 After the play and a short interview, Arablinski invited Davudova to pursue an acting career in Baku.In 1920, she settled in Azerbaijan and began acting at the Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre.Many of her early roles portrayed the government-propagated heroic and independent image of the new-era Soviet woman, as seen in "Sevil" by Jafar Jabbarli, "Hayat" by Mirza Ibrahimov, "Lyubov Yarovaya" by Konstantin Trenyov, etc.