Madge Titheradge

"[4] Over the next three years Titheradge performed at a succession of West End theatres, including the Haymarket and His Majesty's, appearing at the latter as Mimi in Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of Trilby.

[1] In 1908 Titheradge joined Lewis Waller's company, in which she played her first Shakespearian role, Princess Katherine in Henry V. In 1910 she married the actor Charles Quartermaine, with whom she appeared on stage in several productions.

[8] In London in December 1914 she played the name part in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, with Hilda Trevelyan as Wendy and the fifteen-year-old Noël Coward as Slightly.

[1] She created two roles in plays by Coward: Nadya in The Queen Was in the Parlour (St Martin's, 1926),[10] and Janet Ebony in Home Chat (Duke of York's, 1927).

Sir John Gielgud, who greatly admired Titheradge, recalled that her husband lost his fortune in the Wall Street crash of 1929, leading her to return to the stage.

[1][13] At Wyndham's Theatre in, September 1936, again directed by Coward, she played the title role in Jacques Deval's comedy Mademoiselle, heading a cast that included Isabel Jeans, Greer Garson and Cecil Parker.