Minto Cato

[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.

Minto Cato as Azucena in the Federal Music Project production of Il trovatore she staged at the Manhattan Theatre (1936)