Following her performance in the "Earl Carroll's Vanities", Bacon appeared in the "Ziegfeld Follies of 1931" from July to November 1931. In 1933, she went to Chicago to perform at the 1933 World's Fair after learning that rival dancer Sally Rand was performing a fan dance. Bacon, who maintained she originated the dance for Earl Carroll in 1930, billed herself as "The Original Fan Dancer". At the 1939 World's Fair in New York, she had an official position as fan dancer.