 In 1945, after appearing in "The Bells of St, Mary's", Martha returned to New York and played Spencer Tracy's wife in the Broadway play "The Rugged Path".While In New York she turned a hobby into a thriving business, finding herself at the forefront of a fashion craze for "gadget jewelry" in the late 1930s.She had designed and manufactured whimsical pieces of costume jewelry for herself - other women saw these pieces and wanted to know where they could obtain a copy.