Marietta Nash made her professional debut at London’s Britannia Theatre and after touring the British provinces spent several years in America with her husband, George Lauri. She first appeared in Australia in 1892 for Williamson and Musgrove, remaining with the firm for twelve years, working largely in comic opera, musical comedy and pantomime - notably Djin Djin, the Japanese Bogie Man (1895) and Matsa, Queen of Fire (1896). She also secured brief engagements with George Rignold (Jack the Giant Killer, 1893-94) and Harry Rickards(1897-98), the latter association involving both musical comedy (A Bunch of Keys) and pantomime (Jack and the Beanstalk).
Nash retired in 1904 but was forced to return to the stage in 1909 following her husband’s suicide. In 1914 she appeared in The Shepherd of the Southern Cross (1914), credited as Mrs George Lauri.
[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]
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