Alice Matilda Lethbridge (1866 – 4 February 1948) was an English music hall dancer and Gaiety Girl, best known for her "skirt dance" act.
Travel writer Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay was her niece, the daughter of her brother Sidney Lethbridge.
[5] Lethbridge's version of the skirt dance involved arching her back almost to the horizontal, a challenging position that may have inspired similar moves for American dancer Loie Fuller.
[7] She was appearing in the musical farce A Man About Town in 1897,[8][9] when George Bernard Shaw reviewed her work as "sufficiently hard-working and conscientious" but showing "no compensating brilliancy in the twinkling of her feet".
[10] Other shows featuring Lethbridge were Mynheer Jan (1887), in which she danced a "vigorous" saltarello,[11] Carina (1888), La Prima Donna (1889),[2] Robert Macaire (1891), Joan of Arc (1891),[9] Cinder-Ellen (1892), Little Christopher Columbus (1894),[1] and Baron Golosh (1895).