Scenes from The Only Girl (The Musical Comedy) produced at the Apollo Theatre in the West End, London, on September 25, 1915, running for 107 performances.

   Scenes from The Only Girl (The Musical Comedy) produced at the Apollo Theatre in the West End, London,  on September 25, 1915, running for 107 performances.

   The Only Girl is a "musical farce in three acts" with music by Victor Herbert and a book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. The musical is based on the 1912 play Our Wives by Frank Mandel and Helen Kraft. It opened on Broadway at the 39th Street Theatre on November 2, 1914. During its Broadway run it transferred to the Lyric Theatre where it closed on June 5, 1915, after 240 performances. The Broadway production starred Wilda Bennett as the composer Ruth Wilson; Thurston Hall as her librettist Alan Kimbrough; Adele Rowland as the soubrette Patricia La Montrose, a.k.a. "Patsy"; Ernest Torrence as the painter Andrew McMurray, a.k.a. "Bunkie"; Vivian Wessell as Bunkie's wife; and Jed Prouty as the lawyer Fresh; Josephine Whittell as Margaret Ayer, Fresh's wife.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, October 16th, 1915, "The Only Girl," The Musical Comedy At The Apollo Theatre.

   a- Miss Mabel Russell as Patrice la Montrose, an actress, singing her song.  "You've got to have the part to make a hit," and at the same time holding up the meagre "part"  she has just received herself.

   b- Miss Fay Compton as Ruth Wilson, the heroine, appearing in the dress which so adds to her charms that the hitherto obdurate dramatic author, Alan Kimbrough, capitulates, and decides that she is "the only girl" for him.

   c- Drinking success to the three bridegrooms, who, by having suddenly discovered "only girls," are leaving their friend Kim, who will be the only bachelor of the quartette.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, October 23rd, 1915, "The Only Girl," The Musical Play at the Apollo Theatre.

   a- "Kim" receives his newly married friends and their wives after their honeymoon trips, and finds that the idols of his old chums have already revealed feet of clay.

   b- Miss Mabel Russell as Patrice la Montrose, a Soubrette, who has the distinction of being nobody's "only girl."

   c,d, and e, The three brides who effectively control their new husbands.  (Miss Mabel Tremlow, Miss Ethel Baird, and Miss Madelaine Seymour.)

   f- Patrice la Montrose, the actress (Miss Mabel Russell) kissing the musical comedy author, Alan Kimbrough (Mr. Kenneth Douglas), on receiving her new part from him.