Events

1928

Winner of the Sun Aria Competition

1932

Performed with the Paris Grand Opera Company as Ortrud in Lohengrin

1932

Debut with Monte Carlo Opera Company as Elisabeth in Tannhauser

1935

Performed with the Metropolitan Opera Company New York as Brunnhilde

1939

Completed a concert tour of Australia, performing at Winchelsea, Victoria first

1941

Contracted poliomyelitis while in Mexico

29 March 1941

Married Dr Thomas King, New York

1942

First public appearance as Venus in Tannhauser at the Metropolitan

1944

Entertained troops in Australia and South West Pacific (50,000 miles wheel concert tour)

1945

Entertained troops in Europe

1960 -

Professor of Voice and Opera Workshop, Southern Illinois University

1971

Opera Theatre Southern Illinois University named for Marjorie Lawrence

Sources used to compile this entry: Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre (eds), Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Reed Reference Publishing, Port Melbourne (Vic.), 1994, 568 pp; Dugan, Michael and Gunter, Anne, Women Make Australian History : Women in Wartime 1914-1918, 1939-1945, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1996, 32 pp; Griffin, Helga M., 'Lawrence, Marjorie Florence (1907 - 1979)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australian National University, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100013b.htm; Legge, J S (ed.), Who's who in Australia, 1971, 20 edn, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 1971, 1024 pp.