Background
MURRAY, Alma Daughter of Leigh Murray, actor.
MURRAY, Alma Daughter of Leigh Murray, actor.
Privately. First appeared when a child at Olympic Theatre. At the Lyceum, 1879-1881.
At chief West End theatres, 1882-1897. First appearance as Rosalind in As You Like lieutenant, April 1897, at the Metropole Theatre, Camberwell. Principal actress in Shelley and Browning performances.
A leading reciter, and teacher of elocution and acting.
First recital appearance on provincial concert platform, Liverpool, October 1899. Bristol, Colston Hall, December 1901.
Criterion Theatre (and subsequent suburban tour) under Mr. John Hare"s management, January to April 1902, as Clarissa, in Mr.
L. North. Parker’s “The Sequel ”.
Pavilion Theatre as Marion Grey in G. R. Sims’s Woman from Gaol, 1903. With Mr. Tree at His Majesty’s Theatre as Mistress Maylie in Oliver Twist, 1905.
Suburban tour of Hall Caine’s Prodigal Son (under Mr.
Arthur Collins) as Anna, 1906. Provincial tour of same, 1906.