 She played Mopes the maid in "Pygmalion", Princess Bariatinski in Tom Taylor's "The Serf" and Mrs Raby in "Miriam's Crime".There, still only 23 years old, she originated the role of the fading Marchioness of Birkenfelt, the first of W. S. Gilbert's long series of "elderly, ugly" women, in his second operatic burlesque, "La Vivandière".She was the only member of the cast to be re-engaged for the London production six months later at the Queen's Theatre, starring Lionel Brough.