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Part 3 of 7 of the period drama from 1973. Jacob is devastated when Anna rejects his marriage proposal and confirms she wants Brian back, and dejected he leaves the house and disappears. Nick bumps into Jacob's sister - and Anton's girlfriend - Rachel at a hotel while sketching ice skaters as the two continue to spar off one another, but Nick is preoccupied about moving into new lodgings in the loft of Mr Carless. Anna learns about Nick's privileged upbringing in the newspaper after it reports on the success of one of his paintings at the art gallery and later they are invited to the Lord Mayor's Town Hall Reception. But the evening does not go to plan, while Anna finally learns who Sir George really is.
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00:00The End
01:00a worker in a socialist country can rightly call himself socialist the
01:11workers are socialism you live under capitalism what the hell can you rightly
01:18call yourself come a bit closer there's a few at the back trying to see the dog
01:30poor that's all you can call yourself walking on your boot black in a lot of
01:37you the old damn lot of you well whether you're aware of it or not you and you
01:47and him at the back there all of you you're gonna change this this system that
01:59gives the fortunate few a key to the counting house and sends the rest of you
02:04to the poor house
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03:31What a pleasant surprise, Mr. Faunt.
03:37Won't you join me?
03:42Yes.
03:45Would you like a drink?
03:47I'm not quite sure what they run to in this place.
03:49I've never been here before.
03:50You don't skate, then?
03:51Well, not as well as I dance.
03:53And the less said about that, the better.
03:55Last night, I thought you were the coldest, most super-silliest bitch I'd ever met.
03:59As well as one of the most beautiful.
04:01Yes, sir, I must apologise if I was at all rude to you, Mr. Faunt,
04:05but, well, I'd had a long and tiring day.
04:08Ah.
04:10Did you sleep all right, incidentally?
04:12Anton's studio can't be the most romantic of love nests.
04:17We weren't looking for a love nest.
04:19Just somewhere to sleep.
04:21As a matter of fact, I spent most of the night staring at Anton's portrait of you.
04:25Did you like it?
04:25No.
04:27He's turned you into something you see on chocolate boxes.
04:30Inoffensive.
04:31Cute.
04:32Not one iota of, um...
04:35Sensuality.
04:39There's only one artist in the North that could paint you, and that's me.
04:41And why on earth did you cover up that body?
04:48Um, look, I'd better go now.
04:50I promised the first walls to one of my instructors, but...
04:52I won't be long, so don't go.
04:56Four or five minutes.
04:57Yes.
04:57Oh, I'll have a cup of coffee, please, and, uh...
05:08And another cup of coffee.
05:10Uh, oh, I'll have a cup of coffee.
05:11Okay.
05:12I'll have a cup of coffee.
05:13Oh!
05:15Oh, my God.
05:16Yes!
06:23When are you taking Brian away?
06:25Oh not this week Mo.
06:28It'll take us a while to get our place fixed up.
06:30Furniture and what have you.
06:32Stay here if you want to.
06:35And Nick.
06:37Rent's paid up to the end of the month.
06:39I reckon you must be the most decent thing that ever happened to me.
06:45You're a good man Mo and it's high bloody time somebody dealt you a better hand.
06:49Rachel called me a good man this morning.
06:53Don't feel like a good man.
06:57I'm going out for a walk.
06:59You alright?
07:01Yes.
07:03I'm sorry.
07:04I'm sorry.
07:07I'm sorry.
07:09Yeah.
07:11I'm sorry.
07:13What do you want, Lovie?
07:43I want to tell Uncle Mel something.
07:45He's not in.
07:45Do you want to tell me, Lovie?
07:47Come on now, tell your mummy.
07:48It's a secret.
07:50I'm very famous for keeping secrets.
07:51Are you?
07:52See me wet, see me dry.
07:54But I still must tell anyone.
07:56You mustn't tell anybody.
07:57Break that promise and it's more than me life's worth.
08:00All right, then I won't do that again.
08:03Come on, Lydia.
08:13Come on.
08:37Fantastic.
08:37I thought you were just going for a walk around Stacey Street.
08:41does it matter? leaving me alone with Moe matters. you know the state he was in.
