 She then held a variety of jobs, including work as a script girl for Cecil B. de Mille's film "The Ten Commandments", as secretary to the owner of the Columbus Senators baseball team, and as press agent for Ruby "Texas" Guinan, the notorious entertainer and owner of prohibition-era speakeasies.During her years working in eastern Kentucky, and on subsequent visits, Thomas often carried her camera and photographed the musicians and other mountain people with whom she came in contact.She used her portable typewriter to document lyrics and tunes to ballads.