All that can presently (July 2025) be gleaned about Myrtle Leonard from sheet music covers and by Internet searching is that she was an American Metropolitan contralto who has been featured on just 1 work published in 1925 and made 5 recordings between 1920 and 1927 on the Victor and Edison labels.
Her portrait on the left together with Vivian Holt is taken from Yearning Just For You (1925) music by Benny Davis, co-author Joe Burke, and published by Irving Berlin Inc., New York, USA.
The following was published by The New York Times on March 6, 1935.
SONG RECITAL GIVEN BY MYRTLE LEONARD; Is Heard in Program of Contrasting Moods at Town Hall.
Myrtle Leonard, contralto of the Metropolitan, appeared at the Town Hall last evening in her first New York recital, assisted at the piano by Mildred Brown. A native of St. Paul, Minn., the singer grew up in California, where schoolmates chose her for Santa Claus in their school's Christmas play "because of her deep voice." Two years ago she first sang in the San Francisco Opera, and on Jan. 8 last in a Metropolitan "Gioconda" at the Brooklyn Academy. In her songs Miss Leonard showed infectious humor, the light "touch-and go" to dispel deeper shades of contralto repertory. Scarlatti's "The Sun-God's Beaming Rays" followed a serious air from Bach's "God's Time Is the Best," and was succeeded by the rarer "Spirit's Song" of Haydn. The somber Wolf's "Ueber Nacht" yielded to impish comedy in his "Mausfallen Spruechlein." Few young artists, and fewer women, would have hazarded Schumann's "Ich Grolle Nicht" or the striking 'Schmied Schmerz" of Van Eyken. An abounding contrast and resiliency marked also the modern French and Italian and later English pieces. If a large audience preferred the singer's happier songs, it was for a natural zest of enjoyment, visually enhanced by a youthful figure gowned in simple, fluent lines, the color of sunshine.
W. B. C.
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Websites:
	DAHR: Myrtle Leonard	List of 5 historic recordings from 1920 to 1927.