[2] She acted and worked in theatre for a time,[3] then pursued further studies at Radcliffe College, where she was part of the drama workshop under George Pierce Baker.

[6] A third student play of hers, Francois-Amour (a one-act "fantasie in rhymed couplets"), won a Harvard Dramatic Club competition in 1916.

[3] Butler wrote the verses for Songs and Shadow Pictures for the Child World (1909), which included music composed by Jessie Gaynor and cut-paper illustrations by Susanne Fenimore Tyndale.

[9] In 1920, Butler's comedy Mama's Affair ran on Broadway for four months, produced by Oliver Morosco and starring Amelia Bingham, Robert Edeson, Katherine Kaelred, George Le Guere, and Effie Shannon.

The following year, the show was adapted into a silent film, with some of the same cast, but with Constance Talmadge and Gertrude Le Brandt also appearing.