We think Joe Offer had a good point when he started his post with:
"Well, I've always heard it as..."
We shouldn't have asked for the "correct" pronunciation but, instead, we should have asked how you have heard the phrase pronounced. After all, this is a play and we're trying to reflect the way most English people would have pronounced it in the 1920s whether it was "correct" or not.
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