08:45they sent him to the funny farm for less. a week ago I was footloose from fancy free
08:51country in Cheshire. then you turned up for one night remember? one night that was
08:56the agreement. five minutes later you produce a five-year-old kid you forgot
09:00to mention and I'm supposed to be chewing me fingernails over Moe. hey that's not to
09:03be sneezed at is it? it's not bad is it? it'll do till I get a bit of canvas. no
09:08you fool. the Manchester evening news. well I've not read it. but you bring this bit
09:12with a pencil. I never touched it. from the Manchester Academy exhibition now being
09:17held at the City Art Gallery the committee has decided to purchase a picture by a
09:20Manchester artist. a vivid race course seen by Nicholas Faunt. the son of Alderman
09:24Sir George Faunt. there. the son of Alderman Sir George Faunt. so that's what the
09:33smiles were all about. hmm? where's Moe? he's gone for a walk. he said we could stay
09:40here until our place is fixed up. decent of him. he said something puzzling. told me
09:45the rent was paid up to the end of the month. why would he say a thing like that?
09:48well perhaps he's not coming back. Moe doesn't do things like that.
09:54there's a slogan. how does it um let appearances speak true. it doesn't say
10:05anything but it's a good slogan. it it suggests a way of life that has no no
10:11truck with the sort of ideology that politicians pay lip service to. it
10:16suggests a life not riddled with self-interest. and the whole point of life
10:23yours mine. it's not just a roof over your head and a chicken in every pot. once
10:31workers stop trying to make sense out of out of their existence then their
10:38existence ceases to be justified. they become lackeys for power politicians saying
10:44yes for the sake of their own comfort. while the consciences tell them to say
10:49no. make no mistake brother. when conscience dies mankind dies with it.
10:57opponents turn into enemies. hatred becomes the order of the day. and the only
11:03justice is that which serves one's own side. is justice on your side comrade. you
11:14know brothers I could go on all day talking on the subject of justice. it's
11:20something I understand. and now I want you any of you to ask me questions no
11:26matter what they are.
11:33sleep all right? no I slept all wrong. there's a cup of coffee here for you. where's my
11:48hitted totterman? oh wait till your uncle Nick comes around a bit lovey. can we go out to play? all right. if you promise to stay on the street. think I'll now. no I'm going off for a ramble.
11:57can I catch a cigarette?
12:04do you want me to like one for you? no.
12:08breakfast? no I'll just have a fag. but you just said you didn't want one. well I've changed my mind.
12:17oh Christ. Mo didn't come home last night. this bed's not been slept in. said it was going out for a walk. nothing about not coming home.
12:27it's hardly your fault if he didn't come back. that's debatable. it's me who came to take Brian away from him.
12:32well you're the kid's mother. yes and Mo's probably been a better mother to him than I have.
12:36oh Brian leave it alone. it's disgusting. horse manure. what? he's playing snowballs with horse manure.
12:55excuse. you know the whole world caved in on that poor devil yesterday.
13:03who? Mo. first of all Rachel says she's leaving and then I arrive and announce I'm gonna take Brian away.
13:09can't help feeling worried about him. because he stayed out all night. because Mo doesn't do things like that.
13:14it's not as if he had exactly a wide circle of friends. oh he'll turn up.
13:18look the first priority is getting that loft fixed up. there's no need to prevent us making a start today is there?
13:23oh and what exactly does making a start mean? well we could go down to all saints, dig around the second hand shops.
13:28hey that's probably Mo now. not that knock.
13:37what the blazes are you doing here? I've been taken on to answer the front door.
13:43you've still got bloody rembrandt in tow then? nice to see you too piggy.
13:48there's Mo with you. there's Abe Buxton.
13:52come round here to tie a knot in his neck.
13:55he never even clocked in at all yesterday and this morning we were supposed to set off for York races.
14:00over an hour ago. not worth going now.
14:03oh we thought he might have slept at your place last night because he didn't come home.
14:06well you thunk wrong.
14:08didn't come home? it's not like Mo.
14:11oh god. i think i'd better go around mrs Moss's. she might know where he's got to.
14:15this got something to do with you upsetting him.
14:17what's that supposed to mean?
14:18well you come round for the kid didn't you?
14:20it's not the kid. it's my kid.
14:21it's not quite as simple as that though is it?
14:23oh yes it is. it's as simple as that. i'll see you later.
14:26how much later?
14:28not much.
14:31look keep your hair on. hang on a minute.
14:34i'll drive you round there.
14:37there's no percentage in going to York at this time.
14:40thanks piggy.
14:41take that kid with you. don't make him my responsibility.
14:44brian.
14:47come on brian.
14:49come on will you get in the car. come on.
15:04so.
15:06yes.
15:07yes.
15:08so.
15:10yes.
15:11DOUG.
15:12so
15:14it's also ok.
15:15just remove the air from the corner.
