Around 1914, in London or possibly South Africa, May Yohé married Captain John Addey Smuts,[REF][REF] a South African-born retired British army officer[REF][REF] and cousin of general Jan Smuts [REF].
In the early 1920s, after auctioning off some valuable possessions and returning from a South American trip,[REF] Yohé and her husband toured the vaudeville circuit in the U.S. with an act based on the less-than-successful 1921 movie serial The Hope Diamond Mystery, which she helped write and promote [REF].