Daphne Glenne

She began her theatrical career as a chorister with the D’Oyly Carte Company at the Savoy Theatre in 1906–1907, at one point taking a minor role in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe.

[4] However, she was soon engaged by the American producer Charles Frohman to play the title role in his touring production of The Dollar Princess which travelled around the US in 1910-1911, starting in San Francisco.

[5] Later in 1911, she returned to the United States in the role of Princess Mathilde in Lionel Monckton’s The Quaker Girl, which ran from 1911-1912 in New York at the Park Theatre on Broadway.

From 1913 onwards, she played leading roles in a series of successful musical comedies and revues, both in London and on tour, including Bric-a-Brac, Tonight's the Night, and The Dancing Mistress.

In 1928 she re-appeared briefly in the musical play Topsy and Eva in Glasgow with The Duncan Sisters, under the direction of Jack Buchanan, but she is not listed in the opening cast for the London staging that followed.