15:16so.
15:17yes.
15:18yes.
15:19so.
15:20yes.
15:21now.
15:22yes.
15:23yes.
15:24yes.
15:25yes.
15:26yes.
15:28yes.
15:29okay.
15:31yes.
15:32good morning
15:40oh my god it's no use curiosity compels me to ask oh mo he's um letting us stay here till our
15:51place gets fixed up all right i no longer live here oh i've just come to collect one or two
15:56things uh no she's out looking for your brother um he hasn't reported back since last night she uh
16:10probably feels irresponsible really well after turning him down he asked her to marry him
16:17yes i think i can just about believe that oh i was an eyewitness i had a seat in the stores
16:25that damn brat of hers he'd marry her just to keep it with him
16:30it um it had occurred to me that you might be the father me picket something as
16:41something like that it's surprising what a man can do when he puts his mind to a thing
16:46i'm not guilty i didn't meet anna till a couple of days ago then why her why not
16:52she's a vast improvement on a boatload of fancy bags i could mention
16:56well it can hardly be her to mere disposition she's hardly the nation's little sweetheart
17:02no she's still as rag-mannered as they come and she doesn't make any attempt to
17:06tart herself up
17:07indulgent standards behavior for a start and followed by just about everything else
17:13a man with your background look don't deliver my family like a damn coup de grace the one
17:19thing i'm not interested in your family is probably the only thing you've got in your
17:23favor well it's the last thing i want in my favor well no doubt you're the worst judge
17:28of that however you must excuse me super silly as a bitch
17:35what's the matter with you nothing something you've got a face like a yard of pump water
17:56take a pew piggy sir mrs moss doesn't know where he is
18:00bemushed
18:03anybody fancy a cup of hello i know that pong that's rachel's five bob special odour dirty weekend
18:11she's upstairs
18:13it's rachel who slung this mood on you she has that effect always tries to make me feel like something that's just crawled out of a drainpipe
18:20i thought she was supposed to have moved out she's just picking up a few things
18:27hello annon
18:28rachel
18:29rumour has it that you've misplaced my brother
18:32bothered not unduly
18:35stone me rachel
18:37nobody would have believed that a scrawny kid like you could have grown into such a beauty
18:43and classy you have got it bloody class stamped on every link
18:50when he finally does turn up would you give him this
18:52it's my new address
18:54would you care to accompany me tonight to the hippodrome nelly wallace is topping the bill
18:59i can't think of anything i'd rather not do
19:02right meredith we are in
19:04what time shall i call round for you
19:06stuck up bloody bag
19:08so say all of us
19:09ah didsbury
19:11the promised land
19:13er piggy er
19:15what are you thinking of doing for the rest of the day
19:17no i don't
19:19i shall probably pop out for a jill when i'm
19:22ah
19:23let's be having it then
19:26carrying top weight that question
19:28oh i was just wondering er
19:31if you're not thinking of doing anything special
19:33no i don't
19:36ah
19:58i
20:47Well?
20:47Well what?
20:48Well, it's the nearest you'll get to a Victorian bloody das house.
20:52Can't you recognise Gracious Leaven when you see it?
20:54Recognised a load of bloody junk when I see it.
20:57Thanks for all the humping, Piggy.
20:58Don't ever stop mentioning it.
21:01We should have a party.
21:03A housewarming.
21:04A loftwarming, that's what we'll have.
21:05We'll have a loftwarming.
21:05Bring your own booze.
21:06I thought there'd be a catch in it.
21:08Friday night's a good night.
21:09We'll have to do some fast inviting.
21:10I'm generally free on Fridays.
21:12All right, Tuesday.
21:13And bring Mo along if he turns up.
21:15I can't remember the last time we were in Eaton Park.
21:23Must be two or three years back.
21:25Well, General's try.
21:27Danty, you see.
21:29Baldwin had that lot tied in a Tory blue ribbon.
21:33It'll be years before we ever go.
21:34Oh, no thanks.
21:36I'm bursting.
21:37They were very nice, though.
21:38Joe?
21:38Oh, they were very nice.
21:39Could you eat another one?
21:41No, I've had sufficient thanks.
21:43Bloody ball winner.
21:45The roses are looking nice.
21:48Ornamental enough.
21:50Pity you can't eat them.
21:51I thought you said you were full up.
21:54Do you know what's underneath them?
21:56Soil.
21:57The colliery.
21:57Have you ever been down to Pittmore?
22:03No.
22:04Down there they've got to walk five miles to the coalface
22:07and don't get a penny piece till they get there.
