 While at "Gotham Life", she had lived under an assumed name in a "working girl's home".In March 1929, she again quit her job to write full time, and her 1930 novel "Music in the Street" was set in a working girl's home.Moving back to Chicago, she co-wrote the play version "Blind Mice" with Winifred Lenihan, which featured an all-female cast and formed the basis for the 1931 film "Working Girls".