Topsy Sinden

[2][5] She was given early roles including as principal dancer at age 10 in a revival of Pepita at Toole's Theatre and The Old Guard, both in 1888.

[4][6] She also joined the company of George Edwardes where, in the early 1890s, she appeared in the burlesques Cinder Ellen up too Late and Don Juan.

[9] In 1899, with Edwardes's company at Daly's Theatre, she played Trixie in San Toy, in which she "contributes a graceful dance".

[4][11][12] In the new century, Sinden was Miss Carruthers in A Country Girl at Daly's in 1902,[2] was principal dancer in The Cingalee in 1904–05,[13] played the princess in The Princess and the Troubador (with music by Walter Slaughter) at the London Coliseum in 1905[14] and created the role of Jane in The Beauty of Bath at the Aldwych Theatre, 1906.

[16] Describing her performance in this role, one of her contemporaries wrote that Sinden "excelled in a light and easy kind of tap-dancing ... and in skirt dancing, which was very popular in the musical comedies of the period.

[20] In 1927, after some years away from the stage, she appeared in a production of Dick Whittington at the Elephant and Castle Theatre, south London.