Mannering began her stage career in 1892 and in 1896 moved to New York where she appeared on the Broadway stage in over a dozen productions. She used her own name, Florence Friend for the first 4 years she toured with a repertory company. Daniel Frohman saw her during a visit to England in 1896 and engaged her immediately for his Lyceum Stock Company. The same year she came to America and made her debut using the name Mary Mannering. William Winter, critic, said of her debut; "Miss Mannering has a tall, willowy figure, a distinguished bearing, a face of great sensibility and the rare strange charm of gray eyes and dark hair. Best of all she has a voice which whould go straight to the heart." She was married to James W. Hackett in 1897 they divorced in 1910. In 1911 she retired and married Detroit industralist Frederick E. Wadsworth, who gave her as a wedding present a check for $1,000,000. She and her husband lived on an estate in Irvington-on-the-Hudson, New York and also in Palm Beach, Florida where they were popular residents. After her husband's passing, she moved to Los Angeles, where she resided in the fashionable area Bel Air.
Mannering began her stage career in 1892 and in 1896 moved to New York where she appeared on the Broadway stage in over a dozen productions. She used her own name, Florence Friend for the first 4 years she toured with a repertory company. Daniel Frohman saw her during a visit to England in 1896 and engaged her immediately for his Lyceum Stock Company. The same year she came to America and made her debut using the name Mary Mannering. William Winter, critic, said of her debut; "Miss Mannering has a tall, willowy figure, a distinguished bearing, a face of great sensibility and the rare strange charm of gray eyes and dark hair. Best of all she has a voice which whould go straight to the heart." She was married to James W. Hackett in 1897 they divorced in 1910. In 1911 she retired and married Detroit industralist Frederick E. Wadsworth, who gave her as a wedding present a check for $1,000,000. She and her husband lived on an estate in Irvington-on-the-Hudson, New York and also in Palm Beach, Florida where they were popular residents. After her husband's passing, she moved to Los Angeles, where she resided in the fashionable area Bel Air.
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