Marjorie Eyre

[1] Eyre joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1924 playing chorus roles and taking the small part of Giulia in The Gondoliers.

In 1925 in one of the D'Oyly Carte touring companies, she took over her first leading soprano role, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, and also was given the small parts of Lady Ella in Patience and Celia (and, sometimes, Phyllis) in Iolanthe.

Pinafore, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance, Saphir in Patience, the title role in Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Mad Margaret in Ruddigore, and Tessa in The Gondoliers.

In 1930, Eyre resumed all her principal soubrette roles, except switching to Lady Angela in Patience and adding Melissa in Princess Ida and Phoebe Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard.

[6] In 1952, Rands and Eyre played the Earl of Essex and Jill-All-Alone in a week's run of Merrie England for charity in Priory Park, Chichester.

Eyre as the title character in Iolanthe , ca. 1936
Eyre as Pitti-Sing in The Mikado , alongside Sydney Granville as Pooh-Bah and Martyn Green as Ko-Ko, 1936