[2][3] Condon's parents both came to America from Ireland in the years leading up to the American Civil War and married in 1859, settling in Bloomington, where in 1860 their first child was born.

[8] Condon crossed the Atlantic during the First World War to entertain troops serving with the American Expeditionary Force in France.

Scott was a theatrical advance man and treasurer for the Frank Daniel's Opera Company, then under the management of Charles Dillingham.

[11][12] Five years later, Condon traveled to Rome to ask for a Papal dispensation releasing her from her marriage to Scott so she could wed comedian Peter F. Dailey.

She cabled Bailey on May 23, 1908, to inform him that the Pope had granted their request; she was unaware that the 40-year-old comedian had fallen ill and would not live to see her message delivered.