Wish Wynne

Wish Wynne (born Ethel Constance Eliza Gilchrist; 19 February 1879 – 41 November 1931) was a British music hall performer and radio actress.

Life Wish Wynne was born on 19 February 1879, in Croydon, to Irish/Scottish parents. She made her first stage appearance at age 12, in the pantomime Dick Whittington at Drury Lane. She subsequently became a music hall act, with character songs and comic monologues which she accompanied herself on the piano. E. V. Lucas, writing in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1911, praised Wynne as "a new variety of singer" and "a performer whose every word is of value".

Wynne made her West End acting debut as Janet Cannot in Arnold Bennett's The Great Adventure, produced by Granville Barker. The play opened in March 1913 and enjoyed a successful run until November 1914. Bennett referred to Wynne in his journal as a "genius". She was profiled as "Wish Wynne: The Hit of the London Season" in Nash's Magazine for August 1913.

In 1927, she acted in Double Dan, a farce by Edgar Wallace.

She died on 14 November 1931, aged 52, in St Bartholomew's Hospital. The Times obituarist wrote: