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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
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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