Word: rinehart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reappears in a new film the adjective army passes jauntily before the cinema reviewers and is detailed en masse to support the Coogan picture. This army is at present on the march. With the possible exception of Oliver Twist, Long Live the King (from a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart) is the best thing Jackie has done. He plays the tiny Crown Prince of a European Principality who is captured by anarchists. It is his first massive production. At no time does he let pompous detail deaden his invincible vitality...
...Breaking Point. Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart is responsible for this example of the cowhide drama. Out of her holster of dramatic tricks she has drawn a sheriff, a self-sacrificing female with crimson propensities, a leading man with amnesia. Her action takes off in the East and lands on a ranch. It is all naively melodramatic, thoroughly preposterous, terribly exciting...
...Breaking Point (by Mary Roberts Rinehart, without assistance from Avery Hopwood) with McKay Morris in the lead, met with high favor in its Atlantic City opening...
Senator Brookhart, dirt farmer: "Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart said in a recent interview: 'Now and then, as recently, some representative of "the people" comes to Washington without evening clothes, and declares he will not get any. He receives front page advertising as a result, but Washington does not even know he is here...
Well-how many times have you gone over your shelves on a rainy night, when you were tired and depressed, looking vainly for another story that would pick you out of the mire as quickly as a Conan Doyle, or a Mary Roberts Rinehart or an Anna Katherine Green? What better compliment is there, Mrs. Rohlfs, than that...