 In addition to her concert work she had a successful music hall career, making her variety debut at the London Pavilion in 1910.Elsie Muriel Southgate was born in Marylebone on 23 January 1880 the daughter of Frank and Charlotte Southgate, her father was a "Professor of Music".On her variety tours she was billed as "Elsie Southgate, The Royal Violinist", and, in 1926, she toured the vaudeville theatres of the United States and Canada.