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_THE BRASS BOTTLE_

_UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME_

Cloth 2s. 6d.; paper covers, 1s. 6d. each.

    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._




_THE BRASS BOTTLE_

_A FARCICAL FANTASTIC PLAY_

_In Four Acts_

_BY F. ANSTEY_

_LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_

_MCMXI_


_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




_SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY_


ACTS I AND II

HORACE VENTIMORE'S ROOMS

_There will be an Interval of Two Minutes after Act I, and Eight Minutes
after Act II_


ACT III

SCENE I. VENTIMORE'S OFFICE

SCENE II. DRAWING-ROOM AT THE FUTVOYES'

_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._


ACT IV

SCENE I. VENTIMORE'S ROOMS

SCENE II. "PINAFORE" ROOM, SAVOY HOTEL

_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.




_THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY_

HORACE VENTIM