900 Went to midnight mass. 915 01:08:35,900 --> 01:08:38,400 With Bunny. They've just gone. 916 01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,600 Shall I give you a lift home? 917 01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:41,900 Y-yes. 918 01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,900 Stop! Stop, please! 919 01:09:08,900 --> 01:09:10,400 Here'll do. 920 01:09:10,500 --> 01:09:12,300 I want to phone me mother. 921 01:09:12,400 --> 01:09:14,000 Would you like a cup of tea? 922 01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:09,700 Damp. 923 01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:15,900 Turpentine. 924 01:10:18,300 --> 01:10:21,200 I had a friend who painted. 925 01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,900 You look at me as if I might fly up the chimney. 926 01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:21,600 It shouldn't be quite like that, you know? 927 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:29,000 There are things come first. 928 01:11:30,900 --> 01:11:32,900 Lots of things. 929 01:11:35,900 --> 01:11:38,800 For instance, you have to take your knickers off. 930 01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:44,500 Or shall I? 931 01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:51,000 If you like. 932 01:11:59,500 --> 01:12:00,900 Stella... 933 01:12:03,500 --> 01:12:05,000 Stella... 934 01:12:09,900 --> 01:12:12,800 Stella Maris... 935 01:12:34,900 --> 01:12:36,400 Who's Stella Maris? 936 01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:46,400 I knew someone called that. 937 01:12:48,900 --> 01:12:53,500 "Star of the sea." 938 01:12:57,600 --> 01:12:59,300 Stella Maris. 939 01:13:01,300 --> 01:13:03,300 That's nice. 940 01:13:05,700 --> 01:13:08,900 It's not a real name. It's something she made up. 941 01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:26,900 Dotty bought me this. 942 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,200 'Cause she was worried about me growth. 943 01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:40,400 If you need some water, there's only the sink. 944 01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:42,900 No, thank you. I had a bath last night. 945 01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,800 I expect there's a knack to it. 946 01:13:55,900 --> 01:13:58,100 It's very intimate, isn't it? 947 01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:59,800 Hello, Mother? 948 01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:01,800 I've got something-- 949 01:15:01,900 --> 01:15:03,900 It's Stella. 950 01:15:03,900 --> 01:15:06,400 I've got something to tell you. 951 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,400 Uncle Vernon? 952 01:16:24,500 --> 01:16:25,800 I'm in. 953 01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:58,400 I'm looking for Mr. Potter from the-- the theatre. 954 01:17:07,900 --> 01:17:12,500 Sorry to intrude, but I'm impelled to speak. 955 01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,200 Oh. My name is Bradshaw. 956 01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:19,200 Oh, my God. 957 01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:21,300 You're Uncle Vernon. 958 01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:23,200 Delighted! 959 01:17:52,100 --> 01:17:54,900 Someone was splashing out at Woolworths. 960 01:17:54,900 --> 01:17:56,600 Quiet, please! 961 01:18:02,900 --> 01:18:06,200 Stella's very young and very impressionable. 962 01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:13,000 Well under the age of carnal consent. 963 01:18:13,100 --> 01:18:15,800 I-- I can't be everywhere. 964 01:18:15,900 --> 01:18:18,900 It'd look very odd, that-- that. 965 01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:25,600 The thing is, she gets very upset. 966 01:18:25,900 --> 01:18:27,900 Do you get very upset? 967 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:31,900 Ohh. I served in North Africa. 