Leota and Lola both made their Broadway debuts in the late twenties, Lola in 1928, as Sally Moss in "The War Song", which opened on Broadway on August 24, 1928, at the Nederlander Theatre (then known as the National Theatre) and Leota in 1929 as Contrary Mary in "Babes in Toyland", which opened on December 23, 1929 at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre.