Produced by David Clarke, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) _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_