968 01:18:32,900 --> 01:18:36,400 I didn't. I was in the catering corps. 969 01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:39,100 Were you very brave? 970 01:18:45,900 --> 01:18:47,800 Stella! 971 01:18:59,700 --> 01:19:01,400 Coming back? 972 01:19:02,900 --> 01:19:04,200 No. 973 01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:07,000 Why not? 974 01:19:08,700 --> 01:19:10,700 I just don't want to. 975 01:19:10,900 --> 01:19:13,500 Uncle Vernon wouldn't like it. 976 01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,800 It strikes me clear as day, she's gone, Lily. 977 01:19:53,300 --> 01:19:54,800 What have I-- 978 01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:57,400 What have we led her in for, eh? 979 01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:55,500 No tea for me. 980 01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:58,000 It'll warm you up. 981 01:20:58,100 --> 01:20:59,600 No, it doesn't. 982 01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:24,400 You ought to get a proper coat. 983 01:21:26,900 --> 01:21:30,000 Auntie Lily bought me a coat. 984 01:21:30,100 --> 01:21:32,600 I'd rather die. 985 01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:36,900 It's too big and it's got a fur collar. 986 01:21:36,900 --> 01:21:39,200 It sounds glamorous. 987 01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:44,700 You have to paint your face if you wear fur. 988 01:21:46,700 --> 01:21:49,500 Cheap goods should be wrapped in plain brown paper. 989 01:21:56,100 --> 01:21:57,800 Who gave you the pearls? 990 01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:02,900 My mother. 991 01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:05,800 I'm sorry. 992 01:22:05,900 --> 01:22:07,900 I can see they weren't bought in Woolworths. 993 01:22:07,900 --> 01:22:10,300 They probably were. 994 01:22:11,900 --> 01:22:15,300 Which is why she left them on me pillow... 995 01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:17,100 twined around a single red rose. 996 01:22:19,900 --> 01:22:22,900 What a lovely thing to do. 997 01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:33,800 I'm in love with someone else! 998 01:22:36,300 --> 01:22:38,300 Do you do this with him? 999 01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:40,900 What's that got to do with it? 1000 01:22:49,500 --> 01:22:52,800 Put your legs closer together. 1001 01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:01,200 That feels different. 1002 01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:07,900 Put them-- There's-- 1003 01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:10,900 Meredith. 1004 01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,800 Meredith. 1005 01:23:28,900 --> 01:23:32,800 She won't wear the vest wardrobe has made for her. 1006 01:23:32,900 --> 01:23:35,300 I bleed for her. 1007 01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:42,500 Bunny's watching. 1008 01:24:04,300 --> 01:24:05,500 Here, put those-- 1009 01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,200 The crocodile! 1010 01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:10,900 Stella, this is very dangerous. 1011 01:24:10,900 --> 01:24:13,700 I told you. No real flowers on the stage. 1012 01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:15,100 This has nothing to do with me. 1013 01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:19,100 And you, Mr. O'Hara, should know better. 1014 01:24:28,900 --> 01:24:31,000 They're made for each other. 1015 01:24:31,100 --> 01:24:33,500 Wendy, you are wrong about mothers! 1016 01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:36,700 I thought like you about the window 1017 01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:38,800 so I stayed away for moons and moons... 1018 01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:41,700 Is Stella bronchial, by any chance? 1019 01:24:43,500 --> 01:24:44,700 Are you crying? 