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Salem, Thanks for the photo. A glamorous-looking lady! And fairly clearly the same one as referred to above by suttontrust as being Nora in the Gay Parisiennne. It increasingly looks as if I have been on the wrong track, but I am asking my wife's cousins if they can come up with more evidence of their grandmother having been on stage.
I have a scan of a pretty programme from the Palace of Varieties. The programme was a piece of card folded into three columns, and Edith Courtney is listed as a ballad singer at item 10. See attachments. It seems likely she is 'yours', though I still have faint hopes that my Edith was somewhere on stage.
I have some Word notes 'an' Edith Courtney's performances, as well as quite a few some scans of reviews of performances she was in (though she is not mentioned personally) and other images. If you are interested, please send me your email address via a RootsChat personal message.

Jadis, My wife's grandmother is an Edith COURTNEY born 28 Nov 1882 (as Edith Courtney TOWNSEND as out of wedlock), who married William Aloysius WHITE on 3 Sep 1911 and died on 24 Jun 1967. For quite good but not conclusive circumstantial reasons I thought that she appeared in London theatres as a singer. Using the Cambridgeshire access to The Times,  I thought that these included the Alhambra, Duke of York, Palace (Theatre of Varieties) and Tivoli. She also had a sister Constance COURTNEY whom I believe had a few minor theatre appearances. I thought I knew all Edith's descendants, so there seems to be a problem for one or both of us. Any thoughts?