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...STORY?Mary Roberts Rinehart?Farrar & Rinehart...
...writers have written their rem-iniscences? they have other fish to fry. But it is more as a successful money-making woman than as a writer that Mary Roberts Rinehart has told, in My Story, more than even an insatiably curious public either desires or deserves. As a series of magazine articles (My Story ran serially in Good Housekeeping) it has its points; .as a 432-page book it makes scrappy and sometimes downright dull reading...
...Rinehart has had unusual experiences, has made a fortune, has been hailed as foremost U. S. woman writer, but what she seems to feel is her chief claim to fame is her dual role as career-woman and wife-&-mother "that odd combination of private anxiety and public career which has been my life." She was born in Pitts-burgh in 1876, into a family in moderate circumstances. When she was 17 she decided to be a nurse, and entered a Pittsburgh hospital through the good graces of one of its internes, Dr. Stanley Marshall Rinehart. Before she finished...
...them to show the horrible manifestation that has frightened them. But in scenes involving only one or two people, the big screen makes an ordinary room look like an amphitheatre. Size is the only new thing about The Bat Whispers. It is the same old Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood concerning the lady who has made up her mind not to let phantoms scare her away from a house she has rented. All the devices have been used before and the efforts of Director Roland West, Chester Morris and a good cast to give them distinction...
...GENTLE LIBERTINE-Colette-Farrar & Rinehart...