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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...
Mary Roberts Rinehart's own dramatization of The Breaking Point is now finished. It will soon go into rehearsal. Since December she has written two plays, has made many drafts of each, has discarded one and decided that the other will do. Mrs. Rinehart works swiftly and constantly. Her life has been a succession of amazing successes; but they have come as a result of a genius for understanding the public mind, an acquired ability to write, an unusual executive sense, and a gift for fortune-luck if you like. This luck of Mrs. Rinehart...
Forced to earn her own living when she was very young, Mrs. Rinehart became a nurse. In the hospital she met Dr. Rinehart; she was married at nineteen. It was not until after her three sons were born that she started writing. Her first efforts were children's poems, which, she tells you, were exceedingly bad. Then she wrote short stories with some success. Her first novel, The Circular Staircase, which later became The Bat, was a great success, and from that time her progress has been steady. She has never written a failure. That is largely because...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...
What a contrast to step into her study! Piles of mail; manuscripts; a sheaf of speeches for a play here; the beginning of an article there; a pile of invitations on the corner of the desk. Never satisfied, never stopping, Mrs. Rinehart is the indefatigable woman of action...