The company performed in Orpheum Company vaudeville houses owned by Percy G. Williams, who often had the cast of a play present it in one theater, then hurry to a second theater in the chain for another performance in the same evening.

[2] In 1928, Carter and her daughter Betty-Lee acted together in Skidding at the Bayes Theatre in New York City.

[3] Carter also wrote plays, including the one-act The Soldiers, which was presented in Toronto by a stock touring company headed by Miss Percy Haswell.

They had two daughters (the second of whom was named Betty-Lee Carter, like her mother and became an actress) before they separated.

By that time Carter was living in Silver City, New Mexico, to which the rest of her family had moved.