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...LAMP?Mary Roberts Rinehart?Doran $2.00). Able Mrs. Rinehart places herself at the center of consciousness of a scholarly professor who is deeply agitated by what seem to be the posthumous performances of his late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure...
Engaged. Gratia Buell Houghton, niece of the U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, to Alan G. Rinehart, second son of Mary Roberts Rinehart, famed novelist...
...train coming back, however, there was only one volume, and that an effusion from the colorful pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I sat me down by the gentleman with that volume, and he told me that his favorite stories were those by Sax Rohmer, that he considered Mrs. Rinehart's K the best book he had ever read, that Joseph Conrad was his delight. He didn't like the novels of Zane Grey because they were all so much alike, and he'd never heard of Harold Bell Wright. This last piece of information gave me a start...
...sleep during their lectures, depending upon the general interest of the discourse. The penalty for wearing a hat into the classroom might even be lightened, if the particular hat were modish and worthy of being exhibited. And Yard "cops" will no doubt allow a certain latitude to Rinehart devotees, provided their cries are particularly melodious...
...Love Story. Gloria Swanson's latest contains only a mild amount of drama but a good deal of Gloria Swanson and will therefore automatically acquire a million or more dollars. Mary Robert Rinehart wrote this one on the sound old theme of the Princess who loved the commoner. Against a purple background of mustachios and gold lace, Miss Swanson again demonstrates that she is quite properly one of the greater figures in the current cinema...