[1] She started her career on B. F. Keith's vaudeville circuit in Detroit's Temple Theater in 1922.
Around 1924, she gave birth to a daughter named Minto Cato Sheftell.
Cato performed in many of Sheftell's shows during the 1920s, including the Creole Bronze Revue.
Together they toured of Europe, Alaska, Canada, and Mexico in a show they called the Southland Revue.
At Chicago's Regal Theater, she had a solo act in 1929.She also worked as a vaudeville producer in the United States and abroad.