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The Motor Girl is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Charles J. Campbell and Ralph M. Skinner and music by Julian Edwards. It opened at the Lyric Theatre, New York, on 15 June 1909.

Dramatis Personæ

DOROTHY DARE   (the Motor Girl) Georgia Caine
LOUISE   (Countess of Altenstein) Elizabeth Brice
WILHELMINA LAMM   (a Deutscher maid, in pastures new) Adelaide Sharp
MRS. ARTHUR DARE   (lately married) Bessie Franklin
LOTTIE LAKESIDE Helen Adair
PENELOPE PENN Stella Bowe
ADOLPHOUS   (Grand Duke of Noodleberg) George Pauncefort
GENERAL BOCKHEISTER DARE   (Minister of Police) George Majoroni
DICK WILLOUGHBY   (chum of Dare's) Martin Brown
BILL PUSHER James F. Cook
ROBIN COYNE John Lorenz
MYNHEER ALEHOFF   (Burgomaster of Saardam) George Callahan
LUDWIG LIEBLING   (Secretary to the Duke of Altenstein) James B. Carson
CAPTAIN RUFFHAUS   (of the German Embassy) Frank Shea
FELIX   (Maitre d'Hotel, Paris) Robert O'Connor
ARTHUR DARE   (of New York) George Lyman
PRESIDENT OF THE AUTO CLUB Carroll C. Clucas
CHAUFFEUR Ned Joyce
RUTN RITTENHOUSE
WELTHEA WALTON
PATIENCE PARTRIDGE
CHARITY CHAMBERS
HOPE HAPGOOD
FAITH FARLEIGH
PRISCILLA PENROSE
PRUDENCE PENNINGTON
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Lura Wentworth
Leota Hingston
Matie Ten Eyck
Helen Scotten
Flora Crosbie
Nancy Poole
Lillian Foster
Anita Pollock
LIZETTE Elinor Dayne
GEORGETTE Bessilee Merrill

MIDI Files

ACT I   -   The Plaze of the Holland City of Saardam on Kermess Day.

ACT II   -   Salon of the Grand Hotel, Paris.


External Links
Julian Edwards at Wikipedia
Vocal Score at Musopen

American Musical Theatre

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