 Our Miss Gibbs
A Musical Play in 2 Acts by "Cryptos". Constructed by James
F. Tanner. Lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank. Music by Ivan
Caryll and Lionel Monckton. Produced by Mr. GEORGE EDWARDES
Presented at the Gaiety Theatre, London 23 January, 1909 (636 perfs)
Presented at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York 29 August, 1910 (57
perfs)
Synopsis
The heroine is a shop girl, courted by by an earl in disguise, who
ought to be paying his attentions to a more suitable lady for his station
in life.
Miss Gibbs is a Yorkshire lass who has come to London to work as a shop
girl at Garrods where she sells candy. All the local hooray-Henrys are
making themselves sick on sweets as they come to ogle and sigh over the
no-nonsense Miss Gibbs who disapproves thoroughly of their attempts at
'sophisticated' familiarity.
Miss Gibbs has given her heart to a young bank-clerk who is, in reality,
Lord Eynsford. When she discovers his deception she dumps him on the
spot!.
Timothy Gibbs, Mary's cousin, has come down from Yorkshire to play second
euphonium for the town band in the big contest at the Crystal Palace.
Timothy is a real country cousin and his adventures in the big city prove
to be really something. He manages to get mixed up in a crime when he
mistakenly picks up a bag belonging to the Hon. Hughie Pierrepoint, an
enthusiastic amateur criminal. The bag contains the Ascot Gold Cup which
Pierrepoint has just managed to steal.
Act 2 takes place at the Franco-British Exhibition at the White City.
Timothy is in a sweat over his 'crime' and imagines that the police bloodhounds
are after him. He disguises himself as an entrant in the big marathon
race and staggers into the stadium mistakenly to be acclaimed the winner.
Finally, the Gold Cup is recovered and restored to its owner who happens
to be young Eynsford's father, by now so charmed with Mary Gibbs that
he is more than happy that she should become his daughter-in-law.
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