GREENROOM GOSSIP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1322, 26 August 1915, Page 30

GREENROOM GOSSIP.

A SPECIALIST IN DANCING. MISS MARGUERITE LEROY. In introducing dancing into the work of the Violet Dandies, Mr. Edward Branscombe chose a dainty and artistic exponent in Miss Marguerite Leroy. Four years ago Miss Leroy came out to Australia from Home under engagement to J. C. Williamson, Ltd., as solo dancer in “The Arcadians,’’ and at the termination of her contract joined the Violet Dandies, making the graceful exploitation of her art a feature of the programmes in Australia and New Zealand. She makes a specialty of classical dancing, and has some 20 different dancing characters that she uses in the Dandies. And her hands are as nimble as her toes. For she makes all her own costumes, which express the various themes so admirably. Miss Leroy began her dancing career at Drury Lane, was later on principal dancer at Savoy Theatre, London, and was solo dancer in the original production of “Du Barry,’ with Mrs. Brown-Potter in the leading role. The dancer of the Violets was a pupil of the illustrious Genee. so that her tuition was well founded and enabled her to form classes for teaching children’s stage dancing. Miss Leroy also produced one children’s play, in wlrch there were 140 little ones under the age of 14 years. “I have had plenty of hard work s’nce I first saw the stage,” she said. Miss Leroy’s twin sister, who was in Guy’s Hospital, is now nursing in France, and she has another sister teaching in Petrograd.