1020 01:24:46,300 --> 01:24:50,900 It's-- it's to do with the low notes in the male voice. 1021 01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:55,600 I noticed it first in the army when music was compulsory. 1022 01:24:56,900 --> 01:24:58,700 Oh, I know. 1023 01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:01,200 No. She's got such a nasty cough. 1024 01:25:01,300 --> 01:25:04,900 Bunny's had to put cough drops in the prompt corner. 1025 01:25:04,900 --> 01:25:07,800 We've had her X-rayed. She's sound as a bell. 1026 01:25:07,900 --> 01:25:10,000 I shall let you have the 3 ha'pence for the sweets. 1027 01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:11,800 - Oh, no, no, no. - Was it more? 1028 01:25:11,900 --> 01:25:16,500 No, no. No, the reason I'm here is 1029 01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:19,600 we're playing football against the "Treasure Island" cast 1030 01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:21,600 on New Year's Day. 1031 01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:26,900 My footy days are over. Heh. I haven't the wind. 1032 01:25:26,900 --> 01:25:28,000 No, no, Uncle Vernon. 1033 01:25:28,100 --> 01:25:30,000 I wanted you both to come and watch. 1034 01:25:30,100 --> 01:25:31,900 You know, support us, 1035 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,300 meet some of Stella's new friends. 1036 01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:43,200 I'm beginning to get the hang of fucking. 1037 01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:47,700 Yes. 1038 01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:53,800 It's no different from learning to play the ukulele. 1039 01:25:53,900 --> 01:25:55,800 You just need practice. 1040 01:26:02,700 --> 01:26:05,100 Don't you love me just a bit? 1041 01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:08,000 No. 1042 01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:11,900 I love another. 1043 01:26:15,700 --> 01:26:19,500 # Oh, I do like to be beside the sea # 1044 01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:23,200 # Oh, I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom # 1045 01:26:23,300 --> 01:26:25,000 # Where the brass bands play # 1046 01:26:25,100 --> 01:26:27,300 Oh! Sorry. 1047 01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:29,200 That's perfectly all right. 1048 01:26:29,300 --> 01:26:30,600 # Beside the seaside # 1049 01:26:30,700 --> 01:26:32,400 Is he one of our pirates or one of theirs? 1050 01:26:32,500 --> 01:26:33,800 One of theirs. 1051 01:26:33,900 --> 01:26:35,900 I mean, I think their pirates are much better 1052 01:26:35,900 --> 01:26:38,300 than our pirates, don't you, Bunny? 1053 01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:39,700 Can't you find anywhere to sit? 1054 01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:42,500 Bunch up, Bunny. Geoff-wey can sit between us. 1055 01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:43,900 Oh, no, he can't. He's too chubby. 1056 01:26:43,900 --> 01:26:46,200 We need someone slimmer. John! John Harbour! 1057 01:26:46,300 --> 01:26:48,600 You come and sit between us and Geoff-wey can have your seat. 1058 01:26:48,700 --> 01:26:50,500 I'll stand, thank you, Meredith. 1059 01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:55,000 I am the wefewee, Geoff-wey, so just you be careful. 1060 01:26:55,100 --> 01:26:56,900 # Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside # 1061 01:26:56,900 --> 01:26:58,500 Where's that pirate? 