Dorothy Morton

[6] In the Spring of 1888 she joined the touring production of William A. Mestayer's The Tourists in the Pullman Palace Car with the Kirke & Clarke theatre troupe.

With that company she portrayed the role of Mollie Waits in Henry Grattan Donnelly's musical farce Later On;[7] initially using the stage name 'Doddie Morton'.

[16] Morton took over the role ten months later in Nashville,[13] and subsequently performed the part in Little Rock,[14] Philadelphia,[17] Baltimore,[18] Buffalo, New York,[19] Detroit,[20] Indianapolis,[21] and St. Louis among other cities.

[24] She made her debut with the company as Countess Bathilde in Edmond Audran's Les noces d'Olivette in June 1891 at the Metropolitan Opera House in Minneapolis.

[38] Morton briefly left the Wilbur Opera Company in late October 1892; complaining of being overworked and mistreated by management in reports to the press.

[40] Her tenure with the company was interrupted again in February 1893 when Morton was injured in her dressing room just prior to a performance of La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein at a theatre in Springfield, Massachusetts.

[50] After further performances with Baker's company in Fra Diavolo and The Mascot, Morton spent a period working in vaudeville at Shea's Music Hall in Buffalo, New York, beginning in August 1893.

[54] While Morton and Reiffarth received positive reviews in the press for their individual parts, De Lange and the work as a whole were critically panned and the musical ceased performances after touring to Buffalo, Rochester, and Elmira in the state of New York.

[55] In January 1894 Morton joined an opera company led by Adele Ritchie as Suzette in a production of Reginald De Koven's The Algerian in which she first appeared in the part in Fort Worth.

[62] The following year she had the biggest success of her career portraying the title role in the original Broadway production and United States premiere of Sidney Jones' The Geisha.

[1] Her other roles on Broadway included Maia in A Greek Slave (1899), Dolores in the 1902 revival of Florodora, and Celeste in the original production of Reginald De Koven's The Wedding Trip.

[1] She died after a year and a half long illness at her home, "Geisha Villa", which she named after the part she played in Sidney Jones's operetta.