Presented by the School of Music Movement & Drama; produced by Mimi Mattin and Lesley Cox; music score by Duncan McKie. Tivoli Theatre, Grote Street, Adelaide, Friday 8 September 1961.

Lesley Cox, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day honours list, 1998, for service to child development, in particular as the Director of the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama, and to the community.

Lesley Cox became involved in Dalcroze Eurhythmics in South Australia, under the tutelage of Heather Gell, of the Heather Gell School of Music and Movement. Heather Gell was responsible for bringing Eurhythmics to South Australia. Lesley Cox trained and worked with Heather Gell in Sydney and then, when Mary Jolley retired to be married, Lesley returned to Adelaide and took on all of the Adelaide studio work, and classes for children in numerous Adelaide schools.

When Mary later returned, Lesley Cox established her own Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama in 1950, with classes in Wakefield Street at the Unitarian Church Hall, in Brougham Place Congregational Church in North Adelaide and at the Blackwood Memorial Hall.

Lesley died in 2003, however her work and school still continues under the Directorship of Verelle Fudge in Reynella, Blackwood and Bridgewater.

McKie, Duncan, 1904-1982. Emperor's nightingale -- Posters
Mattin, Mimi -- Posters
Cox, Lesley -- Posters
School of Music Movement and Drama -- Posters
Tivoli Theatre (Adelaide, S. Aust.) -- Posters
Music theater -- South Australia -- Adelaide -- Posters

Fudge, Verelle, (2003) Pioneer of music and movement, in The Advertiser, 8 November 2003, page 078

Interview with Lesley Cox [sound recording] Interviewer: Catherine Murphy
Archival No. OH 505/1

Interview with Lesley Cox [sound recording] Interviewer: Helen Pearce
Archival No. OH 84/4