Martha Lorber's Broadway career began when she was a teenager and included roles in "Over the Top" (1917-1918), "Mecca" (1920-1921), "Tangerine" (1922), "Ziegfeld Follies from 1922 "," Ziegfeld Follies from 1923 "," Ziegfeld Follies from 1924 "," Mozart "(1926) and" Three Little Girls "(1930). The Ziegfeld Follies were a year revue, then one of the leading on Broadway. The Ziegfeld Follies were named after their producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and were based on the Parisian Folies Bergère. They had no plot, but a program composed of numbers that changed every year. In the center was a series of long-legged chorus girls who danced synchronous figures. Because the theater was still the main distribution medium for music at the time, many famous songs started from such revues. The "Follies" were a larger, less disreputable type of stage spectacle than the American Vaudeville and the Burlesque. Florence Ziegfeld, along with his competitor George M. Cohan, was the most influential revue producer on Broadway.

In the Ziegfeld Follies, she played in a few skits with the well-known comedian WC Fields and showed comedic talent. She played a leading role in Ferenc Molnár's "The Play's the Thing" in Baltimore in 1928. In 1929 she was in London and played in "Little Accident".

At the time, Martha Lorber was also a model who posed for works by photographers Edward Steichen, Nickolas Muray and Arnold Genthe, pin-up artist Alberto Vargas and sculptor Harriet Whitney Frishmuth.

In 1930 she broke away from musicals with a dramatic role in Zoe Akin's drama "The Greeks Had a Name for It". She played in another drama the following year, "Torch Song" (1931), in Canada. In 1933 she was presented in two roles in another musical "The Red Robin" in Chicago. In 1934 she played in "True to the Marines" in Locust Valley near New York.