[2][3] "The springtime and the Spooners have come again," commented writer Willa Cather, on the family's perennial appearances in Lincoln, Nebraska.

[12][13] Some of her popular roles were in Ullie Akerstrom's St. Elmo (1910),[14] Zaza,[15] Camille, Juliet, Nell Gwynne.

She wrote a historical drama, Madame du Barry (1908), and translated and adapted The Obstinate Family, a German one-act farce.

In 1901, Spooner and slightly younger fellow actress Edna May were engaged in legal and publicity struggles over their shared given name.

[17] In 1902, Spooner received a written death threat from a disgruntled theatre worker, angry that her mother would not hire him.