Later Career
Along with many of her colleagues from A Princess of Kensington, Pounds next appeared at the Adelphi Theatre in another hit Edwardian musical comedy, The Earl and the Girl (1903). Over the next twenty years she appeared in numerous musicals and plays, including The Catch of the Season at the Vaudeville Theatre (1905). At the same theatre in 1906, Pounds starred with her brother Courtice in the hit musical The Belle of Mayfair. A review in The Daily Graphic praised both siblings. Another reviewer wrote, "Miss Louie Pounds has never been seen to better advantage. She looks a typical English girl, and her singing of 'And the weeping willow wept' is quite inimitably artistic".
In 1908, Pounds played Lydia in a revival of the Victorian hit, Dorothy, "a part which did not tax the qualities of this accomplished actress". In 1909, she played in The Dashing Little Duke (again with her brother), and then appeared on Broadway in The Dollar Princess in 1909–1910, following which she toured in South Africa. 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.
Pounds retired in 1923 but reappeared on stage in 1926. She played Widow Windeatt in the 1928 Alfred Hitchcock film The Farmer's Wife. In 1937 she toured as Mrs Bennett with Angela Baddeley and Glen Byam Shaw in a stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
Pounds wrote an article, "Memories of an Earlier Iolanthe", that appeared in the March 1931 issue of The Gilbert & Sullivan Journal.
Pounds died in Southsea at the age of 98.
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