She returned to the British stage for two years , but was back in the United States in 1906 with her own stage company . Elsa Maxwell , who had joined Crawley 's company , writes that they opened their tour of North America in Pasadena on the night of the Great San Francisco earthquake , which levelled every theatre on their California itinerary , after which the tour continued with a succession of performances in Texas , Louisiana , Missouri and New York . Although Crawley 's Broadway appearances with her company were few , she had success elsewhere , particularly in the midwest and California . She spent several months recuperating in the resort town of Sierra Madre , California after contracting tuberculosis during a 1912 tour of Canada , and then settled in Los Angeles from 1913 on to focus her career on silent films
Great San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
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