1062 01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:01,800 # Oh, I do like to be beside the sea # 1063 01:27:01,900 --> 01:27:05,000 # Oh, I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom # 1064 01:27:05,100 --> 01:27:07,000 # Where the brass bands play # 1065 01:27:07,100 --> 01:27:08,900 # Tiddley-om-pom-pom # 1066 01:27:08,900 --> 01:27:12,800 # So just let me be beside the seaside # 1067 01:27:12,900 --> 01:27:16,000 # I'll be beside myself with glee # 1068 01:27:32,900 --> 01:27:34,300 Got it! 1069 01:27:57,400 --> 01:27:59,900 Come on, The Playhouse! Come on, The Rep! 1070 01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:12,000 - Hey, you're not trying. - I'm trying very hard. 1071 01:28:12,100 --> 01:28:13,400 No, you're not. 1072 01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:38,500 - Yay! - Go, Rep! 1073 01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:42,900 Yeah! Good one! 1074 01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,400 Thank you. I'll let you get away with that. 1075 01:28:45,500 --> 01:28:46,800 What? 1076 01:28:57,900 --> 01:28:58,900 Come on, Geoffrey! 1077 01:28:58,900 --> 01:29:00,900 - Yeah! - That's it! Go on! 1078 01:29:03,900 --> 01:29:05,400 - Yay! - You've done it! 1079 01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:06,900 Good goal, son! 1080 01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:08,600 Offside. Surely that was offside. 1081 01:29:10,900 --> 01:29:13,400 Offside. Offside. Back here. 1082 01:29:13,500 --> 01:29:14,600 - What?! - Offside?! 1083 01:29:14,700 --> 01:29:17,000 How could that have been offside?! 1084 01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:19,300 The first thing an actor must learn 1085 01:29:19,300 --> 01:29:20,900 is humility, Geoffrey. Remember? 1086 01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:22,500 Thank you, John. I might have missed it. 1087 01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:25,200 - Boo! Boo! - Get some spectacles, Potter! 1088 01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:29,000 - Leave it! - Get off me! 1089 01:29:29,100 --> 01:29:30,600 Geoffrey, leave it! 1090 01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:32,600 Yes? 1091 01:29:36,600 --> 01:29:38,200 Oh, my God! 1092 01:29:38,300 --> 01:29:41,000 Geoffrey! 1093 01:29:44,300 --> 01:29:45,600 Come on. 1094 01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:53,200 Breathe. You'll feel better. Just breathe deeply. 1095 01:29:53,300 --> 01:29:54,900 My bloody scarf! 1096 01:29:54,900 --> 01:29:57,300 He was wearing my bloody scarf 1097 01:29:57,300 --> 01:29:58,900 and he wouldn't even look at me! 1098 01:29:58,900 --> 01:30:00,400 You all right? 1099 01:30:00,500 --> 01:30:02,800 - I fainted, I think. - Oh, good God. 1100 01:30:02,900 --> 01:30:05,500 I fainted because the pain was 1101 01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:07,600 very excruciating, so I did the best thing 1102 01:30:07,700 --> 01:30:09,900 I could think of and I fainted. 1103 01:30:09,900 --> 01:30:11,000 Get me my coat, Bunny. 1104 01:30:11,100 --> 01:30:12,500 Geoffrey's got to go. 1105 01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:14,500 Get me my coat, Bunny! 1106 01:30:18,300 --> 01:30:20,400 - Mr. Potter. - Uncle Vernon. 1107 01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:23,000 There, there. Shh. 1108 01:30:23,100 --> 01:30:24,900 Poor boy. 1109 01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:29,800 Desmond! 1110 01:30:29,900 --> 01:30:31,500 All right, all right. 1111 01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:34,200 Now, look here, we were wondering-- 1112 01:30:34,300 --> 01:30:35,900 we were all wondering 1113 01:30:35,900 --> 01:30:38,200 if you might not have a word with Potter. 1114 01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:39,600 Geoffrey shouldn't have hit him 1115 01:30:39,700 --> 01:30:41,500 but it does seem a cry for help. 1116 01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:43,900 That's right! We all think it's a cry for help. 1117 01:30:43,900 --> 01:30:45,900 Cry for help, squire-- skipper. 1118 01:30:45,900 --> 01:30:48,900 Ah, yes, I see. 1119 01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:50,300 I'll tell the bugger! 