Beatrice Ferrar

Ferrar made her London début aged 15 in 1890 as one of the Two Young Zephyrs in The Bride of Love at the Adelphi Theatre in a production that included her sister Ada Ferrar[2] before appearing as the 12 year-old Tow Tow in Sweet Nancy at the Lyric Theatre, playing the title role for three weeks during the run.

[3] She joined the company of John Hare to play Beatrix Brent in Lady Bountiful at the Garrick Theatre (1891).

[5] She was at the Comedy Theatre as Mrs. Robert Briscoe in The Sportsman (1892)[6] and was Grace Walters in The Great Unpaid (1892)[7] before playing a number of roles for Hare, Winifred Fortescue and Edward Terry on tour.

[8] She appeared in Gertrude Warden and John Wilton Jones's one act play A Woman's Proper Place (1896).

[13] Her obvious ladylike qualities somewhat prevented her from convincingly playing the vulgar music hall singer Maud St. Trevor in Hearts Are Trumps at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1899)[14] but she had more success as Lucy in The Rivals opposite Cyril Maude[15] and as Miss Constance Neville in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, both at the Haymarket Theatre (1900)[16][17] with The Era saying of her performance in the latter, "Miss Beatrice Ferrar’s Miss Neville was younger and more hoydenish than is customary; but, in practice, this proved an advantage ...