[13] That show closed, and she went on to understudy Wildflower, followed by Princess Charming and finally The Desert Song, whose lead soprano Virginia Perry (as Margot Bonvalet) left after 21 weeks and 175 performances,[14] and Bremner was given the part,[15] proving to be at least as good as her predecessor.
[23] She led the cast in revivals of "The Belle of New York in January 1931, and Lilac Time from February to 6 March, when she returned to Melbourne to join the Gilbert and Sullivan (G.& S.) company.
Bremner played Gianetta, and other Australian newcomers to the genre included Mary Hotham, Maisie Ramsay (a Sun Aria winner)[24] and Alban Whitehead, all Melba protégés.
[27] The 1932 G.& S. season opened at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, on 24 September, with The Gondoliers, followed by Ruddigore;The Yeomen of the Guard, with Bremner as Elsie Maynard;[28] Trial By Jury; The Mikado and Patience; finishing the year with Lilac Time and Dorothy.
[34] The company sailed to South Africa under producer Minnie Everett, but without Bremner, who dropped out at the last moment;[35] her place being taken by Elsie Griffin, wife of Ivan Menzies.
[40] A company, with Bremner the only Australian principal, took Rose-Marie to South Africa, under the English ballet mistress Ruby Morriss, JCW's second woman producer (Everett was the first).
[42] In a radical departure from musical comedy, on 18 July 1935 she appeared at Sydney's Conservatorium Hall in a recital of old English songs in conjunction with pianist Laurence Godfrey-Smith (1884–1973).
[46] In July 1936 she rescued the Gipsy Princess company, taking the German star Maria Elsner's part when the mezzo-soprano was (reportedly) called away by Franz Lehár.
[47] In August Bremner and Strella Wilson, both back on stage after a long break, took the two female leads in Waltzes from Vienna, another biographic musical about Johann Strauss, while the humorist Cecil Kellaway "stole" the show.
[53] Bremner appeared in broadcast operettas 1937 included Alfred Hill's A Moorish Maid,[54] The Gay Deceivers by Muriel Lesley and D. Bowes-Kelly; The Rebel Prince;[55] "Love Wins Through" by Howard Ellis Carr, Adrian Ross and C. B. Fernald;[56] Plays produced in Perth May–July 1937 included The Belle of New York, The Duchess of Dantzic, Véronique, La Poupée, La Lune Bleu by Paul Furniss and Horace Keats, and Floradora.
[58] Musicals broadcast in 1938 were Strauss's Gipsy Baron and The Daughter of the Dragon by Frederick Whaite,[59] Muriel Leslie and D. Bowes-Kelly,[60] otherwise she had only variety shows and recitals.
[62] A rare re-appearance of Bremner in a stage musical was a revival, at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, on 18 February 1939 of A Waltz Dream with Americans Bernice Claire, Jack Arthur and Melton Moore.
[77] After five years in the west, they left for Europe on an extended holiday, Ewart's position being taken by Basil Kirke, and on their return eleven months later, Chapple was appointed State manager for Victoria.
[79] Like her hero and mentor, Dame Nellie Melba, Marie Bremner gave moral and practical assistance to up-and-coming vocalists: While in Perth, she coached an amateur theatre group playing operetta.