1120 01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:52,500 No, Babs. He'll be awful to you. 1121 01:30:52,600 --> 01:30:55,600 Cry for help, old boy. Yes, yes. 1122 01:30:55,900 --> 01:30:58,700 Leave it with you, then. You were in the navy. 1123 01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:01,200 Meredith, you all right, squire? 1124 01:31:11,900 --> 01:31:14,800 No, I don't think one should be too hard on the lad. 1125 01:31:14,900 --> 01:31:18,400 Geoffrey-- he has been working very hard. 1126 01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:21,900 you are one of nature's gentlemen. 1127 01:31:21,900 --> 01:31:24,400 That's very nice of you, Uncle Vernon. 1128 01:31:24,500 --> 01:31:26,700 I like these days. 1129 01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:29,400 Hint of frost. Touch of sunlight. 1130 01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:30,800 Mmm! Invigorating, isn't it? 1131 01:31:30,900 --> 01:31:31,900 I always think on a day like this 1132 01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:33,600 a man can stand up and face the-- 1133 01:31:36,900 --> 01:31:38,800 Oh, Christ! 1134 01:31:38,900 --> 01:31:41,000 ...world. 1135 01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:43,000 - Oh, God, I-- - Pirates! 1136 01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:45,000 Where's our Stella? I'm all right. 1137 01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:46,400 I'm all right. Where's Stella? 1138 01:31:46,500 --> 01:31:49,000 Aah! God! 1139 01:31:59,900 --> 01:32:01,400 Good of you to bother. 1140 01:32:04,100 --> 01:32:05,800 Could have waited. 1141 01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:15,000 It's to do with that boy Geoffrey... 1142 01:32:15,100 --> 01:32:16,600 You know... 1143 01:32:16,700 --> 01:32:18,600 he is a boy. 1144 01:32:20,900 --> 01:32:24,200 Hardly more than a child, really. 1145 01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:26,600 Have you seduced him? 1146 01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:30,900 Does he think he loves you? 1147 01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:32,900 Are you playing games with him? I think you are. 1148 01:32:32,900 --> 01:32:35,300 I think you're doing what you did in Windsor. 1149 01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:39,300 A much older man, I grant you. 1150 01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:43,800 A much sadder man. 1151 01:32:43,900 --> 01:32:46,100 Don't need to remind you that he later hanged himself 1152 01:32:46,100 --> 01:32:48,100 in a police cell, do I? 1153 01:32:50,300 --> 01:32:52,500 Ohh... 1154 01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:54,600 Nothing to do with you. 1155 01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:58,900 Perhaps. 1156 01:33:00,300 --> 01:33:03,500 Look, just drop it. Leave the boy alone. 1157 01:33:05,100 --> 01:33:07,400 The play's about innocence. 1158 01:33:07,900 --> 01:33:11,600 Not seduction or exploitation. 1159 01:33:11,900 --> 01:33:13,800 I mean, look at the play, man. 1160 01:33:16,300 --> 01:33:17,900 This is awkward for me. 1161 01:33:17,900 --> 01:33:22,200 Yes. Isn't it? 1162 01:33:22,300 --> 01:33:25,200 I'm not a narrow man 1163 01:33:25,300 --> 01:33:28,600 and, God knows, I'm no saint, but you... 1164 01:33:28,700 --> 01:33:30,100 you... 1165 01:33:30,100 --> 01:33:32,400 Aren't you going to be off if you don't hurry? 1166 01:33:37,300 --> 01:33:38,800 Here. 1167 01:33:40,800 --> 01:33:45,800 Just before you go down to the nursery, Mr. Darling 1168 01:33:45,900 --> 01:33:48,100 don't you think you ought to remember 1169 01:33:48,100 --> 01:33:50,100 that it's also a criminal offense 1170 01:33:50,100 --> 01:33:52,000 to consort with a minor? 1171 01:33:53,100 --> 01:33:55,100 You know... 1172 01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:57,400 assault a child? 1173 01:34:06,900 --> 01:34:08,900 - Mr. O'Hara! - You wouldn't. 1174 01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:13,100 God, I'm off! 1175 01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:21,600 Aah! 1176 01:34:24,500 --> 01:34:27,700 "Potter, my concern is for a young man 1177 01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:30,900 "whose life may well be ruined by your attentions. 