22:10Bent double most of the time.
22:12A yard-eye seam and 100 degrees of heat to contend with.
22:15Hey.
22:16I thought we were supposed to be having a day off.
22:19Well, we're here, aren't we?
22:22Are you all right, Mo?
22:24Yeah.
22:25Joe?
22:26What?
22:27Was that somebody's house?
22:29Belonged to the Earl of Wilton.
22:31Owned a bit of property in these parts.
22:3435,000 acres.
22:37And packed most of them with slum property.
22:40The muck they created offended their aristocratic sensibilities.
22:44So they offered to sell this lot to Manchester Corporation.
22:47I never knew that.
22:49Guess what else you never knew?
22:50The council traipse down here,
22:53touched the locks,
22:54handed over 200,000 pounds.
22:57They could have nabbed this place
22:58and made him cough up 200,000 pounds
23:01for causing malicious damage to Manchester.
23:03Pardon me from butting in, love,
23:05but you're working up a lather.
23:06Me and Mo's converted.
23:09Look, we've got it staring us in the face, haven't we?
23:11That's correct, Mo, isn't it?
23:14Just, uh, trading a few facts, that's, uh, that's all.
23:18Making for announcements.
23:19Do you think there's going to be a revolution, Joe?
23:23I mean, soon.
23:24Capitalism's falling apart at the schemes, Mo.
23:27Faster than folk reckon.
23:28Will they have to get rid of the king?
23:31Kings are obsolete.
23:34Met a bloke in the dole queue maintained
23:36that he and the king have a lot in common.
23:39Both had to have a means test.
23:41The only difference was the amount of public assistance they got.
23:44ÂŁ10,000 a week for one,
23:47ÂŁ10,000 a week for the other.
23:51Well, I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't met you.
23:54I mean, this last few days, what were putting me up and all.
23:57But I don't think I ought to stop after tonight.
24:01I can't pay for anything.
24:03Food and things.
24:04I like to pay me away.
24:06If you could have paid your way,
24:08we wouldn't have put you up in the first place.
24:10Anyway, you are paying your way.
24:12You've been helping out at the meeting.
24:14Oh, but...
24:15You're more than earning your keep,
24:16if that's what's bothering you.
24:17Ah, but...
24:18Subject clause, all right?
24:20Yeah.
24:22Thanks.
24:25Used to bring Brian here
24:26before they took him away from me.
24:30Poor lad.
24:32He didn't want to go.
24:35Went together for five years,
24:36tucking him up in bed and making his meals.
24:40He never went short of anything.
24:44Even Rachel didn't do anything to stop him.
24:51From what I've heard of that sister of yours,
24:53she's going to wait for shoes till clogs won't fit her.
24:55You're not taking that with you, are you?
25:09It's a present for Nick.
25:13Look, Rachel, we don't have to go.
25:15I want to go.
25:17It's just that I get the impression
25:18that you and Nick are...
25:20Well, you're Flint to his powder.
25:21We can't miss seeing an omnium gatherum
25:23of the local hoi polloi.
25:25Pardon?
25:26You know, Anton,
25:26you might have told me Nick was Sir George Faunt's son.
25:28Oh, sorry, old girl, I've lost you.
25:29The other night of the bassoon club,
25:31you allowed me to make an utter fool of myself.
25:32Oh, because I didn't tell you
25:33that Nick's old man was Sir George Faunt.
25:35I assure you, Rachel,
25:37that omission wouldn't bother Nick in the slightest.
25:39He's a damn good painter, that's all that counts.
25:41Are you ready to go?
25:42Yes, in a second.
25:45Oh, I was down at the gallery this morning.
25:49Hanson, the director, gave me this.
25:51The Lord Mayor requests the pleasure of the company
25:53of Mr Anton Broon and Lady
25:55at a reception at the town hall
25:57on Friday, April the 25th, 1930.
26:00Formal dress, decorations will be worn.
26:02Do you happen to know whether you're free or not?
26:06Well, of course I'm free.
26:08A reception at the town hall.
26:11There's a yellow satin in the shop, I could wear that.
26:14Hanson also asked me to give Nick his invitation.
26:17And Lady.
26:18Yes?
26:19My God, he'll take Anna.
26:20Oh, Nick won't go.
26:21He doesn't hold any brief for town hall receptions,
26:22that kind of thing.
26:24Well, thank goodness he has one principle
26:26I thoroughly approve of.
26:28Could you imagine what that pair of toe rags would look like?
26:30Right.
