John Donald, the manager, is fortunate in having secured for the artless Alice such a winsome little actress as Miss Maidie Andrews, who evokes interest for all she says and does.

In 1925 she was Charlotte in The Three Graces, an English-language adaptation of Lehár's Der Libellentanz,[20] while 1928 saw Andrews in the musical comedy That's A Good Girl starring Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph, and was Rose darling in the original production of Noël Coward's Cavalcade (1931) at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

She played the drama teacher Monica Stevens in Ivor Novello's last musical Gay's the Word (1950–51) opposite Cicely Courtneidge and Thorley Walters at the Saville Theatre in London.

[24] Andrews was La Toulouse in the musical Wedding in Paris (1954) opposite Anton Walbrook and Evelyn Laye at the London Hippodrome.

[25] She was Bonita Belgrave in the original production of Noël Coward's Waiting in the Wings opposite Sybil Thorndike and Marie Lohr and a cast of elderly actresses which premiered in Dublin on 8 August 1960 at the Olympia Theatre, and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre on 7 September 1960[26] before going on a national tour.

[27] Her television appearances included ITV Play of the Week (1956); Ivor Novello (1956), a BBC docudrama about the life of Ivor Novello;[28] in the series Sunday's Child (1959);[29] Gilbert and Sullivan: The Immortal Jesters (1961), and Florrie Martin in the episode Sing Me the Old Song of the police series No Hiding Place (1966).