She was annoyed to find she had been passed over when the company appointed new managers, including a casting director and Binkie Beaumont's partner.

[3] She and Macdonald produced several notable theatrical productions, but John Perry explained that she would progress no higher.

She played golf and used her connections to find clients that included Somerset Maugham and Samuel Beckett.

[2] She was involved with the noted production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1956 and holidayed with Maugham in France.

She notably told John Osborne to "think again" about his play Look Back in Anger that transformed British theatre.

[4] In partnership with Michael Flanders, she translated Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat for the Edinburgh Festival.

The work played to capacity audiences in Edinburgh,[6] and again in London at the Royal Festival Hall in 1956 with Flanders as the narrator, Sir Ralph Richardson as the Soldier and Peter Ustinov as the Devil.