The Pearl Girl

The Pearl Girl
Music	Howard Talbot Hugo Felix
Lyrics	Basil Hood
Book	Basil Hood
Premiere	September 25, 1913 (1913-09-25): Shaftesbury Theatre, London

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The Pearl Girl is an Edwardian musical comedy in three acts produced by Robert Courtneidge with book and lyrics by Basil Hood, music by Howard Talbot and Hugo Felix which premeired at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London on 25th September, 1913.

Musical numbers

Act I (Scene 1)

• Pastorale
• Duke and Chorus – "Now bless ye the day-break in May or in June, when the hound and the horn together make tune!..."
• Mabel and Duke – "You will find your Southern lady never learnt in English schools..."
• Finale – "No doubt you've heard Palmyra Pearls are absolute perfection..."

Act I (Scene 2)

• Pearl Girls – "We are the Pearl girls of Palmyra fame!..."
• Hopkins and Chorus – "Listen to a shop-man on the topic of his trade, and forgive him if the subject doesn't drop..."
• Miranda and Jecks – "Are you capable of crossing to the Continent alone?..."
• Miranda and Byles – "O, ever since the world began has man's mistake been this: to think a miss must take a man ... And not take man a-miss..."
• Scena – "A multi-millionairess comes, the mistress of gigantic sums..."
• Madame Alvarez – "O Pellegrina! Pilgrim from a Persian sea!..."
• Finale – "Who is the gent? ... The Duke of Trent, your Grace, good ev'ning..."

Act II

• Chorus – "Ev'rybody's chattering of charming Madame Alvarez: what of Madame, this of Madame, that of Madame A!..."
• Pringle – "I write little personal pars of society's doings diurnal, which I venture to say are the prop and the stay of a highly respectable journal..."
• Lady Betty and Jaffray – "I was taught to be kind to animals when I was a child of two..."
• Miranda, Jecks and Chorus – "I'm the May'ress of gay Buenos Ayres!..."
• Miranda, Duke and Pringle – "Oh! who will you make a Queen, good sir, oh!..."
  • a - Melodrama
• Lady Betty and Men - "When I was quite a tiny girl some years ago, Oh, such a lot of little boys I used to know ..."
• Septet and Chorus - "Galloping, galloping all the time, oh that's the game of Polo!..."
• Finale - "Each in a mask, who are the three?..."

Act III

• Opening Chorus and Dance – "Lithe as a lily and sweet as a rose, oh, she is entrancing!..."
• Jecks and Chorus – "When I walk'd into Selfridge's I felt supremely sily, surrounded by frivolities all feminine and frilly...."
• Lady Betty and Jaffray – "When you talk to perfect strangers, have you ever found ... Have you ever found ... there are many hidden dangers..."
• Byles – "When a chap 'as made 'is choice, same as me and my Mirander, he should let 'er 'ear 'is voice singin' under 'er verander..."
• Miranda and Duke – "William was a Footman ... Mary was a maid ... Said William: 'I am suited here till she leaves!'..."
• Finale – "Hè hè hè, hèjà, hèjà, jé! Don't ever run away, we hope you've come to stay!..."

Main Cast

Role	Actor
The Duke of Trent	Harry Welchman
Robert Jaffray (Duke's Land agent)	Jack Hulbert
Mr. Jecks (Palmyra Pearl Shop Manager)	Lauri de Frece
Miranda Peploe (Secretary & typist)	Iris Hoey
Mrs. Baxter-Browne	Ada Blanche
Lady Betty Bidduplh (Duke's sister)	Cicely Courtneidge
Byles (Messenger / Odd Man at the Shop)	Alfred Lester
Mr. Pringle (Society Journalist)	Victor Tollemache
Madame Alvarez (of Argentina)	Marjorie Maxwell
Agatha, Duchess of Trent (Duke's Mother)	Dorothea Temple
Lady Catherine Wheeler	Sadrene Storri
Mabel Cheyne-Walker	Joan Hay

References

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