The "Mind The Paint" Girl
Louis Tracy
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"The "Mind The Paint" Girl, by Louis Tracy, is a delightful novelization of Sir Arthur Pinero's sparkling comedy now having a successful New York run.... Mr. Tracy has caught the very spirit of the drama and has told its story with much of the same vivre that has packed the theatre and made it impossible to get seats except several weeks in advance. It is the story of the meteoric rise of a lovely young musical comedy actress whose song "Mind the Paint" put London at her feet and the opportunity of placing several British coronets on her head." Note that we also have the play itself available here at Librivox. - Summary by Bookseller Magazine of 1912 (7 hr 3 min)
Chapters
| A May Morning | 24:47 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| The New Star | 25:12 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| Vertigo | 25:45 | Read by Adrian Stephens |
| The Descent | 24:54 | Read by npfehr |
| In The Depths | 23:36 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| The Plot | 31:27 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| An Interlude | 22:25 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Harmonies, and Some Discords | 29:34 | Read by Rita Boutros |
| Frivolities | 32:52 | Read by Christine |
| Some Minor Issues | 24:40 | Read by Dylan M. Davis |
| The End of the Frolic | 23:06 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Smoldering Ashes | 24:09 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Which Begin to Glow | 27:25 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| And Ultimately Burst into Flame | 29:00 | Read by Jude Somers |
| The Morning After | 25:16 | Read by Susannah Mason |
| The Settlement | 29:28 | Read by Jude Somers |
Reviews
Interesting Social History Tale
Clearspace
A different type of tale, quite well written but Chaps 9 and 10 are read by people who do really bad accents. Especially Chapter 9 with an American young woman trying to do English accents and getting them abominably wrong. Would be better not to try!!
OUCH!
Eleanor Jeffers
PLEASE PLEASE please do NOT try to imitate accents with which you are not familiar. It is both painful & insulting to make Londoners sound like buffoons!
This is insulting to BIPOCs
Bill Cosby
Disregards the societal dependence of white culture on the oppression of BIPOC culture. If it were realistic the central protagonist would by an oppressed BIPOC who bravely holds white culture up so that these white people can go on with their silly white lives all while speaking in an incorrect accent