She took the stage name Clarice Mayne, and is best known for the song "A Broken Doll" written by her husband, the composer James W. Tate, and lyricist Frank Clifford Harris.

Early in her career, Mayne often played the "principal girl" in pantomimes for Francis Laidler, among others.

They first appeared together at “The Oxford” in 1906 and introduced a number of popular numbers including “I was a Good little girl, ‘till I met You” (1912), and “Put on Your Ta-Ta little Girlie”, both written by Tate.

Mayne also played the principal boy in a number of Tate's pantomimes throughout Britain beginning in World War I, including a pantomime version of Cinderella in 1916, Dick Whittington in 1918, Puss In Boots in 1920, Cinderella again, at the London Hippodrome in 1922 (and many times thereafter, playing with Stanley Lupino and her later husband, Teddy Knox),[3] and Dick Whittington again in 1923, at the London Palladium, among others.

[4] She died in London in 1966 at the age of 79 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.