[7][8] She was part of a group of women who started an "arts and crafts" cooperative shop in downtown Los Angeles, to help unemployed craftsmen sell their work during the Depression.

[5][10] Cage worked at the Los Angeles Times from 1934 to 1939, as a society page editor, covering women's clubs.

[11][12][13] With her Times colleague, music critic Isabel Morse Jones, she worked for a new concert hall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

[14] Her son John Cage wrote a composition for solo piano titled "Crete" (1944 or 1945), named for her.

[16] They lived in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles in a home they shared with her parents and sometimes with her sisters Margaret, Josephine, and Phoebe.