In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback.
After the war, Ames began to direct most of his Broadway shows, which included The Betrothal (1918), The Green Goddess (1921), The Truth About Blayds (1922), Will Shakespeare (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), Minick (1924), Old English (1924), White Wings (1926), Escape (1927), The Merchant of Venice (1928) and Mrs. Moonlight (1930).
The Beggar's Opera | The Devil Came on Horseback | Beggar's Opera | Beggar on Horseback | The Beggar’s Opera | ''Piłsudski on Horseback'', astride Kasztanka | ''Maria Anna of Neuburg on horseback'' by Luca Giordano | Beggar's Holiday | Beggar's Chicken | beggar's chicken | Beggar's Banquet | beggar | Basho on the horseback, followed by Sora in ''Okuno Hosomichi Emaki, of Yosa Buson |