[4] She later worked at The New York Herald with Alice Leal Pollack, who she'd soon write a well-regarded play, The Co-respondent, with.

A number of her stories and stage plays were turned into screenplays, including 1920's Curtain, which first ran in The Saturday Evening Post.

[6] She met director William C. deMille in the early 1920s, and he asked her to write a love story between an older man and a younger woman.

She quickly obliged, wrote the story, sold it to a magazine, and then helped turn it into the script for deMille's 1921 film After the Show.

In 1924, weeks after writing a lengthy article about why she remained single, she married advertising man Maurice Marks,[8] who she met years earlier when she first moved to New York.