Career
She made the first of many appearances in pantomime at the Empire Palace Theatre, Edinburgh in 1898. Hawthorne"s repertoire of songs included "Lucy Loo", "Tessie, You are the Only, Only, Only" and "Mamie May," all of which she recorded, as well as "Kitty Mahone" and "Don"t Cry Little Girl, Don"t Cry". Also in 1899 she recorded the song "Sweet Rosie O"Grady" (written by Maude Nugent) for Berliner Gramophone and "I"ll Be Your Sweetheart".
In 1900 she starred in Walter Gibbon"s Anglo-American Biology-Tableaux film Kitty Mahone.
She was the Principal Boy in the pantomimes Puss in Boots (1903-1904) and Sleeping Beauty (1904-1905), both at the Prince’s Theatre, Bristol. On 6 December 1909 Hawthorne topped the bill at the opening night of the Hippodrome Theatre in Bishop Auckland.
As they lost professional engagements due to appointments with the Police and the nervous strain Hawthorne suffered because of these and giving evidence at the trial, on 7 April 1911 Her Majesty Treasury authorised the payment of £100 in respect of expenses incurred and loss sustained by the couple in connection with the case of Rex v. Crippen. Lil Hawthorne died in 1926 aged 49.