26:35We all booted and spurred and champing at the bit?
26:48You three can't have to drink now.
26:49There's plenty more over there.
26:51Enjoying yourself, are you good?
26:54Hello, love.
26:54There you are.
27:00Hello, Piggy.
27:01Hello.
27:03This is a bloody eye-opener, isn't it?
27:05Proper room do this is a bloody caution.
27:08Thanks.
27:09It's over there, mine host.
27:10Is that Nick?
27:11Yes, with Whistler's mother.
27:12Now, what this part is short of is a bit more skirt.
27:18We want more girls.
27:21We want more girls.
27:24We want more...
27:25Hello, Piggy.
27:26And the amazing masculine does it again.
27:30It's a bloody eye-opener, isn't it?
27:31A proper room do this is.
27:33A bloody caution.
27:35Got a lift on?
27:36Yeah, girls.
27:37Hello.
27:37Oh, hello.
27:38Aye.
27:39It's a right bloody eye-opener, this is, isn't it?
27:42Yes, a proper...
27:43Oh.
27:45Hello, Rachel.
27:46I didn't know that the swine were going to be cast pearls like you.
27:51Mr. Anton Broon, Mr. Charles White, but...
27:54Turf counter.
27:55What do you do?
27:56No, thank you in a minute.
27:57Two proper little toffees, the pair of them.
28:01Nick, I didn't know it was fancy dress.
28:03You didn't say.
28:04Fancy dress, be damned.
28:05This is a genuine Victorian household, envied for its stability.
28:10A temple of constancy and felicity.
28:13A repository of unalloyed blessedness.
28:17Where on dying devotion abides in boundless glory.
28:20Here, meet old Joy and our family.
28:23A real man of his time.
28:26His father.
28:27Sir George.
28:28Hey, you brought the easel to the party.
28:30Nobody asked you to pay.
28:31It's for you, Nick.
28:31A present.
28:32With all my...
28:33With all the best.
28:35A present for me, eh?
28:37Struth Anton.
28:38I've never had any easel before him.
28:40Thanks.
28:42Well, what do you think of this place?
28:44You've no idea how natural you look as a Victorian bourgeois.
28:50And now the good Lord has even sent us a pussycat to pair on the half-frog.
28:53Never mind, Rach.
28:54Brian prays for you every night.
28:57God bless Auntie Rachel, and please make her a good girl.
28:59Can I have that just a while?
29:02Thank you very much.
29:19Are you enjoying yourself?
29:21I'm positively indulging myself, dear lady.
29:24Oh, grief, I almost forgot.
29:25I was at the Garrido this morning, and Hanson asked me to give you this.
29:29I shall probably look in for a few minutes.
29:31Awful bore, these things.
29:33You're well out of them, dear boy.
29:34He'll be well in on this one.
29:36Will he ellers like?
29:38No.
29:39Bloody passing up for him for newly elected bloodsuckers and propertyers.
29:43Yes, and all you can get out of them.
29:44I'll see him in elsewhere.
29:46See him where you like, but go to this reception first.
29:48Look, would you stop all this damn...
29:51...bossing me about?
29:53I'm not, but you're going to this reception if I have any say at all.
29:57Say is all you have got.
29:59All right, I'll go.
30:00Oh, crikey, O'Reilly.
30:01The man's mind can actually be changed.
30:03But you're coming with me.
30:05Mr. Nicholas Faunt and Lady, it says.
30:08And what will Mr. Nicholas Faunt's Lady be wearing?
30:11Mr. Nicholas Faunt's Lady will be wearing what she was wearing this morning.
30:15We're not damn well lashing out on bloody clothes.
30:18It's nice line work, Nick.
30:19Look at Nick's economy.
30:20It's down to the pure essentials.
30:21It's only half done, that one.
30:23What?
30:23You stagger me, dear chap.
30:25Now, that I would accept as it is.
30:27Not one job more is required.
30:29You be guided by me, dear boy.
30:30I'm right.
30:31All right, it's yours.
30:32A memento.
30:33Oh, that's generous of you, Nick.
30:35Thanks.
30:36If anybody else fancies any of that stuff, help yourself.
30:38Oy, oy, oy.
30:39What you trying to do?
30:40Give away our bread and butter?
30:41It's mine to give.
30:42It's my work.
30:43Yes, and it's my work to stop you giving your work away.
30:46Right.
30:47One guinea at a time.
30:48All the painters.
30:49One guinea each.
30:50Any takers?
30:51No.