1178 01:34:30,900 --> 01:34:32,600 "If the situ--" 1179 01:34:37,900 --> 01:34:40,500 He's boasting about it in the prop room! 1180 01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,300 Stagehand --that one with the glass eye-- egging him on! 1181 01:34:43,300 --> 01:34:44,900 - Who? - Geoffrey! 1182 01:34:44,900 --> 01:34:47,000 Why hasn't he been given the sack? 1183 01:34:47,100 --> 01:34:49,700 - Geoffrey has his reasons. - He's unbalanced! 1184 01:34:49,800 --> 01:34:51,500 Don't talk rot. 1185 01:34:51,600 --> 01:34:53,900 Mr. Potter's a wronged man! 1186 01:34:56,900 --> 01:34:59,900 Mr. Potter has spent his life harming people like Geoffrey 1187 01:34:59,900 --> 01:35:03,200 and causing pain to people like Bunny who really love him. 1188 01:35:03,300 --> 01:35:05,800 Hilary Melville was only 18 1189 01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:09,400 when Potter picked him up at the BBC. 1190 01:35:10,900 --> 01:35:12,600 Hilary is a him? 1191 01:35:14,500 --> 01:35:17,300 Believe it or not. Doesn't much matter-- 1192 01:35:17,300 --> 01:35:19,900 him or her, old or young, to Meredith. 1193 01:35:19,900 --> 01:35:22,100 What he wants is hearts. 1194 01:35:22,200 --> 01:35:24,200 You're jealous of him! 1195 01:35:24,300 --> 01:35:26,400 Oh. 1196 01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:30,700 I'm going and I'm not coming back. 1197 01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:32,900 Not ever. 1198 01:35:32,900 --> 01:35:36,700 Oh, for God's sake. Look, please-- 1199 01:35:55,100 --> 01:35:57,300 Kind of you to come. 1200 01:35:57,400 --> 01:35:58,900 I am ashamed. 1201 01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:00,900 I'm at a disadvantage. 1202 01:36:02,300 --> 01:36:04,700 It's not broken! 1203 01:36:04,800 --> 01:36:07,800 Sprained. 1204 01:36:07,900 --> 01:36:09,700 It was me own fault. 1205 01:36:09,800 --> 01:36:11,900 I went down not watching where I was-- 1206 01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:15,000 It's Mr. Potter I feel sorry for. 1207 01:36:15,100 --> 01:36:17,800 I hear he's from a good family, the lad who butted him. 1208 01:36:17,900 --> 01:36:20,600 So I believe. Is Stella here? 1209 01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:23,600 He's not gonna sack the boy? 1210 01:36:23,900 --> 01:36:26,100 He too was bothered about me injury. 1211 01:36:26,100 --> 01:36:27,700 You just missed him. 1212 01:36:29,800 --> 01:36:31,500 What did Potter have to say? 1213 01:36:31,600 --> 01:36:35,200 He's helping us with Stella, keeping an eye on her. 1214 01:36:35,300 --> 01:36:37,800 She, of course, tells us nothing. 1215 01:36:37,900 --> 01:36:41,000 She keeps things locked in, you know, Stella. 1216 01:36:41,100 --> 01:36:43,900 That's why I got her on the stage 1217 01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:46,800 to help get them out. 1218 01:36:46,900 --> 01:36:48,500 We're all she's got. 1219 01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:53,300 What about her mother? 1220 01:36:53,300 --> 01:36:55,600 She talks to her mother on the phone. 1221 01:36:58,100 --> 01:36:59,900 Did you hear that, Lily? 1222 01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:01,200 The little madam. 1223 01:37:01,900 --> 01:37:04,200 She can't ring her mother. 1224 01:37:04,300 --> 01:37:06,400 She doesn't know where her mother is. 1225 01:37:06,500 --> 01:37:07,500 None of us do. 1226 01:37:07,900 --> 01:37:10,700 America, we think. 1227 01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:18,600 What I am about to tell you may put us in a bad light. 1228 01:37:21,700 --> 01:37:25,100 We threw her out, Stella's mother. 