 MY MIMOSA MAID
A Riviera Musical Incident in 2 Acts. Chatter by Paul A Rubens and
Austen Hurgon. Jungles and Tunes by Paul A Rubens.
Prince of Wales Theatre, London - 21 April, 1908 (83 perfs)
Story
Victor Guilbert, a chimney sweep, falls in love with the lovely Paulette,
'head girl on a Mimosa Plantation'. She falls in love with him but
both are silent. Then Victor wins the gros lot in the big
Riviera lottery. He gives up his job and decks himself out in fashionable
finery to attempt to woo his Paulette under an assumed name and character.
But he is unsuccessful, for she is still pining for the vanished sweep.
Emile Gerard , a café proprietor is Victor's rival for Paulette's
affections. Meanwhile Max Guilbert, Victor's brother, "inherits"
the sweeping business when Victor becomes 'Count Victor' becoming embroiled,
to comic advantage with Popitte, a flower girl and Mme de Pilaine, the
dowager proprietress of the Mimosa plantation.
Finally, however, Victor returns to his old ways and his real persona
and he and Paulette are happily, and richly, united.
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