Dorothy Jardon

[5] Jardon's Broadway credits included roles in the shows The Fisher Maiden (1903), The Merry-Go-Round (1908), The Yankee Girl (1910), Madame Sherry (1910–1911), La Belle Paree (1911), Bow-Sing (1911), The Revue of Revues (1911), The Wedding Trip (1911–1912),[6] The Pleasure Seekers (1913–1914), The Dancing Duchess (1914), Papa's Darling (1914–1915).

[10][11] Charles Wakefield Cadman wrote "Love Like the Dawn Came Stealing" for Jardon.

[12] Jardon was considered a fashionable stage beauty, and her gowns were described in detail in the press.

[13] "It isn't mere prettiness of face and body that Dorothy Jardon has.

She's a smothered-in-red-roses, drenched-with-Russian-perfume exotic," explained an interviewer in 1917, adding that Jardon "makes Theda Bara look like a glass of milk.

A white woman posing with her arms crossed, in a costume that includes a wide-brimmed headpiece, a high collar, and large shoulder pads
Dorothy Jardon in costume, from the Sayre Collection