Elizabeth Nickell-Lean

[1] She joined the chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in November 1931 and was soon playing minor roles including Isabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Peep-Bo in The Mikado, Ruth in Ruddigore and Giulia in The Gondoliers.

[1] In August 1936 Nickell-Lean again played the title role in Iolanthe, and during 1936–37, her last season with D'Oyly Carte, she joined the company's 1936 tour of North America,[4][5] appearing as Kate in Pirates, Lady Saphir in Patience, the title role in Iolanthe, Sacharissa in Princess Ida, Peep-Bo in The Mikado, and Vittoria in The Gondoliers.

Nickell-Lean left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in July 1937 but credited as Elizabeth Paynter she played Pitti-Sing in the 1939 film The Mikado.

[1] Nickell-Lean retired from the stage in 1939 in London when she married clinical pathologist Dr. Hugh Francis Brewer (1901–1982) of the Ministry of Health Emergency Hospital Service.

In the final performance of Trial by Jury the regular D'Oyly Carte chorus was augmented by fourteen former stars of the company: Sylvia Cecil, Elsie Griffin, Ivan Menzies, John Dean, Radley Flynn, Nickell-Lean, Ella Halman, Leonard Osborn, Cynthia Morey, Jeffrey Skitch, Alan Barrett, Mary Sansom, Philip Potter and Gillian Humphreys.