30:51what'd you do for your next strip throw buckets of cold water over people fancy a drink and that's
31:03a good idea dear boy must be comforting to have an entirely disinterested person look after you
31:11where you look after me disinterested I haven't got a shimmy to my back and it's high bloody time
31:16I have one I assume is all right a town hall receptionist hardly you're not going to next week reception are you
31:27mr. Nicholas Faunt and lady oh well it'll give them something to gas about when me and the
31:33Manchester masher walk in with holes in his socks who said anything about him wearing socks
31:38never mind Rach it'll be a night out we'll be able to make up a foursome
31:46your mother's late I'm painting well give it up while there's still time
32:10where the hell have you been I'm in ready for the last hour what the hell's that on your head
32:18I thought you'd like it gives me a sort of halo effect well I'm not being seen with you at the
32:22town hall wedding a halo but I can't go back and change it now where that suits you well I'll be
32:31a monkey's uncle auntie a compliment you're right then what I've been ready to go to this damn
32:36reception for the last hour you mean you've combed your hair hmm it's more than I do for most come
32:42on lovey we'll have mr. and mrs. Carlos thinking you're never coming bloody hell
33:06Brian come on
33:12oh I wonder where he's gone
33:24gotcha
33:26oh you're getting heavy
33:29oh don't know mrs. Carlos
33:33I've got you
33:34you you little scant you behave yourself
33:37bye bye
33:40bye bye mrs. Carlos
33:42if you want to ask a question comrade you ask they keep telling us it's a free country
34:05not if you lot of your way what about a sudden uncle Stalin's execution squad
34:11if you want to learn about life in the soviet union comrade don't map up that poison spewed
34:17out by the newspapers
34:18now city what I want to inquire is this is it or is it not your intention to overthrow the
34:25existing system if you get my meaning close on sixty percent out of work in the textile trade
34:31if you mean the existing system comrade it doesn't require me to overthrow it
34:37all the king's horses and all the king's men can't prop us up
34:40you know better than she
34:43first you're shown to the skin for the benefit of the bourgeois
34:47and now that they're down to their skin
34:49they're sucking the marrow out of your bones
34:52and not one bloody man jack of your questions it
34:55all around you
34:57all around you
34:59the means of production factories engineering shops and a bloody reservoir of workers with
35:05the requisite skills you're naive lad bloody co-engate politics workers of the world unite
35:12you've got nothing to lose but your brains tell us where the reservoir of requisite money
35:17is then ivan i've not seen any pound notes clock in in of a morning
35:22not seen anybody wearing one
35:26not seen anybody eating one
35:29and i've never seen one picking cotton the growing wool on its back
35:33all needing what can be produced while the means of production are standing idle
35:37there's something wrong somewhere
35:39it's the same difference whether you call them capitalists or commissars
35:43somebody runs the roost
35:44and all the others lay the bloody eggs come on
35:50come on
35:52oh my god nick
35:54it's mo
35:57oh look at the poor devon
35:59he's thrown his lot in with the communists
36:01oh i doubt it
36:03it takes more than a couple of weeks to come to grips with karl marx
36:06well hadn't we better go and see what's been happening
36:08right
36:10it's too late
36:11it's too late
36:12the day after the fair
36:14yeah
36:16yeah
36:18There you go, mate.
36:34Where's the cross here, then?
36:35Good.
36:42Sir.
36:48I have no idea that I'd get to be men like that.
37:10That's what men leave her up for.
37:12Oh, I prefer I'm small.
37:13I'm switching from side to side myself.
37:14I wouldn't leave home for that.
37:16Not for it.
37:17Because of it.
37:18Well, we've been and gone and done it now, haven't we?
37:26What?
37:27Well, look at us.
37:28We're a couple of beggars at a banquet.
37:30Nonsense.
37:32There's not half a dozen here worth a damn.
37:35The rest of what their shirts make them.
37:37That might make you feel at home.
37:39What I need is a fairy godmother to change me rags into a ball gown.
37:42Bunk.
37:43You're the best looking woman here.
37:46We're not in the Garden of Eden.
37:47This lot are looking at clothes and valuing jewels.
37:51Willie, just look at the flash on that one.
37:53Her old man has been worth a bother to.
37:55That's Joe Chapman.
37:58Bandage Joe, they call him.
38:01Cotton waste dealer before the war.
38:03Soon as it started, he went toot-sweet into the bandage business.
38:06Big profits in bandages.
38:08They reckon the Battle of the Somme set him up for life.
38:12Got him the O.B.E.
38:14That's the order of the other boogers' apples.
