The "Mind the Paint" Girl

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

Sheet music cover with Billie Burke

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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