was presented at the Academy of Music on October 7, 1902, and closed after a run of 128 performances on January 24, 1903. On August 27, 1903, at the Republic Theatre in Rochester, New York she opened with William Collier, Sr. in Eugéne Presbrey's society comedy Personal. The play began a 38-run engagement at New York's Bijou Theatre the following week. Later that year and into the next, she became the third, and some considered the best, leading actress to support Lawrence D'Orsay in Augustus Thomas' comedy, The Earl of Pawtucket. The critic Zona Gale wrote: So with "The Earl of Pawtucket"—a revival of last season—to be mentioned because for Mr. Lawrence D'Orsay's amusing performance has at last been found a leading woman—Miss Jane Peyton, whose beauty and distinction and ability promise large things. (The Critic, 1904) In the early summer of 1905, Peyton assumed the rôle of Mrs. Kate Brandon in Paul Armstrong's comedy, The Heir to the Hoorah, at the Hudson Theatre. She remained with The Heir to the Hoorah when it reappeared that fall at Boston's Hollis Street Theatre and for the ensuing national tour. In The Three of Us, she played Mrs. Tweed Dix to Carlotta Nillson's Rhy Macchesney. Written by Rachel Crothers, The Three of Us opened at the Madison Square Theatre on October 17, 1906, and continued on into May of the following year with total of 227 performances. In The Great John Ganton, J. Hartley Manners' adaptation of the novel by Arthur Jerome Eddy, Peyton played Mrs. Jack Wilton to George Fawcett's John Ganton. The play opened on May 3, 1909, at the old Lyric Theatre and closed the following month after a run of 40 performances. With William C. De Mille's drama The Woman, she played Grace, the wife of Judge Jim Blake (John W. Cope). The Woman, ended its season-long run of 247 performances at the Theatre Republic on April 19, 1912. Personal life Peyton married Milwaukee physician Dr. Robert Curtis Brown at her father's residence on October 26, 1892, and settled down to life that revolved around social activities of the city's elite. This changed in July 1900, when Peyton traveled to New York to begin rehearsals for Skinner's Prince Otto. Upon hearing of his daughter's departure, George Van Norman threatened to disinherit her, and ultimately, in July 1902, Peyton's husband was granted an uncontested divorce on the grounds of