By about 1900, she was established as a vaudeville performer in Cincinnati, and was managed by impresario James Fennessy, proprietor of Hubert Heuck’s People’s Theater.

She sauntered onstage swaying her hips and paused, flashing her bare or bestockinged calf... She tossed garters from a basket and sashayed into the crowd...".

[4] As her act developed, her signature stage maneuver was to remove her garters, so revealing her lack of underwear, and throw them into the audience.

[2][5] She traveled across America as a performer, often testing the limits of local indecency ordinances, and was arrested numerous times in the U.S. and Canada between 1903 and 1915.

Standing suddenly erect, with a deft movement she revealed her nude right leg from knee almost to waist… Streaked and sweaty, her face took on the aspect of epilepsy.