Violet Cameron

In 1876 she created the role of Joconde at the Criterion Theatre in H. B. Farnie's burlesque Piff Paff and soon played Perdita in A Winter's Tale in Liverpool.

[5] Cameron then moved to the Strand Theatre, where she appeared in Farnie's burlesque, Nemesis and then played Suzanne in his translation of Offenbach's Madame Favart (1879).

In 1881, she moved to Alexander Henderson's Comedy Theatre, where she sang the title role in Edmond Audran's The Mascot and had another great success in 1882 as Gretchen in Planquette's Rip Van Winkle.

In 1885, she was engaged at the Avenue Theatre, where she played the lead in Bad Boys, an adaptation of the French piece Clara Soleil, and created the role of Dudley in Reece and Farnie's Kenilworth.

In 1886 Cameron and Bensaude were befriended by Hugh Lowther, the Earl of Lonsdale, who offered to fund their plan to take their theatre company to the United States.