1229 01:37:25,100 --> 01:37:27,600 Our Ren�e. 1230 01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:28,900 Not at first 1231 01:37:28,900 --> 01:37:32,000 when she came back from London. Not then. 1232 01:37:32,100 --> 01:37:33,100 Going out... 1233 01:37:33,900 --> 01:37:37,600 staying out all night on more than one occasion-- occasion. 1234 01:37:37,700 --> 01:37:40,700 She was young, Vernon. She wanted a bit of life. 1235 01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:45,000 It was-- it was before the war, of course. 1236 01:37:46,800 --> 01:37:51,400 She came back when the baby was born-- our Stella. 1237 01:37:53,500 --> 01:37:56,200 But she went off again. 1238 01:37:56,300 --> 01:37:58,600 Got herself a room in a house 1239 01:37:58,700 --> 01:38:01,700 around the corner in Percy Street. 1240 01:38:01,900 --> 01:38:05,500 Artists and suchlike. 1241 01:38:05,600 --> 01:38:07,100 She got herself a job. 1242 01:38:07,100 --> 01:38:10,900 A telephonist at the GPO. Quite successful. 1243 01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:13,400 Successful. 1244 01:38:13,500 --> 01:38:16,200 But she-- she couldn't stop it. 1245 01:38:16,300 --> 01:38:19,700 Dollin' herself up and going out. 1246 01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:23,900 The neighbours told us. They told us. 1247 01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:29,400 There she was, little Stella... 1248 01:38:29,500 --> 01:38:32,600 left alone in that basement... 1249 01:38:32,600 --> 01:38:34,500 in a cot... 1250 01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:38,300 with a row of nightlights along the floor. 1251 01:38:38,300 --> 01:38:40,600 A baby. 1252 01:38:50,700 --> 01:38:54,400 And our Ren�e? Not sure. 1253 01:38:56,900 --> 01:38:59,800 She left a rose on her pillow. 1254 01:38:59,900 --> 01:39:01,600 Withered, of course. 1255 01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:09,300 Place stank of turps. 1256 01:39:10,900 --> 01:39:13,200 Could have been a conflagration. 1257 01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:20,100 There have been times... 1258 01:39:25,700 --> 01:39:28,900 there were times 1259 01:39:29,000 --> 01:39:31,900 I was close to death. 1260 01:39:34,200 --> 01:39:37,900 I knew it. Felt it. 1261 01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:45,000 And what I thought was... 1262 01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:50,800 I have a son... 1263 01:39:52,900 --> 01:39:56,400 and it will not be the end of me. 1264 01:40:00,900 --> 01:40:02,800 But it is. 1265 01:40:06,700 --> 01:40:12,400 I may not face it as well as I did death. 1266 01:40:36,900 --> 01:40:39,800 Stella! 1267 01:40:41,900 --> 01:40:44,400 Stella Maris! 1268 01:40:48,100 --> 01:40:49,800 Aah! 1269 01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:44,900 Now is the hour 1270 01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:47,600 when children in their homes are abed. 1271 01:43:47,600 --> 01:43:49,100 Their lips bright-browned 1272 01:43:49,200 --> 01:43:51,300 with the good-night chocolate 1273 01:43:51,400 --> 01:43:52,900 and their tongues drowsily searching 1274 01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:55,700 for belated crumbs housed insecurely 1275 01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:57,600 on their shining cheeks. 1276 01:43:59,700 --> 01:44:00,900 Compare with them the children 1277 01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:02,300 on this boat about to walk the plank! 1278 01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:06,800 Split my infinitives 1279 01:44:06,800 --> 01:44:11,200 but 'tis my hour of triumph! 1280 01:44:21,200 --> 01:44:22,800 All right. 1281 01:44:22,800 --> 01:44:24,300 Right. 1282 01:44:31,700 --> 01:44:33,900 "Potter, it may be that you think 1283 01:44:33,900 --> 01:44:36,100 "my association with a certain person 1284 01:44:36,200 --> 01:44:39,100 "will prevent me from doing anything about Geoffrey, 1285 01:44:39,100 --> 01:44:42,100 "but if this is so, you are mistaken. 