She is best known for her feminist anti-war play, War Brides, which was made into a silent film starring Alla Nazimova in 1916.

In the years leading up to World War I, she traveled the country to raise support for the suffrage movement by giving dramatic readings.

[6] It opened in January at B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre in New York City, with Alla Nazimova in the lead role, and toured the country for several months.

[1] In 1916 the play was made into a silent film, War Brides, starring Nazimova in her first onscreen role.

Later that year the producer, Lewis Selznick, had the film edited to give it an anti-German slant, and re-released it to American theaters.