[1] She was born in Vera Cruz, Mexico, to French and English parents.
She performed in Mexican circuses as a slackwire artist.
[1] In 1909, agents of the Barnum & Bailey Circus recruited her and her younger brothers, Alfredo[2] and Abelardo Codona, to perform with them.
[3] She worked for Barnum & Bailey until 1918 and also performed in Australia with the Brothers Circus.
[4] She retired from performing when she was pregnant with her first child with William K. Adolph, a race car driver, and they retired to Palm Springs where she died in 1983 at the age of 92.