Complex sentence: Early in 1930, Dressler joined Edward Everett Horton's theater troupe in Los Angeles to play a princess in Ferenc Molnár's "The Swan", but after one week, she quit the troupe.
Split into simpler sentences: Early in 1930, Dressler joined Edward Everett Horton's theater troupe in L.A. to play a princess in Ferenc Molnár's "The Swan". But after one week, she quit the troupe.