sentences:  Her stage career began at age 17 in San Francisco and she worked in stock companies from Honolulu to Milwaukee before making her New York debut in 1900 as Bonita, the ranchman's daughter in Augustus Thomas's "Arizona".Her ten-year career as a leading Broadway actress included top roles in such plays as Robert Browning's "In a Balcony" (1900), Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (1903) opposite Kyrle Bellew, Israel Zangwill's "Merely Mary Ann" (1903–04 and 1907), Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" (1905), Zangwill's "Nurse Marjorie" (1906), and Paul Armstrong's adaptation of Bret Harte's "Salomy Jane" (1907).In 1912, she started the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving (SPUG) with Anne Tracy Morgan.