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[Transcriber's Note: The HTML version of this e text includes the third act song
("If you would only, only love me") in three forms: raw lilypond
(.ly extension, can be converted to other formats), .pdf (image),
and MIDI file. Some sites will allow you to download these files
individually; if so, look in the "files" directory associated with
the HTML text.
The published play did not include music for the title song ("Mind
the Paint"), sung in Act I.
Errors are listed at the end of the e text.]
THE
"MIND THE PAINT"
GIRL
The Plays of Arthur W. Pinero
Paper cover, 1s 6d; cloth, 2s 6d each
THE TIMES
THE PROFLIGATE
THE CABINET MINISTER
THE HOBBY HORSE
LADY BOUNTIFUL
THE MAGISTRATE
DANDY DICK
SWEET LAVENDER
THE SCHOOLMISTRESS
THE WEAKER SEX
THE AMAZONS
THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY
THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH
THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
THE PRINCESS AND THE BUTTERFLY
TRELAWNY OF THE "WELLS"
THE GAY LORD QUEX
IRIS
LETTY
A WIFE WITHOUT A SMILE
HIS HOUSE IN ORDER
THE THUNDERBOLT
MID CHANNEL
PRESERVING MR. PANMURE
THE "MIND THE PAINT" GIRL
This Play can be had in library form, 4to, cloth,
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with a new portrait, 10s net.
THE PINERO BIRTHDAY BOOK
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London: William Heinemann
THE
"MIND THE PAINT"
GIRL
A COMEDY
In Four Acts
By ARTHUR PINERO
London: William Heinemann
MCMXIII
Copyright 1912
by Arthur Pinero
This play was produced in London, at the Duke of York's Theatre, on
Saturday, February 17, 1912; in New York, at the New Lyceum Theatre,
on Monday, September 9, 1912; and in Germany, at the Stadttheater in
Mainz, on Monday, January 13, 1913
The Persons of the Play
VISCOUNT FARNCOMBE
COLONEL THE HON. ARTHUR STIDULPH
BARON VON RETTENMAYER
CAPTAIN NICHOLAS JEYES
LIONEL ROPER
SAM DE CASTRO
HERBERT FULKERSON
STEWART HENEAGE
GERALD GRIMWOOD
CARLTON SMYTHE ( Manager of the Pandora Theatre )
DOUGLAS GLYNN, ALBERT PALK, }
WILFRID TAVISH, and } ( Actors at the Pandora )
SIGISMUND SHIRLEY }
VINCENT BLAND ( A Musical Composer, attached to the Pandora )
MORRIS COOLING ( Business Manager at the Pandora )
LUIGI ( Maître d'hôtel at Catani's Restaurant )
WAITERS
THE HON. MRS. ARTHUR STIDULPH
( Formerly, as Dolly Ensor, of the Pandora Theatre )
LILY PARRADELL }
JIMMIE BIRCH }
GABRIELLE KATO }
ENID MONCRIEFF }
DAPHNE DURE } ( Of the Pandora )
NITA TREVENNA }
FLO CONNIFY }
SYBIL DERMOTT }
OLGA COOK }
EVANGELINE VENTRIS }
MRS. UPJOHN (LILY PARRADELL's mother )
GLADYS (LILY's parlourmaid )
MAUD (LILY's maid )
The action of the piece takes place in London at LILY PARRADELL'S
house in Bloomsbury, in the foyer of the Pandora Theatre, and again at
LILY'S house.
The curtain will be lowered for a few moments in the course of the
Second Act.
The following advertisements are to appear conspicuously in the
programme.
MIND THE PAINT (the complete song), words by D'Arcy Wingate, music by
Vincent Bland, as originally sung by Miss LILY PARRADELL at the
Pandora Theatre in the Musical Play of "THE DUCHESS OF BRIXTON," may
be obtained from Messrs. Church and Co. (Ltd.), Music Publishers, 181
New Bond Street.
AFTER THE THEATRE. CATANI'S RESTAURANT, 459 Strand. Best cuisine in
London. Milanese Band. Private Rooms. Urbano Catani, Sole Proprietor.
Tel.: 10,337 Gerrard.
THE "MIND THE PAINT" GIRL
THE FIRST ACT
The scene is a drawing room, prettily but somewhat showily decorated.
The walls are papered with a design representing large clusters of
white and purple lilac. The furniture is covered with a chintz of
similar pattern, and the curtains, carpet, and lamp shades
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