 Popular theatre stars of the period endorsed products, and Pounds was often photographed for this purpose.By 1910 she had started to appear in character roles, such as the wife and mother in "The Girl in the Train" and, in 1913, Patty in J.M.Barrie's "Quality Street", Madame Jollette in "Toto" in 1916, and another humorously manipulative wife in "The Title" in 1919.