38:17The other boogers' apples.
38:21The entrance of the Queen of Sheba.
38:26Come on, Rach.
38:27Get Jock in for a position.
38:30Where to stand?
38:31Oh, it's a problem, isn't it, little?
38:32No, I'd see that one off if I were you.
38:37He's wearing borrowed plumes.
38:38Jacket sleeves and all fried at the edges.
38:40Back to Uncle's in the morning.
38:51And that's the dear sweet bitch that was swigging our beer last week.
38:55Wait a minute.
38:55Oh, for God's sake, Nick.
38:56Come along.
39:04What the hell do you think you're doing?
39:05I think I'm looking at paintings, Nick.
39:07She's got a ring through your nose.
39:08It's pathetic.
39:10I'm not quite sure what you mean.
39:11Rachel made you cut and out on me.
39:13You really are a piece of puff pastry, aren't you?
39:15I don't quite see why you're being so offensive.
39:16When a man snobbed me because of the clothes I'm wearing, it's time to be offensive.
39:20Averted snobbery is almost as bad as the real thing.
39:22I know what I am and I'm sure what I am.
39:23Total honesty?
39:24How Christlike.
39:25It's better than pandering to the values of this rabble.
39:27I really am ashamed of you.
39:29Perhaps Rachel was ashamed of you.
39:30She doesn't concern me.
39:32Your attitude does.
39:33My attitude has always been when in hell...
39:34It's not for me, Anton!
39:49Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wood.
39:53Oh, Christ, I'm sorry.
39:55Oh, you're in somewhat of a hurry, my dear.
40:03Sorry.
40:04Twice in less than a fortnight.
40:07We met.
40:08Or rather, you bumped into me by the site of the new library, St. Peter's Square.
40:13Oh, coffee!
40:14You wanted to take me for a coffee.
40:15And you didn't want to be taken.
40:16Oh, it wasn't like that.
40:18I had an appointment.
40:19Oh, no need for explanation.
40:21Are you late for another appointment?
40:23No.
40:23I'm trying to escape.
40:25What?
40:25And miss all the fun.
40:27Well, I haven't had any fun so far.
40:29I'm out of place.
40:30You were invited.
40:31My old low cause.
40:35Well, look at me.
40:36Did you ever see anything quite like this damned heart of mine?
40:38No.
40:39Can't say that I have.
40:41Let me buy you a new one.
40:45What are you doing at this jamboree?
40:46Oh, I make a point of never missing free jamborees at the town hall.
40:50It's one of the compensations for being an alderman.
40:53Drinking the taxpayer's sherry and, um, and very occasionally entertaining a beautiful young lady.
41:00Oh, well, actually, I really don't...
41:01Oh, come along now, just for a minute or two.
41:03Um, hmm.
41:05Perhaps we should sit for a moment.
41:07It makes a much better impression to go in when the room's full.
41:10Oh!
41:12Councillor and Mrs. Geoffrey Tee.
41:17Well, there we are.
41:21And, um, where do you suppose your, um, your old bloke is?
41:26I've no idea.
41:27He just stormed off.
41:28Hmm, a little inconsiderate of him, I might venture to suggest.
41:32Oh, don't venture to suggest.
41:34Bloody well say it.
41:35Well, I don't want to sound too sincere.
41:38One man's loss, another man's chance to deputise.
41:41If you'll permit me to.
41:43Oh, well, actually, I really think I ought to go.
41:46It's not just the hat.
41:47I'd just feel wrong being here.
41:49It's a reception in honour of our art community.
41:52You must be an artist.
41:53An artist's hands.
41:55And, uh, most certainly an artist's freedom of speech.
41:58Oh, you mean I swear a lot.
42:00Well, I mean you're, um, you're very direct.
42:03It's a refreshing quality to a man in politics.
42:07Oh, well, I think we might go in now.
42:08Well, the alternatives are a bit thin.
42:11All right, then.
42:13Let's push the boat out.
42:17Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hentshaw.
42:20Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hentshaw.
42:24We do have to be announced, I'm afraid.
42:26Oh, yes.
42:26Well, they say it with greater conviction when they actually have a name to announce.
42:32Oh, oh, uh, Anna Fitzgerald.
42:36Anna, Anna Fitzgerald.
42:39Miss Anna Fitzgerald.
42:41Alderman Sir George Faunt, Miss Anna Fitzgerald.
42:44Oh, Jesus Christ.
42:46She's mistaken your identity, George.
42:49Good evening, Miss Fitzgerald.
42:51Good evening.
