Career
In she has the leading female part in a feature starring Edmund Breese, which is adapted from a poem by Robert West. Service. Service is known as the Kipling of the North. Mayo performs the role of Hattie Fenshaw in.
International spy, Doctor Karl Graves, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, where he traveled after watching Mayo perform at the Empire Theater in New York City.
Graves authored Revelations of the Kaiser"s Personal Spy. Mayo was in Lima with her manager, Philosophy Selznik, when Graves was apprehended, stopping first in Bucyrus, Ohio, when she left New New York
Portsmouth, Ohio was one of the thirty American cities Mayo toured in 1917. After the screening of one of her feature films, she discussed her movie career with the audience.
A reception was held in the lobby of the Columbia Theater in Portsmouth.
Aside from promoting movies, Mayo utilized her tour to recruit troops for service in World War I and to sell Liberty Bonds. She was assigned to the recruiting department of the United States. Navy. Mayo was one of the first women of the stage to be awarded the right to wear the button of the Liberty Legion.
Mayo plays the scatterbrained Mistress
Chadwick in The Hottentot (1921). One reviewer complimented her acting as a bright characterization.
In, starring Lon Chaney, Mayo was compared to Mary Alden in her rendition of Ann Cardington, queen of the underworld. She was in the supporting cast of Don"t Marry Foreign Money (1923) along with Edith Yorke and Charles Wellesley.
Mayo appeared with some of the most popular actors of her era.
She made Foreign Sale (1924) with Adolphe Menjou, Tully Marshall, and Vera Reynolds. The New York Times reviewed the movie unfavorably, comparing it to a discarded Daisy Ashford effort. The heroine resides in a mansion of Louvre-like dimensions.
Mayo was in the troupe of the Wilkes Stock Company in April 1929 at the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles, California.
She joined Edward Everett Horton in a stage production of The Hottentot. Mayo enjoyed cooking chicken-a-la-king, interior decorating, and reading classic novels by Balzac and Alexandre Dumas.
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman.