Which ex Gaiety Girl was managing director of Aintree from 1958 to 1973?
Mirabel Topham Mirabel and Arthur Topham lived in Paddock Lodge on the Aintree racecourse site. Ronald Topham was not suited to business life but Mirabel demonstrated business expertise and a real interest in the race course. Topham's family had run the Aintree racecourse near Liverpool since the 1840s. She joined the board of Topham Ltd, the family firm that ran Aintree racecourse, becoming a director in 1935 and Chairman and Managing Director in 1938 until 1973. Mirabel Topham was a forceful personality in the male-dominated world of racing. During the Second World War, although the racecourse was used by the military, the
A Gaiety Girl judge of the divorce court, which caused some controversy. "A Gaiety Girl's" success confirmed Edwardes on the path he was taking. He immediately set Hall, Jones and Greenbank to work on their next show, "An Artist's Model". "A Gaiety Girl" led to some fourteen copies (including "The Shop Girl", "The Circus Girl", and "A Runaway Girl"), which were very successful in England for the next two decades, and were widely imitated by other producers and playwriting teams. The show's popularity depended, in part, on the beautiful "Gaiety Girls" dancing chorus appearing onstage in bathing attire and in the latest fashions.