The "Mind the Paint" Girl

Sheet music cover with Billie Burke

The "Mind the Paint" Girl is a four-act play by Arthur Pinero, first published in 1912.[1]

The play has a large cast of twenty eight named characters. The plot centres on a rising starlet who is discovered when a musical director overhears a workman yell, "Mind the paint, Girl." The play was written to incorporate a song written by Jerome Kern. It premiered at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in February 1912.[2]

A film based on the play was made by director Wilfrid North in 1916 and in 1919, but both have been lost.

References

  1. ↑ Full text on Project Gutenberg
  2. ↑ London Week By Week (23 February 1912) The Advertiser (Adelaide), 30 March 1912, p. 7, at Trove

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