The Girl Behind the Counter with a book by the British dramatists Arthur Anderson (1873-1942) and Leedham Bantock (1870-1928), music by Howard Talbot and lyrics by Arthur Anderson. It opened at Wyndham's Theatre on 21 April 1906, produced by Frank Curzon and directed by Austen Hurgon.

   Scenes from The Girl Behind the Counter (Edwardian musical comedy) with a book by the British dramatists Arthur Anderson (1873-1942) and Leedham Bantock (1870-1928), music by Howard Talbot and lyrics by Arthur Anderson. It opened at Wyndham's Theatre on 21 April 1906, produced by Frank Curzon and directed by Austen Hurgon.

   The farcical musical starred Isabel Jay, C. Hayden Coffin and Lawrence Grossmith. It ran for 141 performances in the original London production, and an adaptation ran for twice that long in 1907–08 on Broadway. The Broadway production was "freely adapted and reconstructed by Edgar Smith" and starred Lew Fields and Connie Ediss.

THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER, COFFIN-ISABELL JAY-MILLS, 1906

Hayden Coffin and Isabel Jay "The Girl Behind The Counter"

Violet Englefield and Lawrence Grossmith "The Girl Behind The Counter" 

Marie Dainton and J F McArdle "The Girl Behind The Counter"

Coralie Blythe and Horace Mills "The Girl Behind The Counter"

Isabel Jay as Winnie Willoughby

Cover of The Play Pictorial, vol. 7, no. 45, 1906

The Belle of Mayfair composed by Leslie Stuart with a book by Basil Hood, Charles Brookfield and Cosmo Hamilton, and produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, Strand, London, with Camille Clifford as Madame de Pompadour in 1906

Some scenes from The Belle of Mayfair (musical comedy) composed by Leslie Stuart with a book by Basil Hood, Charles Brookfield and Cosmo Hamilton, and originally produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, starring Camille Clifford (Belgian-born stage actress, 1885 - 1971) as Madame de Pompadour, Edna May, Louie Pounds, Arthur Williams, and Courtice Pounds, having run for 431 performances from April 11, 1906 to april 13, 1907.

Camille Clifford

Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening 1891) written by Frank Wedekind and first produced at the Kammerspielen, Berlin, under the direction of Max Reinhardt with the stage designed by Karl Walser on November 20, 1906

Some scenes from Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening 1891) written by the German playwright Frank Wedekind (1864 - 1918) and first produced at the Kammerspielen, Berlin, under the direction of Max Reinhardt (1873 - 1943) with the stage designed by Karl Walser (Swiss artist, 1877 -1943) on November 20, 1906

"Frühlings Erwachen" Berlin, 23.11.1906

Alexander Moissi als Moritz Stiefel in der Uraufführung (1906)

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Vieille renommée (1906) written by André Léonard Antoine (1858 - 1943) and produced at the Théâtre Antoine on April 3 1906

A scene from Vieille renommée (1906) written by the French playwright André Léonard Antoine (1858 - 1943) and produced at the Théâtre Antoine on April 3, 1906.