1286 01:44:42,100 --> 01:44:44,500 "My concern is for a young man 1287 01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:47,000 "whose life may well be ruined by your..." 1288 01:44:54,900 --> 01:44:56,900 Excuse me, sir. 1289 01:44:56,900 --> 01:44:58,500 Are you the stage manager? 1290 01:44:59,900 --> 01:45:03,900 Yes. I am. 1291 01:45:07,900 --> 01:45:10,600 Our Stella's been a brick. 1292 01:45:10,700 --> 01:45:13,700 She cradled me head, you know. 1293 01:45:13,800 --> 01:45:16,300 But she's been telling her fibs again. 1294 01:45:16,900 --> 01:45:19,800 Like mother, like daughter. 1295 01:45:19,800 --> 01:45:22,600 Ren�e wasn't all bad. 1296 01:45:22,700 --> 01:45:25,000 She won that competition to be the speaking clock 1297 01:45:25,100 --> 01:45:26,900 out of the whole of England. 1298 01:45:26,900 --> 01:45:30,000 "The girl with the golden voice." 1299 01:45:30,100 --> 01:45:32,200 No, I'm out of 'em. 1300 01:45:32,300 --> 01:45:35,000 Will you take a substitute? 1301 01:45:35,100 --> 01:45:39,200 There is no substitute for the real thing. 1302 01:45:50,700 --> 01:45:53,600 Tink! Dear Tink! 1303 01:45:53,700 --> 01:45:57,200 Are you dying?! 1304 01:45:58,300 --> 01:46:00,400 Captain Hook's drowned himself. 1305 01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:01,600 What do you mean? 1306 01:46:01,700 --> 01:46:03,200 Her light grows faint 1307 01:46:03,300 --> 01:46:07,400 and if that goes out, it means she is dead! 1308 01:46:07,500 --> 01:46:09,000 Her voice is so low 1309 01:46:09,100 --> 01:46:11,800 I can scarcely hear what she is saying! 1310 01:46:11,900 --> 01:46:14,900 He's dead. Drowned himself, yes. 1311 01:46:16,100 --> 01:46:17,600 She says... 1312 01:46:17,700 --> 01:46:20,800 She says she thinks she could get well again 1313 01:46:20,900 --> 01:46:26,100 if children believe in fairies! 1314 01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:28,700 Do you believe in fairies? 1315 01:46:28,800 --> 01:46:32,400 Say it quick! That you believe! 1316 01:46:32,600 --> 01:46:35,600 If you believe in fairies, clap your hands! 1317 01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:39,800 Oh, children, clap your hands and Tinkerbell will live! 1318 01:46:40,900 --> 01:46:44,700 If you believe in fairies, children, clap your hands! 1319 01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:46,600 Louder! Louder! 1320 01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:51,800 Oh, clap your hands and Tinkerbell will live! 1321 01:47:04,900 --> 01:47:06,900 Be a good girl, now. 1322 01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:08,900 It's all right. It's all right. 1323 01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:11,900 You be a good girl and I'll be back soon. 1324 01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:13,900 I'll be just a minute. Don't worry. 1325 01:47:59,900 --> 01:48:02,600 The thing is... 1326 01:48:02,700 --> 01:48:04,000 I don't suppose 1327 01:48:04,100 --> 01:48:06,300 we can keep it out of the papers, Rose. 1328 01:48:06,300 --> 01:48:09,200 I could, but I won't. 1329 01:48:09,300 --> 01:48:13,200 God forgive me, but it'll be good for business. 1330 01:48:29,900 --> 01:48:32,200 It's been awful. 1331 01:48:32,300 --> 01:48:35,600 I haven't dared phone you. 1332 01:48:35,600 --> 01:48:39,300 There was this man who seduced me. 1333 01:48:39,300 --> 01:48:41,300 It wasn't my fault. 1334 01:48:42,900 --> 01:48:44,800 "At the third stroke... 1335 01:48:44,900 --> 01:48:48,600 "the time will be 10:47 and 20 seconds." 1336 01:48:48,700 --> 01:48:53,000 I'm learning, Mother. I'm just... 1337 01:48:53,100 --> 01:48:56,500 bending down to tie a shoe lace. 1338 01:48:56,600 --> 01:48:59,900 "...10:47 and 30 seconds." 1339 01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:04,400 And everyone is waiting round the corner. 1340 01:49:04,900 --> 01:49:10,000 "...the time will be 10:47 and 40 seconds." 1341 01:49:12,900 --> 01:49:14,800 "At the third stroke... 1342 01:49:14,900 --> 01:49:20,000 "the time will be 10:47 and 50 seconds." 92334