Front matter
Reading edition
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The published play did not include music for the title song ("Mind the Paint"), sung in Act I.
A few typographical errors have been corrected. They have been marked in the text with mouse-hover popups.
THE “ MIND THE PAINT ” GIRL
Contents (added by transcriber)
First Act: Lily Parradell’s drawing room
Second Act: refreshment-saloon of Pandora Theatre
Second Act (after curtain): the same, later
Third Act: Lily Parradell’s boudoir Song: “If you would only love me”
Fourth Act: the same, later
THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR W. PINERO
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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, with a portrait, 5s. † A Limited Edition of this play on hand-made paper, with a new portrait, 10s net.
THE PINERO BIRTHDAY BOOK Selected and Arranged by MYRA HAMILTON With a Portrait, cloth extra, price 2s 6d. 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 Sigismund Shirley (Actors at the Pandora)
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 (Of the Pandora)
Jimmie Birch
Gabrielle Kato
Enid Moncrieff
Daphne Dure
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.