Ouida MacDermott

Ouida MacDermott (24 May 1889 – 29 October 1980) was a British singer and actress whose career was mainly in music hall and as a principal boy in pantomime during the Edwardian era.

[2] Following her father on to the stage, MacDermott played Princess Arawanha in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe and His Man Friday at the Lyceum Theatre in London (1907–08)[3] and the title role in the pantomime Aladdin at the Prince's Theatre in Bristol (1908–09).

[6] She toured in the musical comedy Business As Usual in 1915, and the following year, returned to pantomime in Dick Whittington and His Cat at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin.

[8] When the diarist and critic James Agate went on a round of pantomime visits "with the intention of rediscovering not only my lost youth but a lost young man, the Prince Charming of long ago" it was in MacDermott that Agate found "him whom I sought – the fair, the not too refrigerative, the inexpressive he of long ago .

The marriage was dissolved in 1911 after her adultery with the music hall performer Jay Laurier.

In 1939, and listed as 'divorced', she was living with her brother James and his wife at Pound Cottage in Battle, Sussex.