42:51Your Worship.
42:54A glass of red purse, Sherry, my dear.
42:56Oh, thank you.
43:04Well, you can always put the bloody rates up.
43:11So, you're Nick's father.
43:12Do you know him?
43:13Uh, I've heard a lot about him.
43:16Bit wild, by all accounts.
43:18Yes, I suppose he is.
43:19All temper and talent.
43:22And a rising reputation.
43:23So I'm told.
43:25That's one of his.
43:27The race course scene.
43:29Yes.
43:31Are you at all hungry?
43:33Well, I wouldn't mind something.
43:34Well, let's see what we can find.
43:38Oh, yes.
43:43It's all a question of light.
43:46All artists start with being obsessed by form until they realize that art is about light.
43:50All form is light.
43:53Excuse me.
43:53I'll be back in a moment.
43:54Now, Mr. Faunt, incidentally, a valued friend of many years standing, more than serves to illustrate this point.
44:01Where is he?
44:04Nick?
44:06He seems to have taken a sudden dislike to all of us, dear lady.
44:10He's left them.
44:10Without doubt.
44:14Now, if you notice the movement of the horses.
44:18My lords, ladies and gentlemen, pray silence for the right-worshipful, the Lord Mayor, Alderman Sir Richard Shaw, the Lord Mayor.
44:58Quite, sir.
44:59Quite.
45:00Quite.
45:01Quite.
45:029.5 million yards of yarn processed as against 44 million yards in 1911 are figures that paint their own grim picture.
45:15And if we are to believe those prophets of doom who inherit the fourth estate, then the coming year will see yet a further worsening of the situation.
45:27One might have expected the press to have exercised a greater objectivity, a more positive outlook, a constructive optimism, instead of spreading daily alarm and despondency.
45:42Now, I, for one, believe that tonight may well go down in the annals of our northern capital as the time the trade started to pick up.
45:54Let us all hope so, sir.
45:55On Monday, the National Cotton Week opens in London, a sign of our determination to overcome present difficulties.
46:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:06Just a few hours ago, I received a telegram from Mr. David Lloyd George, advising me of his intention to appear at the opening.
46:17I suppose nine weeks could be construed as just a few hours, a pious and truth in the public interest.
46:25And the stock markets.
46:26Oh, naturally, my dear.
46:28Apart from a penchant for making long-winded speeches.
46:31Naturally, I am not suggesting that we have crossed the Rubicon, but I do believe that the opposite shore is now coming into view.
46:43What Manchester does today, London does tomorrow, providing it doesn't fall on a weekend, and Moscow has a five-year plan.
46:51But Manchester does not neglect its artists, neither does it squander the general rate on works of art that scarcely merit the title,
47:01but rather on the excellent canvases that you see here in this room tonight.
47:08The Race Horses, by Nicholas Fort, has been acquired for the sum of 50 guineas, representing an artist of unquestionable talent.
47:19Hear, hear.
47:20An investment of considerable appreciative potential.
47:24I am informed that Mr. Fort is the first artist to capture movement as vividly as the French Impressionist Degas.
47:38Degas, sir.
47:40Je n'envoie pas de bourgeois pour cette réponse-là .
47:44Quite, sir, quite.
47:45In other words, for God's sake, shut up.
47:50Great city, countless scientific and artistic legacies.
47:55Scientists who can put their theories into practice.
47:59Artists whose imaginative ability is harnessed to discipline and a foot-on-the-ground outlook.
48:06There is little room for the southern dilettante,
48:09described so perceptively by Gilbert and Sullivan as greenery, yellerery, grove in a gallery, foot-in-the-grave young men.
48:19Are there any more speeches?
48:28I'm bored.
48:29Just tired.
48:30Oh, for light waves, I'm bored.
48:33Look, I've got my car outside.
48:36My chauffeur will drive you anywhere you want to go.
48:39Oh, thank you very much.
48:40Well, if you're ready, then.
48:41Thanks.
48:44Excuse me, my darling.
48:59Oh, Albert, would you bring my car off, please?
49:01Yes, sir.
49:04Oh, thanks.
49:06Do you have far to go?
49:08Well, not very.
49:09Dickinson Road.
49:10Perhaps we'll meet again.
49:12No, no, not perhaps.
49:13We will.
49:14You make it sound like a certainty.
49:16Only because it is, my dear.
49:19Well, mustn't keep Jarvis waiting.
49:21He takes it out on the car.
49:36I don't know.
49:54Bye-bye.
49:57Bye-bye.
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