Wish Wynne

[1] Wish Wynne was born Ethel Constance Eliza Gilchrist in Croydon on 19 February 1879 [2] of Irish parents.

She made her first stage appearance aged 12 in the pantomime Dick Whittington at Drury Lane.

She subsequently became a music hall act, with character songs and comic monologues which she accompanied herself on the piano.

[3] E. V. Lucas, writing in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1911, praised Wynne as "a new variety of singer" and "a performer whose every word is of value".

[4][5] Wynne made her West End acting debut as Janet Cannot in Arnold Bennett's The Great Adventure, produced by Granville Barker.