THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Beatrice Baxendale (1928)

[Born Suva, Fiji 2 Sep 1904, died Southbury, Connecticut 23 Feb 1988]

Marian Beatrice Baxendale gave a trial performance with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance in May 24, 1928, filling in for Winfred Lawson. She was never a chorister. Her subsequent career as an actress, going my the name of Shirley Dale, included film versions of the operettas The Beggar Student (1931) and The Student Prince (1949).

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