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PLAYS BY ARTHUR PINERO GILBERT MURRAY W. E. HENLEY & R. L. STEVENSON GERHART HAUPTMANN EDMUND ROSTAND HENRIK IBSEN C. HADDON CHAMBERS ROBERT MARSHALL HERMAN HEIJERMANS FRANZ ADAM BEYERLEIN
_LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN 21 Bedford Street, W.C._
_Copyright, 1911, London, by William Heinemann_
COPY OF THE "FIRST NIGHT" PROGRAMME AT THE VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, LONDON
THE BRASS BOTTLE A Farcical Play in Four Acts BY F. ANSTEY PERFORMED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1909
HORACE VENTIMORE MR. LAURENCE GROSSMITH PROFESSOR ANTHONY FUTVOYE MR. ALFRED BISHOP FAKRASH-EL-AAMASH MR. E. HOLMAN CLARK SPENCER PRINGLE MR. RUDGE HARDING SAMUEL WACKERBATH MR. LUIGI LABLACHE RAPKIN MR. J. H. BREWER CHIEF OF CARAVAN MR. A. SPENCER HEAD EFREET MR. JOHN CAREY A WAITER MR. WALTER RINGHAM MRS. FUTVOYE MISS LENA HALLIDAY SYLVIA FUTVOYE MISS VIVA BIRKETT MRS. RAPKIN MISS MARY BROUGH MRS. WACKERBATH MISS ARMINE GRACE JESSIE MISS GLADYS STOREY ZOBEIDA (Principal Dancing Girl) MISS MABEL DUNCAN
DANCERS. Misses Phyllis Birkett, Florence A. Pigott, Susie Nainby, Dorothy Beaufey, Nina De Leon, Cynthia Farnham
_There will be an Interval of Two Minutes after Act I, and Eight Minutes after Act II_
_There will be One Minute Interval between Scenes I and II, during which the Audience are requested to keep their seats. After Act III, Eight Minutes._
_There will be an Interval of One Minute between Scenes I and II, during which the Audience are requested to keep their seats._
The Scenery painted by WALTER HANN AND SON.
The Play has been Produced (for MR. GASTON MAYER) by MR. FREDERICK KERR.
The Amateur fee for each and every representation of this play is five guineas, payable in advance to the Author's Sole Agents, Messrs. Samuel French, Ltd., 26 Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.
HORACE VENTIMORE (a young Architect, aged 28) PROFESSOR ANTHONY FUTVOYE (an Egyptologist, aged 60) FAKRASH-EL-AAMASH (a Jinnee of the Green Jinn, age uncertain) SPENCER PRINGLE (an Architect, aged 32) SAMUEL WACKERBATH (an Auctioneer and Estate Agent, aged 60) RAPKIN (Ventimore's Landlord, a retired butler, aged 55) CHIEF OF CARAVAN HEAD EFREET A WAITER (at the Savoy Hotel) MRS. FUTVOYE (aged 55) SYLVIA FUTVOYE (her Daughter, aged 21) MRS. RAPKIN (Ventimore's Landlady) MRS. WACKERBATH JESSIE (Parlour-maid at the Futvoyes') PRINCIPAL DANCING GIRL CARAVAN SLAVES, MUSICIANS, EFREETS, DANCING GIRLS