In the early 1930s Wausau appeared in Minsky's burlesque shows, the Chicago World's Fair, and nightclubs, including Billy Rose's Casino de Paree and Leon & Eddie's. She frequently performed to sell-out burlesque crowds in Minneapolis and at the Gayety in Washington, D.C. throughout the decade. Ahead of a 1939 appearance at the Gayety, the Washington D.C. "Evening Star" gushed, "All is happy and gay upon Ninth Street, for Hinda Wassau has come to town again. So for a week now the Gayety will be packed to its revered rafters by the citizens who would look upon Hinda, the inimitable; Wassau, the one and only. She is magnificent, this girl; there is no getting around the fact. For the record it might be again noted that she is still wild as ever and unrestrained; in fact, probably the least restrained of anybody in her business, which may or may not be saying a lot. Anyhow you practically have to see Hinda Wassau before your education is complete, and here she is."